terça-feira, 4 de maio de 2021


NOAA’s New Climate Normals Show the U.S. Has Never Been Hotter

Posted: 04 May 2021 07:15 AM PDT

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants us to know it's not the 1980s anymore. On Tuesday, it announced new 30-year averages for temperature and precipitation. Unsurprisingly, the "new normal" is hotter.

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Disney’s ‘Real’ Star Wars Lightsaber Is Revealed, and It's Fantastic

Posted: 04 May 2021 07:00 AM PDT

It's always fun waking up to presents, and on this most Star Wars of holidays, Disney has gifted fans with the first official video of its real-life lightsaber replicas featuring glowing blades that actually extend and retract. But sad news for many of us: it sounds like you won't be able to buy one for your…

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Updates From Dungeons & Dragons, The Conjuring, and More

Posted: 04 May 2021 06:07 AM PDT

There's good news for Stargirl and Kung Fu's future on the CW. Get a look at the new ghost-ship show from the creators of Dark. The What We Do in the Shadow sets its premiere date. Plus, a psychedelic glimpse of Army of the Dead. Spoilers get!

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Samsung's Galaxy A52 5G Gives You the Most Phone for Your Money

Posted: 04 May 2021 05:30 AM PDT

Samsung's Galaxy A52 5G has a lot to live up to. Not only is it the successor to last year's top-selling Android phone, but it's also the star of Samsung's new mid-range A-Series (the slightly more premium Galaxy A72 isn't coming to the U.S). With people holding onto their phones for longer, there's a good chance a…

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India Surpasses 20 Million Covid-19 Cases as Biden Stays Silent on Vaccine IP Waivers

Posted: 04 May 2021 03:30 AM PDT

India surpassed 20 million covid-19 cases on Tuesday, becoming only the second country in the world after the United States to reach that dark milestone. And to make matters worse, experts pretty uniformly agree it's a vast undercount of the real crisis, which has left at least 222,408 people dead in the country since…

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch Trades a Murky War for a Touching Tale of Found Family

Posted: 04 May 2021 12:01 AM PDT

After over a decade and seven seasons, last year brought us the end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. But it also introduced us to its spiritual successor in the form of the unlikely clone heroes of the Bad Batch. Now, they're in their own Disney+ animated series, and in leaving the Clone War behind, the group are trading…

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Turn Your Amazon Echo Dot Into an Aging Baby Yoda With Male Pattern Baldness

Posted: 04 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT

A few months after OtterBox gave the Echo Dot a Baby Yoda facelift last year, Amazon revealed a complete redesign of the smart speaker, making it rounder to squeeze better speakers inside. So OtterBox is back with another Grogu-themed stand for the fourth-generation Echo Dot, but this time around, the Child isn't…

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Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say

Posted: 03 May 2021 06:30 PM PDT

When you get a new phone number, mobile carriers will often "recycle" your old one—assigning it to a new phone and, therefore, a new customer. Carriers say the reason they do this is to stave off a hypothetical future of "number exhaustion"—a sort of "peak oil" for phone numbers, when every possible number that could…

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There's So Much New Star Wars Art on May 4, May Your Wallet Be With You

Posted: 03 May 2021 05:30 PM PDT

If you're in the market for a new piece of Star Wars art, May the Fourth be with you. To celebrate the unofficial Star Wars holiday, many galleries, dealers, and artists are selling brand new Star Wars art, and today we're highlighting just a few of our favorites.

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Uber Is Teaming Up With Arrival To Create an Electric Ride-Hailing Car

Posted: 03 May 2021 04:41 PM PDT

Arrival, the electric bus and vehicle manufacturer that's been making waves since it went public in March, announced on Monday that it plans to partner with Uber to create a completely electric ride-hailing car.

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Doctor Strange 2 Had to Be Rewritten When Marvel Cut Strange From WandaVision

Posted: 03 May 2021 04:30 PM PDT

Benedict Cumberbatch was signed to appear as Doctor Strange on the finale of WandaVision. Then Marvel decided against it and had to change everything.

