terça-feira, 19 de outubro de 2021


The New Diary of a Wimpy Kid Trailer Looks Appropriately Awkward

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 08:00 AM PDT

I'm not going to lie: I'm not really up on the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise, given that the first volume of Jeff Kinney's enormously popular novels about a beleaguered middle school-aged kid named Greg came out in 2007, a full 17 years after I left middle school myself. However, I do know a decent movie trailer when…

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3-Foot-Long Sword Discovered Off Israel’s Coast Dates Back to the Crusades

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 08:00 AM PDT

An amateur scuba diver out for a weekend swim has found an impressive iron sword dating back to the time of the Crusades.

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You Might Have to Wait a Little Longer for Apple's AR Headset

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 07:21 AM PDT

Apple's been rumored to be working on some kind of mixed reality headset for some time now. But like most gadgets these days, it appears that the headset will be delayed until the end of 2022 due to production issues.

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Facebook's New Portal Is Great, but It's Also Facebook

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 07:00 AM PDT

There are so many ways to video chat with loved ones these days, but even with plenty of options and the bad press that Facebook can't shake no matter how hard it tries, Facebook's Portal remains one of the easiest ways to get in touch.

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Apple Wants You to Pay How Much for a Polishing Cloth?!

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 06:55 AM PDT

Apple gadgets are expensive. The accessories for those gadgets are also expensive. This we know, and yet, the company seems to always find new ways to make us go: Wait, you want us to pay how much now?

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Disney's Haunted Mansion Movie Spooks Up Another Star

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 06:35 AM PDT

Batgirl adds a new mystery man to its cast. David Gordon Green wants Halloween Ends to stand out from its predecessors. Salma Hayek discusses Chloé Zhao's passion in making Eternals. Plus, a new look at Doctor Who. Spoilers now!

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New Beats Fit Pro Wireless Earbuds with Noise Cancellation Leak Ahead of November Release

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 06:24 AM PDT

A few hours before Apple revealed its updated third-generation AirPods during a pre-recorded event yesterday that included new MacBook Pro laptops, 9to5Mac discovered the company also has a new version of its Beats Studio Buds en route with a design better suited to staying in the ear during workouts.

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The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Killing Pennsylvania Twice Over

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 06:00 AM PDT

GREENE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA—Last weekend, I found myself standing in a cemetery beside one of the largest processing plants in the country. The plant is fed by the largest underground mining complex in the country. The plant stood massive and tall beside the gravestones an oppressive shadow, its smokestacks like…

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Cowboy Bebop's First Teaser Is a Stylishly Meta Punch-Up

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 05:00 AM PDT

If you thought the first footage from Netflix's Cowboy Bebop adaptation was going to be a normal look at the show, well... we've got some news for you, Bounty Hunters.

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That Pro-Masturbation Flyer Going Viral on Social Media Is Totally Fake

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 04:00 AM PDT

Have you seen that flyer claiming anytime you think about vaping maybe you should masturbate instead? It's been going viral on right-wing social media thanks to commentators like Erick Erickson who say it's part of a federal government program being unleashed in U.S. schools. But the flyer is completely fake.

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North Korea Tests Submarine-Launched Missile as South Korea Starts Military Expo

Posted: 19 Oct 2021 03:00 AM PDT

North Korea tested what's believed to be a submarine-launched missile near the country's east coast around 10:17 a.m. local time on Tuesday, according to South Korea's Yonhap news outlet, the same day that South Korea kicked off the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition. And while we don't know if North…

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Fisher Price's Iconic Toy Telephone Now Actually Makes Phone Calls

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 09:00 PM PDT

As companies trip over themselves to get retro toys back on shelves for nostalgic adults, Fisher-Price is taking a different route. Its iconic Chatter Telephone has been enjoyed by toddlers for 60 years now, and to celebrate that anniversary, Mattel has turned the toy into a fully-functional smartphone accessory that…

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Someone Hacked and Defaced Donald Trump's Website

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 05:23 PM PDT

Someone hacked into and temporarily defaced the website of former President Donald Trump on Monday, weirdly embedding a YouTube video of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan onto one of the site's pages.

