sexta-feira, 14 de maio de 2021


When Is Amazon Prime Day 20201? Here's What You Need to Know

Posted: 14 May 2021 08:15 AM PDT

Well, it's that time of year again folks. Once again, Amazon's annual sales event for which the already stupidly rich corporation is made even richer is upon us.

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The Inventor of the Post-it Note—The Worst Thing to Happen to Password Security—Has Passed Away

Posted: 14 May 2021 07:25 AM PDT

Despite creating security headaches for IT departments around the world as the password manager of choice for boomers, the Post-it Note is one of the most clever and ubiquitous office accessories ever created, and this past weekend the world, unfortunately, said goodbye—to their creator, Spencer Silver, who passed…

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch Dives Headfirst Into the Cost of Loyalty

Posted: 14 May 2021 07:05 AM PDT

For a show about clones, sooner rather than later Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Bad Batch was going to have to get into the idea of just how and why the newly-risen Empire would begin to replace the Republic's legions with a different kind of soldier. But the Disney+ series' third episode, for all the gains it makes…

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Updates From Sonic 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and More

Posted: 14 May 2021 06:05 AM PDT

Marvel's Shang Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings has some new viewership details. Parasite director Bong Joon Ho has something very curious planned for an upcoming project. Plus new looks at Batman: The Long Halloween, Space Jam: A New Legacy, and more. Spoilers are dancing because it's Friday...

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Samsung's Galaxy Book Pro 360 Is the 2-in-1 Laptop You Need

Posted: 14 May 2021 06:00 AM PDT

For those of us who need to get work done on the go, there's always one dilemma when it comes to choosing your mobile machine: Do you skimp on screen size and go with a lighter 13-inch laptop, or do you risk putting your back or shoulders in jeopardy by opting for a larger 15-inch system? And for those who value…

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The Best Apps For Editing Video on the iPad Pro

Posted: 14 May 2021 05:30 AM PDT

The new 12.9-inch iPad Pro is being positioned as a professional-level computing device, with features like the M1 chip, the super-bright Liquid Retina XDR display and the P3 wide color gamut likely to make the tablet an appealing option for movie makers. But with no Final Cut Pro for iPad available (yet), what's the…

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World's Largest Crypto Trading Platform Under Investigation by DOJ and IRS: Report

Posted: 14 May 2021 03:30 AM PDT

Binance, the world's largest platform for buying and selling cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service, according to a new report from Bloomberg News.

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Ireland Shuts Down Hospital Computer Systems Nationwide After Ransomware Attack

Posted: 14 May 2021 01:45 AM PDT

Ireland's public health care system, known as the Health Service Executive or HSE, shut down all of its computer systems nationwide Friday after hospital administrators became aware of a cyberattack late Thursday.

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Dogecoin Prices Spike Again Because This Man Just Will Not Stop Tweeting

Posted: 13 May 2021 09:11 PM PDT

I'm starting to get whiplash from this roller coaster ride that is Dogecoin's value in recent days. It surged amid hype for Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Saturday Night Live debut last weekend but plummeted after he called the meme-inspired cryptocurrency a "hustle," only to ricochet again days later when SpaceX…

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Pentagon Is Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Says

Posted: 13 May 2021 06:00 PM PDT

The Pentagon recently signaled to a U.S. senator that it could not publicly reveal if or how it was buying access to Americans' car, phone, and online metadata, only that, whatever it was doing, it was not violating the 4th amendment and also definitely didn't need a warrant to do it.

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Google Cloud Teams up With SpaceX in Satellite Internet Connectivity Deal

Posted: 13 May 2021 05:49 PM PDT

Google announced Thursday that it's partnering with SpaceX to link Elon Musk's ambitious satellite internet service Starlink with Google's cloud infrastructure. The alliance marks a major win for Google in its competition with other tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft to dominate the fast-growing cloud computing…

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Watch Army of the Dead's Gory First 15 Minutes and See How Las Vegas Falls

Posted: 13 May 2021 05:00 PM PDT

You have until 10 p.m. EST on May 14 to watch the first 15 minutes of Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead online. At that point, it's being taken off YouTube. It's not going away completely, of course; at that point you can go to a theater and see the full movie. Or you could wait a few days and watch it on Netflix.

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Them! Has Become Relevant Again... the Way It Does Every 17 Years or So

Posted: 13 May 2021 04:00 PM PDT

Though Gordon Douglas' 1954 monster movie Them! tells a far more quiet, intimate story than its modern descendants, one of the first ways it clues you in to the danger its human heroes are in is a haunting, piercing noise that calls out from the wilderness.

