terça-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2021


Walk-Through Metal Detectors Can Be Hacked, New Research Finds

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 05:40 PM PST

Researchers have discovered a total of nine software vulnerabilities in a commonly used metal detector product. If exploited, the security flaws could allow a hacker to take detectors offline, read or alter their data, or just generally mess with their functionality, the research reveals.

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Google's Rumored Pixel Watch Might Get the Exclusive Feature We've Been Waiting For

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 05:10 PM PST

Google's Pixel smartwatch is one of the most anticipated devices on the horizon despite not being a confirmed product, and a new report makes us even more eager to see what's coming.

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LG's New Monitor Sports a Unique 18:16 Vertical Aspect Ratio

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 05:00 PM PST

LG already jumped the gun by announcing new OLED monitors before CES kicks off in January; now the company is announcing another pair of panels, and these are designed for productivity.

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Miss Ghostbusters: Afterlife In Theaters? It's Coming Home Soon

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 04:45 PM PST

For most of 2021, if you wanted to see a major blockbuster that was coming to theaters, there was some kind of at-home option. Even this week you don't have to go see The Matrix Resurrections in theaters; it's streaming on HBO Max. However, as the year went on, some options began to go away and one of the biggest…

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Disney Dominates 2021 Annie Nominations, But Netflix Is Close Behind

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 03:30 PM PST

Fans of animation will probably not be shocked to hear that three of the four most nominated films for this year's Annie Awards this year hail from Disney. Raya and the Last Dragon leads all nominees with 10 total, followed by Encanto with nine and Pixar's Luca with eight. However, right on the heels of those films is…

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Spider-Man: No Way Home Is a Brand New Day for the MCU's Peter Parker

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 02:30 PM PST

The Spider-Man of Marvel's Cinematic Universe was hailed when he truly arrived in Homecoming as the Spidey with no unnecessary origin—we'd all experienced Uncle Ben, great power, and greater responsibility enough that it was thought unneeded. But No Way Home ultimately concludes that in order to grow and move on, our…

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5G Speeds in the U.S. Rank Dead Last Among Early Adopters

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 02:10 PM PST

U.S. carriers have talked a big game around 5G for years now, claiming its "blazing fast" upload and download speeds could usher in everything from driverless cars and smart cities to HD movie downloads in less than a minute. That clearly hasn't happened, and until relatively recently most everyday consumers couldn't…

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It's Official: The Next OnePlus Flagship Is Coming in January

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 01:50 PM PST

OnePlus may have lost its steam this year compared to other Android phone makers—namely Google with its impressive Pixel 6—but the company has a new smartphone up its sleeve.

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A New, Long-Acting HIV Prevention Drug Just Got FDA Approval

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 01:28 PM PST

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for preventing cases of HIV. The treatment is called Apretude, and it's the first PrEP medication to be taken via injection instead as a once-daily pill. Apretude will only need to be taken once a month initially, then every…

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NSO Spyware Was Used to Target Jamal Khashoggi's Wife, Digital Forensics Confirm

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 12:55 PM PST

The phone of Hanan Elatr, the wife of slain dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was infected with sophisticated commercial malware in the months before he was murdered, according to a new report by the Washington Post.

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Celestial Darkness Begins to Recede as Human Darkness Surges

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 12:48 PM PST

You'd be forgiven for feeling blue today, what with Omicron ruining Christmas and Joe Manchin ruining everything else. But I say, rejoice! For today is the first day in six months when we can say, geophysically at least, that brighter days are ahead.

