quarta-feira, 22 de junho de 2022


These Indiana Jones Replicas Belong in a Museum, But You Can Own Them

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 05:30 PM PDT

One of the best parts of the Indiana Jones films is that Indy is always after something tangible. In particular, the fertility idol, the Sankara Stones, the Holy Grail, and a crystal skull. That's great for fans because it means you can act like Indy and have one or all of these items in your collection. Unlike Indy,…

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The Author of Marvel's Problematic Miles Morales What If...? Comic Has Apologized

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 04:40 PM PDT

Beloved Spider-Man Miles Morales is set for some highs with the upcoming release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One), a sequel to the Oscar-winning animated hit which propelled the Afro-Latinx character to break out into mainstream popularity. On the comics side of things, however, there's been a very…

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How The Umbrella Academy's Creator and Star Elliot Page Collaborated on Viktor's Introduction

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 03:45 PM PDT

Netflix's The Umbrella Academy hit the streamer today with its third season, unfurling more time-travel troubles and (in a new twist!) inter-dimensional shenanigans for the super-powered Hargreeves siblings. But one key part of season three happened both on-screen and behind the scenes.

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Former Piracy Hub Megaupload's Cofounders Unsurprisingly in Spat Over Crimes (and Security Flaws)

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 03:05 PM PDT

Remember Mega, the encrypted cloud storage company? No? Well, maybe you remember its predecessor, Megaupload, the file hosting provider that was accused of acting as a haven for licensing pirates during the mid-2000s and was subsequently shuttered by authorities. Prior to its shutdown, Megaupload was thought of as…

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

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 03:01 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 multiple movies and TV shows in the works from Disney and Lucasfilm. This article will give you the most up to date Star Wars release

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Amazon's Latest Trick: Pipe In a Dead Person's Voice Through Alexa's Speakers

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 02:15 PM PDT

Those weird "loved ones come back from the dead to visit you" stunts pulled by celebrities like Kanye West may soon become a reality through your digital assistant.

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A New J.R.R. Tolkien Collection Gathers the Author's Writings on Middle-earth's Second Age

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 02:10 PM PDT

With Prime Video's prequel series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power arriving in early September, it stands to reason there'll be a renewed interest in J.R.R. Tolkien's original writings on Middle-earth's Second Age. So the timing is perfect for The Fall of Númenor, which gathers all of Tolkien's works on the…

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How to Set Up Google Password Manager's On-Device Encryption for iOS, Chrome, and Android

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 01:35 PM PDT

Eventually, Google and other big tech companies want to dispense with passwords entirely, but until that day comes, a Google Password Manager feature called on-device encryption might be your best bet for protecting your precious codes. Though it quietly came out earlier this spring, since you can now easily access…

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UK on Alert After Polio Detected in Sewage

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 01:14 PM PDT

Health officials in the UK are on the hunt for any signs of the dreaded polio, the potentially debilitating viral illness that has been nearly eradicated worldwide thanks to vaccines. The country declared a national incident over conspicuous repeated findings of a weakened version of the poliovirus in London sewage.

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Press Play "Im Not Going Anywhere Without You" io9 Exclusive Clip

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 01:00 PM PDT

The Umbrella Academy Is Back—What to Remember Before You Binge Season 3

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 01:00 PM PDT

Born on the same fated day in 1989 to mothers who weren't pregnant when they woke up that morning—then raised by an eccentric father figure keenly interested in their various superpowers—the Hargreeves siblings have been through a hell of a lot. Season three of The Umbrella Academy arrives on Netflix today to send…

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Google Maps Now Has a Label for LGBTQ+ Owned Businesses

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 12:53 PM PDT

Google has introduced a new label in Maps and Search that allows businesses to self-identify as LGBTQ+ owned, adding to a series of labels already on Google Maps that are meant to help people locate and support local businesses. It also comes with the capability to report any related harassment.

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Hot Tub Crime Machine: Jacuzzi Smart Tubs Left Personal Info Exposed

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 12:46 PM PDT

Smart hot tubs—yes, that's a thing!—are the web's newest spot for cybersecurity snafus.

