sexta-feira, 5 de março de 2021


Dino ‘Parasites’ Trapped in Amber Are Not What They Appear to Be, Say Scientists

Posted: 05 Mar 2021 07:32 AM PST

Scientists are challenging the reported discovery of fossilized lice-like bugs crawling through dinosaur feathers, but the original researchers are standing by their interpretation. Y'all know what this means, right? Science fight!

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AI-Powered Chrome Extension Automatically Turns on YouTube Subtitles While You Eat Noisy Snacks

Posted: 05 Mar 2021 07:14 AM PST

A year into the pandemic most of us have honed our daily routines into a regular pattern of YouTube bingeing and snacking. But munching on crunchy snacks often makes it impossible to hear a video. The solution isn't to turn off our computers and attempt to re-enter society, but to install a new Chrome extension that…

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Updates From Godzilla vs. Kong, Space Jam: A New Legacy, and More

Posted: 05 Mar 2021 06:15 AM PST

Dwayne Johnson's production team has boarded a wild new story for Netflix. John Wick's Derek Kolstad is bringing Hellsing to Amazon. Batman returns in a new teaser for Zack Snyder's Justice League. Plus, there's another Spongebob spinoff in the works, and a new clip from Pennyworth. Spoilers away!

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Nanoleaf's New Smart Bulb Is the One to Beat for HomePod Mini Owners

Posted: 05 Mar 2021 06:00 AM PST

There are two kinds of smart bulbs in this world—those that work well, and those doomed to languish in drawers with all of your other bitter regrets. If you haven't done your research, or just failed hard a lot, you have probably come to the same conclusion many of us have: Just buy the friggin' Philips Hue bulbs.…

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We Should Give Seals PhDs

Posted: 05 Mar 2021 02:00 AM PST

Meltwater from Antarctic glaciers is changing the makeup of the region's oceans more than previously known, a new study finds. The measurements that made these findings possible were collected by an unusual group of researchers: seals.

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Virgin Galactic Chairman Cashes Out Entire Personal Stake in Space Tourism Company

Posted: 05 Mar 2021 03:25 AM PST

The chairman of space tourism company Virgin Galactic, Chamath Palihapitiya, has sold his entire personal stake in the company for $211 million, according to a new regulatory filing with the SEC made public on Friday and first noticed by Bloomberg News. Palihapitiya still indirectly owns millions of shares through an…

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Italy Becomes First Country to Actually Block Covid-19 Vaccine Exports

Posted: 05 Mar 2021 02:30 AM PST

The Italian government has blocked a shipment of AstraZeneca's covid-19 vaccine to Australia in the first case of a country stopping vaccine exports in order to make sure it has enough for its domestic population. Italy consulted with the European Commission before halting the shipment of 250,000 vaccine doses,…

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Texas Attorney General Sues Griddy for False Advertising in Wake of Winter Storm Price Hikes

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 09:09 PM PST

Griddy, the Texas power supplier that's made headlines recently for customers' sky-high energy bills in the wake of widespread winter storm outages, has racked up another lawsuit. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the company for "false, misleading, and deceptive advertising and marketing practices" that he…

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Razer's New Smart Glasses Promise to Make WFH a Little Less Awful

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 07:00 PM PST

I know, I know. Another pair of open-ear audio smart glasses? Were the Bose Frames, Echo Frames, and JLab JBuds not enough? Nope. Not according to Razer, which just announced its Razer Anzu Smart Glasses.

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LiquidVPN Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Promoting Pirating Content

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 05:45 PM PST

Virtual private networks can be great for folks wary of how their data is tracked online, but what happens when a VPN provider directly markets itself to those who would use that promise of anonymity to break the law?

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Setting Spotify as a Default Music App in iOS 14.5 Isn't a Feature After All

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 03:10 PM PST

What appeared to be one of the most exciting features of iOS 14.5 turns out to work a little differently than it originally seemed.

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CodeMiko Is The Future Of Streaming, Unless Twitch Bans Her First

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 09:00 AM PST

CodeMiko is nervous. I can tell because she tells me. "This is, like, my first interview ever," she says over a Discord call. "I'm sorry, I'm a little shy." It's December of 2020, and Miko's entire life is about to change.

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CBS All Access Is Now Paramount+, Celebrate With Copious Amounts of Free Star Trek

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 09:30 AM PST

On the downside, we now have our 14-billionth streaming service that is just called Something+. On the upside, only one of them gets to celebrate with oodles of Star Trek goodness.

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How to Get an Amazon Echo to Tell You a Room's Temperature

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 06:30 AM PST

Little thermometers you can buy and hang anywhere are fairly cheap, but there's no need to get one if you own an Amazon Echo. That is, if you own one of two kinds of Echos: a fourth-generation Echo or a second-generation Echo Plus. Both of these have temperature sensors built into the smart speakers; you just have to…

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A Boy’s Smelly Nose Was Caused by a BB Pellet Stuck Inside for Years

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 01:40 PM PST

A young teen boy's years of nasal congestion and other bizarre symptoms had an unusual culprit. His doctors say that the boy unknowingly had a BB gun pellet lodged in his nasal cavity for nearly a decade, which eventually caused him to give off an awful odor every time he blew his nose. Fortunately, they were able to…

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What If Clubhouse, but With State Censorship, TikTok Owner ByteDance Ponders

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 01:30 PM PST

China's ByteDance, is planning on launching its own version of audio chat app Clubhouse for the Chinese market, Reuters reported on Thursday.

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The Water Crisis in Mississippi America Can’t Afford to Ignore

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 01:05 PM PST

Right now, Calandra Davis' water pressure is too low to take a shower. When she turns on her sinks, the water comes out at a slow trickle. For weeks, she's had to bathe herself and her 6-year-old son with water from store-bought bottles. Like all residents of Jackson, Mississippi, she's also been on a boil-water…

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The 10 Best Deals of March 4, 2021

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 01:00 PM PST

Someone Is Hacking the Hackers

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 01:10 PM PST

In the latest in a string of "hits" on Russian dark web forums, the prominent crime site Maza appears to have been hacked by someone earlier this week.

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5 Cult Horror Movies to Stream on Amazon Prime

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 10:15 AM PST

In the mood for a cult movie but already seen all the go-to classics? Building on our previous list, here are five offbeat picks streaming on Amazon Prime that will bring you tales of werewolves, Satanists, witches, and two different (but also sorta kinda similar) underground monsters.

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Lawmakers Are Finally Asking the FCC to Redefine High-Speed Broadband

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 12:50 PM PST

In a letter to the FCC Thursday morning, several senators called for the federal agency to redefine the current minimum speeds that internet service providers can call "high-speed" broadband from 25/3 Mbps to 100/100 Mbps. That's not only four times higher than the minimum download speed, but senators are also calling…

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Asteroid Apophis Is Swinging by This Weekend to Taunt Us

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 12:31 PM PST

An asteroid with a small chance of hitting Earth in 2068 will swing past our planet in the coming days, providing a rare opportunity for astronomers to observe this potentially hazardous object.

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Qualcomm’s Looking to Fix Wireless Audio with Snapdragon Sound

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 12:00 PM PST

As the industry continues to transition to wireless audio, Qualcomm has a plan to make the audio quality on Bluetooth headphones sound a little more like the sound you hear on wired ones.

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Climate Change Is Killing Butterflies in the American West

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 11:00 AM PST

Butterflies play essential role in pollinating wild plants and crops. Which makes a new study published in Science on Thursday such bad news. It shows the climate crisis is posing an existential threat to their survival, particularly in the American West.

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