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FightCamp Review: Punch Your Way to Fitness With Home Boxing Workouts
What followed was a shoulder- and lung-burning 15 minutes of combinations and speed work as well as core strength and leg movements. The workout had plenty of variety, and the punch counter was a great motivator to move faster and put in more work. The workouts had the feel... Read more
Trying to preorder Steam Deck and Switch OLED, June 2021 NPD | GB Decides 205
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. On the latest episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, editors Mike Minotti and Jeff Grubb attempt to preorder the new Steam Deck handheld device. Meanwhile, the Nintendo Switch OLED model also went up for reservation, and The... Read more
Space Jam: A New Legacy can’t decide what it wants to be
The storyline of the new Space Jam movie sounds all too familiar. HBO Max Watching Space Jam: A New Legacy feels like playing a game of compare and contrast with its 1996 predecessor. There’s a tender throwback mother-and-son opening scene to mimic the father-and-son opener in the original film.... Read more
Biden Puts a $10M Bounty on Foreign Hackers
Regulators in Germany are poised to block one of the world’s biggest porn sites, according to a report from our colleagues at WIRED UK. The country imposed age verification checks for adult sites recently, which some have yet to implement. The blocking would have to be carried out by... Read more
Hungryroot delivers AI-powered grocery experience
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. There’s Netflix for movies. Stitch Fix for clothes. Hungryroot, an AI-powered delivery service, hopes to occupy a similar niche for online groceries in the United States. The recommender system uses a collaborative filtering, supervised learning model to... Read more
America’s monopoly problem isn’t just Big Tech. Biden’s executive order aims to fix it.
I rarely feel more squeezed as a consumer than I do when I fly. For some reason, I now have to pay to pick a seat. Buying the in-flight wifi is equivalent to throwing money in the trash. Flight insurance seems like a scam, but I’m never sure if... Read more
16 funniest Ted Lasso quotes: Tea is ‘garbage water,’ and God hates tie scores
Ted Lasso is faking that pleasant expression. He thinks tea is garbage water. Apple Ted Lasso wasn’t hired as AFC Richmond’s head coach for his way with words. The bumbling American, played to perfection by Jason Sudeikis, was actually hired for his complete lack of soccer knowledge, though owner... Read more
Are Humans the Meanest Species in the Universe?
Melinda Snodgrass got the idea for her science fiction novel The High Ground when she started thinking about how awful human beings can be. “I had a sudden vision of this nine-foot-tall alien ant-like creature with mandibles and claws—just a hideous, horrifying creature,” Snodgrass says in Episode 370 of... Read more
Farming is finally ready for robots
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. As an investor in the ag-tech space for the last decade, I would argue that 2020 was a tipping point. The pandemic accelerated a shift that was already underway to deploy automation in the farming industry. Other... Read more
Democrats’ and Republicans’ opinions on working from home vary
Most Americans approve of letting people work from home. But like many things in the US, that perception depends on one’s politics. While Republicans are overall positive about remote work, they were less likely to approve of it compared with Democrats (81 percent versus 89 percent), according to a... Read more