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NASA Selects 3 Companies to Design a Nuclear Power Plant for the Moon

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 12:45 PM PDT

NASA wants to build and transport a nuclear reactor to the Moon, which would power a sustained human presence for at least 10 years. To that end, the space agency has chosen three companies to develop design concepts for a nuclear fission system to be placed on the Moon in conjunction with the Artemis program.

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Oh No: Keanu Reeves Is Into NFTs Now

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 12:23 PM PDT

Neo has taken the crypto red pill. Keanu Reeves and his partner Alexandra Grant have joined in the efforts of a foundation focused on NFTs and art in the metaverse, the Futureverse Foundation.

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Ms. Marvel Gives Us Muslim Joy and a Perplexing Villain

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 12:15 PM PDT

When we last saw Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) on Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, she was running away from scary government drones and agents, led by Agent Deever (Alyia Reiner) and straight into Kamran's (Rish Shah) fancy car, where she meets the cute new boy's mysterious mother Najma (Nimra Bucha). She says she's been…

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The First 1.5TB microSD Card Is Coming to Destroy Your Budget

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 11:50 AM PDT

Although as inevitable as death and taxes, yesterday Micron revealed that its new industrial-grade i400 microSD will come in capacities ranging from 256GB to 1TB, and for the first time ever, a never-before-seen 1.5TB option that will undoubtedly be devastatingly expensive.

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'Bloody' Snow Is Another Ominous Signal of Climate Change

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 11:40 AM PDT

Scientists are investigating how blood splatter-like spots in snow could be connected to climate change. The reddish dots are made up of tiny algae that grow on snowy mountain ranges. The algae is originally green, but when it's hit with sunlight, it turns red, creating the eerie blush.

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Natalie Portman on Jane Foster's 'Big' Storyline in Thor: Love and Thunder

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 11:40 AM PDT

In a new interview with Variety, Natalie Portman got candid about how she felt when she was asked to bulk up for her return role as Jane Foster in Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder. "On Black Swan, I was asked to get as small as possible," she said. "Here, I was asked to get as big as possible. That's an amazing…

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Doctor Strange Has a New Multiversal Nemesis

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 10:45 AM PDT

If you've seen Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, you know the Marvel hero faces a bevy of villains—Gargantos the tentacle monster, the mentally unbalanced Scarlet Witch, and even an extremely evil version of himself. But in his jaunt through the multiverse, Strange managed to create a new foe—one that…

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SpaceX Says 5G Interference Could Make Starlink Internet 'Unusable'

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 10:38 AM PDT

Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet company is on a collision course with 5G. That's what SpaceX wants you to think, anyway.

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Trash-to-Gas Isn't a Fairytale Climate Solution

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 10:23 AM PDT

It seems like magic: In millions of operations scattered around the globe (some big, some very small), waste is transformed into energy. Landfilled garbage, sewage, and farm effluent are processed into burnable biogas, which can be used as a substitute for natural gas, a fossil fuel. Unlike natural gas, which sits in…

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NASA's Dust-Choked InSight Lander Likely Won't Make It to the End of the Year

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 10:05 AM PDT

NASA announced in May that its InSight Mars lander—a spacecraft that has spent nearly four years investigating Martian geology and seismic activity—would likely cease scientific operations in mid-summer and terminate all operations by the end of the year, due to low power levels. Now, the agency plans to stretch …

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Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Over, and We Have Very Mixed Feelings About It

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 10:00 AM PDT

Obi-Wan Kenobi has reached its conclusion and I feel super weird about it. It's that feeling you get after you finish a movie, show, or book you've been waiting forever for and it hasn't quite processed yet. You know that it's over, the mysteries are solved, and yet, you can't believe that it happened. Obi-Wan Kenobi was kind of…

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Watch a Clip From the Time-Travel Mixtape Romance Press Play

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 09:10 AM PDT

You've seen time machines that are cars. You've seen time machines that are phone booths. You've even seen them as hot tubs, spaceships, boxes, and necklaces. But you've never ever seen a time travel mixtape. That is, until Press Play.

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