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Rotten Tomatoes' Revamp Could Save 'Captain Marvel'

Rotten Tomatoes’ Revamp Could Save ‘Captain Marvel’

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The flood of trolling on Rotten Tomatoes started about a month ago. Weeks before the release of Captain Marvel, commenters on the site were already claiming the movie was garbage and that they had no intentions to see it. “Terrible movie hate it already!!!!!!” wrote one. “Not interested in seeing another SJW [Social Justice Warrior] propaganda film,” claimed another. And finally: “THIS…

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Tech’s concern for the homeless – TechCrunch

Tech’s concern for the homeless – TechCrunch

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Welcome to the latest episode of TechCrunch Mixtape with Megan Rose Dickey and myself. This week we talk about mental illness within the homeless population, specifically how people can help situations that are typically addressed by police.

Neil Shah, CEO of Concrn, joined us in the studio to talk about the ups, downs and ups again of leading an app that lacks the appeal of many…

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How to Add Caption to Images in WordPress

How to Add Caption to Images in WordPress

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Do you want to add captions to your images in WordPress? Captions are brief text descriptions that you can add to your images. They are typically used to provide additional details about an image.

WordPress comes with the built-in capability to easily add a caption and other metadata including title and alternative text for each image.

In this beginner’s guide, we will show you how to…

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Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it

Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it

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Amy Webb, futurist, NYU professor, and award-winning author, has spent much of the last decade researching, discussing, and meeting with people and organizations about artificial intelligence. “We’ve reached a fever pitch in all things AI,” she says. Now it’s time to step back to see where it’s going.

This is the task of her new book, The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking…

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USB 3.2 to take over the world's computers – but not how you think

USB 3.2 to take over the world’s computers – but not how you think

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The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), an independent technology standards group, has officially rung in the era of USB 3.2 at MWC 2019. However, USB 3.1 and USB 3.0 – as you know them – aren’t going anywhere.

While USB 3.2 marks a new level of data transfer speed reached for the standard at 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps), it also will see previous USB technologies become rebranded “USB…

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Tariffs, BAT, and Social Credit: A US-China Debate

Tariffs, BAT, and Social Credit: A US-China Debate

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Over the past few years, China’s tech ascension has become one of the hottest topics du jour. Just as there are America’s FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google), a trio of Chinese companies have become their own tech acronym: BAT’s Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. And China has clear aims to surpass the United States as the new techonomic superpower, from President…

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Fortnite’s revenue dropped 48% in January but the lull likely won’t last long – TechCrunch

Fortnite’s revenue dropped 48% in January but the lull likely won’t last long – TechCrunch

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If you thought Fortnite was looking mortal, you might want to reconsider.

New numbers from SuperDatashow that the Fortnite juggernaut lagged by one meaningful measure at the start of this year. Revenue from the game across platforms dropped by a hard-to-ignore 48 percent between December 2018 and January 2019. As the report notes, December was a peak month for the multiplayer…

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How Much Does It Really Cost to Build a WordPress Website?

How Much Does It Really Cost to Build a WordPress Website?

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One of the questions we often get asked is: how much does it cost to build a WordPress website? While the core WordPress software is free, the cost of a website depends entirely on your budget and goals.

In this article, we will break it all down to answer the ultimate question: How much does it really cost to build a WordPress website? We’ll also show you how to avoid overspending and…

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Doctors plan to test a gene therapy that could prevent Alzheimer’s disease

Doctors plan to test a gene therapy that could prevent Alzheimer’s disease

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No one knows for certain what causes Alzheimer’s disease. But one fact about the condition has gained nearly irrefutable status. Depending on what versions of a gene called APOE you inherit, your risk of the brain disorder can be half the average—or more than 12 times as high.

Sometimes called “the forgetting gene,” APOEcomes in three common versions, called 2, 3, and 4. Type 2 lowers a…

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Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 Puts a Full-Fledged Computer on Your Face

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 Puts a Full-Fledged Computer on Your Face

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If you ask Alex Kipman to name the most significant advancement in the brand-new version of HoloLens, Microsoft’s mixed-reality headset, he’ll say the answer is yes. It’s not an evasion of the question—it’s evidence of his excitement.

Kipman, Microsoft’s technical fellow for AI and mixed reality, gets excited about “all of the things” in the HoloLens 2. When pressed, though, it comes…

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The Google Assistant gets a button – TechCrunch

The Google Assistant gets a button – TechCrunch

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Traditionally, the Google Assistant always lived under the home button on Android phones, but as the company announced at MWC today, LG, Nokia, Xiaomi, TCL and Vivo are about to launch phones with dedicated assistant buttons, similar to what Samsung has long done with its Bixby assistant.

The new phones with the button that are launching this week are the LG G8 ThinQ and K40 and the Nok…

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A Hidden Nest Secure Mic, Facebook's Dead VPN, and More Security News This Week

A Hidden Nest Secure Mic, Facebook’s Dead VPN, and More Security News This Week

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The Mueller investigation has lasted so long, it’s easy to forget that it’ll end at some point. In fact, according to recent reports, it may wrap up as early as next week. But what does that mean exactly? We took a look at seven distinct possibilities, from fizzle to fireworks. As though the border wall “national emergency” wasn’t enough to worry about.

Speaking of Russia, we profiled…

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Group of employees calls for end to Microsoft’s $480M HoloLens military contract – TechCrunch

Group of employees calls for end to Microsoft’s $480M HoloLens military contract – TechCrunch

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More than 100 Microsoft employees have signed a letter sent to CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith criticizing the company’s plans to build HoloLens AR tech for the military, the organizing group said Friday. The development is part of a $480 million military contract that Microsoft won this past November.

The group’s letter demands that the company cancel their work on the…

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'Desus & Mero' Is the Future of Late-Night TV

‘Desus & Mero’ Is the Future of Late-Night TV

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As a genre and TV staple, the evening talk show is a static enterprise. It doesn’t easily invite change. Even as newcomers like Jimmy Fallon and James Corden try to enliven the format with viral videos and karaoke bits, it hasn’t evolved much since the days of Johnny Carson. Yet, if it wants to stay relevant, it’ll have to. Which is why when the Showtime-branded Desus & Meropremiered…

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Latchel wants to make maintenance easier for landlords and property managers – TechCrunch

Latchel wants to make maintenance easier for landlords and property managers – TechCrunch

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Relationships between landlords and their tenants don’t need to be fraught ones. With Y Combinator -backed Latchel, landlords and property managers can access a 24/7 maintenance service that takes requests from tenants and deploys the right professional to fix the things that need fixing.

“At first we thought of doing a high-tech property management system,” Latchel founder Ethan Lieber…

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43 Best Responsive WordPress Themes (2019)

43 Best Responsive WordPress Themes (2019)

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Are you looking for the best responsive WordPress theme for your website? Most modern WordPress themes are fully responsive out of the box. However, there are so many of them that it becomes difficult to choose one.

In this article, we have hand-picked some of the best responsive WordPress themes for you to choose from.

What is a Responsive WordPress Theme? Why You Need it?

A…

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HTC Goes All-In on Easy-to-Use VR, But Not For Everyone

HTC Goes All-In on Easy-to-Use VR, But Not For Everyone

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On the great collective wishlist for Easier VR, two things tend to emerge as frontrunners: wirelessness and inside-out tracking.1 The first undoes your headset’s umbilical dependence on a computer or game console; the second puts an end to the cable-routing, wall-drilling tango familiar to anyone who has set up external trackers.

HTC, which makes the Vive line of virtual-reality…