Month: December 2022
Instagram launches its BeReal clone, Candid Stories
Instagram’s BeReal clone is now official. Meta introduced “Candid Stories,” a new feature with Instagram Stories that recreates BeReal’s signature once-a-day selfies. The feature will be testing in South Africa to start, according to a company spokesperson. BeReal, which originally launched in 2019, has gained a steady following over the…
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This scam is seeing marketing e-mails opened en masse by bots
Audio player loading… A sizeable minority (5%) of all marketing emails are opened by bots as scammers flock towards “click fraud bots” to fake email-based conversions if research from Polygraph is to be believed. An extremely popular variety of cyber scam, “click fraud” is where the owners of websites use fraudulent…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer is a wild who’s who of Spider-People
Audio player loading… Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s official trailer has debuted online – and, as a huge webhead, I couldn’t be more excited for its arrival next year. Why? Because of the sheer amount of Spider-People who make their debuts in Sony’s animated sequel. Honestly, I could sit here and…
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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Charged With Fraud By US Authorities
Overnight a court filing was released detailing fraud allegations against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed crypto firm FTX. The Securities and Exchange Commission says that whilst the entrepreneur “portrayed himself as a responsible leader of the crypto community”, in fact he misled clients and “improperly diverted their assets” to…
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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is the first great high frame rate movie
Avatar: The Way of Water is a triumph. As a sequel to the highest-grossing film ever, which was criticized for its formulaic story (and the surprisingly small ripple it had on pop culture), the new movie is a genuine surprise. It's a sweeping epic that reflects on the nature of…
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Avatar: The Way of Water is a gorgeous rehash of all the first film’s triumphs and failures
James Cameron’s first Avatar was a phenomenon that fundamentally altered the landscape of the entertainment industry with its record-breaking box office success and briefly convinced a generation of theatergoers that 3D movies were great, actually. The original Avatar’s story was little more than a white savior narrative cosplaying as a…
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