The FDA advisory about licorice is a few years old, but the memes about it will live on forever. “FDA issues warning about black licorice for halloween,” one headline read. And then below that, in a screenshot taken for posterity, somebody comments that the warning must have been “It tastes like shit.”
Source: LifeHacker – Yes, the FDA Really Did Issue a Warning About Black Licorice
Google’s antitrust trial revealed the multi-billion dollar tech company paid out a whopping total of $26.3 billion in 2021 to keep its status as the default search engine on phones and multiple browsers, Bloomberg Law reported Friday. The Justice Department argued that by spending an exorbitant amount of money to…
Source: Gizmodo – Google Paid How Much to Be the Default Search Engine?
The ship has now sailed on season two of Our Flag Means Death, and we’ve just stopped sobbing long enough to check our email and find a missive from Max with the subject line “What to watch after Our Flag Means Death.”
Source: Gizmodo – Max Has Some Questionable Suggestions for Your Our Flag Means Death Withdrawals
It’s nearly Halloween, so it’s once again time for Valve to throw a big ol’ spooky-themed Steam sale. And this year there are plenty of great deals on new and old games, most of which are scary and perfect to play on Halloween night. Also…
Source: Kotaku – Don’t Sleep On These Great Steam Halloween Sale Deals
Tesla and recalls are no strangers as it seems to have one every few weeks or months due to various system glitches and malfunctions. From loose seat belts to power steering, to traction battery recalls, Tesla is no novice when it comes to fixing errors stemming from production inefficiencies or service maintenance…
Source: Gizmodo – Tesla’s String of Mass Recalls Over the Last 12 Months
If you own a property, chances are you have engaged in the time-honored adventure known as “hiring a contractor.” You’ve probably also learned that contractors operate inside of their own separate reality, where time moves differently and words often mean completely different things.
Source: LifeHacker – 9 Lies Contractors Tell
A new map of subsurface water on Mars just dropped, and it reveals regions on the Red Planet where ice may be buried beneath the surface for future astronauts to use.
Source: Gizmodo – Detailed Mars Water Map Shows Where to Land Future Explorers
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Source: Gizmodo – Democrats Release ‘Most Comprehensive Plan Ever’ to Address Plastics Problem
OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight and open-source version of the LiteSpeed Server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies. It supports Apache Rewrite rules, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 along with TLS v1.3 and QUIC protocols. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install an OpenLiteSpeed Server on a Debian 12 machine.
Source: LXer – How to Install LOMP Stack (OpenLiteSpeed, MySQL, and PHP) on Debian 12
The next upgrade to one of the most ubiquitous chips in all of the Android ecosystem is trying to hit Google on its own turf, that being increasingly ubiquitous generative AI. Qualcomm’s week-long chip extravaganza in Maui showed off the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 that’s ready for OEMs’ flagship devices shipping next year.…
Source: Gizmodo – Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Wants to Compete for AI Dominance on Android
Efforts to curb emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas commonly produced as a by-product of refrigerant manufacture might be falling short, and it seems eastern China is a major culprit. Nature: The hydrofluorocarbon gas, HFC-23, is around 14,700 times as powerful as carbon dioxide at warming the globe and has long been the subject of national and international climate-change mitigation efforts. Those efforts gained new traction nearly a decade ago when China and India — the world’s largest producers of the chemical — agreed to dial down its emissions. New research, however, confirms that emissions continued to rise in subsequent years, and an analysis of data from atmospheric-monitoring stations suggests that factories in eastern China are responsible for nearly half of the total.
The rogue emissions are one of several air-pollution sources under discussion at the latest meeting of the Montreal Protocol, held in Nairobi, Kenya, this week. Signed in 1987, the Montreal Protocol is generally considered the most effective international environmental treaty in history, having halted the destruction of the ozone layer while also slowing down global warming. But scientists have often played a role, scanning the atmosphere for chemicals, such as ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), that governments have agreed to phase out. “Science has been instrumental in evaluating compliance under the treaty,” says Megan Lickley, a climate scientist at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
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Source: Slashdot – Scientists Call Out Rogue Emissions From China at Global Ozone Summit
Vice president Prabhakar Raghavan testified Friday that Google paid $26.3 billion in 2021 for the purpose of maintaining default search engine status and acquiring traffic, Bloomberg reports. It’s likely the lion’s share of that sum went to Apple, which it has showered with exorbitant sums for many years in order to remain the default search option on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Raghavan, who was testifying as part of the DOJ’s ongoing antitrust suit against the company, said Google’s search advertising made $146.4 billion in revenue in 2021, which puts the $26 billion it paid for default status in perspective. The executive clarified that default status was the most costly part of what it pays to acquire traffic.
