terça-feira, 10 de agosto de 2021


Dish-Sinclair Dispute Could Result in the Removal of 100 Local TV Stations

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 08:40 AM PDT

If you're a Dish Network subscriber, brace for impact: Thanks to an ongoing carriage dispute between the satellite television provider and the broadcasting company Sinclair, more than 100 local TV stations could soon be removed from the TV service.

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What If Lets Go of Marvel's Cinematic Canon to Imagine Something More

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Though all of Marvel's newer live-action shows were presented as stories that viewers could (in theory) watch without being deeply familiar with every detail from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the studio's comic book adaptations have become increasingly harder to just jump into in the buildup to Phase 4. The Disney+…

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Google Streamlines Its Titan Keys by Adding NFC and Ditching Bluetooth

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 07:40 AM PDT

Google's Titan Key has been credited with eliminating phishing attacks on Google employees, and now this week Google is updating its line of security dongles with wider support for NFC.

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This $1,000 Knock-Off of a $100,000 Patek Philippe Swiss Watch Is Shockingly Detailed

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 07:20 AM PDT

It's a tough time for amateur watch collectors trying to break into the hobby. Even though a Swiss watch is considered the pinnacle of fine craftsmanship and engineering, knock-offs have been created that are nearly impossible to spot without a highly trained eye, or a side-by-side comparison with the real thing.…

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The iPhone 13 Will Double Down on Camera Features With a Portrait Video Mode

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 07:10 AM PDT

While next year's iPhone is thought to bring more significant upgrades, it appears Apple still has a few tricks up its sleeve for the iPhone 13 lineup. A new Bloomberg report says the new iPhones will receive at least three major camera and video upgrades—including a Portrait Video mode.

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Wait, Now the Fast and Furious Is Going Underwater?!

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 07:00 AM PDT

Now that the Fast and Furious franchise has gone to space, the question is how can they top that? Well, maybe they can't. Maybe instead they have to go under. Way, way under.

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Morbius' Director May Have Revealed Another Marvel Crossover

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 06:20 AM PDT

John Wick: Chapter 4 just made a really fun addition to its cast. The Boys' propaganda news network has released more stories and the Dune cast gathers on a new poster. Plus we've got updates from the season finale of Superman & Lois, Legends of Tomorrow, and more. Spoilers away!

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HP's New Chrome OS Desktop Has a Rotating Screen

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 06:00 AM PDT

As Chrome OS becomes more popular, we're now seeing different types of devices running Google's lightweight OS. HP is releasing two new Chrome OS laptops designed to address your needs on the road or at home.

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I Am Legend Screenwriter Forced to Tell Anti-Vaxxers His Zombie Movie Is Fake

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 04:30 AM PDT

The screenwriter who penned the 2007 zombie movie I Am Legend starring Will Smith has been forced to clarify something on Twitter that's sure to make us all depressed today. The writer, Akiva Goldsman, had to explain that I Am Legend is, in fact, fiction. It's not a documentary about zombies or something like that.

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AMC Theaters to Accept Bitcoin by End of 2021, but Plenty of Questions Remain

Posted: 10 Aug 2021 03:00 AM PDT

AMC Theaters will accept the cryptocurrency bitcoin for movie tickets and concessions in the U.S. by the end of 2021, according to CEO Adam Aron, who first made the announcement during an earnings call on Monday. The theater chain will also start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay, but there are still plenty of…

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Apple Says It Won't Let the Government Turn Its Child Abuse Detection Tools Into a Surveillance Weapon

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 04:45 PM PDT

After facing a whole lot of criticism, Apple has doubled down and defended its plans to launch controversial new tools aimed at identifying and reporting child sex abuse material (or CSAM) on its platforms.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones Will Play Morticia in Tim Burton's Wednesday Addams Netflix Series

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 04:00 PM PDT

Carolyn Jones and Anjelica Huston (and the voice of Charlize Theron) came before her, and now it's Catherine Zeta-Jones' chance to glam it up as spooky, ooky Addams family matriarch Morticia. The Oscar winner is the latest casting addition to Tim Burton's upcoming series for Netflix following the supernatural…

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Life With a Foldable Phone Is a Game-Changer With One Terrible Downside

