April 2022 – Page 89 – MSI Net, Inc. & mCloudServ

Elon Musk is facing a proposed shareholder class action that alleges Musk’s delayed SEC filings disclosing his stake kept Twitter’s share price artificially low (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: Elon Musk is facing a proposed shareholder class action that alleges Musk’s delayed SEC filings disclosing his stake kept Twitter’s share price artificially low — Elon Musk was sued by a Twitter Inc. shareholder who claims the Tesla Inc. CEO’s delay in disclosing his ownership of more than 5% …

Bungee-Corded Bass Zither Really Slaps

Surely we’ve all played some bass riffs on a stretched-out rubber band before, right? [Nicolas Bras] found that the ultimate musical rubber bands are bungee cords, and used seven of them to build a double-bass zither that can be plucked or struck with drumsticks. Be sure to check it out in the build/demo video after

Lucid brings a Performance upgrade to its most expensive electric car

Lucid Air Grant Touring Performance with “Aero Sport” rims. | Image: Lucid Lucid has a new high-performance version of its luxury all-electric sedan. The new Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance announced today (via CNBC) can be selected as a variant via the company’s online configurator, which tops the standard Grand Touring’s 819 horsepower with 1,050.

Yelp will reimburse employees who need to travel to access abortion services

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Starting next month, Yelp says it will cover the costs of travel if an employee or their dependent needs to leave the state to access abortion services, as first reported by The New York Times. The company employs around 200 people in Texas, where legislators passed the strictest abortion law

Ukrainian officials say they stopped an attack on an energy facility with help from ESET and Microsoft, and identified a new variant of the Industroyer malware (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Ukrainian officials say they stopped an attack on an energy facility with help from ESET and Microsoft, and identified a new variant of the Industroyer malware — Ukrainian officials said they stopped an attack on an energy facility with the help of researchers from ESET and Microsoft.

PlayStation Network experienced an outage on Tuesday

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge PlayStation Network had a bit of a rough patch Tuesday evening. For about 45 minutes, Sony’s PlayStation Network status page showed that all of its services were experiencing issues in some way, which affected things like signing into your account and connecting to PlayStation Now and the PlayStation

How to play music in Discord

Listening to music with other people is one of the great joys of using Discord. Not only can you game together, but you can do many other things as a party thanks to Discord. Now, you could connect Spotify to Discord and start a listening party, but there is another excellent way to listen to

Smartmi launches new HomeKit-enabled air purifier with UV sterilization

Smartmi’s newest HomeKit air purifier sterilizes and cleans larger areas. What you need to know Smartmi has launched a new HomeKit-enabled air purifier. The Smartmi Air Purifier 2 features UV sterilization and covers rooms up to 484 square feet. Smartmi’s latest air purifier is available today exclusively through Amazon. Smartmi has announced the launch of

Many tech companies, eager to please employees returning to offices, are providing perks like concerts with pop stars, food trucks, and “appreciation events” (New York Times)

New York Times: Many tech companies, eager to please employees returning to offices, are providing perks like concerts with pop stars, food trucks, and “appreciation events” — Tech companies really want their employees to be happy — or at least less annoyed — about returning.

The $750 self-transforming Optimus Prime just got a $750 transforming trailer too

If you’re a ultimate Transformers fan with deep pockets and the willingness to forgive a few big flaws, your dream toy has arrived. One year after introducing a 19-inch tall Optimus Prime robot that can transform itself, pose and even drive thanks to 27 servo motors, its makers at Hasbro and Robosen have made their

Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith is sentenced to 5+ years in prison and fined $100K for helping North Koreans use cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)

Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith is sentenced to 5+ years in prison and fined $100K for helping North Koreans use cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions — Griffith previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate international sanctions for giving a talk at a crypto conference in Pyongyang in 2019.

Hall Effect Module Knows Where Your Motor Is

If you have a motor and you’d like to know where the shaft position is, you are likely to turn to an optical encoder scheme. However, as [lingib] points out, you can also use a magnet and a magnetometer. You can see how it works in the video below. The MLX90393 is a 3-axis hall

Persona 5’s incredible soundtrack gets the tribute it deserves in a new EP

The Memento Sessions digital album art, by artist Stephanie Sybydlo. | Image: Scarlet Moon Productions If there’s one thing fans of Atlus’ RPG series Persona always want, it’s more Persona. Thankfully for them, Arizona-based musician and video game music producer Sean Scharfianski is today releasing a five-song EP of Persona 5 songs to celebrate the

Sources: two weeks after the launch of CNN+, the premium streaming service has garnered under 10K DAUs, amid reports that CNN has spent ~$300M on the effort (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

Alex Sherman / CNBC: Sources: two weeks after the launch of CNN+, the premium streaming service has garnered under 10K DAUs, amid reports that CNN has spent ~$300M on the effort — – Fewer than 10,000 people are using CNN+ on a daily basis two weeks into its existence, sources said.