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Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Dragons of Spring Dawning

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 12:45 PM PST

I don't think it's presumptuous of me to have assumed that Dragons of Spring Dawning, the third novel in Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's beloved first Dragonlance trilogy, would heavily feature… well, dragonlances. These books kicked off the brand-new Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, introduced the dragon-filled…

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These Hoverboards Might Actually Work...but Only On the Moon

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 12:10 PM PST

Attempts at recreating the hoverboards seen in Back to the Future II have so far been either disappointing self-balancing, two-wheeled vehicles that frequently catch fire, or jet-powered floating platforms that require a highly skilled pilot. But as MIT engineers have recently proposed, creating a levitating vehicle…

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The Witcher's New Jaskier Song Is the Break Up Ballad of the Year

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 12:00 PM PST

Before the pandemic in early 2020, as we basked in the enjoyment after the release of The Witcher's first season, one thing above all stood out: everybody just could not stop thinking about the bardic release of the year, "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher." Its shadow lingers in the show's newly-released second season, but

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Scientists Found a Cradle of Life Under Antarctica

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 11:35 AM PST

Antarctica is often portrayed as a barren wasteland of ice and snow, about as inhospitable as any place on Earth. But a team of researchers just pulled up a huge amount of life from underneath the frozen continent, a testament to the tenacity of these extremophile organisms.

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OnlyFans CEO Steps Down Following Turbulent Year

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 11:22 AM PST

OnlyFans CEO Tim Stokely is calling it quits and will step down five years after starting the online creator platform that's now synonymous with sex work. That's according to a recent Bloomberg report, which revealed former OnlyFans spokesperson Ami Gan would take over as CEO.

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The History of Andrew Garfield's The Amazing Spider-Man 3

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 11:15 AM PST

Spider-Man is just right in threes. Tobey Maguire got all the way to Spider-Man 3. The recent Spider-Man: No Way Home is part three in Tom Holland's trilogy. Two more planned Spider-Verse films will make three for Miles Morales. And yet fans never got to see a third film in Andrew Garfield's The Amazing Spider-Man

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Part of Gundam's Hidden History Is Becoming a Movie Next Year

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 10:30 AM PST

The original Mobile Suit Gundam is an icon of classic anime—but the creatives behind it have been attempting to scrub one tiny piece of it from sight for over 40 years. Now, they're getting a chance to revisit it, and wipe away the reasons they wanted it hidden all those years ago.

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The Bizarre Alliance Between Texas Climate Deniers and New England Fishermen

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 10:20 AM PST

A Texas-based conservative think tank is joining fishermen in the North Atlantic to fight an offshore wind farm. That may sound like a mad lib fever dream, but it's real and it shows how fossil fuel money is everywhere.

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Dark Horse Comics Purchased by Swedish Gaming Company Embracer

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 09:45 AM PST

The Swedish video game company known as Embracer Group has purchased Dark Horse Comics, the third-largest publisher of American comics behind Marvel and DC. The acquisition was announced earlier today, but don't expect any major changes to come to the company anytime soon. Apparently, the Embracer Group has…

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TikTok Got More Traffic Than Freakin' Google in 2021

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 09:21 AM PST

TikTok is truly unstoppable: The video-sharing platform just pushed Google aside to become the most popular website in the world, according to web performance and security company Cloudflare's 2021 Year in Review internet traffic rankings.

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Legion of Super-Heroes Could Come to HBO Max, Thanks to Brian Michael Bendis

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 09:00 AM PST

Brian Michael Bendis is a busy man. He's currently hard at work writing his final issues of the Justice League main series, he's still writing both the Justice League/League of Super-Heroes crossover and Naomi, and his and David Mack's Eisner-nominated Cover is coming to HBO Max as an adult animated series.…

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Beautifully Preserved Dinosaur Embryo Spotted in Fossilized Egg

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 08:50 AM PST

The rare fossil embryo of an oviraptor is revealing a surprising connection between the hatching behavior of dinosaurs and modern birds, according to new research.

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Here Are the World's 10 Worst Plastic Polluters

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 08:25 AM PST

If plastic was a country, it would be the world's fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter. And the industry's footprint could grow further, doubling by 2040.

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First Omicron Death in U.S. Reported in Texas

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 08:15 AM PST

U.S. health officials have reported the country's first death attributed to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus—a man in his 50s from Texas. The man was unvaccinated but had previously survived a covid-19 infection; he also had underlying health conditions.

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