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- The leader of Facebook’s stalled cryptocurrency project is leaving the company
- This browser extension shows how many brands on Amazon are actually just Amazon
- Levels Health review: optimize your fitness with a $400 glucose tracker
- GTA Trilogy’s next big patch fixes spelling errors, rain, and CJ’s face covering the camera
- Netflix’s genre slate for 2022 includes The Sandman and The Witcher: Blood Origin
- Elon Musk says Raptor engine production is a ‘disaster’ that puts SpaceX at risk of bankruptcy
- Twitter bans posting pictures of ‘private individuals’ against their wishes
- Google engineers claim they were fired for following its ‘don’t be evil’ policy
- Razer’s Qualcomm-powered handheld console leaks
- How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day
| The leader of Facebook’s stalled cryptocurrency project is leaving the company Posted: 30 Nov 2021 10:25 AM PST  Facebook cryptocurrency chief David Marcus announced today that he's leaving the company. The former PayPal executive joined Facebook in 2014 to run Messenger but eventually took over plans to launch a new cryptocurrency and wallet, known at the time as Libra and Calibra, respectively. After some pre-Meta name changes, the digital wallet launched with a small pilot in October under the name Novi but only in two countries (the US and Guatemala) and support for a single form of crypto, the Paxos stablecoin. The currency that spurred so much ire from regulators and politicians around the world, now called Diem, has yet to appear. In posts on his Facebook page and Twitter, Marcus says, "While there's still so much to do right on the heels of... |
| This browser extension shows how many brands on Amazon are actually just Amazon Posted: 30 Nov 2021 10:17 AM PST  A new browser extension promises to show you which products in your Amazon search results are sold by brands that are either owned by or are exclusive to Amazon, giving you a better idea of who's selling what you're buying. It's called Amazon Brand Detector, and it uses a list of Amazon brands created by The Markup, along with filters and other techniques (detailed here) to detect and highlight products that are a part of Amazon's Our Brands program. The Markup created this extension after its investigation into how Amazon ranks its in-house brands in search results and says the tool (available for Chrome-like browsers and Firefox) is designed to make searches more transparent. When we tested it, it obviously highlighted Amazon Basics... |
| Levels Health review: optimize your fitness with a $400 glucose tracker Posted: 30 Nov 2021 10:07 AM PST  Real-time glucose tracking for fitness-based purposes is here, but it'll cost you |
| GTA Trilogy’s next big patch fixes spelling errors, rain, and CJ’s face covering the camera Posted: 30 Nov 2021 09:37 AM PST  Rockstar's next Title Update for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition looks to address a huge list of issues with the buggy remasters. The game has had a rough launch, and many of the fixes appear to clean up some of the more meme-worthy problems with the games. A lot of the fixes are about rain. Many spelling errors have apparently been fixed. I spotted two fixes for "a hole in the game world" in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition. There are also two fixes for CJ's face obscuring the camera in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition, which (sadly) may address the absolutely incredible bug shown in this video:
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| Netflix’s genre slate for 2022 includes The Sandman and The Witcher: Blood Origin Posted: 30 Nov 2021 09:30 AM PST  Netflix still has some big releases in store this year — including Don't Look Up and the second season of The Witcher — but the streaming service is also looking forward to its 2022 lineup. Today, the company released its slate for genre shows and movies coming next year, and while we knew some of them (last month, Netflix revealed that Stranger Things 4 would be coming out next summer), there were also some new confirmations. Most notably, both the live-action adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and The Witcher spinoff Blood Origin will debut on the streaming service in 2022. Outside of those heavy hitters, there are also plenty of shows returning — Alice in Borderland's season 2, Locke & Key season 3, The Umbrella Academy season 3... |
| Elon Musk says Raptor engine production is a ‘disaster’ that puts SpaceX at risk of bankruptcy Posted: 30 Nov 2021 08:45 AM PST  On Black Friday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sent an anxious email to his company's employees, urging them to work over the weekend on SpaceX's Raptor engine line and describing the production situation as a "crisis." In the email, a copy of which was obtained by The Verge, Musk argued that the company faces a "genuine risk of bankruptcy" if production doesn't increase to support a high flight rate of the company's new Starship rocket next year. The Raptor is SpaceX's massive methane engine that will be used to propel the company's next-generation launch system, called Starship. SpaceX plans to use Starship to take people to deep space, and in April, NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to develop Starship as a lunar lander to transport... |
| Twitter bans posting pictures of ‘private individuals’ against their wishes Posted: 30 Nov 2021 08:31 AM PST  Twitter will now let private individuals request takedowns of pictures or videos featuring them. The company announced the change this morning, extending an existing ban on private information to cover media. It's aimed at preventing harassment or invasions of privacy and includes exceptions for posts that are "shared in the public interest or add value to public discourse." "Sharing personal media, such as images or videos, can potentially violate a person's privacy, and may lead to emotional or physical harm," reads a Twitter Safety blog post announcing the change. "The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities." Twitter will... |
| Google engineers claim they were fired for following its ‘don’t be evil’ policy Posted: 30 Nov 2021 08:23 AM PST  Three ex-Google employees claim that Google has a contractual obligation to abide by its well-known "don't be evil" policy, and they are suing the company for allegedly terminating them for calling out Google's "evil" doings, via NPR. The former workers Sophie Waldman, Rebecca Rivers, and Paul Duke were fired — in addition to a fourth employee, Laurence Berland — in November 2019 for allegedly violating the company's data security policies, however, they claim they didn't leak any confidential information. Earlier this year, the acting head of the National Labor Relations Board said that Google "arguably violated" US labor laws by firing the three... |
| Razer’s Qualcomm-powered handheld console leaks Posted: 30 Nov 2021 08:12 AM PST  Qualcomm appears to be collaborating with Razer on a new gaming handheld developer kit built around its upcoming Snapdragon G3X processor. Leaked slides published by VideoCardz call the device a "Snapdragon G3X Handheld Developer Kit," suggesting it will primarily be aimed at software developers and manufacturers to help them build their own software and hardware powered by Qualcomm's mobile gaming technology. Alongside it, VideoCardz has also obtained slides detailing Qualcomm's next flagship smartphone processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The name shows off Qualcomm's new branding for its mobile chips announced last month. The processor will reportedly be manufactured using a 4nm process, with a CPU that's 20 percent faster and 30... |
| How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day Posted: 30 Nov 2021 07:30 AM PST  Taking an unconventional route to a conventional business |
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