sexta-feira, 25 de fevereiro de 2022


The Week's Best Toys Are All Aboard the Goat Boat

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 05:00 PM PST

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest in wallet-sapping toy and merchandise news. This week: Lego gives us another glimpse at Thor: Love and Thunder's Mighty Thor and her friends, a classic Voltron gets updated, and... brace yourselves, it's toys based on the human Buzz Lightyear that the toy…

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Spoilers of the Week Feb 21-25

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 04:01 PM PST

The State of Middle-earth Coming Into Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 03:00 PM PST

Amazon's Lord of the Rings prequel series, The Rings of Power, has already told us that it plans to dive deep into the history of Tolkien's vast mythos. The series is primarily set thousands of years before the books and movies in the Second Age, and has already teased it will go even farther back beyond that. But…

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Vatican Calls for a 'Cultural Revolution' to Fight Climate Change

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 02:47 PM PST

The Vatican is once again trying to make climate action a key issue for Catholics, as it launches a program called the Laudato Si' Action Platform, named after the Pope's 2015 letter that framed protecting the environmental as a spiritual mandate. The new website calls on Catholics to eat less meat, take public…

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Trickbot May Be Kaput, but Its Operators Plan on Keeping Busy

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 02:10 PM PST

Is Trickbot finally dead? Like dead-dead?

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8 Tabletop Roleplaying Games to Help You Navigate the Afterlife

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 02:00 PM PST

As the independent TTRPG scene has exploded over the recent years, so has the creativity that comes along with an ever-expanding and innovative customer base. While wandering the afterlife (or wandering around as an undead creature) are well-trod storytelling tropes, game designers across the globe have taken folklore…

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Apple's Plan to Swap the iPhone's Face ID Module Is Good News For Everyone

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 01:45 PM PST

Wouldn't it be nice to walk into a Genius Bar and back out again on the same day with your problem solved? Apple is apparently working toward that reality for its iPhone users.

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This 5-Hour Love Letter to '80s Sci-Fi Celebrates All Your Favorite Movies

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 01:30 PM PST

Sometimes the only thing better than watching your favorite movie is watching someone talk about it. That might sound counterintuitive, but no matter how many times you've seen The Empire Strikes Back, RoboCop, Aliens, Flash Gordon, or The Last Starfighter, you've definitely seen the people involved talk about it…

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Outlander's Universe Will Expand With a Starz Prequel Series

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 12:45 PM PST

The upcoming season of Outlander will mark the beginning of a new era for the fan-favorite Starz show with the announcement that a new prequel series is in the works. Get ready for a new realm of time-travel romance; as Variety reports, the yet to be titled series is in development and assembling a writer's room.

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Florida Desperately Feeding Lettuce to Manatees to Stop Mass Starvation

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 12:35 PM PST

A feeding program for manatees is intensifying in Florida as conservation groups seek to save the marine mammals in the face of a devastating loss in local seagrass, the animals' favorite food.

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Etsy Screws Over Sellers (Again)

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 12:16 PM PST

Two things became pretty clear on Etsy's latest earning call: the platform is making more money than ever, and sellers are going to start seeing a lot less of it.

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Russia Partially Blocks Facebook After It ‘Censored’ State Media

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 12:15 PM PST

Russia has announced it's taking action to partially block access to Facebook within the country, accusing the U.S. social media firm of "censoring" state media. The restrictions, announced on Friday, came as the sun set on the second day of Russia's Ukraine invasion.

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Transformers Toys No Longer Make Kids Work For It

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:45 AM PST

Were I to look really closely at my hands, I'm sure I could find a lingering scar or two from a childhood spent painstakingly transforming robots into vehicles and back again—a process fraught with occasional pinched fingers. To my generation, Transformers toys were a challenge on par with those metal ring puzzles,…

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10 Essential Films by Italian Horror Master Dario Argento

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:00 AM PST

Italian horror legend Dario Argento's 20th movie, Dark Glasses—his first feature in 10 years—will be arriving on Shudder this fall. While we wait (and feverishly hope it's a return to form after 2012's regrettable Dracula 3D), we're looking back at 10 films that have defined his career so far.

