quarta-feira, 5 de janeiro de 2022


Of Course Razer's Smart Home App Is All About the RGB

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 04:50 PM PST

I admit it: I use Razer's mechanical gaming keyboards and its smart lights to create a bit of an ~aesthetic~ in my office. And people like me are the reason why Razer launched a smart home app for its Chroma RGB lighting ecosystem.

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What Does Hayao Miyazaki's Work Mean to You?

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 03:30 PM PST

I'll never forget the first time I saw a Hayao Miyazaki movie. I was in college and this new animated film called Princess Mononoke was coming to theaters. The trailers looked cool and I'd tangentially heard of the filmmaker's other films like My Neighbor Totoro—but growing up in a small town, films like that weren't…

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HyperX's New Gaming Headphones Get 300 Hours of Battery Life, and I Don't Know How That's Possible

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 03:15 PM PST

Some gamers still use wired headsets instead of the countless wireless options on the market because they don't want to deal with charging, but now they don't have to. HyperX at CES 2022 unveiled a new Cloud Alpha Wireless that supposedly boasts 300 hours of battery life.

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Walmart’s 5-Year-Old Vision for the Metaverse Hasn’t Aged a Day

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 03:08 PM PST

On Wednesday, a Twitter user going by the name Homo Digitalis published a two-and-a-half-minute clip with the caption, "This is how Walmart envisions Shopping in the #Metaverse." And that vision, I gotta say, is looking pretty bleak.

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Noah Hawley's Alien TV Series Sounds Vaguely Awesome

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 02:30 PM PST

Alien director Ridley Scott may have slammed the idea, but we're very interested in what Legion and Fargo TV show creator Noah Hawley is going to do with the Alien franchise. (Certainly more than any additional Alien movies Scott makes.) And while we're not going to see new Xenomorph shenanigans on our TV sets for…

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Astronomers Spot a Mystery Object Spewing Dust in Space

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 02:01 PM PST

Astronomers looking over data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently came across something weird: an object called TIC 400799224 has been fluctuating in brightness, like a star being routinely eclipsed. Their analysis of the observations suggests that TIC 400799224 is actually two stars, one of…

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The Fraggle Rock Reboot Looks Like 1985 All Over Again

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 01:45 PM PST

The full trailer for Apple TV+'s reboot of Fraggle Rock is here and as you watch it, you'll believe it's 1985 all over again. All the same characters, costumes, and more are back, with a look that feels as if nothing has changed down at the Rock in 30 years, except a few more lights and some new Fraggle additions.

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RIP Popcorn Time

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 01:30 PM PST

Popcorn Time, the popular video piracy app, is officially dead—again. Developers behind the once immensely popular torrenting platform announced Tuesday that it had been retired due to a downturn in public interest. A visit to the project's website reveals what appears to be an illustration of a dead popcorn box,…

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Extreme Heat Killed Hundreds of Magellanic Penguins on a Single Day in 2019

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 01:20 PM PST

New research details the devastating impact of an extreme weather event on a colony of Magellanic penguins living along Argentina's east coast.

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How to Cheat at Wordle

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 01:10 PM PST

In these frigid, fraught days of early 2022, a singular bright spot has emerged: Wordle. The simple online game, in which you have six chances to guess a 5-letter word, has exploded in popularity in recent months, helped along this week by a sparkly story in the New York Times.

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The 2022 Sundance Film Festival Goes All Virtual

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 01:00 PM PST

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival was set to be the big comeback after a fully virtual event in 2021. With vaccines and boosters now in full effect, the festival was meant to be both Hollywood's return to Park City, Utah, and an evolution of its virtual component. Even with the rise of the covid-19 omicron variant over…

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U.S. Doctors, Labs Report Cases of 'Flurona' as Viruses Team Up

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 12:24 PM PST

The seasonal flu is back, and it's occasionally teaming up with everyone's least favorite coronavirus. On Wednesday, testing site officials in Los Angeles reported the city's first apparent case of the newly coined "flurona": a co-infection of influenza and the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The unlucky infected person, a teenage…

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Vampire Hunters Learn How to Get a Head in Unlife in This New Graphic Novel

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 12:10 PM PST

It's not all fun and games, fighting vampires. Sometimes you just have to put your head in the game, before someone loses theirs entirely.

