quinta-feira, 30 de junho de 2022


7 Times Taco Bell’s Menu Pushed the Boundaries of Science

Posted: 30 Jun 2022 04:00 AM PDT

Earlier this month, Gizmodo reported on a new high-tech drive-thru Taco Bell that the Tex-Mex chain opened in Minnesota; at "Taco Bell Defy," you order via a mobile app, scan a QR code when you drive up, and have your food delivered via a series of tubes, never interacting with another human being. But that isn't the…

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U.S. Orders Omicron-Specific Covid-19 Vaccine Shipment for Big Fall Push

Posted: 30 Jun 2022 03:30 AM PDT

The U.S. federal government has reached a deal to pay pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German-based partner BioNTech a t0tal of $3.2 billion for 105 million doses of covid-19 vaccine, according to statements from the companies. The doses are part of a fall campaign to get more people vaccinated in the U.S., a…

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TikToks About Hosting 'Abortion Refugees' Aren't the Answer to an Overturned Roe, Experts Say

Posted: 30 Jun 2022 03:00 AM PDT

After the Supreme Court repealed the federal right to abortion last Friday, Jordan Jones, a TikTok creator with 1.5 million followers, decided to post a video. She wanted to help individuals seeking abortion care that wouldn't be able to get it in their home states anymore.

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Disney Decides the Only Way to Top a $5,000 Star Wars Hotel Stay Is a $5,000 Star Wars Cocktail

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 05:10 PM PDT

Yes, you read that headline correctly: a $5,ooo drink. It comes served in a camtono, the bounty hunter accessory container most recently featured on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett—which you can find it on Ebay for far less. So why is this drink, served only on the Disney Cruise Line's newest ship, the Wish

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Tessa Thompson Talks Valkyrie's Sexuality in Thor: Love and Thunder

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 04:00 PM PDT

With the return of Jane Foster, the addition of the Guardians of the Galaxy, and a villain as evil as Gorr the God Butcher, Thor: Love and Thunder has a lot going on. That's why, while Tessa Thompson's character Valkyrie is, indeed, queer in the new film, it doesn't sound like it's a big part of that story.

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Everything You Need to Know About Paper Girls Before the Prime Video Adaptation

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 03:00 PM PDT

Here's everything you need to know about Prime Video's Paper Girls, the highly anticipated sci-fi YA adventure show adapting the Image Comics series from Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang. The streamer recently debuted an exciting first look at the show, which arrives next month. Keep reading for a quick crash course!

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NASA's DART Mission Is Going to Really Mess Up This Tiny Asteroid

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 02:41 PM PDT

In order to protect the Earth, some sacrifices must be made. NASA's DART spacecraft is currently on its way to a binary asteroid system known as Didymos and will essentially crash into one tiny asteroid to test out a deflection method. But rather than leaving behind an impact crater as initially intended, the DART…

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Three Arrows Capital Ordered to Liquidate All Assets After Defaulting on $675M Bitcoin Loans

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 02:06 PM PDT

Three Arrows Capital, one of the crypto industry's biggest sinking ships, is finally being put out of its misery.

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

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 02:00 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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First Webb Images Will Include Exoplanet Data and the Deepest-Ever Image of the Universe

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 01:33 PM PDT

It's now been six months since the Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana towards its observation point in space, one million miles from us. Now the telescope's first color images are finally being taken; they will be released to the public on July 12.

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10 (Mostly) Effective Time Cops From Sci-Fi Movies and TV

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 01:15 PM PDT

So you've figured out how to time-travel. Don't abuse your new skill by messing up the timeline! Irresponsible space-time shenanigans can have a devastating effect on you and the future—which is why so many sci-fi stories have law enforcement agencies ready to intervene when things start careening off the rails.

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Los Angeles Votes to Return Beach Taken From Black Family After Nearly a Century

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 01:10 PM PDT

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously this week to return the ownership of a beach to a Black family almost a century after it was taken from them.

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A New Firefox Update Can Stop Certain URLs from Tracking You Around the Web

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 12:54 PM PDT

Mozilla's latest version of Firefox might just be the answer for users who hate being tracked when clicking on links off sites like Facebook.

