TL;DR: As of July 24, you can get a Tykr Stock Screener: Pro Plan Lifetime Subscription for just $119 instead of $900 — that’s a discount of 86%.

The truth is, you don’t have to be an expert to start investing in the stock market, and you don’t have to already be rich. Though it might be intimidating starting out, you can get some help from Tykr Stock Screener. 

This lifetime subscription could help you find low-risk stocks to invest in, and it can help you learn what it takes to reduce risk in your own investments. Right now, this beginner stock market software is on sale for $119 (Reg. $900). 

Tykr can’t give you a sure thing to invest in, but nothing can. What Tykr does have is support for over 30,000 U.S. and international stocks with open-source calculations that score how safe that stock should be to invest in. The higher the score, the safer the investment, according to Tykr. For each supported stock, you’ll get a summary, score, and overview of your potential returns on your investment. 

Tykr works a bit like having a friend who already knows more about the stock market, except you can always access this friend from anywhere at any time, provided you have an internet connection. Tykr can recommend which stocks to buy, when to sell, and it provides a detailed look at the reasoning behind these decisions. It won’t guarantee you massive payouts, but it could be a useful confidence-building tool as you learn about the market yourself. You can even use Tykr if you’re already acquainted with investing as a way to save time doing research on safer investments. 

The stock market doesn’t need to have a steep learning curve or a massive buy-in cost. With Tykr, you can see the potential risk level of investing and judge for yourself if you want to buy in. For a limited time, get Tykr Stock Screener: Pro Plan Lifetime Subscription for $119 (Reg. $900). 

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TL;DR: As of July 24, you can get an Offcloud Lifetime Subscription for just $39.99 instead of $699.99 — that’s a discount of 94%.

We’ve come a long way from the days of risky content download links and shady torrent sites, but one thing that hasn’t changed is how nice it can be to have your own copy of all the content you want to watch. Offcloud can help with that. This all-in-one download manager can integrate and connect with tons of different software and cloud storage solutions to safely download content for you, and a lifetime subscription that’s normally $699 is only $39.99 for a limited time. 

If you want to securely download or automatically save content, then Offcloud could be a lot of help for you. Grab content from BitTorrent, streaming sites, or connect an RSS feed, and Offcloud will automatically export new content as it arrives. Some torrenting sites are historically unsafe, even if you’re downloading content protected by a Creative Commons License. Offcloud can help you use BitTorrent clients more safely. Backup videos from YouTube, convert Soundcloud entries into MP3 files, and more. 

For storage, you can use the included 500GB of cloud storage, or connect with Zapier and share content directly onto your own cloud storage, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. Your subscription gives you unlimited remote uploads, so your growing library is only limited by your storage space. To that end, Offcloud lets you sync anything to your own NAS, FTP, and WebDAV for a more diverse range of file sharing. 

Through all of this, you can obscure your browsing and downloading from your ISP using the 1TB of proxy bandwidth included with your lifetime subscription. 

With some help, you can download virtually anything from the internet and save it in your own collection. For a limited time, you can get an Offcloud Lifetime Subscription on sale for $39.99 (Reg. $699), a markdown of 94%. 

Prices subject to change.

After many failed attempts at adaptation and several teasers, Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman is almost here. And we have the trailer to prove it!

Morpheus (Tom Sturridge), also known as Dream of the Endless, has been imprisoned by occultists for over a century. During this time, his absence in the dreaming world has wreaked havoc on the waking one. Now free once more, Dream must fix the chaos that has befallen the world, and restore dreams and nightmares to their rightful place.

In the trailer we see comic book characters like Johanna Constantine (Jenna Coleman), Lucienne (Vivienne Acheampong), and Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) come to life, along with members of the Endless like Desire (Mason Alexander Park) and Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste). Then there’s the villainous, sunglass-sporting Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook), who’s going to be a ton of trouble for Dream. With glimpses of magic, monsters, and even Hell, it looks like The Sandman is going to be anything but a snooze.

The Sandman is streaming Aug. 5 on Netflix.

