quarta-feira, 1 de setembro de 2021


Google Is Reportedly Building Its Own ARM-Based Chips for Chromebooks

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 08:39 AM PDT

Taking a page from Apple's playbook, it looks like Google is working on its own processors for Chromebooks and tablets. And according to a Nikkei Asia report, we could see in-house Google chips as early as 2023, and devices powered by those chips soon after.

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GOP Minority Leader Vows Revenge Against Tech Firms That Comply With Jan. 6 Phone Record Requests

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 08:10 AM PDT

Here's one way of making yourself look totally innocent: issuing wild threats against anyone who dares cooperate with investigators.

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Come Little Children, This Hocus Pocus Inspired Cookbook Has Wonderfully Witchy Treats

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 07:30 AM PDT

"You know, I've always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one on toast!" We're two months out from Halloween, and since it's never too early to start planning for the best day of the year, io9 is thrilled to be sharing four recipes inspired by one of our favorite seasonal films (which has a sequel on the way),…

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This Fleet of Robot Workers Can Lift Heavy Boxes but Still Can’t Write a Blog

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 07:10 AM PDT

Amid a pandemic-induced labor shortage that has forced some businesses to stretch their existing workforces to the breaking point in order to meet demands, Agility Robotics released a video on Wednesday that shows a bunch of robots that can lift boxes at least 40 percent as well as a human, but still can't write a…

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Coinbase Accidentally Scared 125,000 Users Into Thinking Their Accounts Had Been Hacked

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 06:55 AM PDT

The popular crypto exchange Coinbase freaked out a helluva lot of people this past weekend when it sent them erroneous alerts telling them that their 2-factor authentication settings had been messed with.

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DoorDash Settlement Would Pay a Paltry $130 to Workers Instead of Making Them Employees

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 06:45 AM PDT

DoorDash is clearing a suite of class-action lawsuits from Massachusetts and California off its plate, just as it marches ahead with extended battles in those states against employee classification. The company's proposed settlement for claimants in 11 cases results in a predictably lousy payout for workers who've…

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Microscopic Tardigrades Walk Like Animals 500,000 Times Their Size

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 06:35 AM PDT

Tardigrades are famous for their extreme durability, but new research shows how good they are at walking, despite their teeny size and squishy bodies.

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The Next Paranormal Activity Movie Could Be on the Way Very Soon

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 06:25 AM PDT

Get another cryptic look at Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho. Shazam: Fury of the Gods has wrapped filming. Netflix bares its teeth for vampire antics in Night Teeth. Plus, a glimpse at today's What If episode, and what's to come on Y: The Last Man, Archer, and more. To me, my spoilers!

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I Miss the Sega Dreamcast My Brother and I Put on Layaway but Never Got (Because He Stole the Money)

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 06:00 AM PDT

I was just settling into a new home, town, and life when I realized my older brother Wes and I had left something terribly precious behind in our family's move: a Sega Dreamcast. With it, my childhood fantasy of hauling ass around San Francisco in a yellow Cadillac Eldorado slipped beyond reach.

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Sony's Bravia XR OLED Is the Best-Looking TV I've Ever Seen

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 05:00 AM PDT

Sony has made a great deal of noise about their new 2021 Bravia XR OLEDs, which makes sense. The TVs are the first to feature Sony's new Cognitive Processor XR, which sounds an awful lot like a proto-supervillain brain. The company says the processor will recreate how humans actually see things in real life.

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Bonnaroo Music Festival Cancelled Due to Flooding From Ida

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 04:00 AM PDT

The Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee has been cancelled due to flooding from Hurricane Ida, which was Tropical Depression Ida by the time it hit the state on Tuesday. The four-day festival was scheduled to start Thursday with headliners like the Foo Fighters, Run the Jewels, Tyler the Creator, Lizzo, Tame Impala,…

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Woman Arrested Trying to Enter Hawaii With 'Maderna' Covid-19 Vaccine Card

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT

A 24-year-old woman from Illinois was arrested on Sunday while trying to enter Hawaii with a fake covid-19 vaccination record card. How did authorities know it was fake? For starters, the counterfeit card said the woman had received the "Maderna" vaccine rather than the Moderna vaccine.

