sexta-feira, 12 de fevereiro de 2021


Mario Kart 64 Speedrunner Sets New World Record By Repeatedly Slamming Into Wall

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 03:05 PM PST

It's usually pretty obvious that video game speedruns are things of finesse and precision. But sometimes, they just look like a guy is running into a wall over and over again before completely demolishing a single-track record in Mario Kart 64.

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The Russo Brothers See Their Hercules Remake as the Start of Its Own Cinematic Universe

Posted: 12 Feb 2021 06:15 AM PST

The Borderlands movie cast just continues to get perplexingly stacked. Nicolas Cage fights an animatronic ostrich in a new look at Willy's Wonderland. C. Thomas Howell teases his return for The Walking Dead's final season. Plus, what's to come on The Flash and Bob's Burgers. Spoilers now!

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Canon's New iOS App Uses AI To Marie Kondo Your Digital Photo Hoarding

Posted: 12 Feb 2021 06:30 AM PST

Even without the limits of a 36-shot roll of film or memory cards that quickly max out, it doesn't take long to fill an iPhone and cloud storage with photos. So Canon has released an iOS app that can make the hard decisions for you when it's time to clear out some memories using AI to objectively decide which shots…

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MSI's GP66 Leopard Puts Desktop Performance in a Gaming Laptop

Posted: 12 Feb 2021 06:00 AM PST

MSI is one of several laptop makers to update its line of gaming laptops with Nvidia's RTX 30-series GPU—and yet that's the least impressive part of its GP66 Leopard. Not content to just stuff new components into the same old chassis and call it day, MSI has given its Leopard model a total overhaul from its previous…

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How to Sync All of Your iCloud Passwords and Data to Windows

Posted: 12 Feb 2021 05:30 AM PST

Syncing all of your Apple data and files to devices that aren't made by Apple isn't the exercise in futility that it once was. There are now several signs that Apple is ready to cautiously welcome users of other hardware to its services, including tools for Chrome, Windows, and Android. Here's how to get your…

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Facebook to Restrict Content From Myanmar's Military Government Following Coup

Posted: 12 Feb 2021 03:30 AM PST

Facebook has pledged to restrict the widespread distribution of content from Myanmar's military regime following a successful coup that toppled the democratically elected government on Feb. 1. The pledge comes from a new blog post at Facebook's website that seems to implicitly acknowledge the potential for…

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Microsoft Wants U.S. to Adopt Internet Rules From Australia That Google Hates

Posted: 12 Feb 2021 01:30 AM PST

Microsoft would like the U.S. government to adopt media rules that would force big tech companies to share profits with newspapers when they link to news content, according to a new blog post by Microsoft president Brad Smith. And the entire concept is controversial, to say the least.

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The Accellion Data Breach Seems to Be Getting Bigger

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 05:47 PM PST

Data breaches have a tendency to grow past initially reported figures. Organizations don't always know how screwed they are right away, investigations take time, and new victims are discovered amidst the wreckage. This is certainly proving to be the case with Accellion, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based cloud provider that…

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Twitter to Start Labeling Personal Accounts of Heads of State

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 04:46 PM PST

Starting next week, you should start seeing new labels on more government-run Twitter accounts as well as the personal accounts of heads of state. It's part of Twitter's latest expansion of its policy on government-affiliated accounts, with the idea being that this additional context should help users "have a more…

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Biden Administration Says It Will Address Global Chip Shortage

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 04:33 PM PST

The Biden administration plans to take steps to address the global chip shortage affecting automakers, laptop makers, and other manufacturers that rely on the semiconductor industry, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.

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Apple's Keeping Google's Prying Eyes Out Of iOS 14

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 04:10 PM PST

If you regularly use Apple's Safari browser, you're probably familiar with its "Fraudulent Website Warning," which gives you a heads up if the site you're about to visit might be, say, an elaborate phishing scam. What you probably didn't know is that until now, this safety feature relied on an obscure Google database…

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Stonehenge Started as an Entirely Different Henge, New Research Suggests

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 04:01 PM PST

Archaeologists in Britain have discovered the site of a former stone circle in west Wales, which they believe was taken apart and later rebuilt as Stonehenge.

