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- New Zealand Lays Off Its Official City Wizard After 20 Years of Loyal Service
- Star Trek: Lower Deck's Mike McMahan Breaks Down Season 2's Themes and That Epic Finale
- Fine, the Monarchy Is Good (Just This One Time)
- Recurring Water Vapor Potentially Found on Europa—but Just on One Side
- Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott, and the Magical Thinking About Bitcoin’s Ability to Fix Texas’ Grid
- Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker Has Filmed Her Goodbye, But Not Met the Next Doctor
- Here Are the Right-Wing Goons Who Spread BS Rumors Southwest Airline Delays Were Due to Covid-19 Vaccines
- Your Guide to COP26, the World’s Most Important Climate Talks
- Experts Say Apple, EU's Photo Scanning Plans Are 'Dangerous Technology'
- Adding Wireless Charging to the Nintendo Switch Lite Is Surprisingly Easy
- Updates From The Batman, Marvel's Eternals, and More
- 7 Things to Know About NASA’s First Mission to the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids
- What To Expect From Google's Pixel 6 Event
- Apple Removes Popular Quran App in China: Report
- Former Boeing Manager Indicted for Lying to FAA About 737 Max Plane Before Crashes
- Google Sent More Than 50,000 Warnings to Users Targeted by Government-Backed Hackers This Year
- Apple Wanted Her Fired. It Settled on an Absurd Excuse
- Amazon's Ring Doorbell Can Violate Your Neighbor's Privacy, a UK Judge Rules
- Missouri Governor Wants to Prosecute Journalist for Warning That State Left Teachers' Data Exposed
- Shudder's Horror Noire Combines 6 Tales of Terror in a Single Movie
- Bank Robbers in the Middle East Reportedly 'Cloned' Someone's Voice to Assist with $35 Million Heist
- Spider-Man's Tom Holland Calls No Way Home the Trilogy's 'Conclusion'
- Robot Murder Dog New Thing to Worry About as You Fall Asleep
- Miscommunication Is the Only Thing to Fear in Pokémon Unite
- FDA Advisory Panel Unanimously Backs a Half-Dose Moderna Booster for Covid-19
| New Zealand Lays Off Its Official City Wizard After 20 Years of Loyal Service Posted: 15 Oct 2021 09:34 AM PDT  Since 1998, UK-born Ian Brackenbury has been paid a solid $16,000 NZD (roughly 11,300 USD) per year to be the official wizard for the city of Christchurch in New Zealand. Now after slightly more than two decades on the city's payroll, authorities are officially cutting ties with Brackenbury in an attempt to modernize… |
| Star Trek: Lower Deck's Mike McMahan Breaks Down Season 2's Themes and That Epic Finale Posted: 15 Oct 2021 09:20 AM PDT  Another season of Star Trek: Lower Decks has come to an end, but this time, the show has evolved into a whole new level of trials and tribulations for the crew of the Cerritos. To look back on season two and unpack some of those twists from the finale, io9 chatted with showrunner Mike McMahan to uncover what to expect… |
| Fine, the Monarchy Is Good (Just This One Time) Posted: 15 Oct 2021 09:00 AM PDT  As the world starts looking to Glasgow for the United Nations climate talks happening later this month, the British royals are saying what we're all thinking. Namely, billionaires need to stop obsessing about space tourism, and world leaders need to get off their ass and come to the talks. |
| Recurring Water Vapor Potentially Found on Europa—but Just on One Side Posted: 15 Oct 2021 08:50 AM PDT  The icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa appears to be continually feeding its thin atmosphere with water vapor, according to Hubble observations made from 1999 to 2015. |
| Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott, and the Magical Thinking About Bitcoin’s Ability to Fix Texas’ Grid Posted: 15 Oct 2021 07:55 AM PDT  This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he will make Texas the number one state for bitcoin. What's more, he espoused the wonders of crypto mining as a way to prop up the state's flailing electrical grid, a view Cancun-loving Sen. Ted Cruz also shared at a bitcoin mining conference last week. It's a seductive story:… |
| Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker Has Filmed Her Goodbye, But Not Met the Next Doctor Posted: 15 Oct 2021 07:50 AM PDT  It's the end of an era for Doctor Who, even if we might not see the ramifications of it for quite a while. Jodie Whittaker, the 13th Doctor, has filmed the end of her time as a Time Lord—but she doesn't expect to know her replacement for a while. |
| Posted: 15 Oct 2021 07:25 AM PDT  Many Republican politicians and right-wing pundits were thrilled to report that massive disruptions at Southwest Airlines over the past week were due to airline staff, fed up with a forthcoming employer vaccine mandate by Presidnet Joe Biden, staging an impromptu protest by walking off the job. |
| Your Guide to COP26, the World’s Most Important Climate Talks Posted: 15 Oct 2021 07:12 AM PDT  Maybe you've educated yourself a little bit about what COP26 is all about. You know what a COP is (that's "conference of the parties" for those who didn't do your 101 homework), you know why everyone is going to Glasgow, and you know that this conference is our last best chance at keeping global warming below… |
| Experts Say Apple, EU's Photo Scanning Plans Are 'Dangerous Technology' Posted: 15 Oct 2021 07:05 AM PDT  Over a dozen cybersecurity experts are slamming Apple and the European Union's plans to scan photos on people's phones for known child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), the New York Times reports. In a 46-page study, the experts say the photo scanning tech is not only ineffective, but it's also "dangerous technology." |
