Actualité technologique et high-tech en anglais

UFC 259 is shaping up to be the best card of 2021.

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A large trove of data was reportedly taken, including private posts and messages.

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City planned to pay six influencers $2,000 each to share city-approved messages.

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And act two is on the way.

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It may seem like the iPhone 12 just came out, but Apple is already looking towards the iPhone 13. Here's what we know about a potential release date.

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The long awaited sequel to the Eddie Murphy classic is almost here.

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There are some solid deals on ThinkPads, Bose headsets and more, with free shipping.

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The cloud gaming service could be getting a little clearer.

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Exhausted and disoriented, I arrive tempest-tossed on the shores of our dystopia to tell you the good news: Apps are birth control now.

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Industrial 3D printing pioneer Markforged is gearing up to go public after a newly-announced merger deal with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) one.

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Looking every bit like a winged tube of toothpaste, NASA’s X-57 Maxwell experimental plane sits in a hangar at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The is NASA’s first crewed experimental plane in 20 years; it runs solely on electric power, an agency first, and it’s about to undergo high-voltage functional testing…

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Joe Biden has effectively endorsed ongoing unionization efforts at an Amazon facility in the state of Alabama and warned the e-commerce giant that its efforts to shut down the drive must involve “no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda.”

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A formation famous for producing T. rex fossils has now yielded the oldest evidence of primates in the fossil record, in what is being hailed a significant discovery.

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Children’s toys contain many potentially toxic chemicals, recent research suggests. The study highlights over 120 concerning chemicals commonly found in plastic toys that could possibly raise a person’s risk of health problems, including cancer.

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In a victory for Indigenous rights and conservation activists, the Forest Service rescinded its decision to permit a controversial mining project to be built within Arizona’s Tonto National Forest on Monday.

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Monday’s Best Deals | Kinja Deals

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We've benchmarked all the latest GPUs to select the best graphics cards for gaming. These graphics cards offer the best performance at their price and resolution, from 1080p to 4K.

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We tested 90 different thermal pastes to help you find the best one to help cool your CPU.

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This new Kickstarter from audio and accessory maker Movo is promising to slim down your desk real estate with a new condenser microphone that has a built-in webcam and ring light.

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We tested a pile of cheap clackers in order to find the best budget mechanical keyboards available now.

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Palit recently registered several new Nvidia P106 graphics cards with the Eurasian Economics Commission (EEC).

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Whether you're clacking through a battle royale or a long typing session, these are the best gaming keyboards for a combo of responsiveness, features and style.

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Based on our independent testing, these are the best gaming headsets you can get in 2020, from budget to wireless cans.

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Get the best gaming mouse for both your grip and games.

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It's only been a couple of weeks Netflix and Valve revealed a teaser trailer for the anime series based on Valve's hit game Dota 2, but now they're back with a longer trailer showing off more of the characters and story elements. As we&#3...

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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter and Square, tweeted today that the "Bank now open." What he's referring to is that now, about a year after receiving FDIC approval, Square Financial Services has begun operations. Operating as a subs...

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Among the many other games that came out on Steam last Friday was a title called The Sinking City. In normal circumstances, it wouldn’t have stood out. It’s a game from 2019 that earned mostly average reviews. However, its developer, a studio named F...

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Sometime after it comes out for PC on March 31st, The Binding of Isaac: Repentance will make its way to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in the third quarter of 2021. Repentance is the third expansion to the popular indie title. Firs...

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Twitter has introduced new rules to prevent the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. Under the new policy, the company will label tweets with “misleading” information and ban accounts that repeatedly break the rules. Twitter had prev...

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For the first time in nearly a year, all 270 Apple Stores in the US are open. When the pandemic first made its way stateside and Apple announced it was temporarily closing some of its retail locations, the company said the plan was to start reopening...

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Google has updated the Gmail iOS app for the first time in months, along with Meet, Sheets, Docs, Calendar and Tasks. Aside from Tasks now supporting widgets on iOS 14, these are minor updates centered around bug fixes and performance improvements. I...

