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- Star Wars: The Bad Batch's Producers Break Down That Big Premiere Cameo
- If the Paris Agreement Fails, Sea Levels Could Rise 33 Feet
- Useful Website Calculates How Hard You'll Have to Binge a Show to Finish It in Time
- Nintendo Teases More Animated Plans for Future Movies
- Oversight Board Finds Facebook Took the Coward's Way Out With Trump Ban, Also Takes Coward's Way Out
- 12 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Amazon Kindle
- U.S. Military Doesn't Know Where Chinese Space Debris Might Land
- G7 Participants Test Positive for Covid-19 at Meeting That Should've Been a Zoom Call
- SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Internet Orders Reportedly Already Exceed 500,000
- The Flash Is Losing 2 Key Cast Members
- You Should Definitely Update Your Dell Computer Right Now
- Area Man Wants You To Check Out His Blog
- Scientists Say You Can Have More Than 150 Friends, If You Want
- Musicians Ask Spotify to Promise It'll Never Use Its Creepy Speech-Recognition Patent
- Merry and Pippin Are Going Podcasting
- Stop the Steal: ‘Hacker’ Homecoming Queen Charged as Adult in Vote-Changing Scandal
- The Pentagon's Inspector General Is Investigating the Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program
- These Star Wars Holochess Figures Are Unfathomably Expensive
- Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned
- Google May Have Inadvertently Just Spilled the Beans About the Pixel Buds A on Twitter
- Too Many of You Still Believe in 5G Conspiracy Theories
- Making Fun of Superman Is Tradition
- Leaked Slides Show the Gas Industry Is Freaking Out
- Don't Expect More Software Updates for the Samsung Galaxy S8
- Zoom Claims Another Victim as NYC Schools Cancel Snow Days
| Star Wars: The Bad Batch's Producers Break Down That Big Premiere Cameo Posted: 05 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT  Lucasfilm Animation's Star Wars: The Bad Batch is here, and Clone Force 99's big new adventure on Disney+ opened with a bang. But as the new series began in the final moments of the Star Wars prequel's darkest hour, the show made some touching connections to the stories that came before it—an important connection Bad… |
| If the Paris Agreement Fails, Sea Levels Could Rise 33 Feet Posted: 05 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT  If we keep on the path we're on, Antarctica might be really, truly toast. A new study shows that the continent might hit a tipping point within this century if we don't keep warming in check, and we might be in for dozens of feat of sea level rise as a result. |
| Useful Website Calculates How Hard You'll Have to Binge a Show to Finish It in Time Posted: 05 May 2021 06:50 AM PDT  Netflix's new "Play Something" feature, which randomly serves up a show from the streaming service's vast catalog, can be a risky way to get hooked on a new series. To ensure you don't end up a couch hermit, Brian Yung's Can I Binge website lets you calculate how long a show will take to finish, so you can plan… |
| Nintendo Teases More Animated Plans for Future Movies Posted: 05 May 2021 06:21 AM PDT  The Toxic Avenger remake recruits another star. Robert Kirkman teases some directions the next few seasons of Invincible could go in. The Flash recruits a familiar face for its 150th episode. Plus, get new looks at Spiral, The Suicide Squad, The Green Knight, and more. Spoilers go! |
| Oversight Board Finds Facebook Took the Coward's Way Out With Trump Ban, Also Takes Coward's Way Out Posted: 05 May 2021 06:18 AM PDT  America may have to wait another six months to find out whether Facebook has the capacity to make a good decision. |
| 12 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Amazon Kindle Posted: 05 May 2021 05:00 AM PDT  Your Kindle e-reader isn't the kind of gadget you upgrade all that often, and you might have one that's been serving you well for years. But that doesn't necessarily mean you know everything that Amazon's e-reader can do. Here are some of the lesser-known features and settings you can play around with on your Kindle,… |
| U.S. Military Doesn't Know Where Chinese Space Debris Might Land Posted: 05 May 2021 04:30 AM PDT  The U.S. military is tracking an enormous piece of Chinese space debris which is expected to reenter the Earth's atmosphere sometime around May 8, according to a press release from U.S. Space Command. But as the Pentagon points out, no one knows quite where it will land yet. |
| G7 Participants Test Positive for Covid-19 at Meeting That Should've Been a Zoom Call Posted: 05 May 2021 02:30 AM PDT  India's G7 delegation is self-isolating in London on Wednesday after two members tested positive for covid-19, according to the British government and a new report from Reuters. The positive cases are likely to spark the obvious question: Why wasn't this meeting a Zoom call? |
| SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Internet Orders Reportedly Already Exceed 500,000 Posted: 04 May 2021 06:01 PM PDT  Elon Musk's SpaceX is having a banner year, and apparently things just keep getting better: On Tuesday, the company announced that it has received upwards of 500,000 orders for its satellite internet service, Starlink. |
| The Flash Is Losing 2 Key Cast Members Posted: 04 May 2021 05:00 PM PDT  Currently in its seventh season—with an eighth on the way—the CW's The Flash shows no signs of, uh, slowing down. But the Arrowverse series will soon have to contend with the departure of two actors who've been a part of the show since its 2014 debut: Carlos Valdes and Tom Cavanagh. |
