sexta-feira, 16 de julho de 2021


Masters of the Universe’s Sarah Michelle Gellar Is Hopeful About Fan Reactions to Revelation

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 07:45 AM PDT

In Kevin Smith's Netflix sequel to the classic Masters of the Universe cartoon, the warrior/Prince Adam's best friend Teela plays just as important a role as He-Man himself. It's a change to be sure, and change is something some 40-year-old nerds traditionally don't handle well when it comes to the classic franchises…

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MAGA-Branded 'Freedom Phone' Is a Black Box That Should Be Avoided at All Costs

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 07:10 AM PDT

Be it Parler, Gab, or GETTR, recent times have seen no shortage of dollar-sign-eyed entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on conservative America's disdain for "liberal" Silicon Valley. It was only a matter of time before someone tried to invent the MAGA phone.

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The 10 Coolest Concept Gadgets That Never Made It to Stores

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 07:00 AM PDT

The annals of tech history are littered with gadgets that arrived DOA at retail, but some of the most promising devices were actually concepts that never even made it out the door. So as a tribute to all the innovative teasers and promising tech demos that just didn't quite have what it takes to make it to store…

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Hubble Space Telescope Is Back

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 06:44 AM PDT

NASA was able to bring Hubble Space Telescope's backup payload computer online, according to a Twitter post from the telescope's social media team. The announcement will bring a sigh of relief to space lovers, following a month of anxiety over whether the aging technology could be resuscitated at all after it slipped…

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Indiana Jones 5 Set Pictures Tease New Looks and a New Setting

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 06:40 AM PDT

A familiar face will return for John Wick 4. Go behind the scenes on The Suicide Squad and Fear Street: 1666 in two new featurettes. Plus, tons of new footage from Jungle Cruise, and a teaser for the long-in-the-making Y: The Last Man adaptation...that has no footage in it at all. To me, my spoilers!

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Meet the Unlikely TikTok Star Who Hunts Wildfires From the Top of a Mountain

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 06:30 AM PDT

"To the people who think I'm lying about not having running water: Come, come, come see my bathroom," Kelsey Sims says in her latest TikTok. The video, posted from Sims's home in a fire tower in New Mexico, walks viewers through the two bathroom options available at her lookout: a vault toilet (waste goes into a…

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A Wine Glass Shattering at 187,500 FPS Reveals the Destruction in Excruciating Detail

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 06:10 AM PDT

High-speed footage can make a mundane event feel more dramatic, which is why Hollywood uses it to enhance certain scenes. But the technology can also reveal details that happen too quickly for the human eye to perceive. As The Slow Mo Guys reveal, a wine glass shattering when blasted by sound waves is far more complex…

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Dungeons & Dragons' Future Is Full of Carnivals and Dragons

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Dungeons & Dragons is a world of imagination, from the vast realms and planes of existence your adventures can take place on, to the characters your parties build over the course of their travels. The next two releases for the game's Fifth Edition are going to put that imagination to the test—in ways epic enough to…

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Huawei's New Smartwatch Could Have Been Great

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT

Huawei picked a real weird time to release the Huawei Watch 3. On the one hand, you have Samsung and Google completely upending the Android smartwatch space, while Apple firmly remains the smartwatch of choice for iOS users. Fitbit's been gobbled up by Google. There isn't a whole lot of space for flagship smartwatches…

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That Viral 'Protest' Photo of Cuba Is Actually From May Day 2018

Posted: 16 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Protests against the Cuban government have been taking place this week, with many conservatives in the U.S. circulating photos and video of the demonstrations. But not everything that's going viral out of Cuba is actually from this week. In fact, one photo isn't even from this year.

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Now You Can Delete the Last 15 Minutes of Your Google Search History on iOS

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 05:20 PM PDT

In its never-ending quest to convince users that it has privacy top of mind, Google is rolling out a quick auto-delete control to scrub the last 15 minutes of your mobile search history. The feature is arriving on iOS devices first, with the option coming to Android devices later this year.

