Sabrina Arriving in Riverdale Is Not What We Need to Talk About

Riverdale’s original idea of crazy was that Archie Andrews was sleeping with his teacher and Jason Blossom was very dead. Five seasons and a cult, several murders, some supernatural monsters, and two teachers randomly leaping out of the same damn window, anything goes—so at this point, the fact that a new trailer…

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Biden Gets Tough With States That Haven’t Adopted COVID-19 Safety Rules

OSHA officials warned South Carolina, Arizona and Utah that they will take over enforcement if the states don’t step up.

Rebel Wilson Frustrated By People Being ‘Obsessed’ With Her Body

The “Pitch Perfect” star said she’s been getting a whole lot of attention for doing “nothing except lose weight.”

Jen Psaki’s Response To Peter Doocy’s Question Leaves Him Momentarily Speechless

The White House press secretary asked the Fox News reporter a question he couldn’t answer.

Brave privacy browser ditches Google in favor of its own search engine

Brave, the company behind the privacy-centric web browser by the same name, is betting big on its own search engine. Brave browser now defaults to the company’s search engine, offering it in the place of Google for users in select markets like the US, Canada, and the UK. Users in other countries will also see the change soon. Brave announced … Continue reading

'Flight Simulator: GOTY Edition' adds new aircraft and locations on November 18th

Microsoft is spicing up Flight Simulator with an expanded re-release, although this one may be more ambitious than some. It’s releasingFlight Simulator: Game of the Year Edition on November 18th with both a heaping of new content as well as some meaningful feature upgrades. To start, there are five new stand-out aircraft, including the F/A-18 Super Hornet — you won’t have to wait until the Top Gun expansion to buzz the tower in a fighter jet. You’ll also get to fly the VoloCity air taxi, PC-6 Porter short-takeoff aircraft, the bush flying-oriented NX Cub and the single-seat Aviat Pitts Special S1S.

The GOTY upgrade adds eight airports, including Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Patrick Space Force Base. Eight cities will get photogrammetry detail upgrades, such as Helsinki, Nottinghm and Utrecht. There are accordingly new tutorials (such as bush flying and IFR) and Discovery Flights.

The update adds useful features, too. You’ll have early access to DirectX 12 features, an improved weather system and a developer mode replay system, among other improvements.

Most notably, you won’t have to pay for any of this as a veteran player— existing Flight Simulator owners will receive a free update on both Windows PCs and Xbox Series X/S. The paid GOTY release exists chiefly to entice first-timers. For everyone else, this is billed as a “thank you” upgrade that could keep them coming back.

A Cybercrime Group Has Been Hacking Telecoms to Steal Phone Records All Over the World

Everybody hopes that their phone calls and text messages are kept private but, in reality, we know the truth: Lots of entities—from dark web criminals to the government—have ways of intercepting intimate communications. Well, add another group to that anxiety-inducing list: A hacker gang, potentially based in China,…

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Convinced Your Dog Is a Genius? Scientists Want To Hear From You

If you’ve ever thought that your precious pup was a true genius, now you’ll have the chance to prove it. Researchers in the UK and Germany have launched a new citizen science project this week, hoping to find dogs that are extraordinarily good at human communication and object recognition.

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Fortnite's Dune Crossover Gives Us the Real Mind Killer: Smooth Timothée Chalamet

The sun has risen and set, the earth has turned, which means that it’s time for another massive collaboration for one of the biggest pop cultural behemoths on the planet—Star Wars, and Marvel canon continuity destroyer and a surprisingly good vehicle for BatmanFortnite. This time it’s Dune, and while that’s not weird…

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Jair Bolsonaro Is a Mass Murderer Who Deliberately Spread Covid-19, Brazilian Senate Panel Finds

Earlier this year, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro mocked the claim that his administration’s reckless handling of the coronavirus pandemic—which has entailed everything from straight denialism to promoting a cocktail of miracle drugs—was tantamount to genocide. Well, the Brazilian Senate has now concluded he is…

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