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Fill Your Closet With Our Favorite Button-Up Shirts For $33 Each
Newbury Mills has quickly become one of our favorite shirt makers, with offerings that can be dressed up or down, worn tucked or untucked, and with or without a tie. They also resist wrinkles well and are 100% soft SUPIMA cotton. Our readers can grab three for $99, plus additional shirts for $33 each. Considering one …Read more...
Report Alleges Tidal Faked Streaming Numbers for Beyoncé and Kanye West Albums
Tidal, the Jay-Z-backed streaming service that is supposed to put artists first, might’ve gone a bit overboard with that mantra. The Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reports that in 2016 the streaming service falsified and inflated streaming numbers for Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo and Beyoncé’s Lemonade …Read more...
Disney Teases Marvel's Expansive Post-Avengers 4 Plans
The Six Million Dollar Man reboot has lost its director. Margot Robbie hypes Birds of Prey. Go behind the scenes of Deadpool 2's amazing Celine Dion collab. John Krasinksi hints at where a sequel to A Quiet Place could go. Plus, what’s to come on The Flash, Arrow, and iZombie, and more. Spoilers, assemble!
Grab An Extra Set of Joy-Con From This Amazon Sale
The Nintendo Switch is better with friends, and you can add an extra player (or two, depending on the game) with a spare set of Joy-Con. Amazon’s marked the gray set down to $64 today, which is within about $1 of the best price they’ve ever listed.Read more...
Boeing Loses $20 Billion in Contracts After President Trump Violates Iran Deal
President Trump announced yesterday that he was unilaterally pulling the U.S. out of the so-called Iran Deal, an international agreement that lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for the cessation of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. But now that the sanctions are being reinstated, some American companies stand to lose…Read more...
Apple's iOS Will Reportedly Soon Have a Feature That Locks Down USB Data Access After a Week [Updated]
Apple’s latest move in its ongoing war of words with the FBI, National Security Agency, and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies over encryption is a feature that turns off USB data access on locked iOS devices.
South Georgia Island Has Finally Been Certified Free of Swarms of Rats That Feasted on Rare Birds
Exterminators have successfully cleansed the remote British overseas territory of South Georgia island in the South Atlantic of invasive rats that, since the year 1775, had been feasting on the eggs and chicks of two species of birds found nowhere else on the planet and many others.
AT&T Twitter Account: Can You Please Tell Us More About 'Pay to Play'
Earlier tonight, AT&T, which gave $2 million to Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, admitted to paying Michael Cohen for “insights into understanding the new administration.”
That Thing We All Kind of Knew Would Happen to MoviePass Might Be Happening
MoviePass, the monthly subscription-based service that offers seemingly impossible deals on movie tickets, appears to be heading towards that place where most impossible deals enabled by fistfuls of investors’ money go: the drain.
An Empowered Assistant Is How Wear OS Could Get Back on Track
When Google changed the name of its smartwatch OS from Android Wear to Wear OS, I was pissed. Not because the name sucked, as Wear OS does do a better job of reflecting the platform’s support for both Android and iOS devices. The problem was that the rebranding didn’t come with any new features or updates that…Read more...
Jordan Peele's Follow-Up to Get Out Is Called Us and the Rumored Cast Sounds Amazing
We don’t know what it’s about—but Jordan Peele’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning debut, Get Out, now has a title and a rumored cast.
Facebook Is Pivoting to the Blockchain
We won’t really know what kind of consequences Facebook will face from the Cambridge Analytica scandal until its next earnings report, months from now. But Facebooks is taking a lesson from struggling iced tea and camera companies by throwing some love to the blockchain. Investors: Are you happy now?Read more...
Why the Round Apple Watch Dream Won’t Die
Today, Apple was awarded a patent for an “electronic device having display with curved edges” that brings the dream of a round Apple Watch a little closer to the realm of possibility. Noticed by 9to5Mac, the patent mostly discusses the technical challenges when it comes to creating curved and circular displays, but…Read more...
Strong Hurricanes Intensify Faster Now Than They Did in the 1980s
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was brutal, featuring strong weather systems that morphed into severe and treacherous hurricanes in a remarkably short period of time. This phenomenon, known as rapid intensification, is now happening with greater ferocity than it did three decades ago, according to new research.Read more...
Are Jupiter and Venus Messing With Earth’s Climate?
Our planet is in a remarkably circular orbit around the Sun, but as new research points out, Earth’s orbit sometimes experiences a slight jolt, thanks to the combined gravitational influence of Jupiter and Venus. Incredibly, this cycle has been going on for at least 215 million years—and one scientist suggests it…Read more...
Infinity War Didn't Have Time to Deal With Your Cap/Iron Man Emotions
Avengers: Infinity War doesn’t give you time to breathe. It doesn’t care if you’ve seen the previous Marvel movies. It just takes off and never lets up. However, in a new interview, the film’s writers revealed that pace wasn’t always what they intended for their script—and it led to some complications.
