quinta-feira, 3 de junho de 2021


Supreme Court Tosses Government's Reading of Anti-Hacking Law, the CFAA

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 09:00 AM PDT

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said a Georgia police officer had not violated the country's main anti-hacking law by improperly accessing a government license plate database for financial gain—a decision likely to curtail the government's ability to prosecute individuals under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act…

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Google’s New Pixel Buds Are a Perfect Example of What It Does Best

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 09:00 AM PDT

There was a time not too long ago when it felt like a lot of Google's devices lacked an identity. But since the release of the Pixel 3a, Google has really carved out a niche when it comes to making simple but still affordable gadgets that are big on value. Google is now applying this approach to wireless audio with…

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I'm Lusting After This Custom Commodore 64 Smartwatch That Lets You Code in BASIC Right on Your Wrist

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 08:46 AM PDT

I assumed there was very little I couldn't do with my Apple Watch given it has its own well-stocked app store, but Nick Bild has shown me the error of my ways with this delightful Commodore 64-themed C64 Watch that not only has a retro-inspired watch face but a built-in BASIC interpreter too for coding on the go.

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Minions' Attempt to Summon Hell on Earth Thwarted

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 08:15 AM PDT

A gateway to the land of damned opened late last night at Universal Studios Hollywood. Fire erupted near the park's Despicable Me attraction after the giant Minion who overlooks the ride used his dark powers to call forth the other forces of evil into our world. Luckily, the forces of good, a.k.a. firefighters,…

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North Atlantic Right Whales Are Shrinking, and It’s Our Fault

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Whales are some of the biggest animals on the planet, but new research shows that at least one endangered species is shrinking.

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Updates From The Suicide Squad, Loki, and More

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 06:47 AM PDT

See Carlos Valdez bid Cisco farewell in new pictures from The Flash. Prepare yourselves, because Boss Baby is back. Plus, an explosive new clip from F9, and what's to come on Legends of Tomorrow. To me, my spoilers!

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Hugh Jackman Follows His Heart (With His Fists) in the First Trailer for Lisa Joy's Near-Future Noir Reminiscence

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 06:00 AM PDT

A neo-noir mystery, a love story, and tech-assisted journeys through the darkest parts of the mind all factor into Reminiscence. Written and directed by Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy, the sci-fi drama stars Hugh Jackman as a man who specializes in recovering memories—until he falls for an alluring client (Rebecca…

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How to Use Your Next-Gen Console Controllers With Other Devices

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 05:00 AM PDT

The gaming controller that came with your PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S can do double-duty on other devices, too. This means you can take advantage of your next-gen controller's ergonomics and adaptability to play games on your computer, your smartphone, your tablet, and other devices, too. Here's how…

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Why Can’t We Call It an Emergency?

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 03:30 AM PDT

TV newsman Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of how Edward R. Murrow, the preeminent U.S. broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what became Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. Murrow's bosses at CBS News had other priorities; they ordered Murrow's reporters to cover dance competitions in Hamburg,…

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Grimes Says AI Will Give Us Communism in Confusing New TikTok Video

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Grimes, the musician and romantic partner of billionaire Elon Musk, is a big believer in artificial intelligence, according to a new TikTok video she posted late Wednesday. What can AI do for humanity? Grimes insists that AI is a way to achieve Communism, something she says is good, while avoiding "collective…

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Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy Is Finished for Now, But Its Extended Universe Isn't

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 05:15 PM PDT

Jupiter's Legacy premiered on Netflix just a month ago, and the streamer has already decided it's a wrap on the superhero series based on Mark Millar and Frank Quitely's Jupiter's Legacy comics. But it's not the end for this corner of the Millarverse; instead, the property is pivoting to an anthology format that will…

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AMC Belongs to the People Now

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 05:06 PM PDT

We're nearly halfway through the year and it looks like the meme stocks haven't ended their run just yet: As of Wednesday, shares of movie theater chain AMC Entertainment were up as much as 3,200 on the heels of a newly launched initiative to provide free popcorn to shareholders.

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Someone Hacked the MTA

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 04:50 PM PDT

In late April, officials with the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority discovered that someone had penetrated several of the agency's computer systems, exploiting a zero day vulnerability in the network's VPN service as a way to get its foot in the door.