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Right-wing social media network Gab appears to have suffered an extensive data breach. According to Wired, a self-proclaimed hacktivist who goes by the handle “JaXpArO” obtained more than 70GB of data on the platform’s users through a SQL injection v...

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We've rounded up some highly rated, affordable hair dryers. You don't have to break the bank to keep your hair stylish.

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Video games? Who needs them when you and your friends can gather around a table and play some board games?

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Rocket Lab has announced it's building its largest rocket to date tailored for satellite deployment, interplanetary missions, and human spaceflight.

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It has been years in the making, but 5G is finally becoming a reality. Although 5G coverage is still limited, expect to see it expand in the U.S. in 2021.

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Division 2 has added a new endgame specialization, Gunner, that players will have to grind to unlock. Here's how to unlock and use Gunner in The Division 2.

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We've sorted through all of the documentary titles available on Hulu and are ready to present the best options for your viewing pleasure.

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Need to make money fast in No Man's Sky? We have some tips on how you can easily become a space billionaire. Gas up your ship and head on out into space!

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These PUBG tips and tricks will elevate your game to the next level. There's far more to the game than loot and shoot. Use these strategies to win more games.

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After a 9-year run, Intel today has begun to wrap up its Performance Tuning Protection Plan service, the company’s optional extended warranty for CPU overclocking. As of today, Intel is no longer selling new PTP plans, and the program will be shifting to servicing existing warranties while those are still active. Intel’s warranty service was quite unique throughout the industry; given the potentially destructive nature of overclocking, it’s almost unheard of to be covered, even by optional warranties.

Intel originally launched the Performance Tuning Protection Plan back in January of 2012, right in the middle of the heyday of Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPU overclocking (ed: has it really been that long?). At the time, for anywhere be...

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Intel's third generation QLC SSD delivers much-needed performance improvements due to its new 144-layer 3D QLC NAND and a new low-cost SSD controller from Silicon Motion.

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Semiconductor foundry offerings are thriving due to unprecedented demand for semiconductors and processors in recent quarters. Analysts from TrendForce believe that in Q1 2021 foundries will increase their revenue by 20% year-over-year as their capacities are fully loaded. Since the demand for chips is projected to continue to exceed the constrained supply for several quarters, market observers predict that manufacturers will be busy for a long time, and beyond this, will take a long time to catch up. This is good news for foundry revenue, and may encourage others to widen their foundry offerings. Warnings however about fab equipment are coming into play - being fully loaded means equipment now wears out faster, which increases risks of ...

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NVIDIA this morning is launching their previously announced GeForce RTX 3060. First unveiled back at CES 2021, the latest member of the GeForce RTX 30 series is continuing NVIDIA’s ongoing top-to-bottom launch of Ampere-based video cards, with today’s card in some respects being the most popular one. Aimed at the mainstream market, the RTX 3060 is designed to be a more balanced option for the larger market of gamers who probably aren’t trying to drive high-end 4K displays, but still want the latest graphical features on a 1080p or 1440p display. RTX 3060 cards will go on sale a bit later this morning – at 9am Pacific – with prices starting at $329.

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NVIDIA this afternoon closed the book on another record fiscal year, announcing their FY 2021 and Q4 2021 earnings results for the company. For the last quarter of their fiscal year, NVIDIA booked just over $5B in revenue with a profit of $1457M, marking NVIDIA’s first five billion dollar quarter, and setting earning records across the board. Meanwhile for the full fiscal year, NVIDIA has recorded just under $16.7B in revenue, with a net income for the year of $4.3B.

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It looks like AMD is getting ready to launch the next part in their RDNA2/RX 6000 family of video cards. This afternoon the company sent out a save the date invitation to the press and public, announcing that the company will be holding a Radeon-related announcement next Wednesday, March the 3rd. And with a picture of a previously unseen Radeon video card included with the announcement, AMD is leaving little ambiguity about their plans.

