Month: November 2021
iPhone 13 DIY screen replacements break Face ID unless you can microsolder
Apple’s new iPhone 13 lineup might pack a lot of new features, but they now have a major restriction that makes it much harder for independent repair shops to replace broken screens. If you try to swap the screen, Face ID just won’t work — that is, unless you know…
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Epic Games’ latest free weekly game isn’t a game at all
Epic Games has revealed next week’s free PC game, but there’s a twist. This time around, it won’t be a free game, but instead DLC for the free-to-play third-person tactical action shooter, Rogue Company. The Rogue Company Epic Pack DLC includes the characters Switchblade and Scorch, 20,000 battle pass XP,…
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Uber prices are still way up, so the company is bringing back carpooling
Uber is preparing to relaunch its carpooling service as a way to combat price increases, officials said in a call with investors. Uber Pool was shuttered in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and remained so even as vaccines became widely available and customers returned to the app.…
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New York City’s mayor-elect says he wants to be paid in Bitcoin
New York City’s mayor-elect Eric Adams said in a tweet Thursday that he wants his first three city paychecks paid in Bitcoin, in a bid to show up the mayor of Miami and indicate his hopes that New York will be a place where the cryptocurrency industry is welcome. To…
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Rivian accused of ‘toxic bro culture’ in gender discrimination lawsuit
EV startup Rivian’s former sales and marketing vice president has sued the Amazon-backed company for discrimination, claiming it has a “toxic bro culture that marginalizes women.” The suit, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, comes just days before Rivian is set to become a publicly traded company, and a…
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Taika Waititi is making a movie based on Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Incal comics
Taika Waititi is set to co-write and direct an adaptation of The Incal, the sci-fi graphic novel from writer Alejandro Jodorowsky with art by Jean Giraud, better known as Moebius, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. Jodorowsky’s name has been a popular one in Hollywood recently due to…
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