terça-feira, 14 de setembro de 2021


Strapping a Jet Engine To Your Head Is a Deafening Way to Stay Dry in the Rain

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 07:39 AM PDT

Humans have been battling rain for as long as we've been around, and somehow the umbrella is the best option we've come up with for keeping (mostly) dry. There has to be a better solution, which Ivan Miranda has potentially created by throwing more technology at the problem.

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What If's Midseason Trailer May Point to Another Massive Marvel Crossover Event

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 07:15 AM PDT

Though Marvel's What If series could be considered an ambitious crossover event—in the sense that many of the studio's characters have made appearances in the show's first season alone—none of the episodes so far have exactly focused on an Avengers: Endgame-style plot in which multiple, previously-established…

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The Kids Are Not Alright

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 07:00 AM PDT

If you spent even 10 minutes at one of the youth climate strikes that roiled the world pre-covid-19, you'd know the kids are incredibly upset at the lot the world is handing them. Now, scientists have categorized that anguish in a landmark study.

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Updates From Halloween Kills, Peacemaker, and More

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 06:25 AM PDT

DC's League of Superpets finds a villain. Get a look at the first five minutes of NBC's new Land of the Lost riff, La Brea. David S. Goyer offers an update on the Hellraiser remake. Plus, more looks at Chucky's return, and Mr. Mxyzptlk gets his vocals warmed up for the next Supergirl. Spoilers get!

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A Vanished Supernova Will Reappear in 16 Years

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 06:10 AM PDT

Ten billion years ago, well before the formation of our solar system, a gargantuan explosion threw out vast amounts of highly energetic light. A star died in a dazzling supernova, and, though it happened so long ago, the flash was only seen in 2016 and vanished shortly thereafter. But if you missed it then, worry…

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The Sonos Beam 2 Is an Affordable Soundbar for the Dolby Atmos Era

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 06:00 AM PDT

The original Sonos Beam is a good, reasonably priced soundbar. It's also more than three years old, and in that time, Dolby Atmos has started popping up on soundbars left and right. So it's not surprising that Sonos announced today that it's introducing the Beam 2, which is a more affordable Atmos alternative to the

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LG's Extreme Home Cinema Brings the Whole Movie Theater to Your House

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Movie theaters have been having a rough go of it lately—maybe you've noticed? Although theater re-openings across the country have recently resulted in tickets sales bouncing up from their all-time pandemic lows, research has shown that theater attendance is still significantly below what it once was, and shows no…

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Here's How to Watch Apple's iPhone 13 Event—and What to Expect

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 05:37 AM PDT

Product launch season is here, and that means it's about time to gear up for Apple's annual September event. Like 2020, ongoing production issues and supply chain woes probably mean we're going to see multiple launch events this fall. That said, we're pretty sure today's event will center around the iPhone 13.

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How to Use Your iPhone As a Mobile Hotspot

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 05:00 AM PDT

This is a common scenario: You're away from a stable wifi connection and need to get work done on a screen that's larger than your iPhone. You have a tablet or a laptop at the ready, but no cellular connectivity on those devices—which means no way to connect to the internet. Or so you thought.

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Amazon's Palm Reader Launches at First Non-Amazon Venue in Sneak Peek of Our Biometric-Based Future

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 03:30 AM PDT

Amazon's electronic palm reader technology, known as Amazon One, launched at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver on Tuesday, according to a press release from the retailing giant. It's the first deployment of Amazon One's biometric reader outside of an Amazon-owned property and is certainly a sign of things to come.…

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Canon's $6,000 EOS R3 Is Its 'Most Advanced' Full-Frame Mirrorless Cam Ever

Posted: 14 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Last year, Canon pushed the limits of full-frame mirrorless cameras with the EOS R5. Now the company is releasing another pro-grade camera designed specifically for high-end sports and wildlife photographers: the new EOS R3.

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Google Is Phasing Out the Android Auto App, but the Alternative Is Pretty Good

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 05:30 PM PDT

I live in the California suburbs, known for their relative un-walkability, exacerbated by the presence of rolling hills and sweltering hot days. I rely on my car to get me and my family places, and I want the least distraction possible when I'm behind the wheel.