The Best and Worst of Google I/O 2018 (So Far)
Google just wrapped up the keynote address at its annual I/O developer conference. It was kind of short compared to some of the marathons we’ve been subjected to in the past! But there’s still plenty for us to praise—and pan.Read more...
How to Try the Android P Public Beta Right Now
The next big release of Android is available today in the form of a public beta release, and you can try it now—if you happen to own one of the 11 devices that are supporting the OS update right out of the box.
All the New Features Coming to Google Lens
Lens is Google’s experimental, camera-powered search engine, but up until today, the service was buried inside Google’s Assistant and the Google Photos app. Lens still isn’t getting its own standalone app, but now Google is merging the feature into the default camera apps on a handful of Android devices, including the…Read more...
The LAPD Uses Palantir Tech to Predict and Surveil 'Probable Offenders'
Analysts with the Los Angeles Police Department are reportedly using Palantir software to direct officers to surveil “probable offenders” throughout the city, many of whom are not criminal suspects but have been spotlighted by the company’s predictive technology, according to LAPD documents.Read more...
Google's New 'Digital Wellbeing' Android Features Save You From Your Phone
Smartphones have fundamentally transformed our world but the downside of all of this is that your phone owns your ass. Remember the last time you left your phone at home? It sucked! In an effort to help improve what it calls your “Digital Wellbeing,” Google’s introducing a collection of features designed to make your…Read more...
Gmail Now Writes Emails for You
Emails take too long. Well, at least according to Google, which is why on Tuesday at Google I/O, the company announced a new Gmail feature called Smart Compose. The feature allows for artificial intelligence to auto-fill information in the emails you compose in an effort to cut down on the time spent typing up…Read more...
Uhh, Google Assistant Impersonating a Human on the Phone Is Scary as Hell to Me
Google could soon have a feature that lets your phone impersonate people—because consumer-facing artificial intelligence isn’t terrifying enough. Called Duplex, it’s intended to make people’s lives easier by handling standard phone calls that are necessary, but not especially personal.Read more...
Everything We Learned About Android P Today at Google I/O
Is it going to be called Pumpkin Pie or Peppermint Patty? Or how about Popsicle? Well, whatever Google ends up deciding on, if history is any indication, we’re not going to know for sure until the fall. So to hold us over, why don’t we take a look at all the new updates and features Google showed off for Android at…Read more...
The US Will Fund Another Super-Sensitive and Expensive Dark Matter Experiment
The US Department of Energy will fund the most sensitive search yet for theorized dark matter particles. It will sit over a mile underground, in a nickel mine near the Canadian city of Sudbury, according to a release.Read more...
Google Assistant Is About to Get Better
Google Assistant is finally going to be easier to use, according to Google. Just a few days after the company announced that the virtual assistant now works with over 5,000 devices, Google says that Assistant will soon not only sound more natural, you’ll be able to have a conversation with it.Read more...
Here's Microsoft's New Plan to Colonize Your Phone With Windows
Last year, Microsoft assured us that the death of the Windows phone didn’t mean the death of Windows on your phone. Today, the company teased a future where Android users will have the same cool phone-to-PC experience iOS users with a Mac currently enjoy. The Windows phone may be dead, but Windows really might be…Read more...
Uber’s New Aerial Taxi Concept Looks Like the Spruce Goose of Flying Cars
Uber unveiled a new design for its futuristic “aerial taxi” at the second annual Uber Elevate conference today. And judging by the concept art, Uber is still trying to figure out how to make electric vertical take off and landing (eVTOL) a practical reality. The company’s latest design looks like the Spruce Goose of…Read more...
Report: Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Attack U.S. Military Wives
National news outlets reported in early 2015 that ISIS had threatened spouses of United States services members over Twitter. A new report asserts that those attacks actually came from Russia.Read more...
Most Triumphant: Bill & Ted 3 Is Officially Set to Rock Our Socks Off
Everyone involved with the Bill & Ted films has been saying, for literally years, that a third film was in the works. There’s a script, a director, and the stars are all in, but the project just couldn’t lock in the right financing. But this week the most excellent news ever is finally official. Bill & Ted Face the…Read more...
Activists Gather at Google's Developer Conference to Protest Maps Results for Sham Abortion Clinics
Google will kick off its annual developer conference on Tuesday, showing off its latest and greatest to the people building things for its platforms. But a group of activists want to hold the tech giant accountable for how these very platforms are manipulating some of its most vulnerable users. On Tuesday morning, two…Read more...
The Fight for a Massive Pentagon Cloud Contract Is Heating Up
Top tech companies are launching a bidding war for a massive Pentagon cloud contract, even as their workforces are pressing them to refuse all military work. In addition to the protests from employees, the bidding process for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract is bogged down by infighting…Read more...
Grab Your Telescope: Jupiter Will Shine Its Brightest Tonight
This weekend I got to experience the dark skies over a nameless lake somewhere between Grand Forks, North Dakota and Bemidji, Minnesota. It was my first time seeing the faint band of our own Milky Way. But we had our telescope pointed on something we could have seen just as easily from a Brooklyn stoop: Jupiter, the…Read more...
