quarta-feira, 2 de junho de 2021


Please Give All the Awards to This Mind-Melting Game That Uses 2D Instant Camera Photos to Solve 3D Puzzles

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 07:19 AM PDT

Twice a year, the #PitchYaGame Awards puts a call out for independent game developers around the world to share their latest creations, with cash prizes awarded to the best entries. The latest call for entries was yesterday, and it included a wonderfully original game called Viewfinder that's part Portal, part

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Spider-Man Will Be Woven Into Sony’s Other Marvel Movies If the Studio Has Its Way

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 06:26 AM PDT

Filming wraps on Thor: Love and Thunder with a suitably thor-some picture. Director Craig Gillespie already has thoughts about Cruella 2. Loki writer Michael Waldron says there could be some messes for the rest of the MCU to clean up after the show. Plus, what's coming on Superman & Lois. Spoilers, away!

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Netgear's Nighthawk RAXE500 Is the First Really Good WiFi 6E Router

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 05:30 AM PDT

I've been reviewing a bunch of routers in a row, and the difference between my own experiences and the wildly good numbers and boasts on a manufacturer's website is enough to make me feel gaslit. Sometimes my results might be mediocre or the router fraught with instability or other problems, and I think to myself,…

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11 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on Your Amazon Fire TV

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 05:00 AM PDT

The Amazon Fire TV sticks and cubes are some of the best media streaming devices around, and while the basics of selecting and watching content are easy enough to pick up, there's more advanced functionality that you might not be aware of. These are some of the tricks you can do on a Fire TV that help you get more out…

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Amazon Wants to Legalize It

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 03:45 AM PDT

Amazon wants to see recreational marijuana use legalized at the federal level, according to a new blog post from Dave Clark, the CEO of Amazon's consumer side businesses. The company will also stop drug testing for weed, according to Clark, and treat cannabis like mainstream employers already treat alcohol.…

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Russian Criminals Suspected in Cyber Attack on World's Largest Meat Processor

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT

Russian criminals are likely behind the cyber attack on JBS Foods, the world's largest beef and pork processor, according to the White House. The FBI has been brought in to investigate and JBS promises the "vast majority" of its meat processing facilities in the U.S. will be up and running by Wednesday.

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The NSA Reportedly Used Denmark's Internet Cables to Spy on European Politicians

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 08:10 PM PDT

French and German political leaders are "seeking full clarity" after a recent report has alleged the U.S. colluded with Denmark several years ago to spy on European government officials—even going so far as to read bureaucrats' emails and text messages.

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The Return of Vision Is Still Uncertain, According to Paul Bettany

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 05:00 PM PDT

We know when we're going to see Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda again, but the same can't be said about her WandaVision co-star. In a new interview, actor Paul Bettany said he isn't sure when, or if, Vision could come back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In fact, he doesn't even have a contract in place.

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Elon Musk Is Indeed Pissing the SEC Off With His Tweets

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 04:10 PM PDT

Regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission have sent Tesla two separate warnings about CEO Elon Musk being on thin ice for his tweets in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, cautioning that the entrepreneur's recent posts were in violation of a 2018 settlement agreement mandating that…

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The Final Conjuring 3 Trailer Manages to Make Even a Classic Blondie Jam Sound Scary as Hell

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 04:06 PM PDT

If you're a horror fan, chances are you've already got your Friday night plans set: the third Conjuring movie, tantalizingly subtitled The Devil Made Me Do It, will be arriving in theaters and streaming on HBO Max. Fittingly, Warner Bros. has released one final trailer to hint at the frights to come.

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The World’s Richest Countries Have Given $190 Billion to the Fossil Fuel Industry Since 2020 Alone

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 04:01 PM PDT

The world's leading economies have made lots of commitments lately about reducing carbon emissions, but their actions tell a different story. A report released Tuesday finds that between January 2020 and March 2021, G7 governments pumped $190 billion into supporting coal, oil, and gas, with the U.S. taking the prize…

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Come on and Slam, and Welcome to the Space Jam: A New Legacy Funko Pops

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 03:15 PM PDT

Space Jam: A New Legacy is nearly upon us, and if the company's wild mishmash of nightmarish Warner Bros.-affiliated tie-ins and Bugs, Daffy, and new best friend LeBron James pinging themselves around a WB server to play basketball wasn't enough, well, so cometh the inevitable tie-in such brand crossover demands: the…

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ViacomCBS Avoided Nearly $4 Billion in Tax on Franchises Like Spongebob and Star Trek: Report

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 03:05 PM PDT

Paramount Pictures has found a way to avoid paying taxes on franchises including Spongebob Squarepants, Mission: Impossible, and Star Trek by routing revenue from international licensing through a complicated network of foreign subsidiaries, according to a new study. 