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The Matrix Resurrections' Lana Wachowski Says Neo and Trinity Helped Her Grieve

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 05:00 PM PDT

One of the most surprising things about The Matrix Resurrections when it was first announced was the news that Lilly Wachowski wouldn't be returning to direct the project alongside her sister Lana, with whom she wrote and directed the first three films. Though Lilly gave her sister and the rest of the movie's creative…

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Report: Facebook Has a VIP Program That Basically Allows Celebs to Avoid Moderation

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 04:20 PM PDT

For years, Facebook has operated a little known program called "XCheck," which allows celebrities, politicians, and other members of America's elite to elude the kinds of moderation policies that the average user is subject to, a new report from the Wall Street Journal reveals.

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Michael B. Jordan Adapting Charlie Jane Anders' Victories Greater Than Death Into an Amazon Series

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 04:00 PM PDT

While superhero characters may still be all the rage when it comes to the new series streaming platforms give the green light to, Amazon's banking on audiences being in the mood for something a bit different for its next big adaptation.

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Colin Farrell's Batman Villain Might Get His Own HBO Max Series

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 03:00 PM PDT

Audiences are still several months away from meeting our new big-screen Batman, Catwoman, Riddler, and Penguin—but one already has a spin-off in the works. Variety reports that Colin Farrell, who plays Oswald Cobblepot aka the Penguin in Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman, has been approached to reprise the role in a

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In Netflix's Latest Slasher Film, the Killer Is You

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 02:00 PM PDT

The idea of a killer being inside your house is scary enough. But what if the killer revealed themselves to be... you? That's the hook of There's Someone Inside Your House, the new Netflix slasher horror movie from producers Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) and James Wan (Malignant).

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Go Update Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch Right Now

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 01:29 PM PDT

The headline says it all, folks. Apple just released an emergency patch to a security flaw that let NSO Group's horrifying Pegasus spyware infect a target's Apple devices—including their iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches.

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2021's Best Photos of the Microscopic World

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 01:20 PM PDT

The winners of this year's Nikon Small World Competition have been announced, showcasing the best microphotography that 2021 had to offer.

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Ethan Hawke Is Batman in the Animated Batwheels

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 01:10 PM PDT

So Robert Pattinson is the new Batman in The Batman. Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton, who've previously played Batman, are playing Batman again in The Flash. And now, if there weren't enough Bat-actors fluttering about, a new one is playing Batman in a rather unique way. It's Sinister and Purge star Ethan Hawke and…

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Zoom Is Getting Ready for the Dystopian Hellscape of Working in the Metaverse

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT

Throughout the pandemic, Zoom turned into a verbal shortcut for referencing remote work, helped in part by its easy-to-use software and features tailor-made for meetings. Now that tech companies are clamoring to define and dominate the metaverse, a hybrid of the virtual and physical worlds, Zoom figured it might as…

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The ABCs of Big Oil: A Podcast Coming Soon From Earther and Drilled

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 12:30 PM PDT

Earther is working with the podcast Drilled to take you to school.

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Y: The Last Man Tries to Open Your Eyes by Tearing the World Apart

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 12:20 PM PDT

In FX on Hulu's adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man comic, global society collapses within moments of the onset of a mysterious event that kills almost every living mammal with a Y chromosome. Though Yorick—the world's last living cisgender man—is one of Y's primary protagonists, the series…

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FEC Finds Twitter Blocking the Hunter Biden Story Wasn't an Illegal Campaign Donation

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 11:51 AM PDT

The Federal Election Commission has found that Twitter didn't break any kind of election law when it blocked people from posting links to a New York Post story filled with dubious claims about Hunter Biden's laptop.

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The Mandalorian Rocks the Creative Emmy Awards

Posted: 13 Sep 2021 11:20 AM PDT

Emmys aren't just for actors. Sure, when you see the Emmy Awards on TV, it's mostly honoring big-name stars and stuff like Best Comedy or Best Drama series. But the Emmys, more so than most other award shows, go way, way deeper. The Creative Emmys, which takes place over multiple days and gets edited down for air,…

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