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- Netflix's New Texas Chainsaw Massacre Is Completely Unnecessary
- The Nearly Extinct Polio Virus Just Resurfaced in Africa
- Michael Bay Compares His Explosions to a Salad
- Spoilers of the Week Feb 14-18
- King Tut's Meteorite Dagger Has a Mystery Origin Story
- Windows 11 Pro Will Soon Require a Microsoft Account, and People Are Pissed
- Writing Horizon Forbidden West Was a Robot Dinosaur-Sized Task
- Winter Storm Causes 100-Car Pileup in Illinois
- Quentin Tarantino's Scrapped Star Trek Movie Certainly Sounds Like... Something
- Unprecedented Image Captures Freakishly Large Solar Eruption
- Vox Machina Levels Up in Critical Role's Season Finale
- Lauren Boebert Wants You to Think She’s Fighting Wildfires
- The Facebook Whistleblower's New SEC Complaints Hit Meta in the Money Bags
- Ugh, Zuckerberg's Metaverse Isn't as Dead as We All Hoped
- Nerf's Fastest Dart Blaster Ever Promises a Fun Day of Picking Up Foam Ammo
- Wild Marvel Rumors Tease a Very Silly She-Hulk Cameo
- Samsung's Galaxy S22 Ultra Is Too Much
- China's Baidu Launches Self-Driving Taxis in Densely Populated Shenzhen
- Popular Baby Formulas Recalled Over Bacteria After Child's Death: FDA
- Apple-1 Mystery Is Finally Solved 45 Years Later
- Netflix's Marvel TV Series Aren't Coming to Disney+... for Now
- Star Wars Legend John Williams Has Composed the Obi-Wan Kenobi Theme
- Unknown Deep Sea Creatures Are Holding Onto a Ton of Carbon
- Amazon's Comixology Overhaul Is Here, and It Sucks
- A Father Accidentally Shut Down His Town's Whole Internet in an Effort to Limit His Kids' Screentime
| Netflix's New Texas Chainsaw Massacre Is Completely Unnecessary Posted: 18 Feb 2022 11:30 AM PST  Tobe Hooper's 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a horror masterpiece—a gruesome, chilling exploration of why you shouldn't poke around other people's property, especially in rural Texas. It's a story other filmmakers haven't been able to resist revisiting, with diminishing returns. The latest example of this hits… |
| The Nearly Extinct Polio Virus Just Resurfaced in Africa Posted: 18 Feb 2022 11:10 AM PST  The nearly extinct disease polio has made an unexpected and unwelcome reappearance in Africa. This week, health officials in the country of Malawi reported a case of wild polio in a young child—the first spotted in the continent in more than five years. World Health Organization officials are now monitoring the… |
| Michael Bay Compares His Explosions to a Salad Posted: 18 Feb 2022 10:45 AM PST  Michael Bay blows a lot of shit up. He may not single-mindedly hate the Earth like his co-master of cinematic disaster Roland Emmerich, but he loves destroying things on the planet and putting them on film, and he takes a great deal of care when doing so. In fact, he cares so much, he can't help but equate his… |
| Spoilers of the Week Feb 14-18 Posted: 18 Feb 2022 10:39 AM PST |
| King Tut's Meteorite Dagger Has a Mystery Origin Story Posted: 18 Feb 2022 10:35 AM PST  A team of researchers recently X-ray scanned an iron dagger found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to figure out how the object, the metal of which came from a meteorite, was made. They suspect the dagger was created through low-temperature forging—but they don't think it was crafted in Egypt. |
| Windows 11 Pro Will Soon Require a Microsoft Account, and People Are Pissed Posted: 18 Feb 2022 10:10 AM PST  Microsoft will soon force Windows 11 Pro users to create a Microsoft account and be connected to the internet for the initial setup process. The new requirements mirror those for Windows 11 Home, which has required an internet connection and account since it launched in October of last year. |
| Writing Horizon Forbidden West Was a Robot Dinosaur-Sized Task Posted: 18 Feb 2022 10:00 AM PST  It's finally here. The day many have been awaiting for five years. The release of Horizon Forbidden West for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The sequel to 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, Forbidden West picks up where that story left off, as the hunter Aloy discovers that journey to save the world from evil machines was… |
| Winter Storm Causes 100-Car Pileup in Illinois Posted: 18 Feb 2022 09:35 AM PST  Icy and snowy weather across the Great Plains and Midwest caused a huge car pileup on Interstate 39 in Illinois yesterday. There were more than 100 cars and semi trucks strewn across several hundred yards of the highway. |
| Quentin Tarantino's Scrapped Star Trek Movie Certainly Sounds Like... Something Posted: 18 Feb 2022 09:30 AM PST  Talk of Quentin Tarantino heading to the Alpha Quadrant has swirled around for the past few years, largely focusing on how the iconic director's take on Star Trek would've pushed the franchise into darker, more violent, and more curse-laden material. But new details about the cancelled film seem to suggest something… |
| Unprecedented Image Captures Freakishly Large Solar Eruption Posted: 18 Feb 2022 09:22 AM PST  The Solar Orbiter spacecraft had a front-row view this week of the Sun giving out an unusually large belch, resulting in a one-of-a-kind image. |
| Vox Machina Levels Up in Critical Role's Season Finale Posted: 18 Feb 2022 09:00 AM PST  Throughout the first season of The Legend of Vox Machina, Amazon's animated adaptation of Critical Role took its time allowing the titular adventuring party to grow into the heroes that millions of fans know from the original streaming show. The first half of the season was a solid adventure for Vox Machina as the… |
