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Spoilers ahead for The Defenders and the general plot of Daredevil season 3. After nearly dying at the end of Netflix’s 2017 crossover miniseries The Defenders, Matt Murdock (aka Daredevil) needed some downtime. As season 3 of the Netflix series Daredevil begins, Matt (Charlie Cox) returns to the church where …

Samsung just announced an LTE version of the Chromebook Plus V2, one of the more capable Chromebooks in recent memory. It’s a semi-pro-tier Chromebook that will launch on November 2nd for $599.99 — which is $100 more than the base Wi-Fi version — at Samsung.com, Best Buy, and Verizon. The …

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler has signed on to direct a sequel to the blockbuster film. The Hollywood Reporter says that he has “quietly closed a deal to write and direct the sequel.” Disney and Marvel haven’t officially greenlit a sequel to Black Panther, but it’s almost assured given the …

I’m going to cut right to the chase: the new Echo Dot smart speaker is so much better than its predecessor that it would not be totally out of line to replace a whole houseful of old Echo Dots with new ones. The new Echo Dot looks better, works better, …

Ladies and gentlemen, we have board drama at Tesla! I live. I’m going to read some tea leaves, because James Murdoch very rarely speaks on the record. Last week, The New York Times indicated that “some directors” thought Murdoch might do a really good job as the new chairman of …

Pokemon Go is billed as an augmented reality experience even though the AR view is the first thing most people turn off when they start playing the game. Nevertheless, the game’s developer Niantic is improving this aspect of the game on Android by adding support for ARCore, Google’s augmented reality …

Earlier this week, The Daily Beast published a story with a counterintuitive finding. As best as researchers could tell, there was no evidence that Russia is trying to interfere in the US midterm elections: Russian social media trolls are, of course, still promulgating fake news and slapping frantically at America’s …

In some ways, artificial intelligence acts like a mirror. Machine learning tools are designed to detect patterns, and they often reflect back the same biases we already know exist in our culture. Algorithms can be sexist, racist, and perpetuate other structural inequalities found in society. But unlike humans, algorithms aren’t …

On Wednesday morning, Hurricane Michael barreled through the Florida panhandle. The most powerful storm to hit the region since record-keeping began in the mid-19th century ran roughshod over the state’s northwest coasts, damaging two local hospitals enough that they have started evacuating their patients from the area—even after the storm …

Microsoft wants to make peace with Linux, saying this week that it will allow more than 2,600 other companies, including longtime rivals like Google and IBM, to use the technology behind 60,000 Microsoft patents for their own Linux-related open source projects. That could be good news for makers of “internet …