quarta-feira, 18 de maio de 2022


Kelly Marie Tran Reflects on What It Meant to Be Cast in Star Wars

Posted: 18 May 2022 04:30 PM PDT

For Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander heritage month, Kelly Marie Tran (Raya and the Last Dragon) sat down with StarWars.com to discuss her experience being a part of the Star Wars universe as a first generation Asian-American when she was cast as Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In the open…

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A Ton of Star Wars Celebration 2022 Exclusives, Including Apparel, Collectibles, and Much More

Posted: 18 May 2022 03:30 PM PDT

If you managed to score tickets to this year's Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, next week, I sincerely hope you also managed to save up some galactic credits. Besides actual Star Wars news, the amount of exclusive merchandise that will be available to you there, and there alone, is simply staggering—so…

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Homeland Security Pushes Pause on New Disinformation Board

Posted: 18 May 2022 03:14 PM PDT

On April 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced the new Disinformation Governance Board, a group within the federal agency focused on researching the best ways to fight rampant online lies and misleading content seen as a danger to national security. Less than a month later, though, and the board has…

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Netflix Kneecapped Its Own Efforts to Champion Diverse Shows, Axed Writers Say

Posted: 18 May 2022 03:02 PM PDT

Alongside 150 full time employees Netflix axed Tuesday, dozens of contract writers were shown the door. Bitter tweets flooded in after the job cuts were announced. Many of those writers were part of Netflix's large-scale diversity communications initiatives, and they said that the struggling streaming giant had left…

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You Can Finally Listen to YouTube Music on Wear OS, No Phone Required

Posted: 18 May 2022 02:40 PM PDT

Good news for YouTube Music listeners! A compatible app for Wear OS is finally available so that you can take your playlists with you on the go.

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How the Bob's Burgers Creators Expanded Their Cult-Beloved Show Into a Movie

Posted: 18 May 2022 02:30 PM PDT

First announced back in 2017, then delayed and delayed again thanks to the pandemic, The Bob's Burgers Movie—an animated musical based on the long-running Fox series created by Loren Bouchard—is almost in theaters. Ahead of the movie's May 27 debut, io9 attended a press conference featuring its cast and crew.

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Vast Majority of Long Covid Patients Were Never Hospitalized, Report Finds

Posted: 18 May 2022 02:07 PM PDT

The average person suffering from long covid didn't have a severe infection to begin with, a new report suggests. The study, an examination of private insurance claims, found that three-fourths of diagnosed long covid patients were not hospitalized for covid-19. Additionally, the researchers found that patients were…

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Whale Sharks Keep Crashing Into Ships

Posted: 18 May 2022 01:43 PM PDT

The oceans' gentle giants are being wiped out by human activity, new research shows.

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The Cast of Stranger Things on Tackling the Horrors of Coming of Age

Posted: 18 May 2022 01:30 PM PDT

In the time that has passed since the Battle of Starcourt, the friendships that make up the heart of Stranger Things have been spread apart, thanks to that season three cliffhanger. We'll pick up with the characters six months after the events of last season, even though it's been three years since audiences have been…

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‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Gets Early Release From Prison

Posted: 18 May 2022 01:15 PM PDT

Martin "pharma bro" Shkreli has apparently been released early from a federal prison in Pennsylvania as revealed in a tweet from friend Edmund Sullivan who picked him up. Shkreli will now serve time in a U.S. Bureau of Prisons halfway house at a secret location in New York.

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Napster Wants to Become a Web3 Company

Posted: 18 May 2022 01:05 PM PDT

File sharing pioneer Napster is getting a second chance at life, this time, on the blockchain. That's right, nothing quite screams, "Web3 futurism" like a stumbling, hallowed out 23-year-old internet company.

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Everything We Know About Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi

Posted: 18 May 2022 12:45 PM PDT

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See This Year's Best Photos of the Milky Way

Posted: 18 May 2022 12:25 PM PDT

On a clear night, it's possible to see our entire galactic neighborhood from Earth. You need the right conditions: very little light (which is why so few stars are visible in cities), and it's ideal to be high up, so that there's not much atmosphere getting in the way of your view. Recently, 25 photographers from 12…

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And Your 2022 Eisner Award Nominees Are...

