quarta-feira, 22 de setembro de 2021


Apple's Dynamic Head Tracking Is Here... If You Have the Expensive AirPods

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 08:40 AM PDT

Back in June, Apple introduced both lossless audio and Dolby Atmos-powered spatial audio to Apple Music. While there were restrictions on which gadgets could handle what, you didn't need AirPods to get the benefit. However, with iOS 15's public release, Apple's also added Dynamic Head Tracking—and for that, you're…

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30% of the World’s Koalas Have Disappeared Since 2018

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 08:30 AM PDT

Nearly a third of Australia's koala population is gone after bushfires, drought, and heat waves in recent years have decimated the marsupials.

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Foundation's Lee Pace: 'I Love Science Fiction'

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 08:20 AM PDT

Prolific American author (and professor) Isaac Asimov started writing Foundation 80 years ago. While countless sci-fi adaptations have come and gone during that time, Foundation will just be getting its first chance in live-action this Friday on AppleTV+ (not that they haven't tried before!). io9 spoke with David S.…

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Facebook Paid the FTC Billions to Personally Protect Zuckerberg, Lawsuit Claims

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 08:10 AM PDT

A hulking lawsuit made public this week accuses Facebook's board of agreeing to overpay the Federal Trade Commission billions of dollars in exchange for not personally suing CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the 2018 Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal.

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Amazing Airborne Microchips are the Tiniest Human-Built Objects to Take Flight

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Like helicopter seeds falling slowly towards the ground, these newly created "microfliers" catch the wind to achieve unpowered controlled flight.

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How to Watch Microsoft's Surface Event—and What to Expect

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 07:31 AM PDT

Windows 11 officially rolls out on Oct. 5, which means it's also time for Microsoft to launch new Surface hardware to go with it.

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Astronomers Find Massive Space ‘Cavity’ Possibly Left Behind by Explosion

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 07:13 AM PDT

Astronomers measuring the shapes and sizes of two gas clouds in space have discovered a big gap between them, leading them to believe that the clouds are what's left of a series of stellar explosions or a single massive one.

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I Miss Mario Paint, When Nintendo Gamified Art Class

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 07:00 AM PDT

At its heart, Mario Paint wasn't really a video game. There was no defined end point players raced towards, no one to stomp on, and definitely no helpless princess in peril. Like educational software, it was designed to help improve real word skills as it was played. Not in the maths, sciences, or other academic…

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Summer Wildfires Emitted More Carbon Dioxide Than India Does in a Year

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 06:45 AM PDT

The world set a scary new record last month: Wildfires around the world pumped out more carbon dioxide than ever before.

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Live-Action Saint Seiya Movie in the Works With Some Familiar Names Attached

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 06:20 AM PDT

Netflix reveals the voice cast for Arcane, its League of Legends animated series. Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini are turning House of Secrets into a live-action show. Plus, what's next on Star Trek: Lower Decks, and what's to come on Stargirl and Supergirl. Spoilers go!

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I Love the Tiny iPad

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Apple has worked steadily over the last few years to show all the ways in which the iPad can be a laptop replacement. You can use Bluetooth mice, trackpads, and keyboards with Apple's tablets. You can multitask with relative ease with iPadOS. And while the iPad still has a ways to go before it can replace a laptop for…

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Apple's Cheapest iPad Is Its Most Reliably Good One

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Apple's cheapest iPad is the iPhone SE of tablets. On the surface, there are no bells or whistles. It has chunky bezels, a physical home button with Touch ID, and a design that calls to mind mid-2010s iPhones. It is, safe to say, boring. And people still love it.

