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Snoop Dogg Quips to Buy Twitter as Elon Musk Puts the Deal on Hold, Announces Series of Changes

There's no end to Twitter saga after billionaire Elon Musk's dramatic entry to buy out the micro-blogging site, with rapper Snoop Dogg too throwing his hat in the ring after the news broke out that Tesla CEO's deal is on hold.Rapper Snoop Dogg tweeted that he "may have to buy Twitter". This set off a fun trail on his timeline, with Musk joining in with a "fire" emoji.May have 2 buy Twitter now.— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) May 13, 2022While Musk's buy out plan has already flooded his timeline on Twitter with ideas for the…

‘The Flash’ Star Puts Himself Forward as the MCU’s Human Torch

Jordan Fisher from The Flash envisions himself as the Human Torch in the MCU. The multi-talented actor plays Bart Allen/Impulse (The Flash’s son from the future) and it looks like he’s interested in adding another superhero to his credits. Fisher posted an image of himself on Twitter as the Fantastic Four’s resident hotshot Johnny Storm/Human Torch. In the photoshopped image, he’s in costume with his head aflame and his eyes burning bright as he looks toward the camera. He posted it along with a drooling emoji, as if…

StormCaster-DX puts an aerial targeting laser in a soldier’s rucksack

Teledyne FLIR Defense has developed a multi-role laser designator called the StormCaster-DX. The military targeting system can be attached to a quadcopter small and light enough to be carried in a soldier's rucksack.When long-range weapons like artillery and rockets came on the scene, a new role opened up for warfighters. Being able to hurl a projectile over great distances has obvious advantages, but these become moot if the shooter can't see the target. To overcome this, scouts were dispatched to act as forward…

HP’s ZBook Studio G9 puts an RTX 3080 Ti in an ultraportable chassis

HP’s ZBook Studio is widely acknowledged as one of the best workstation laptops on today’s market. Last year’s model came with a stunning OLED touchscreen, a customizable RGB keyboard, and a versatile set of features that you’ll be hard-pressed to find in too many other business lines. Most impressively, it takes the powerful specs many professionals need and crams them into a chassis that’s under three pounds. Studio fans will be happy to hear that HP has refreshed the device. The new ZBook Studio G9 can be…

VW’s electric Scout redux puts Bronco and Wrangler in its sights

Iconic 4x4s are rising from the dead at an alarming rate — the Bronco, the Hummer, the Wagoneer, and now the International Harvester Scout. Or just "Scout" as it will henceforth be known. Volkswagen owns the rights to the Scout name and is about to exercise them by launching a standalone US-based Scout brand to reinvent utility vehicles from yesteryear as cutting-edge electrics. Volkswagen's claim on Scout traces back to 2020, when Group commercial truck brand Traton SE reached an agreement to acquire Navistar…

Thar review – Anil Kapoor’s violent cop thriller puts the punch in Rajasthan | Film

Raj Singh Chaudhary is the Indian actor, screenwriter and now director who has developed his career under the mentorship of Anurag Kashyap, the creator of the mob classic Gangs of Wasseypur. Chaudhary has now made a punchy, nihilistic, western-style thriller, co-written with Kashyap, with hints of Sergio Leone and the borderland paranoia of Cormac McCarthy.The setting is Rajasthan in the 1980s, but not the Rajasthan beloved of tourists and attenders of the Jaipur literature festival: this is the vast, forbidding and…

NASA acoustic testing puts real numbers on Joby’s eVTOL noise signature

One of eVTOL companies' core promises is that these electric air taxis will be vastly quieter than helicopters – so quiet that we'll be able to fill the skies with hundreds of them without subjecting city dwellers to brutal levels of added noise pollution.Now, Joby Aviation has put some numbers on its acoustic performance. Working with NASA as part of its Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign, Joby flew its S4 prototype over NASA's Mobile Acoustics Facility, a field array of more than 50 microphones, at varying…

ZTE puts cameras in focus for flagship Axon 40 Ultra launch

Back in 2020, China's ZTE tried to wave goodbye to notches and punch-holes with the first under-display selfiecam in the Axon 20 5G smartphone. Now a much-improved third generation of the technology has debuted in a flagship Ultra model.Initially launched in China, the pixel density around the under-display camera (UDC) of the Axon 40 Ultra smartphone now stands at 400 pixels per inch, with the upgraded chip now featuring the company's latest MRC algorithm, intelligent pixel enhancement and intelligent display…

C3STROM Astro electric bike puts motorcycle styling on an e-bike ride

Electric bicycles that blur the line with electric motorcycles and mopeds are an increasingly popular category of the e-bike industry. The latest new e-bike to take a full-throttle approach to this design philosophy is the C3STROM Astro. Available in both the Astro and Astro Pro models, C3STROM is definitely packing both high-power looks and the high-power performance to match. And that was by design, as C3STROM CEO Harry Chan explained in a statement provided to Electrek: The Astro’s release marks a new level…