terça-feira, 24 de agosto de 2021


Cinemacon’s Uncharted Film Footage Feels Ripped From the Games (in a Good Way)

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 07:31 AM PDT

Did you hear that footage from that new Tom Holland movie screened recently? No, not Spider-Man: No Way Home. (Though the Marvel film did, finally, get a trailer yesterday). We're talking about Uncharted, that other major franchise the actor is fronting for Sony Pictures. The PlayStation video game has had a long,…

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Disney Sets Its Eyes on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for a Prequel

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 06:40 AM PDT

Marlon Wayans is teaming up with Cry Wolf's Jeff Wadlow for a new Netflix horror project. Death Dealer strikes in even more footage from Marvel's Shang-Chi. Motherland: Fort Salem will return for a third and final season. Plus, what's coming on The Walking Dead, and when to expect the final episodes of Attack on Titan

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The Banality of Apocalypse

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 06:30 AM PDT

We are living through a time unprecedented in human history. The world is at once more connected than ever and also falling apart in ways almost beyond comprehension.

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The New Nest Doorbell Cam Is a Reminder That Nest Has Gone Fully Google

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Over the past few years, Google has been transitioning its Nest smart home brand away from a stand-alone company and bringing it into the Google fold. Now you can mix and match smart displays and other gadgets that connect to the Google Assistant as you see fit. This is convenient, to be sure, but it also has some…

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8 Technologies That Prove What Divides Us Is Smaller Than What Binds Us

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 05:30 AM PDT

Since man first struck a rock with a slightly smaller rock, technology has ostensibly served to improve our lives. Fast forward a few million years, and our dweeby $4,000 fridges with "superior organizational storage" will update us on the status of the robot vacuum (on or off). Wait, do I need a toilet to analyze my…

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Peloton's Recalled Tread Is Finally Going On Sale Next Week

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 05:00 AM PDT

At long last, Peloton's smaller and cheaper treadmill has an official launch date. The treadmill was supposed to arrive in late May, but the company decided to postpone the Tread's launch following a voluntary recall. Starting Aug. 30, customers in the U.S., Canada, and the UK can fork over $2,495 for the newest…

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Hong Kong Proposes Three Years in Prison for Screening Banned Movies

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 04:00 AM PDT

Film censors in Hong Kong have proposed new rules that would include steep fines and up to three years in prison for screening movies that are banned, according to a new report from the Hong Kong Standard. The proposal comes as political leaders in China seek to curtail freedoms in Hong Kong and Beijing makes a region…

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Hawaii Asks Tourists to Delay Vacations Until November as Covid-19 Cases Soar

Posted: 24 Aug 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Hawaii Gov. David Ige is asking tourists to stay home and delay any vacation plans in the region until at least November as the state's covid-19 case numbers soar. Hawaii is averaging about 650 new cases a day, a troubling uptick from a month ago when the state was averaging just 138 cases per day.

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News-Illiterate Cops Order Air Hunt for 'Antifa' Citing Neo-Nazi Rumors That Triggered Armed Mobs

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 07:00 PM PDT

Screenshots of two rambling social media posts—one from Facebook, one from Instagram—form the sum total of the evidence police used last summer to justify an aerial surveillance operation in North California, records obtained by the nonprofit transparency group Property of the People and reporting by the Guardian…

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Spider-Man: No Way Home's First Trailer Spins a Whole New Adventure

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 06:40 PM PDT

His mentor is dead, his second mentor betrayed him, his identity was exposed, and the shock-jock to end all shock-jocks is on his back. Peter Parker has a tough time ahead of him in that tangled web his life has weaved. Well, turns out it's about to get a whole lot messier. Sony and Marvel have just dropped the first…

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A Misused Microsoft Tool Leaked Troves of Data From 47 Organizations

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 05:10 PM PDT

New research shows that misconfigurations of a widely used web tool have led to the leaking of tens of millions of data records.

