terça-feira, 5 de outubro de 2021


Google Puts a Date on When It Will Auto-Enroll Everyone in 2FA

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 08:20 AM PDT

Earlier in May, Google casually dropped in a password security blog that it planned on automatically enabling 2FA on Google Accounts. At the time, Google didn't give any idea of what that timeline would look like other than "soon." But in a Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog, Google now says that the process is…

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Snapchat Is Trying to Make It Easier for Gen Z to Run for Political Office

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 08:10 AM PDT

How many apps can you name that offer both an avenue to send unsolicited dick pics and a pathway to achieve your political dreams? Unless you're the disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, the answer to that question is probably "one," after Snapchat announced a new feature on Tuesday designed to help…

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Hasbro's Newest Star Wars Figure Ups The Mandalorian's Arsenal

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Hasbro has heard your demands for new Mandalorian figures, and answered with: well, what if the next Stormtrooper figure came with some light artillery?

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You Can Stop Putting Spider Silk on Your Wounds

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Spider silk may not be quite as magical a substance as we've been led to believe, new research suggests. Scientists looked closely at the silk of several different spiders but were unable to find any with antimicrobial properties. The researchers say their findings should throw into question past claims of finding…

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'I Call It Fire Brain': What It's Like to Photograph Wildfires at the Frontline of the Climate Crisis

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 07:27 AM PDT

The West has been primed to burn at a moment when more people than ever have moved to some of the most dangerous forests on Earth. The result has been an endless stream of horror stories and images: houses on fires, dead animals, ecosystems upended, people crying when they realize they lost everything, drone shots of

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Earth Is Getting Dimmer

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 06:48 AM PDT

Earth is losing some of its glow, a study published in Geophysical Research Letters last week shows. It appears climate change and a natural climate shift have essentially scuffed up our planet. We really can't have nice things, can we folks?

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Updates From the Hocus Pocus Sequel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and More

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 06:30 AM PDT

Tilda Swinton is heading to the post apocalypse for a cryptic new musical. Jason Blum has Halloween-tier plans for the return of The Exorcist. Jason Reitman talks about the wonderfully small way his father contributed to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Plus, a classic Flash returns on Stargirl. Spoilers now!

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BMW’s New Factory Robots Can Paint Complex Designs on Cars Without Any Time-Consuming Masking

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 06:25 AM PDT

As the automotive assembly line improved and modernized over the past century, it opened up new possibilities for new vehicles to be customized by drivers. BMW is taking the next step with customization with a newly developed robot that can quickly paint vehicles with complex designs like a giant inkjet printer.

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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Studio Does It All

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Even among 2-in-1s, Microsoft's Surface Book was kind of a unicorn. You can open up its wings and use it like a typical laptop, but then with the push of a button, its screen can detach and fly away, becoming a standalone tablet floating through the wind. OK, I may have overdone the unicorn analogy, but you get the…

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I Love the Idea of a Windows 11 Tablet, but the Surface Go 3 Is Just OK

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 06:00 AM PDT

The last time I used a PC as small as Microsoft's Surface Go 3 was a similarly-sized netbook more than a decade ago. And oh my God, how far the Windows platform has come.

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In House of the Dragon's First Teaser, Fire is the One True Power

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 05:50 AM PDT

While Game of Thrones' sprawling cast of characters were all chiefly concerned with the events of the world that were playing out in real time, fans of George RR Martin's books and the projects adapted from it have always understood that the actual story being told in A Song of Ice and Fire actually reaches much, much…

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How to Get Windows 11 Features Without Upgrading

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 05:00 AM PDT

There are plenty of reasons why you might wait to upgrade to Windows 11. In many cases, your machine might not be ready for the update, but upgrading to a new operating system can be a significant disruption to your daily life. The last thing some of us can take right now is the loss of routine.