Amazon, the company known for delivering countless boxes to your door as well as for spying and collecting data on you, is acquiring One Medical, a primary care provider, for roughly $3.9 billion the companies said Thursday.

The acquisition signals Amazon’s continued foray into the healthcare market having bought PillPack in 2018 for $750 million, using the acquisition to launch its own online pharmacy years later. Amazon has also ramped up effort in its telehealth service Amazon Care, along with plans to develop at-home medical diagnostics.

If the deal goes through, Amazon would be in possession of the medical data of over 700,000 One Medical customers.

However, the purchase of One Medical by Amazon has raised concerns regarding the company’s track record with sensitive customer data, especially with the recent news that the company has been giving cops footage from its Ring cameras without customers’ knowledge or consent.

“Pushing forward into healthcare raises some serious red flags, especially in the post-Roe reality where peoples’ data can be used to criminalize their reproductive healthcare decisions,” said Caitlin Seeley George speaking to CNBC. Seeley George serves as the campaign director for Fight for the Future, an advocacy group focused on technology and digital rights. “I don’t think there is anything Amazon could do to make people trust the company with their healthcare information.”

Amazon, in an email to CNBC, stated that the company will follow HIPPA laws and protections and would not use customer medical data for marketing and advertising purposes. “Should the deal close, One Medical customers’ HIPAA Protected Health Information will be handled separately from all other Amazon businesses, as required by law,” the Amazon spokesperson told CNBC in an email.

While privacy and data concerns from customers are valid, One Medical CEO Amir Dan Rubin said in a statement that the purchase would provide an “immense opportunity to make the health care experience more accessible, affordable and even enjoyable for patients, providers, and payers.”

When the Black Adam trailer dropped last month, we got our first taste of Dwayne Johnson’s take on this classic DC antihero: torn, tortured, and aligned somewhere between hero and villain, as expected. He also punched a fighter jet.

In the Comic Con sneak peek presented at Hall H on Saturday — where Dwayne Johnson himself made a memorably noisy appearance, in character and seeming to levitate amid a vortex of lighting — Black Adam is an even darker figure. He considers his powers a curse, once again punches that fighter jet, and then gets into a fight with Hawkman (Aldis Hodge).

Hawkman, a Justice League of America founder, originates in ancient Egypt — as does Black Adam — and seems to serve as a sort of moral counterweight to Black Adam, who has a pro-killing-people stance that sets him apart from superheroes. But it seems this is more than a philosophical conflict because now we know Black Adam uses his lightning powers to blast Hawkman into the side of a car. Looks like it’s going to take a whole movie to resolve this.

This time last year we were singing sea shanties and being constantly reminded just how important the value of family is to Vin Diesel. Now in the year of our lord 2022, the trend taking over our Instagram feed and TikTok FYP is Little Miss and Mr. Men?

Yes, that’s right, the colorful and boldly drawn cartoon drawings from the children’s book series by British author and illustrator Roger Hargreaves have become an unimaginable source of emotional catharsis for people across the internet, as users share their most personal insecurities and red flags. Similar to the American Girl doll memes from last month, the “Little Miss” memes are fill-in-the-blank style memes with a highly specific but sometimes incredibly relatable description. With examples like “Little Miss Wants Her Ex Back” and “Mr. Letterboxd,” this decades-old, kid-friendly media property has taken on a new form, and is once again connecting with Gen Z, one of the audiences it helped raise.

So how did these come to be and why are they way too loud?

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How “Little Miss” started in the first place

The illustrations of the Little Miss memes date all the way back to 1971 when Hargreaves was asked by his son Adam to describe what a tickle looked like. Mr. Tickle, a yellow, squiggly man donning an adorable blue top hat, spearheaded the Mr. Men series which went on to sell over 100 million copies worldwide, including the spinoff series Little Miss in 1981, along with multiple TV shows on the BBC. Roger Hargreaves died in 1988 with his son Adam taking over Mr. Men with new drawings and stories.

