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Snap and Amazon Fashion are partnering up to provide Snapchat users with the ability to try on branded glasses and sunglasses using augmented reality filters.

Snapchat’s 363 million daily active users now have access to thousands of glasses, goggles, and sunglasses from the likes of Maui Jim, Persol, Oakley, and Costa Del Mar through the apps’ AR feature. The AR lenses don’t just overlay eyewear: in some cases, on-theme accessories are added, like knitted hats and frosted backdrops for Oakley’s line of ski sunglasses.

A gif of a man trying out a pair of Ski sunglasses in AR, with a yellow hate and frosty backdrop. — *Some filters on the shopping experience include additional overlays such as hats, eyelashes, and themed backgrounds.*

Snapchat users can find the new Amazon AR shopping lenses on the @amazonfashion public profile within the Snapchat app. When customers find a style they like, the item can then be purchased in the Amazon Fashion store via a link displayed on the screen.

Eyewear is the first Virtual Try-On experience and shopping lens category for the partnership, with both Snap and Amazon planning to “expand into additional verticals in the future.” Though other brands have previously created similar virtual shopping experiences using Snapchat Lenses, including MAC cosmetics, Ulta Beautyand Puma. Snap says its 250 million users engaged with its AR lenses over 5 billion times in the last year.

Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite, put to the test

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I spent last Friday morning turning around in circles atop a hill in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. I had an iPhone 14 in hand, and I was trying to catch a clear view of the sky so I could connect with a satellite. I wasn’t exactly alone or lost in the wilderness, but I pretended like I was in order to get a feel for Apple’s new Emergency SOS via satellite.

While this feature was announced back in September, it’ll officially start rolling out later today. The pitch is simple: if you’re in a sticky situation without Wi-Fi or a cellular signal, you can still send for help. However, it’s not exactly like a satellite phone. The main difference is you can’t make a voice call — you can only text.

Full disclosure: I didn’t actually text my local emergency dispatchers when testing out the feature. That would be a dick move and distract from people who need help. Instead, Apple gave me a demo phone, and any texts were sent to its own relay service center. In a real event, your texts are sent to the closest emergency services. If there aren’t any nearby that accept texts, Apple’s relay service will kick in to call them on your behalf. Also, while the service will be free for the first two years, you’ll eventually have to pay for it — though we don’t know pricing just yet.

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Watch Cowboys Game: Stream NFL Week 10 vs. Packers Online

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After a bye last week, the 6-2 Cowboys are back in action, heading to Green Bay to take on a struggling 3-6 Packers team. Dak Prescott and the Cowboys offense should be fresh against the Packers, but playing on the road against future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers is no gimme. Kickoff for the Cowboys game is set for 4:25 pm ET (3:25 pm CT/1:25 pm PT) on Fox.

The game will be shown on Fox in the Dallas and Green Bay areas, and most of the US (according to 506 Sports) on live TV streaming services, but there may be cases where you’re blocked because of an internet location glitch or just want an added layer of privacy for streaming. There is an option that doesn’t require subscribing to something like NFL Sunday Ticket or NFL Plusor searching the internet for a sketchy website: You can use a virtual private network, or VPN.

Quarterback Dak Prescott readies a throw. — Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys take on the Green Bay Packers in a week 10 matchup.

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Here’s how you can watch the game from anywhere in the US with a VPN.

Read more: NFL 2022: How to Stream Every Game Live Without Cable

Cowboys game: When and where?

For Week 10 of the NFL season, the Packers host the Cowboys at 4:25 pm ET (3:25 pm CT/1:25 pm PT) on Sunday. The game is set to take place in Green Bay at Lambeau Field.

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Meet the World’s Tallest Domestic Cat

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Think your cat’s big? Not compared with Fenrir. Fenrir is 18.83 inches (47.83 centimeters) tall, and the Guinness Book of World Records has named him the world’s tallest living domestic cat.

His name, Fenrir, comes from one of Saturn’s moons, Guinness said, but like most cats, he has plenty of family nicknames.

The giant kitty lives with William John Powers, a doctor in Farmington Hills, Michigan, who also calls Fenrir the Big Chungus, or the Chonk, he said in a Guinness video about the cat. “He just grew and grew, like Clifford the Big Red Dog.”

Fenrir is an F2 Savannah cat. Savannah cats are a hybrid between a domestic cat and a serval, a wild cat native to Africa, and F2 refers to the fact that he’s from the second generation of his distinctly different parent types. And although Savannah cats tend to be tall, averaging 14-17 inches (35-43 centimeters), he’s an inch (2.5 centimeters) taller than that highest average mark. Powers says the height is measured from the cat’s shoulder blades when it’s standing up on all fours.

tall-fenrir-standing-on-his-hind-legs-and-reaching-over-the-kitchen-counter-tcm25-719662 — Fenrir is still growing.

Guinness Book of World Records

Fenrir’s height lets him do things other cats can’t. The video shows how he can simply stand on his hind legs and paw at a door handle until the door opens. And since he’s a big eater, he “tends to steal things off the countertop,” Powers says.

He’s also still growing. Though he holds the world record for

SteelSeries’ Xbox, PS5, and Switch-compatible Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset is $100 off

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We’re keeping our heads down to prep for Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale today, but there were some deals that we couldn’t help but tell you about. first off, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset is $100 off at Best Buy and Amazonat just $249.99. That price is still a pretty penny for a gaming headset, but there are some reasons why you might like this one as much as we do. It has active noise cancellation, and you can listen to three sources simultaneously (2.4GHz, Bluetooth, 3.5mm) through its included wireless screen-and-dial-equipped base station. To keep the headset going, you get two swappable batteries, one of which can be holstered in the base station to recharge.

It’s worth noting that this is the Xbox-specific version, but you wouldn’t know it from the design. The key difference from this and the platform-agnostic version is that on the back of this one’s base station, there’s a dedicated USB-C port that can connect (and crucially, be recognized) by your Xbox. The other USB-C port can be connected to get audio from another console like a Switch or PS5, or a PC, with source switching made easy by the base station. Read our review.

Sometimes, it pays not to be an early adopter. In the case of the new Apple Watch Series 8 (41mm, GPS), you can save a cool $50 on it at Walmart and Amazon. Normally starting at $399.99, the smaller Series 8 can be

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Amazon now sells eyewear via a new Snapchat AR shopping lens

Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite, put to the test

Getting started

Watch Cowboys Game: Stream NFL Week 10 vs. Packers Online

Cowboys game: When and where?

Meet the World’s Tallest Domestic Cat

SteelSeries’ Xbox, PS5, and Switch-compatible Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset is $100 off