| March 2, 2022
It's March 2, 2022. On this day in 1972, NASA launched the Pioneer 10 spacecraft to explore the outer planets of our solar system—even Pluto! We'll try not to think about how long a trip that was. Whew.  ⏰ Today's Big Stories... in 30 Seconds Today We Watched, Read, and Listened to (so you don't have to): 358 articles, 7 podcasts, 10 press releases, 361 tweets, and 12 YouTube videos 1. Amazon Luna Available for All in the US, With New Stuff Amazon's Luna game streaming service is now open to everyone in the US with new channels and features. Prime subs can play select games for free via a Prime-only channel, otherwise, a Luna+ subscription will cost $9.99/month, or you can get a lower "founder's price" for $5.99/month until April 1. Game on! 2. Uber Adds New 'Explore' Feature to Its App Uber is adding a new Explore tab to its app that lets people search through nearby events and make reservations, book rides with one-click, and more. The rollout of the new update is limited to 14 cities across the US, though there are plans to expand to other cities in the coming months. 3. Instagram Adds Auto-Generated Captions Auto-generated captions for videos are Instagram's latest feature, which will support 17 different languages (with more planned for later). Other details are scarce, however, such as when people should expect to see the captions and which languages are currently supported. Hurray for accessibility, though! 🦑 Go Deeper Language translation tools are helpful, but they could be better. Join Sascha Brodsky as he delves into Meta's latest project to create AI translation software that can handle any language, and how the company's ambition is bound to face many challenges before it's ready. 🎱 By the Numbers People still want to travel  Data: Business of Apps 2021 brought out the urge to travel in people, if the above chart is any indication. Between the top four apps alone, it's clear people were in the mood to travel, plan a trip, or simply look at places they one day hope to go to. Let's hope most of them were staying safe, or intend to when they do travel again.  🔥 Today's Hot Deal
Upgrading your PC and need a powerful CPU? The AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is $200 off at Amazon right now, dropping it to a much easier to manage $599. If that was on your PC wishlist, now's the time to grab it. 🤓 Nerd Out "The truth is out there." —Bob Schulties, Senior Editor Been a while since we've talked about UFO sightings, so why not spend some time with Motherboard, which recently got its hands on 20 years' worth of documents regarding such encounters from the Canadian government. (Share on Twitter) 💎 You Know You Want It Big and pretty  Image: Sony, Best Buy Big TVs are always great, so why not stare into the large, pretty display of Sony's 85-Inch Class X91J 4K Smart TV, then realize you really, really want it? Built-in Google TV with access to all your streaming services, HDR and Dolby Vision support, and did we mentioned it's 85-Inches? You know you want it. 🚀 Facing the Future Spot the fake Indie developer Kevin Archer recently found out his own authenticator app has a counterfeit counterpart, with very few changes made to separate the two. If Apple doesn't get its app store in order, expect to see ever more clone apps hoping to fool people into downloading them. 🗞 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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