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- 7 Nature Photo Winners That Show the Quiet Drama of Life
- You May Never Get Verified on Twitter
- U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan Posts Online Job Listing While It’s in the Process of Being Evacuated
- Sonos Claims Tiny Victory In Its Patent Infringement Case Against Google
- 10 Movies We Really Hope to See in 2021
- Poly Network Offers $500,000 Reward to Hacker Who Stole and Then Returned $611 Million in Crypto
- There's Only One True King in the Week's Best Toys
- Apple Will Keep Clarifying This CSAM Mess Until Morale Improves
- Researchers: Instagram 'Bullied' Us Into Halting Algorithmic Research
- HBO Max Knows Its App Sucks
- The Quick and Easy Guide to Watching Evangelion
- The Loudly Crying Face Emoji Is the Worst Emoji
- Boeing Starliner Malfunction Potentially Caused by Florida's Humid Air, Investigators Say
- You'll Have to Wait Until 2022 for Smart Home Gadgets That Work Together
- July 2021 Was Hottest Month in Recorded History
- Reddit Wants to Be TikTok, as Long as That’s What You Guys Are Doing Now. That Could Change if You’re Not Into It. They’re Flexible.
- The My Hero Academia Live-Action Film Has a Director
- What's the Weirdest Robocall You've Ever Received?
- 13 Gruesomely Excellent Friday the 13th Kills
- Hear the ‘Sound’ of a Spacecraft Flying Past Venus
- FX's Y: The Last Man Series Will Explore How Sex Doesn't Define Gender
- Airbnb Will Now Let Users Who've Experienced Sexual Assault Sue the Company
- We’re Going the Wrong Way
- Disney CEO Doubles Down On Hybrid Movie Releases as He Counts Massive Pile of Money
- Danny DeVito Is Writing a Comic About Batman's Penguin
| 7 Nature Photo Winners That Show the Quiet Drama of Life Posted: 14 Aug 2021 06:00 AM PDT  The science journal BMC Ecology and Evolution recently held an image competition to showcase the dramatic diversity of Earth's ecosystems. From the tiny tragedy of a wasp easting a spider to the anticipation just before a snake strikes, these photos show a range of scenes often never witnessed by humans. Here are the… |
| You May Never Get Verified on Twitter Posted: 13 Aug 2021 10:18 PM PDT  This year, many of those longing for a blue checkmark on Twitter were filled with hope when the company reopened its public verification process for the first time in almost four years. That hope was short-lived, though, as Twitter proceeded to pause the process, only to reopen it again in June. Well, shockingly,… |
| U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan Posts Online Job Listing While It’s in the Process of Being Evacuated Posted: 13 Aug 2021 08:49 PM PDT  It's not exactly the best time to work at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan—and not only because it's being evacuated. In recent weeks, the Taliban has rapidly seized many parts of the country as it seeks to topple the U.S.-backed government, regain control of Afghanistan, and reimpose its strict version of… |
| Sonos Claims Tiny Victory In Its Patent Infringement Case Against Google Posted: 13 Aug 2021 05:00 PM PDT  Sonos just won a small victory in its battle against Google. According to the New York Times, a trade judge has ruled preliminarily in favor of the speaker maker, saying that Google should not import products that violate Sonos's intellectual property. |
| 10 Movies We Really Hope to See in 2021 Posted: 13 Aug 2021 04:30 PM PDT  If you've experienced déjà vu in the last few days, you aren't alone. Summer 2021 feels a little bit like spring 2020 when, with cases of covid-19 rising, one movie was delayed, then another, then another, then everything. This week saw the first official delay in response to the delta variant of covid-19 when the… |
| Poly Network Offers $500,000 Reward to Hacker Who Stole and Then Returned $611 Million in Crypto Posted: 13 Aug 2021 03:45 PM PDT  A cryptocurrency platform that was hacked and had hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from it has now offered the thief a "reward" of $500,000 after the criminal returned almost all of the money. |
| There's Only One True King in the Week's Best Toys Posted: 13 Aug 2021 03:30 PM PDT  Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the latest and greatest threats to your bank account. This week, The Suicide Squad's King Shark gets the Hot Toys treatment, Hasbro has new reveals for Fantastic Marvel Legends and deceptive Transformers toys, and Mezco reveals one of its best Superman figures yet.… |
| Apple Will Keep Clarifying This CSAM Mess Until Morale Improves Posted: 13 Aug 2021 03:15 PM PDT  Last week, Apple announced new tools to detect and report child pornography and sexually explicit materials. It's a noble mission and no one's going to argue against catching child predators. That said, the rollout has turned into a debacle of epic proportions. |
| Researchers: Instagram 'Bullied' Us Into Halting Algorithmic Research Posted: 13 Aug 2021 03:00 PM PDT  A Berlin-based nonprofit studying the ways in which Instagram's algorithm presents content to users says parent company Facebook "bullied" its researchers into killing off experiments and deleting underlying data that was collected with consent from Instagram users. |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2021 02:50 PM PDT  Enough is enough: HBO Max has heard your constant whining and wheedling on Twitter about how its app is "designed like they're mad at you for using it" and "bravely answers the question 'what if the people who designed an app fucking hated their customers.'" They know that the app all but spontaneously combusts when… |