The event, officially dubbed “Where Gaming Begins Episode 3”, will be another Radeon-focused event, where AMD will “introduce the newest addition to the Radeon RX family of high-performance graphic cards.” AMD’s previous two WGB events have been pre-recorded presentations, so we’re expecting the same h...

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In some unexpected news today, HP and HyperX (formerly a division of Kingston) have jointly released a statement that HP is to acquire HyperX gaming peripherals portfolio, and the brand, for $425 million USD. Kingston retains the DRAM, Flash, and SSD products (those that are branded HyperX will probably be renamed). Perhaps it is indicative that Kingston wants to remain focused on the memory and storage markets, and divest away from a variable commodity market, while at the same time HP is looking to boost its presence in the space alongside its HP OMEN branding.

Pending regulatory review, the deal is expected to go close in Q2 2021, with the acquisition accretive on a non-GAAP to HP in the first full year. The HyperX peripheral line-...

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Today Lenovo is announcing a slew of updates across a large portion of their ThinkPad lineup, and updating their business-focused products for 2021. Some of the big changes for this year are impressive and welcome, with Lenovo committing to bringing feature-parity between their AMD and Intel offerings, as well as refreshing some of their laptops with 5G, Wi-Fi 6E, and continuing the trend of bringing back 16:10 aspect ratio displays for a better productivity experience.

ThinkPad X13 and X13 Yoga

Although some of the ThinkPad X lineup got refreshed back at CES, Lenovo is continuing the 2021 updates today on the X13 and X13 Yoga products, and the changes make these already impressive devices even more so.

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The Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons are fantastic controllers, but they are expensive. Some of the best Switch third-party controllers can be better options. Whether you prefer the smaller Joy-Cons or the heavier Pro controller, everyone has their preference. If you want a more traditional gaming controller for your Switch, and you want to spend less money, you do have other options. Here are our favorite third-party controllers for Nintendo Switch. Solid wireless controller PowerA Enchanced Wireless Controller Staff Favorite This is likely the best Switch third-party controller as it's the closest you're going to get to the Nintendo Pro controller. It's wireless and has motion controls, 30 hours of battery life, and the same layout as ...

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Where would Apple put the Face ID magic if the notch is no more? Today saw a new Ming-Chi Kuo research note suggest that Apple plans to do away with the notch as soon as the 2022 iPhones. That's next year for those who are struggling to believe we aren't still in March 2020. Replacing the notch? A hole-punch. But that hole can't possibly be big enough for Face ID, can it? The notch was first introduced in 2017 when Face ID and iPhone X made their debut and that bathtub-looking thing was very much needed. It was needed so Apple had somewhere to put the cameras, sensors, and pixie dust needed to make Face ID work so well and in a secure manner, and that's still the case four years later. Face ID has gotten better, but that notch remains....

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Being tech bloggers, we travel everywhere with our laptops and know how hot they can get, especially when we're running programs with heavy processing use. We have tested many of the best cooling pads for MacBook and found the perfect way to cool the heat from your MacBook Pro. Our tried-and-true favorite is the Thermaltake Massive TM. Best Overall: Thermaltake Massive TM The Massive TM by Thermaltake is a desktop-style cooling pad that's ideal for any size Mac laptop, from the 12-inch MacBook to the 16-inch MacBook Pro (and 17-inch notebooks, too), thanks to adjustable sizes that keep your device in place. It has two separate fans that draw cool air from the bottom and push warm air out through the sides. You can set up automatic co...

