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Celebrating the last weekend of its buzzy Carte Diem campaign, Afterpay is getting ready to release thousands of deals from March 17 to 20 for Afterpay Day. Before Afterpay Day officially kicks off 12:00AM PT on March 17, Afterpay users can find a sneak preview of select deals by downloading the app for early access. Taking place online and in-stores, savvy shoppers can seize the deals at popular brands across fashion, beauty, home goods, footwear and more during this weekend-long sales event. To participate in exclusive deals that can help shoppers save up to 70%, simply log into the Afterpay App, head to Afterpay’s website for online purchases or activate the app’s Afterpay Card while completing any in-store purchase. Users can also locate participating stores near their location by usin...

For all of its open-world excess, Grand Theft Auto V is also a game about repetition: you go through missions multiple times, trying to finally complete that high-speed pursuit or violent shootout successfully. This can often mean reloading the same mission repeatedly, and — in previous iterations of the game — that time could add up quite a bit and become a frustrating nuisance. But after replaying the first few hours of the game’s new next-gen release, the thing that has struck me most is just how fast things move. GTAV is out now on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S (I’ve been playing the PS5 version), and it features the usual assortment of next-gen upgrades. That means support for 4K visuals, ray tracing, and 60fps gameplay, which you can access through a handful of visual modes...

The Wordle Archive, which let you play Wordles of days past, has been forced offline at the request of The New York Times, according to a report from Ars Technica. Navigating to the Wordle Archive yields a disappointing message: “Sadly, the New York Times has requested that the Wordle Archive be taken down.” It’s still unclear what went down legally between the NYT and the Wordle Archive, but a spokesperson for the news outlet vaguely told Ars Technica that the archive’s “usage was unauthorized, and we were in touch with them.” The Wordle Archive previously displayed a list of old playable puzzles that were great for when you finished your daily Wordle just a little too fast and were left wanting more. Luckily, our old friend the Web Archive has frozen the Wordle Archive in time, albeit le...

Slack is giving its iPad app a much needed upgrade that will see it inherit many features of its desktop version, the company has announced. The app is getting a new two-column layout that shows a list of available channels and messages on the left, and their contents on the right. The left-hand sidebar is also being updated, and the app is getting better support for accessibility features like Apple’s VoiceOver screen reader. None of these are particularly revolutionary features, but they’re welcome additions to an iPad app that can sometimes feel more like a giant iPhone app. Slack is marketing the update as serving the needs of newly emerging hybrid workplaces, which should hopefully make it easier to keep up with workplace conversations while on the go. The upgraded iPad app sidebar in...

If you’re like me and you’re disappointed by the taskbar in Windows 11, there are plenty of apps to bring back missing functionality. One of the most fully featured is Stardock’s Start11, and it’s being updated today (version 1.2 beta) to include support for ungrouping apps on the taskbar in Windows 11. Microsoft doesn’t currently support ungrouping app icons on the taskbar in Windows 11, nor small icons or even the ability to resize the taskbar. These key missing features are all supported in Start11, with multi-monitor support to independently define window grouping on secondary monitors. Centered icons and Start button on the left.Image: Stardock There’s even a new option so you can left-align the Start button but keep app icons centered in the taskbar. And while drag and drop is return...

Tesla has a complicated relationship with customers who pay to test the beta version of its “Full Sell Driving” software. Often, these people are diehard fans, keen to promote the company’s prowess and show off its new driver assist features. Sometimes, though, they overshare — posting videos that show exactly when and how Tesla’s software gets it wrong. When the person sharing these clips also works for Tesla, things are even more complicated. John Bernal, a former Tesla employee who reviewed the company’s FSD Beta software on his YouTube channel AI Addict says he was fired by the company last month after posting a video that showed his Tesla hitting a bollard. Bernal says he was told his YouTube channel was a “conflict of interest” As reported by CNBC, Bernal says that prior to his dismi...

KFC Japan is asking its fast-food fans to profess their love for Colonel Sanders in its latest contest. Marking the 52nd-anniversary of when the franchise landed in Japan — in March 1970 — 100 fans will be awarded a ¥500 JPY digital KFC card, and one will receive a 1/5-scale (13 inches) mobile phone charger of the Colonel himself. This creepy relic can be obtained by “shouting your love for KFC” over Twitter where the winner will be selected on March 24. ?#ケンタッキー愛を叫べ ❗️ 52年前の今日、大阪万博が開幕しKFCが実験店として初来日✨この日にちなんで、みなさんのケンタッキー愛を大募集❗️​➡https://t.co/oJoY4OmFc4 最も愛ある1名様に​1/5カーネル立像 モバイルバッテリーを贈呈?​1️⃣@KFC_jp をフォロー2️⃣下のボタンから愛を叫ぶ — ケンタッキーフライドチキン? (@KFC_jp) March 15, 2022 In other news, Burger King is reducing its nugget count due to su...

Apple unveiled several updates to its existing product lineup at its Peek Performance event last week, notably choosing its sleek iPad Air to load up with new features. The slim device is known for its versatility and portability, and it has been made even more favorable with the addition of the powerful M1 chip — the same used in the iPad Pro. The M1 chip was first released in November 2020 and has been slowly rolled out across Apple’s devices. The custom silicon is available in four configurations — M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max and the all-new supersized new M1 Ultra — and adds incredible graphics performance and speed to Apple offerings. The M1 chip used in the new iPad Air boasts an 8-core CPU with four high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, delivering up to 60% faster CPU than t...