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SAVE $10.05: Resident Evil Village is on sale at Walmart as of June 4 — grab a copy for Playstation 4, Playstation 5, or Xbox One/Series X for just $49.94 (normally $59.99). 

Holding out for a decent discount on Resident Evil Village? Well, lycans and gentlemen, we thank you for waiting: Capcom’s new first-person survival horror game — now a bona fide bestseller — just went on sale at Walmart.

As of June 4, you could grab a copy there for Playstation 4, Playstation 5, or Xbox One/Series X for only $49.94 — that’s a little over $10 off its suggested retail price of $59.99.

SEE ALSO: PlayStation’s Days of Play sale is live — here are the best deals Read more…

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The megadrought is real. 

Amid the worst Southwestern drought in at least 400 years — and easily one of the worst sustained droughts in over a millennium — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has asked the denizens of Utah to pray for rain:

“By praying together and collectively asking God or whatever higher power you believe in for more rain, we may be able to escape the deadliest aspects of the continuing drought,” Gov. Cox said on Thursday. 

The 20-year drying trend in Utah and the greater Southwest is prolonged, and exacerbated by record Utah dryness in 2020, because a relentlessly warming climate is drying out the land. It’s a “hot drought.” This means precipitation trends overall in the Southwest haven’t changed much over the last half-century, but with added heat, more water is now evaporating from rivers, plants, soils, and snowpack. This makes it easier to fall into drought spells, and harder to get out, climate scientists say.  Read more…

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Conspiracy theorists are having a field day with a batch of recently released emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s official government account.

If you’ve been on social media at all over the past few days, you may have seen #FauciEmails trending. Or you may have seen your own family and friends sharing screenshots of the emails along with commentary about the big reveals and discoveries uncovered from the email release.

But here’s the truth: There are no big reveals. There are no bombshells. 

Let’s break down the misinformation that’s being spread around so you can avoid it.

For starters, the emails are real. They are from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. They weren’t hacked, either. (We’re so used to hearing about email archives obtained by hackers and dumped online that it’s an easy assumption to make.) The emails were obtained legitimately by media out like The Washington Post and BuzzFeed using Freedom of Information Act requests. Read more…

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A viral tweet is bringing the fanfiction community together under the lyrical genius of Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years,” and it’s bringing a long-running Tumblr meme format to Twitter. 

The song was written for the 2011 masterpiece The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 but, thanks to the enduring enthusiasm of the Twilight fandom, it resides in the hallowed halls of evergreen meme material. 

Emma Logsdon, a Twitter user and fanfiction enthusiast, brought “A Thousand Years” back into the spotlight with a viral lyric video that used titles on the fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own for each lyric. Read more…

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I don’t know the exact second I stopped caring about app folders, but I think it was during the pandemic. I just couldn’t bring myself to spend half an iota of energy on organizing my apps. 

First, a confession: I’m not an organized person. It’s always been hard for me to keep everything in its place. I have gotten marginally better at it for the sake of co-existing with my partner, but it’s not something that comes natural. 

So, I never really got much enjoyment out of app folders, or any sort of organization, on my phone’s home screen. I once saw a person who color coded their apps by page and it threw me for a loop — that might as well have been climbing Everest in my mind.  Read more…

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Don’t trust anything on the internet — until Mashable tries it first. Welcome to the Hype Test, where we review viral trends and tell you what’s really worth millions of likes.

I’m not a great sleeper — I routinely function on roughly five hours — so I’m open to trying anything that’ll help me catch some Zs. 

OK, so I’m not great at putting down my phone before bed, but I live online so that feels impossible. But when lettuce water started going viral on TikTok as a sleep aid, I figured, sure, let’s give it a go. So, yes, last night before bed I drank a mug of lettuce tea. 

In case you haven’t seen viral lettuce water TikToks, it is — disturbingly — exactly what it sounds like. Picture making a nice cup of tea, except instead of steeping a tea bag you are dunking leaves of lettuce in hot water. Then you drink that cabbagey concoction. This remedy, supposedly, makes you quite sleepy. Somehow, this has become A Thing all over TikTok.  Read more…

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Facebook groups can be both unbelievably helpful and fun for a variety of hangs, from gathering with your high school graduating class to sharing stories and theories with other like-minded people who want to chat about aliens to finding jobs and selling furniture. But at some point, all good things come to an end. 

When you’re ready to move on from a Facebook group you created — be it because the group turned into something you didn’t intend on it becoming or because you simply no longer use it — you’ll want to delete it.

There are a few things you should know before deleting your Facebook group. You can only do so if you’re an admin and you created the page. If you’re an admin but didn’t create the page, you can only delete the page if the original creator chooses to leave it. It’s an irreversible and permanent action, and you cannot archive a group. Group members aren’t notified when you delete a group. Read more…

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It’s been a little over a month since Apple released its AirTag Bluetooth trackers and it looks like the company is finally doing something about its privacy features — or lack, thereof. 

First reported by CNET, Apple is pushing out a firmware update that makes it easier for people to identify when unwanted AirTags are traveling with them. 

As noted by 9to5Mac, the update will be installed automatically when the AirTag’s in range of your iPhone. It should list the build number as 1A276d and the firmware version of 1.0.276.

In a statement to Mashable, Apple confirmed the following changes within the update: Read more…

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All it took was a fundamental disruption to the nation’s fuel supply and a threat to meat, but the U.S. Department of Justice is finally going to start taking ransomware seriously. Or, at least more seriously.

So reports Reuters, which on Thursday noted that the DOJ is “elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism.” This move, in part, will involve coordinating responses to ransomware with a single task force in Washington D.C.

Ransomware is a form of digital extortion that involves encrypting a victim’s files and then offering to provide a decryption key for a price, typically paid in cryptocurrency.  Read more…

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