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Source: The Verge Set some time after the events of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Thunderbolts will tell the story of how a number of former Marvel antagonists find themselves being recruited by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) onto a black ops team that seems like a dark twist on the Avengers. Ex-Black…

Source: The Verge Microsoft made security its No. 1 priority for every employee earlier this year, following years of security issues and a scathing report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board. Nearly six months after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the entire company that security should be prioritized above all else, the software giant…

Source: The Verge JBL has announced two new accessories for its PartyBox line of LED-enhanced Bluetooth speakers: the PartyLight Stick, which looks like a glowing animated lightsaber, and the PartyLight Beam, that can cast a light show on walls or ceilings. The $99.95 PartyLight Stick and the $149.95 PartyLight Beam can each function as standalone…

Source: The Verge It took Google a few years, a couple of pivots, and multiple name changes, but the company has finally built an excellent operating system for watching TV. The Google TV interface — running on top of the Android TV OS (Google’s branding chaos remains undefeated) — has already been doing a really nice…

Source: The Verge Today, I’m talking with Josh Miller, cofounder and CEO of The Browser Company, a relatively new software maker that develops the Arc browser. David Pierce, my Vergecast cohost and Verge editor-at-large, is a big fan of Arc and has written about it quite a bit for us. You can read his review…

Source: The Verge The Biden administration proposed new rules blocking the “sale or import” of connected vehicle software originating from “countries of concern,” a move that would effectively ban all auto imports in the US from China. Vehicles with hardware and software from China pose an “acute” threat to the US’ national security, the White…