quarta-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2021


Watch the Eggs

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 04:30 PM PST

It is July, 2010, and I am on a plane discovering Janelle Monáe. She is an up-and-coming performer, and I am a 19-year-old college student reading about her on io9. It is October 4, 2019. I am covering New York Comic Con with the rest of io9, and I am afraid that people will not understand what racism actually is as…

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A Goonies TV Show Has Truffle Shuffled to Disney+

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 03:30 PM PST

The idea seemed as bright and shiny as a marble bag full of jewels: a TV show about a teacher who decides to help some of her students do a shot-by-shot remake of the classic 1980s adventure The Goonies. However, the network on board, Fox, disagreed and buried it underground like it was One-Eyed Willy.

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Signal Now Lets You Call Up to 39 of Your Fellow Criminals at Once

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 03:05 PM PST

Great news for secret tribunals and activists and employees rising up: Signal now enables 40-person encrypted video calls. Good to keep in mind if you don't want to risk law enforcement or foreign governments or your boss or tech companies sifting through your stuff.

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New York City Passes Landmark Bill to Ban New Gas Hookups

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 02:55 PM PST

Gas will soon be a thing of the past in New York City, thanks to a bill passed on Wednesday by the City Council. It's a historic bill, one that puts the weight of the largest city in the country behind a growing movement to ban gas and electrify everything.

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The NFT Ghouls Are Going Full Mask Off With Stan Lee and Bob Ross Collections

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 02:45 PM PST

Earlier this year after the internet summarily denounced one NFT minter's Oscar-season attempt at capitalizing on Chadwick Boseman's death, it seemed for a brief moment that perhaps people might think better of engaging such transparently opportunistic and morally bankrupt routes. Unfortunately, that's turned out to…

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The Windstorm Whipping the U.S. Looks Terrifying

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 02:20 PM PST

Less than a week after a freak tornado outbreak, meteorologists are again gawking in awe and horror at the scenes unfolding on their radar screens and across the Midwest and Plains.

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Sure Sounds Like Children Are Gonna Die on The Witcher Kids' Show

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 02:00 PM PST

The Witcher's much anticipated second season finally debuts on Netflix this Friday, but there's so much more Witcher-iness to come. Beyond the prequel TV series, the second anime movie, and already announced third season of the flagship show, there's also a kids' TV series on the way. It was a surprising announcement…

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Microbes May Be Evolving to Eat Plastic

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 01:40 PM PST

Researchers looked at samples taken from oceans and soils around the world and found a vast number of enzymes that can degrade 10 different kinds of plastic.

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Hawkeye's Big MCU Connections Absolutely Hit the Mark

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 01:15 PM PST

Like all of Disney+'s Marvel shows, Hawkeye's been dropping unsubtle hints about the presence of an even bigger, more dangerous villain lurking in everyone's midst. Though many people have been gunning for Clint Barton all season, this week's "Ronin" finally revealed the adversary who's been pulling the strings all…

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Feds Release 1,500 New 'JFK Assassination' Files

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 12:50 PM PST

Nearly 1,500 secret documents tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been published online by the nation's top archivists, in accordance with a deadline set by the White House this fall.

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The Secret Fee on Your Utility Bill That's Helping Fund the Climate Crisis

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 12:40 PM PST

Your boring, dry utility bill is helping fuel the climate crisis. For many customers across the U.S., a chunk of the money paid to utilities each month goes towards building more natural gas infrastructure. Now, as New York City moves this week towards voting on a bill that would ban new natural gas hookups, a report

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After Dune, Denis Villeneuve Will Rendezvous With Rama

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 12:30 PM PST

First up, Denis Villeneuve needs to complete Dune. That's next on the director's to-do list. After that though, he's just signed on to helm another sci-fi classic from an absolute legend, Arthur C. Clarke. Villeneuve will direct Rendezvous with Rama, based on Clarke's award-winning 1973 novel.

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Sci-Fi Novel The Sleepless Asks: What If You Were Just Always Awake?

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 11:45 AM PST

In a near-future New York City where some people have lost the ability to sleep, a journalist realizes he's the last person who saw his boss alive before the man's mysterious death—and he realizes he has zero memory of what happened. He also hasn't slept in a really, really long time. That's the set-up for debut

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9 Movies That Warn You to Steer Clear of Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 11:35 AM PST

Mark Zuckerberg is all about the metaverse these days. By metaverse we mean a hypothetical future version of the internet that functions as a persistent, three-dimensional virtual world enabled by technology like VR and AR headsets. The metaverse, sort of, already exists in forms ranging from video gaming and virtual…

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Surgeons in New York Successfully Transplant Pig Kidneys to Two People

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 11:25 AM PST

Scientists are inching closer to a major breakthrough in organ donation. This week, researchers at New York University announced that they transplanted a pig kidney to a human for the second time with no short-term issues, following their initial success two months earlier. Clinical trials of this technology are…

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Trump's Tech Company Pivots to Video With Rumble Partnership

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 11:15 AM PST

Former president turned failed blogger and upstart tech founder Donald Trump has found a new video and streaming service for his social media site. In a statement released Tuesday, the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) announced it was entering into a "wide-ranging technology and cloud services agreement," with…

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The Biggest Comics, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Disappointments of 2021

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 11:00 AM PST

There's been a lot of great geeky content to love this year. We discovered some amazing new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, and we rewatched a few old favorites. But the world of genre entertainment let us down quite a bit, too. Here are the pop cultural lowlights of 2021, from across comics, movies, and TV.

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Hawkeye's Fifth Episode Had Everything Marvel Fans Want

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 10:20 AM PST

Last week's rooftop battle between Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) and Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) set Hawkeye off in a new direction. Clint realized everything had gotten way out of control and decided to stop teaming up with Kate. Yelena and Maya were both…

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The Parker Solar Probe Just Dipped Into the Sun’s Corona

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 09:10 AM PST

The Sun, as you may know, is a giant blazing ball of nuclear fusion. It's not the sort of thing you'd want to poke. But NASA scientists did just that, using the Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun's corona, making direct contact with the star's plasma and atmosphere.

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The FDA Just Approved Eye Drops to Correct Aging Vision

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 09:00 AM PST

If you find yourself approaching middle age and preparing for the challenges that come with getting older, but you aren't quite ready to resign yourself to reading glasses just yet, a new FDA-approved eye drop called Vuity that promises to treat blurry near vision is now available by prescription.

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Apple's Controversial CSAM Photo Detection Feature May Be Toast

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 08:45 AM PST

Months after a bungled announcement of a controversial new feature designed to scan iPhones for potential child sexual abuse material (CSAM), Apple has covertly wiped any mention of the plan from the Child Safety page on its website.

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We Dare You To Watch These 10 New International Horror Films on Shudder

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 08:35 AM PST

Scary movies have a place on nearly every streaming network, but if international horror movies are what you seek, Shudder is your best bet. While the site has plenty of American and English-language horror, and it also has a healthy array of foreign-made classics (two words: Mario Bava), you can't beat Shudder's…

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Don't Buy an HDMI 2.1 TV or Monitor Before You Read the Fine Print

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 08:10 AM PST

Just like USB, SD, and other ports, not every HDMI input is the same, and using the right one could have a marked effect on things like picture quality, frame rates, and latency.

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9 Environmental Crimes That Would Make Great Movies

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 08:00 AM PST

The new dark comedy Don't Look Up shakes up the idea of what makes a good climate movie. Rather than focusing purely on weird science or Al Gore, it tells a great story by highlighting the criminal inaction on climate change. (Well, technically it's about a comet headed for Earth, but it's a clear stand-in for our…

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