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- J.W. Rinzler, Prolific Lucasfilm Author, Dies at 58
- Vaccinated People Three Times Less Likely to Contract Delta Variant in UK Study
- It’ll Cost $6,000 to Star Wars LARP With Your Family at Disney World
- Apple Airtags Used to Prove That Contractor Illegally Trashed Unhoused People's Property
- Sprint's Legacy LTE Network Is Scheduled to Go Offline in June 2022
- A Marvel What If Clip Introduces a Different Skinny Steve Rogers and His Hydra Stomper
- iOS 15 Might Finally Fix the Green Dot That Ruins Your iPhone Photos
- Updates From The Batman, Y: The Last Man, and More
- You Can Finally Buy the Plumbing-Free Countertop Dishwasher We've Been Waiting For
- I Miss My Pikachu Nintendo 64
- German Man Fined After Nazi-Era Tank Discovered in Garage
- Citizen Launches a $20 Service You Can Call to Call the Cops
- How Did Palpatine Survive After Return of the Jedi?
- Google Is Finally Killing Off a Decade-Old Version of Android
- Brotherhood of the Wolf Is Still the Greatest French Historical Epic Martial Arts Monster Movie Ever Made
- Zoe Saldana Is Making a Space Opera Anime for Crunchyroll
- Someone, Please Explain the Metaverse to Jim Cramer
- Frontier Airlines Attendants Put on Paid Leave After Duct-Taping Violent Passenger to Seat
- Biologists Have Been Vastly Underestimating Giraffes’ Social Skills
- Lazor Wulf Tried to Warn Everyone About the Moon
- The ISS Backflipped Out of Control After Russian Module Misfired, New Details Reveal
- Nicholas Hoult Will Star as Dracula's Henchman in Universal Monster Comedy Renfield
- Billions of Dollars Later, the U.S. Government Remains as Hackable as Ever
- Hospitalizations Rare Among Vaccinated and More Survivable When They Happen, Study Finds
- Realme's MagSafe Alternative for Android Is Here
| J.W. Rinzler, Prolific Lucasfilm Author, Dies at 58 Posted: 04 Aug 2021 09:10 AM PDT  Prolific author and Lucasfilm editor Jonathan Rinzler, better known by his pen name J.W. Rinzler, died July 28 at his home in Northern California after an 11-month long bout with pancreatic cancer, according to a local news outlet. He was 58 years old. |
| Vaccinated People Three Times Less Likely to Contract Delta Variant in UK Study Posted: 04 Aug 2021 09:00 AM PDT  New research from the UK provides the clearest indication yet of how protected fully vaccinated people are from the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Based on ongoing surveillance data, researchers estimate that the vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford University/AstraZeneca are 50% to 60% effective at… |
| It’ll Cost $6,000 to Star Wars LARP With Your Family at Disney World Posted: 04 Aug 2021 08:30 AM PDT  The Walt Disney Company—worth an estimated $122.18 billion—would like you to pay $6,000 to take a family of four to its new, immersive Star Wars hotel for two nights. |
| Apple Airtags Used to Prove That Contractor Illegally Trashed Unhoused People's Property Posted: 04 Aug 2021 08:20 AM PDT  A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, suspected that a city contractor was illegally trashing property belonging to people living at an encampment for people experiencing homelessness, so he covertly attached Apple AirTag tracking devices to some of the items. Sure enough, the items ended up in a landfill, and now there may… |
| Sprint's Legacy LTE Network Is Scheduled to Go Offline in June 2022 Posted: 04 Aug 2021 08:10 AM PDT  As part of its ongoing efforts to build out its 4G and 5G coverage, T-Mobile has announced that it will be shutting down Sprint's old LTE network next year in June. |
| A Marvel What If Clip Introduces a Different Skinny Steve Rogers and His Hydra Stomper Posted: 04 Aug 2021 08:00 AM PDT  In each episode of What If, different characters from the MCU and Marvel's comics are spotlighted in self-contained stories that reimagine them as distinctly different versions of themselves than we're used to seeing on either the big or small screens. What if, the show asks, T'Challa was abducted by the Ravagers?… |
| iOS 15 Might Finally Fix the Green Dot That Ruins Your iPhone Photos Posted: 04 Aug 2021 07:36 AM PDT  Smartphone photography has improved by leaps and bounds over the years, but if there's one thing that's annoyingly remained, it's that damn green dot that randomly pops up in certain photos. However, there's some good news for iPhone users. It appears that the latest iOS 15 beta has quietly added a feature that… |
| Updates From The Batman, Y: The Last Man, and More Posted: 04 Aug 2021 06:30 AM PDT |
| You Can Finally Buy the Plumbing-Free Countertop Dishwasher We've Been Waiting For Posted: 04 Aug 2021 06:00 AM PDT  There's not a whole lot innovation happening in kitchen appliances these days (unless you count wifi connectivity, voice assistant integration, or the addition of an unnecessary screen). That's why Heatworks' Tetra countertop dishwasher that doesn't require any plumbing connections was so exciting when it was first… |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2021 05:15 AM PDT  Like most kids at the turn of the century, my two sisters and I were obsessed with Pokémon. We had the GameBoy games, the VHS tapes, binders bursting at the seams with trading cards— you name it. And when we finally got our first video game console in 2000 (after years of begging our mom), it was Pokémon-themed too:… |
