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- Skies Across the U.S. Go Hazy as Wildfire Smoke Spreads
- High-Speed Projectors Power This Virtual Air Hockey With Shape-Changing Paddles
- Charlize Theron Is Joining HBO Max's The Final Girl Support Group
- Sony's New Home Theater Speakers Are Beefy and Ridiculously Expensive
- The Hidden Toll of Shipping
- Jeff Bezos Floats Back to Earth, Achieves the Bare Minimum Definition of ‘Astronaut’
- Updates From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Black Adam, and More
- 10 HTC Vive Pro 2 Tips to Get the Most From Your VR Headset
- Pro-Trump Group Files Motion Against FDA to Stop Covid-19 Vaccinations in U.S.
- Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for 12 Hours Over Anti-Vaccine Tweets
- Just Cancel the Damn Olympics Already
- The Boys Showrunner Says Season 3's 'Herogasm' Will Be Just as Raunchy as the Comics
- Hackers Stole a Terabyte of Data from Oil Giant Saudi Aramco
- Windows 11 Might Let You Sideload Google's New Android App Bundles
- HBO's The Last Of Us May Be More Expensive Than Game of Thrones
- The Telecoms Industry Spends $320K a Day to Make Sure Your Broadband Sucks
- Loki's Controversial Multiversal Romance: A Philosopher Weighs In
- CNN Is Launching a Streaming Service Called CNN+ Because That’s What Streaming Services Are Called
- French Horror Film Kandisha Feels Like Candyman's Little Sister
- Joe Biden: Facebook’s Not Killing People. My Bad.
- UK Issues First-Ever Extreme Heat Warning
- No, Olympic Athletes Aren't Being Asked to Sleep On 'Anti-Sex' Beds
- Study Finds Lung Damage in Firefighters Years After a Major Wildfire
- Physicists Get a Unique View of a Destroyed Comet
- Dungeons & Dragons' Newest Magic Crossover Wants Everyone to Feel Home at Magic School
| Skies Across the U.S. Go Hazy as Wildfire Smoke Spreads Posted: 20 Jul 2021 08:05 AM PDT Millions of people across the U.S. and Canada woke up to smoke-choked air on Tuesday. The source: intense wildfires burning thousands of miles away in western North America. Yes, the western wildfires are now everyone's problem, proving for the millionth time that nobody will be spared from climate change and that the… |
| High-Speed Projectors Power This Virtual Air Hockey With Shape-Changing Paddles Posted: 20 Jul 2021 07:55 AM PDT If you've spent any time at a modern arcade you've probably seen air hockey tables upgraded with glowing pucks and paddles that make the game more visually appealing. Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have taken those upgrades one step further in a version of air hockey that replaces the pucks and paddles… |
| Charlize Theron Is Joining HBO Max's The Final Girl Support Group Posted: 20 Jul 2021 07:45 AM PDT  Charlize Theron is getting ready to sit down, have a little chat, and stop a serial killer. The actress and producer is working on a TV series for HBO Max based on Grady Hendrix's The Final Girl Support Group, which is about a group of slasher survivors who must band together after one of their own go missing. |
| Sony's New Home Theater Speakers Are Beefy and Ridiculously Expensive Posted: 20 Jul 2021 07:00 AM PDT  Sony did not come to play this summer. After launching four new speakers in May, the company is now revamping its home theater lineup with the HT-A9, a new modular system, and the HT-A7000, an incredibly beefy Dolby Atmos soundbar. The kicker: They cost $1,800 and $1,300, respectively. |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2021 06:45 AM PDT  Newly obtained data shows how 15 companies—including big names like Walmart, Ikea, and Amazon—are responsible for millions of tons of pollution and carbon emissions from an often-overlooked sector of their business: importing goods into the U.S. on cargo ships. A new report released Tuesday by Pacific Environment and… |
| Jeff Bezos Floats Back to Earth, Achieves the Bare Minimum Definition of ‘Astronaut’ Posted: 20 Jul 2021 06:26 AM PDT  Jeff Bezos utterly smashed the Kármán line, the internationally-recognized edge of space 62 miles above sea level, at approximately 9:04 a.m. Eastern Standard Time this morning, awarding him the permanent honorific: "astronaut." As Blue Origin has made sure to clarify ahead of time, Jeff Bezos is now a no-asterisk … |
| Updates From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Black Adam, and More Posted: 20 Jul 2021 06:20 AM PDT  Get up close with Michael Myers' new look in Halloween Kills. One of the charmed ones has called time on Charmed's next season. Game of Thrones prequel spinoff House of the Dragon has been hit with covid-induced production shutdowns. Plus, what's to come on Rick and Morty. To me, my spoilers! |
| 10 HTC Vive Pro 2 Tips to Get the Most From Your VR Headset Posted: 20 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT  If you're serious about virtual reality, then few headsets can beat the HTC Vive Pro 2. It's not cheap, so if you've invested a substantial sum in VR, then you'll want to make sure you're getting your money's worth. Here are 10 tips to help you do just that, many of which will work with other HTC and SteamVR headsets… |
| Pro-Trump Group Files Motion Against FDA to Stop Covid-19 Vaccinations in U.S. Posted: 20 Jul 2021 04:00 AM PDT  A bizarre fringe group that calls itself "America's Frontline Doctors" filed a motion in federal court on Monday against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the parent agency of the FDA, to seek an injunction that would halt all vaccinations for covid-19 in the country. And while the lawsuit is unlikely… |
| Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for 12 Hours Over Anti-Vaccine Tweets Posted: 20 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT  Right-wing congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended from Twitter for spreading misinformation about covid-19 vaccines, according to a new report from CNN. How long will Greene be forced off the platform? An entire 12 hours, according to the cable news outlet. That oughta teach her. |