The series itself serves as a day in the life of each Mr. Men or Little Miss character and how their lives are affected by their personalities. The series even extends to real-life figures such as the Spice Girls, Prince William and Duchess Kate. The most recent edition in the series is titled “Mr. Bolt,” and is inspired by Olympic gold medalist and world-record-holding sprinter Usain Bolt.

Is @juulpuppy Little Miss Meme Originator?

The origin of the current Little Miss trend, however, is a bit hard to pin down. According to Know Your Meme, the first use of the Little Miss meme format as we know it right now was posted in June 2021 by Tumblr user “notyourgaybestie.” Upon further inspection, this may be wrong as the post date for the Little Miss meme dates June 17, 2022, with 2021 more than likely coming from the copyright date located on the bottom right of the image.

Multiple outlets in the past few weeks have credited Instagram meme creator @juulpuppy as the originator of the Little Miss meme, with their first image being posted April 19, 2022. However, Twitter user @dreamgirltat posted their Little Miss meme on April 17, 2022, which gained over 36,000 likes. And while the virality of the trend can be credited to @juulpuppy, who’s first dump of memes generated over 52,000 likes on Instagram, we can trace similarly formatted Little Miss/Mr. Men to at least 2014. Here you can see Millenial-style Mr. Men and Little Miss parodies by illustrator and former Mashable writer Max Knoblauch.

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On TikTok alone, the hashtag #littlemiss has generated over 65M views with many giving user @starbuckslayqueen the credit for getting the meme viral on the app for characters like “Little Miss Forgets To Eat” and “Little Miss Depression Nap.” Besides the personal vulnerability and occasional red flags, users on TikTok have even used the Little Miss memes to call out others whether it be friends or exes. Creators also began to make Mx. and Little Mx characters to be more gender-inclusive, like “Mx. Scrolls IG Instead Of Reading” and “Mx. Can’t Be Too Honest With Their Therapist.”

The Little Miss memes may be a little too close to home, (I hate how much I relate to “Mr. Loves to Cook but Orders Delivery Every Night”) but given how popular the trend has been these past few weeks, they’re here to stay for a bit. At least until the next meme goes viral.

Vin Diesel should really start collecting royalties for all these jokes about family.

An “it’s all about family” joke is just one of the gags in the newest trailer for Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which premiered at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. Zachary Levi is back as the titular superhero, the result of teenage orphan Billy Batson (Asher Angel) stumbling upon wizard powers that turn him into a super-powered adult. This time, he’s joined by a crew of his siblings with similar powers, played by Meagan Good, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, D.J. Cotrona, and Michelle Borth.

Of course, every superhero movie needs villains, so this time we have Calypso and Hespera, played respectively by Lucy Liu and Helen Mirren. And yes, Zachary Levi references the long-running Fast & Furious series directly to Helen Mirren, who has been in the last two of those vehicular action epics. Vin Diesel might be the most powerful man in Hollywood.

T-Mobile customers might be $5 richer soon, and all it took was their personal data being compromised.

GeekWire spotted an SEC filing on Friday outlining a class action settlement by the large mobile provider. The proposed settlement would split a $350 million payout among lawyers and, eventually, the 76.6 million customers affected by a huge T-Mobile data breach in August 2021. Reports at the time indicated that data such as full names, dates of birth, and even Social Security numbers were compromised in the attack.

If you’ve never been the beneficiary of a class-action settlement before, TechCrunch explains that it could be several months before you find out if you’re getting money or not. T-Mobile has to notify people who paid for the company’s services in August 2021, and once respondents are counted and legal fees are calculated, the money is then split up and distributed among the customers. According to TechCrunch, it could be December (or later) before all of that is settled.

And once the money is sent out, it probably won’t amount to any more than $10 per person, speaking as someone who has received one of these checks before. Still, those $7 I got from PlayStation in 2018 paid for dinner, so a free meal in exchange for your rights as a customer being violated isn’t the worst deal in the world.

The following contains spoilers for Nope.

