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- Westworld’s biggest new surprise has nothing to do with hosts
- Probing Mars: all the news, videos and updates for NASA’s Insight mission
- YouTube removed hundreds of videos that promoted a homework cheating site
- 3% is the most riveting, uplifting dystopian show you’re not watching
- A facial recognition program used by British police yielded thousands of false positives
- What it was like to watch NASA’s next Mars lander launch to space
- YouTube with ads after YouTube Red is hell
- The Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid is more important than the gas models
- Hearing music again
- Netflix’s John Woo movie Manhunt plays like a joyous parody of his action classics
| Westworld’s biggest new surprise has nothing to do with hosts Posted: 06 May 2018 07:00 PM PDT  HBO's science fiction drama Westworld isn't just known for its talented cast and its philosophical musings about the nature of reality. It's also become famous for its reveals, from mind-bending bombshells that link two characters to simple pieces of backstory that bring new insight to a storyline. Watching Westworld is like peeling an onion, one layer at a time. That's why for the show's second season, I'll be diving into one particular spoilery revelation from each episode, to figure out what it means, how we got here, and where things might go in the episodes to come. Some weeks, it might be a huge plot twist. In other weeks, it might be something subtle. Either way, we're going to spoil the hell out of it. Welcome to the Westworld... |
| Probing Mars: all the news, videos and updates for NASA’s Insight mission Posted: 06 May 2018 01:00 PM PDT |
| YouTube removed hundreds of videos that promoted a homework cheating site Posted: 06 May 2018 12:57 PM PDT  Hundreds of YouTube channels have had their videos removed from the site following a BBC investigation that found the widespread promotion of an essay-writing service as a way for students to cheat at school. Last week, the BBC published an investigation which found that more than 250 channels had promoted a Ukranian company called EduBirdie, which sells essays to desperate students. The company says that its services are useful for "research into the subject, generating initial input for for further reasoning and citations...paraphrasing in accordance with major educational standards as well as tailored to your college / university guidelines for plagiarism." It sponsored hundreds of YouTube channels, who told their viewers that it was... |
| 3% is the most riveting, uplifting dystopian show you’re not watching Posted: 06 May 2018 12:00 PM PDT  In times like these, a good dystopian hellscape is hard to find. OK, that statement does sound like nonsense at first: from The Handmaid's Tale sweeping the Emmy awards, to the ungodly sums being shoveled towards projects like Netflix's Altered Carbon and Amazon's Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, to the ever-expanding relevance of Black Mirror — not to mention, you know, reality — dystopian hellscapes are plentiful. Many of them are beautifully crafted, profound, and haunting — but damn, if current depressing conditions aren't making them harder and harder to watch. As I've written before about The Handmaid's Tale, the genre's most affecting stories have always been highly concentrated, discrete doses of horror. Drag on too long,... |
| A facial recognition program used by British police yielded thousands of false positives Posted: 06 May 2018 11:32 AM PDT  During last summer's Champion's League Final in Cardiff, Wales, South Wales Police began a facial recognition pilot program designed to check event-goers against a database of 500,000 images of persons of interest. Almost a year later, The Guardian reports that the pilot yielded 2,470 potential matches, of which, 2,297 were found to be "false positives." In a records request (via Wired), the South Wales Police revealed that at events such as the 2017 Champion's League Final, the Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) 'Locate' system flagged 2,470 people — with only 173 positive matches. Figures from the report reveal that of the 2,685 alerts from 15 events, only 234 have been "True Positives", with another 2,451 false positives. But in its... |
| What it was like to watch NASA’s next Mars lander launch to space Posted: 06 May 2018 11:13 AM PDT  Our viewing spot to watch the launch is dubbed the "Gravel Pit" — and it certainly lives up to its name. The area is essentially a large plot of rocks and dirt on the side of a small cliff. It's touted as the best place to watch the rocket take off. That is, if the fog lets up. I'm somewhere deep inside Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California, and I'm about to witness the launch of NASA's InSight lander. The spacecraft is slated to ride into space on top of an Atlas V rocket, the premier vehicle of the United Launch Alliance. The mission will mark the first time NASA has ever launched a spacecraft to another planet form the West Coast. And it's also my first time to see a launch from California. |
| YouTube with ads after YouTube Red is hell Posted: 06 May 2018 11:00 AM PDT  I didn't used to hate YouTube ads. They were never my favorite part of the YouTube experience, but for almost my entire YouTube-using life, I've dealt with the endless cycle of pre-roll ads whenever I wanted to check out the latest movie trailer or clip on YouTube. I understood the basic idea — hosting videos isn't cheap, and ads help pay for continuing service and even supporting my favorite content creators. Then, a few months back, YouTube Red offered a free three-month trial, magically transporting me to a world where suddenly, there were no ads on YouTube. But my trial ended a few weeks ago, and now I'm in ad hell. Dealing with ads on YouTube had become such an automatic part... |
| The Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid is more important than the gas models Posted: 06 May 2018 10:00 AM PDT  Porsche has made some bold statements recently about how many of its resources it's putting behind plug-in hybrids and fully electric cars in the coming years. While its first all-electric, the Mission E, is still more than a year off, the next line of its hybrids has been rolling out over the last year. Following the Panamera E-Hybrid and Turbo S E-Hybrid, there's the 2019 Cayenne E-Hybrid — the latest plug-in hybrid iteration of one of Porsche's most popular vehicles. In case you haven't heard already, two-door sports cars are not the majority of Porsche's business, and haven't been for some time. The first Cayenne SUV, introduced in 2002, quickly became the company's most popular vehicle. It was then followed by the Panamera... |
| Posted: 06 May 2018 09:00 AM PDT  "I don't really listen to music." I couldn't believe it. It was as if my friend had just informed me that he didn't chew food with his mouth. He seemed like a different species. I tried to put myself in his shoes. Tried to imagine a version of me that didn't really listen to music. I couldn't do it. But my friend is a few years older than me. I knew a few people, my older brother, for instance, whose musical taste had ossified after college. Maybe after your taste stops changing, your passion fades? I was only conjecturing. I made a promise to myself: I would never stop loving music. Now I am an old man. Every day it seems I break a small or large promise I made to myself when I was younger. I don't love music nearly as much as I used... |
| Netflix’s John Woo movie Manhunt plays like a joyous parody of his action classics Posted: 06 May 2018 01:09 PM PDT  Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review was originally published after Manhunt's debut at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It is being reposted to coincide with the film's premiere on Netflix. It's always possible that John Woo could have played the doves straight. The Hong Kong director behind action classics like Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow (and later American action movies including Face/Off and Broken Arrow) has turned the image of doves flying across the screen during a firefight into a signature trope, suggesting the end of innocence and the arrival of chaos. But his latest, Manhunt, which premieres on Netflix on May... |
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