| Adding Wireless Charging to the Nintendo Switch Lite Is Surprisingly Easy Posted: 15 Oct 2021 06:53 AM PDT One of the upgrades Nintendo didn't add to its new OLED Switch was wireless charging, but as YouTube's Robotanv discovered, at least with the Switch Lite, making the console Qi-compatible was a rather trivial hack with minimal soldering and about $14 worth of added parts. |
| Updates From The Batman, Marvel's Eternals, and More Posted: 15 Oct 2021 06:25 AM PDT  Zendaya discusses her time on Dune. New Clifford footage reveals the villains on a quest for Big Red Dog Blood. Plus, Michael Sheen teases his return to Good Omens, and Stargirl goes black and white for a new episode. To me, my spoilers! |
| 7 Things to Know About NASA’s First Mission to the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids Posted: 15 Oct 2021 06:08 AM PDT  NASA's launch window for the Lucy spacecraft opens during the early hours of Saturday, October 16. Here's what you need to know about this thrilling mission and how you can watch the launch live online. |
| What To Expect From Google's Pixel 6 Event Posted: 15 Oct 2021 05:00 AM PDT  If you've been holding out on buying a new phone in anticipation of Google's Pixel 6, next week is when we find out every single detail. The sixth-generation Android smartphone has been relentlessly leaked and teased these past few months—we know what it looks like, what Google's custom processor can do, and even what… |
| Apple Removes Popular Quran App in China: Report Posted: 15 Oct 2021 04:30 AM PDT  Apple has taken down an app that allowed users to read the Muslim holy book, the Quran, in China, according to a new report from the BBC. The app, known as Quran Majeed, is incredibly popular around the world and is currently ranked 51 in Google's U.S. App Store for reference materials. |
| Former Boeing Manager Indicted for Lying to FAA About 737 Max Plane Before Crashes Posted: 15 Oct 2021 03:00 AM PDT  A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Texas has indicted Boeing's former chief technical pilot for allegedly lying to the Federal Aviation Administration's Aircraft Evaluation Group (FAA AEG) about Boeing's 737 Max airplane, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. All 737 Max planes… |
| Google Sent More Than 50,000 Warnings to Users Targeted by Government-Backed Hackers This Year Posted: 14 Oct 2021 08:40 PM PDT  If the internet is a digital Wild West, it's time to lock your doors and close your windows. While the amount of cyber attackers and activity alone is alarming, in this episode, the featured villain is a hacker group backed by the Iranian government. |
| Apple Wanted Her Fired. It Settled on an Absurd Excuse Posted: 14 Oct 2021 07:53 PM PDT  It wasn't very hard to tell which way the wind was blowing. Ashley Gjøvik had even been warned. Somewhere inside Apple, friends and coworkers assured her, higher-ups were having a conversation about how to force her out of her job. There was even consensus among these allies about the route they would take, that… |
| Amazon's Ring Doorbell Can Violate Your Neighbor's Privacy, a UK Judge Rules Posted: 14 Oct 2021 05:45 PM PDT  A judge in the U.K. has ruled that a man infringed on his neighbor's privacy by using Amazon's Ring doorbell without prior consent. |
| Missouri Governor Wants to Prosecute Journalist for Warning That State Left Teachers' Data Exposed Posted: 14 Oct 2021 05:20 PM PDT |
| Shudder's Horror Noire Combines 6 Tales of Terror in a Single Movie Posted: 14 Oct 2021 04:30 PM PDT  The inspiration behind Horror Noire—Shudder's just-in-time-for-Halloween new anthology horror film—has almost the same title: the excellent documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. |
| Bank Robbers in the Middle East Reportedly 'Cloned' Someone's Voice to Assist with $35 Million Heist Posted: 14 Oct 2021 03:45 PM PDT  Criminals appear to have stolen some $35 million from a United Arab Emirates bank with the help of AI-enhanced voice simulation, according to a new report from Forbes. The "deepfaked" vocals were used to fool a bank employee into thinking he was handing over the cash on behalf of a legitimate business transaction… |
| Spider-Man's Tom Holland Calls No Way Home the Trilogy's 'Conclusion' Posted: 14 Oct 2021 03:20 PM PDT  Don't panic. When Marvel Studios' latest Spider-Man movie, No Way Home, hits theaters on December 17, it sounds like it might be our last trip home. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, star Tom Holland sure made it sound like things for his incarnation of Spidey might be wrapping up... in some form or another. |
| Robot Murder Dog New Thing to Worry About as You Fall Asleep Posted: 14 Oct 2021 02:31 PM PDT  Dogs have long been a hunting companion for humans, so it makes complete sense that almost as soon as robotic quadrupeds were perfected, we'd be slapping big ol' guns on 'em. Boston Dynamics might not want anyone using Spot for evil, but there are plenty of other bot makers happy to make robo-dogs ready for war. |
| Miscommunication Is the Only Thing to Fear in Pokémon Unite Posted: 14 Oct 2021 02:20 PM PDT  In a world that's full of addictive and wildly popular MOBA games, one of the big things that makes TiMi Studio Group's Pokémon Unite so appealing is how simple it seems... at first. |
| FDA Advisory Panel Unanimously Backs a Half-Dose Moderna Booster for Covid-19 Posted: 14 Oct 2021 02:08 PM PDT  On Thursday afternoon, experts assembled by the Food and Drug Administration recommended boosters for older and high-risk Americans who originally got the Moderna covid-19 vaccine. The unanimous vote will pave the way for an expected authorization of the booster by the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and… |
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