quarta-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2021


Renfield Recruits Awkwafina to Take on Dracula

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 01:10 PM PST

If you're going to try and move against not just any lord of the night, but Nic goddamn Cage's lord of the night, you're going to need a team—and Universal's latest spin on its monstrous world is starting to build one.

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37 Percent of the World's Population Has Never Been Online, U.N. Report Finds

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 01:01 PM PST

Nearly two-thirds of the world's population now have the opportunity to waste away their life online just like you. Specifically, around 2.9 billion (or 37%) of the world's population have still never used the internet, with the vast majority of those people residing in developing countries. Those figures are part of…

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See Trippy Photos Taken by a Nano Camera

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 12:26 PM PST

A team of engineers has built a camera about the size of a salt grain that's capable of taking images of similar quality to an ordinary camera 500,000 times its size. The super-small camera takes advantage of a combination of flat optic technology and artificial intelligence to produce its images.

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This Summer's Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Roasted the Christmas Tree Crop

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 12:10 PM PST

Climate change is the latest combatant in the war on Christmas. This summer's record-smashing heat wave in the Pacific Northwest was an all-out assault on Christmas trees, and the impacts could reverberate not just this winter but for years to come.

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First Case of Omicron Variant Detected in the U.S.

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 11:55 AM PST

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has officially reached the United States. This afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case of the worrying variant, involving a California resident who recently returned from South Africa, where the variant was first identified. The patient…

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Thousands of AT&T Subscribers Infected With Data-Pilfering Malware, Researchers Say

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 11:40 AM PST

Unpatched, years-old vulnerabilities in networking devices have allowed a noxious malware to infect thousands of AT&T customers in the U.S., a new report from a Chinese cybersecurity company claims. The malware basically functions as a backdoor, one that could allow an attacker to penetrate networks, steal data, and…

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Hawkeye Just Gave Us a Crucial Marvel Origin Story and a Whole Lot of Action

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 11:30 AM PST

The third episode of Disney+ and Marvel's Hawkeye peaked before Clint Barton or Kate Bishop were ever on screen. Titled "Echoes," the episode began with a flashback origin story of sorts for Maya Lopez, the character we met at the very end of the second episode and who has her own Marvel Studios series called Echo on…

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Many Severe Covid-19 Survivors Go on to Die Within a Year, Study Finds

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 11:20 AM PST

New research this week finds that people hospitalized with severe covid-19 often pay a heavy price afterward. The study concluded that these survivors were more than twice as likely to die in the subsequent 12 months compared to people who had tested negative for the virus. This relatively increased risk of death was…

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Saga of Tiny Drill Hole in the ISS Continues as Russia Sends Investigation to Police

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 11:10 AM PST

The results of a Roscosmos investigation into a hole in the International Space Station have been handed over to "law enforcement authorities," Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti claims. The incident happened three years ago, when a leaky drill hole was detected in the Russian Soyuz MS-09 module. Further…

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New York’s Attorney General Demands Amazon Rehire Worker Who Protested the Company's Covid-19 Conditions

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 11:03 AM PST

Amazon's awful treatment of warehouse workers is in law enforcement's crosshairs yet again. This time, New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against the e-commerce giant requesting that the state's courts mandate it take better protocols to protect its workers—and…

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The PR Firms Doing Big Oil’s Dirty Work

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 11:00 AM PST

Oil companies haven't acted alone in deceiving the public and stopping climate action. They've had a major assist from some of the world's most profitable public relations companies, a relationship that has gone largely unexamined until now. A study released Tuesday in the journal Climatic Change is the first to…

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Razer Gaming Laptops Will Cost More Next Year, Razer CEO Says

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 10:40 AM PST

There's no way to sugarcoat it: Buying gadgets this year has been a nightmare. Products are out of stock, bots are reselling them at exorbitant markups, and there is no firm timeline for when the chip shortage—the major cause of this entire disaster—will improve.

