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News Image Silo Season 2 Debuts in November, and Here’s Your First Look

Rebecca Ferguson and Common star in the Apple TV+ sci-fi show based on the Hugh Howey book trilogy.

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News Image Fujifilm goes after aspiring vloggers with its new $800 X-M5 camera

Even as it keeps working to catch up with demand for the massively popular X100VI, Fujifilm has been on a steady cadence of releasing new cameras. The X-T50 was announced in May, and it was the first to feature a physical dial for switching between the company’s signature film simulations. That dial is carrying forward to the new, budget-tier X-M5 that Fujifilm is announcing today. The X-M5 is priced at $799.95 and is an affordable gateway into the company’s interchangeable lens mirrorless camera lineup.. Fujifilm is positioning it as a lightweight camera ideal for everyday shooting and “emerging content creators” who want to vlog with it — despite a lack of in-body image stabilization (IBIS). At 13 ounces (355 grams), the X-M5 is the...

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News Image The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over

“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.

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News Image Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

The cofounder of the world’s largest education app thinks AI and gamification can supercharge language learning.

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Casio confirms customer data compromised in ransomware attack

A ransomware and extortion racket called Underground has claimed responsibility for the breach on its dark web leak site, which TechCrunch has seen.

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Two comets will be visible in the night skies this month

The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space. The spherical shell known as the Oort Cloud is, for all practical purposes, invisible. Its constituent particles are spread so thinly, and so far from the light of any star, including the Sun, that astronomers simply cannot see the cloud, even though it envelops us like a blanket. It is also theoretical. Astronomers infer the Oort Cloud is there because it’s the only logical explanation for the arrival of a certain class of comets that sporadically visit our solar system. The cloud, it turns out, is basically a gigantic reservoir that may hold billions of icy celestial bodies. Read full article

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"Don't force us to pick who is allowed to receive help," Aid orgs. say about Middle East

Aid organizations fear that polarization about the Middle East will result in fewer donations to Giro555 for the people who desperately need aid.

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News Image 7 Best Bug Sprays We Tested and Reviewed

Our writer tried some of the most popular insect repellents during runs, hikes, and evenings. These are the ones we recommend.

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News Image Forget Black Friday: Here Are 10 Amazon Deals Still Going Strong This Post-Prime Day Monday

Did you miss Prime Big Deal Days? Good news, you can still catch up this Monday with the latest deals!

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News Image SpaceX’s Dramatic Rocket Catch Brings Interplanetary Travel One Step Closer

By proving that its Super Heavy booster can return to Earth and land, SpaceX has moved closer to creating a reusable interplanetary transport system.

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News Image The Woman Who Revolutionized the Fantasy Genre Is Finally Getting Her Due

Judy-Lynn del Rey was best known for founding Del Rey Books, a science fiction and fantasy imprint that turned fantasy in particular into a major publishing category.

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