| The Quick and Easy Guide to Watching Evangelion Posted: 13 Aug 2021 02:40 PM PDT  Today Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time officially releases outside of Japan, bringing an end to a wait nearly a decade in the making, and a journey to re-imagine one of the most beloved mecha anime of all time that stretched for even longer beyond that—for now at least. It also means that there's never been a… |
| The Loudly Crying Face Emoji Is the Worst Emoji Posted: 13 Aug 2021 02:30 PM PDT  The Stanford Internet Observatory has released an extensive analysis on Gettr, the largely unmoderated right-wing Twitter clone founded by longtime Trump spokesperson Jason Miller. The details—which Miller rejected in an email to Gizmodo as "wrong"—range from amusing to horrific, and you can find them all here. But… |
| Boeing Starliner Malfunction Potentially Caused by Florida's Humid Air, Investigators Say Posted: 13 Aug 2021 02:15 PM PDT  Engineers with Boeing and NASA are honing in on the root cause of a technical glitch that resulted in the cancelation of a Starliner test launch. A promising theory suggests moisture got into the spacecraft's propulsion system, causing critical valves to get stuck. As to how this moisture got in, however, is now a… |
| You'll Have to Wait Until 2022 for Smart Home Gadgets That Work Together Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:53 PM PDT  Matter is a new standard that's supposed to make your smart home gadgets play nicely together. Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung SmartThings, and Signify, the team behind the Philips Hue smart bulbs, already committed to it earlier this year. Matter will make it easier to pick out gadgets that work with one another, but… |
| July 2021 Was Hottest Month in Recorded History Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:45 PM PDT  It's a completely unsurprising piece of news for anyone who went outside this summer, but it's still an enormous alarm bell for our planet: Scientists said on Friday that last month was the hottest month in recorded history. Everything is fine!!!!! |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:40 PM PDT  In the beginning, there was chaos, and out of that chaos came short-form video on social media. Twitter tried it; TikTok perfected it; Instagram wants to dominate it; and now, Reddit is throwing its little alien antenna in the ring, reportedly test-driving a new short video feed on its iOS app. |
| The My Hero Academia Live-Action Film Has a Director Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:34 PM PDT  Yes, you read that right. Hollywood is still trying to make a live-action version of the popular Japanese franchise My Hero Academia and the project just took a significant step forward. Deadline reports that Shinsuke Sato has been attached to direct the film, which is being produced by Legendary Pictures. |
| What's the Weirdest Robocall You've Ever Received? Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:20 PM PDT  Earlier today, some random person with a random Los Angeles-based area code number called my phone with some terrible news: My Amazon account had been hacked. A guy in Alabama had apparently used my account to buy an iPhone, and I needed to send over some details to dispute the charges. |
| 13 Gruesomely Excellent Friday the 13th Kills Posted: 13 Aug 2021 01:10 PM PDT  Today is the only Friday the 13th in all of 2021, and horror fans know the best way to mark the occasion is by spending some quality time with a certain machete-loving, teenager-hating masked maniac (and his dear mother, of course). This list isn't a ranking—we've already done that—but rather a round-up of what we… |
| Hear the ‘Sound’ of a Spacecraft Flying Past Venus Posted: 13 Aug 2021 12:30 PM PDT Two spacecraft zipped past Venus at nearly time this week, and we're steadily getting more data from this rare double flyby. The research teams have even translated some of this data into sounds, which you can hear below. |
| FX's Y: The Last Man Series Will Explore How Sex Doesn't Define Gender Posted: 13 Aug 2021 12:10 PM PDT  In Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man comic, most of the world's population of mammals with a Y chromosome—save for one man and his pet capuchin monkey—suddenly perish in a mysterious plague whose origins are never fully explained. Though the comic spends a fair amount of time ruminating on how people's… |
| Airbnb Will Now Let Users Who've Experienced Sexual Assault Sue the Company Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:50 AM PDT  On Friday, Airbnb announced that it's updating its Terms of Service to drop certain legal provisions for guests and hosts using its platform. In cases involving sexual assault or sexual harassment, Airbnb says, it will no longer force users to go through the company's arbitration process—letting them sue the company… |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:40 AM PDT  This piece was originally published in the Daily Poster, a grassroots-funded investigative news outlet. Click here to become a subscriber. |
| Disney CEO Doubles Down On Hybrid Movie Releases as He Counts Massive Pile of Money Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:30 AM PDT  After the Walt Disney Company slipped on a banana peel and released Black Widow on streaming on the same day of its theatrical release, severely cutting into the film's box office earnings and prompting a lawsuit from its star, Scarlett Johansson, the company's CEO doubled down on its ability to "fairly compensate"… |
| Danny DeVito Is Writing a Comic About Batman's Penguin Posted: 13 Aug 2021 11:20 AM PDT  We just got DC doing its own continuation of the classic 1989 Batman movie in comic form, and now the company's going a step beyond to cater to fans of the Burton era of the Dark Knight: one of his greatest on-screen nemeses is teaming up with the publisher for a new anthology special. |
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