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You Have a Week to Opt-Out of Amazon Sidewalk, Do It Now

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 02:36 PM PDT

Users of Amazon Ring and Echo have only about a week to opt-out of the tech giant's sketchy new IoT service, Sidewalk. The feature goes live on June 8th and promises to share an encrypted sliver of your home network with the networks of other nearby Amazon IoT device users as a way to "improve services." Unless you…

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Lego Masters Season 2 Judges Tease Curious Builds and Covid Filming Challenges

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 02:30 PM PDT

A person in possession of just six Lego bricks can create almost a billion different combinations. So when you consider the second season of Fox's reality competition show Lego Masters gives the contestants 5 million bricks to choose from, the scope and variation of the creations becomes almost unfathomable. "There…

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Editor-in-Chief of Top Medical Journal Steps Down Over Podcast That Downplayed Racism

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 02:20 PM PDT

Howard Bauchner, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association—one of the foremost publishers in the scientific world—is stepping down at the end of the month, following recent controversy over how the journal and one of its editors dismissed the issue of racism in medicine.

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You Can Now Ditch Uber for a Driver-Owned Rideshare App in New York City

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 02:10 PM PDT

The thank-you banners are down, but New York City residents have a real opportunity to show their appreciation for a population of low-paid, primarily immigrant frontline workers. New York City residents can help now by ditching Uber and Lyft for a competing driver-owned alternative app called "Co-op Ride," created by…

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The iPhone 13's Battery Is Rumored to Be Up to 18% Bigger... Just in Time

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 01:53 PM PDT

The iPhone 13 rumors keep streaming in. Apple prognosticator Ming-Chi Kuo recently hinted bigger batteries were coming, but it looks like we now have an idea of how much bigger.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Channels Superbad With Seth Rogen's Release Date Reveal

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 01:45 PM PDT

The brand new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated movie from producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg will be released August 11, 2023. We know this because Rogen revealed it on his Twitter by posting a photo straight out of Leonardo's notebook.

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Tesla Makes Cars in Texas but Has to Re-Import Them to Sell in the Lone Star State

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 01:30 PM PDT

The Texas legislature adjourned on May 31 without making any changes to the state's auto dealer franchise laws—meaning that the only way for Tesla to sell electric cars made at its forthcoming factory in Austin will be to ship them out of state and re-import them.

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Sweet Tooth Will Make You Fall in Love With an Adorable Deer Boy

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 01:00 PM PDT

There's so much content being released these days it's tough to keep track of what's good and what isn't worth your time. One thing that can help a project stand out above another is a nice, solid recommendation and has io9 got one for you: Netflix's adaptation of Jeff Lemire's DC comic Sweet Tooth. It's phenomenal.

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Space Junk Has Blasted a Hole in a Key Space Station Tool

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 12:35 PM PDT

Low Earth orbit can be a dangerous place, as a recent incident involving Canadarm2 confirms.

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The Apple TV App Is Now Available on Nvidia Shield TV Devices

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 12:24 PM PDT

After Google and Apple reached a deal to bring the Apple TV app to Android TV devices late last year, this week Nvidia has now added support for Apple TV to its Shield TV devices.

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David Lynch's Troubled, Doomed, Fascinating Dune Movie Is Coming to 4K

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 12:15 PM PDT

Love it or hate it—and its director certainly hates it—David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction classic Dune is unlike any other movie. Lynch's young but already idiosyncratic vision, paired with his inexperience directing a massively budgeted sci-fi epic blockbuster, clashed constantly with…

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Battlestar Galactica's Bear McCreary Knows What Concert Nerds Have Been Missing

Posted: 01 Jun 2021 11:30 AM PDT

Here's what you need to know about Bear McCreary, the legendary-in-his-own-time composer for Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Outlander, and so much more: there's a part of him that's bummed he's not playing a concert right now. Thankfully there's a fix for that; as io9 can exclusively reveal, he has a new BSG

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