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I Need These Cordless, Battery-Free LED Lego Bricks for My Next Build

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 10:35 AM PST

Adding working lights is a fun way to take a Lego creation to the next level, and the company even includes light-up features on some of its sets, including a glowing Christmas tree. But this clever hack makes integrating lighting into a build impossibly easy thanks to the same technology that makes wireless charging…

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6 Unexpected Animals That Use Tools

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 10:25 AM PST

Scientists once thought that only humans and our closest relatives, chimps, were smart enough to use tools. But as our documenting of the natural world has gotten more detailed—and as we've become, perhaps, less haughty about our supposed superior intellect—we've found that many species are actually deft with sticks,…

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The Batman's Full Score Is Online to Dig Into Your Soul

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 10:15 AM PST

The Batman swoops into theaters exactly one week from today, but if you can't wait that long, you can hear what it sounds like right now. Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino (Lost, The Incredibles, Rogue One, Spider-Man: No Way Home...the guy has quite the resume) wrote the music for The Batman and the full score…

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Valve's Steam Deck Is a Glorious but Unfinished Dream Console

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 10:05 AM PST

It's not every day that I get to review a device so unique that it could revolutionize mobile gaming. But here it is, straight from the dreams of dedicated PC gamers who have long yearned for a handheld console. Valve's Steam Deck is exactly that—a portable device ergonomically similar to the Nintendo Switch that is…

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HTC Confident Its Car-Based VR Experience Won't Make You Puke

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 09:50 AM PST

HTC says it's pretty sure a new car-based virtual reality experience it's working on won't leave you and your car smothered in vomit.

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From Marvel to Foo Fighters: Our Chat With Studio 666 Director BJ McDonnell

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 09:30 AM PST

BJ McDonnell has the IMDB page of your dreams, with credits on Scrubs, War of the Worlds, Hatchet, Halloween, CSI, Heroes, MacGruber, Star Trek Into Darkness, Avengers: Age of Ultron, This Is the End, Ant-Man, American Horror Story, Shazam, Malignant, and many many more. Over the past two decades, he's diligently…

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Somehow, Paramount Will Turn Beyblade Into a Live-Action Movie

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 08:45 AM PST

Another beloved toy line has been tapped for a film adaptation, and this time nobody quite knows how to feel about it. The live action rights to Beyblade, the dueling spinning tops toys from Japan that became a smash hit in the early 2000s, has been purchased by Paramount pictures, and Jerry Bruckheimer is expected to…

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Bitcoin Is Dirtier Than Ever

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 08:37 AM PST

Bitcoin proponents have long argued that miners moving to the U.S. can help lower the network's carbon emissions. But a new paper out Friday finds that global shifts in the location of bitcoin miners driven by a crackdown in China last year have actually made bitcoin even dirtier. Thanks in part to fossil-fueled…

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The CDC Will Once Again Stop Asking People to Mask Up: Report

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 08:25 AM PST

Update 4:35 p.m. ET 2/25/2022: The CDC issued its new guidance Friday afternoon. Its criteria for assessing the risk of covid-19 to a community will, as expected, no longer solely consider the level of transmission in an area but will also depend on the rate of new hospitalized covid-19 patients and the share of…

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Watch a Determined Modder Upgrade the Classic Hot Wheels PC Into a Gaming Beast

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 07:30 AM PST

Building a modern gaming PC inside a tower dating back to 1999 sounds like the worst approach a gamer could take—unless that tower happens to be from the iconic Hot Wheels-themed PC released back in 1999 and emblazoned with flame graphics on the sides. How could you not bring this beast back from the dead if you were…

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Bat-Updates From The Batman and Batgirl's Own Batman

Posted: 25 Feb 2022 07:10 AM PST

Neve Campbell discusses her potential Scream future. Scoob will return for a Halloween special on HBO Max. Tales of the Walking Dead adds even more big names to its anthology cast. Plus, what's coming on Legacies and Ghosts. Spoilers get!

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