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Philips Hue Wants to Put a Smart Light in Every Room in Your House

Posted: 01 Sep 2021 12:30 AM PDT

Smart lights are the cheapest, easiest way to get started with a smart home. Philips Hue, one of the most popular smart light markers, just took the wraps off a whole new lineup of smart lighting for various rooms in your house, along with built-in Spotify integration within the Hue app to make it all sing and light…

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Please Watch Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam When It Finally Starts Streaming on Funimation

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 05:30 PM PDT

Last year, Funimation brought the iconic original Mobile Suit Gundam to streaming for the first time, giving people the chance to experience what makes the franchise so influential and special in the first place. Now, at long last, they're also going to get a chance to experience its fascinating follow up.

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Google's Return to the Office Pushed Back as Covid-19 Cases Rise Again

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 04:41 PM PDT

It looks like Big Tech workers won't be returning to a physical office this year after all. After exhaustively detailing the measures it would be taking to help ease employees back into the office, Google is pushing back the official return date from Oct. 18 to Jan. 10, 2022.

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Whoa, the William Gibson Alien 3 Novel Is Based on a Different Screenplay

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 04:30 PM PDT

Alien 3 has some issues. Even the movie's most ardent fans have to admit this, given that it went through countless story, script, director, and editing changes, leaving what many feel is the most muddled of the four classic Alien films. Legendary Neuromancer author William Gibson was one of the (many) writers to give…

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Why Congressman Paul Gosar Is Tweeting a Green Arrow Pointed at His Dick

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 04:20 PM PDT

Paul Gosar, Republican representative from the state of Arizona and, some say, a friend to white nationalists, recently posted a picture of himself on Twitter that appears to show a long green arrow pointed at his penis.

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What We Do in the Shadows Is Getting a Weekly Aftershow With Harvey Guillén as Host

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 04:00 PM PDT

The world probably doesn't need any more aftershows, no matter how good the show itself is—and FX's brilliant supernatural comedy What We Do in the Shadows is one of the very best around. However, we could all do with more Harvey Guillén in our lives, so we'll be happily tuning in for After the Shadows, hosted by the

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White House May Be Clashing With CDC and FDA Experts Over Covid-19 Booster Shots

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 03:30 PM PDT

There appears to be growing tension between the Biden administration and at least some people affiliated with public health agencies over recommending covid-19 booster shots for all next month. Two senior officials with the Food and Drug Administration are leaving, reportedly in part due to the White House's decision…

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Star Trek: Prodigy's Title Sequence Is Here, and It's Gorgeous

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 03:10 PM PDT

On top of all the Star Trek we've got to look forward to soon, we're getting a brand new show in the form of the animated series Prodigy on the immediate horizon. And while we wait to see something a little more substantial beyond the teaser we got at Comic-Con this summer, we've now got a glimpse at its opening…

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This Standing Air Conditioner’s Quiet Cool Will Make Me Miss Working From Home

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 02:50 PM PDT

At my therapist's office, there's a small portable AC. It's a loudly humming, short monster that grunts at me, disapprovingly, from a foot away. I've coped with this by annunciating my anxieties. It's actually cathartic at 45-minute intervals. But for my work-from-home pandemic setup, that kind of pandemonium is…

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RIP LinkedIn Stories, 2020-2021

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 02:30 PM PDT

You may be thinking to yourself, "Why the hell did LinkedIn, the purgatory of social media, rip off the Stories format?" LinkedIn has asked itself the same question less than a year after doing so and apparently concluded there is no good reason for it to have shamelessly followed every other app with the launch of …

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Fake Banksy NFT Sells For $340,000 Amid Suspicion the Artist's Website Was Hacked

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 02:20 PM PDT

While most of us understand that non-fungible token's are a tremendous scam, it's not every day you see full-on art capers happening in the world of digital NFT's. But we got a taste of what that might look like on Tuesday when one anonymous investor spent $340,000 on an NFT from Banksy's website, only to learn it was…

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Star Wars’ Hyperspace Explained

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 02:10 PM PDT

Lucasfilm's version of faster-than-light travel—hyperspace—is as fundamental to the worldbuilding of Star Wars as the Force. It's the backbone of making its galaxy an interconnected universe of potential, a concept that has become more and more integral to some of the franchise's biggest storytelling pushes. But how…

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AT&T Leaves New Orleans Unable to Contact 911 During Hurricane Ida

Posted: 31 Aug 2021 01:30 PM PDT

Amid the human carnage that was wrought by Hurricane Ida this past weekend, the brutal rain and wind conditions that slammed the Louisiana coasts have left some awful infrastructural damage in their wake. Power grids were shattered. Buildings collapsed. And in the middle of it all, countless 911 calls failed to go…

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