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Facebook Unblocks Kyle Rittenhouse, Says He Can Open Accounts Now

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 10:30 AM PST

Facebook has rescinded its block on searches for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenaged gunman who killed two and wounded another with an AR-15-style rifle during Black Lives Matter protests and civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. The decision comes after Rittenhouse was found not guilty of two counts of murder…

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Guillermo del Toro Discusses Inverting the American Dream in New Nightmare Alley Featurette

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 10:10 AM PST

Though Searchlight Pictures' upcoming feature Nightmare Alley from Guillermo del Toro definitely looks and sounds like an otherworldly thriller, del Toro's insisted from the jump that his latest project is a straight-up classic noir as drenched in ennui as it is (ordinary) thrills to terrify you.

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These Snack Containers With Clever Lids Keep Fingers Completely Clean

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 10:03 AM PST

The thought of picnics or snacks at the park will no longer bring up dreaded images of fingers covered in crumbs and sticky goo thanks to a clever new product called the Monchi, which is a snack container that integrates a set of finger-operated silicone tongs into the lid. Genius.

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Why Newsmax and OAN Support Biden’s Democratic FCC Picks

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 09:30 AM PST

The internal skirmishes between the new and old guards of conservative political power continue, this time colliding over the future of a Democratically controlled Federal Communications Commission. Though Republican lawmakers have spent months opposing Biden's efforts to fill two open FCC seats with Democrats, at…

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Amazon Is Helping Researchers Study How to Dim the Sun

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 09:10 AM PST

Computer processors across Amazon Web Services recently hummed into gear to create 30 simulations of what Earth could look like by the middle of this century. Normally, climate models run on supercomputers. But this effort on Amazon's servers represents one of the first attempts to do modeling on the cloud and could…

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Now You Can Start Your Car With Your Android Phone

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 09:00 AM PST

After announcing a digital car key feature for Android earlier this year, Google has finally flipped the switch: Now you can lock, unlock, and start your car using your Android phone—if you're using a Google Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, or Samsung Galaxy S21 with a compatible BMW, that is. For the handful of you out there…

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It Is Once Again Time for Spotify Wrapped

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 08:55 AM PST

It's December 1st, and you know what that means: Spotify Wrapped is here to deliver its annual year-in-music-review, and the deluge of social media shares from friends being roasted by the app for their listening proclivities is nigh.

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Matrix Resurrections' New Trailer Delivers Some Trippy Deja Vú

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 08:45 AM PST

The Matrix Resurrections' new trailer is less about what we can expect from a return trip to the cyberspace of the Matrix, and more about what it means that everything looks so familiar... with just a little difference.

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We Baby Bears' Premiere Will Ring in the New Year

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 08:00 AM PST

While We Bare Bears' ursine brothers have had their fair share of adventures as adults living in the Bay Area, We Baby Bears—Cartoon Network's upcoming prequel spinoff series created by Manny Hernandez—is set to explore how the trio's lives were much more magical and anime-inspired back when they were kids.

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How the Intel VPro Platform® Helps IT Pros Become IT Heroes

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 08:00 AM PST

Netflix's True Story Went Hard on the Ugly Side of Obsessive Fandom

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 08:00 AM PST

In Netflix's new limited series True Story—created by Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman—Kevin Hart stars as Kid, a barely-fictionalized version of himself who's at the top of his comedic game and in the thick of promoting a new superhero movie that's poised to rake in a cool $1 billion at the box office.

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The iPhone SE 3 Could Launch in Just a Few Months With 5G

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 07:40 AM PST

Apple is reportedly just months away from launching the iPhone SE 3, the next addition to its budget-friendly smartphone line.

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The World’s First Digital Watch Gets a Matrix Facelift

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 07:20 AM PST

Looking for a decidedly unsmart watch that does nothing but tell the time and maybe promote a 22-year-old film franchise that's returning to theaters this month with another sequel? Hamilton Watches is once again resurrecting the world's first digital watch but with an updated display that now pays homage to the…

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