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Powerhouse PS5 $499 at Amazon Pros Advanced SSD Powerful GPU/CPU Backward compatible with PS4 discs Sony exclusives 4K resolution More powerful than Nintendo Switch Optional PlayStation Now and PlayStation Plus subscriptions Cons More expensive Physically much larger than Nintendo Switch Sony's console is super powerful, with a (variable) 10.28 TFLOPs, an ultra-fast, solid-state drive, and a 4K Blu-ray drive. It supports realistic graphics and works with a wealth of PlayStation exclusives. However, it's one chunky beast measuring over 15-inches long. Hybrid King Nintendo Switch $300 at Amazon Pros TV and handheld play Several couch co-op multiplayer Compact design Nintendo exclusives Less expensive More family-fr...

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Mario items and outfits are now in Animal Crossing! New Horizons continues to be one of the best Nintendo Switch games because new updates and experiences keep getting added to it. The recent Animal Crossing Mario update is one of the most exciting ones so far since it allows us to obtain Mushroom Kingdom outfits and items. After you've collected them, you can turn your island into a Mario level. Want to know what you can get? Let's dive in. There are also new Animal Crossing items for Pi Day, Shamrock Day, and Doll's Festival. Check it out if you want to learn more. Animal Crossing Mario items: How to buy Mario items Mario items Mario clothes Will Mario visit our islands? Past Animal Crossing Mario cameos What about Zelda ite...

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As our original review confirms, the iPad mini is awesome for several reasons. Now you need a pair of super cool headphones to go with it! Here are the best iPad mini 5 headphones available — wired and wireless. Looking for something smaller? Check out our list of the best true wireless earbuds of the year. A low-cost knockout Urbanears Plattan 2 Staff pick You don't have to spend a lot of cash to get one of the best iPad mini 5 headphones on the market. The foldable on-ear Urbanears Plattan 2 provide over 30 hours of enjoyment between charges, are comfortable, stylish, and available in various colors. With ZoundPlug, you can plug another pair of headphones into the Plattan and instantly share music. $75 at Amazon Long battery ...

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What you need to know Apple Vs Epic will kick off in-person on May 3 COVID-19 allowing. Everything might need to be done via video if it isn't deemed safe to run it in-person. It begins. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has today said that the Epic Games Vs Apple trial will begin May 3 with the intent being that it will be an in-person event. However, everything may need to be done via Zoom if it isn't deemed safe to put everyone into a courtroom. As Foss Patents reports, even if the case is heard in a courthouse the number of people allowed to be involved at any given time will be limited. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court fo...

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War comes, who are your trusted allies? Project Triangle Strategy (that's a working title) is an upcoming 2D RPG from Square Enix that's being developed for the Nintendo Switch. The world of Project Triangle Strategy is set on the continent of Norzelia, with three kingdoms fighting for limited resources of water, salt, and iron: Glenbrook, Hyzante, and Aesfrost. With a sprawling, epic story that'll see player decisions shape the outcome, it could end being one of the best Nintendo Switch games available. Each kingdom has multiple royal houses and factions, meaning this game has a large cast, list of names and titles, so keeping track of the important playable characters can be a bit challenging, especially since some party members seem...

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Gionee launched the Max smartphone in India last August, and now it has a follow-up offering for the subcontinent, in the form of the Max Pro. This model comes with a 6.52-inch 720x1560 LCD touchscreen, the Unisoc SC9863A chipset (with an octa-core Cortex-A55 CPU), 3GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage, a 13 MP rear camera aided by a 2 MP depth sensor and LED flash, an 8 MP selfie snapper housed in a waterdrop notch, and a 6,000 mAh battery. You get dual nanoSIM slots, 4G VoLTE support, but no fingerprint sensor - you'll have to rely on camera-based face unlock. The Max Pro's...

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While the Realme GT is getting most of the attention, the company is working on other phones as well. One of them was recreated in 3D by @OnLeaks who has some details on what appears to be an affordable model. Unfortunately, the name of it is not yet known. That teardrop notch on the front and the fingerprint reader on the back are sure signs that this is not a flagship. Perhaps not even a mid-ranger. The phone will have a 3.5mm jack and a microSD card slot, but that’s all the info we have so far. Renders of unknown Realme phone The rear setup seems to feature three...

