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The Next Big Thing Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra review: Fixed focus The Galaxy S21 Ultra offers the ultimate luxury experience, with four incredible cameras and an industry-leading display. It's a love letter to Samsung's most enthusiastic customers, and the addition of S Pen support may even draw in longtime Note loyalists. … [Read more...] about Honor’s new V40 5G is its first flagship phone after Huawei split

Phantom Space working on pathfinding vehicle. In a tweet on Sunday, the new company said it was nearing completion of a development model for its "Daytona" rocket. "This development model is a manufacturing and design pathfinder of the flight system and will be complete in Q1 this year," the company said. The tweet (now deleted, but archived here) included an image of what appeared to be this pathfinder inside the factory, with several people standing around. … [Read more...] about Rocket Report: Starship going offshore, Blue Origin may launch humans in April

Psychologists who treat men and boys already know that their male clients aren’t stereotypes. They have feelings, needs, and desires. They’re adaptable. They possess many positive masculine characteristics. The guidelines are designed to give psychologists a framework to help men and boys embrace their masculinity in ways that are helpful, rather than harmful, to their health and quality of life. … [Read more...] about Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity

Other Word features have caught out forgers, too. The "Killian documents," which claimed President George W. Bush was declared unfit for service during his time with the Air National Guard, purported to have been produced on a typewriter in 1973. However, those documents used proportional fonts and curly quotes, making it spectacularly unlikely that they were authentic. Standard 1973 vintage typewriters didn't offer either proportional fonts or curly quotes, but 2004-vintage Microsoft Word did both. … [Read more...] about Not for the first time, Microsoft’s fonts have caught out forgers

Halloween Kills (Oct. 15, 2021) This slasher sequel is in the awkward situation that the release date is sort of in the title. You can't really bump a movie named "Halloween" to February, can you? So Universal pushed it back a whole year to 2021 -- which has a knock-on effect for planned threequel, Halloween Ends, now expected in October 2022. … [Read more...] about New movies coming out in 2021: James Bond delayed again