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/ Speedrunning the financial system’s funniest failures.

/ A video of a tense scene from Alien is crashing some Pixels. Extra spooky.

/ The Pokémon Company and design firm Nendo are collaborating on a ‘premium’ trading card game set built around classics like Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise. While the Pokémon Trading Card Game is getting something of a major overhaul with the upcoming Scarlet and Violet expansion, The Pokémon Company knows there are still hardcore fans out there obsessing over the original base set, and it’s cooking up something special for them. During today’s Pokémon Presents stream, The Pokémon Company announced the impending arrival of Pokémon TCG Classic, a premium set of three decks built around classic cards like the base set’s Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise. In a press release about the decks, The Pokémon Company described them each as featuring a number of “iconic cards from the history o...

/ Storms are growing more fierce and unpredictable. There’s an online tool that can show you what risks your home might face. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo: RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images In the next 30 years, 13.4 million more properties in the contiguous US will likely face destructive winds from tropical cyclones, according to a new report. It’s not a risk these properties typically faced in the past, but that’s changing as hurricanes get stronger and weirder with climate change. The shift could cost property owners billions of dollars in damages. This year, the ...

/ Elon Musk is getting ready to unleash Tesla’s third Master Plan, which will include details about the company’s new lower-cost vehicle platform and its effort to grow to ‘extreme size.’ a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin [&>a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-white”>Master Plan 3 The main showpiece of this event will be the third iteration of Tesla’s Master Plan. Whether Musk will have more success implementing this plan than past versions seems very much in doubt. The company has been forced to slash prices to account for falling demand. Musk’s reputation as a visionary entrepreneur has taken a flogging since his bungled acquisition of Twitter. And the rising costs of battery materials are expected to put fur...

/ Chrome now lets you zoom in on text, images, videos, and on-screen buttons up to 300 percent without affecting the layout of the webpage. Google Chrome’s giving its page zoom feature a boost, which should make it more helpful for people who have difficulty reading the smaller screen on a phone. With the improved feature, you can increase the size of text, images, videos, and interactive controls on mobile web pages by up to 300 percent while preserving their original formatting. While the feature hasn’t yet become available for all Chrome users, you can access it now if you download the Chrome beta on your phone or tablet. To enable the feature, tap the three dots icon in the top right corner of the browser, hit Settings > Accessibility, and then adjust the zoom level to your liking. ...

First teased last October, the devices made an in-person appearance at Mobile World Congress 2023. But it’s clear they’re still far from ready for a public release. Share this story a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>When rolled up, you’d be forgiven for thinking Lenovo’s device was a regular laptop. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>The laptop looks a little bizarre when fully extended. When fully unrolled, Lenovo’s rollab...

/ The four-member crew will blast off into space on Monday, February 27th at 1:45AM ET. The Crew-6 mission’s getting ready to blast off into space. With the help of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the company’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft will lift off early Monday morning at 1:45AM ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft will carry four astronauts, including NASA’s Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, as well as the United Arab Emirates’ Sultan Alneyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. They’re headed to the International Space Station for an up to six-month stay, where they’ll conduct various research projects to help “prepare for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and benefit life on Earth.” At the ISS, they’ll join the seven-member Expedition 69 crew and ...

/ Esther Crawford led Twitter Blue and the company’s payments project, emerging as one of the company’s most prominent product managers.

/ Following a China-only launch late last year, the Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro are taking the global stage at Mobile World Congress. They’ll be sold in Europe and Asia, but don’t get your hopes up for a US launch. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge The Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro are making their global debut today, starting with a launch event at Mobile World Congress. The 13 series phones were announced in China late last year, each with Leica co-branded cameras and top-shelf Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipsets. Based on previous releases, they won’t be coming to the US,...

/ You can stream ‘The Next Generation’ on YouTube or from the Paramount Plus website — but only for a limited amount of time. The first episode of Star Trek: Picard’s third and final season is available to stream online for free, as spotted earlier by Gizmodo. You can either watch the full, hour-long premiere on YouTube or from the Paramount Plus website, but it’s only available for a limited time. Star Trek: Picard’s final season sees Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) reuniting with some of his USS Enterprise crewmates, including Worf (Michael Dorn), William Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), and Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) as they face off against a new foe, Vadic (Amanda Plummer). The season premiere, aptly titled “The Next Generat...

/ The company claims Paramount ‘induced’ South Park Digital Studios to breach its licensing agreement with HBO Max.