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- Pentagon Plans to Spend $52 Million in 2022 on U.S Border Spy Blimps
- Did You Catch The Book of Boba Fett's Musical Teaser?
- Binge-Watching TV Linked to Greater Risk of Serious Blood Clots
- Google Finally Starts Letting Android Users Play Games on PC
- Despite Warnings of Airport Mayhem, Verizon and AT&T Just Turned On True 5G
- Eternals, Star Trek: Discovery, Chucky, and Other Genre Projects Nab GLAAD Media Award Nominations
- Samsung Just Leaked Its Own New Tablet—and It Has a Notch
- IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes
- Lord of the Rings' Rings of Power, Explained
- Daniel Craig Reflects on 007 in a New Doc You Can Watch for Free
- Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Causing More Streaks to Appear in Space Images
- Senators Introduce Bill to Protect Satellites From Getting Hacked
- I Have Very Bad News About the Justice League
- The Expanse's Frankie Adams on Bobbie Draper's Evolution as a Badass
- The Moon’s Far Side Is Covered in Sticky Soil and Fresh Craters
- Winter Weather Is Set to Mess With Texas
- You're Not the Only One Struggling to Get Free Covid Rapid Tests
- Social Media Bans of Scientific Misinformation Aren't Helpful, Researchers Say
- Now You Can Pay Money to Use Instagram
- The Batman's Robert Pattinson and Parasite's Bong Joon Ho Will Team Up on a Sci-Fi Film
- The Walking Dead's Final Season Looks Like Pure Chaos in Its New Trailer
- EU Regulator Wants to Ban Proof of Work Crypto Mining to Avoid Climate Disaster
- The Book of Boba Fett Isn't Sure If It Wants a Criminal Empire or a Union
- Deadly Superbug Fungus Spotted in Louisiana for the First Time
- Scientists Tried to Quantum Entangle a Tardigrade
| Pentagon Plans to Spend $52 Million in 2022 on U.S Border Spy Blimps Posted: 19 Jan 2022 05:45 PM PST  The Department of Defense will spend tens of millions of dollars this year on a number of "surveillance blimps"—high-tech balloons that will be sent to the U.S. border with Mexico for the purposes of ferreting out drug smugglers. |
| Did You Catch The Book of Boba Fett's Musical Teaser? Posted: 19 Jan 2022 04:30 PM PST  Star Wars shows are generally very secretive about what's coming in the future. However, the latest episode of The Book of Boba Fett gave its audience as clear a clue as one can hear. It happened at the end of the fourth episode, "The Gathering Storm," which means we're going to have to talk spoilers. |
| Binge-Watching TV Linked to Greater Risk of Serious Blood Clots Posted: 19 Jan 2022 04:05 PM PST  Binge-watching your favorite series isn't so good for your circulation, a new review of the research suggests. The study found that people who regularly watched TV four or more hours a day were more likely to develop a blood clotting condition that can lead to serious health problems and even death. What's more, this… |
| Google Finally Starts Letting Android Users Play Games on PC Posted: 19 Jan 2022 04:00 PM PST  Google on Wednesday took the next steps in its plan to bring Android games to PCs, opening sign-ups in select regions to beta test the feature a year after it was first announced. |
| Despite Warnings of Airport Mayhem, Verizon and AT&T Just Turned On True 5G Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:20 PM PST  AT&T and Verizon activated their C-band 5G spectrum today, a move that marks the long-awaited arrival of true 5G speeds for hundreds of millions of customers. |
| Eternals, Star Trek: Discovery, Chucky, and Other Genre Projects Nab GLAAD Media Award Nominations Posted: 19 Jan 2022 03:00 PM PST  The 33rd annual GLAAD Media Award nominations are here, and—as is often the case—sci-fi and fantasy projects are well-represented on the list. Dubbed by the organization as "the most visible annual LGBTQ awards show in the world," the event honors fair representations of LGBTQ issues and people in settings both… |
| Samsung Just Leaked Its Own New Tablet—and It Has a Notch Posted: 19 Jan 2022 02:40 PM PST  Android tablets are a dime a dozen, but finding one that's a real iPad rival is like scouring for a diamond in the rough. That's why Samsung's Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, which was unexpectedly leaked on an official Bixby support page, looks so intriguing. |
| IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes Posted: 19 Jan 2022 02:25 PM PST  Online tax filers will soon be required to submit a selfie to a third-party identity verification company using facial recognition tech in order to file their taxes or make IRS payments online. |
| Lord of the Rings' Rings of Power, Explained Posted: 19 Jan 2022 02:15 PM PST  After what's felt like ages of waiting, Amazon revealed a little more about its plans for its Lord of the Rings prequel streaming series today, namely, its name: The Rings of Power. Sauron's plans to ensorcell the Elves, Dwarves, and realms of Men with his magical trinkets has been at the heart of Tolkien's universe… |
| Daniel Craig Reflects on 007 in a New Doc You Can Watch for Free Posted: 19 Jan 2022 01:30 PM PST  It's hard to believe it's been over 15 years since Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond. Much has changed in that time but one thing that stayed constant was Craig's gritty, grounded approach to the world's most famous super spy. Craig's Bond has always been a bit more real. A bit more relatable than the … |
| Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Causing More Streaks to Appear in Space Images Posted: 19 Jan 2022 01:01 PM PST  Researchers at the Zwicky Transient Facility in California have analyzed the degree to which SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation is affecting ground-based astronomical observations. The results are mixed. |
| Senators Introduce Bill to Protect Satellites From Getting Hacked Posted: 19 Jan 2022 12:30 PM PST  A newly proposed law would enhance cybersecurity for commercial satellites—a move designed to protect them from criminal hacking, which is, apparently, a real threat we need to worry about now. |
| I Have Very Bad News About the Justice League Posted: 19 Jan 2022 12:15 PM PST  They've lost fights. They've dissolved the team. They've had individual members die, they've been wiped out of existence, and they've been rebooted and forced to start over from scratch. But the Justice League has never faced a problem exactly like this before, and they're not going to get a second chance to solve it. |
| The Expanse's Frankie Adams on Bobbie Draper's Evolution as a Badass Posted: 19 Jan 2022 11:45 AM PST  The Expanse wrapped up last week, but we're still thinking about that series finale—and we weren't going to turn down the chance to chat with one of the episode's biggest heroes, and one of the show's toughest characters overall: fierce former Martian Marine Bobbie Draper, played by Frankie Adams. |
| The Moon’s Far Side Is Covered in Sticky Soil and Fresh Craters Posted: 19 Jan 2022 11:42 AM PST  The Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 has been exploring the far side of the Moon for three years, making it the longest lunar surface mission in history. In a paper published today in Science Robotics, the Yutu-2 team reports on the rover's progress and what it has revealed so far about the Moon's far side. |
| Winter Weather Is Set to Mess With Texas Posted: 19 Jan 2022 11:37 AM PST  Stop me if you've heard this setup before: Temperatures are expected to plummet in Texas as snow and ice descend on the state. |
| You're Not the Only One Struggling to Get Free Covid Rapid Tests Posted: 19 Jan 2022 11:22 AM PST  The Biden administration's website for ordering covid-19 tests is finally here, a little less than a month after the president promised he'd be offering millions of tests free of charge to citizens across the country. But not everyone is having an easy time with it. Folks living in apartments and multi-family homes,… |
| Social Media Bans of Scientific Misinformation Aren't Helpful, Researchers Say Posted: 19 Jan 2022 11:10 AM PST  Just let the anti-vaxxers, climate deniers, and 5G conspiracy theorists live without the constant threat of content removal and bans, lest they flee to even more radical hubs on niche sites and other obscure parts of the internet, the Royal Society has concluded. |
| Now You Can Pay Money to Use Instagram Posted: 19 Jan 2022 11:10 AM PST  Popular Instagrammers can now start charging you money to view their content, in a move that seemed pre-ordained from the moment that Facebook (now calling itself Meta) acquired the photo-sharing app. |
| The Batman's Robert Pattinson and Parasite's Bong Joon Ho Will Team Up on a Sci-Fi Film Posted: 19 Jan 2022 11:00 AM PST  After a director wins an Oscar, the world is their oyster. More so than maybe any other time in their career, they have the chance to basically work on anything or with anyone. And in the case of Parasite director Bong Joon Ho, he's decided to work with the star of The Batman. |
| The Walking Dead's Final Season Looks Like Pure Chaos in Its New Trailer Posted: 19 Jan 2022 10:20 AM PST  There are only 16 episodes left of The Walking Dead, the former-megahit series that once ruled TV. But even if viewership has declined, the show's final season looks like it's going to go out with a bang, beginning when the second of three sets of episodes premiere next month, at least according to this new trailer.… |
| EU Regulator Wants to Ban Proof of Work Crypto Mining to Avoid Climate Disaster Posted: 19 Jan 2022 09:55 AM PST  One of the European Union's top regulators has a new proposal for reducing cryptocurrency's carbon footprint: ban proof of work mining. The proposed prohibition, suggested by European Securities and Markets Authority Vice Chair Erik Thedéen during a Financial Times interview, would apply to EU nations and would come… |
| The Book of Boba Fett Isn't Sure If It Wants a Criminal Empire or a Union Posted: 19 Jan 2022 09:00 AM PST  Bounty hunters of The Book of Boba Fett, unite—you have nothing to lose but your forward momentum! |
| Deadly Superbug Fungus Spotted in Louisiana for the First Time Posted: 19 Jan 2022 08:52 AM PST  A worrying superbug fungus has been spotted in Louisiana for the first time. On Tuesday, hospital officials reported that at least two patients at the University Medical Center in New Orleans had contracted Candida auris, a deadly yeast often resistant to antifungals that can spread quickly in hospitals. The cases… |
| Scientists Tried to Quantum Entangle a Tardigrade Posted: 19 Jan 2022 08:25 AM PST  A group of physicists recently placed a microscopic animal known as a tardigrade onto a superconducting qubit, in an attempt to mingle the realms of quantum and classical mechanics. The researchers argue that the tardigrade was entangled at a quantum level, but some scientists say the team's claims go beyond what they… |
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