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UK Will Ban the Installation of Huawei 5G Equipment After September 20
The UK has taken another step towards removing Huawei from its 5G network. On Sunday, the British government announced that the country’s telecommunications companies would not be allowed to install new 5G equipment from Huawei after September 2021, Bloomberg reported.
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'World's Loneliest Elephant' Will Finally Have Some Friends
Finally, some good news in 2020. And we have Cher to thank for it. Yes, that Cher.
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The Mandalorian Has Removed 'Jeans Guy,' And I'm Disappointed
Mistakes are a beautiful part of film and television production. Let ‘em be. They’re great.
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Internet, Get Ready to Search: Utah’s Mystery Monolith Has Disappeared
The mysterious shiny metallic monolith that was found in Utah’s Red Rock Country more than a week ago and set off various online and offline investigations into who—or what, dun, dun, dun—put it there is gone. On Saturday, the federal Bureau of Land Management’s Utah office announced that the monolith had been removed…
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Give the Whole Family a Merry Sithmas With 30% off Ugly Star Wars Holiday Sweaters
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Do Adaptogens Actually Work?
Spend enough time desperately googling cures for “brain fog” and “pathological procrastination” and you’re likely to come across all kinds of things—YouTube videos in which bodybuilders beg you to take vitamin C, shady websites selling generic Adderall, Reddit threads in which weirdos who think they’re doctors speak…
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Chinese State Media Suggests Covid-19 Pandemic Started by Frozen Meat Imported Into Wuhan
Chinese state media outlet the Global Times released a new editorial on Sunday strongly suggesting the covid-19 pandemic, which started in the city of Wuhan, may have been caused by frozen meat imported from overseas. The suggestion is just the latest volley in a dispute over whether the Chinese government could have…
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'Mystery Illness' Kills 1 and Sickens Hundreds in Eluru, India
One person is dead and at least 345 people have become sick with a “mystery illness” since Saturday in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, according to new reports from the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times. Patients have shown a variety of symptoms, including vomiting, frothing at the mouth, seizures,…
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Trump Reveals That Another Member of His Inner Circle, Rudy Giuliani, Has Covid-19 Via Tweet
To no one’s surprise, especially given the reckless behavior exhibited by President Donald Trump and those in his orbit, Rudy Giuliani, the president’s infamous personal and campaign lawyer most recently known for farting in the courtroom, has covid-19.
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The Creators of the Upcoming Star Trek: Discovery Art Book Discuss Creating a Worthy Collection
The Art of Star Trek: Discovery, written by experienced Trek writers Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann, looks to be an extremely exciting collection. It’s a coffee table book full of the show’s concept art and design work, with interviews from the creators and a huge dose of behind-the-scenes information.
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Awesome, Now Police Are Using Automated Drones
Police drones are already a dystopian horror story straight out of the pages of 1984, but now they’re even beginning to think for themselves.
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 Probe Has Sent Bits of the Ryugu Asteroid Back to Earth
After six years of traveling and exploring, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 probe on Saturday sent a capsule back to Earth filled with what scientists hope is at least a 100 milligram-sample of the asteroid Ryugu, which is located about 186 million miles (300 million kilometers) from Earth. …
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This Slick Mini-Doc Explores the Unlikely Origins of Batman Beyond
No one really, uhh, wanted Batman Beyond. It seemed like a weird idea, mandated by corporate executives. But it worked, and it worked really well. It’s a cool story.
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Birx: Health Officials Still Have Their Hands Full Debunking Trump's Covid-19 'Myths'
White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said she’s frustrated that viral covid-19 “myths” like those spread by the president and other high-profile politicians continue to undermine public perception about the severity of covid-19, even now eight months into the pandemic after the virus has…
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You Can Now Stream a Bunch of James Bond Movies for Free on YouTube
Shaken? Stirred? No,no: streamed.
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Sunday's Best Deals: Samsung 55-Inch 4K TV, Instant Pot Duo Nova, Klairs Skincare Essentials, FIFA 21, Madden 21, UFC 4, and More
A Samsung 55-inch LED 4K UHD Smart Tizen TV and an Instant Pot Duo Nova lead Sunday’s best deals.
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Robert Rodriguez Wasn't the First Choice to Direct Last Week's Episode of The Mandalorian
Robert Rodriguez, as a creator, seems a natural fit for Chapter 14 of The Mandalorian, which premiered this past Thursday on Disney Plus. After all, few people do high action and character work better than Rodriguez, and he’s more than a little experienced with big-budget filmmaking. And yet, apparently, it was sort…
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2020 Has Been One Godawful Year, but Not for OnlyFans
While I realize that the world won’t magically reset when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, I’m still counting down the days until this cursed year is over. I mean, the universe has to be running out of ammo to hit us with, right? So far 2020's seen an ongoing global pandemic, the spread of murder hornets, …
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Ava DuVernay Is Working With the CW to Adapt DC's Naomi
As introduced in2019's Naomi: Season One, Naomi McDuffieis a normal enough girl. Until she discovers her magic powers. And that she’sfrom an alternate Earth. You know, it happens.