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Witches of Blackwood Looks Like an Intriguing Slice of Australian Folk Horror

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 04:00 PM PDT

As any folk horror fan who revels in the ways of ancient magic, long-forgotten traditions, and strange rituals involving twigs and animal masks can attest, these stories often start the same way, with an outsider entering a community that immediately lets them know how not-welcome they are. So begins Australia's

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Nightmare of the Wolf Brings More Than Bloody Action to The Witcher's World

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 03:00 PM PDT

After Netflix found it had a new hit on its hands with the grim fantasy of The Witcher in late 2019, work quickly began on plans to expand the series beyond the realm of simply getting another season of Henry Cavill fighting monsters. The first step into that wider world, Nightmare of the Wolf, hit the streamer today,…

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'The Balloon Never Had a Chance'

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 02:10 PM PDT

"Sir! Direct hit! The balloon's canvas has been ruptured and is falling to the Earth from a height of approximately 18 kilometers. They will hit the ground in approximately one minute—unless the gentlemen have jetpacks on board, there's no chance they'll survive the impact."

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Another Major Pandemic Likely to Happen This Century, Scientists Warn

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 01:50 PM PDT

Researchers warn that the next major pandemic may not be too far away. In a new paper out Monday, they estimate that a pandemic as deadly as covid-19 is expected to arrive within the next six decades, while a pandemic on the scale of the 1918 Spanish flu could be expected to recur every 400 years. They also argue that…

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All $610 Million Stolen in Historic Crypto Heist Has Been Returned, Poly Network Says

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 01:40 PM PDT

It looks like the hacker behind Poly Network's historic heist has had a change of heart. The crypto platform confirmed in a company blog post on Monday that the anonymous hacker (or hackers) who successfully stole roughly $610 million in crypto assets from its platform had finally surrendered the final tranche of…

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2 New Shang-Chi Videos Highlight Its Huge Action and Scope

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 01:10 PM PDT

If you didn't know the character or see the logo, you might not immediately realize Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sure, if you look closely you can see a few cameos in some of the trailers—but beyond that, these are new characters and new stories that…

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Hulu Is (Finally) Adding HDR Support for Some Original Shows

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 12:40 PM PDT

At long last, Hulu is offering support for high-dynamic range streaming.

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Apple Has Reportedly Been Scanning Your iCloud Mail for Child Abuse Images Since 2019

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 12:25 PM PDT

As many fret about Apple's new plans to scan iPhones for signs of child abuse material, the company has confirmed that it already scans users' iCloud Mail accounts for such images—and has done so for years.

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The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan Explains Last Night's 'Twist'

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 12:00 PM PDT

The Walking Dead's Negan hasn't always made the right decisions; for instance, there was the time he ruled as a bloodthirsty, post-apocalyptic tyrant and murdered dozens of people. Since then, though, he's been trying to become a better person... emphasis on the word trying, as last night's season 11 premiere showed.…

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What If's Cool Dad Thanos and Bombshell Nebula Are All Thanks to T'Challa

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 11:00 AM PDT

The second episode of What If imagined a universe in which T'Challa never grew up to become Wakanda's Black Panther because he was abducted by aliens as a child. T'Challa's journey to becoming the Star-Lord brings him into the lives of countless people from throughout the galaxy, and his mere presence has a profound…

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NASA Details Next Steps After Mars Rover's Attempt to Collect Rock Goes Awry

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 10:30 AM PDT

Scientists at NASA were pretty excited in early August when the Perseverance rover indicated that it had drilled its first sample of Martian rock. But as it turned out, the sample tube was empty, and the Perseverance team began a remote investigation to solve the mystery of the disappearing rock.

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California Just Approved 5 Temporary Gas Plants as Drought Cripples Hydropower

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 10:20 AM PDT

Wildfires and declining water levels at reservoirs have threatened California's power supply at various points this summer. Desperate to avoid blackouts amid the compounding crisis, California's Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing the construction of five "temporary" gas-fueled plants in the coming months.

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Report: Giphy Lowered Its Value Ahead of Facebook Buyout to Avoid Antitrust Scrutiny

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 10:10 AM PDT

Facebook again weaseled around antitrust scrutiny in its $400 million Giphy acquisition, according to a Bloomberg report citing two sources with knowledge of the matter. If history is any indicator, Facebook can and will do whatever it wants.

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In Sci-Fi Thriller The Colony, Earth Is the Hostile Alien World

Posted: 23 Aug 2021 10:00 AM PDT

The trailer for The Colony made us think of Children of Men crash-landing into Waterworld. It showed us an Earth decimated by climate change that's been mostly abandoned by humanity—but where, incredibly, future generations have continued to be born. Today io9 has an exclusive clip from the movie that shows just how…

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