| German Man Fined After Nazi-Era Tank Discovered in Garage Posted: 04 Aug 2021 02:00 AM PDT  An 84-year-old man in Germany has been hit with heavy fines after a Nazi-era tank and other weapons from World War II were discovered in his garage, according to a report from Germany's DPA news agency. The tank and assorted weapons were uncovered after a tipster told authorities there might be art stolen during World… |
| Citizen Launches a $20 Service You Can Call to Call the Cops Posted: 03 Aug 2021 05:03 PM PDT  Citizen, the self-proclaimed crime-fighting app, has launched a new premium service that, for $20 a month, lets you do something you can already do for free. |
| How Did Palpatine Survive After Return of the Jedi? Posted: 03 Aug 2021 04:30 PM PDT  The dead speak! On the official Star Wars website in fact! In a new blog post on the site today, Lucasfilm Story Group member Emily Shkoukani explained "The Contingency"—the canon name for exactly how Emperor Palpatine died, came back to life, and returned to power in Star Wars. A plan that was, according to the site,… |
| Google Is Finally Killing Off a Decade-Old Version of Android Posted: 03 Aug 2021 03:50 PM PDT  Whether you're running it for a nostalgic feel or you've held on to a device for too long, it's time to say goodbye to the decade-old Android Gingerbread. Google is officially laying it to rest. |
| Posted: 03 Aug 2021 03:30 PM PDT  Martial arts movies that double as historical epics are supposed to be set in Asia. They're not supposed to take place in the opulent, luxurious, ostentatious mansions of the bewigged aristocracy of 1760s France. Yet 2001's Brotherhood of the Wolf has the audacity to take these wildly incohesive elements, along with… |
| Zoe Saldana Is Making a Space Opera Anime for Crunchyroll Posted: 03 Aug 2021 02:40 PM PDT  Zoe Saldana has starred in some of the biggest, most successful films in history. Next up, she'll try to make more history by teaming up with the hugely successful anime brand Crunchyroll to create a franchise of her own. |
| Someone, Please Explain the Metaverse to Jim Cramer Posted: 03 Aug 2021 02:30 PM PDT  If you follow tech news, you may have been wondering to yourself—what the hell is a metaverse? That's fair. But if you are wondering what the metaverse is, please, do not go to Jim Cramer for answers. |
| Frontier Airlines Attendants Put on Paid Leave After Duct-Taping Violent Passenger to Seat Posted: 03 Aug 2021 01:40 PM PDT |
| Biologists Have Been Vastly Underestimating Giraffes’ Social Skills Posted: 03 Aug 2021 01:37 PM PDT  Giraffes are way more socially competent than we give them credit for, a team of scientists from the University of Bristol say. They're calling for an updated understanding of the incredibly tall artiodactyls. |
| Lazor Wulf Tried to Warn Everyone About the Moon Posted: 03 Aug 2021 01:30 PM PDT  Henry Bonsu's Lazor Wulf, an off-kilter animated series about a talking wolf armed with a laser gun, was one of Adult Swim's most refreshing shows. It switched up the usual late-night cartoon bloc by spotlighting a bevy of Black talent and creativity. Though the show met its untimely end earlier this year after just… |
| The ISS Backflipped Out of Control After Russian Module Misfired, New Details Reveal Posted: 03 Aug 2021 01:00 PM PDT  A NASA flight director has provided new details about last week's scary incident in orbit, in which a freshly docked Russian module inadvertently fired its thrusters, causing the International Space Station to roll backwards. |
| Nicholas Hoult Will Star as Dracula's Henchman in Universal Monster Comedy Renfield Posted: 03 Aug 2021 12:30 PM PDT  He's played J.R.R. Tolkien, the X-Men's Beast, and a romantic zombie—plus, we all witnessed him in Mad Max: Fury Road. Now Nicholas Hoult is adding another notch to his already impressive genre resume, signing on to star as the title character in Chris McKay's Dracula-adjacent Universal monster movie Renfield. |
| Billions of Dollars Later, the U.S. Government Remains as Hackable as Ever Posted: 03 Aug 2021 11:55 AM PDT  The United States is at no risk of being confused for a country with serious cybersecurity defenses. |
| Hospitalizations Rare Among Vaccinated and More Survivable When They Happen, Study Finds Posted: 03 Aug 2021 11:45 AM PDT  Recent preliminary research from India may offer some more good news for people who have gotten covid-19 vaccines, even in the face of the more virulent Delta variant. The study found that fully vaccinated people who ended up hospitalized—itself a rare risk among the vaccinated—still had a lower chance of becoming… |
| Realme's MagSafe Alternative for Android Is Here Posted: 03 Aug 2021 11:33 AM PDT  Last fall, Apple reimagined its classic MagSafe magnetic charging tech in the form of a slim puck for charging the iPhone 12. Now Realme is bringing wireless magnetic recharging to the Android ecosystem for the first time with its new MagDart chargers. |
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