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Apple stores in the U.S. are now selling an exterior door lock that can be unlocked by a user's Apple Watch or iPhone. The $329 Level Lock+ is the first Home Key-supported lock that's been sold in Apple stores.When the Level Lock+, made by Level Home, is installed in a door, users can unlock and relock their homes with a tap using Apple Home Key, a feature that uses NFC and secure tokens in Apple's software. Users can text keys to their friends or automate when the door is locked.For Apple, it's a milestone in the…

It'll soon be easier for users to invite other folks to join a call. is rolling out the option to share Call Links. If you see one of these links, you'll be able to join a call with a single tap. You'll need the latest version of WhatsApp to use Call Links. From the app's Calls tab, you can select the Call Links option. You can then generate a link for a voice or video call to share with family and friends. It's a handy feature, and one that we've already seen Apple adopt. Last year, the company started offering…

Amid horrifying rumors about the state or Warner Bros Discovery, THR’s Borys Kit is reporting that producer Dan Lin is close to being tapped as the new drummer for Spinal Tap new head of the DCEU. Overseeing both films and television, this position is that of Warrior of Light the Chosen One Who Will Balance the Force WBD’s answer to Kevin Feige, the boy who lived, the Ringbearer, The One. Embed from Getty Images Lin arrives well suited for the role, having overseen such very successful entertainments as the It films, the…

Making money by connecting users to rides is a notoriously tough business. Uber and Lyft are losing loads of cash each quarter.When both companies were flooded with venture capital funding in their first few years of operation, that wasn’t much of an issue. Thanks to VC funding, Uber and Lyft were able to offer users extremely low rates while also paying their drivers.Then they went public. Lyft made its market debut in March 2019; Uber followed with an initial public offering that May. Those IPOs meant that the two…

What if we could retrofit virtually every coal and gas power plant in the world to use a carbon-free energy source deep below our feet — geothermal energy.Quaise Energy, an <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>MIT</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>MIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded in 1861. It is…

by Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Kamini Bhowany, Kristy Guerin, Laura Jackson and Partha Narayan Mishra, The Conversation Many waste rock piles hold hidden stores of valuable minerals. Credit: Shutterstock To go green, the world will need…

By United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health May 26, 2022The atmosphere contains an estimated 13,000 km3 of water vapor, some of which can be captured through cloud seeding and the collection of water from fog and mist. Remote communities in Chile, Morocco, and South Africa have used vertical mesh nets to harvest fog for over 100 years, and there are viable sites for fog harvesting on every continent. Advancements in materials and indigenous knowledge have helped develop highly productive,…

The initial plan was to interview Brendan Gleeson in central Dublin. A chat over lunch in a local pub or restaurant, then a few photos of him in his element. His agents politely point out this is not ideal. Why not? “Because he’s Brendan Gleeson!” He can no more walk around the centre of Dublin incognito and uninterrupted than could Bono, or the pope.So our rendezvous is relocated to a seafood restaurant at the end of a fishing pier in a village outside Dublin. But even here, within seconds of Gleeson posing for…