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California Gun Owners Had Lots of Their Data Exposed by the State Government

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 12:44 PM PDT

A data breach at the California Department of Justice has spilled a wealth of data about the state's gun owners onto the internet.

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Mad Max Director George Miller Almost Made Carl Sagan's Contact

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 12:30 PM PDT

Hollywood is filled with fascinating "What if?" scenarios. So and so director almost made so and so movie. Actor X was the second choice for role Y. It's an infinite rabbit hole and director George Miller is often a big part of it. He famously got very close to making a Justice League movie long before anyone else…

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Feds Start Selling New Drilling Leases After Biden Pledged to Stop Them

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 11:52 AM PDT

The U.S. Department of the Interior is restarting sales oil and gas drilling leases on federal land this week for the first time since President Joe Biden took office—and after he promised on the campaign trail to end new federal fossil fuel leasing. Beginning Wednesday and Thursday, more than 140,000 acres of federal…

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Some Good News: Scientists Are Now Testing Out a Universal Flu Vaccine In People

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 11:50 AM PDT

The race to one of medicine's elusive goals—a universal flu vaccine—is heating up. On Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health announced the phase I clinical trial of one such potential candidate, which will involve up to 100 adult volunteers. In early experiments, the vaccine appeared to protect animals exposed to…

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Hasbro Is Crowdfunding a $300 Version of G.I. Joe's Cobra HISS Tank

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 11:45 AM PDT

The great thing about leveraging nostalgia to sell toys is that your customer base is all grown up with jobs and disposable money for making exorbitant purchases. This isn't the first time Hasbro has resurrected the Cobra HISS tank from its classic G.I. Joe '80s toy line, but it is the first time the company has…

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Ms. Marvel's Familial Homecoming Hits Harder Than Its Villains

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 11:00 AM PDT

Last we left Ms. Marvel's Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), her fight with the reckless ClanDestine and the apparent revelation that she inherited her power from Djinn left her very shaken. To rattle her world further, her grandmother Sana (Samina Ahmad) implored her to go to Karachi. Not only did Kamala see the vision of…

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'Switch to Android' App Now Available to All Phones with Android 12

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 11:00 AM PDT

Android announced its support for the 'Switch to Android' app on iOS Wednesday, which will now be available to all users moving from iOS to phones with Android 12. The app is designed to make the hassle of transitioning from iPhone to Android easier. Android's 'Switch to Android' is a welcome sight for former Apple…

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Watch Live as Virgin Orbit Attempts Its First Nighttime Airplane-Assisted Rocket Launch

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 10:55 AM PDT

Virgin Orbit is preparing to launch a two-stage rocket that's carrying precious payloads for the U.S. Space Force. Known as the "Straight Up" mission, it's scheduled to begin on Thursday at 1:00 a.m. ET from Mojave Air and Space Port in California—and you can catch the action live right here.

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India’s Liquid Mirror Telescope Is Ready for Its Close-up

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 10:53 AM PDT

High in the Himalayas, a new telescope is set to observe the night sky. The contraption has a 4-meter (13-foot) lens, but here's the kicker: it's made of liquid mercury, a material seldom used for astronomical imaging.

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NASA Needs Your Help Finding Clouds on Mars

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 10:30 AM PDT

The landscape of Mars is rocky and barren, but the planet's skies sometimes hold clues to its past in the form of clouds. NASA's new Cloudspotting on Mars project is a science initiative that lets the public be a part of some new research as the agency studies what happened to Mars' atmosphere, now much thinner than…

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Obi-Wan Kenobi Had Many Other Plans for the Villain Reva, Including Her Death

Posted: 29 Jun 2022 10:15 AM PDT

If there's one thing the villains of the Star Wars galaxy are good at, it's cheating death. That's both true in the fiction of the franchise as well as real-life, apparently, because Obi-Wan Kenobi series writer Stuart Beattie has revealed that the show's antagonist, Reva (Moses Ingram), was supposed to die.

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