quinta-feira, 20 de janeiro de 2022


An Influencer Pilot Is Under Investigation After Being Accused of Crashing His Plane On Purpose

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 05:50 PM PST

A pilot and professional YouTuber has run into some trouble after he crashed his plane in the California mountains last month, only to be accused of doing the whole thing on purpose to grab some page views. Now he's being investigated by the feds.

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Doctors Used Bacteria-Killing Viruses to Take Down an Incurable Superbug

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 04:43 PM PST

The enemy of our bacterial enemy can indeed be our friend. In a new case report, doctors say they were able to treat their patient's long-festering, drug-resistant infection with the help of specially grown bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria. Large-scale clinical trials will likely be needed for these…

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The Book of Boba Fett Is Making Me Feel Real Weird About Attack of the Clones

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 04:30 PM PST

It turns out the Tuskens are a complicated people. The native Tatooinians typified as evil savages in the early Star Wars films have been revealed to be so much more, thanks to TV series The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. While it's both fantastic and necessary to see cultural depth given to an indigenous…

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TikTok Ousts Marketing Guy Responsible for TikTok Kitchens and Other Weird Stunts

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 04:22 PM PST

The marketing lead behind some of TikTok's wackiest ideas—from NFTs to ghost kitchens and more—was abruptly ushered out of the company, according to multiple reports. The Information was first to report that marketing chief Nick Tran had abruptly departed from the company yesterday, followed by a confirmation from the…

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The Batman Movie Is Waaaaaaaaaaay Too Long

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 03:10 PM PST

The complaint that blockbuster movies nowadays are too long has been a standard gripe for awhile now, and so common that it's become stale and annoying on its own. I want to acknowledge that I know this, and agree with this sentiment, and yet I am utterly powerless not to say Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson's…

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Samsung Teases Its Next Phone, the Second Coming of the Galaxy Note

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 03:01 PM PST

We're still waiting for the full details of Samsung's next Unpacked event, which will take place next month. But there's good news for anyone who's been missing the company's Galaxy Note: Samsung just teased its return, though it will be a different device than what you might expect.

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Ready for Google Glass, Round Two?

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 02:20 PM PST

With every tech giant from Apple to Microsoft to Amazon rumored to be developing a pair of augmented reality glasses or mixed reality headset, we've been wondering whether Google was planning to wade back into consumer headsets. After all, the company gave AR a shot a decade ago and still hasn't quite recovered from…

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Senate Committee Passes Tech Antitrust Bill That's Making Apple and Google Lose Their Minds

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 02:12 PM PST

Legislative efforts to rein in Big Tech's alleged anti-competitive, self-preferential business practices took a big step forward on Thursday as a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted overwhelmingly (16-6) in favor of advancing new antitrust legislation. Now, the hotly contested…

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Godzilla Stomps Onto Apple TV+ With New Spinoff Series

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 02:08 PM PST

First Godzilla defeated Kong, and now he's going to Apple TV+. The streamer just announced it has ordered a series centered on everyone's favorite King of the Monsters; it will be created by Chris Black and Matt Fraction and be set after the events of the 2014 Garth Edwards film. Here's the logline:

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There Are 40,000,000,000,000,000,000+ Black Holes in the Observable Universe, Says New Estimate

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 02:00 PM PST

A team of astrophysicists has calculated the number of stellar-mass black holes in the observable universe to be 40 quintillion, accounting for 1% of the total ordinary matter in the universe.

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MAGA Chuds Are Failing to Grow Their Audiences on Sites Like Gettr and Gab

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 01:40 PM PST

After Donald Trump got canned from virtually every major social media site, conservative pundits and personalities urged the MAGA crowd towards a mass exodus to so-called "alt-tech" venues promising freedom from a supposed plague of left-wing censorship. This hasn't worked out quite as well as planned, according to…

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Doctor Who Answers a Decades Old Mystery in... a Blu-Ray Trailer?