Anker’s biggest battery pack ever is a 43-pound power station with impressive specs

When the power goes out or you’re visiting the great outdoors with gadgets in tow, you might carry a portable power station — and Anker might have just released the most advanced one yet. The new $1,400 Anker 757 Powerhouse offers 1500W of power and 1229Wh of capacity from a Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) battery,

Toyota’s bZ4X all-electric SUV will start at $42,000

Toyota announced that its bZ4X electric SUV will have an MSRP of $42,000 for the base, front-wheel-drive version, with the “Limited” all-wheel-drive version starting at $48,780. The memorably named vehicle is Toyota’s first full EV and will go on sale in “spring, 2022” — though the company’s site notes that availability will be “extremely limited”

CNN Plus is reportedly drawing fewer than 10,000 viewers a day

CNN/Warner Media CNN Plus is reportedly struggling to gain viewers just two weeks out from its launch, according to a report from CNBC. People familiar with the matter told the outlet the platform is only raking in fewer than 10,000 viewers per day. As CNBC notes, this is a huge dip from the daily viewership

Bring the traditional Kingdom Hearts experience to your mobile device

A classic Kingdom Hearts experience, no matter where you are. Kingdom Hearts is the game franchise that keeps on giving. An unusual marriage between Final Fantasy and Disney worlds, these games feature epic storylines and action-filled combat. After 20 years, the series has more fans than ever, despite its convoluted storyline. During the 20th anniversary

iPhone maker Pegatron halts production at plants in Shanghai and Kunshan due to COVID restrictions

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Pegatron, a Taiwanese company that is one of a few companies that assemble the iPhone, has halted production at two plants in Shanghai and one in Kunshan to comply with the Chinese government’s stringent COVID-19 regulations, according to Nikkei Asia. China has put strict policies in place in

Stripe, Alphabet, Meta, Shopify, and McKinsey launch new carbon removal initiative

Climeworks factory with it’s fans in front of the collector, drawing in ambient air and release it, as largely purified CO2 through ventilators at the back is seen at the Hellisheidi power plant near Reykjavik on October 11, 2021. | Photo by HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP via Getty Images Big names in tech and consulting just made

Apple TV+ topped the streaming charts in the first quarter of 2022

What you need to know Apple TV+ has topped the streaming charts in the first quarter of 2022. “CODA,” fueled by its Oscar win, became the most-watched film of Q1 2022. “Severance” had the most popular debut for a new series. Apple TV+ is starting to pick up steam. Apple TV+ is starting to experience

Cryptocurrency lender Celsius, recently valued at ~$3B, says only accredited US investors will be able to add new assets and earn rewards starting April 15 (Michael Bellusci/CoinDesk)

Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: Cryptocurrency lender Celsius, recently valued at ~$3B, says only accredited US investors will be able to add new assets and earn rewards starting April 15 — In the US, only accredited investors, and those with coins already in the Earn platform, will be able to earn rewards.

YouTube outage blanks out the sidebar, causes problems on TVs and game consoles

If you’ve logged onto YouTube today, you may have noticed that something was off with the homepage: the sidebar that lets you access things like your subscriptions feed, trending videos, and “Library” that keeps your Watch Later list and video history, is missing (though you can access some of the pages by clicking on the

Up your Animal Crossing experience with the Series 5 amiibo cards

Finally, a Raymond card to place on your shrine! Nintendo announced the Series 5 amiibo that were specially made for Animal Crossing: New Horizons toward the end of its October 2021 Animal Crossing Direct. Series 5 includes 48 new cards, showcasing both new renders of NPCs in New Horizons as well as new villagers introduced

Data.ai: TikTok users spent $847M on in-app payments from January through March, up 184% YoY, a record for an app; TikTok had 1.6B MAUs at the end of March (Alex Webb/Bloomberg)

Alex Webb / Bloomberg: Data.ai: TikTok users spent $847M on in-app payments from January through March, up 184% YoY, a record for an app; TikTok had 1.6B MAUs at the end of March — Dubbing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “the first TikTok war” is by now a cliché, but we still have very little insight

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