quinta-feira, 14 de outubro de 2021


Locke & Key Season 2 Might Be Bloodier Than Its Fictional Slasher Movie

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 08:20 AM PDT

Through the myriad twists and turns of Locke & Key's first season—and all the magical keys that led to said twists and turns—we've gotten glimpses of Scot Cavendish (Petrice Jones) making his a cinematic masterpiece. It's a horror film (because of course it is) starring Kinsey Locke (Emilia Jones) and as Netflix's…

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Palm Is Trying to Make a Comeback, This Time With a Pair of Earbuds

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 08:10 AM PDT

Palm probably wasn't a name you were expecting to hear from again, but to the surprise of many, the company recently posted some teasers on Twitter foreshadowing a new gadget coming out later this month.

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The HTC Vive Flow Is a Lighter Way to Get Into VR

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 08:00 AM PDT

HTC Vive's first real consumer virtual reality headset is here, and while at first glance it seems to be a direct competitor to the Oculus Quest 2, the Vive Flow has the potential to be more of a mainstream headset—but it will cost you.

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Scientists See Leprosy in Wild Chimpanzees for the First Time

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 07:36 AM PDT

An ancient disease in humans seems to have jumped the species barrier to one of our closest primate cousins. On Wednesday, researchers detailed finding cases of leprosy among two separate groups of chimpanzees in West Africa—the first ever documented among wild chimps. The origin of these outbreaks is unknown, but…

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Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Mysteriously Flocking to a Dead-End Street in San Francisco

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 07:24 AM PDT

City traffic can get pretty congested, but hardly anyone would expect an endless stream of self-driving cars flocking to one quiet residential street. Except, that's what's happening to one dead-end street in San Francisco, according to a local KPIX report.

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A Rare Prototype of the Failed Phantom Console Is Going Up for Auction

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 07:09 AM PDT

Bringing a new device to market is incredibly difficult, and especially so in a field already dominated by monstrous players like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. There were many reasons why the Phantom never came to be, but a rare prototype of the console that no one knew existed is now up for auction.

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Updates From Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Flash, and More

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 06:20 AM PDT

M. Night Shyamalan is ready to tease his next project already. Jason Blum reveals plans for even more Universal Monsters reworks. David Gordon Green teases how the world of Halloween Ends is reflected by our own. Plus, a new look at The Witcher's return, and what's next on American Horror Stories. Spoilers get!

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How Wi-Fi 6E Works, and What It Means for Your Gadgets

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 05:30 AM PDT

Still catching up on the last major wifi standard to be announced? Sorry, but the next one is here. Wi-Fi 6E routers are beginning to pop up, and you should know that the new standard is a more substantial jump up from Wi-Fi 6 than that 'E' might suggest.

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What to Expect From Apple's October Event (Macs!)

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 05:00 AM PDT

Yes, friends, there's another Apple event ahead of us. It kicks off Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, to be exact. And while we saw new iPhones, the Apple Watch Series 7, and two iPads last month, there are still a few things Apple has in store for its next event, which offers the vague tagline: "Unleashed."

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No, Putin Isn't Embracing Cryptocurrency Just Yet

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 04:26 AM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a tentative and halfhearted approval to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin on Thursday, signaling that it's something he may accept as a legitimate payment option in the future. Perhaps the very distant future, if we're being honest.

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Specialized Bicycles Recalled in U.S. Over Frames That Can Crack

Posted: 14 Oct 2021 03:00 AM PDT

Roughly 6,900 Specialized brand bicycles sold in the U.S. have been recalled because the bike's frame can crack, according to a new announcement from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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Advocacy Groups Launch Initiative to 'Stop' Facebook

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 05:20 PM PDT

As Facebook weathers an ongoing PR shitstorm composed of various interlocking crises, a number of public advocacy groups have launched a website that asks Americans to help put the screws to the tech giant.