| You Should Definitely Update Your Dell Computer Right Now Posted: 04 May 2021 04:51 PM PDT  A public service announcement for anyone who, like me, is using a years-old Dell computer as their primary machine: Dell has released a security patch for a security vulnerability affecting close to 400 different computer models manufactured between 2009 and right now. That's, uh, a lot of laptops. |
| Area Man Wants You To Check Out His Blog Posted: 04 May 2021 04:24 PM PDT  After threatening for months to disrupt social media with a bespoke platform that would allow him to bypass community guidelines (and the embarrassingly long list of platforms he's been banned from), our big patriotic boy has finally made good on his promise. Folks, the wait is over — the future is now, and it's a… |
| Scientists Say You Can Have More Than 150 Friends, If You Want Posted: 04 May 2021 04:15 PM PDT  In the early 1990s, a British anthropologist named Robin Dunbar argued that humans can't handle more than 150 stable relationships based on the size of the human brain's neocortex and observations of other primate groups socializing. Now, a team of researchers in Sweden say that number is bunk. |
| Musicians Ask Spotify to Promise It'll Never Use Its Creepy Speech-Recognition Patent Posted: 04 May 2021 04:00 PM PDT  Earlier this year, Spotify was granted a patent for speech-recognition tech that could potentially recommend music based on your "emotional state, gender, age, or accent." Now, a coalition of more than 180 artists and human rights organizations has written Spotify a letter asking the company to publicly commit to… |
| Merry and Pippin Are Going Podcasting Posted: 04 May 2021 03:45 PM PDT  These days everyone has a podcast, so why not a couple of hobbits talking about life in Middle-earth? That's exactly what's happening with The Friendship Onion, which will feature actors Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd talking all things pop culture—and in particular, the franchise that brought them together, The Lord… |
| Stop the Steal: ‘Hacker’ Homecoming Queen Charged as Adult in Vote-Changing Scandal Posted: 04 May 2021 03:30 PM PDT  Authorities appear to have uncovered a vast, nefarious conspiracy to electronically rig an American election in favor of an illegitimate victor. Neither Deep State supercomputers nor Russian intelligence agencies are alleged to have been involved in this one, however. |
| The Pentagon's Inspector General Is Investigating the Pentagon's UFO Investigation Program Posted: 04 May 2021 03:30 PM PDT  The military UFO plot has, somehow, thickened yet again: The Inspector General of the Department of Defense is itself investigating the Pentagon's program to investigate reports of unidentified aerial phenomena. |
| These Star Wars Holochess Figures Are Unfathomably Expensive Posted: 04 May 2021 03:00 PM PDT  Star Wars fans celebrate May the Fourth in many ways. Some rewatch the movies. Some get in costume and play with lightsabers. And 77 of them spent $4,800 on a set of the little holochess monsters seen in A New Hope for about five seconds. |
| Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned Posted: 04 May 2021 02:46 PM PDT  A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former's ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday. The ads were meant to show users the bevy of data that Instagram and its parent company Facebook collects on users, by... targeting… |
| Google May Have Inadvertently Just Spilled the Beans About the Pixel Buds A on Twitter Posted: 04 May 2021 02:34 PM PDT  Google I/O 2021 is just a couple of weeks away, but in the run-up to its annual developer conference, Google may have just accidentally confirmed the existence of the Pixel Buds A on Twitter. |
| Too Many of You Still Believe in 5G Conspiracy Theories Posted: 04 May 2021 01:50 PM PDT  5G conspiracies are nothing new. They've been tirelessly debunked several times and yet a 2021 survey found that roughly 24% of people believe that at least one 5G conspiracy is true. C'mon, really? |
| Making Fun of Superman Is Tradition Posted: 04 May 2021 01:30 PM PDT  As part of DC's new Infinite Frontier relaunch—meant to build on the foundation laid by its Death Metal and Future State titles—the comic publisher's set to put out a new miniseries. It kicked off with the massive Infinite Frontier #0 featuring a bevy of creative talent ahead of writer Joshua Williamson and artist… |
| Leaked Slides Show the Gas Industry Is Freaking Out Posted: 04 May 2021 01:20 PM PDT  At the end of April, the Twitter account for Eversource, the biggest utility in New England, posted an upbeat video on the utility's clean energy goals full of rich stock footage of windmills and solar panels and set to a rousing gospel-style song. |
| Don't Expect More Software Updates for the Samsung Galaxy S8 Posted: 04 May 2021 01:10 PM PDT  It's always a sad day in Androidland when a popular smartphone officially reaches its end of life. Samsung will no longer push software updates to its Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ smartphones. |
| Zoom Claims Another Victim as NYC Schools Cancel Snow Days Posted: 04 May 2021 12:55 PM PDT  Chalk up one more precious thing the pandemic has ruined. On Tuesday, the New York City Department of Education announced that it would no longer allow kids to stay home from school on especially snowy or bad weather days; instead, schools will switch to remote learning. |
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