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 03:00 PM PDT

If you've been reading Gizmodo for awhile, you've probably realized that I'm bullish on flexible displays, due in large part to their ability to expand or enhance the capabilities of smartphones, laptops, and even smartwatches (OK, that last one's a little iffy). So after I reviewed Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 2 last…

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Batman Writer James Tynion IV Is Moving From DC to Substack

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 02:30 PM PDT

If things at DC Comics seem a little different in the coming months, it's because writer James Tynion IV is leaving. He announced today that he'll exit Batman after issue #117 in November and The Joker after issue #14 in April 2022. Where is he headed? Well, he'll be moving his talents exclusively to Substack, with…

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New Data Portability Tools Get Us Closer to Leaving Facebook the Website, but Not Facebook the Borg

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 02:13 PM PDT

If you're morbidly curious about the reams of data Facebook collects on you, then good news: earlier today, Facebook announced that users could now move their data to two more destinations with the help of the company's Transfer Your Information (TYI) Tool. Starting today, the company said, you can now move your pics…

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Novel Virus Detected in Hawaiian Dolphin Could Trigger Global Outbreaks Among Marine Mammals, Scientists Say

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 01:40 PM PDT

Biologists in Hawaii have detected a previously unknown strain of cetacean morbillivirus, a pathogen that can cause deadly infections in marine mammals across the globe. The virus was detected in a lone Fraser's dolphin—a highly social species—leading to concerns that the disease could spread and wreak havoc outside…

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Blacula Was About the Respectable Monster Haunting Us All

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 01:30 PM PDT

In director William Crain's original Blacula from 1972, an 18th-century Nigerian prince named Mamuwalde (William Marshall) meets his untimely first death at the hands of the Dracula (Charles Macaulay), who scoffs at the mortal man's earnest pleas for assistance dismantling the transatlantic slave trade.

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Controversial Crypto Tax Amendment May Be Fixed in the 11th Hour

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 01:15 PM PDT

A bipartisan group of senators led by Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) today announced a proposed tweak to a contentious cryptocurrency tax amendment to the sprawling infrastructure bill. The amendment dictates that brokers will be subject to report crypto transactions to the IRS. This relates to…

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Exxon Kicked Out of Climate Group It Helped Form

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 12:40 PM PDT

Seems like Big Oil's chickens may be coming home to roost. On Friday, the Climate Leadership Council, a bipartisan, industry-supported group that advocates for centrist climate solutions, announced that former founding member ExxonMobil had been kicked out. The move follows a Greenpeace exposé that caught an Exxon…

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Report: Disney Is Only Paying Comics Creators $5,000 for Work It's Adapted for Billions

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 12:30 PM PDT

Behind each and every one of Marvel Studios and DC Entertainment's comic book adaptations are teams of comic book creators whose ideas laid the groundwork for what would eventually become the films and TV shows powering the megacorporations' respective multi-billion dollar entertainment franchises. Unfortunately, that…

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A Carnivorous Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight in North America

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 12:00 PM PDT

In the boglands of the northwestern United States and Canada, an unassuming plant has been trapping and eating insects, totally unbeknownst to science. Today, researchers report that Triantha occidentalis is now the 12th known independent evolution of carnivory—the consumption of animal flesh—in the plant kingdom.

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Doom Patrol's First Season 3 Teaser Is Your Brain on Drugs

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:30 AM PDT

Doom Patrol's second season left its world on the precipice of yet another calamity, as both Jane and Dorothy Spinner unwittingly freed different kinds of monsters who've been hungering to wreak havoc. If you've watched a significant amount of Doom Patrol, though, you know by now that apocalypses have kind of been the…

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Roku Gets 23 More Quibi Shows That Died Along With Your Commute

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:20 AM PDT

Roku announced on Monday that it plans to add 23 new Quibi titles to its lineup of The Roku Channel "originals," including four all-new premieres.

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Pizza Hut Will Use AI... to Recommend What Pizza to Get... Based on... the Weather

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:10 AM PDT

Pizza Hut has posited a strange question: What weather is pizza weather? Perhaps it's a riddle. Or perhaps a machine-learning salesman in a brimmed straw hat waltzed into a Pizza Hut marketing meeting with a whistle and a tune:

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5 Big Takeaways From the New UN Climate Report

Posted: 09 Aug 2021 10:56 AM PDT

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's massive new report, published early Monday morning, makes it absolutely clear that the climate crisis isn't waiting for us in some far-off future; it's here right now.

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