terça-feira, 14 de dezembro de 2021


Matrix Resurrections' Mysterious Plot Points Teased by New Featurette

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 05:00 PM PST

Morpheus said it best: "No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." That goes double for the upcoming fourth film in the franchise, The Matrix Resurrections. Even someone who has seen every single trailer, TV spot, or clip that's been released so far probably can't say for certain what the…

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New Avatar 2 Concept Art Reveals Na'vi Kids and a Giant Lizard

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 03:30 PM PST

Just about one year from this very moment, audiences will be lining up to see Avatar 2. Or at least James Cameron hopes so. The sequel to Cameron's 2009 movie, which remains the highest grossing film of all-time, is set for release December 16, 2022, and a new piece of concept art gives us our first look at its new

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7 Satellite Images Reveal the Shocking Toll of the Quad State Tornado Outbreak

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 03:10 PM PST

Thousands of residents from Arkansas to Illinois are reeling from a weekend of devastating tornadoes that touched down across six states and left at least 88 dead. Around 30 tornadoes rampaged through farmland and towns, with one of the largest twisters spreading debris 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) into the air and…

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DC Attorney General Sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers Over the Capitol Riot

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 03:00 PM PST

DC Attorney General Karl Racine has filed a federal civil lawsuit targeting two far-right groups involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, the street brawling "Western chauvinist" Proud Boys and wannabe vigilante group the Oath Keepers, accusing them of conspiring to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald…

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Crypto Prices Seemingly Jump by Billions of Dollars as CoinMarketCap Goes Berserk

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 02:52 PM PST

No, you're not a trillionaire. But you'd be forgiven for soiling your trousers when you took a peek at the price of your favorite cryptocurrency investments on CoinMarketCap on Tuesday afternoon.

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Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim Sequel Would've Been Significantly More Bonkers

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 02:40 PM PST

Pretty much everyone agrees Pacific Rim: Uprising wasn't very good, but that wasn't the sequel we were supposed to get. Guillermo del Toro, who directed the original, had signed aboard, written a script, and was getting ready to shoot the film when various studio shenanigans put it on hold. But del Toro, for the first…

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Lifelike Robotic Hand Is a Bit Too Close to Terminator for Our Liking

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 02:10 PM PST

Engineers in Korea have developed a highly dexterous robotic hand that's capable of crushing beer cans or gently clutching an egg.

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'Eco-Friendly' Fabric Is Destroying the Rainforest

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 02:00 PM PST

Viscose rayon is often billed as a more sustainable fabric. But a new investigation shows that one of its most popular purveyors is contributing to deforestation in Indonesia.

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Big Changes Are Coming to LastPass, but Unfortunately Not Its Prices

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 01:50 PM PST

LastPass, a popular password management service, is spinning off from its parent company, LogMeIn, and has announced new features to entice users away from competing password managers.

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A New Alex Ross Fantastic Four Comic Is Coming From Marvel and Abrams

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 01:40 PM PST

In the buildup to the Fantastic Four's 60th anniversary this year, the classic team's actually been alive, well, and prominently featured throughout some of Marvel's notable comics. Though Marvel could have closed the year out by simply doubling down on boosting the team's profiles within its core comics universe, the…

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The Analogue Pocket Has Game Boy Camera Fans Taken Care Of

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 01:30 PM PST

If you owned a Game Boy, there's a good chance the Game Boy Camera was your first digital camera. It was cheap, it was easy to use, and the 2-bit pixelated images it captured had an undeniable charm. For the first time in nearly 23 years there's finally going to be an easy way to get those digital pics onto other…

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USPS Secretly Tested a Blockchain Voting System Before 2020, It Didn’t Work

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 01:10 PM PST

If you've ever found it strange that modern society managed to figure out how to use the internet to facilitate the sale of millions of dollars worth of GIFs but still can't seem to implement secure online voting, then you're not alone. The United States Postal Service, which isn't normally known for its…

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The 7 Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Debuts of 2021

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 01:00 PM PST

While 2021 was a year we spent revisiting some old favorites (and old new favorites), it was also a year of exciting discoveries, bringing new movies, TV series, and unforgettable characters into our lives. Here are seven projects and people that brightened up our nerdy lives in 2021.