Raghavan didn’t mention how much of the $26.3 billion went to Apple. But CNBC reports that an estimate from private wealth management firm Bernstein ballparked that Google could pay Apple up to $19 billion this year for the default privilege.
A slide shown in court revealed that, in 2014, Google brought in $47 billion in search revenue while paying $7.1 billion for default status. Raghavan testified that Google’s overall default search engine payments nearly quadrupled from 2014 to 2021, while its search advertising revenue (roughly) tripled.
Google objected to making the figures public, arguing it would hurt its ability to negotiate future contracts. Judge Amit Mehta, overseeing the case, disagreed.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/google-paid-26-billion-in-2021-for-default-search-engine-status-203129384.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Google paid billion in 2021 for default search engine status
Yes, we’re already talking about the successor to the Galaxy S23 Ultra, or what is bound to be Samsung’s next big flagship smartphone in the coming year.
Source: Gizmodo – Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra Might Do More Than Just Zoom in From Really Far Away
On June 2, 2015, I emailed Whitson Gordon, then editor-in-chief of Lifehacker, about a freelance writing opportunity on a fairly new, food-focused blog called “Skillet.” Eight years, five EICs, four corporate owners, at least as many CEOs, and two union contract negotiations later, I’m moving on. I’m just as surprised…
Source: LifeHacker – I’ll Take the Check, When You Have a Moment
Samsung’s S90C OLED TV.
As November approaches, we find ourselves hurtling into TV season, which equates to a ton of deals on TVs as manufacturers sell off their old stock and prepare for next year’s models. Those are just some of the bargains you’ll find on today’s Dealmaster, stacking up next to everything from noise-canceling headphones to ergonomic office chairs, Apple gear, and Dolby Atmos soundbars to pair with your new TV. So dig in below and grab a deal or two!
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Source: Ars Technica – Dealmaster: Sparkling TVs, noise canceling cans, Lenovo laptops, and much more
If, while exploring Starfield’s vast, planet-filled galaxy, you’ve felt at times that its size and sheer number of possible destinations may actually be too much for the game’s own good, well, it sounds like some folks who were part of the development team may agree with you. Hindsight is 20/20, after all.
Source: Kotaku – Starfield Dev Suggests Smaller May Have Been Better
Games For Gaza, an itch.io fundraiser for Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) that features 256 items ranging from games, stories, soundtracks, game assets, and more, reached its first, $10,000 goal within hours of its October 27 launch.
Source: Kotaku – Games For Gaza Fundraising Bundle Surpasses First Goal In Hours
The founders of cryptocurrency exchanges face a mountain of regulatory challenges and billions in personal losses. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao personally lost $12 billion this year as trading volumes on Binance declined, according to a Bloomberg report Friday. Meanwhile, the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini sued their former…
Source: Gizmodo – Crypto Exchanges, Not Just FTX, Are All a Mess Right Now
Barbarian is one of the more memorable horror movies of the last few years. It tells a tale of a young woman who finds that someone is already staying at her rental home. She has little choice but to stay there since nearby hotels are all booked up. That alone is a nightmare scenario but the film goes into some truly wild directions from there. On the surface, it seems like an odd choice to turn into a video game, but that’s exactly what’s happening.
New Regency Pictures and Friday the 13th: The Game and Evil Dead: The Game developer Diversion3 Entertainment have teamed up to bring Barbarian to PC and consoles. Despite the multiplayer format of the studio’s previous projects, this will be a single-player, narrative-focused title which will “expand on the settings, characters and creatures of Barbarian.” There’s no release timeframe as yet.
“We’re very excited to work with the team at New Regency to expand on the settings, characters and creatures of Barbarian,” Tim Hesse, an executive producer at Diversion3 Entertainment, told Variety in a statement. “The film did a magnificent job of not only scaring audiences with its unexpected and horrifying twists and turns, but also in establishing strong characters thrown into terrifying situations. We look forward to exploring these themes further in the game.”
A straight adaptation of the film’s story probably wouldn’t work as a game. But there’s certainly potential for it to work as a tension-filled survival horror title given (mild spoilers) how much of the Barbarian takes place in terrifying underground tunnels.
For the uninitiated, here’s the trailer for Barbarian. Happy Halloween.
In this tutorial, learn how to install Waterfox, a privacy-oriented web browser, on your Linux system and enjoy enhanced security and data privacy compared to traditional browsers like Firefox.
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Source: Linux Today – How to Install and Update Waterfox on Linux