| Just Cancel the Damn Olympics Already Posted: 19 Jul 2021 06:01 PM PDT  Add "extreme heat" to the growing list of plagues facing this year's Summer Olympics, an event I'm starting to suspect I would very much not enjoy participating in, even if they asked nicely. |
| The Boys Showrunner Says Season 3's 'Herogasm' Will Be Just as Raunchy as the Comics Posted: 19 Jul 2021 05:30 PM PDT  In Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's Herogasm, a limited spin-off series of The Boys, Wee Hughie and the rest of the Boys set out to infiltrate the titular bacchanalia that Vought throws every year for its corporate-branded superheroes. Away from the prying eyes of the public, Herogasm gives Vought's capes a chance… |
| Hackers Stole a Terabyte of Data from Oil Giant Saudi Aramco Posted: 19 Jul 2021 05:10 PM PDT  Cybercriminals have stolen approximately a terabyte of data from one of the world's largest energy companies, Saudi Aramco. |
| Windows 11 Might Let You Sideload Google's New Android App Bundles Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:45 PM PDT  Amazon has officially confirmed that it is working on supporting the new Android App Bundle format mandated by Google, resolving the will-they-or-won't-they question. It's not entirely clear if this means you'll be able to sideload Android apps of all types in Windows 11, which will let you run Android apps on a PC,… |
| HBO's The Last Of Us May Be More Expensive Than Game of Thrones Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:30 PM PDT  Television isn't just television anymore. It's blockbuster movies separated into chapters. Watch the Star Wars or Marvel shows on Disney+, Star Trek shows on Paramount+, or any number of massive shows on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, and you can see that the days of television being simpler and smaller than movies are… |
| The Telecoms Industry Spends $320K a Day to Make Sure Your Broadband Sucks Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:13 PM PDT  If broadband in the United States sucks, you can thank the telecoms industry, which is apparently so obsessed with maintaining our current crappy internet infrastructure that it spent a combined total of $234 million lobbying against faster, cheaper competitors during the 116th Congress. |
| Loki's Controversial Multiversal Romance: A Philosopher Weighs In Posted: 19 Jul 2021 03:30 PM PDT  Toward the end of Disney+ and Marvel's fourth episode of Loki, "The Nexus Event," Loki and Sylvie were dumbfounded by their latest discovery about the all-powerful Timekeepers who oversaw the Time Variance Authority. In a very dramatic moment, the pair shared a rather eyebrow-raising look whose significance wasn't… |
| CNN Is Launching a Streaming Service Called CNN+ Because That’s What Streaming Services Are Called Posted: 19 Jul 2021 02:40 PM PDT |
| French Horror Film Kandisha Feels Like Candyman's Little Sister Posted: 19 Jul 2021 02:30 PM PDT  It's summer in Paris, and three besties—Morjana (Samarcande Saadi), Amélie (Mathilde Lamusse), and Bintou (Suzy Bemba)—are lazing through the days, partying with friends, and working on their graffiti murals inside an empty apartment building that's scheduled for demolition. Life isn't perfect, but it's not terrible,… |
| Joe Biden: Facebook’s Not Killing People. My Bad. Posted: 19 Jul 2021 02:25 PM PDT  Last Friday, Joe Biden told reporters that Facebook was "killing people" by refusing to take action on a number of anti-vax accounts spreading conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and other misinformation about the novel coronavirus pandemic—causing the social network to respond with faux indignation. Now Biden is walking… |
| UK Issues First-Ever Extreme Heat Warning Posted: 19 Jul 2021 02:20 PM PDT  In 2021, nowhere on Earth is safe from searing temperatures—not the Pacific Northwest, nor Siberia, nor, it seems, the UK. The country's Met Office issued its first-ever extreme heat alert Monday to warn residents of temperatures coming this week that could exceed 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius) in some… |
| No, Olympic Athletes Aren't Being Asked to Sleep On 'Anti-Sex' Beds Posted: 19 Jul 2021 02:10 PM PDT  If you've been following news of the upcoming Olympics games in Tokyo, you've undoubtedly seen the... unusual beds that this year's competitors are expected to sleep on. The white, boxy frames come courtesy of the Japanese company Airweave, which says it created the structures entirely from recycled cardboard in an… |
| Study Finds Lung Damage in Firefighters Years After a Major Wildfire Posted: 19 Jul 2021 01:57 PM PDT  Recent research from Canada seems to show that wildfires can continue to hurt the lungs of firefighters for years after they've burnt out. The study found that first responders who combated the Fort McMurray wildfire in 2016 were more likely to experience chronic lung ailments like asthma in the years after than the… |
| Physicists Get a Unique View of a Destroyed Comet Posted: 19 Jul 2021 01:33 PM PDT  When C/2019 Y4 ATLAS fragmented in April 2020, many were dismayed at the loss of what would've been the brightest comet since the 1997 passing of Hale-Bopp. But NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter just flew near what's left of ATLAS, giving scientists a rare look at what happens to a comet's tail when… |
| Dungeons & Dragons' Newest Magic Crossover Wants Everyone to Feel Home at Magic School Posted: 19 Jul 2021 01:30 PM PDT  Magic: The Gathering is a game about the most powerful spellcasters in the multiverse, so an entire card set themed around a magical place of study makes sense. In Dungeons & Dragons, adventurers can be martial artists, great warriors, master weaponsmiths—they may not touch magic at all. So when D&D and Magic crossed… |
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