Posted: 18 May 2022 12:15 PM PDT

Marvel might be leading the comic book industry at the box office but it's bringing up the rear on the awards circuit. The nominees for the biggest prizes in the comic book industry, the Will Eisner Comic Awards, have just been announced for 2022 and DC Comics and Image Comics have the most nominations with 15 (plus…

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A New Docuseries Based on Gizmodo's The Gateway Premieres Tonight

Posted: 18 May 2022 11:55 AM PDT

The Deep End is an upcoming docuseries—based on the Gizmodo podcast The Gateway—that follows Teal Swan, a self-proclaimed spiritual leader, her tantalizing self-help empire, and those who follow it devoutly.

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The Hardest Part of Making a Modern Star Wars Movie, According to Kathleen Kennedy

Posted: 18 May 2022 11:45 AM PDT

Now that the Skywalker Saga is over, what exactly is a Star Wars movie? It's a question Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has been dealing with on a daily basis for years. Things on the streaming side are purring along fairly smoothly. But in theaters? Much less so, and Kennedy thinks it's mostly because these…

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First Patient Dosed With Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus in New Trial

Posted: 18 May 2022 11:20 AM PDT

Scientists dosed the first patient this week in a small clinical trial of an experimental cancer treatment—one that relies on a novel kind of ally. The treatment uses a virus engineered to selectively kill cancer cells, while also amplifying the body's immune response to the cancer. The hope is that this therapy can…

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Rocket Launches Could Be Polluting Our Atmosphere in New and Unexpected Ways

Posted: 18 May 2022 11:10 AM PDT

SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a host of other private companies helped to make 2021 the year with the most space launches in history, but scientists say this mad dash to space could be causing further damage to our atmosphere.

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Ingenious Underwater Drone Can Transition to Flight in Less Than a Second

Posted: 18 May 2022 11:00 AM PDT

Robots have traditionally been purpose-built to perform a single, very specific task, but researchers from Beihang University are taking a much different approach with a new robotic drone that can operate underwater just as easily as in the air, and it features a clever, nature-inspired trick for maximizing its range.

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What Would've Happened Next on Archive 81?

Posted: 18 May 2022 10:50 AM PDT

Canceling a TV show is one thing. Canceling a TV show in the wake of a massive, shocking cliffhanger is something else entirely. That happened recently with the Netflix sci-fi mystery show Archive 81, and we asked the show's star, Mamoudou Athie, what would have happened next. "I guess I can talk about it now," the…

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Desperate Lawmakers Discuss Piping Ocean Water to Fill Great Salt Lake

Posted: 18 May 2022 10:18 AM PDT

A legislative commission in Utah has given the green light to study several strategies to help with the worryingly low levels of water in the Great Salt Lake—including potentially building a pipeline to carry water over land from the Pacific Ocean. The study to determine "the feasibility and cost of piping water from…

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Why Does Jurassic Park Still Rule Almost 30 Years Later?

Posted: 18 May 2022 10:00 AM PDT

This should probably be a short article. I say that because I'm going to make an argument that has been a stone-cold fact for almost 30 years. Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park is an excellent movie. Heck, it might even be a perfect movie. Every time you watch it, some new sliver of brilliance is revealed.

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Too Little Too Late: Apple Reverses Remote Work Policy After Machine Learning Head Decamps to Alphabet

Posted: 18 May 2022 09:15 AM PDT

Well, this is awkward. One of Apple's highest-profile return-to-office detractors reportedly landed a new gig at Alphabet's DeepMind, marking the latest drama over Big Tech's remote work scuffles. That move, ironically, comes right around the same time Apple decided to walk back its most recent return-to-office push

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Stan Lee’s Likeness Sold to Marvel

Posted: 18 May 2022 09:10 AM PDT

Genius Brands International and POW! Entertainment have signed a 20-year deal with Marvel to bring Stan Lee back into the MCU and beyond, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comics legend passed away in 2018, and his last in-person cameos were in 2019, for Captain Marvel, where he was digitally de-aged to fit the…

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Plane Crash in China May Have Been Intentional

Posted: 18 May 2022 09:05 AM PDT

Initial investigations into the China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed into a mountain suggests that someone intentionally caused the plane to plummet. A report by the Wall Street Journal cites "people familiar with U.S. officials' preliminary assessment of what led to the accident" who claim that data from a…

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