Doctor Attempted To Hire Hells Angels To Order Hit On Witness In His Opioid Fraud Trial

A doctor in Connecticut charged with distributing fraudulent opioid prescriptions now also faces obstruction of justice raps for attempting to hire a hitman to kill a witness set to testify against him. Anatoly Braylovsky, a 50-year-old doctor from Wallingford, Connecticut, has been arrested on Friday, Aug. 27, a few days after his attempt to hire a hitman from the biker gang Hells Angels went awry, the Daily Beast reported.
Read more: https://www.latintimes.com/doctor-attempted-hire-hells-angels-order-hit-witness-his-opioid-fraud-trial-483994?source=Snapzu

Windows 11 available on October 5

Today, we are thrilled to announce Windows 11 will start to become available on October 5, 2021. On this day, the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs that come pre-loaded with Windows 11 will start to become available for purchase. A new Windows experience, Windows 11 is designed to bring you closer to what you love.
Read more: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/?source=Snapzu

Toyota resumes autonomous Paralympics buses after vehicle hit judo competitor, forced him out of match

Toyota’s autonomous shuttle service at the Paralympic games in Japan this year has recruited more humans to oversee its vehicles after one of the machines ran over an athlete. Aramitsu Kitazono, 30, representing Japan in judo at the Paralympics, withdrew from the competition at the weekend after he was hit by Toyota’s autonomous e-Pallete vehicle, according to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. Doctors advised the visually impaired fighter to pull out of his match over fears he may be suffering from mild concussion.
Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/30/toyota_autonomous_accident/?source=Snapzu

New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Computing More Efficient

Based on a multi-SIMD quantum processor architecture
Read more: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-teleportation-quantum-computing-patent?source=Snapzu

NASA’s big rocket misses another deadline, now won’t fly until 2022

Publicly NASA is still holding onto the possibility of a 2021 launch date for the debut flight of its Space Launch System rocket. This week, an agency spokesperson told Ars that "NASA is working toward a launch for the Artemis I mission by the end of this year."
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/nasas-sls-rocket-will-not-fly-until-next-spring-or-more-likely-summer/?source=Snapzu

The Game Boy Advance Is Getting Its First Commercial Release In 13 Years

Goodboy Galaxy is on Kickstarter now, Switch version also planned
Read more: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/08/the_game_boy_advance_is_getting_its_first_commercial_release_in_13_years?source=Snapzu

China cuts children's online gaming to one hour

Regulators are restricting game-playing for under 18s to an hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58384457?source=Snapzu

‘Nancy Drew’ Spinoff ‘Tom Swift’ Gets Series Order At the CW

The CW has given a straight-to-series order to Tom Swift, based on the classic book series Tom Swift, with a twist, for the 2021-22 season.
Read more: https://deadline.com/2021/08/tom-swift-straight-to-series-order-the-cw-nancy-drew-spinoff-1234824297/?source=Snapzu

On YouTube, you’re never far from a dying kitten

Staged animal rescue videos featuring brutal violence and cruelty are racking up millions of views on YouTube
Read more: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-animal-abuse-rescue?source=Snapzu

The 1825-HP Bugatti Bolide Lightweight Track Monster Is Actually Going to Production.

Bugatti says it will make 40 of the 1500-horsepower track weapon, so give the company a call if you have $4.7 million lying around.
Read more: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a37304079/bugatti-bolide-production/?source=Snapzu

Amazon Just Announced a New Policy, and It's Pure Genius

Whether you sell or buy on Amazon -- or both -- this is good news.
Read more: https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/amazon-new-policy-defective-products-third-party-sellers-liability-1000.html?source=Snapzu

Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello Pleads for Help to Get Female Guitar Students Out of Afghanistan

Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello is advocating for a group of young female musicians in Afghanistan to get them out following the Taliban takeover.
Read more: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9622154/rage-against-the-machine-tom-morello-female-guitar-students-afghanistan-plea/?source=Snapzu

VW customers will soon have a choice for in-car 4G connectivity

Volkswagen has unveiled a new feature for its Car-Net connected vehicle service that lets you get 4G data from two major US telecoms. Called "Carrier of Choice," it offers the option of Verizon or T-Mobile, making it relatively easy to add your vehicle to an existing mobile plan.
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/vw-customers-will-soon-have-a-choice-for-in-car-4-g-connectivity-065509127.html?source=Snapzu

‘You’ Season 3 to Premiere in October on Netflix

Netflix announced that Season 3 of “You” will premiere on Oct. 15. At the end of the second season, Joe (Penn Badgley) was already eyeing a new neighbor, despite being in a relationship with Quinn (Victoria Pedretti). Season 3 of the psychological thriller will begins with Joe and Quinn married married and raising their son, Henry, in the northern California suburb of Madre Linda. Their family life begins to grow complicated due to Love’s impulsiveness and Joe’s budding interest in that woman who lives next door, especially as he begins to feel trapped by how well Love understands him.
Read more: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/you-season-3-premiere-netflix-1235051198/?source=Snapzu

