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    Crews searching for the Titan submersible heard a “banging” sound early Tuesday.

    A Canadian search aircraft with underwater detection capabilities picked up “banging” sounds coming from the depths around the HMS Titanic wreckage about every 30 minutes, per a US government memo obtained by CNN.

    Rolling Stone, who first reported it, said an email to the Department of Homeland Security from the research group Explorers Society read:

    “It is being reported that at 2 a.m. local time on site that sonar detected potential ‘tapping sounds’ at the location, implying crew may be alive and signaling.”

    Knocking was heard 4 hours later when “additional sonar was deployed.”

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    Wes Davis
    r/aww has joined the John Oliverening.

    Yesterday, two of Reddit’s biggest communities that had previously gone dark in protest of Reddit’s API changesr/pics and r/gifsreopened as John Oliver stan communities following a user poll on whether they should do that or resume business as usual.

    Today, r/aww announced it had done the same:

    It was only fair to let you determine what r/aww should be about... and you overwhelmingly chose to only allow adorable content featuring John Oliver, Chiijohn, and anything else that closely resembles them.

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    Google Album Archive is going away on July 19th, 2023.

    Chances are good you’ve never even heard of Google Album Archive, which keeps images from some Google products, like Blogger and Hangouts. An email Google sent out to users on Friday detailed some of the data to be affected (via Android Police):

    1.Rare cases like small thumbnail photos and album comments or likes

    2.Some Google Hangouts data from Album Archive

    3.Background images uploaded in the Gmail theme picker prior to 2018

    You can of course get the data before it’s tossed into the abyss — Google has a support page telling you how.

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    Wes Davis
    John Oliver approves of all the John Oliver posts on Reddit.

    Someone told him about the technically-compliant re-opening of two popular subreddits — that is, that users at both r/pics and r/gifs voted to re-open, but as John Oliver image repositories — and he has tweeted his approval.

    Not only that, but he shared several pictures for users to post.