sábado, 6 de novembro de 2021


Stranger Things' Season 4 Trailer Brings California Chaos to Eleven

Posted: 06 Nov 2021 07:00 AM PDT

When Stranger Things wrapped up its third season all the way back in the dystopian year of 2019, the unlucky Byers family and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) packed up their things to leave the troubled town of Hawkins, Indiana for greener and less monstrous pastures. Where do you take a former telekinetic girl and a kid…

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Why Can’t We Predict When a Volcano Will Stop Erupting?

Posted: 06 Nov 2021 06:00 AM PDT

On September 19, Cumbre Vieja—a volcanic ridge covered in the rocky scars of past paroxysms—erupted for the first time in 50 years. Every single day thereafter, molten rock cooking at nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit has poured from multiple fissures and vents, frequently accompanied by explosions propelling glassy ash…

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The Unsettling Kriya Trailer Will Make You Reconsider Ever Going Home With a Stranger

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 05:00 PM PDT

Boy meets girl, girl brings boy home, boy stumbles into a very involved death ritual surrounding the girl's ailing father, and soon becomes an unwilling and inextricable part of the eerie proceedings. That's the set-up for Kriya, a chiller from last year made by New Delhi, India-based filmmaker Sidharth Srinivasan…

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18 States That Have Passed Permanent Daylight Savings Time and Why They Haven’t Implemented It

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 04:30 PM PDT

Come Sunday at 2:00 a.m. EST, Daylight Saving Time is coming to an end. An hour repeats, because the 20th-century federal government decided it should. It gets dark at 4:30 p.m, and we're Googling SAD lamps while we stare into the night from the office window. For over half a century, we've accepted that this is…

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Image Comics Is Refusing to Voluntarily Recognize Its Workers' New Union

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 04:20 PM PDT

Earlier this week, the workers of Image Comics announced the formation of the Comic Book Workers United, a unionization effort pushing for a number of significant changes in the workplace related to equity, accessibility, and transparency within the company. Along with a list of goals and reasons for unionizing, CBWU…

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Every Other Toy of the Week Shut Up, Jet Jaguar's Here

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 03:30 PM PDT

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy news around. This week: Disney gets into the festive season with an antlered astromech, Iron Man goes Medieval Times on us, and your friend and mine, Jet Jaguar, is here to save the day. Check it out!

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Report: FBI Raids Two Locations Linked to Project Veritas

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 03:20 PM PDT

The feds have reportedly carried out searches of at least two locations associated with the bumbling amateur spies at right-wing outfit Project Veritas in what sources speaking with the New York Times said on Friday is an investigation into how the group obtained the private diary of Joe Biden's daughter before the…

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Joe Manchin's Maserati Surrounded by Protesters Who Want a Liveable Planet After Joe Manchin and His Maserati Are Dead

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 03:10 PM PDT

Joe Manchin, West Virginia senator and apparent part-time mascot for America's well-heeled but clueless political class, was spotted driving his silver Maserati through a crowd of angry climate protestors on Thursday—another escalation in the politician's ongoing feud with non-corporate America.

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San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition Seems... Weird

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 03:00 PM PDT

San Diego Comic-Con is about to hold its first in-person event since 2019. It's called Comic-Con Special Edition and it takes place November 26-28 in San Diego, CA—but if you were worried that by not attending you'd be missing on big exciting news, you can breathe easy.

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Samsung's Galaxy S22 Ultra Might Have an S Pen and a Hideous Camera Array

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 02:40 PM PDT

The first purported "real world" images of one of Samsung's next flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S22 Ultra, have been published. They come by way of the sometimes-reliable tipster Jon Prosser of Front Page Tech. While the photos look like they were snapped when someone was running out the door, the camera array on…

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Jack in the Box Claims Cryptocurrency Firm's 'Inferior Mascot' Is Damaging the Burger Brand

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 02:29 PM PDT

Don't mess with the Jack. That's a lesson cryptocurrency exchange FTX may be about to learn the hard way thanks to a lawsuit launched in California federal court accusing the company of ripping off its mascot to create its own "inferior" Moon Man.

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The Boys Reveals Laurie Holden's Fabulous Crimson Countess Costume

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 02:10 PM PDT

It was announced that The Walking Dead and X-Files star Laurie Holden would be joining Amazon Prime's hit series The Boys for its third season back in June. Now, behold her in all her extremely red glory.

