A new promo video for Amazon’s big budget The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV show dropped this week and, my goodness, did the internet have jokes. Now, to be clear, this video is neither the opening credits of the show, as some folks thought, nor is it an official trailer. It’s…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
After years of controversy, Microsoft’s HoloLens project just got a first order from the U.S. military. Bloomberg reported Thursday that Microsoft would deliver the initial units of its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (or IVAS) goggles to the military after “encouraging results” from field testing. The goggles, which provide a heads-up display and night vision capabilities…
A high-severity vulnerability in the TikTok Android application could have allowed accounts to be hijacked “with a single click”, Microsoft has revealed. In a paper published to the Microsoft Security blog, the company reported that a chain of issues could have been abused to create a scenario whereby an account could be compromised with a…
Xperi, parent company of DTS, is at IFA demonstrating the latest updates to its Play-Fi wireless audio streaming platform. Play-Fi, which is found in products ranging from wireless speakers and soundbars to AV receivers and TVs, lets listeners stream up to 24-bit/192kHz high-res audio with under 1ms latency over their home’s Wi-Fi and also allows…
Getty Images By Allan Thygesen, Think with Google Today, 80% of people in surveyed countries are concerned about the state of their online privacy.1 In turn, regulators and tech platforms have restricted techniques — such as device IDs and third-party cookies — that advertisers have relied on for decades to reach audiences and measure results….
Thomas Webster argues he attacked a police officer in self-defense on January 6. FBI Former NYPD cop Thomas Webster testified at trial that he acted in self-defense on January 6. A jury needed just hours to find him guilty on all six charges he faced from the Capitol attack. A retired Marine, Webster served on…
James D. Morgan/Getty Images Delta Air Lines has issued $6 billion in refunds, comprising more than 11 million tickets, since the start of 2020. CEO Ed Bastian said 20% of these refunds are from 2022, which has been unusually bad for air travel. “Delta’s 2022 capacity restoration compared to 2019 is the lowest among our…
Kayla Alpert said that on her first day working as a writer on “All That,” Schneider told her that women were not funny. “It speaks to something very dark and very wrong,” Alpert said. Photo by Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Former Nickelodeon executive Dan Schneider asked Nickelodeon staffers for massages on…
Shadé Smith’s signed her first lease in New York City sight unseen. Now that her term is up, she knows what to look for on her search for a new apartment. Courtesy of Shadé Smith Shadé Smith signed her Manhattan lease before seeing her unit in person — now she regrets it. Spotting red flags…
A Starbucks barista prepares a drink at a Starbucks Coffee Shop location in New York. Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images Starbucks appointed a new chief executive to succeed interim CEO Howard Schultz. Laxman Narasimhan will assume the incoming CEO role in October, before fully replacing Schultz next year. Narasimhan comes from Reckitt Benckiser, which makes…