segunda-feira, 30 de agosto de 2021


Resident Evil's New Live-Action Movie Is Going Back to the Games' Horror Roots

Posted: 30 Aug 2021 08:10 AM PDT

Although the Resident Evil game franchise has certainly spun out to its own particularly varied and weird kind of horror these days—from presidential zombie assaults to Very Tall Women—the movie adaptations very quickly went off on their own undead thing. Now, the latest attempt to reboot the big screen saga is trying…

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TikTok’s Owner Is Taking One Small Step Into the Metaverse

Posted: 30 Aug 2021 08:06 AM PDT

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, has acquired the virtual reality startup Pico in a deal that marks a major push by the company to diversify its business holdings and keep pace with the drive toward the metaverse.

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The Caldor Fire Has Taken an Ominous Turn Toward Lake Tahoe

Posted: 30 Aug 2021 07:53 AM PDT

While the Gulf South is underwater, the West is ablaze in a serious way. On Sunday, fire officials put residents of the city of South Lake Tahoe under an evacuation warning due to the spread of the Caldor Fire.

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Marlon James on His Follow-Up to Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the Importance of Fantasy

Posted: 30 Aug 2021 07:00 AM PDT

Marlon James began his Dark Star trilogy—aka "the African Game of Thrones"—with 2019's highly acclaimed Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which is currently being adapted for the screen by Michael B. Jordan. The second book in the series, Moon Witch, Spider King, will be out February 15, 2022, but today, io9 has the exclusive…

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Teases Our First Look at a New Hero

Posted: 30 Aug 2021 06:25 AM PDT

New pictures from Venom: Let There Be Carnage give us a look at new and returning friends. Manifest will, well, manifest for one last time on Netflix. The streamer's new Wednesday Addams show rounds out its cast. Plus, what's coming on Fantasy Island's finale and Day of the Dead. Spoilers, get!

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Fossil's New Smartwatch Is Here, but the Timing Is Unfortunate

Posted: 30 Aug 2021 06:00 AM PDT

When you picture a Wear OS watch, you're probably thinking of a Fossil, or one of the many designer brands under the company's umbrella (Kate Spade, Michael Kors, etc.). So of course when Google and Samsung announced they had teamed up on an overhauled Wear OS platform, it was only a matter of time before Fossil…

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What Is the Most Important Scientific Development of the Last 50 Years?

Posted: 30 Aug 2021 05:00 AM PDT

There are people who argue, persuasively, that Hollywood films are worse than they used to be. Or that novels have turned inward, away from the form-breaking gestures of decades past. In fact, almost anything can be slotted into a narrative of decline—the planet, most obviously, but also (per our former president)

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Singapore Gives Up Goal of Covid-Zero Despite High Vaccination Rate

Posted: 30 Aug 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Singapore has decided to give up on the dream of covid-zero and will instead learn to "live with the virus," according to the country's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday. The decision comes despite the fact that Singapore has one of the highest covid-19 vaccination rates in the world, with 80% of the adult…

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More Than a Million Without Power in the Wake of Ida's 'Catastrophic Transmission Damage'

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 08:50 PM PDT

All of New Orleans lost power Sunday night after Hurricane Ida brought down eight transmission lines that deliver electricity to the city, according to a new report from Nola.com. Everyone in Orleans parish, home to New Orleans, lost power around 7:15 p.m. local time, 8:15 p.m. ET, and it's not clear when power might…

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How to Help Hurricane Ida Victims Right Now

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 07:34 PM PDT

Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday as a powerful Category 4 storm, dumping flooding rain whipped by sustained winds of more than 150 mph (241 kph). Next comes the aftermath.

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Hurricane Ida Shuts Down More Than 90% of Oil and Gas Production in the Gulf of Mexico

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 07:20 PM PDT

As if reversing the course of the Mississippi River, forcing hospitals to hunker down with patients that couldn't be moved, and nearly shutting off the power and internet in New Orleans wasn't enough, Hurricane Ida has also disrupted oil and gas production.

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Well, That Was a Thoroughly Unpleasant Episode of The Walking Dead

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 07:14 PM PDT

I can't count all the times The Walking Dead has disappointed me. I think the show has infuriated me even more so. But I don't think I've even been so disgusted, so disappointed, and so fed up as I am after tonight's episode.

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The iPhone 13 Could Allow Users to Text and Call Without 4G and 5G Coverage

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 04:26 PM PDT

There are only a few days left until September, which is when Apple is expected to reveal its new iPhone 13 lineup. However, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has given us a sneak peek at what we can expect: texting and calling even when you don't have 4G and 5G coverage.

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Hurricane Ida Reversed the Course of the Mississippi River

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 03:45 PM PDT

The incredible power of Hurricane Ida was on display on Sunday as the storm reversed the course of the mighty Mississippi River.

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Creepy Lamb Baby Director Doesn't Want You to Be Scared by the Creepy Lamb Baby

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 01:45 PM PDT

Thanks to films like Hereditary and Midsommar, one tends to be wary when studio A24's name pops up. So you can't blame those who watched the first trailer for Valdimar Jóhannsson's Lamb for assuming horrific things were about to invade our minds. But now, the director is trying to tell us that's not the case, which…

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Hurricane Ida Is Hitting Louisiana Amid a Covid-19 Surge. It's a Nightmare in the Making

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 11:37 AM PDT

Hurricane Ida has officially made landfall in Louisiana. There's never a good time for one of the worst storms to ever strike the state to make landfall, but now is a particularly nightmarish moment.

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Luke Skywalker's Mandalorian Cameo Was Guided by Our Star Wars Memories

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 09:30 AM PDT

You've probably watched Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Mandalorian by now (or read our post about the coolest things we learned from it), but there's always more story to tell. Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker cameo in the finale of The Mandalorian season two wasn't just a surprise, it was a triumph after a whole lot of…

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Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall as a Dangerous Category 4 Storm

Posted: 29 Aug 2021 08:25 AM PDT

The worst has come to bear with Hurricane Ida. The storm has rapidly intensified into a Category 4 beast and is in the process of making landfall on Grand Isle, Louisiana.

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