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As hundreds of flights to and from the East Coast were canceled this week due to severe weather, the CEO of United has an axe to grind. In a leaked email, Scott Kirby, the airline’s head honcho, blamed the Federal Aviation Administration for the cancellations.Are Big Consumer Facing Tech Companies Redeemable? The email from Kirby to staff was leaked on Twitter on Tuesday. In the communication, Kirby validates his team with a classic CEO’s “I’m proud of you” while promptly passing the buck to the FAA—and he did not mince…

Human fingers don't just sense what a surface feels like. They also tell us a lot about what's underneath it: a really firm handshake, for example, can reveal where some bones are, and, with enough prodding, one can even locate tendons. Inspired by this capability, scientists have developed a fingerlike device that maps an object's internal structures in 3-D by touching its surface. Earlier tactile sensors detected external shape, stiffness and texture but not subsurface details. For a study in Cell Reports Physical…

A reconstruction with one loop, and a reconstruction with two, and the ways in which Justin Garnett held them, respectively. Credit: University of Kansas When most researchers looked at a puzzling group of artifacts discovered at French archaeological sites, they presumed these to be ornaments or clothing. But Justin Garnett saw something else. …

Negotiations have hit an impasse, with frustrations boiling over on both sides as the deadline for avoiding a first-ever default approaches. Negotiations have hit an impasse, with frustrations boiling over on both sides as the deadline for avoiding a first-ever default approaches. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks…

What colors are the other fingers? Kohachi Studio has given us a teaser look at Black Finger Jet, a new run-and-gun title from former prominent Nazca developers. Nazca is the original developer behind Metal Slug, and a number of the attached names were directly involved in the development of some of the early titles in that series. No real gameplay is shown in the trailer, as the game looks to be very early in development. There’s a page for it live on Steam, but even there, it just shows concept art and says that the…

Apple’s secret mixed-reality headset — dubbed Reality Pro — is due to launch imminently, but the way you’ll use the device is something of a mystery. Sure, rumors have pointed to some form of gesture control, but that’s a pretty vague description. Fortunately, we might now have a better idea of how it will work. That’s because Apple has just been granted a patent outlining how you might be able to use a special ring to control objects while using the Reality Pro headset. The idea is that, with this ring on your…

In case you were also wondering, no, current Portland resident Kelly Reichardt has not seen the Dream of the Nineties sketch from the pilot of Portlandia. But that’s fine, she doesn’t have to – she lived it.The adamantly uncompromising film-maker behind First Cow and Certain Women got her start when independence was still a viable way of life for a generation of artists, young people who aspired to the modest goal of a minimally demeaning job to keep the bills paid and the space to make their thing their way. The media…

More alleged details have been made public regarding accusations against Travis Scott in connection with an incident at a New York City nightclub this week.As previously reported by TMZ, Scott was named as a suspect in an investigation into an alleged punching incident after the artist was accused of hitting someone at the Nebula club on Wednesday. Scott was also alleged to have damaged property.In a statement released by Scott’s lawyer not long after the initial news broke, “clickbait and misinformation” were pointed to…

Image via Warner Bros. James Gunn, alongside producing partner and co-CEO of DC Studios Peter Safran, is now the man with the plan over at Marvel’s greatest rival. The Guardians of the Galaxy director has his fingers in all the pies, officially beginning with DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters, which kicks off in 2025 with Superman: Legacy. However, we know he’ll have a hand in anything else that DC releases in the run-up to that time. Except, it seems, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which has managed to escape…

Photo: Cole Burston (Getty Images)Pope Francis caused a bit of ruckus on the internet Thursday after he seemed to support the use of the middle finger in a Twitter post. The post, which has since been removed, highlighted the middle finger, saying it was a symbol of honesty. “The middle finger, which is higher than the others, reminds us of something essential: honesty. To be honest means not getting entangled in the snares of corruption,” Pope Francis’ official accountwrote in the now-deleted post, shared by New York…