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Child Sexual Abuse Site With 400,000 Users Shut Down by a Multinational Task Force

Posted: 03 May 2021 03:20 PM PDT

An international task force has shut down a large-scale dark web child sexual abuse platform, along with several similarly aligned dark web chat sites. According to an announcement from Germany's Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT), "Boystown" had 400,000 registered users and was "one of Europe's most…

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Tom Hanks' New Sci-Fi Film From Game of Thrones' Miguel Sapochnik Moves to Apple

Posted: 03 May 2021 03:00 PM PDT

Tom Hanks has a new sci-fi film coming out from Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, and while it was originally called Bios and set for theatrical release this August, it has now changed its title to Finch and has a new release date and outlet.

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Lego's 2,354-Piece Space Shuttle Discovery Is Worth Every Penny

Posted: 03 May 2021 03:00 PM PDT

One of the best ways to learn is to study under someone who's already highly skilled, and when it comes to building with Lego, the official sets are a treasure trove of knowledge from some of the world's most talented model makers. The new Lego Space Shuttle Discovery is not only a wonderfully detailed model, the…

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What It Really Means That the U.S. Won't Reach Herd Immunity

Posted: 03 May 2021 02:47 PM PDT

An article in the New York Times today highlights a growing attitude among public health experts about the near future of the covid-19 pandemic: Herd immunity, at least for the time being, is likely out of reach in the U.S. But as upsetting as that sounds, it doesn't mean the pandemic won't be substantially contained…

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Invincible's Season 1 Finale Was About the Fight Everyone Should Be Ready For

Posted: 03 May 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Amazon's adaptation of Invincible—the Image comic from writer Robert Kirkman and artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley—did a surprisingly solid job of weaving plots from the original series into a new and distinct animated story. The show's season one finale centered on a pivotal moment from the comic but left it…

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The EPA Takes First Step to Reduce Some of the Most Dangerous Greenhouse Gases on Earth

Posted: 03 May 2021 02:30 PM PDT

The Biden administration is clamping down on hydrofluorocarbons, an extremely powerful suite of greenhouse gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners, fire extinguishing systems, and building insulation.

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Future of American Democracy Hangs in Balance and/or Doesn't

Posted: 03 May 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Facebook's Oversight Board, the supposedly independent watchdog tasked with determining whether Donald Trump's ban from Facebook after he incited a deadly neo-fascist riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 will be as permanent as his Twitter ban, has reached a decision. On Monday, it stated that it will be announcing its…

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PlayStation and Discord Are Teaming Up

Posted: 03 May 2021 02:20 PM PDT

Discord, the gamer-focused chat app that's been in the news a bit more than usual recently, has partnered with Sony's PlayStation. Details are scarce, but the statement put out by Sony promises to bring "the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console and mobile" beginning next year.

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60 Million Stars and Not One Alien Detected

Posted: 03 May 2021 02:10 PM PDT

Astrobiologists with the Breakthrough Listen project have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey, in which the team hunted for radio signals along a line of sight that extends toward the galactic center.

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Hardware Hacker Breaks the DRM on a Mini Dishwasher

Posted: 03 May 2021 02:00 PM PDT

In what amounts to a very clever bit of hardware hacking, developer dekuNukem (the hacker who created a little device that automatically switches your screen to work when a boss walks by) has detailed a methodology for refilling the DRM-protected detergent cassettes for a $486 portable dishwasher called Bob.

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Clubhouse Is Losing Steam

Posted: 03 May 2021 01:54 PM PDT

Clubhouse—the company that was making headlines just a few months back for drawing major celebrities (and Elon Musk)—seems to have reached a tipping point. In April, the app reached a grand total of 922,000 downloads, new research found, a sharp downturn after bringing in millions of new users just a month earlier.

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Alan Moore's Next Books Sound Alan Moore-y as Hell

Posted: 03 May 2021 01:15 PM PDT

Alan Moore, modern-day Saruman and creator of comic masterpieces like Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, has just signed with a new book publisher, and his upcoming fiction series sounds... well, like just the sort of things Alan Moore tends to write.

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The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Experiment Is About to Get More Interesting

Posted: 03 May 2021 12:46 PM PDT

It's not wrong to want Ingenuity to crash. The Mars helicopter getting into a dramatic accident would mean that the NASA team pushed the craft to its limits—that there's finally a ceiling on the accomplishments of the astonishingly successful chopper. So far, Ingenuity has completed four of its five scheduled test…

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2021 Summer Movie Preview: Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy You Can (Maybe) Watch in Theaters

Posted: 03 May 2021 12:45 PM PDT

We feel like Janine in Ghostbusters, except instead of screaming "We got one!" it's "Summer movies!"

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