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Facebook can already manage your online shopping, your job search, your news, and even your dating life — and now the social media platform wants to send you reminders when it’s time to get a flu shot or head in for a check-up. On Monday, October 28, Facebooklaunched Preventive Health, a tool that encourages users to get preventative tests and helps the uninsured find federally funded health centers. The tool launches as Facebookstunts the spread of anti-vax postson the network....

Fortnite Festival sets up huge comeback for Guitar Hero’s team with new instrument CRKD has given the first look at its new Fortnite Festival guitar controller, which offers a huge comeback opportunity for Guitar Hero’s original hardware team. CRKD came out from nowhere back in 2023 and almost immediately launched theNitro Deck, one of the most popular Nintendo Switch controllers made to date. They took feedback from the first version and created theNitro Deck+, and even branched off into other controllers like the rectangularNeo Sand thekeychain-sized ATOM....

If you’re in the market for OTC hearing aids, but haven’t tapped “buy” yet, this is possibly the moment you’re looking for to change things around. Eargo, producer of some of thebest OTC hearing aids, is having a sale on their wares for Memorial Day and you may save as much as $400. Tap the button below to find the hearing aids and investigate each one yourself — the site has a very professional product comparison window where you can compare you three favorites — or keep reading for our take, thoughts on the OTC hearing aid space, and what you need to think about before you get them....

It’s a commonly held belief that Macs are immune to malware. But while the risk of attack for Apple’s computers is much less than that faced by their Windows counterparts, they can still be compromised and infected — just look at theZoom infectionthat occurred earlier this year. This point about the ongoing vulnerability of Macs has been rammed home by antivirus firm Kaspersky, whichjust published a reportclaiming that phishing attacks on Mac users could double from their 2018 rates by the end of this year....

Fortnite Chapter 5 is nearing its end very soon and Epic is ready to kick off thenew Chapter 2 Remix seasonwith a live event. These events always generate a considerable amount of hype among the player community, and this time is no different. Epic has announced that a season-ending live event called Remix: The Prelude will kick things off for the next season with a tuneful twist. If you’re one of the players who wishes to attend the event, we’ve got you covered....

Solar eclipses, particularlytotal solar eclipses, are spectacular occasions. Although they aren’t actually rare, visibility depends on where you are at the time of the eclipse, which makes them feel very rare. Case in point: The next total eclipse will occur on July 29, 2025, but over the South Pacific and South America, and not visible at all within the U.S. (In case you were wondering, the next total eclipse to cross the U....

Let’s face it, not even the most advanced programming in the world can save your Facebook News Feed. The goal of the feature is to display the stories that matter most to you, and although the social network continues to tweak the formulas powering its recommendation engine, it’s not always the best at ranking posts based on your interests and interaction. Fortunately, Facebook is finally giving you some granular control over what shows up in your feed, essentially allowing you to quickly prioritize posts from specified friends and Pages so you never miss a beat when browsing....

Summary Although I was cautiously optimistic — and healthily skeptical — ahead ofInside Out 2’s premiere, the Pixar sequel’s success makes me even more excited about Joy actor Amy Poehler’s five-movie plan for the series. When it hit theaters in 2015,Inside Outexceeded all of my expectations, even by Pixar movie standards, so the bar was exceptionally high for 2024’s follow-up. In the original film, viewers get a glimpse inside the mind of preteen Riley Anderson, who moves with her family from rural Minnesota to San Francisco, and is piloted by personified emotions, like Joy and Sadness....

If you’ve ever shared an image on Instagram that you later felt was a little on the embarrassing side or didn’t seem to fit with your existing collection, there’s now a way to get rid of it without wiping it from your account. This will let you come back to it later if you decide it’s not so bad after all, so that you can repost it on your profile page, or you can simply hold it in a private collection, for your eyes only....

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the chip manufacturer which produces Apple’s A-series chips, has announced it will build a new factory in the U.S. It will spend $12 billion over the next eight years to create an “advanced semiconductor fab” in Arizona. TSMC says that the facility will “utilize TSMC’s 5-nanometer technology for semiconductor wafer fabrication” and that it will have the capacity to produce up to 20,000 semiconductor wafers per month....

Warning: This article contains mentions of suicide. Summary Jean Tatlock is one of the most mysterious characters inOppenheimer, and though her death seems straightforward, some have theories that violence may have come into play. Released in 2023,Oppenheimermade waves in Hollywood for its massive star-studded cast and scale. After sweeping at the 2023 Academy Awards, theChristopher Nolan moviewill likely go down in history as one of the best movies of the decade....

Intel has a new set of laptop CPUs coming out. Though the processors haven’t been officially announced, Chinese news outletITHomehas uncovered the specifications for the new chips. The new processors will be beefed-up versions of Intel’sregular mobile Alder Lake lineup, with up to 16 cores and 24 threads. The new mobile processors (called Alder Lake-HX), are meant to compete with AMD’s newRyzen 6000processors. Intel’s chips will have up to twice as many cores, but we will have to see how their individual performance actually holds up....

Summary A first-look image has been officially revealed for the upcoming Stephen King adaptationThe Life of Chuck. Based on King’s novella,The Life of Chucktells the story of a man named Charles Krantz, a seemingly ordinary man who dies of a brain tumor at the age of 39.The Life of Chuckfilm adaptationis beingdirected by Mike Flanaganand features a star-studded leading cast including Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Hamill, Matthew Lillard, David Dastmalchian, Jacob Tremblay, Lauren LaVera, Karen Gillan, and Kate Siegel....