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Texas Man Gets Prison Time for Facebook Hoax About Covid-19 Patient Licking Grocery Items

Posted: 05 Oct 2021 03:00 AM PDT

A Texas man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting hoaxes on Facebook that falsely claimed he had paid someone with covid-19 to lick items at two grocery stores in San Antonio, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Why Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram All Went Down on Monday

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 11:05 PM PDT

Facebook, your uncle's favorite source for information on how 5G is making everyone communist, experienced a six-hour outage Monday. And it wasn't just Facebook—the company's other major platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp, were also down. We finally got a statement from Facebook overnight about what happened, and the…

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Kobo's New E Ink Tablet Is a Cheaper, Smaller reMarkable Alternative

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 09:01 PM PDT

As excellent as the reMarkable's writing experience is, the device is big, pricy, lacks an ebook store, and doesn't have an illuminated screen. With its new $260 Sage, Kobo is introducing a smaller and cheaper e-note that's still an excellent e-reader with access to the expansive Kobo ebook store and the added plus of…

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A Hiker Must Keep to the Path (or Else) in Horror Short Narrow

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 05:00 PM PDT

A backpack-toting woman trudges through what looks like a sun-baked field of grass, fiddling with a water bottle that's got just a few drops left in it. Things would only seem mildly dire if she hadn't also just passed another woman, sprawled in a heap a few feet off the trail, screaming in agony for help—and with a…

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What Does the Venom 2 Post-Credits Scene Mean for Marvel's Future?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 03:20 PM PDT

Sony teased it. Official Twitter accounts have joked about it. And now, after a massive $90 million opening lots of fans have seen it. We're talking about the end credit scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnage and, below, we'll discuss it and let you tell us what you think it could mean.

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First Birds Rescued From California Oil Spill

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 02:40 PM PDT

After more than 126,000 gallons (or 3,000 barrels) of crude oil spilled out of a broken pipeline in Huntington Beach, California, this weekend, the first reports on affected wildlife were released Monday. Cautiously, it's so far, so good—but there's still a long way to go.

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Tinder Is Getting Its Own In-App Currency

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 02:30 PM PDT

If there's one thing Tinder was missing, it's of course some kind of unnecessary in-app economy. Well, good news: Now you can spend Tinder Bux on your ceaseless quest to get laid, so long as you're in the land down under.

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V/H/S/94 Is a Grimy, Gory Found-Footage Throwback

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 02:20 PM PDT

The first V/H/S movie came out in 2012, arriving at the tail end of the low-budget found-footage horror craze (Paranormal Activity and REC came out in 2007; Cloverfield was 2008) and capturing the last moment in culture before VCRs became totally obsolete. Two sequels followed, with 2014's V/H/S: Viral embracing phone…

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Here's How TikTok's Parent Company Reportedly Wants To Take On Amazon

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 02:10 PM PDT

China's ByteDance has already seen wild success with TikTok, its social media subsidiary that's turned into a massive thorn in Facebook's side. Now, it looks like the company is stepping into Amazon's turf, too. Insider was first to report on Monday that ByteDance is planning on building an international shopping…

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Android 12 Is Here, Sort Of

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 02:00 PM PDT

Welcome to yet another confusing software rollout from Google: After months in beta, Android 12 has officially been released. However, it's not rolling out to smartphones everywhere just yet. If you're expecting the update to Android 12, hang tight: it's coming in the next few weeks.

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Netflix's Streaming Shuffle Feature Is Coming to Android

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 01:45 PM PDT

If you've ever sat helpless in front of the hundreds and hundreds of movie and TV show options on Netflix, unable to decide which specific type of mindless content to settle into for the night, you're in luck: After launching its "Play Something" instant-streaming shuffle feature on connected TVs last April, Netflix…

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Reebok Cross the Streams for New Sneakers

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 01:20 PM PDT

Reebok is no stranger to pop culture collaborations, having partnered with both Jurassic Park and Alien. Heck, the company even released Ghostbusters sneakers last year, inspired by the full uniforms of Venkman, Spengler, Zeddemore, and Stantz. The collection must have done well, because Reebok has debuted a much…

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Acer's New Windows 11 Laptop Is Better for the Environment

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 01:00 PM PDT

Gadget makers have come up with a couple of tactics to curb e-waste and prevent plastic from heading straight to the landfill. On the one hand, you have devices like the Fairphone 4 and the Framework laptop, which seek to reduce waste by making gadgets easier to upgrade and repair. On the other, you have systems like…

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