quarta-feira, 4 de maio de 2022


Broke: Breaking up Big Tech. Woke: Breaking up Big Ads.

Posted: 04 May 2022 07:16 PM PDT

This week, Bloomberg reported that a bipartisan group of lawmakers are inching closer to another big plan to break up big tech. But unlike grandiloquent calls for Meta to divest Instagram or for Google to divest Chrome, this new legislation would force both companies to divest the heart of their money-making…

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Oscar Isaac Dreams Up Comics Now Too

Posted: 04 May 2022 04:20 PM PDT

Step aside, Keanu Reeves and Emilia Clarke—there's a new celebrity comic purveyor heading to the racks. In an announcement no doubt timed to today's Moon Knight finale, the star of that Marvel Disney+ series (and a lot of other stuff we like!), Oscar Isaac, is working with Legendary Comics on "supernatural noir…

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Star Trek's Iconic 1964 Pilot 'The Cage' Gets a Hologram Recreation

Posted: 04 May 2022 03:30 PM PDT

High-tech meets vintage television for a fascinating new project that sounds like the perfect meeting of media and medium: a life-sized hologram recreation of "The Cage," the first Star Trek pilot. It's framed as a way to preserve, study, and celebrate the start of Gene Roddenberry's enduring sci-fi franchise.

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Meditate With Yoda

Posted: 04 May 2022 03:10 PM PDT

Your Guide to the Illuminati, Marvel's Secret Jerks Club

Posted: 04 May 2022 02:45 PM PDT

The latest Marvel movie, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, promises a lot of, well, madness—but some in particular that has had fans heating up with possibilities ever since the first trailer is the arrival of the Illuminati to the MCU, one of the 21st century's most fascinating comics supergroups. Here's…

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You May Be Saying "Hey Sonos" Sooner Than You Think

Posted: 04 May 2022 02:35 PM PDT

Shouting out "Hey Sonos" to change the music might become a reality in your household in the next few weeks. Sonos is preparing to launch its anticipated voice control functionality in June, an exclusive leak from The Verge claims. It'll exist as an alternative to Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, which are already…

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The Frontier Passenger Taped to His Seat After Groping Flight Attendants Is Going To Jail

Posted: 04 May 2022 02:30 PM PDT

The dude who drunkenly flipped out on a Frontier Airlines flight last summer and assaulted three flight attendants before getting duct-taped to his own seat has been sentenced to 60 days in jail, according to the New York Times.

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Russian Motor Spontaneously Explodes in Orbit, Creating Debris Cloud

Posted: 04 May 2022 02:26 PM PDT

An old Russian motor that's been aimlessly floating through space for more than a decade has finally met its demise in a sudden explosion, producing at least 16 shards of orbital debris that now threaten satellites and other objects.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once Will Change a Problematic Credit for Its Digital Release

Posted: 04 May 2022 01:50 PM PDT

It's no secret that Everything Everywhere All At Once is incredible. Directorial team the Daniels, Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, have made an instant classic that's sure to endure for years to come. The film is funny, exciting, emotional, and gorgeous, but not without a few issues.

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Netflix Hid Subscriber Losses, Shareholders Allege in Lawsuit

Posted: 04 May 2022 01:30 PM PDT

Netflix's big pool of investors are not happy, not happy at all. Some shareholders are so unhappy they've turned around and filed a lawsuit against the streaming company over claims that company heads misled them on how well they were doing just a few months ago.

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Star Wars Release Dates: When to See Upcoming Star Wars Movies and Disney+ Shows

Posted: 04 May 2022 01:05 PM PDT

Bill Murray said it in 1978 and we're still saying it today: "Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars! Give me those Star Wars! Don't let them end." Star Wars is everywhere these days, with movies and TV shows alike in the works from Disney and Lucasfilm. This article will give you the most up to date Star Wars release dates

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Turn Your Forgotten Game Boy Advance Into a TV Console With This No-Solder DIY Kit

Posted: 04 May 2022 12:40 PM PDT

Got an original Game Boy Advance, the one with the unlit screen that was almost impossible to see, still kicking around in a drawer somewhere? This DIY kit lets you turn it into a standalone TV-connected console with HDMI and Bluetooth for wireless controllers, but without the need for any know-how when it comes to…

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Elon Musk Tweets Groundbreaking Twitter Transformation Idea: Charge Governments

Posted: 04 May 2022 12:37 PM PDT

Elon Musk is brainstorming a genius plan to "unlock Twitter's potential" in public via tweet. He's already said he might charge third parties to embed tweets. Now the Tesla CEO says he might charge businesses and governments for tweeting.

