NASA has observed and explored many parts of the universe around us, but when it comes to the Milky Way — our galactic home — things get tricky. Because of Earth’s position within the Milky Way, it can be extra difficult to learn things about the galaxy. That makes a new discovery about one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms … Continue reading
Yesterday, the folks at CD Projekt Red revealed a handful of changes that will ship along with Cyberpunk 2077‘s incoming 1.3 update. If you were a little underwhelmed by the changes CD Projekt Red chose to focus on, then we’ve got some good news for you: the full patch notes for version 1.3 have been revealed, and they’re very long. … Continue reading
Today it appears that Samsung unofficially announced they’d be removing advertisements from inside their own apps. This means the Samsung Galaxy device apps like Samsung Weather, Samsung Pay, and so forth. It’s been ages since we last heard about even the possibility that Samsung would remove advertisements for their own products inside the apps that are placed in their own … Continue reading
Like it or not, Google is following Apple and Samsung in ditching included chargers. The company has confirmed to The Verge that the Pixel 6 won’t include a charger in the box. Like its peers, Google claims there’s just no need — most people already have USB-C chargers, the company says.
The Pixel 5a should be Google’s last phone with an in-box power brick. We’ve asked Google if it can comment on the subject.
While Google didn’t touch on this directly, companies have historically justified removing the charger as an eco-friendly move. Apple, Samsung and others can not only produce fewer chargers overall and reduce e-waste, but ship phones in smaller boxes that allow for more devices per shipment (and thus fewer trips).
As critics have observed, though, that advantage is debatable — if you do need to buy a charger, you may create more waste by ordering a charger from another company. Others have speculated that it’s a cost-cutting move. Companies can hide (or at least mitigate) rising phone costs by removing a sometimes-redundant accessory.
Either way, your options for included chargers are shrinking. You may have to turn to brands like Xiaomi (which offers a ‘free’ charger for the Mi 11) if you’re determined to get a brick at no extra charge. Otherwise, you’ll likely have to resign yourself to buying at least one separate charger to keep your phone topped up.
Apple has renewed Carpool Karaoke for a fifth season and plans to move the series over to its TV+ service, according to Deadline. The show predates the streaming platform by several years and has been available through Apple Music and the TV app since the company first premiered the project back in 2017.
Both the series and The Late Late Showwith James Corden skit it’s based on have been on hiatus since the start of the pandemic. Once season five gets underway, you’ll find the previous four seasons on Apple TV+ as well. The change should make it easier to find the series since it will live alongside the company’s other original programming.
A new test from Twitter will finally allow users to report “misleading” tweets. The company says it’s testing the feature for “some people” in the US, South Korea and Australia. Though only an experiment, it’s a significant step for Twitter which has previously had limited reporting tools for misinformation on its service.
With the change though, users will now be able to report political and health misinformation, with sub-categories for election and COVID-19 related tweets, according toThe Verge. That tracks with other fact checking and misinformation-busting efforts Twitter has made over the past year and a half. The company has previously introduced labels and PSAs to debunk health and election misinformation on its platform.
We’re assessing if this is an effective approach so we’re starting small. We may not take action on and cannot respond to each report in the experiment, but your input will help us identify trends so that we can improve the speed and scale of our broader misinformation work.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) August 17, 2021
At the moment, it’s not clear how reported tweets will be handled. Unlike Facebook, which uses a large network of fact checkers to debunk falsehoods, Twitter’s fact checking initiatives have been more narrowly focused. In a tweet, the company said that users shouldn’t expect the company to respond to every report but the reports “will help us identify trends so that we can improve the speed and scale of our broader misinformation work.”
PLEASE SEND HELP. Netflix is holding us hostage in a Saw-like chamber of our own minds, tormenting us with a stupid question we never asked: What did Bob Ross do? And will Bob Ross make it out intact? The mild-mannered painter’s legacy has eight days until possible dismemberment. We fear it will not make it out alive.
On August 22, 1986, Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 was released, 12 years after his original. The first film is still one of cinema’s most shocking, gruesome classics; while its sequel is just as grisly, TCM 2 has its (severed) tongue firmly in its (rotting) cheek with a joke that starts the instant you look…
The man was roughly 60 years old when he died, and he was laid to rest in an elaborate stone tomb alongside fancy urns and other grave goods. Once an enslaved person, the Pompeii resident found his way to freedom and socioeconomic success, as newly uncovered evidence suggests.
After announcing earlier this week that it planned to partner with El Rey Network to launch an exclusive Latinx-focused entertainment channel, The Roku Channel announced on Tuesday that it would also add 16 additional free streaming channels to its network this week.
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