| Lauren Boebert Wants You to Think She’s Fighting Wildfires Posted: 18 Feb 2022 08:43 AM PST  Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert wants you to think she's got the fix for wildfires. |
| The Facebook Whistleblower's New SEC Complaints Hit Meta in the Money Bags Posted: 18 Feb 2022 08:32 AM PST  Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and Whistleblower Aid are keeping the pressure on Meta even as the company tries to reassure investors it's turning the page from its tumultuous past. |
| Ugh, Zuckerberg's Metaverse Isn't as Dead as We All Hoped Posted: 18 Feb 2022 08:10 AM PST |
| Nerf's Fastest Dart Blaster Ever Promises a Fun Day of Picking Up Foam Ammo Posted: 18 Feb 2022 07:15 AM PST  Despite designs that make them look like the inspiration for video game weapons that can effortlessly mow down waves of enemy aliens, Nerf's dart blaster toys aren't quite as aggressive at burning through ammo, but they're improving, and the just-revealed Nerf Ultra Speed sets a new performance record. |
| Wild Marvel Rumors Tease a Very Silly She-Hulk Cameo Posted: 18 Feb 2022 06:35 AM PST  Berkley Breathed's Bloom County is heading to television. Brad Bird's long-awaited Ray Gunn animated movie has found a home. A new Sonic 2 poster puts Sonic and Knuckles at odds. Plus, what's to come on Ghosts and Resident Alien. Spoilers get! |
| Samsung's Galaxy S22 Ultra Is Too Much Posted: 18 Feb 2022 05:00 AM PST  Samsung wants us to call this phone the Galaxy S22 Ultra, but really, it's a Galaxy Note. Everything about this device's DNA can be traced back to that exciting and confusing era of phablets, from its enormous screen to the S Pen built in next to its charging port. It is the ultimate Samsung flagship. But does anyone… |
| China's Baidu Launches Self-Driving Taxis in Densely Populated Shenzhen Posted: 18 Feb 2022 04:00 AM PST  Chinese tech firm Baidu launched its self-driving taxi service in downtown Shenzhen on Thursday, marking the company's first deployment of autonomous vehicles into a densely populated area of China. And while human drivers are still sitting behind the wheel as a safety precaution, that could change in the future as… |
| Popular Baby Formulas Recalled Over Bacteria After Child's Death: FDA Posted: 18 Feb 2022 03:00 AM PST  Three different types of baby formula have been recalled after the FDA found at least four children became sick with bacterial infections, according to a news release from the federal agency. The three powdered formulas, Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare, were all produced by Abbott Nutrition at a production facility in… |
| Apple-1 Mystery Is Finally Solved 45 Years Later Posted: 17 Feb 2022 05:00 PM PST  About 45 years ago, Apple sold 200 of its first-ever product: the Apple-1 computer. Of those, around 82 still exist and about 80 in the first batch of 100 are said to have a handwritten serial number on the mainboard (these appear as "01-00##"). Only a few dozen of those 80 are still around. For decades, a handful of… |
| Netflix's Marvel TV Series Aren't Coming to Disney+... for Now Posted: 17 Feb 2022 04:30 PM PST  The saga of Netflix's disappearing Marvel TV series continues, although the latest development is more about what's not happening—i.e., the shows relocating to Marvel's entertainment hub at Disney+. A list of the content coming to the streaming service in March has been revealed, and it does not include any mentions… |
| Star Wars Legend John Williams Has Composed the Obi-Wan Kenobi Theme Posted: 17 Feb 2022 03:30 PM PST  When Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi makes its Disney+ debut in May, the character's theme music will be composed by one of Star Wars' most important architects: John Williams, whose symphonic scores for the original trilogy (and other adjacent works) have long helped the series feel both epic and emotionally resonant. |
| Unknown Deep Sea Creatures Are Holding Onto a Ton of Carbon Posted: 17 Feb 2022 02:30 PM PST  The ocean floor is riddled with ungodly species that seem to have been created out of our worst collective nightmares. There are demonic-looking fishes that glow and sponges (that do not look like SpongeBob) that devour the ancient remains of other animals. But organisms along the ocean floor are biological carbon… |
| Amazon's Comixology Overhaul Is Here, and It Sucks Posted: 17 Feb 2022 02:15 PM PST  Since Amazon acquired Comixology in 2014, its larger relationship with the storefront—which, for those years, has remained the premiere hub for buying and reading digital comics—has been relatively hands off. The ability to sign in with your Amazon account aside, the two storefronts have largely stayed separate. A new… |
| A Father Accidentally Shut Down His Town's Whole Internet in an Effort to Limit His Kids' Screentime Posted: 17 Feb 2022 01:50 PM PST  In case you haven't noticed, kids these days just do not know how to moderate their screen time. So, in a desperate bid to get his children offline, some guy in France apparently blitzed his entire town's internet connection—by accident, that is. He now faces up to six months in prison for the outage. |
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