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Well Well Well, Look Who Chickened Out During Daddy's Failed Coup

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 12:55 PM PST

Today in utter lack of surprises: The House committee investigating the Donald Trump-incited riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 dug up texts showing Fox News stars and at least one of Trump's interminable sons sent panicked texts urging Trump to call the whole thing off—then promptly went back to pretending Trump did…

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New Orleans Arcade Destroyed by Vandal Needs Your Help

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 12:44 PM PST

A New Orleans-based arcade is picking up the wreckage left after a man brandishing various weapons repeatedly rampaged the business for over 24 hours.

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The Library of Congress Nerds Out

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 12:10 PM PST

The U.S. Library of Congress handles a lot of things, including running the National Film Registry, which "selects 25 films each year showcasing the range and diversity of American film heritage" to "ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America's film heritage to increase awareness…

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UK's Online Safety Bill Suggests Locking Up Tech Execs For Their Platform's Crimes

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 11:15 AM PST

After spending close to half a year combing through the UK government's proposed Online Safety Bill, Ofcom—the UK parliamentary wing responsible for overseeing broadcasting and telco businesses throughout the region—finally dropped its suggestions to tighten the drafted legislation. The 194-page report is chock-full…

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Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit Earth at a Particularly Bad Time

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 11:15 AM PST

The dino-killing asteroid smashed into an unfortunate spot and at the deadliest possible angle, and as a group of scientists have now concluded, it also struck Earth at a sensitive time of year—at least for animals living in the northern hemisphere.

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Synthetic Weed Is Causing Scary Bleeding Again

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 10:49 AM PST

Dozens of Florida residents have been hospitalized with uncontrolled bleeding and at least two have died after they took synthetic cannabinoid products, local health officials reported this week. The outbreak bears an uncanny resemblance to a string of bleeding cases across the country that occurred in 2018, which…

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The Expanse's Unlikely BFFs on Finding Hope During an All-Out Space War

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 10:30 AM PST

In season three of The Expanse, Clarissa Mao was an enemy to all aboard the Rocinante—but with the passage of time, Amos Burton came to see another side of her. Their friendship was cemented during their post-apocalyptic Earth adventures during season five, and as season six begins, they're crewmates aboard the very…

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We’re Turning the Arctic Into a Trash Dump

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 10:10 AM PST

Piles of new trash on Arctic shores, rain in unprecedented places, noises from ships disrupting wildlife: Human influence has made the Arctic unrecognizable from what it looked like even just a decade ago. That's the verdict of the new Arctic Report Card, which scientists presented on Tuesday.

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Google Brings Android 12 Features to Low-End Android Go

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 10:00 AM PST

In its never-ending quest to get Android phones in the hands of every person on this earth, Google announced that it's bringing a few of Android 12's marquee software features directly to Android 12 (Go edition). This is excellent news for folks using Android Go, as it's a lower-end version of Android that runs on…

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Give Me Control of the Weather Weapons, You Cowards

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 09:50 AM PST

It has come to Earther's attention that the U.S. apparently has weather weapons. Noted chumbox enthusiast Alex Jones spent a recent episode of his eponymous show shedding light on the U.S.'s long history of developing and using them.

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Doctor Strange: The Book of the Vishanti Is Here to Guide You Home

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 09:40 AM PST

By the standards of Marvel's Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man teaming up in Spider-Man: No Way Home is somewhat unexpected. But the idea of the two frequent Avengers hanging out and getting into trouble with one another makes quite a bit of sense over in the world of Marvel comics, where they've both…

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In 2021, Gig Workers Were Forced to Endure ‘Unprecedented Surveillance’

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 09:10 AM PST

Pa Edrissa Manjang, an Uber driver in the UK, spent a year of his life working for the ride-hailing company before he was abruptly fired by an algorithm. "It wasn't good at all," Manjang said in an interview with Worker Info Exchange. "It felt like most of the time you were dealing with robots."

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