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The Grudge Series Creator Is Back With More Curses and Nightmares in Howling Village

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 04:40 PM PDT

Filmmaker Takashi Shimizu is probably best-known for creating the Ju-On: The Grudge franchise back in the early 2000s; it became a sensation in Japan and was one of the top titles, along with The Ring, to emerge from that era's Asian horror boom. Shimizu brought extra authenticity to the 2004 Sam Raimi-produced…

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Two Bull Sharks Swam Up the Mississippi River All the Way to St. Louis

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 04:30 PM PDT

Bull sharks are coastal creatures, but at least two of the animals were able to make it as far inland as St. Louis by swimming up the Mississippi River, according to a team of researchers who looked at the shark's fossil record and reported sightings over the years.

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The Walking Dead Season 11 Trailer Is a Look Back Before the Commonweath

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 03:30 PM PDT

In The Walking Dead's 10th season, the series' core cast of survivors made their first contact with some of the humans still thriving within the Commonwealth. It's a mysterious settlement that exists in Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore's comics series, and a major location for lead character Rick Grimes.

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The New Tamagotchi Is a Welcome Escape From the Everyday Dread of Adulting

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 03:00 PM PDT

When I tell a person that one of my hobbies is playing with and collecting Tamagotchi, their first response is usually something incredulous like, "Those are still around?" It drives me bonkers, because it feels like an immediate nullification of the hundreds of dollars I've spent collecting these virtual pets from…

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Unicode's New Emoji Finalists, Ranked

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 02:45 PM PDT

A new cast of draft emojis stands for final approval by the Unicode Consortium Emoji Subcommittee, the America's Next Top Model panel of emoji judgment. If you, an emoji, think you're going to cruise to the top on a nice smile and a dance move, think again. For you who dare approach the world stage, the Consortium…

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The Last of Us TV Show Finds a Way to Include Some Game Stars Anyway

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 02:30 PM PDT

While HBO's take on The Last of Us will hew as close to the games as it needs to, some changes have meant that the process of adaptation requires a few character tweaks. But while some characters and the voices behind them are making their way over directly, others are getting some new stars... and new roles for the…

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Some Doctors Say They Won't Give Their Patients a Contentious New Alzheimer's Drug

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 01:50 PM PDT

Parts of the medical world are continuing to rebel against Aduhelm, the controversial treatment developed by Biogen and recently approved for Alzheimer's disease by the Food and Drug Administration. This week, two major medical centers in the U.S. said that they would not treat their patients with the drug.

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io9's Many Variants Chat About Loki, Season 2, and the Future of the MCU

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 01:40 PM PDT

The first season of Disney's latest Marvel series, Loki, has ended with a bang. Not only did we learn that the Time Variance Authority (or TVA) would be coming back for season two, but it also introduced a major villain for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But did Loki stand on its own? We're here to find out.

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$28 Million Ticket-Holder for Jeff Bezos’s Flight to Space Suddenly Has Something Better to Do

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 01:00 PM PDT

The person who paid $28 million for a seat to the edge of space with billionaire Amazon magnate Jeff Bezos on one of his Blue Origin rockets has decided they have better things to do.

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Antonio Banderas Is Indiana Jones 5's Latest Wild Acquisition

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 12:50 PM PDT

Harrison Ford is almost definitely back in fine form as Indiana Jones for the latest entry in the adventuring saga, because good lord, he's swiping interesting co-stars like they're golden idols protected by several layers of deadly booby traps.

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Enormous Inbound Comet Appears as ‘Beautiful Little Fuzzy Dot’ in New Image

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 12:30 PM PDT

Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, as it's now known, won't make its closest approach to the Sun for another 10 years, but the object is already showing signs of life, as this wonderful new image shows.

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Valve Announces Steam Deck, a Switch Clone for PC Gamers

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 12:22 PM PDT

Earlier this spring, rumors started swirling that Valve was working on its own take on the Switch for PC gamers, and today, Valve has returned to turn those rumors into reality with its official announcement for the Steam Deck.

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Mom's the Word on the Anniversary of James Cameron's Aliens

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 12:20 PM PDT

A good movie is one you enjoy the first time you watch it. A great movie is one you find joy in dozens of viewings later. For me, James Cameron's Aliens is not just a great movie, it's an incredible movie, and though I've seen it so many times over the years, I sat down to watch it again for its upcoming 35th…

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Microsoft Memorializes Clippy by Making It an Emoji

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 12:11 PM PDT

Clippy, the hero of Microsoft Office, is now an emoji.

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