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Diabetes Drug Found to Substantially Improve Obesity Treatment in Large Clinical Trial

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 03:45 PM PST

The findings from a new clinical trial released Wednesday may point the way to an elusive goal: a safe and effective drug that helps reduce obesity in people.

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You Hurt the PS5 Scalpers' Feelings

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 03:30 PM PST

Apparently some PlayStation 5 scalpers aren't happy with their public image, Forbes reports. The press has treated them unfairly and misrepresented them, they claim. I'm not sure what rock these scalpers have been living under, but news flash: People hate scalpers for legitimate reasons. They screw people out of…

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Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting The Wyvern's Spur

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:15 PM PST

The tale of the magically created sellsword and would-be assassin Alias and her boon companion, the saurial paladin Dragonbait, continues in the second volume of the Finder's Stone trilogy—which, wait a minute…uh…doesn't actually feature Alias or Dragonbait? At all. But I'll tell you what The Wyvern's Spur does

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Medium Workers Board the Union Train

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 03:09 PM PST

With today's news that workers at Medium have overwhelmingly voted to form a union, it's hard not to get a little mushy about the labor rights zeitgeist. From Amazon warehouse pickers to developers, workers are collectively deciding that they're over the techno-utopian bullshit that's taught us building things online…

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How to Survive Social Media After You've Been Dumped

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 03:00 PM PST

I am unashamed to say that I don't handle breakups well. I handle being dumped even worse. But you'd never know that from looking at my social media. The thing is, I've been dumped so many times I have a bonafide playbook on how to survive the social media minefield with your dignity relatively intact. During my last…

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QAnon Now Getting Banned On Platforms We've Never Even Heard Of

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:45 PM PST

QAnon, the sprawling far-right internet conspiracy theory that asserts the entire Trump presidency was secretly dedicated to waging a shadow war against an omnipresent cabal of Satan-worshipping, pedophilic Democrats, celebrities, and bankers, hasn't exactly been the belle of the ball lately.

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Get Ready for Your Streaming Services to Merge

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:10 PM PST

The emergence of a vast number of streaming services in recent years seems to be catching up to the companies who've launched platforms intended to take on industry titans like Netflix and Disney.

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CBP Facial Recognition Scanners Failed to Find a Single Imposter At Airports in 2020

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:00 PM PST

Customs and Border Protection used facial recognition tools to scan over 23 million travelers' faces at 30-plus points of entry in 2020, and failed to turn up a single example of an individual impersonating someone else at an airport, per a Wednesday report by OneZero.

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Google Photos Is Adding New Editing Tools, but You'll Have to Pay

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 01:30 PM PST

For people who have been debating about whether to pay Google for extra cloud storage or not, today Google just sweetened the deal by giving new photo-editing tools to Google One subscribers.

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The 10 Best Deals of February 11, 2021

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 12:55 PM PST

Black Panther: Sins of the King Blurs the Line Between Life and Death

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 10:00 AM PST

Though Serial Box's Black Panther: Sins of the King audiobook is set firmly outside the continuities of Marvel's Cinematic Universe and its comic books, the new narrative drama is coursing with the same epic, politically charged energy that first made T'Challa and the nation of Wakanda some of the most iconic myths to…

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Astronomers Found a 'Benjamin Button' Galaxy

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 12:10 PM PST

At 1.2 billion years young, the galaxy ALESS 073.1 should have the chaotic look of a youthful galaxy—a fledging, diffuse group of stars and gas suspended in the early universe. Instead, this primordial starburst galaxy has a central bulge and rotating belt that makes it look billions of years older. This odd corner of…

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Valentine's Day Gifts to Ensure You're Single on Feb. 15

Posted: 11 Feb 2021 12:00 PM PST

Lovers, this is not the content you seek. Everyone else, please step right in.

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