quarta-feira, 9 de junho de 2021


Lawyer Who Sued Treasury Department for Exxon Nominated to Be Agency’s General Counsel

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 09:02 AM PDT

Last week, the White House announced a slate of nominations to fill roles in the Biden administration. Among them is attorney Neil MacBride, who has been tapped to be general counsel for the Treasury Department.

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How One Fastly Customer Broke the Internet

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 08:40 AM PDT

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, a tech vendor named Fastly experienced a major outage that inadvertently broke some of the biggest sites on the web. And now, we know why. In a blog post published late yesterday, Fastly engineering VP Nick Rockwell explained the company "experienced a global outage due to an…

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I Miss the Dreamy, Lo-Fi Mystery of the Windows 95 Maze Screensaver

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 08:30 AM PDT

In the 1990s, computers were like portals to a fever dream. The internet was still steeped in all of its weird, early glory, coated wall-to-wall in clunky pixel art, dead GeoCities pages and unwelcome porn popups, and its unregulated weirdness was mirrored in the operating systems of the day. Maybe that's why, more…

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One of the Greatest Multiplayer Arcade Games of All Time Is Being Miniaturized for Your Game Room

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 08:20 AM PDT

The Simpsons was a monstrous hit when it debuted as a weekly animated series in late 1989, spawning a mountain of merchandise. Most of it was terrible, but there were a few shining examples of merchandising done right, including Konami's multiplayer arcade game. Now, you can finally bring it home.

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Apple Really Wants You to Think of the Apple Watch as a 'Must-Have' Accessory

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 08:09 AM PDT

One of the best things about iOS 14.5 was it introduced the "Unlock with Apple Watch" feature—a clever solution to masks mucking up FaceID in the pandemic. Now as folks begin digging through the iOS 15 developer beta, it looks like Apple's planning on expanding this feature to Siri.

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Loki’s Tom Hiddleston Tells Us How the Big Premiere Revelation Affected Him

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Loki's first episode brings us on a mind-bending trip through the messy temporal mechanics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The titular character is the version we last saw in Avengers: Endgame, but that's not the Loki we knew and loved and saw pay the ultimate price in Avengers: Infinity War. So how does Loki…

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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Nails Its Seventh Flight on Mars

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 07:45 AM PDT

The seventh flight of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars saw the vehicle fly nearly 350 feet to a landing spot that hadn't been closely surveyed beforehand.

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These Dream-like Photos of the Amazon Reveal a Hidden Nightmare

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 07:20 AM PDT

The Amazon's destruction in everyday color is terrible enough. But a special photographic method reveals the true toll of mining, logging, and other human activities on the world's largest rainforest.

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The Future Is NFTing Doodles in Minutes

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 07:10 AM PDT

NFTs are either over, or NFTs are forever; it can only be one, so the only safe thing to do right now is mint everything you own. Fortunately, you'll soon be able to fire off a doodle, mint it, and put it up for auction within minutes. Mint mint mint!

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New York Times Tech Workers Say Publisher’s Union Busting Is Out of Control

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 06:40 AM PDT

Tech workers at the New York Times are officially fed up with the company's union busting behavior.

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife Pictures Tease Spooky Houses and New Stars

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 06:30 AM PDT

Donny Cates' God Country graphic novel is coming to the big screen. Blue Beetle could be headed to HBO Max. Netflix gives a little tease for Umbrella Academy's third season. Plus, what's next on The Flash and Superman & Lois. Spoilers, away!

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iOS 15 Allows Game Controllers to Capture the Last 15 Seconds of Gameplay For Unplanned Highlights

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 06:13 AM PDT

As Apple's World Wide Developers Conference continues, through the individual sessions we're slowly getting more details about all the new features coming to iOS 15 that weren't revealed during Monday's keynote address, including some updated functionality for gamers who like to share gameplay highlights online.

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Motorola's New 5G Phone Is Like a Budget Galaxy Note In All the Right Ways

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Last year, Motorola released its first phone ever with an included stylus. The company says the G Stylus has become so popular that even after refreshing the lineup earlier this year, Moto is giving it some extra special attention with the new Moto G Stylus 5G.

