sexta-feira, 18 de fevereiro de 2022


The Week's Best Toys Include Pokemon's Most Literal Electric Mouse

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 04:00 PM PST

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy and merchandise news. This week, The Book of Boba Fett's end means merchandise a-go-go with Star Wars toys from Lego and Hasbro (and more, for good measure), and Playmates boldly goes forward with Star Trek: Prodigy toys and back into the past with r…

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CDC Confirms Power of Anime (and Ventilation) Prevented NYC Con From Being an Omicron Superspreader

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 03:00 PM PST

The Center for Disease Control released a study yesterday that the 2021 Anime NYC convention was not a superspreader event, despite the attendance of one of the first known people in the U.S. to have been infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. But this wasn't just luck—the event had several measures in…

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Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Presents: Adele but It's Crypto

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 02:10 PM PST

The flood of well-known people rushing to sell out to the blossoming crypto industry are legion. Shills, shills, as far as the eye can see! The fallen include former CIA killing machine Matt Damon, former NSA spy turned NSA whistleblower turned NFT peddler Edward Snowden, director of a lot of good movies Spike Lee,…

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Severance Will Be Your New Mind-Warping Mystery Obsession

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 02:00 PM PST

At mysterious biotech company Lumon Industries, certain employees are given a brain implant that keeps their work selves completely separate from their personal selves, with no shared memories between them. The procedure gives Apple TV+'s new thriller its name, Severance, and it puts in motion the show's excellently

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Encouraging Webb Telescope Image Shows a Single Star in a Familiar Pattern

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 01:52 PM PST

A major milestone in the commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope has been met, as engineers continue to bring the observatory's view of the universe into focus.

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Tonga Eruption Blasted Volcanic Material Into the Mesosphere

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 01:20 PM PST

Reaching 36 miles above Earth, the Tonga plume is now the highest to ever be recorded by satellites.

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Report: Apple Store Workers Are Preparing to Unionize

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 01:10 PM PST

Apple retail employees at a number of stores across the country are quietly planning to unionize, according to a Washington Post report—spurred on by pay that hasn't kept up with inflation even as the tech giant posts record-setting profits.

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The Fallout TV Show Casts Walton Goggins as Its Leading Ghoul

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 01:00 PM PST

Although various people have been trying to make some form of live-action entertainment out of the hit Fallout video game series for years, none of these projects have even gotten far enough along to ever hire someone to star in the dang thing. Well, until today, when it was announced that Walton Goggins will be…

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Tom Veitch, One of the Vanguards of Star Wars' Expanded Universe, Has Died

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 12:15 PM PST

In a time when Star Wars had all but faded away, Tom Veitch helped keep the Force alive. Veitch was one of the leading comic book writers for the Star Wars Dark Horse line in the 1990s and introduced stories and concepts that still resonate today. In sad news for Star Wars fans everywhere though, the author passed…

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Elon Musk’s Latest Plans for Useless Money Pits Target Miami and Texas

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 12:08 PM PST

Poor performance and even poorer public perception have forced Elon Musk's Boring Company to largely pivot away from its most ambitious projects and opt instead to prioritize more politically friendly locals. Now, Musk reportedly has his sights set on Texas and Miami for the company's near future.

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