quarta-feira, 25 de agosto de 2021


The Photos That Show Everything Wrong With Our Current Moment

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 08:25 AM PDT

The Caldor Fire is California's latest megafire in a wildfire season from hell. It's among a number of unchecked blazes, but this one hits slightly different because it's encroaching on the Lake Tahoe basin.

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Mosquito State Is a Genre-Defying Film About the Doom-Laden Business of Predicting the Future

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 08:15 AM PDT

In a lonely, cavernous apartment overlooking Central Park, Wall Street data whiz Richard Boca (Beau Knapp) realizes he's been bitten by a mosquito. That itchy discovery sets in motion Mosquito State, a movie about a man's journey of self-discovery that dovetails into a complete mental collapse; as he's frantically…

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Child-Sized Arcade Cabinets Let You Force Your Favorite Retro Games on Your Kids

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Tired of your kids wasting hours on games like Fortnite and PUBG? Arcade1Up is introducing a new line of extra small stand-up arcade cabinets letting kids as young as four-years-old experience the joy of retro games, minus the endless frustration thanks to updates like "Super Easy" modes and infinite lives.

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Cancelation of NASA Spacewalk Is Literally a Pain in the Neck

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 07:50 AM PDT

NASA had to postpone a scheduled spacewalk to install new solar arrays outside the International Space Station after one of its astronauts complained of a pinched nerve in his neck.

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YouTube Has Killed Groovy Bot, Discord's Best-Kept Secret

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 07:41 AM PDT

Google-owned YouTube is finally cracking down on Discord's Groovy music bot, which had sourced and played music from the streaming platform on more than 16 million servers for years right under its nose.

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OnlyFans Announces That It's 'Suspended' Its Ban on Sexually Explicit Content

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 07:05 AM PDT

After a week of chaos shrouded in messy and mixed messaging, OnlyFans has announced on Twitter that it has paused the plan to ban sexually explicit content. Or, "suspended the planned October 1 policy change," an implicit reference to the ban that's sent creators reeling into the time-consuming and expensive prospect…

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Airbus Wants to Replace Skymall With a Digital OLED Magazine That Plays Movies

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 06:43 AM PDT

There are many reasons for airlines to ditch in-flight magazines, from the cost of printing to the hassle of replacing damaged copies during each stopover. But what else are you going to mindlessly peruse while waiting for a flight to take off? Airbus has proposed a potential alternative: a digital magazine made from…

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Updates From Nosferatu, Oblivion Song, and More

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 06:20 AM PDT

Robert Kirkman's Oblivion Song is coming to the big screen, with some help from Jake Gyllenhaal. A Witches of Eastwick reboot may be happening at Warner Bros. Go behind the scenes on the return of Apple TV+'s See. Plus, what's coming on Archer and What We Do In the Shadows. To me, my spoilers!

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Surprise! Fitbit's Charge 5 Is Actually a Massive Upgrade

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 06:00 AM PDT

We already knew the Fitbit Charge 5 was getting a color touchscreen based on early leaks, but today Fitbit announced its most popular fitness tracker is getting way more than just an upgraded screen. The Charge 5 is gaining the ability to take electrocardiograms and notify users of abnormal heart rates, features that…

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10 Tips and Tricks to Get the Most Out of Google Chat

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 05:30 AM PDT

Now that Google has killed Google Hangouts and is moving everyone over to its new messaging app, Google Chat, you might be wondering where certain features are and what's new. We've got you covered.

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This Touchscreen Coffee Table Makes Digital Board Games a Blast

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 05:00 AM PDT

My family loves board games, to the point where we recently had to expand our basement shelving to accommodate our growing collection. I've been playing them for decades, and it's why I've been skeptical of Arcade1Up's new Infinity Game Table, which is a touchscreen coffee table that delivers digital versions of…

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New Zealand Pursues Covid-Zero as Right-Wing Idiots Lose Their Minds

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Health officials in New Zealand said they're still pursuing a covid-19 strategy of complete elimination, including the use of aggressive lockdowns, despite the rise in cases over the past few days. And it's driving right-wingers around the world absolutely nuts.

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Biden's Cybersecurity Summit Will Gather Very Important People to Solve America's Hacking Problem

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 02:00 AM PDT

President Joe Biden and other White House officials plan to meet with a cadre of business, tech, education leaders and others on Wednesday to discuss a pretty pressing issue: How exactly to keep America from getting hacked so much.

