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A mockup of the Earth selfie from YouTuber Mark Rober. | Screenshot: Mark Rober

The stunt escalation on YouTube may have reached new heights with Mark Rober’s offer to snap anyone’s selfie with the planet Earth using a satellite he’s launching into orbit with the help of Google and T-Mobile.

Rober is a former NASA engineer who made a name for himself on YouTube by glitter



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Now isn’t a bad time to try our pick for the best VPN service for 2024. ProtonVPN is on sale for 70 percent off 24-month subscriptions ($71.76 upfront) and 50 percent off 12-month plans ($59.88). That averages out to $3 monthly if you go with two years and $5 monthly for the single-year option. It’s just one of many subscription deals you can find for Black Friday, making now a good time to check



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Elon Musk praised a new Apple hearing aid feature.
  • Elon Musk praised Apple's new hearing aid feature for AirPods.
  • The FDA approved the feature as the first over-the-counter hearing aid software.
  • Musk has previously been critical of Apple, including its partnership with ChatGPT.

Elon Musk, who has previously criticized Apple, appears to have been won over by one new feature.

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One of the world’s most notorious hackers could finally be in custody. Bleeping Computer reports that ransomware affiliate Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev also known as Wazawaka, Uhodiransomwar, m1x and Boriselcin has been arrested.

Prosecutors have not confirmed if Matveev is under arrest, but reports indicate that Matveev may be the hacker in Russian custody. The Russian state news agency РИА Новости