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This is 'On the Net Today' – your go-to newsletter for maximizing your internet experience! Three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) we curate a selection of three valuable resources to enhance your browsing time.

Here are three recommendations we've prepared for this start of the week:

• Flightradar24: live tracking of flights worldwide

• TV series "Shogun" and "The Bear" lead 2024 Emmy nominations

• The New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest

Flightradar24: live tracking of flights worldwide

Flightradar24 is an online flight tracking service that provides real-time information on thousands of flights globally. It is available through the web and apps for iOS and Android.

Each day, Flightradar24 tracks over 200,000 flights using more than 40,000 ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast) receivers worldwide. Over four million users connect daily to track flights live. Its apps have been downloaded more than 75 million times.

Last Friday, Flightradar24 gained even more attention due to a global computer failure affecting Windows systems, causing disruptions across multiple industries, including aviation. Thousands of flights were canceled, and tens of thousands were delayed, as Flightradar24 explained:

• A bad software update broke... everything

This project began in 2006 as a hobby for "two Swedish aviation geeks," as explained on their website, who decided to build an ADS-B receiver network in northern and central Europe. In 2009, they opened the network for anyone with a receiver to upload data, covering many other parts of the world.

The basic flight tracking service is free. Additionally, Flightradar24 offers various paid services.

Links:

• FlightRadar24

TV series "Shogun" and "The Bear" lead 2024 Emmy nominations

On September 15, the winners of the 2024 Emmy Awards, presented by the Television Academy to honor the year's most outstanding TV series and programs, and their stars, will be announced.

The nominees were revealed last Wednesday. Notably, the series "Shogun" received 25 nominations, "The Bear" earned 23, "Only Murders in the Building" got 21, "True Detective" secured 19, and "The Crown" obtained 18.

The Television Academy's website offers extensive information about the awards and all nominees across various categories.

Additionally, an infographic details the Emmy voting process: Infographic: How an Emmy is Won

Links:

• 2024 Nominees

• Infographic: How an Emmy is Won

• Emmy Awards

The New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest

One of the most distinctive features of the prestigious magazine The New Yorker is its famous humorous cartoons.

Additionally, this magazine has long offered its readers various interactive options to play or participate in contests.

One of the most well-known and successful is their "Cartoon Caption Contest", a competition specifically tied to their humor cartoons.

Each week, The New Yorker presents a cartoon without text, inviting readers to submit their captions, which must not exceed 250 characters. The magazine selects three finalists, and readers vote for their favorite. The winning caption is featured both on the website and in the print edition of The New Yorker.

Links:

• Cartoon Caption Contest – The New Yorker

• The New Yorker

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