Jordan Peele’s Nope opens not with our leads, OJ and Emerald Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer), moseying around their family ranch but with a bloodied chimp on a sound stage. It’s a jarring beat, and an unexpected one if you walked into Nope only expecting the trailer’s promise of horses and aliens. But this is a Jordan Peele movie we’re talking about here, so expecting the unexpected — like a chimp rampage — is the name of the game.

Later in the film, we learn that the chimp from the opening was Gordy (Terry Notary), the star of the canceled ’90s sitcom Gordy’s Home. The show also starred Jupiter (Steven Yeun), who now owns a theme park neighboring the Haywoods’ ranch. He was just a child when he witnessed one of the chimps playing Gordy snap during a show taping. Jupiter watched from under a table as Gordy mauled his co-stars before turning to him and offering him a tentative fist bump. Before Jupiter could complete the fist bump, Gordy was shot and killed.

It’s clear the Gordy incident still lingers in Jupiter’s mind, and not just because he has a secret shrine of Gordy’s Home memorabilia in his office. We see him recalling the traumatic memory twice throughout the movie, once while talking to OJ and Emerald, and once before the Star Lasso Experience live show at his theme park. That’s the last we see of Jupiter and Gordy, because right after that Jupiter and his guests (spoiler!) get eaten by the UFO-shaped alien creature that’s been lurking in the clouds.

The detour from OJ and Emerald’s alien hunt into chimp sitcom territory may initially seem like a non sequitur, but the Gordy incident is actually key to figuring out Jupiter and his relationship to the alien. From there, we’re able to better understand Jupiter’s downfall — and why OJ is the perfect person to understand how to survive an encounter with the alien.

Jupiter wants to tame the predator he didn’t tame as a child

Steven Yeun as Jupiter in “Nope.”
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The Gordy flashbacks justify Jupiter’s alien-taming aspirations. Without the knowledge of his relationship to Gordy, the Star Lasso Experience comes across as a prideful act of folly. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a prideful act of folly even with the flashbacks — but it’s folly with character-driven intent.

Put yourself in Jupiter’s shoes. When you were young, you watched an animal go wild and commit violent acts. Yet when it turned to you, it viewed you as a friend, even offering up its hand for an exploding fist bump in an apparent display of trust. Now, years later, another creature — or group of creatures, as Jupiter believes this is a ship carrying aliens — comes into your life. While it is dangerous, it also appears to trust you. It’s a strange case of history repeating — only this time, you have a chance to actually tame and control the predator instead of watching it get shot before your eyes. And that’s a chance that Jupiter takes.

Jupiter’s actions are still prideful acts of folly even with the flashbacks — but it’s folly with character-driven intent.

Jupiter also takes the alien’s presence as a chance for spectacle. Remember, he’s memorialized his trauma with his secret Gordy room; he even charges a fee for people to see it! Peele makes sure that that act of memorializing extends to the Star Lasso Experience in small ways. There’s Jupiter’s insistence that the aliens trust him specifically, just as Gordy seemed to trust him. There’s the fact that he’s invited one of Gordy’s victims, his old co-star, to watch the show. There are his kids’ alien costumes, which bear a strong resemblance to chimps. Even the small alien dolls, with their large white heads and small black eyes, are reminiscent of the Panavision cameras we see filming Gordy’s Home.

All these choices further link the Gordy’s Home incident to the Star Lasso Experience. For Jupiter, it’s clear that this is an opportunity for him to wrangle the impossible, to undo the damage of seeing Gordy die in front of him. This is his chance to complete the exploding fist bump that never happened.

Jupiter’s interactions with animals are a foil for OJ’s

Daniel Kaluuya as OJ in “Nope.”
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Jupiter isn’t the only character in Nope to have had formative experiences with animals. Both Emerald and OJ have as well, considering they grew up on a horse ranch. OJ in particular has spent a lot of time with the horses, so he knows how to interact with and understands animals better than any other character in the movie. In flashbacks, we see OJ listening to his father Otis (Keith David), who points out when certain horses are acting territorial, and who even says, “I guess some animals aren’t fit to be trained.”