You’ll have to tell Instagram your birthday to keep using the app

The company will also use AI to see if you’re lying.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/30/22648578/instagram-age-birthday-requirement-younger-people-ai-verification?source=Snapzu

Top Apple analyst says iPhone 13 will likely support calls and messages via satellites directly

Apple "will likely" include the ability to connect to satellite networks in its coming iPhone 13, TFI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted on Sunday.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/30/apple-analyst-kuo-iphone-13-will-likely-support-satellite-connection.html?source=Snapzu

Bitcoin Energy Consumption Debunked

More and more tabloid headlines label Bitcoin mining as an energy and environmental disaster. In addition to the headlines, increasingly offensive political positions have been aimed towards Bitcoin, with the likes of Elizabeth Warren, Janet Yellen, Joe Manchin, and Donald Trump criticizing the currency.
Read more: https://www.bitrawr.com/mining/bitcoin-energy-consumption-debunked?source=Snapzu

Hackers are trying to topple Belarus’s dictator, with help from the inside

Opposition from inside the regime of Alexander Lukashenko is helping hackers run what may be the most comprehensive cyberattack on a nation ever.
Read more: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/26/1033205/belarus-cyber-partisans-lukashenko-hack-opposition/?source=Snapzu

Amazon's biggest, hardest-to-solve ESG issue may be its own workers

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos raised a few eyebrows this summer when he returned to Earth after a historic space flight in July and gave a speech thanking company employees and customers, “because you paid for all of this.″ The comments came as Amazon, the second-largest employer in the U.S. after Walmart, has faced persistent allegations regarding workplace safety.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/29/amazons-biggest-hardest-to-solve-esg-issue-may-be-its-own-workers.html?source=Snapzu

Eric Clapton releases song seen as criticising official response to Covid

Eric Clapton, a staunch critic of measures designed to tackle the Covid pandemic, has released a song entitled This Has Gotta Stop. While the song does not directly mention lockdown measures or vaccines, the musician has performed on anti-vaccine songs in recent months. His latest offering has been interpreted by some as an attack on the measures recommended by health officials.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/29/eric-clapton-releases-song-seen-as-criticising-official-response-to-covid?source=Snapzu

Ukrainian troops rescue Canada-bound Afghans in daring operation

A plane carrying Afghan translators, including one who worked for The Globe and Mail and another who served the Canadian military, as well as their families, has arrived in Kyiv following a daring operation by Ukrainian soldiers stationed at Kabul airport.
Read more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-ukraine-leads-daring-rescue-of-canada-bound-afghans/?source=Snapzu

Ed Asner, the Iconic Lou Grant on Two Acclaimed TV Series, Dies at 91

The seven-time Emmy winner was funny on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and serious on his own newspaper drama, then delighted movie audiences with 'Up.'
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ed-asner-dead-lou-grant-1235004802/?source=Snapzu

Someone Unearthed This 1976 Clip Of Arthur C. Clarke Predicting The Future Of Technology, And It's Amazing How Much He Got Right - Digg

Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer best known for penning "2001: A Space Odyssey," accurately foresaw the future of the way we live.
Read more: https://digg.com/video/someone-unearthed-this-1976-clip-of-arthur-c-clarke-predicting-the-future-of-technology?source=Snapzu

Advanced Civilizations Could be Using Dyson Spheres to Collect Unimaginable Energy From Black Holes

Black holes are more than just massive objects that swallow everything around them – they’re also one of the universe’s biggest and most stable energy sources. That would make them invaluable to the type of civilization that needs huge amounts of power, such as a Type II Kardashev civilization. But to harness all of that power, the civilization would have to encircle the entire black hole with something that could capture the power it is emitting.
Read more: https://scitechdaily.com/advanced-civilizations-could-be-using-dyson-spheres-to-collect-unimaginable-energy-from-black-holes/?source=Snapzu

Hate robocalls? You'll love what's coming today

Voice providers are running up against a June 30 deadline to implement the Stir/Shaken technology to help curb annoying and costly robocalls.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/robocalls-are-out-of-control-a-new-mandated-technology-helping/?source=Snapzu

‘Manifest’ Saved With 20-Episode Fourth & Final Season On Netflix; Cast Led By Josh Dallas & Melissa Roxburgh To Return

Manifest will live on. After weeks of negotiations, Netflix has closed a deal for a super-sized fourth and final season of the missing plane drama, which will be available exclusively
Read more: https://deadline.com/2021/08/manifest-saved-renewed-season-4-netflix-cast-josh-dallas-melissa-roxburgh-return-1234823691/?source=Snapzu

Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power

In the stormy waters of the North Sea, 15 miles off the coast of Aberdeenshire, in Scotland, five floating offshore wind turbines stretch 574 feet (175 metres) above the water. The world’s first floating windfarm, a 30 megawatt facility run by the Norwegian company Equinor, has only been in operation since 2017 but has already broken UK records for energy output.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/29/floating-wind-turbines-ocean-renewable-power?source=Snapzu

Toyota suspends self-driving vehicles after Olympic village accident

Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda apologized for the incident in a YouTube video.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/toyota-suspends-self-driving-vehicles-after-accident-olympic-village-n1277849?source=Snapzu

Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates if your CPU is old

Genuine limitation or covering its ass? Unclear.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/28/22646035/microsoft-windows-11-iso-workaround-no-update-guarantee?source=Snapzu

iOS 15: How to Use Apple's New Weather Maps

In iOS 15, Apple's stock Weather app received a major design overhaul, in part thanks to a number of features brought over from the popular weather app Dark Sky, which Apple acquired in 2020. One of those features is the inclusion of weather maps, and this article explains what they are and how to use them.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-apple-new-weather-maps-ios/?source=Snapzu

Florida radio host who called himself ‘Mr Anti-Vax’ dies of Covid-19

A conservative radio host from Florida who criticised coronavirus vaccination efforts – and called himself “Mr Anti-Vax” – before contracting Covid-19 himself has died, his station said on Saturday.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/29/conservative-radio-host-anti-vaxxer-dies-covid-marc-bernier?source=Snapzu

Report: Tim Cook wants to oversee 'one more major new product category' before stepping down as Apple CEO

Over the last few years, speculation about who will take over as Apple CEO following Tim Cook has started to grow. Most recently, Cook himself confirmed that he “probably” won’t be at Apple in 10 years’ time. In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman speculates on the future of the Apple CEO position and says that the belief inside Apple is that Cook wants to stick around “for one more major new product category.”
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/29/tim-cook-apple-ceo-step-down-bloomberg/?source=Snapzu

Why 'Candyman' continues to hook audiences nearly 30 years later

"Candyman" holds up a mirror to American racism and dares us to look.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/29/entertainment/candyman-30-years-later-racism-gentrification/index.html?source=Snapzu

Government to ban single-use plastic cutlery

The government has announced plans to ban single-use plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene cups in England as part of what it calls a "war on plastic". Ministers said the move would help to reduce litter and cut the amount of plastic waste in oceans. A consultation on the policy will launch in the autumn - although the government has not ruled out including other items in the ban.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58360064?source=Snapzu

Harvard University’s new chief chaplain is … an atheist

Greg Epstein, unanimously elected by his fellow university chaplains, says: ‘I want to be a positive force’
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/28/harvard-university-chief-chaplain-atheist?source=Snapzu

It’s time to rethink air conditioning

What if the most American symbol of unsustainable consumption isn’t the automobile, but the air conditioner? In cool indoor spaces, it’s easy to forget that billions of people around the world don’t have cooling — and that air conditioning is worsening the warming that it’s supposed to protect us from.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/22638093/air-conditioning-worsens-climate-change-ac?source=Snapzu

Gun that killed Billy the Kid sells for $6 million

The gun that killed American Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid sold for more than $6 million at auction on Friday in Los Angeles, more than double the pre-sale estimate.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gun-that-killed-billy-kid-sells-6-million-2021-08-27/?source=Snapzu

Buy a luxury building, then lower the rent: A housing fix for California's middle class?

A new program involving local subsidies aims to help middle-income Californians afford better housing. Critics say it's a bad use of public funds. 
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-23/luxury-apartment-lower-rent-affordable-housing-california-middle-class?source=Snapzu

Early-life sleep disruptions linked to irregular development of the prefrontal cortex

The period of neurodevelopment extending from birth to roughly two years of age is one of frenetic, constant change. Neurons and synapses form, are organized, and are pruned. It is well known that sleep plays a fundamental role in these processes, and disruptions to sleep at this stage can be devastating to neurodevelopment and may be the cause of disorders like autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Read more: https://www.psypost.org/2021/08/early-life-sleep-disruptions-linked-to-irregular-development-of-the-prefrontal-cortex-61765?source=Snapzu

Bitcoin Has No Value: People Bank's Of China Official Announces Further Crackdown

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and other cryptocurrencies "are not legal tenders and have no actual value support," according to Deputy Director of the Financial Consumer Rights Protection Bureau of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) Yin Youping. What Happened: According to a report by local news outlet People's Daily Online, Youping said that cryptocurrencies are purely speculative assets.
Read more: https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/bitcoin-no-value-people-banks-195931100.html?source=Snapzu

