quarta-feira, 7 de julho de 2021


A New World of Warcraft Board Game Sees Pandemic Spread to Azeroth

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 07:45 AM PDT

Dear Alliance and Horde: I hope you're vaccinated. Z-Man Games and Blizzard Entertainment have unveiled a new Pandemic tabletop game based on the Wrath of the Lich King expansion from World of Warcraft. There may be no escaping the Corrupted Blood plague this time.

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Thor's Jamie Alexander Confirms Sif's Return for Love and Thunder

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 06:20 AM PDT

Venom: Let There Be Carnage writer Kelly Marcel praises Tom Hardy's intimate involvement with the film. Space Jam: A New Legacy teases a trip to Metropolis. Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon casts the younger selves of two of its most important female characters. Plus wild She-Hulk rumors, and what's to come…

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Lenovo's Titanium 2-in-1 Is Perfect for Post-Pandemic Work Travel

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT

Lenovo's ThinkPads are some of the toughest and most capable laptops on the market, but the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is something else entirely. That's because in addition to a super strong titanium frame, the X1 Titanium also sports a fancy webcam with presence detection and a brand new kind of touchpad. That's in…

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Elon Musk's Boring Company Wants to Build One of Its Ridiculous Tunnels in Florida

Posted: 07 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT

The city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida has accepted a proposal from Elon Musk's Boring Company to build a transportation tunnel that would bring people from downtown to the beach, according to Mayor Dean J. Trantalis in a tweet late Tuesday. And if Musk's previous tunnel efforts are any guide, the residents of Fort…

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The Biden Administration Is Ready To Go to War Over ‘Right To Repair’ Rules

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 05:33 PM PDT

President Joe Biden is reportedly gearing up to issue an executive order compelling the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to draft new "right to repair" rules — a set of regulations that will protect consumers' ability to repair their equipment on their own and at independent shops.

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Zack Snyder Is Turning His Long-Ago Star Wars Pitch Into a Netflix Sci-Fi Epic

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 04:30 PM PDT

With the success of HBO Max's Zack Snyder's Justice League and Netflix's Army of the Dead, Zack Snyder is sticking to genre movies and streaming for his newly announced next project: Netflix sci-fi epic Rebel Moon, which the director hopes will become a franchise not unlike Star Wars, the series that initially helped …

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Report: Russian Cyber Spies Recently Hacked the Republican National Committee

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 04:06 PM PDT

According to a new investigation from Bloomberg, cyber spies connected to the Russian government recently hacked into the Republican National Committee—though the RNC has denied that their systems were breached in this way.

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Fast & Furious Will Be Exclusive to Peacock

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 03:31 PM PDT

A new licensing agreement will see Universal Pictures films headed exclusively to NBCUniversal's streaming service, Peacock, no later than four months after their cinematic debut — a major win for the platform as it attempts to lure in new cinephile subscribers.

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The King's Man Teaser Reminds Us That We Still Haven't Seen This Yet

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 03:30 PM PDT

It's been quite a year, hasn't it? Especially at the (non-existent) box office. We've mostly been waiting to finally see Marvel's Black Widow finally arrive on the big screen, but lo and behold there's another action franchise right around the corner. In this new look at The King's Man, we take a glimpse at the past,…

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Keystone XL Pipeline Developer Wants $15 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 03:20 PM PDT

The owner of the Keystone XL pipeline is suing the U.S. government as payback for canceling a permit for the project. The claim, which comes under a provision in the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, shows the need to rewrite trade law to prioritize people and the planet over polluting companies.

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Being Clean Doesn't Have to Be Bad for Our Immune System, Scientists Say

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 03:10 PM PDT

Staying clean might not be as bad for your immune system as is sometimes believed, researchers in the UK say. In a new paper this week, the authors argue that claims about the so-called hygiene hypothesis are overblown and people do benefit overall from keeping their home environment relatively clear of germs. But we…

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Man Dares Viral Video Viewers to 'Come F*cking See Me' During Hate Speech Rant, Gets Exactly That

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 03:00 PM PDT

A New Jersey man came to his seemingly long-deserved comeuppance this week after he shouted racial slurs on camera, challenged those listening to "Come fucking see me," and was arrested while 150 protesters gathered outside his residence.