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DxOMark has finished its camera review of the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (using an Exynos-powered unit) and the results are not good – the overall score is just 121. Not only is that low, but it’s less than the 126 points awarded to the Galaxy S20 Ultra from a year ago. Note: the S20 Ultra was retested with Version 4 of the review process, so the scores should be comparable. Let’s look at the breakdown. The 2021 model received 128 points for photography, 76 for zoom and 98 for video. The older phone matched the 128 photo score, but is ahead in the zoom (88) and video (106)...

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We’re just a week away from OnePlus revealing the launch date for its OnePlus 9 event. Alongside the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro, we’re expecting a more budget-friendly offering which was rumored as the OnePlus 9 E/Lite. Last week Evan Blass revealed the device might actually be called OnePlus 9R which was later confirmed by Ishan Agarwal in a separate report. OnePlus 9R moniker confirmed by Evan Blass A new leak from OxygenUpdater is filling us in on the possible colorways of the OnePlus 9 and Pro. The OnePlus 9 is said to arrive in Astral Black, Arctic Sky, Winter Mist. T-Mobile is...

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The Chief Marketing Officer of Oppo India tweeted out the following teaser for the upcoming F19 Pro series. Two models are mentioned by name – Oppo F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ 5G (there should be a vanilla F19 too). We only get a vague “coming soon” for the launch date, but rumors from last month point to a March launch. The phones will be sold through Amazon in India, which already has a landing page. For specs we have to rely on rumors again. The Oppo F19 Pro+ is expected to have a 6.4” AMOLED display with 90 Hz refresh rate, a Dimensity 800U chipset and a triple camera on the back (64...

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The Asus ROG Phone 3 was one of the first smartphones to have 16GB of RAM, it sequel will likely become the first smartphone to offer 18GB – it will be announced on March 10, so competitors have just over a week if they want to be first. This can be seen in a Geekbench result of the Asus ROG Phone 5, specifically the I005DB version. If you remember, there are two versions – DA and DB. The DA version will be the basis of the Tencent Games edition of the phone, but it is also the one that DxOMark tested in its Audio review. The DB version has a secondary display on the back. Asus ROG...

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The OnePlus Nord is now receiving the stable Android 11-based OxygenOS 11, about a month after Open Beta 3 rolled out. This update brings major changes to the interface (including dark mode) and even enables the Always On Display feature. Here are a few screenshots from users that already updated. After updating, you can enable AOD from Settings > Customization, there’s also a new Insight clock style for the Ambient display. The Shelf (which offers at-a-glance info and quick shortcuts) has been redesigned, you can enable it from the Launcher settings. OnePlus Nord is getting the...

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Huawei has shared the latest updates on AppGallery - the heart of its in-house ecosystem. The Chinese company now has over 530 million active monthly users, and an 83% yearly increase in-app distribution, reaching 384 billion installs in 2020. The numbers were shared by Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei CBG (Consumer Business Group). His company revealed there are 2.3 million registered developers that are working on mobile applications for AppGallery, and the amount is 77% higher than what it used to be back in 2019. Huawei has been working both with local and global developers, and now...

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Compass, the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6 billion in venture funding, filed its S-1 Monday. The move comes just under one year after the New York-based company laid off 15% of its staff as a result of the shifting economic fortunes created by the global response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Prior to […]

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What if we no longer needed cameras to make videos and can instead generate them through a few lines of coding? Advances in machine learning are turning the idea into a reality. We’ve seen how deepfakes swap faces in family photos and turn one’s selfies into famous video clips. Now entrepreneurs with AI research background […]

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Hyzon Motors plans to produce fuel cells, including a critical component required to power hydrogen vehicles, at two U.S. factories in a move aimed at kickstarting domestic production at a commercial scale. The hydrogen-powered truck and bus manufacturer has already leased a 28,000-square-foot facility in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook and plans to expand it […]

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Known for its innovations in the payments sector, Square is now officially a bank. Nearly one year after receiving conditional approval, Square said Monday afternoon that its industrial bank, Square Financial Services, has begun operations. Square Financial Services completed the charter approval process with the FDIC and Utah Department of Financial Institutions, meaning it’s ready for […]

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It's unicorn melting season, with gobs of investors hoping for liquidity while public markets are hot. Expect more Kalturas.

