segunda-feira, 4 de outubro de 2021


Joe Manchin Is Doing Utilities’ Reconciliation Bill Dirty Work

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 08:40 AM PDT

Over the course of his decade in the Senate, it's no secret that Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has been an ardent supporter of fossil fuels. The barely-blue-dog-Democrat is now almost singlehandedly responsible for holding up progress on the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better bill, as he pushes for major changes to the way…

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New Leaks Reveal Lenovo's Plans to Make an Android-Based Gaming Handheld

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 08:31 AM PDT

Even though MWC 2021 happened months back in the summer, new leaks have revealed a device that looks like Lenovo's attempt to create its own Android-based portable gaming handheld.

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Y: The Last Man's Latest Sees Every Bad Situation Getting Worse

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 08:15 AM PDT

You'd think with almost all of the men in the world gone, people could learn to trust one another. But that doesn't make good television, does it? In the sixth episode of FX on Hulu's Y The Last Man, titled "Weird Al Is Dead," there's not a hint of trust or happiness to be found. Not between politicians, not between…

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Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Figuring Out How We Can Feel Pressure and Heat

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 08:06 AM PDT

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their research on temperature and touch receptors. Their discoveries both contributed to what we know about the way our bodies take in sensory information from the world and make sense of it.

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Chrome Is Working on a Side Search Panel to Make Browsing Less of a Pain

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 07:57 AM PDT

Good news for anyone who's ever been cheesed at having to hit "back" or open 10 new tabs while going through your Google search results. According to 9to5 Google, it appears a new side search feature is in the works.

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It's Time for a Documentary About Tim Curry's Pennywise

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 07:30 AM PDT

Tim Curry's turn as Pennywise in the original It still holds up. Depending on who you ask, it may be the only element from the 1990 miniseries that does. Bill Skarsgård's two-pronged time as the clown may still be fresh in the mind, but for many, Curry's performance will always be the version that sticks with them. A…

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Kodiak the Eagle Has Been Captured After Week-Long Adventure in Pittsburgh

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 07:03 AM PDT

Staff at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are rejoicing following the successful recovery of Kodiak—a Steller's sea eagle who escaped from his enclosure in late September.

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Updates From Aquaman 2, She-Hulk, and More

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 06:15 AM PDT

Jeffrey Dean Morgan has hopes The Walking Dead's end could provide a Negan spinoff. Superman and Lois finds itself a new sinister authority figure for season two. Plus, a new look at the next episode of Titans, and what's to come on Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and more. Spoilers now!

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Could Fossil Fuel Companies Ever Be Tried for Crimes Against Humanity?

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 05:15 AM PDT

Someone does something wrong, and is held accountable for it. It's a pleasant notion, one with no bearing whatsoever on the world of the super-rich, whose various plunderings, deceptions, and general anti-humanity behaviors have gone and will continue to go unpunished. But does it have to be this way? Might we one day…

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New Zealand Abandons Covid-Zero Strategy, Leaving Few Countries Still Pursuing Virus Elimination

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 03:00 AM PDT

New Zealand will abandon its strategy of completely eliminating covid-19 from the country, adopting a new policy of learning to live with the virus and trying to achieve high vaccination rates, according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at a press conference on Monday.

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9 Horrifying Facts From the Facebook Whistleblower's New 60 Minutes Interview

Posted: 03 Oct 2021 08:40 PM PDT

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published internal research from Facebook showing that the social media company knows precisely how toxic its own product is for the people who use it. But tonight, we learned how the Journal obtained those documents: A whistleblower named Frances Haugen, who spoke with CBS News' 60

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Trump Tells Judge He Will Suffer ‘Irreparable Harm’ If He’s Not Allowed to Tweet

Posted: 03 Oct 2021 07:52 PM PDT

Former President Donald Trump is suffering from Twitter withdrawal. With no viable way to get his fix since Twitter cut him off, Trump has turned to a federal judge to plead his case, hoping the legal system will force the company to let him tweet again (preferably in all caps and with a lot of exclamation points).

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The Walking Dead Discovers the Most Obnoxious Man in the Zombie Apocalypse

Posted: 03 Oct 2021 07:06 PM PDT

The Walking Dead's 11th and final season did not get off to a great start on AMC—those first few episodes were middling, awful, and confounding. But since then the show has picked up with the origin story of the Reapers, explored the weird and increasingly sinister normality of the Commonwealth, and produced a slasher…

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Major Oil Spill Off the Coast of Southern California Has 'Dolphins Swimming Thru the Oil'

Posted: 03 Oct 2021 03:30 PM PDT

A broken pipeline off the coast of Orange County, California, has crews scrambling to contain a major oil spill that's left crude oil all over local beaches, threatening local wetlands and killing wildlife.

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HBO's True Blood Looks Back at Itself With a Rewatch Podcast

Posted: 03 Oct 2021 02:00 PM PDT

When True Blood first hit HBO in 2008, it came at just the right time. The adaptation of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries featured vampires and werewolves being sexy in Louisiana and was an extremely easy sell at the time. It's hard to say if it was actually good, but it was certainly watchable enough for…

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Marvel’s Eternals Spot Reveals the MCU’s First Big Screen Gay Couple

Posted: 03 Oct 2021 12:30 PM PDT

Now that more semi-grounded heroes like Shang-Chi and Black Widow have gotten their solo films, it's the Eternals' time to shine. The new batch of cosmic weirdos making their way to the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets their grand debut in a month from director Chloé Zhao, which means it's time for the commercials to…

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YouTube TV and NBCUniversal Have Kissed And Made Up

Posted: 03 Oct 2021 11:08 AM PDT

Good news, YouTube TV subscribers: Sunday Night Football isn't going anywhere. After a contentious public face-off over a contract dispute, YouTube TV and NBCUniversal have finally worked out a deal that will keep NBCU's programming on the platform.

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Venom 2 Slithers Up a Lot of Cash Opening Weekend

Posted: 03 Oct 2021 10:40 AM PDT

Like other Marvel movies before it, Venom: Let There Be Carnage made a boatload of money.

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SNL Uses Star Trek and Owen Wilson to Drag Jeff Bezos

Posted: 03 Oct 2021 10:00 AM PDT

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