Even people who don’t own Samsung devices can now enjoy its ad-supported streaming service. According to Protocol, tech giant TV Plus – something that used to be exclusively available on the brand’s TVs and mobile devices – launched for the Internet in May. It was likely a soft launch, as the publication put it, as … Read more
Welcome to the space race, billionaire edition. Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, is scheduled to take off into space on Sunday, if the weather and technical controls permit. If the mission is successful, Branson will beat competitor Jeff Bezos, who recently stepped down as CEO of Amazon, by days. Bezos’ own rocket company … Read more
How serious could the suborbital space race between Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos get? (GeekWire photos) Jeff Bezos has a longstanding rivalry with SpaceX’s Elon Musk, but now his space company Blue Origin is stepping up the stakes with future space traveler Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic – and the Twitterverse isn’t amusing. Today’s escalation from … Read more
In an interview with a local radio station, a woman who posed as Mr Uribe’s wife said the two had been married for 18 years and had three children with good job opportunities. “ She said her husband had been examined on the false positives case but was exonerated. Colombian officials said some of the … Read more
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 9th, 2021. We made it to Friday, be proud. But we can’t relax yet – there is a lot to do today. From fraudulent … Read more
CNN – Whether your home is cluttered with too many books or you just want to digitize your library to take with you on vacation, now is a good time to invest in an e-reader for your home and on-the-go reading. The displays are optimized for reading and you get an even more immersive reading … Read more
TikTok uses automation to detect and remove many of the videos that violate its guidelines. For the past year, the service has tested and optimized systems to find and remove such content. It will roll out these systems in the US and Canada over the next few weeks. First, the algorithms will look for posts … Read more
A booster of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine greatly expands protection, as a new study by the companies shows as the number of cases in the US has been rising for weeks and the rate of hospital admissions has started to rise. While the companies plan to submit the data to the Food and Drug … Read more
(Nathan Myhrvold Photo / The Cooking Lab) If you think New York is a blast as the best pizza town in the United States, then fuggedaboutit! According to Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya, co-authors of the upcoming Modernist Pizza, Portland, Oregon makes the best pizzas. Bloomberg reported this week that the authors came to this … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Medical staff prepare a dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine in Sant Vicenc de Casteller, north of Barcelona, this month.Credit…Albert Gea/Reuters Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Thursday that they are developing a version of the coronavirus vaccine that targets Delta, a highly contagious variant that has spread to 98 countries. … Read more