These experiences inform how OJ interacts with the alien, just as Jupiter’s experience with Gordy informs his own approach for handling the creature. Only instead of viewing the alien as something to be wrangled, OJ understands that this is a wild, territorial animal. It’s because of this knowledge that OJ realizes the alien doesn’t attack you if you don’t look at it, a realization that’s necessary for the entirety of the film’s final set piece.

If OJ is a case study in what to do when encountering a predator, Jupiter is an example of what not to do. However, his connection to Gordy fleshes him out and lends his baffling actions some credibility based on his backstory. The sight of Gordy may be a shock in the film’s first few minutes, but trust me when I say he is absolutely necessary.

Nope is now in theaters.

Deputy Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko contributed to this article.

The pink sauce craze wasn’t the only thing sparking conversation on the clock app this week.

Charles Gross inspired users to compare seemingly similar items, Homelander from The Boys became a TikTok sound, and per usual TikTokkers reminisced on the good old days.

What makes these two Birkins different?

There’s nothing that captivates TikTok users like an extremely niche soundbite. This week’s preeminent clip comes from luxury fashion content creator, Charles Gross. In his distinct hushed voice, Gross purrs, “My Birkin, another Birkin, but what makes these two Birkins different? And what small feature about them divides the Hermès collector community?” The audio lends itself to TikTokkers comparing very specific things and the results are hilarious. The audio has been used in over 5,000 videos.

TikTokkers dramatically show off their two items when Gross announces his Birkins. In one video, @diamonddivities displays a can of Diet Coke and bottle of Diet Coke. While in that video the creator is comparing very similar items, the trend is equally if not more entertaining when the two items are a more imaginative duo. For example, @nytcooking posted a TikTok comparing Pop-Tarts and ravioli which made me laugh out loud and also got me thinking.

What small feature divides the Diet Coke community?
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Much to think about.
Credit: TikTok / nytcooking

The Birkin audio is a rare trend where I find myself enjoying almost every video. The opportunities for the trend are endless because on the internet every community is divided over the smallest of features.

It was perfect

Homelander, the meme king of The Boys Season 3, has crossed over from being a Twitter meme to a TikTok sound.

Several clips of Homelander made their rounds on Twitter last week thanks to his terrifying facial expressions and unsettling delivery. Now Homelander emphatically saying, “It was perfect, perfect, everything down to the last-minute details” is a way for TikTokkers to share moments they’re nostalgic for. The clip was first uploaded to TikTok by @kingcudi_raptok with the caption, “me explaining the donda rollout to someone who doesn’t listen to kanye.” The soundbite has been used in over 2,000 videos.

A lot of the videos express a longing for the early days of the pandemic. One video posted by @bout.business_wes reads, “Me talking to my kids about the bike riding phase of quarantine.” Another posted by kennethhouseth says, “Me explaining to my future kid what the first pandemic summer was like.” Other TikToks have a darker premise, like @carolnocontexts’ that’s captioned, “Explaining to my kids in our nuclear apocalypse shelter what it was like to see Greta Gerwig’s Little Women in theaters January 2020 when Corona was just a beer.” TikTok trends that deal with nostalgia often gain traction and users bond over a shared longing for a time when things didn’t feel as dire as they do today.

An immaculate vibe.
Credit: TikTok / carolnocontext

New ranking game unlocked

Film TikTokker @sethsfilmreviews popularized a new ranking game that adds a fresh twist to a beloved activity on the platform. Creators love to post ranking videos which naturally get engagement from outrage at the rankings in the comments section. Now TikTokkers are using filters that randomly generate different things like films, songs, celebrities, etc. and ranking five of them without knowing what the filter will display next. The trend started when @sethsfilmreviews was inspired by a comment to rate five random films using the “100 Greatest Movies” filter. He made the game into a series on his account and it’s since caught on across the platform.

Making TikTok rankings more high stakes.
Credit: TikTok / sethsfilmreviews

Users are ranking everything from Disney Channel Original Movies to Harry Styles songs.