Jan 31
North Korea has fired what appeared to be the most powerful missile it has tested since President Joe Biden took office.
Jan 31
The attorney and pageant winner was found dead outside the Manhattan apartment building where she lived.
Jan 31
<img width="1067" height="800" src="https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/moon-1-1067×800.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="The Eagle Lunar Module" loading="lazy" style="margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%" data-attachment-id="709603" data-permalink="https://www.slashgear.com/the-one-thing-everyone-gets-wrong-about-the-moon-landing-30709602/moon-1-2/" data-orig-file="https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/moon-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1440,1080" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="moon-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="
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” data-medium-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/moon-1-960×720.jpg” data-large-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/moon-1-1067×800.jpg” />Astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon in 1969, with Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt being the last Apollo astronauts to leave its surface two years later, as noted by History. If you stop to really think about it, what NASA accomplished with technology from that era is mind-boggling. For starters, the Apollo 11 rocket had a computer processor … Continue reading
Jan 31
Spotify’s streaming platform is home to many artists and podcasters, but recently, the company made headlines when musician Neil Young told the platform that he wanted his music removed from the streaming service due to Joe Rogan’s podcast, which has faced some controversy over Rogan’s take on vaccines.
This was followed by artist Joni Mitchell, and now it looks like a ton of Spotify customers are also letting the streaming platform know how they feel about it by flooding them with cancellation requests. So much so that there have been reports that Spotify has been inundated with so many cancellation requests that they have not only temporarily suspended its live customer service support, but also requests for cancellations.
BREAKING: Spotify has shutdown its live customer support due to an unprecedented number of complaints after they doubled-down on their Joe Rogan anti-vax campaign pic.twitter.com/yscw97xTkt
— LeGate (@williamlegate) January 27, 2022
According to MainStreet Law’s Tristan Snell, “Spotify is no longer letting people cancel subscriptions. Their customer service system is completely overwhelmed. People asking to cancel are being told they cannot. Presumably Spotify will allow cancellations again at some point once their system is not so flooded.”
Some users are claiming that they have managed to successfully cancel their Spotify subscription, but others are claiming that the website is too slow or not responsive to their requests. Keep in mind that there is a difference between closing your account permanently versus cancelling your Premium subscription, so if you can’t do the former, you can always opt for the latter for now.
Spotify Is Being Hit With A Ton Of Cancellation Requests
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Jan 31
Last week, it was reported that 19-year old Jack Sweeney had created a Twitter bot back in 2021 which had the ability to track the movements of the private jets belonging to several tech billionaires. This included none other than Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk to the point where Musk reached out to the teen asking him to stop.
Musk told Sweeney that this posed a security risk to him and offered him $5,000 to delete the account. However, Sweeney countered and said that he would do it for $50,000 where he said that the money would help him with things like college tuition and maybe even help him buy a car like the Tesla Model 3.
The CEO then told Sweeney he would think about it but hasn’t gotten back to him yet, which is why Sweeney decided to take his conversation with Musk public. Speaking to Business Insider, Sweeney said, “He went the opposite way of me, so why wouldn’t I go the opposite way of him?”
To Sweeney’s credit, he did give Musk some advice on how to block being tracked by using a system that would change his jet’s identifier. According to Sweeney, he said that it appears Musk did heed his advice, but he now sees it as a new challenge where he said that he will now have to “work around it”.
We can understand why Musk might not be too keen on paying Sweeney $50,000 to stop. If Sweeney was able to track Musk’s jet’s movements, who’s to say that someone else won’t come up with something similar and demand another $50,000, or more, from Musk again? We’re not sure if Sweeney will ever take down his bot, but in the meantime, his work has managed to land him a job at a company called UberJets where he helped develop a platform that tracks chartered flights to help find cheaper seats.
Teen Wants $50,000 To Stop Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet On Twitter
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Jan 31
Researchers Develop A Potentially Cheaper Method Of Testing For COVID At Home
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Right now, there are basically two ways to test if someone has the coronavirus. One is by taking a rapid antigen test, and the other is by taking a PCR test. The former can be done at home and is cheaper than taking a PCR, but has been known to be not quite as accurate as a PCR test.
But what if we told you that there was a test that could be almost as accurate as a PCR, but cheaper? That’s what researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have done which resulted in a system that they are calling “smaRT-LAMP”. The initial setup cost of this test will cost around $100, but once you have the system in place, each test will cost around $7, so in the long run it could be cheaper.
Image credit – University of California, Santa Barbra
The best part is that it uses your smartphone’s camera, meaning that you don’t really need much else other than the “smaRT-LAMP” device. How it works is that users place their saliva into a test kit and place it into a reactive solution that will help amplify viral RNA. The samples are then covered with a cardboard box with an LED lamp stuck at the top, and then by placing your smartphone’s camera at the top, it uses an accompanying app to identify and analyze the color reactions.
The researchers believe that this kit could also be modified in the future for other COVID strains or other types of pathogens, so if and when this pandemic passes, it will still have its uses. Right now the initial tests have been quite small involving 50 patients, so it’s hard to say how this might fare with a larger group of subjects, but the initial results do appear to be promising.
Researchers Develop A Potentially Cheaper Method Of Testing For COVID At Home
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Jan 31
Joe Burrow and these young, hungry Cincinnati Bengals are Super Bowl-bound as unexpected and tenacious AFC champions.
Jan 31
<img width="1199" height="800" src="https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hdmi-2-0-1199×800.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="golden hdmi connector" loading="lazy" style="margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%" data-attachment-id="709596" data-permalink="https://www.slashgear.com/whats-the-difference-between-hdmi-2-1-and-2-0-30709595/hdmi-2-0/" data-orig-file="https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hdmi-2-0.jpg" data-orig-size="1440,961" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="hdmi-2-0" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="
Vitalii Stock/Shutterstock
” data-medium-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hdmi-2-0-1079×720.jpg” data-large-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hdmi-2-0-1199×800.jpg” />HDMI inputs have been commonplace on the back of televisions and other home entertainment devices since the release of the technology in 2002. Unlike most other categories of consumer electronics, however, televisions and home entertainment devices do not see major upgrades every year or even every two years. Even more so, when upgrades do happen, the new features take several … Continue reading
Jan 31
Jan 31
<img width="1200" height="800" src="https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/moderna-syringe-1200×800.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Moderna logo with syringe" loading="lazy" style="margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%" data-attachment-id="709580" data-permalink="https://www.slashgear.com/modernas-mrna-hiv-vaccine-trial-kicks-off-with-first-round-of-doses-30709578/moderna-syringe/" data-orig-file="https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/moderna-syringe.jpg" data-orig-size="1440,960" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="moderna-syringe" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="
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” data-medium-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/moderna-syringe-1080×720.jpg” data-large-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/moderna-syringe-1200×800.jpg” />Moderna has just announced the launch of the first clinical trial for an HIV vaccine made using its messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, and the first doses have already been administered to enrolled participants. The use of mRNA tech is a major milestone in the multi-decade effort to develop an HIV vaccine, arriving decades after the first vaccine clinical trial was … Continue reading
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