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In The Black Phone Trailer, Ethan Hawke Is a Part-Time Magician and a Full-Time Fiend

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 04:00 PM PDT

We just got a trailer for the new Scream movie, and here's another horror trailer involving a ringing telephone that's perfectly timed for spooky season (even if the movie itself isn't out until next year): The Black Phone. It's the latest from Scott Derrickson, whose biggest credit is 2016's Doctor Strange but whose…

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Even the Goddamn Star Wars Hotel Is Getting a Comic

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 02:45 PM PDT

Waze and Headspace Want You to 'Find More Joy' While You Drive, Whatever That Means

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 02:30 PM PDT

Driving can be infuriating. As more people get back into the groove of commuting, popular navigation app Waze is teaming up with meditation app Headspace to help you calm the hell down while you're on the road. Or at least that's the goal.

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Gladys, the 'Largest Owl You've Ever Seen,' Is on the Loose in Minnesota

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 02:05 PM PDT

A huge owl named Gladys escaped from the Minnesota Zoo earlier this month, and zoo officials need help tracking her down.

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HTC's New VR Headset Leaked, and It's the Weirdest-Looking One Yet

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 02:02 PM PDT

Even if you put aside its decidedly bug-eyed appearance, the leaked HTC Vive Flow is a baffling headset. By all accounts, it's supposed to be a standalone consumer VR device that's made for activities like meditating and streaming media. It also will allegedly come with its own take on the metaverse. In a somewhat…

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io9 Halloween Costume Show Week 2: Into the Spooky-Verse

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 01:45 PM PDT

Last week we kicked off our returning, mostly annual Halloween Costume Show, inviting all you very well-prepared early birds to give us a glimpse at what costumes you're planning for Spook Season 2K21. There's still plenty of time to share before the big day though!

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Apple TV+ Reportedly Struggling to Control Digital Piracy ��

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 01:30 PM PDT

While it's no secret that Apple executives sit up in their sierra blue ivory tower and count their guilders as the most profitable company in the world, the company's streaming arm, Apple TV+, is relatively new and has yet to see the same staggering returns other parts of the company have long enjoyed. That's maybe…

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NASA Advisor Quits Over Space Telescope Named for Homophobic Administrator

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 01:11 PM PDT

Astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz has resigned from a NASA advisory committee on account of the space agency's perceived mishandling of a request to rename the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Webb was a NASA administrator during the 1960s who aided in the persecution of LGBTQ employees.

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Celebrate Ursula K. Le Guin's Legacy By Reading a Classic Earthsea Story

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 12:45 PM PDT

This year marks some big anniversaries in the world of groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin: 50 years for The Tombs of Atuan and The Lathe of Heaven, and 20 years for The Other Wind and Tales from Earthsea. Today, we've got an excerpt to share from Tales from Earthsea story "On the High…

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Acer's Beastly Predator Orion 7000 Is One of the First Desktops With Intel's New 12th-Gen Chips

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 12:00 PM PDT

Acer just took the wraps off a powerful new Predator Orion 7000 desktop, notably running on Intel's soon-to-launch 12th-gen CPU.

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reMarkable's E Ink Tablet Now Requires a Subscription to Access Its Best Features

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 11:50 AM PDT

Of the growing number of E Ink based e-note devices hitting the market, none provide as excellent a simulated pen-on-paper experience as the reMarkable tablet. But reMarkable isn't Apple, and being a company that makes just one device isn't easy, so new owners of reMarkable's excellent E Ink tablet will now have to…

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Gullible OpenSea Users Were Vulnerable to 'Malicious NFT' Attacks, Researchers Say

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 11:40 AM PDT

OpenSea, the world's largest market for NFTs, says that it recently patched security flaws that would have allowed bad actors to pilfer users' digital crypto wallets. The flaws were brought to the market's attention by researchers with Check Point, a cybersecurity company based in Israel, which says that fraudsters…

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Aquaman: King of Atlantis' Creators Want to Embrace the Cringe

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 11:30 AM PDT

Aquaman: King of Atlantis takes a different path than most other recent incarnations of the legendary underwater hero—instead of turning him into a rough-and-ready badass in the vein of Jason Momoa's Arthur, King of Atlantis' Cooper Andrews gives us a lighter, sillier spin. And for series creators Victor Courtright…

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