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Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $6.64B vs. $6.63B est., up 21.5% YoY, global streaming paid memberships 203.7M, up 8.5M vs. 6.5M est.; stock up 12%+ after hours (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $6.64B vs. $6.63B est., up 21.5% YoY, global streaming paid memberships 203.7M, up 8.5M vs. 6.5M est.; stock up 12%+ after hours — – Netflix reported fourth quarter 2020 earnings Tuesday that beat analyst expectations on revenue and net subscriber additions but fell below EPS estimates.

Netflix surpasses 200 million subscribers, but has more competition than ever in 2021

LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX Netflix has surpassed another major milestone: 203.6 million subscribers around the world. The achievement comes after Netflix saw spectacular growth in the first half of 2020. But as it celebrates passing the 200 million subscriber mark, Netflix is also acknowledging that 2021 likely won’t be quite as big of a success. Netflix added

Homebrew Relay Computer Looks Like it Could Be a Commercial Product

You may not have noticed, but we here at Hackaday really love our clicky stuff. Clicky mechanical keyboards, unnecessarily noisy flip-dot displays, and pretty much anything made with a lot of relays — they all grab our attention, in more ways than one. So it’s with no small surprise that we appear to have entirely

The 10 Best Deals of January 19, 2021

Tuesday’s Best Deals | Kinja Deals Read more… The 10 Best Deals of January 19, 2021 Source: Life Hacker

How to watch SpaceX launch dozens of satellites on a rocket ride-share Thursday – CNET

Elon Musk’s space company could send nearly 100 satellites to orbit in a single go this week. How to watch SpaceX launch dozens of satellites on a rocket ride-share Thursday – CNET Source: CNet

Best drones for 2021 – CNET

Everything you need to know before you take off. Best drones for 2021 – CNET Source: CNet

In Search Party, the journey from poster to influencer to monster is a slippery slope

Image: Warner Media Much has been made of Search Party as a uniquely millennial show, like it’s a brunch line you can watch other people stand in. It’s true that the HBO Max comedy — initially about finding a missing acquaintance — is absolutely drenched in the iconography of privileged millennials; their world is Instagram-friendly

Before shortened NASA SLS rocket engine test, officials predicted only a 50 percent chance of complete success

During a private briefing Tuesday morning, industry officials said their expectations for successfully completing all the test objectives had been only “50/50.” Before shortened NASA SLS rocket engine test, officials predicted only a 50 percent chance of complete success Source: Washington Post Tech

Super Bowl game plan: Order your party staples online – CNET

Wings, pizza, cupcakes, beef and beer. You can order everything you need for the big game online. Super Bowl game plan: Order your party staples online – CNET Source: CNet

Raise your hand if a gaming PC is currently heating your home

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge A few weeks ago, our furnace (technically a ductless heat pump) stopped working at the worst possible time of the year. But at least one room stays nice and toasty all winter long — thanks to my gaming PC. Now, The Wall Street Journal is reporting this might

The best beard trimmers for 2021: Wahl, Remington and Brio make the cut – CNET

Letting your beard grow in for the new year? These beard trimmers can help you keep it tidy. The best beard trimmers for 2021: Wahl, Remington and Brio make the cut – CNET Source: CNet

When Can You Refreeze Foods After Thawing?

Freezing food is a great way to keep it fresh when you buy it in bulk, but after something is thawed, it’s not always safe to refreeze. Often the answer to the question, “can I refreeze this?” is “it depends.” Read more… When Can You Refreeze Foods After Thawing? Source: Life Hacker

WeChat says it facilitated ~$250B in annual transactions through its third-party "mini programs", double the value of transactions in 2019 (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: WeChat says it facilitated ~$250B in annual transactions through its third-party “mini programs”, double the value of transactions in 2019 — WeChat continues to advance its shopping ambitions as the social networking app turns 10 years old. The Chinese messenger facilitated … WeChat says it facilitated ~0B in annual transactions through