Mad Scientists Taught a Predatory Spider to Jump for Them and Now We're All Probably Doomed
Scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK trained a spider named Kim to jump for them, then recorded her leaps on high-speed cameras. But don’t worry, their research—published Tuesday in Scientific Reports—isn’t meant for anything nefarious. Nah, they just want to learn how to build a whole legion of…Read more...
Legion Is a Great Reminder of Just How Awful Charles Xavier Was
Though Professor Charles Xavier is a gifted telepath and an excellent educator, he’s also a rather terrible father and all-around menace to teenaged mutants. That last bit never factored too much into Fox’s live-action X-Men franchise, but it’s something that FX’s Legion is very carefully trying to remind us.Read more...
Top Tech Companies Head to White House to Talk AI, Fending off the Apocalypse
It’s almost been a year since the White House held its last big tech summit. On Thursday, it will reportedly host representatives from 38 of the biggest companies in the US to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how the government can help us avoid disaster.Read more...
Equifax Now Says Over 56,000 Driver's Licenses, Passports, and Other IDs Were Stolen, Too
Credit-reporting agency Equifax has revealed new details this week about the personal data of customers exposed in last year’s data breach.
Study Confirms: Our Vacations Suck For the Climate
It’s no secret flying is Bad for the climate, but just how harmful our jet-setting, Airbnb-hopping lifestyles really are has been tough to pin down. Now a study has crunched the numbers, making it much harder to plead ignorance about the environmental impact of your next vacation.
Mark Hamill May Have Revealed a Highly IntriguingSolo: A Star Wars StoryCameo
The Russos continue to tease just what the title of Avengers 4 could be. Jurassic World 3 will get back to classic dinosaurs, according to Colin Trevorrow. Time might be running out for Timeless once again. Plus, what’s to come on Supergirl and iZombie, and more Gambit director rumors. Spoilers get!
On This Saturn-Like Exoplanet, the Forecast Always Calls for Clear Skies [Updated]
Astronomers have detected an exoplanet whose sodium-rich atmosphere is completely devoid of clouds—a strange celestial feature that until this point only existed in theory.Read more...
Fill Up Your Xbox's Hard Drive With Amazon's Massive Digital Game Sale
While we’ve seen better deals on a lot of these games as physical copies, Amazon’s limited-time digital sale event is still worth a look for any Xbox One owner, especially if you prefer to download games.
Walmart to Limit Opioid Prescriptions to 7-Day Supply, Will Require E-Prescriptions by 2020
Walmart has announced that the company will roll out new restrictions on opioid prescriptions this summer at Walmart and Sam’s Club stores, and will require e-prescriptions for opioids by the year 2020. The move comes as the opioid epidemic continues to kill more and more Americans every year.Read more...
Facebook Is Developing Avatars, Which Are Just Like Bitmoji Except Not Owned By Snap
Just like it did with Filters, Snaps, and Stories, Facebook is duplicating another feature that previously existed on its competitor Snapchat.Read more...
I Had No Idea Who Grimes Is, But After 20 Minutes of Misinformed Research, Reports She's Dating Elon Musk Make Sense
On Monday, reports emerged in Page Six, the tabloid New York Post’s gossip page, that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is dating none other than musician Grimes. At first, I didn’t know what to make of this, because—confession: I had absolutely no idea who Grimes is.
Eric Schneiderman Resigns As New York AG After Allegations of Physical Abuse Against Women
On the same night that the New Yorker published an explosive report that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had physically assaulted multiple women, Schneiderman has resigned.
Melania Trump Has Some Great Advice on How to Protect Kids Online, Like Our Big Boy President
First lady Melania Trump presented her long-awaited “Be Best” initiative on Monday, which entails something about protecting children from social media cyberbullies and also the opioid crisis. And boy, was said presentation a doozy, laden with the kind of Hallmark card-inspired language and dramatic music that one…Read more...
ThisLast Starfighter Artwork Pays Tribute to a Forgotten Era
With any luck, in the coming years, the 1980s cult classic The Last Starfighter will make a comeback. Until then, we can live vicariously through this wonderful piece of art and hope for more like it.Read more...
Oh My God,Agents of SHIELDIs Gonna Do the Thing
The continuity relationship between Marvel’s television and film output in recent years can be described as tenuous at best. And that’s been mostly fine—the Marvel movies of recent years have been relatively insular, with little need for their events to impact the likes of SHIELD or the Netflix shows. Avengers:…Read more...
The Thirteenth Doctor's Comic Debut Is a Tiny Slice of Doctor Who Perfection
For Free Comic Book Day this year, Titan teased that the anthology of Doctor Who stories it would offer for the event would include the comics debut of Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor. It’s perhaps not quite what you might expect from that descriptor, and yet it’s also the perfect example of what you need to know…Read more...
Twitter Appears to Be Testing Encrypted Direct Messages
With Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, and Signal all offering various forms of encrypted messaging, Twitter has often seemed like the lone holdout. The company has been pressed to add an encryption option to its direct messaging—most notably by Edward Snowden—but the feature has yet to be introduced.Read more...
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