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What If's Deadliest Episode Was Sadly Also Its Most Boring

Posted: 25 Aug 2021 12:01 AM PDT

After spending two episodes in wildly alternate universes where Marvel's important, but not quite as central, heroes like Peggy Carter and T'Challa were the leads, What If's latest went back to basics. The third episode of the animated Disney+ series is a story about the MCU's original team of Avengers and the…

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The Matrix 4 Has Its Official Title And First Footage

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 06:13 PM PDT

Of the major 2021 blockbusters still on the release schedule, there's one big title that fans know very little about: the much-anticipated fourth Matrix, which is currently scheduled to release December 22 in theaters and on HBO Max. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are returning, along with a few new additions, but…

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Pixel 6's Under-Display Fingerprint Reader Revealed in Quick Glimpse

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 04:40 PM PDT

We already know the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are on their way. We know about the revamped Tensor processor, which is capable of translating another language in real-time and quickly editing high-resolution photography. Google also confirmed that it would be adding an under-display fingerprint sensor, similar to the one…

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The 'Welcome to the Blumhouse' Trailer Promises a Quartet of Thrills and Chills

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 04:30 PM PDT

Last week, we shared the first look at Black as Night, one of four new horror movies arriving on Amazon Prime in October as part of the "Welcome to the Blumhouse" series. Today, there's a very fun trailer showing footage from all of the films, which also include Bingo Hell, Madres, and The Manor. Check out the trailer…

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This Spec'd-Out Game Boy Advance SP Sports Next-Level Features, but It's Thick As Hell

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 04:00 PM PDT

The folding GBA SP was a huge upgrade over the original Game Boy Advance, if only because it introduced a side-lit screen you could actually see. It wasn't perfect—Nintendo still included some weird design quirks—so the team at the YouTube channel Macho Nacho Productions gave the GBA SP a much-needed upgrade, which…

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Unsurprisingly, the NSO Group's Malware Is Targeting Activists Again

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 03:50 PM PDT

The iPhones of nine Bahraini political activists were recently hacked using the NSO Group's spyware Pegasus, according to a new report put out by researchers.

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Number of People With Hypertension Has Doubled Since 1990, Stressful Report Finds

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 03:30 PM PDT

More and more people around the world are living with high blood pressure, new research this week finds. The study, based on data from nearly 200 countries, estimates that more than a billion adults globally had hypertension in 2019—double the number estimated in 1990. What's more, more than half of these cases are…

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife Early Reactions Call It 'Nostalgia Done Right'

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 03:20 PM PDT

Now that Ghostbusters: Afterlife has finally had its first screening, its viewers have gone to heaven. Or so it seems, according to the various critics who got an early look at director Jason Reitman's follow-up to his father's beloved 1984 classic movie, and who have practically nothing but nice things to say about…

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Tennessee Woman Killed by Rising Floodwaters as She Streamed Live on Facebook

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 03:00 PM PDT

Rising floodwaters swept a Tennessee woman to her death on Saturday as she live streamed the harrowing ordeal on Facebook. In a video posted at 10:13 a.m., Linda Almond, 55, can be heard narrating as several feet of murky brown water rush past the window of her home that sat at the epicenter of Tennessee's biggest…

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Airbnb Says It Will Host 20,000 Afghan Refugees Following Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 02:46 PM PDT

Airbnb said on Tuesday it will provide free temporary accommodations to 20,000 Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban's virtually complete takeover of Afghanistan in the wake of U.S. military withdrawal, with the program beginning immediately.

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The Scarlett Johansson v. Disney Black Widow Lawsuit Enters Round 2

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 02:30 PM PDT

The latest round in the battle between longtime Marvel Cinematic Universe star Scarlett Johansson and Marvel Studios parent company Disney began this weekend, when Disney's lawyers filed a motion to put the dispute over Black Widow's profits in private arbitration rather than have a public trial.

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TikTok Will Now Let Me Directly Subsidize the Lives of Cool 19-Year-Olds

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 02:20 PM PDT

In what I can only assume is a carefully-laid scheme to ensure my long-term personal and financial demise, TikTok and Shopify announced on Tuesday a new partnership that will allow users to make in-app purchases directly from the streaming platform for the first time.

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