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The streaming platform has teamed up with a company called SignUp Media. Netflix is bringing American Sign Language (ASL) interpretations to hundreds of hours of family programming across 73 different titles, according to a report by IndieWire. This includes both shows and movies, and covers original Netflix properties and licensed content. Featured shows include Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, Pokémon Horizons, Octonauts and The Magic School Bus Rides Again, among many others. The deal also includes some big-name movies, such as Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Spider-Man: Homecoming. This is thanks to a partnership with a company called SignUp Media,…

Knockoff is an extension that shows you which brands on Amazon are fake.Ordinary Systems Amazon’s search engine has become flooded with gibberish-named knockoff brands in recent years. To make your shopping experience a bit less phony, developer Josh Pigford built Knockoff, a free extension that will clean up your feed by automatically hiding or dimming listings from all those sketchy, mass-produced brands.  Knockoff is available for Firefox, Chrome and all Chromium-based web browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Opera and Brave. It’s also available as a Safari extension.  Pigford launched the tool earlier this month, and it’s since gone viral, with tens of…

New data reveals that most workers fear AI’s potential impact on their jobsEmployees who feel secure in their roles are more productive and engagedEmployers must prioritize communication and invest in training and upskillingNew data from ADP’s People at Work 2026 report, which covers more than 39,000 working adults from 36 markets, confirms that most workers are still highly concerned about AI’s impact on their jobs, even though today’s tangible impacts are relatively minimal.Only one in four UK workers strongly agree their job is safe from being replaced, and this drops to around one in five (21%) in Europe as a…

Sheetz, a US convenience store chain, is moving its 838 locations off VMware. Sheetz has used VMware virtualization across two Dell R440/R450-series servers at each of its locations since 2019. Now it’s migrating 12 to 14 virtual machines (VMs) in each of its stores from VMware vSphere to StorMagic’s SvHCI, “with an additional two VMs to be replaced over the coming months to transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11,” Scott Robertson, infrastructure team manager at Sheetz, told Ars Technica via email. Ultimately, Sheetz will move about 11,000 VMs from Broadcom’s virtualization platform. Sheetz is still running the original Dell…

The spacecraft made a close approach to the red planet in May on its way to explore the asteroid it’s named after. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is well on its way to its target in the asteroid belt after receiving a gravity assist from Mars in May, and the space agency just shared some incredible images from that brief encounter. Psyche captured thousands of images with its multispectral imager as it approached and flew past Mars. A timelapse shared by NASA on Friday stitches these images together to create a captivating video of the entire encounter,…

The howling winds are like nothing I’ve heard before as they beat against the windowpanes. The sky is an eerie gray — not from clouds, but smoke. A massive wildfire rages nearby. Disaster is imminent.  In our second-story apartment, my partner and I pack up our most essential belongings and a few treasured possessions. We tape our window seams to prevent smoke and ash from blowing inside and keep our eyes glued to a map of the fire’s spread.  The rising stress and deteriorating air quality are too much. We head 20 miles south to a hotel, where we stay…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Dimplex FlexBlade Multi-Directional Bladeless Fan: two minute review Vertically aligning the fan vents makes the FlexBlade easy to store. (Image credit: Future)SpecificationsType: TowerSpeeds: 5Oscillation: horizontal 30, 60, or 90 degreesVertical tilt: each blade can rotate 180 degreesDimensions (H x W x D): 32.6 x 27.9 x 14.6 inches / 82.8 x 70.8 x 37cm (blades horizontal), 43.1 x 12.6 x 14.6 inches / 109.5 x 32 x 37cm (blades…

One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center is warning. Clickfix has emerged as an effective attack technique that attackers, primarily financially motivated criminals, began using in the last year or so. Websites under the control of the attackers display a CAPTCHA that requires the visitor to copy a jumble of text and paste it into the terminal. The text contains scripts that, once entered, perform malicious actions, typically by installing malware or exfiltrating sensitive data. Ukraine’s CERT…

Apple may try to focus ads in Apple Maps on local businesses and points of interest, based on new advertising guidelines the company published this week. The company announced plans to introduce ads to its maps app in March 2026, but hasn’t shared an exact timeline for the launch other than this summer in the US and Canada. The new rules could be a hint that when the business launches, ads in Apple Maps could be meaningfully different from the company’s competitors. The ad guidelines include several rules around prohibited content that are similar to Apple’s App Review guidelines. The…

Pros More popular channels than any competitor Superb cloud DVR Excellent on-screen interface and handy search bar Cons $10 upgrade doesn’t include much 4K content Editor’s note: Although competition among cord-free live TV streaming platforms has gotten stiffer during the past year due to pricing, mergers, channel lineups and carriage disputes, YouTube TV remains a front-runner as a premium service. We like its interface, reliability and its channel roster compared to its rivals, which is why we’re giving it a CNET Editors’ Choice award in 2026. YouTube TV has solidified its reputation as one of the best live TV streaming…