Faraday Future’s best shot at redemption may be a SPAC

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Despite a whirlwind of electric vehicle SPAC mergers in the last few months, there’s still one startup flying solo that’s arguably the best-positioned. Yes, Faraday Future is still on the market — though maybe not for long. Sure, Faraday Future is distressed and its electric SUV is outrageous,

Simulate 'World of Warcraft' to Find the Best Gear Upgrades

While you might still be a terrible World of Warcraft player who can’t get good parses to save their life, don’t let your gear hold you back. I can’t help you become a better player if you’re just button-mashing you way through the game, but there are plenty of tech tools you can use to

DC is relaunching its mobile app to focus on comics

Image: DC Comics DC is shaking up its comics app on January 21st and relaunching it as DC Universe Infinite. The original DC Universe featured television shows and comics, but now that DC shows have moved to HBO Max, the company has decided to refocus the app on comics and the “fan community,” while keeping

Remoticon Video: Learning the Basics of Software-Defined Radio (SDR)

Have you dipped your toe into the SDR ocean? While hacker software-defined radio has been a hot topic for years now, it can be a little daunting to try it out for the first time. Here’s your change to get your legs under you with the SDR overview workshop presented by Josh Conway during the

Intel is in more danger than its profits suggest and should spin off its manufacturing business unless the US can subsidize it, ideally with purchase guarantees (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Intel is in more danger than its profits suggest and should spin off its manufacturing business unless the US can subsidize it, ideally with purchase guarantees — One of the first Articles on Stratechery, written on the occasion of Intel appointing a new CEO, was, in retrospect, overly optimistic. Intel is

How to Upgrade 2021, With Cool Tools' Mark Frauenfelder and Kevin Kelly

This week we’re learning about the tools and tech we need to upgrade our lives in 2021, and helping us are Mark Frauenfelder and Kevin Kelly—hosts of the Cool Tools podcast and the Cool Tools blog. Listen to hear Mark and Kevin’s recommendations for what to get for the best work-from-home experience, their favorite… Read

Researchers detail seven flaws in Dnsmasq, a popular open-source DNS forwarding and management suite; 1M+ networking devices are exposed online, patch available (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Researchers detail seven flaws in Dnsmasq, a popular open-source DNS forwarding and management suite; 1M+ networking devices are exposed online, patch available — Israel-based security consultancy firm JSOF disclosed today seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities, collectively known as DNSpooq … Researchers detail seven flaws in Dnsmasq, a popular open-source DNS forwarding and management

GPT-3 has ‘consistent and creative’ anti-Muslim bias, study finds

GPT-3 has a startling ability to produce text that sounds like it was written by a human. But a new study shows it also has a worrying proclivity for anti-Muslim bias. Researchers from Stanford and McMaster universities probed the neural network on tasks including prompt completion, analogical reasoning, and story generation. They discovered that a Muslim-violence bias appears consistently — and creatively

Microsoft partners with GM to make self-driving cars a reality

Driverless car startup Cruise, a GM subsidiary, today announced the finalization of a two-billion dollar equity fund from primary investors Microsoft, Honda, and GM. Leading off: Microsoft’s money is the big ticket item here for Cruise. While the company’s valuation has skyrocketed to about $20 billion from investors, netting one of big tech’s trillion-dollar whales

Brave becomes the first major browser to natively support IPFS protocol, useful for accessing censored content; Wikipedia and other sites offer IPFS versions (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Brave becomes the first major browser to natively support IPFS protocol, useful for accessing censored content; Wikipedia and other sites offer IPFS versions — Brave users will now be able to seamlessly access ipfs:// links. — With the release of Brave 1.19 today … Brave becomes the first major browser to

How to Watch the Inauguration

Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday at 12 p.m. ET. Tomorrow’s event will be notably weird: A bevy of pop stars will perform to mark the occasion, which has already been somewhat marred by the threat of violence in the wake of the attack on

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 870 is an ‘almost-flagship’ chip for Android phones

Qualcomm has always had a confusing naming scheme for its processors, and today it’s adding to that confusion with the launch of the Snapdragon 870. It represents something of a new category for a company, in that it’s a step below the company’s latest and greatest, while still being an upgrade over the previous year’s

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