sábado, 12 de junho de 2021


Whale Takes One Bite, Sends Man Right Back to Kitchen

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 09:49 PM PDT

A humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod bit off more than it could chew on Friday when it accidentally caught a commercial lobster diver in its mouth. Michael Packard told CNN affiliate WBZ he was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts when he unwittingly became a modern-day Jonah.

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Telecom Companies Win Injunction to Put New York's Affordable Internet Law on Hold

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 06:37 PM PDT

In a huge win for internet service providers, a federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction to stall a New York law mandating affordable internet for low-income households.

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House Lawmakers Say They Want to Break Up With Big Tech

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 05:44 PM PDT

A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced new antitrust legislation aimed at prying open Big Tech's death grip on our lives. If the lawmakers get their way, it could mean that some of America's largest tech companies will actually be broken up.

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Puppets and Gore Make a Delightful Combo in Horror Short Snore

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 04:30 PM PDT

We've featured the world of filmmaker Luther Bhogal-Jones on io9 before, but his latest is quite different from his John Carpenter-ish short film Goodnight, Halloween. That said, Snore is still very much in the horror genre—it just involves a lot more puppets.

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Wow, Marvel Got Owen Wilson an Action Figure Already

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 03:45 PM PDT

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy news. This week, Super7 turns its eyes to SilverHawks for its latest Ultimates line, Red XIII joins the Final Fantasy VII Remake figure line, and Hasbro slimes the Ghostbusters real good. Check it out!

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Electronic Arts Hackers Say Slack Was Their Secret Weapon: Report

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 03:29 PM PDT

After reports broke yesterday about a whopping 780GB of data being swiped from the gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA), we already know how the heist was pulled off, at least according to the hackers' telling.

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Trump’s Miserable Mouthpiece Leaving for Fantastical Social Media Platform

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 02:50 PM PDT

Donald Trump's longtime spokesperson and noted lawsuit loser Jason Miller is reportedly planning to enter a cocoon and re-emerge as an even fouler kind of insect: a social media tycoon.

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Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam's Trailer Is Beyond Meta

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 02:45 PM PDT

Few animated series have the pop culture IQ of Teen Titans Go!—and yet everyone has their blind spots. When it comes to Beast Boy, Robin, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire, theirs is they haven't seen '90s classic Space Jam. Coincidentally, they're all the property of Warner Bros, and with a new Space Jam film on the way,

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A 'Breakthrough' Trial Used Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes to Stamp Out Dengue

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 02:36 PM PDT

An unconventional ploy to combat dengue in Indonesia seems to have gone incredibly well.

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European Space Agency Lays Out Plans for Next 30 Years of Space Exploration

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 02:01 PM PDT

The future of space exploration is looking absolutely thrilling, as the European Space Agency has revealed its long-term plans for research that will, hopefully, identify potentially life-hosting planets beyond our solar system and scrutinize the earliest structures of the universe.

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Loki Director Kate Herron Takes Us Inside the Timey-Wimey Influences of the TVA

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 01:45 PM PDT

When confronted with a bureaucratic group of time guardians who are part church, part cop, and all outside known time, where do you even begin to start framing that as a setting for a television show? For Disney+ and Marvel's Loki director Kate Herron, the answer was simple: throwback to iconic sci-fi hits, with a bit…

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Now You Can Turn the Commodore 64 Into a Delightfully Chunky Game Boy

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 01:30 PM PDT

For many of us, the Atari or the NES wasn't our first gaming console. Instead, it was the Commodore 64, which was marketed as an incredibly affordable home computer, but was also a solid gaming machine. It was very much worthy of a second life as a Game Boy-sized portable, which anyone can now hack together with the…

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A Hanging Glacial ‘Tooth’ Caused February’s Deadly Indian Flash Flood

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 01:20 PM PDT

In February, a massive avalanche tore through a mountain valley in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, causing flash flooding and mudslides. A new study has found that debris broke off a glacier above the valley and disintegrated so quickly that the resulting friction melted ice around it, causing the enormous,…

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China’s New Rover Captures Unique Selfie on Mars

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 01:11 PM PDT

The Zhurong rover, whose name translates to "fire god," used a detachable wireless camera to capture a clever image of itself and its landing platform on the surface of Mars.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch Finally Solved a Big Problem

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 01:00 PM PDT

Enough with the tangent missions. On this week's episode of Disney+ and Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Bad Batch, the crew finally did something for themselves—something they should have done a long time ago but didn't know how. Thankfully, with the help of a familiar friend, Hunter, Tech, Echo, Wrecker (all Dee Bradley…

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Google's Quest to Kill the Cookie Is Creating a Privacy Mess

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 12:40 PM PDT

For the past few months, millions of Chrome users have been roped into Google's origin trials for the tech meant to replace the quickly crumbling third-party tracking cookie. Federated Learning of Cohorts—or FLoC, for short—is a new kind of tracking technique that's meant to be a friendlier, more privacy-protective…

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Netflix's Castlevania Is Getting a Spin-Off Series

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 12:30 PM PDT

The final day of Netflix's "Geeked Week" began with some very welcome news. The team behind the Castlevania anime is officially, thankfully, and wisely returning to the world of the video games for another series, this time starring fan-favorite characters Richter Belmont and Maria Renard.

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This Shockingly Invasive Malware Stole Data from 3.25 Million Windows Computers

Posted: 11 Jun 2021 12:10 PM PDT

Between 2018 and 2020, a mysterious strain of malware infected and stole sensitive data from approximately 3.25 million Windows-based computers—taking with it a horrifying amount of intimate information about the users of those devices.

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