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 01:32 PM PST

When Nicola Bryant left Doctor Who in the mid '80s, like a lot of things in Doctor Who circa the mid '80s, it was kind of weird. One minute she's the sixth Doctor's companion, the next her head's shaved and a weird ugly green slug man's gone and implanted his brain in her body. Rude! But now, three and a half decades…

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Texas Hunkers Down for the Cold

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 01:22 PM PST

Temperatures are dropping in central and south Texas Thursday through Friday morning as the state sees a cold front that may send temperatures plummeting as low as 18 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-8 degrees Celsius) in the Permian Basin on Thursday. These unusually chilly temperatures come just before the one-year…

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It's Time to Nuke the Doomsday Clock

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 12:55 PM PST

To be alive in 2022 is to know we could shuffle off this mortal coil at any given moment. To paraphrase the prophet Phoebe Bridgers: All the billboards say the end is near.

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A Supernatural Martial Arts Movie With Iko Uwais and Lewis Tan? Yes, Please

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 12:45 PM PST

Action fans know when you hear the names Iko Uwais and Lewis Tan, it's time to pay attention. Uwais is the jaw-dropping star of The Raid series who has become a Hollywood mainstay with supporting roles in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Snake Eyes, and Stuber. Tan, best known for Into the Badlands and Deadpool 2,

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D&D's Lead Rules Designer on How the Game Keeps Evolving Player Races

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 12:00 PM PST

A few years ago, Dungeons & Dragons' creators promised change was coming to the way the game's massively popular fifth edition approached race. Years on, there has been iteration—but as the latest sourcebook looks to the game's future, there's still plenty of changes to be made.

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Hackers Just Stole Location Data on Half a Million ‘Vulnerable’ People From Red Cross

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 11:50 AM PST

A band of cybercriminals recently hacked the Red Cross—one of the world's most well-known charities—in an effort to steal sensitive location and contact information on approximately half a million "highly vulnerable" people.

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Playstation Inventor Thinks the Metaverse Sucks

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 11:30 AM PST

The concept of the metaverse has gained an army of supporters over the past year, ranging from Big Tech companies to fashion brands and even dating apps. However, one major tech heavyweight isn't as convinced: PlayStation inventor Ken Kutaragi.

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Webb Space Telescope’s Mirrors Are Fully Deployed

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 11:20 AM PST

The Webb Space Telescope completed its complex mirror deployment this week, and the observatory is getting tantalizingly close to completing its journey to L2, where it will orbit the Sun a million miles away from Earth.

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The New Scream Has a Hidden, Heartwarming Tribute to Wes Craven

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 11:10 AM PST

The latest Scream film, which is currently in theaters, is the first in the series not directed by horror legend Wes Craven, who passed away in 2015. It was a burden the new film's directors, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, had on their minds throughout the entire production.

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The Windows Task Manager Is About to Look a Lot Less Ugly

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 11:00 AM PST

With the release of Windows 11, Microsoft took a big step toward modernizing its desktop OS by redesigning outdated interfaces. But when the update arrived, the reception was mixed. Some things looked great, others were wonky (a centered Taskbar, really?!), and then there were some areas that seemed completely…

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L’Oréal and Alphabet's Verily Are Working on Extremely Personal Skincare

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 10:10 AM PST

L'Oréal is always experimenting with ways to make beauty a more tech-savvy industry, with a personalized makeup dispenser, a home hair dye device, wearable UV sensors, and more. Weird gadgets aside, the company is now partnering with Verily, Google parent Alphabet's biotech subsidiary, with a goal of making beauty and…

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Casio’s New Keyboard Can Literally Sing Any Lyrics

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 10:00 AM PST

Just because you can play an instrument doesn't necessarily mean you have a great singing voice. For vocally-challenged musicians, Casio's latest digital keyboard features a built-in vocal synthesizer. Basically, a musician can play a voice in the same way they'd play notes.

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Have You Welcomed Little Archie Into Your Heart?

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 10:00 AM PST

The Riverdale incarnation of Archie Comics is so popular, it can be tough sometimes to remember that the original Archie rarely if ever dealt with serial killers, ritual sacrifice, and whatever the hell this was. This means there's a good chance that you—like me—have been sleeping on the adventures of the even more…

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Blood Reveals a Troubling Mystery in This Excerpt From Fantasy Tale The Bruising of Qilwa

Posted: 20 Jan 2022 09:15 AM PST

The debut novella from Persian American author Naseem Jamnia, The Bruising of Qilwa follows a nonbinary refugee who's just fled a homeland where they faced persecution for being a practitioner of blood magic. Their promising new life faces its first challenge when a strange new disease begins to appear—and blood magic…

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