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Watch Bill Gates Get Very Uncomfortable When Asked About Jeffrey Epstein

Posted: 22 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Bill Gates is currently doing a media tour to talk about his $1 billion clean energy partnership with large corporations. But after countless softball interviews on various TV networks, Gates clearly wasn't prepared to be asked about any sensitive topics when he sat down for an interview with PBS on Tuesday night.…

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Amazon Is Lobbying the U.S. to Legalize Weed

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 06:37 PM PDT

Amazon is ramping up its pro-weed campaign, announcing on Tuesday that it is actively lobbying for legislative reforms aimed at decriminalization and reaffirming its commitment to not screening job applicants for cannabis.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Wolfboy and the Everything Factory Looks Like a Whimsical Treat

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 05:30 PM PDT

Created by Toff Mazery and Edward Jesse, and executive produced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, also a noted Magic: The Gathering fan), Wolfboy and the Everything Factory is that (seemingly) increasingly rare thing: an animated series based on an original idea. The Apple TV+ series is about…

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Shang-Chi Comes Home November 12 Along With New Star Wars and Marvel Teases

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 04:30 PM PDT

Fans who were unable to head to a theater to see Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings should make an 11th ring around November 12 on their calendars. That's the day the latest Marvel Studios film will make its streaming debut on Disney+, and it's only one of a long list of exciting things happening that day.

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s-CRY-ed's Peculiar Power Sets and Stunning Fights Must Be Seen in HD

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 03:30 PM PDT

In Sunrise's anime s-CRY-ed, which originally aired on TV Tokyo back in 2001, the future is a chaotic time—the world is still reeling from a mysterious geological phenomenon known as "The Great Uprising" that absolutely devastates a chunk of Japan. Though life continues to find a way in the Kanagawa Prefecture,…

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Report: FBI Had Ransomware Decryption Key for Weeks Before Giving It to Victims

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 03:00 PM PDT

The Kaseya ransomware attack, which occurred in July and affected as many as 1,500 companies worldwide, was a big, destructive mess—one of the largest and most unwieldy of its kind in recent memory. But new information shows the FBI could have lightened the blow victims suffered but chose not to.

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Hacking Your Room's Lighting to Match the Flickering Lights in Quake Makes the Game Feel Even Moodier

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:40 PM PDT

As much fun as Doom was, it felt more like a gory cartoon with most of the scares coming from enemies hidden behind doors and blind corners. Quake, on the other hand, felt endlessly creepy and scary thanks in part to its real-time lighting that helped set the mood. To make any room feel as spooky, Rodrigo Feliciano

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Netflix Cordially Invites You to a WWE-Themed House of Horrors

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Did you think that just because the Undertaker retired from the WWE last year—to the extent you think about the Undertaker at all—meant the league's wrestlers wouldn't still feel his steel-like, black leather-clad hand around their throats? Alas for Big E, Xavier Woods, and Kofi Kingston—the trio known together as the…

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China's Xi Jinping Says Country Will Stop Financing Coal-Fired Power Abroad

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:10 PM PDT

In remarks made at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the country would move away from financing coal projects abroad—a huge move that would take away the largest remaining source of support for new coal-fired power.

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Facebook's New Battery-Powered Portal Go Lets You Tote a Smart Display Around Your House

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:00 PM PDT

Facebook bet big on connecting people via video with the original Portal smart display, and the company is back with two new Portals: a bigger Portal+ for large group calls and a battery-powered Portal Go that can tag along as you move about the house.

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A Mystery Outbreak of Salmonella Has Sickened People in 25 States

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 01:50 PM PDT

A sweeping outbreak of Salmonella bacteria has sickened people in at least 25 states, health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported. So far, though, the exact source of the foodborne illness remains a mystery, and officials are asking for people with a suspected stomach flu to…

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Joe Biden’s Worker Heat Protections Are Right on Time—and Decades Too Late

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 01:40 PM PDT

The U.S. just went through its hottest summer on record. Searing heat killed hundreds and sickened countless more, including some people who were on the job. While summer is officially over, the heat is set to continue this week across the parts of the country this week.

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Amazing World of Gumball Is Getting a Movie and a New Show

Posted: 21 Sep 2021 01:30 PM PDT

Gumball may have come to an end on Cartoon Network a few years ago, but the series is back in style—there and on HBO Max, for two new projects out of Warner's European-based revitalization of the Hanna-Barbera name.

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