sexta-feira, 30 de abril de 2021


Boris Johnson Left His Cell Phone Number on the Internet for 15 Years, Screened Our Call :(

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 08:20 AM PDT

Boris Johnson, British prime minister who's been passing out his deets like a sloppy rando at last call, has left his personal cell phone number online for the past 15 years. The British gossip site Popbitch used a sophisticated hacking tool called Google and discovered his direct cell line at the bottom of a 2006…

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Green Lantern Guy Gardner Has Been Cast for HBO Max’s Supercop Series

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 08:15 AM PDT

Everyone's favorite ring-slinging jerkwad is joining the DC multiverse.

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I Was Wrong, The Mitchells vs. the Machines Looks Fantastic

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 08:02 AM PDT

Last month, Netflix dropped a trailer for its CG animated film, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller of The Lego Movie and Into the Spider-Verse fame. I said, "It isn't nearly as bewilderingly awesome as either of Lord and Miller's previous two animated outings from what we can see,…

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Here's the Purple iPhone 12 Next to Other Purple Things

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 08:00 AM PDT

The iPhone 12 and 12 mini have been on sale for months now, but today's the day you can buy one in purple. I've had the purple iPhone 12 for a little while, and I must say: It's adorable. However, it's not the exact shade of purple I thought it was—for some reason, in person, it's more of a candy-coated Easter vibe…

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RIP Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, 1962-2021

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 07:58 AM PDT

New York's Indian Point Energy Center, a nuclear power plant 35 miles (57 kilometers) from the heart of Times Square, shut down its last reactor on Friday.

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EU Charges Apple With Antitrust Violations in Spotify Case

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 07:29 AM PDT

Apple's App Store—and its so-called "Apple tax"—have been at the center of several recent lawsuits. In the latest development, the European Union has charged Apple with allegedly "abus[ing] its dominant position" in the music streaming market.

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New Super-Sized Swiss Army Knife Is a Reminder That Airports Could Profit From Forgetful Travelers

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 07:10 AM PDT

Although nowhere near as massive as Wenger's Swiss Army Knife Giant that famously packed 87 implements into a seven-pound tool, Victorinox's new 73-function Swiss Champ XXL will still stretch your pocket to its breaking point. It comes with a price tag that will break any forgetful owner's heart the day the TSA has to…

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Roku Pulls Support for YouTube TV, Says Google Wants Special Access to Data

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 06:47 AM PDT

After news leaked out about a feud between Roku and Google earlier this week, today Roku announced its devices would no longer support the YouTube TV app for new subscribers.

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The He-Man Movie Has Lost Its Prince Adam

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 06:20 AM PDT

The Rock's Black Adam, somehow, is continuing to hire half of Hollywood for its cast. The first look at the Children of the Corn remake is here. Samuel L. Jackson is in peril in another new Spiral: From the Book of Saw clip. Plus, Army of the Dead posters, and Krysten Ritter steps behind the camera for a new…

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The Best Thing About Apple's AirTags Is Also the Scariest

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 05:43 AM PDT

"Those seem useful, but I don't really lose things," I thought to myself when Apple finally took the wraps off its long-rumored Bluetooth trackers, AirTags.

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Why You Should Use a Physical Key to Sign Into Your Accounts

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 05:00 AM PDT

The benefits of two-factor authentication (2FA) are clear: A person trying to get into your accounts will need something else besides your username and password, which makes it more difficult to hack you. That something else is often a code sent via SMS or through an app, but there's another option: a physical…

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Elon Musk Shares Painfully Obvious Idea About the Difficulty of Self-Driving Cars

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 04:00 AM PDT

Elon Musk, one of the wealthiest people on the planet, sent a tweet Thursday night about the real problem with self-driving cars. And as you can probably guess by now, it's one of those things that sounds profound until you stop to think about it for three seconds. That's more or less Musk's brand at this point.

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Netflix Finally Adds a Shuffle Play Feature for Those of Us With Decision Paralysis

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 07:35 PM PDT

Netflix rolled out its new "Play Something" feature this week, a shuffle play option for when you have thousands of TV shows and movies at your fingertips and no idea what to watch.

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Windows 10 Is Finally Getting Better Support for AirPods

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 06:53 PM PDT

Part of Microsoft's great big overhaul to Windows 10 finally includes some major changes to Bluetooth support and audio endpoints. These changes are now live in the latest Windows 10 Insider preview build, reports The Verge.

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Instagram Realizes It Had a Clubhouse In Its Heart All Along

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 05:11 PM PDT

As more and more social media platforms start cooking up their own Clubhouse clones, Instagram is adding new features to its existing livestreaming service to get in on the voice chat craze. On Thursday, Instagram announced it's rolling out the option to turn off your audio or video while using Instagram Live.

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Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine Just Had a Dark Side Squid Fight

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 04:30 PM PDT

That's not even the most ridiculous thing I can tell you about Marvel's latest Star Wars comic, Darth Vader #11.

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Yasuke Writer Nick Jones Jr. on Exploring Japan's Legendary Black Samurai

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 04:00 PM PDT

Netflix's anime selection is huge and growing by the day. One new original project in particular—Yasuke, created by LeSean Thomas and starring LaKeith Stanfield—tells a true story but uses some truly fantastical elements to do it. io9 recently spoke to head writer Nick Jones Jr. about his journey to becoming a writer,…

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Scientists Find Billion-Year-Old Fossil Life, 'Something Which Has Never Been Described Before'

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 03:28 PM PDT

Biden's Labor Secretary Wants to See Gig Workers Reclassified as Employees

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 03:10 PM PDT

Tech stocks tumbled on Thursday following a Reuters interview in which U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh stated that many of the millions of gig workers across the country should, in fact, be classified as employees, rather than independent contractors.

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Amazon Renews Invincible for 2 More Bloody Seasons

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 03:00 PM PDT

It shouldn't be a surprise. Robert Kirkman's animated adaptation of his own 2003 comic has been even more popular and well-reviewed than its source material, thanks to its airing on Amazon Prime. Clearly, Amazon isn't unaware of this fact, since it's just renewed Invincible for not one but two more seasons.

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Why Could Menthols Be Banned, but Not Regular Cigarettes?

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 02:51 PM PDT

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it would begin the process of trying to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes and flavored cigars from the market. The decision will likely meet fierce opposition from many corners and may not come into effect for years. But it brings up an interesting question: Why…

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60-Member Ransomware Task Force Has a Plan to Crack Down on Ransomware Criminals

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 02:30 PM PDT

A new, Big-Tech-backed coalition is lobbying the Biden administration to more aggressively pursue the threat of ransomware. In a report sent to the White House this week, members of the new group—simply called the Ransomware Task Force—have asked the president and the U.S. intelligence community to prioritize the…

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Borderlands' Moxxi Has Been Cast, Completing Eli Roth's Adaptation

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Eli Roth's Borderlands seems determined to claim the title for most star-studded video game adaptation ever, and today's announcement that the cast is finally complete—with the addition of Gina Gershon, American Horror Story's Cheyenne Jackson, and a few others—seems likely to seal the deal.

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Show Me a Directed Energy Weapon or Shut Your Anonymous National Security Official Mouth

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 01:35 PM PDT

Another day, another mostly anonymously sourced story about unidentified assailants supposedly assaulting U.S. government employees around the globe. This time, according to CNN, federal agencies are looking into something closer to home: symptoms suffered by a White House employee in Virginia and National Security…

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Castlevania's Final Season Trailer Teases an All-Out Supernatural War

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 01:10 PM PDT

Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard's journey are coming to a final end—and in true Castlevania style, it's going to be a bloody good time.

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