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Unlucky Delays Mean ISS Astronauts Could Return to Earth Before Their Replacements Arrive

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 01:10 PM PDT

The International Space Station could be emptier than usual next week, should NASA decide to send four astronauts home prior to the arrival of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission.

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What Is COP26 and Why Is It Important?

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 01:00 PM PDT

Gizmodo has reporters on the ground at the UN Climate talks in Glasgow. This page is updated regularly to include the latest news and stories from COP26. Last update 11/5/21 4:00 p.m. ET.

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The CW Announces a Slew of Superhero Premiere Dates

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 12:50 PM PDT

Here's the good news: The Flash's five-part "Armageddon" crossover will begin on November 16, less than two scant weeks from now. That same night, Riverdale will also premiere its supernatural five-episode visit by Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka). But after those end, you'll have to wait until 2022 for more of the…

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Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs Says It Will Use AI to Discover New Drugs

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 12:20 PM PDT

Alphabet has spun off a new company called Isomorphic Labs which seeks to use artificial intelligence to discover new pharmaceutical drugs. The commercial venture will reportedly build off of advancements made by Alphabet's DeepMind, which used a model called AlphaFold2 to predict the shape of proteins in the human…

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RIP Bob Baker, One of the Minds Behind Doctor Who's K-9

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 11:50 AM PDT

Bob Baker, the co-writer of several classic Doctor Who serials with his writing partner Dave Martin, as well as a co-writer for the beloved world of Aardman's Wallace & Gromit, has died.

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Teens and Unions Take Over Glasgow as Greta Thunberg Declares UN Climate Talks a 'Failure'

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 11:35 AM PDT

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The leaves of Kelvingrove Park are a patchwork of yellow and green, caught between summer and fall, life and death. A stiff wind stirred the boughs above a throng of strikers who gathered there on Friday to send a message to negotiators in the conference rooms at United Nations climate talks a mile…

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Apple's Third-Gen Chips Could Pave the Way for a World Without Intel

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 11:30 AM PDT

With its A- and M- processors, Apple has shown that it doesn't need a third party to find success in the hardware realm. But that fear permeates throughout Silicon Valley, and with reports that Apple's chips may soon eclipse chipmaking veterans like Intel, it sounds like we're heading for a high season of chip wars.

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Wicked's Wonderful Witches Whirlwind Into Work

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 11:20 AM PDT

Wicked, the Broadway musical that serves as a semi-prequel to The Wizard of Oz, continues down the metaphorical yellow brick road leading to its official movie adaptation. Now it's taken a giant leap toward the Emerald City by casting its two most major roles, as pop icon Ariana Grande and acclaimed English actor…

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Taking a Painkiller While Training for a Marathon Triggered a Woman's Life-Threatening Allergy

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 11:10 AM PDT

Doctors in Pennsylvania have reported a peculiar case of allergy in a 40-year-old woman, one that might unnerve casual joggers and marathon runners alike. Their patient developed a severe allergic reaction after taking a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID, during a training run for a marathon. Doctors…

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse May Be Coming to a Crumbling Strip Mall Near You

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 10:55 AM PDT

Facebook—sorry, it's calling itself Meta now—is planning on dipping consumers' toes in the so-called metaverse by launching retail stores to showcase AR and VR products, the New York Times reported on Friday.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Stars of Eternals' Big Post-Credits Scenes

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 10:30 AM PDT

Chloé Zhao's Eternals, as you might have expected, has not one but two post-credit sequences teasing Things to Come in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In case you were wondering what they were all about, io9 has you covered.

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Science Publisher Retracts 44 Papers for Being Utter Nonsense

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 09:50 AM PDT

The publisher Springer Nature was forced to retract over 40 papers from its Arabian Journal of Geosciences after realizing they were nothing more than garbled jargon. This is just the latest in a series of shoddy research papers getting past the publisher.

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It's Time to Drain Lake Powell

Posted: 05 Nov 2021 09:40 AM PDT

The date is Feb. 9, 1997, and the man responsible for one of the most egregious environmental follies in human history is sitting at a restaurant in Boyce, Virginia, with the leader of the movement seeking to undo his mistake. Of the hundreds of dams Floyd Dominy green lit during his decade running the Bureau of…

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