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Halloween Kills Is Here, So It's Time to Talk Spoilers

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 04:00 PM PDT

Back in 2018, we gathered 'round the fiery jack-o-lantern to discuss the ending of David Gordon Green's Halloween. Michael Myers' survival was all but guaranteed—after all, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends had already been announced, so there was no way slasher's freakiest Shatner mask was going to incinerate in…

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Why the New MacBook Pro Won't Be a Great Gaming Laptop

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 04:00 PM PDT

Apple just took the wraps off its redesigned MacBook Pros featuring new custom M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. And while I can't help but be impressed by Apple's lofty performance claims, folks are now wondering if this means the new MacBook Pros are suddenly good gaming laptops now. We haven't used the new Pros so it's too…

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The Suicide Squad Nearly Killed the Wrong Character in the Worst Way Possible

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 03:45 PM PDT

Man, The Suicide Squad was a lot of fun. Gory, blood-soaked, hyper-violent fun, but that was kind of its beauty—it was as much a dark comedy as it was an R-rated action flick. But there was once a scene in the movie's script that would have made The Suicide Squad much, much darker, to a point that would have deeply…

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Horseback Riding Is More Dangerous Than Football, According to New Study

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 02:55 PM PDT

A new study found that at least 45,000 Americans visited a major trauma center with horseback-related traumatic injury during a recent 10-year stretch—meaning that horseback riding likely sends more people to the hospital than other sports like football, auto and motorcycle racing, and skiing. The results indicate…

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All 12 Halloween Movies (So Far), Ranked

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 02:44 PM PDT

We are more than ready for an early Halloween this year, and what better way to prepare than by ranking all of the movies (so far) spawned by John Carpenter's 1978 slasher masterpiece?

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Here's Everything Apple Announced During Its MacBook Event

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 02:37 PM PDT

Despite a seemingly endless string of leaks leading up to it, Apple still managed to pack a few surprises into its fall 2021 "Unleashed" MacBook event on Monday.

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Netflix Employees Protesting Transphobia Present Their Demands Ahead of Walkout

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 02:23 PM PDT

Netflix's trans employee resource group has sent the company a list of demands, among them, that the company acknowledges that transphobic content causes harm. Last week, in a company-wide memo responding to critics of Dave Chappelle, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos specifically rejected that this is a fact. "While some…

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Facebook Announces Its Fake Ad Numbers Are Going to Get Even Faker

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 02:10 PM PDT

It's implicitly understood that the roughly $200 billion that folks are expected to spend on digital ads this year in the US will be spent on more than a few phony figures, puffed-up sales pitches, and numbers that are just, well blatantly fake. It's just a reality in the industry and no one is immune. But some of…

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Marvel's Hit-Monkey Dares to Imagine a World Where Apes Shoot to Kill

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 02:00 PM PDT

Watching the new trailer for Hulu's upcoming Hit-Monkey animated series, it's interesting to consider whether Guardians of the Galaxy represented the moment when Marvel decided just how much ridiculous gun-violence the studio was comfortable getting away with, so long as an animal was pulling the trigger. The series'…

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The Possibilities and Limits of Individual Climate Action

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 01:45 PM PDT

Here at Earther, I spend a lot of my time writing about the entities that are the most responsible for the climate crisis, like energy giants and other polluting companies. I know that these companies and their friends in government have spent decades promoting the false idea that we are all responsible for global…

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Where to Watch Dune (All of Them)

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 01:00 PM PDT

The spice must flow, and flow it will when Denis Villeneuve's long-awaited adaptation of sci-fi grandmaster Frank Herbert's Dune arrives in the U.S. on October 22. But Villeneuve's movie isn't the only Dune available to check out—there's a cult classic movie adaptation from 1984, two well-regarded miniseries that…

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Microsoft Knew Bill Gates Was Inappropriate With Female Staff as Early as 2008

Posted: 18 Oct 2021 12:40 PM PDT

Microsoft brass knew that founder and former chairman of the board Bill Gates was propositioning female staff at the company as early as 2008 and told him to stop, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

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