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Utah Tech Founder Resigns After Sending Email Claiming 'Jews' Want to 'Euthanize' People With Vaccines

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 11:50 AM PST

The founder of Utah-based property management software company Entrata, Dave Bateman, has resigned from the company's board after sending an anti-Semitic mass email warning that coronavirus vaccines were a plot to "euthanize the American people," adding "I believe the Jews were behind this."

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Christian Sect Under Investigation for Destructive Colorado Wildfire

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 11:30 AM PST

A wildfire that wrought a path of destruction through communities outside of Boulder, Colorado, before New Years' may have started on the property of a fundamentalist Christian sect, authorities said this week. The group has a long history in the Boulder area and runs several businesses—and has some disturbing…

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Chicago Teachers Locked Out of Digital Classrooms Amid Omicron Surge

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 11:17 AM PST

Chicago Public School teachers attempting to teach students remotely on Wednesday discovered they'd been locked out of their digital classrooms, an apparent effort by city officials to prevent a return to remote education amid recent spikes in covid-19 cases among students and teachers.

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BMW Created an Absurd In-Car 'Theater' With a 31-Inch 8K Screen

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 11:00 AM PST

CES took one step closer to replacing auto shows this year with not only new car introductions, but glimpses of conceptual automotive technologies that might one day be commonplace. Looking into its own crystal ball, BMW sees a future in which cars are equipped with monstrous 31-inch 8K screens that turn vehicles into…

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BMW Created a Color-Changing Car Completely Wrapped In Electronic Paper

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 11:00 AM PST

Choosing a car color isn't just about personal preference; there are other, more practical factors that come into play. Dirt stands out on a light-colored car, while a vehicle painted a darker shade can become extremely hot inside as it absorbs sunlight on a warm summer day. BMW imagines a future where no one has to…

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The Book of Boba Fett’s Best Easter Egg Isn’t the One You Think

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 11:00 AM PST

A Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau Star Wars show isn't a Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau Star Wars show without some deep cut Easter eggs. Episode two of The Book of Boba Fett, "The Tribes of Tatooine" (recapped here), was no exception, and while there were several really fun callbacks, our favorite is probably not the one…

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Anti-Fog Sprays for Eyeglasses May Be Chock Full of PFAS

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 10:56 AM PST

The sprays and cloths designed to keep eyeglasses fog-free may come with more than people bargained for, new research suggests. A small study found that these products can carry high levels of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), a class of "forever chemicals" that are suspected of having subtle but…

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Google Paid Apple to Stay Out of the Search Business, Lawsuit Claims

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 10:30 AM PST

At this point, it's a bit of an open secret that Google likely pays Apple billions of dollars each year to remain the default search engine that crops up on people's iPhones and Mac computers. Now, a new class-action suit is alleging that the tech titans' dealings go even farther than that. An antitrust case against…

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Archive 81 Wants to Remind You Video Tapes Are Terrifying

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 10:15 AM PST

First there was Sadako and the VHS tape that killed you if you watched it in The Ring. Then there was the 2013 found-footage horror anthology V/H/S, which was followed by three sequels. Now, Netflix is premiering Archive 81, in which a series of video cassettes are going to drive a man insane... and he may be the…

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It's About to Get Easier to Use Android Auto Wirelessly

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 10:04 AM PST

When we were shopping around for our family car last year, one of the first things I put down on my list of must-haves was Android Auto support. Google's in-car platform has become essential for my drive, even if I'm heading down the street to run a quick errand. At CES 2022, Google revealed more features coming to…

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Razer Made a Pro Version of Its Wild RGB Face Mask—Now With Bonus Screaming Feature

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 10:00 AM PST

Razer's Next Big Concept: A Modular Gaming Desk That Looks Straight Out of Tron

Posted: 05 Jan 2022 10:00 AM PST

The best part of CES is walking over to the Razer booth to see what outlandish concept the gaming hardware brand is showcasing.

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