| January 12, 2022
It's January 12, 2022. On this day in 1970, the Boeing 747 jumbo jet took its first flight. The first to use the twin-aisle concept, we can't imagine what flights would be like without such an arrangement.  ⏰ Today's Big Stories... in 30 Seconds Today We Watched, Read, and Listened to (so you don't have to): 306 articles, 8 podcasts, 9 press releases, 501 tweets, and 17 YouTube videos 1. Firefox Focus Can Now Block Cross-Site Cookie Tracking Mozilla has extended its Total Cookie Protection feature, which prevents companies from tracking you between websites, to the Firefox Focus browser on Android. Whether or not the feature will make its way to the iOS version of the browser is not mentioned, but let's hope for the best, yeah? 2. New iFIT Dumbbells Work With Alexa Commands If you've ever used free weights and wished you could just tell them how much weight your want, iFIT's new NordicTrack iSelect Adjustable Dumbbells could be for you. They work with Alexa, enabling you to adjust your weight load with simple voice commands. Now we just need to actually use them. 3. Roku Adds Live TV Zone to Navigation Menu Roku is expanding its live TV platform with the new Live TV Zone for easy access to the service's over 200 live channels. The addition consolidates everything into an easy-to-navigate on-screen guide, covering a wide variety of genres and cable alternatives like YouTube TV. Pretty snazzy, Roku. 🦑 Go Deeper Sure, Google Chrome and its many extensions can change how you use it, but Mayank Sharma wants you to know some of those extensions warrant a little more scrutiny, lest they steal your personal info from under your fingertips. 🎱 By the Numbers That's a lot of open tabs  Data: Firefox Firefox is still going strong into the new year, nearly matching the active user count it started with in 2021. Sure, numbers are a little down right now, but based on the graph above, the browser is no stranger to small ups-and-downs. Probably nothing to worry about.  🔥 Today's Hot Deal
The Nintendo Switch is nothing without decent storage, which is why this SanDisk 128GB MicroSD card/12-month Switch Online bundle should be snatched up ASAP. It's down to $34.99 on Amazon right now—perfect for new/recent Switch owners. 🤓 Nerd Out "This is definitely what Rembrandt wanted." —Kyree Leary, Associate News Editor Ever wanted to get a really, really close look at Rembrandt's Night Watch painting? Now you can, thanks to this absurd 717 gigapixel scan of it. Take it all in, folks. (Share on Twitter) 💎 You Know You Want It Big enough? Probably  Image: Elite Screens, Amazon So you got the fancy portable projector, but you still need a screen to go with it. Enter the Elite Screens ezFrame CineGrey 5D, a 135-inch diagonal 16:9, 8K projector screen. Not much else to say here; it's a big ol' screen to support your TV-to-projector home replacement project. All you need is $1,300. 🚀 Facing the Future Is any of this for real, or not? Scientists are beginning to wonder if brain-computer interfaces could convince people a digital world is actually real, much like The Matrix. Such testing is likely a long ways away, but its good we're having these conversations now to talk about the technical barriers and moral implications. 🗞 Extra! Extra! We've got you covered with the best in daily tech news! See the latest on our site or follow us on Apple News and Google News. Did someone forward this to you? Sign up here. Have something you'd like us to write about? We're always open for suggestions, too.
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