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Sean Bean Hasn't Seen Game of Thrones' Finale, But He Has One Thing to Say About It: Good For Them

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 04:15 PM PDT

The "them" is Winterfell, of course.

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Meet Firestarter's Adorable New Pyrokinetic Star, Ryan Kiera Armstrong

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 03:30 PM PDT

The 1984 adaptation of Stephen King's Firestarter was only Drew Barrymore's third film—but it, along with E.T., catapulted the 9-year-old to stardom. Those are some big, fiery shoes for a new young actor to fill, but the team behind the Firestarter remake thinks they found the right spark in Ryan Kiera Armstrong.

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NFTs Are Crashing and Who Could Have Seen This Coming Other Than Basically Anyone?

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 03:20 PM PDT

The crypto world saw a dizzying surge this year of NFTs being used to sell ownership of everything from works of online art to random tweets, though it was never clear just why NFTs were commanding such staggering prices. Bragging rights? Status symbols? Or just pure speculation driven by skyrocketing cryptocurrency…

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Spit Out That Cicada, Right Now

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 03:10 PM PDT

If you have observed the emergence of Brood X, the one-in-17-years cicada swarm, and thought, I want that in my mouth, you are not alone. The cicada consumes the plant fluids; the American consumes the cicada; the FDA warns Americans about consuming cicadas. It is the natural order.

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Extremely Delayed James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again, Again

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 03:00 PM PDT

The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, already seven years behind schedule, will not launch on Halloween as planned, which is just as well, given the ominous date and this project's history of bad luck. For once, the delay is not due to the telescope, but rather the rocket that will deliver it to space.

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Why a Mediocre Keyboard App Is Topping the App Store Charts

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:50 PM PDT

It's hard to tell what will go viral online at any given time. Carp? Sure. Andrew Cuomo's Nipples? That happened. The latest darling of the internet's eye is less fishy and less... fleshy than both of the above, but no less bizarre: a low-grade knock-off of Apple's Notepad app that was developed by a tiny Korean…

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Star Wars Just Made Smuggling Han Solo's Body a Very Complicated Business

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:45 PM PDT

At the end of Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett was on cloud nine—or rather, Cloud City, thinking he'd just secured himself the bounty of the century in Han Solo's carbonite-encased form. It turns out though that Fett couldn't get himself straight to Jabba's palace without some complications... and now we know those…

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A Man Overdosed on a Homeopathic Drug, Which Is Supposed to Have Nothing in It

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:40 PM PDT

From the desk of medical irony comes this recent case study from Germany. Doctors there say a patient of theirs ended up sick in the emergency room after being poisoned by a homeopathic remedy—quack treatments that by definition are supposed to contain virtually no active ingredient. Thankfully, the man recovered…

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An Ancient Supervolcano May Have Zapped the Ozone Layer, Exposing Early Humans to Intense Sunburns

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:30 PM PDT

The Toba super-eruption of some 74,000 years ago has long intrigued scientists, who remain uncertain about how the event affected humans living at the time. Now, a team of researchers suggest that the real damage from Toba came from on high, in the form of a depleted ozone layer induced by a massive release of sulfur…

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Spotify’s 'Only You' Is a Glaring Reminder of Its Emotional Surveillance

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:20 PM PDT

In a bid to become the most Instagrammable music service, Spotify announced several new personalized playlists and features. They include the "Only You" in-app experience, similar to the year-end Wrapped playlist, and a beta feature where you can create an algorithm-infused playlist between you and a friend.

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Hell Yes, We're Going to Venus

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:08 PM PDT

NASA announced Wednesday that two missions will visit Venus by the end of this decade, the first direct exploration of the hot planet since 1994. One spacecraft is set to orbit Venus, mapping it and studying it from above, while the other will attempt to land on the surface, sampling the planet's atmosphere as it…

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Love, Death and Robots Explains How to Make the Perfect Digital Michael B. Jordan

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 01:45 PM PDT

The second season of Netflix's animated sci-fi anthology Love, Death and Robots contains a short titled "Life Hutch," starring Michael B. Jordan as a space explorer who gets trapped in the titular Life Hutch along with a malfunctioning maintenance robot that tries to destroy anything that moves. But was that the real…

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