January 6th Capitol attack investigators demand records from tech giants

Since the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, a "Select Committee" has been formed in the House of Representatives to investigate the circumstances that led to a mob breaching the country's seat of government. Part of that wide-ranging investigation will apparently involve a close look at the biggest social media companies in the world. The committee today announced that it was requesting records relating to the attack from 15 companies, who were asked to respond in the next two weeks.
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/us-select-committee-social-media-company-records-demand-211356022.html?source=Snapzu

Study identifies 579 genetic locations linked to anti-social behavior, alcohol use, opioid addiction and more

An analysis of data from 1.5 million people has identified 579 locations in the genome associated with a predisposition to different behaviors and disorders related to self-regulation, including addiction and child behavioral problems. With these findings, researchers have constructed a genetic risk score — a number reflecting a person’s overall genetic propensity based on how many risk variants they carry — that predicts a range of behavioral, medical and social outcomes, including education levels, obesity, opioid use disorder, suicide, HIV infections, criminal convictions and unemployment.
Read more: https://www.news.vcu.edu/article/2021/08/study-identifies-579-genetic-locations-linked-to?source=Snapzu

Astronomers Locate the Source of High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Roughly a century ago, scientists began to realize that some of the radiation we detect in Earth’s atmosphere is not local in origin. This eventually gave rise to the discovery of cosmic rays, high-energy protons and atomic nuclei that have been stripped of their electrons and accelerated to relativistic speeds (close to the speed of light). However, there are still several mysteries surrounding this strange (and potentially lethal) phenomenon.
Read more: https://www.universetoday.com/152330/astronomers-locate-the-source-of-high-energy-cosmic-rays/?source=Snapzu

Amazon will let you buy stuff now and pay for it later through a new partnership with Affirm

The companies are testing out their partnership with select customers now, with a wide-scale rollout planned in the next few months.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-affirm-buy-now-pay-later-space-50-2021-8?source=Snapzu

Zendesk acquires AI automation startup Cleverly to advance customer service

Zendesk is looking to grow its customer service capabilities, and today it announced the acquisition of early-stage artificial intelligence startup Cleverly. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time and Cleverly has not been entirely public about the size of its funding. Founded in 2019, Cleverly is based in Lisbon, Portugal and, according to its site, has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/26/zendesk-acquires-ai-automation-startup-cleverly-to-advance-customer-service/?source=Snapzu

When life gives you lemons ... 4 Stoic tips for getting through lockdown from Epictetus

Born into slavery, then crippled by his master and exiled by the Emperor Domitian, Epictetus (c.60-135 CE) has become arguably the central figure in today’s global revival of Stoicism. A straight-talking advocate of the idea philosophy should help people flourish even in hard times, Epictetus has much to offer as we wrestle with pandemic lockdowns and uncertainty. Here are four tips from perhaps the most stoic of the Stoics:
Read more: https://theconversation.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-4-stoic-tips-for-getting-through-lockdown-from-epictetus-166487?source=Snapzu

An incredibly resilient coral in the Great Barrier Reef offers hope for the future

A coral the size of a carousel is the widest known in the Great Barrier Reef. Found just off the coast of Goolboodi Island in Northeast Australia, this reef-building Porites measures 10.4 meters in diameter — earning it the nickname Muga dhambi, or “big coral,” from the Indigenous custodians of the island, the Manbarra people.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/great-barrier-reef-coral-muga-dhambi-resilience-size?source=Snapzu

Apple's major supplier has reportedly increased the cost of its chips

Apple is going to release the iPhone 13 series at a price that was comparable to, if not lower than, the price of the iPhone 12. Recent events, on the other hand, suggest that the business may be rethinking its position in light of the additional expenditures that may be incurred in the manufacture of the new iPhones soon.
Read more: https://www.technotification.com/2021/08/apple-price-increase-tsmc.html?source=Snapzu

Oh No, Jeopardy!’s Other New Host Is Pretty Bad Too

Mayim Bialik, neuroscientist and sitcom actor, is the last remaining host of Jeopardy! following the high-profile departure of executive producer Mike Richards as the late, great Alex Trebek’s replacement. But where Richards was taken down by his skeevy treatment of women, Bialik is courting her own controversy thanks to the resurfacing of past comments she’s made about vaccinations and birth via Caesarean section.
Read more: https://kotaku.com/oh-no-jeopardy-s-other-new-host-is-pretty-bad-too-1847549769?source=Snapzu

TikTok Is Using Shrek Porn to Fight an Anti-Abortion Website

In a series of events that perfectly follows the natural life cycle of the internet, an anti-abortion group set up a website to enable Texans to become anonymous “pro-life whistleblowers”—that is now being beset by trolls, including at least one wielding Shrek porn.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/epn9ae/tiktok-shrek-porn-anti-abortion-website?source=Snapzu