Month: January 2022
Sundance Film Festival goes virtual, Grammys postponed over omicron concerns
Both the Grammy Awards and the Sundance Film Festival have changed their 2022 plans due to a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country (via CNBC and Indiewire). The Grammy Awards show has been postponed until further notice, and the Sundance Film Festival will go virtual, rather than risk an…
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Dead By Daylight drops Leatherface cosmetics after reports of harassment against Black players
Behaviour Interactive, developer of co-op survival horror game Dead By Daylight, has decided to remove certain cosmetics from the game after years of complaints that they were being used in racist harassment against Black players. Announced as part of a developer update, the cosmetics will be removed in a forthcoming…
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This is how WhatsApp plans to change the way you receive your messages
WhatsApp has reportedly started rolling out the first beta feature of 2022 for iOS users. According to a report by WABetaInfo, with the new feature, iPhone users will also be able to see the sender’s profile photos as well as message notifications. According to the screenshot shared with the report,…
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2029 Will be the Perfect Year to Launch a Mission to Sedna
Image Credit: Nasa Object 90377 Sedna – a distant transneptunian object best known for its highly elliptical, 11,390-year-old orbit – is currently en-route to perihelion (its closest approach to the Sun) in 2076. After that, Sedna will return to the ‘space. deep and will not return for millennia, making…
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Fossil promises Alexa is coming to its smartwatches ‘soon’
Although Fossil launched two new smartwatches at CES today, there’s one big elephant in the room: the upgrade to Wear OS 3 won’t arrive for several months. To take the sting out of the wait, Fossil snuck in another new feature for its Gen 6 smartwatches: Amazon Alexa. As for…
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Pfizer, BioNTech to jointly develop shingles vaccine
Pfizer headquarters in New York. Getty Images Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech announced on Wednesday that they would develop a potential mRNA-based vaccine for the prevention of viral shingles, working together for the third time after the success of their COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer partnered with BioNTech in 2018 for an influenza…
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