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A startup by an Apple alum that has become home to millions of low-skilled workers in India said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $12.5 million, just five months after securing $8 million from high-profile investors. One-year-old Apna said Sequoia Capital India and Greenoaks Capital led the $12.5 million investment in the startup. Existing […]

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A challenger bank raises funding at a massive valuation, Instagram adds Live Rooms and Google updates Workspace. This is your Daily Crunch for March 1, 2021. The big story: Klarna valued at $31B The Swedish challenger bank and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) service has raised $1 billion at a post-money valuation of $31 billion. Klarna says it […]

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Google over the weekend began to update many of its flagship iOS apps after a lengthy delay caused by the company’s failure to add Apple’s newly required privacy labels in a timely fashion. Though Google earlier this year said it would “soon” begin to add the labels to its apps as they were updated, it […]

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Remember when archivists collected every post on the conservative social media platform Parler earlier this year?

A similar thing just happened to another right-wing online platform, Gab, as hackers claim to have broken into the social media site. But this intrusion is even worse.

On Sunday, a hacktivist collective known as Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) announced "GabLeaks," over 40 million posts that the hackers claim they pulled from the platform. The archive doesn’t just include public profiles and posts, it also includes posts and messages from private accounts, private groups, group passwords, and some hashed user passwords.  Read more...

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We've been waiting for Apple to jack up the iPhone's refresh rate for a while now. If the latest round of iPhone 13 rumors are to be believed, we won't have to wait much longer.

The new claims come courtesy of MacRumors, who got their hands on research notes from market analyst and popular Apple prognosticator Ming-Chi Kuo. By Kuo's estimation, the 2021 iPhone (which we'll call the iPhone 13) will have smaller notches on the front and bigger batteries. Some of them could also have a 120Hz display.

If you aren't up on tech lingo, the refresh rate is how often a screen can refresh itself, or "blink," in a second. Up until now, iPhones have shipped with 60Hz screens, meaning they refresh 60 times in a second. Going up to 120Hz would obvious...

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David Dobrik's new photo app that reimagines the old way photography worked has launched a new version of the app with an ad that dresses the YouTuber up in an old costume. 

Dobrik's app is called Dispo. It's essentially a digital version of an old-school disposable camera. (Get it? Dispo.) A new ad features Dobrik as an old man, crying and flipping through old photos of his partying with influencer pals. The spot was directed by Mark Romanek — director of the film One Hour Photo, which does not feel accidental — the makeup was done by Oscar- winning artist Kazu Hiro. It's super realistic. 

Right now Dispo remains invitation only and people are fighting to get in. Basically you take pictures through a small aperture with a crude zoom fu...

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The consumer electronics company Framework makes products that are easily customized and repaired in an effort to reduce e-waste.  Read more...

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Seth Rogen announced the launch of his cannabis brand and the internet loved it so much, the site immediately went down. 

The actor/filmmaker/stoner and his longtime creative partner, Evan Goldberg, announced the launch of their cannabis company Houseplant on Monday. The name combines the brand's two main products: "House" goods like ceramic ashtrays and lighters, and weed (plant) strains curated by the two Pineapple Express writers. 

"If you know anything about me at all, it's probably that I really love weed," Rogen said in a  video announcing the brand's launch. "But what you probably don't know about me is that I've been working on my own weed company for the last ten years."  Read more...

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The crafty, scheming Ginny and Georgia may have finally met their match: Taylor Swift fans.

The mother-daughter duo had more than enough problems to deal with in the first season of Netflix's newly released drama, which started streaming on Wednesday, but now they can add a displeased Taylor Swift and an army of outraged Swifties to their growing list of drama.

