quinta-feira, 6 de janeiro de 2022


OnePlus 10 Pro's Cameras Might Not Be Good Enough to Compete With Google

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 06:00 PM PST

After announcing the OnePlus 10 Pro earlier this week, OnePlus has been slowly dribbling out more details about its upcoming flagship phone. Now we know what the OP10 Pro's rear cameras have to offer, and we're a little underwhelmed.

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Google Infringed on Sonos Audio Patents, Trade Court Rules

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 05:10 PM PST

Google's smart speakers and Android devices are a major part of its vision for a connected ecosystem, which could be in jeopardy after a trade court's ruling today.

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Picard Production Hits Pause After Widespread Covid-19 Outbreak on Set

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 04:30 PM PST

Season two of Star Trek series Picard is set to arrive on Paramount+ next month, but the show's still in production, keeping to a schedule structured to film seasons two and three back to back. Or it was in production until this week, when the sci-fi show temporarily ground to a halt for exactly the reason you're…

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Spotify Makes Podcast Ads Unskippable by Sticking Them in the App

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 04:25 PM PST

Those of us who are serial podcast listeners know how the ad drill goes. A short audio clip will pop up right before, during, or after your show to tell you about a revolutionary product, service, or sale. Some of you might skip through a particularly long ad, or just speed through all ads. However, it's not going to…

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I Would Blame Google Maps for Getting Me Stuck in the Snow for 21 Hours If It Weren't Also My Fault

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 03:45 PM PST

Senator Tim Kaine and I have something in common: We were extremely unwise to drive through the state of Virginia on Monday, when the combination of winter storms and the traditional regional practice of doing nothing about them screwed us both over for over 20 hours.

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Image Comics Workers Have Officially Certified Their Groundbreaking Union [Updated]

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 03:30 PM PST

After formally announcing the formation of Comic Book Workers United late last year—the first specific union to support workers within comics publishing—workers at Image Comics have voted to officially certify their union in the results of a secret ballot.

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This Door Is Smarter Than You

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 03:00 PM PST

Why bother piecing together accessories from different manufacturers for your smart home when you could buy the whole system outright? That seems to be the idea behind the Masonite M-Pwr smart door, which comes with an integrated video doorbell and smart lock built right into the frame.

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Marvel's Destiny of X Fights for Mars in the New X-Men: Red Series

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 02:40 PM PST

It wasn't that long ago—in fact, it was during the recent Planet-Sized X-Men—that Marvel's mutants decided to terraform Mars and transport the sentient island of Arakko as a sort of second home for mutantkind, especially those who were already living on the planet. But nothing ever stays rosy for the X-Men, whether…

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Coup Prediction Algorithms Are Here to Save and/or Destroy Democracy

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 02:33 PM PST

As we mark the one-year anniversary of America's right-wing temper tantrum that almost cost us the Republic, many Americans are probably wondering just how we can prevent such a terrible, violent event from ever happening again on U.S. soil. Well, according to the Washington Post, those in the data science community…

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Exploding Supergiant Star Got Surprisingly Busy During Its Final Days

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 02:15 PM PST

Red supergiant stars are quiet and calm before exploding into Type II supernova—but not this one. The observation is important because it suggests some supergiant stars experience significant internal changes before going supernova

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76 Out of 77 Claims Made By Cyber Ninjas in Arizona Audit Were Wrong, Maricopa County Officials Find

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 01:25 PM PST

Cyber Ninjas, the questionably ninja-like company that failed to prove Donald Trump's bullshit claims that he lost the state of Arizona during the 2020 elections thanks to voter fraud in Maricopa County, may have consigned itself to the dustbin of history for now. But before you forget about it entirely, the county's…

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Star Trek: Prodigy Has Been Back 1 Episode and Has Already Blown My Mind 3 Times

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 01:15 PM PST

When Star Trek: Prodigy went on hiatus late last year, it left off by blasting our newly united kid crewmates aboard the Protostar quite literally, with a technological reveal that left our heads spinning with all sorts of questions. Apparently not quite done with spinning our heads, the show's return has already…

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The Best, Coolest, and Weirdest Gadgets at CES 2022

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 01:00 PM PST

CES 2022 was expected to be the technology industry's first big hurrah post-pandemic, and while the Omicron variant made some of the largest companies and most of the press (including Gizmodo) back out of in-person attendance, there was still a lot to see.

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The Maniacs at Taco Bell Made Moviepass, but for Tacos

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 12:42 PM PST

In the grand tradition of many a subscription-based food service before it, Taco Bell has announced a new way for customers to "live más:" by purchasing a pass that's good for one taco per day for 30 days.

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The Northeast Is About to Face a Gnarly Winter Storm

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 12:38 PM PST

A snowstorm currently picking up steam over the U.S. South is now set to impact the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The worst of it will thankfully miss areas hit hard earlier this week by a storm that shut down a huge swath of I-95 and trapped motorists for more than 24 hours.

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Here's What the io9 Staff Is Most Looking Forward to in 2022

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 12:20 PM PST

A new year means new things—so many new things, across comics, TV, books, games, and films—to look forward to. But even with so many things promising us they'll actually release this year (we've been burned by the past two years, to no one's surprise), here's a few of the things that the io9 staff is looking forward…

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What Really Happened During Kazakhstan’s Internet Blackout?

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 11:45 AM PST

As protests erupted across the massive Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the government resorted to extreme measures, enforcing a wide-scale internet blackout lasting at least eight hours, blocking news and social media access in the former Soviet state. Eventually, scenes of chaos and burnt vehicles…

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Self-Spreading Vaccine Research Could Spin Out of Control, Experts Warn

Posted: 06 Jan 2022 11:08 AM PST

Imagine a future scenario in which a dangerous new virus is detected in chimpanzees. To prevent this virus from spreading to humans, biologists decide to deliberately infect scores of wild chimps with a transmissible vaccine—an infectious, lab-grown virus that immunizes, rather than harms, its host. The chimps, now…

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