Month: November 2022
Kindred’s first trailer channels Octavia Butler’s brilliance into horror
The beauty of Octavia Butler’s Kindred is how the novel frames empathy and care for others as forces powerful enough to move people through space and time. But the first trailer for FX’s upcoming series based on the book makes it seem like this take on Kindred’s going to be…
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Peacock is adding live TV from every local NBC station
Peacock is adding live TV to its repertoire in a big way, but only for subscribers that pay for the service’s top-tier Premium Plus plan. Today, NBCUniversal announced that customers in all 210 affiliate markets will be gaining 24/7 access to their local NBC station. Peacock Premium Plus costs $9.99…
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You can now print emoji in Google Workspace spreadsheets, should you ever want to
Audio player loading… Users of Google Workspace will soon be able to enjoy their emoji-filled spreadsheets in physical form thanks to a new update to the service. The company has revealed it will be enabling offline printing for those Google Sheets users working on a document with offline access. In…
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Burning a Frida Kahlo drawing to sell NFTs is a bad idea
It’s hard out there for NFT enthusiasts — the market has slowed down significantly, sales have plummeted since peaks, and the people involved in the space are grasping for ways to get their projects some attention. For crypto businessperson Martin Mobarak, the best way he knew how to do that…
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How to track your luggage — or anything else — with AirTags
This summer, we made the tactical error of visiting extended family in Europe. As the trip approached, we noted with growing concern headlines of airport chaos, long security lines, and mountains of lost baggage. Then a friend we had been planning to meet in Amsterdam chose to drive 12 hours…
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Apple could be tracking your every move in the App Store
Audio player loading… Apple appears to have started tracking user activities while in the App Store, making some suspect the company significantly deviated from its “privacy (opens in new tab) is a human right” ideals. Two researchers going by the alias Mysk discovered iOS was sending Apple a detailed log…
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