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Facebook's Subsea Cables Are The Last Thing Africa Needs

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 02:46 PM PDT

On Monday, Facebook announced it was partnering with Africa's largest fiber company, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, to build an "extensive" fiber network that's over 2,000 kilometers (or 1,243 miles) long. Per Liquid, this network is one of the most "extensive," and "difficult" builds that the company's undertaken,…

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Terminator 2's Famous Kitchen Scene Was More Complicated Than You Thought

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Terminator 2: Judgment Day shot its way into theaters in July of 1991 and cinema was never the same. The James Cameron film certainly had plenty to garner its R-rating but one scene in particular certainly drove home the, well, point.

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Revised Family Tree Identifies 14 Living Relatives of Leonardo Da Vinci

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 01:50 PM PDT

An extensive reworking of the family tree of Leonardo da Vinci connects an unbroken male line that extends from the artist's grandfather to 14 living descendants—a 690-year span that encompasses 21 generations.

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Sharks of the Corn's Trailer Is Propelled by Ultra Low-Budget Goofballery

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 01:40 PM PDT

From SRS Cinema, the distributor behind such titles as Dune World, Amityville Shark House, and Zillafoot (combining the powers of Godzilla and Bigfoot) comes another title seemingly assembled from Mad Libs and somebody's (literally, in this case) corny sense of humor: Sharks of the Corn.

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NYPD's 'Shrek Bus' Is Fake, Not a Bus, and Should Be Avoided at All Costs

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 01:28 PM PDT

Here's a surprise gift from your dear friends at the NYPD: a "GAME TRUCK," containing video game consoles, as spotted by WNYC/Gothamist reporter Gwynne Hogan. Take a look at this bad boy, expanding police presence throughout the city. Fun cop summer!

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Good News, Oil Companies! Fox Is Launching a Weather Channel

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 12:46 PM PDT

We've reached the final boss level of climate irony. The New York Times reported Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch, the media tycoon whose News Corp. owns Fox News, plans to launch a full-time channel focused on the weather called Fox Weather.

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Monsterpocalypse Gives Us a Giant Radioactive Corgi, and More in Gaming News

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 12:30 PM PDT

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This time around, we've got a $2,500 contest for families willing to play board games for a week, a few exciting crowdfunding campaigns for 5e-compatible systems, and something that's so gross I refuse to look at pictures…

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Don't Update Your Chromebook Yet

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 12:20 PM PDT

Google pushed out a small Chrome OS update at the tail end of June, and now Chromebook users are seeing performance issues as a result. One of the chief issues is absurdly high CPU usage that can slow your Chromebook to a crawl.

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The Best Smartwatches and Fitness Trackers You Can Buy Right Now

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 12:11 PM PDT

From smartwatches and fitness trackers to Bluetooth rings and sleep-logging wristbands, if it's technology you can wear, we've reviewed it. Whether you're an Apple diehard or you stan for Android, these are the wearables you should buy.

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Disneyland Paris Replaces FastPass With a Pay-Per-Ride Service

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 11:50 AM PDT

Oh, so you want to go on the Ratatouille ride with your partner and two kids, but you don't want to wait? That'll be $40 please. Disneyland Paris has announced that the free FastPass service, a way for folks to skip the line by reserving a slot ahead of time, will instead be replaced by a pay-per-ride service and a …

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Audacity’s Privacy Policy Doesn’t Make It ‘Spyware’ Because Everything Is Spyware Now

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 11:35 AM PDT

Ever since Audacity was acquired by tech conglomerate Muse Group in late April, fans of the free-to-use audio tool have been raising hell about some of the changes made to the software. First came plans to add telemetry capture. Then came a new contributor license agreement. Then last week came a privacy policy update…

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So, Are You Going to Buy the OLED Nintendo Switch?

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 11:25 AM PDT

Nintendo took us by surprise today and announced a brand new OLED Switch. Now that the shock has started to wear off, I have to ask: Is this the upgraded Switch any of us really wanted?

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Tired of Microsoft and Amazon's Bickering, Pentagon Cancels $10 Billion JEDI Contract

Posted: 06 Jul 2021 11:19 AM PDT

JEDI is officially dead, folks—at least, for now.

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