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If We Live in a Sea of Dark Matter, This Tiny Mirror Might Be Able to Detect It

Posted: 13 May 2021 03:37 PM PDT

Despite the vast and expensive effort to figure out the identity of the invisible stuff that seems to make up much of the universe, no proposed dark matter candidate has been detected by any scientific experiment. Now, a team of researchers has suggested a design for a new dark matter experiment, one that relies on a…

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Project Veritas Reportedly Turned Its Feckless Smear Machine on Trump's FBI

Posted: 13 May 2021 03:14 PM PDT

Project Veritas, the shadowy yet wildly incompetent far-right group that stages sting operations to film and release hoax exposés on liberals, enlisted a British spy to help run an operation intended to discredit the FBI and suspected enemies within Donald Trump's administration, the New York Times reported on…

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Netflix Is Making a New Animated Ultraman Movie

Posted: 13 May 2021 02:25 PM PDT

Ultraman's global plans just keep getting bigger and bigger, appropriately.

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Washed-Up Influencer Arrested For Driving His Tesla From The Backseat, Says 'Elon Musk Really Knows What He’s Doing'

Posted: 13 May 2021 02:23 PM PDT

After the California Highway Patrol alerted locals of a man who seemed to be riding from the backseat of his Tesla Model 3 while the car's autopilot barreled down the highway, the CHP caught the man responsible on Tuesday, booking him into a local jail and towing his car from the scene. A day later, that man's back on…

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Sounds Like the Snake Eyes Movie (Wisely) Puts G.I. Joe on the Back-Burner

Posted: 13 May 2021 02:00 PM PDT

There were a lot of things wrong with the 2009 movie G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobraa lot of things. But it seems like the upcoming film G.I. Joe Origins: Snake Eyes has figured out to avoid them, and thus create the G.I. Joe movie franchise the previous films failed to do. First and foremost on that list? Not worrying about

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Guardians of the Galaxy's Dave Bautista Is Ready to Pass on the Drax Mantle

Posted: 13 May 2021 01:30 PM PDT

The gut-wrenching backstory of Drax the Destroyer has been mentioned several times in the current run of Marvel movies but never told in full. If that story ever gets a Black Widow-esque prequel origin treatment, though, star Dave Bautista plans to be looking at the screen, not being on it.

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Michigan Republicans Want to Legally Protect Their 'Right to Be Wrong Without Being Told So'

Posted: 13 May 2021 01:30 PM PDT

Republicans! They just love their live-action role-playing, don't they folks. They're still questing to find the magic law that will stop the nefarious Silicon Valley leftists and antifa journalists from censoring the land of Real America. The latest proposal? Forcing fact-checkers to register with the state.

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Get Ready for In-Car Ads

Posted: 13 May 2021 01:15 PM PDT

Because being bombarded with roadside signage while taking a leisurely Sunday drive isn't enough, Ford has patented a new system that uses a vehicle's cameras to detect billboards and then pull them up on a car's infotainment display as inescapable in-vehicle advertisements.

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Florida Man Tries to Hold Back the Sea

Posted: 13 May 2021 12:50 PM PDT

Here's something you don't hear every day: there's good news out of Florida. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed bills on Wednesday that make serious efforts to address the impacts of sea level rise in the state. But don't take that as a sign that Trump-lite DeSantis is now some sort of right-wing climate savior.…

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Netflix's Anime Eden Shows the Robot Apocalypse Can Be Beautiful

Posted: 13 May 2021 12:30 PM PDT

Maybe Terminator had it wrong. Maybe, if robots rise up and overthrow humanity, the Earth won't be a charred, smoking sphere covered in human skulls. Maybe without humans around to mess it up, nature will recover and the planet will be lush and scenic again. This first trailer for the Netflix anime Eden certainly…

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Framework's Dream of a Modular Laptop Is Real and Ready to Preorder

Posted: 13 May 2021 12:20 PM PDT

Imagine sprucing up your laptop the same way you would swap out the components inside a desktop PC case. That's part of the premise behind the Framework laptop, made by a startup that wants to make it easier to diagnose and repair your stuff. Preorders are now open for Framework's first batch of modular laptops, with…

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Two Common Food Dyes Could Be Linked to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptoms

Posted: 13 May 2021 12:10 PM PDT

Certain food dyes may play a role in triggering symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), new research, done in mice, suggests. The study found that yellow and red food dye could trigger chronic gut inflammation in mice, but only if their immune systems were already dysfunctional. The findings will need to be…

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