Tales of The Walking Dead Adds Several Superheroes to Its Stacked Cast

Back in 2020, AMC announced that The Walking Dead would live on after its 11th and final season through various spinoffs and follow ups. One of them is Tales of the Walking Dead, an anthology series featuring characters both new and old in AMC’s zombie universe. And as it gets closer to its planned summer release,…

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Recommended Reading: No legs in the metaverse

Why you can’t have legs in virtual reality (yet)

Rachel Metz, CNN Business

Have you ever wondered by no one seems to have legs in the metaverse? It turns out tracking your feet and legs isn’t a walk in the park. 

Reselling gig work is TikTok’s new side hustle

Mia Sato, The Verge

You’ve likely heard “work smarter, not harder” at some point in your life, but the latest TikTok side hustle is taking that in a whole new direction. Resellers are flipping things like graphic design for a profit, thanks to cheap labor from freelancers. 

Inside Facebook’s African sweatshop

Billy Perrigo, Time

We’ve seen numerous reports over the years about the working conditions for Facebook content moderators, but people at a Nairobi office tasked with watching violent and abusive content are among the lowest paid in the world. 

U.S. Figure Skating Pair Is Sued Over Winter Olympics Routine

Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier were accused of unlawfully using the music of the band Heavy Young Heathens.

We Don't Have to Accept a Bad Flu Season Every Winter

Another horrific winter of the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. has once again come with a silver lining: barely-there influenza. CDC data this week continues to show little flu activity in what’s already been an incredibly mild season. Though it’s not realistic to expect that the seasonal flu will always remain this…

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My Daughter Has Two Dads. Here’s The One Question We Wish Other Parents Asked Us.

“Emma’s not embarrassed or ashamed of our family — she’s just exhausted from all the questions she’s received over the years.”

The Winter Olympics As We Know Them Could Be Over

Maddie Phaneuf, an Olympic biathlete (she does a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting) from Upstate New York has watched this year’s Winter Games with mixed enthusiasm. She’s saddened—but not surprised—that the event has had to use fake snow, as snowfall is becoming harder to predict around the…

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Olympics Star Eileen Gu Tries To Predict Her Future ― And It’s A Lot

“I’m a very competitive person and I’m also a very goal-oriented person,” said the freestyle skier who won 2 golds and a silver in Beijing.

US and Britain blame Russia for cyberattacks on Ukraine's websites

Russia is responsible for the cyberattacks that took down the websites for Ukraine’s government agencies and major banks back in January, according to The White House. Anne Neuberger, the administration’s deputy national security adviser, said the government has “technical information that links the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate or GRU” to the hacks. Neuberger added that “GRU infrastructure was seen transmitting high volumes of communication to Ukraine based IP addresses and domains.”

According to AP and Reuters, Britain has also publicly attributed the incident to Russia, saying that the country’s GRU military intelligence agency is almost certainly involved. While the attacks managed to take down the targeted Ukrainian websites, Neuberger said they had “limited impact,” thanks to the the country’s officials that quickly secured and restored them. 

Ukraine’s defense and foreign ministries were among the affected websites, and a message in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish left by the attackers on the latter translated to: “Ukrainians! All your personal data has been uploaded to the public network. All data on the computer is destroyed, it is impossible to restore them.” The message also referenced the “historical land” and showed crossed-out versions of the Ukraine map and flag. 

The Ukrainian Information Ministry said back then that there were early indications Russia carried out the attacks. In addition, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy also suggested that references to Ukrainian ultra-nationalist groups were merely an attempt by the Russians to mask their footprint. 

Neuberger said the White House is publicly calling out Kremlin, because “[t]he global community must be prepared to shine a light on malicious cyber activity and hold actors accountable for any and all disruptive or destructive cyber activity.” Although the attacks had “limited impact,” the White House believes Russia could carry out more disruptive activities in the future followed by an invasion of Ukraine. President Biden has announced on Friday that the US has obtained intelligence showing that Russia’s Vladimir Putin has made the decision to invade Ukraine in the coming days. 

Watch Jamaican Bobsled Team Make Its Historic Return To Winter Olympics

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U.S. Skaters Launch Legal Challenge To Receive Medals Before Olympics Ends

The U.S. figure skating team’s silver medal is being withheld amid the doping scandal engulfing Russia’s Kamila Valieva.