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Enter a Fantastically Fantastical World in This Twig #1 Preview

Posted: 04 May 2022 12:20 PM PDT

If you're still looking to fill that The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance-shaped hole in your heart, a solution may have arrived, at least if you're willing to switch mediums. Writer Skottie Young and artist Kyle Strahm have created a new fantasy world for you to visit, full of whimsical and just…

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Creepy Data Broker Says It Will No Longer Sell Planned Parenthood Visitors' Location History

Posted: 04 May 2022 12:00 PM PDT

A data location broker company called SafeGraph says it will no longer sell the location data of groups of people visiting Planned Parenthood and other clinics that provide abortions following a recent Vice report. Purchasers of that data previously could reportedly tell where visitors to those clinics came from, how…

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How to Get an Abortion in the Age of Surveillance

Posted: 04 May 2022 11:45 AM PDT

Late Monday, Politico published a 98-page bombshell from the heart of the Supreme Court detailing—in Justice Samuel Alito's caustic, disdainful language—SCOTUS' plans to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that made abortion legal in the U.S. in 1973.

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Optoma's New 4K Projector Makes a Compelling Case to Finally Upgrade Your Home Theater

Posted: 04 May 2022 11:10 AM PDT

If you factor in the price of the tickets for all the movies you see in theaters (plus the over-priced popcorn and snacks), then the cost of upgrading your home theater with a projector doesn't feel as budget-breaking as it otherwise might. Particularly when companies like Optoma are releasing full 4K options for less…

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7 Things We Want From Stranger Things Season 4

Posted: 04 May 2022 11:10 AM PDT

We're on the verge of getting new Stranger Things episodes—part one of season four arrives May 27; the rest on July 1—and honestly, you're not alone if your memories of season three have gotten fuzzy. July 2019 does feel like decades ago. With that in mind, we're here to get our priorities in order for season four.

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Native Peoples Harvested Huge Amounts of Seafood Without Harming Ecosystems

Posted: 04 May 2022 10:38 AM PDT

Before European colonizers arrived in the Americas and other parts of the world, Native peoples were cultivating tons of seafood—specifically oysters—the right way for millennia.

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In the End, Moon Knight Embraced the Superhero Show It Was Never Sure It Wanted to Be

Posted: 04 May 2022 10:20 AM PDT

Moon Knight has had a stranger story than most Marvel projects to track over its six episodes—at first, starting out as something of a peculiar character piece more akin to the early days of Marvel's own Netflix adventures with Daredevil than the blockbuster, cameo-laden action we tend to expect from the studio now.…

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Feds Plan Extreme Measures to Keep Lake Powell Generating Electricity

Posted: 04 May 2022 10:08 AM PDT

On Tuesday, the federal government announced that it will take unprecedented steps to maintain water levels in Lake Powell and stave off an electricity supply catastrophe for the Southwest.

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NASA Visualization Shows Black Holes Dancing with Stars

Posted: 04 May 2022 09:40 AM PDT

A new video from NASA shows what it looks like when a star is caught in the powerful gravity of a black hole. In these binary systems, the doomed stars spin around the black holes, which steadily suck up gas from them. The visualization illustrates the variety of these parasitic partnerships in our galactic backyard,…

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Everything We Saw in the New Obi-Wan Kenobi Trailer

Posted: 04 May 2022 09:30 AM PDT

It's May the Fourth (one of the Star Wars fandom's favorite days, quickly followed by the Revenge of the Fifth), and Disney and Lucasfilm just shared a brand new trailer for Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi. I'm genuinely surprised that we actually get a discernible plotline within a trailer, and gosh, it feels good to know…

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Dizzying Video Shows What It’s Like to Get Shot Out of a Centrifuge at 1,000 MPH

Posted: 04 May 2022 08:55 AM PDT

California startup SpinLaunch recently performed the eighth demonstration of its suborbital mass accelerator, but unlike in previous tests, this flight vehicle was equipped with an onboard camera, providing an unprecedented view of the high-altitude launch.

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Samsung's New Mobile Storage Promises to Boost Your Next Phone's Performance and Battery Life

Posted: 04 May 2022 08:45 AM PDT

Samsung introduced UFS 4.0 today, which is a new version of mobile flash storage that promises to significantly improve the performance and endurance of your next smartphone.

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