For those of you wondering what Ginny & Georgia did to unleash the unforgiving rage of Taylor Swift fans, your answer lies in a joke from the Season 1 finale, "The Worst Betrayal Since Jordyn and Kylie."

At one point in the episode, Georgia (Brianne Howey) inquires about the dating life of her daughter, Ginny (Antonia Gentry), and Ginny, rude as ever, replies, "What do you care? Y...

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Operation Varsity Blues, otherwise known as the college admissions scandal of 2019, was one of the rare news stories to unite gobsmacked viewers as it broke, and the Netflix version — complete with dramatic reenactments of FBI wiretaps — is poised to do the same. Based on the true events and FBI investigation into wealthy families paying for their kids' college admissions, documentary feature Operation Varsity Blues dials the drama up to 11.

Matthew Modine plays ringleader Rick Singer, who brags about his hundreds of "side door" operations and ends up enticing clients like Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman. Interviews in the trailer recount the blatancy of the scheme — students pretending to be athletes in sports they had never playe...

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For those looking to work out at home, elliptical machines are the top choice for many fitness fanatics who prefer to keep the gym as close to them as possible — AKA their home. 

Most ellipticals don’t take up that much space, and they provide really comprehensive cardio workouts for even the most dedicated gym rats. But for some reason, ellipticals aren’t as well-respected as other cardio-based workout machines — we presume that’s because not everyone fully understands the benefits of using one. (More of a yoga person? Try this.)

Clair Mason, a co-founder of elliptical-based gym Elliptica, prefers the Keiser elliptical because it’s well-made and really easy to maintain. But at more than $2,000, it might not be the most practical buy for...

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Instagram is finally giving creators their most requested feature—which the company hopes will make it a more dynamic destination for viewers.

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Whether you're backcountry skiing or running around the backyard, we have an activity tracker for you.

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One couple living in Yangon explain the impact of the military coup's terrifying censorship measures.

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Female journalists around the world are telling important stories, in spite of the danger of harassment or attack. This month focuses on their cases.

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It's not just about penalizing the former president. It's about protecting democracy—in the US and around the world.

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In The Empathy Diaries, the pioneering computer researcher finally studies her own life. She tells WIRED why now was the right time.

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Fighting the pandemic isn’t only about vaccines and drugs. It’s about understanding how viruses mutate and change inside us, and among us.

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AI programs that analyze language have difficulty gauging context. Words such as “black,” “white,” and “attack" can have different meanings.

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Through this project, we aim to bring stark evidence of the macroscale impacts – economic and societal – that come from the legacy of decades of broadband policymaking that has ignored the digital gender gap and left women and girls behind.

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This post was written by Glenn Maail, Research Manager at the Open Data Labs in Jakarta. 

For six years, the Open Data Labs Jakarta has been at the forefront of research, innovation and capacity building to unlock the benefits of …

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For the web to live up to its full potential as a force for good, our online world must be safe and empowering for everyone. But right now, the web’s benefits come with too many risks — to our health, …

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Happy birthday, Wikipedia! On January 15, 2021, we marked 20 years of the online encyclopedia with a special edition of The Web Untangled—our monthly newsletter series exploring topics critical to the web we want. Subscribe now to receive …

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Covid-19 has shown the internet is not a luxury but a lifeline, and underscored why affordable, meaningful internet access must be a basic human right.

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The US has the opportunity to show positive leadership on technology and human rights, our Director of Policy Emily Sharpe writes as she reflects on key priorities for the incoming Biden-Harris administration. 

When President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala …

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Research Manager for Access and Affordability Teddy Woodhouse shares insights on what governments can do to bring down broadband costs and expand access, including findings from the latest Affordability Report.

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Women and girls are experiencing a surge of violence and abuse online — a shadow pandemic spreading alongside the Covid-19 crisis. As the world marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, tech companies must urgently …

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