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How to Use Any Screen as a Second Display

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:00 AM PDT

Having two displays hooked up to your computer instead of one can seriously boost your productivity and open up all kinds of new options for gaming, web browsing, and creative tasks—but you don't necessarily need to go out and buy yourself a new monitor. From Apple's Sidecar to Google's Chromecasting, you've got a…

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El Salvador Becomes First Country to Recognize Bitcoin as Currency

Posted: 09 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT

El Salvador has become the first country in the world to recognize the cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal currency, according to President Nayib Bukele in a tweet on Wednesday. Citizens will be able to pay taxes in bitcoin and, perhaps most importantly for bitcoin diehards, bitcoin won't be subject to capital gains taxes…

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Facebook and Instagram Are Rolling Out (More) Financial Incentives for Influencers

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 05:24 PM PDT

If you thought the deal couldn't possibly get sweeter for the influencers that flock to Facebook and Instagram to simultaneously bolster their social media followings and line their pockets, think again: On Tuesday, both platforms announced that they'll be stepping up their respective games in the coming weeks by…

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Tom Hiddleston Caught Up His Loki Co-Stars With On-Set 'Loki Lectures'

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 05:00 PM PDT

Loki takes Tom Hiddleston's shapeshifting god of mischief out of his usual friend (and frenemy) circle and transposes him into a strange new world at the Time Variance Authority, filled with equally strange new characters. So what happens if you're one of the few arbiters of the MCU's goings-on involved? If you're Tom…

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Patrick Stump's Spidey and His Amazing Friends Theme Is a Web-Slinging Bop

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 04:00 PM PDT

Whether it's the classic '60s bop, the '90s heavy metal guitar wails, or the pop-rock goodness of Spectacular Spider-Man, Peter Parker's animated adventures have always had some pretty banging theme songs. His latest animated show, aimed at younger audiences, is no exception, thanks to Fall Out Boy vocalist Patrick…

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Lake Mead’s Water Supply Has Dropped to the Lowest Level Since the Hoover Dam Was Built

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 03:55 PM PDT

A severe drought gripping parts of the western United States has caused Lake Mead's water supply to dip to historically low levels this week, threatening a vital source of drinking water in a region that has been plagued by near continual drought conditions for decades.

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As a Green Bubble, I Appreciate Apple’s FaceTime Olive Branch

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 03:45 PM PDT

The minute I saw Apple's mockup of a FaceTime call taking place on an Android browser at its WWDC keynote, I texted my best friend. "Apple announced FaceTime for Android users," I wrote her. "You can make a Zoom-like meeting link, and then I can join you from my phone." I typed out three consecutive sobbing emojis to…

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Samsung Overhauls the SmartThings App Even Though It’s Killing the SmartThings Hub

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 03:10 PM PDT

Samsung just overhauled the user interface for its SmartThings smart home app, which includes a redesigned home screen and reorganization of menu items.

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Dungeons & Dragons Returns to Magic: The Gathering With a New Sourcebook for Magic School

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 03:00 PM PDT

Want to trade out delving dungeons for magic class, wizarding sports, and intra-faction rivalries by snotty schoolkids made all the more snottier by the fact they have the power to throw a fireball at you? Well, good news: Dungeons & Dragons is packing its school bag and popping over to the world of Magic: The

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Watermelons on Mars TKTK [DO NOT PUBLISH]

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 02:30 PM PDT

It's unfortunate that delicious watermelons are not currently among those species known to be native to Mars. Thankfully, neither are cops. So a story the New York Times published on Tuesday stating that, contrary to expectations, police had found watermelons on the Red Planet was sort of a mixed bag even if the story…

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Here's What's in the Senate's Massive Bill Funding the Tech War With China

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 02:19 PM PDT

Sweeping legislation that would start to unleash about $250 billion in federal funding encourage U.S. technological competition with China is set to easily clear the Senate as early as Tuesday, Reuters reports. Here's what's in it.

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Watch 6 Glorious Minutes of Tig Notaro Getting Digitally Added to Army of the Dead

Posted: 08 Jun 2021 02:15 PM PDT

Almost every big-budget movie uses copious amounts of VFX, and it's always quite satisfying to see what those movies looked like before the VFX was added—and how much effort it took the CG animators and artists to create the finished product. However, this VFX showcase video from Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead is…

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