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Get a Humidifier You Can Fill From the Top or Control via Wi-Fi for Just $40
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Elon Musk Is Reportedly Heading to Texas for a Tax Break
Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is reportedly gearing up to permanently decamp to Texas in an effort to take advantage of the Lone Star State’s lack of personal income taxes.
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The First Impressions of Wonder Woman 1984 Are In, and It Sounds Like a Fitting Sequel and '80s Tribute
Wonder Woman 1984comes out soon, and critics recently got their first preview screening. Which means we’ve got reactions. The film, a sequel to Wonder Woman, is Patty Jenkins’s love letter to the 1980s, starring Pedro Pascal as Max Lord and Kristen Wiig as Cheetah alongside returning players Gal Gadot and Chris Pine.
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Bank Workers Could Get the Covid-19 Vaccine Ahead of Most Americans
Bank tellers may get to skip the line to receive the covid-19 vaccine once it becomes available, jumping ahead of those who are at an increased risk for severe symptoms from the virus such as people 65 and older or who have preexisting conditions.
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Joe Makes an Awkward Introduction in New Soul Clip
Joe Gardner, theprotagonist of Soul, wants one thing: tobe a successful jazz musician. He might just get there. But it’s going to berough going.
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Saturday's Best Deals: LG NanoCell 65-Inch Smart 4K TV, Aiper HEPA Air
An LG 65-inch NanoCell 4K smart TV and discounts on Korean beauty brand Madeca Derma products lead Saturday’s best deals.
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The Batman's Matt Reeves Will Co-Produce Switchboard, a 1940s-Set Horror Movie
Unfortunately, it’s not a remake of Witchboard, which would be both hilarious and amazing, but Switchboard will put a period spin on one of horror’s most well-worn tropes: the killer who loves talking on the phone almost as much as he loves taking lives.
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More Than 1,500 Google Employees Sign Petition Condemning Firing of Black AI Ethicist Timnit Gebru
More than 1,500 Google employees and some 2,000 academic, industry, and civil society supporters have signed a petition protesting the termination of Timnit Gebru, a Black scientist and artificial intelligence ethicist who claims that she was fired by Google after she raised concerns about the company’s diversity…
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HBO Max Owner Reportedly Plans to Launch Two More Streaming Services—With Ads
Higher-ups at WarnerMedia are purportedly considering adding two new streaming services: one a free offering for its entertainment cable channel programs and the other a subscription-based CNN spin-off of sorts, the Information reported Friday.
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Activision Blizzard Suing Netflix Over Poached Exec
For those of you who love corporate beef, here’s a whopper: Activision Blizzard is suing Netflix. As reported by Deadline, Netflix poached a top Activision exec, chief financial officer Spencer Neumann, before his contract expired. In response, Activision filed suit in the Superior Court of California earlier today.
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Hyundai Motors Reportedly Bought Boston Dynamics For Almost $1 Billion
What to do with Boston Dynamics? That’s seemingly the question a few companies have been unable to answer because for the third time in seven years the robotics research company has a new owner as The Korea Economic Daily is reporting that Hyundai Motors has spent almost $1 billion dollars to buy the R&D company from…
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Hackers Illegally Accessed Pfizer's Preliminary Vaccine Data
A cyberattack on servers belonging to the European Medicines Agency—the EU regulatory body responsible COVID-19 vaccine approval—has resulted in the “unlawful access” of internal documents detailing the development of a potential COVID-19 vaccine.
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New Report Suggests FCC Massively Overstated Gigabit Coverage in U.S.
A report released today by BroadbandNow reveals the FCC grossly overreported the availability of gigabit internet in the U.S. As of 2020, the FCC reported gigabit internet was available to 84% of Americans, up from just 4% in 2016. But according to BroadbandNow, those numbers are closer to 56% in 2020, up from 2.4% in…
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The Muppet Christmas Carol's 'Lost' Song Will Be Recovered for Its 4K Remaster
Perhaps the true meaning of the season is getting to watch the best Christmas movie as it was always intended to be.
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Scientists Are Investigating How the Quiet Of Covid-19 Affects the Ocean
The impact of covid-19 lockdowns on wildlife living on land has been clear, but emerging research shows the quiet has extended to the oceans, too.
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Pantone's Colors of the Year, Ranked
Pantone has announced its Color of the Year for 2021. Typically, we only get one annual champion, but the purveyor of proprietary color spaces decided that 2021 deserves two colors because 2020 was the worst.
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Microsoft Is Bringing Its Cloud Gaming Platform to PCs and iOS Next Spring
Microsoft announced in a blog post this morning that its cloud gaming platform with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is coming to iOS and PC in spring 2021.
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The 10 Best Deals of December 9, 2020
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Sharp's New Alexa-Powered Microwave Is Even More Confusing Than Amazon's
When Amazon released a cheap microwave with built-in Alexa integration, most of us scratched our heads for a second and then quickly moved on. But now Sharp has created its own microwave powered by Amazon’s digital assistant, and somehow it’s even more confounding than the original.
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The Best Animated Series of 2020
While live-action productions were dealt a significant blow this year by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, the animation industry was in a prime position to step up to the plate and tell some of 2020's most riveting stories. Here are the ones that transported the io9 staff to far-off worlds and dimensions this year.
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Watch Live: SpaceX Tries Again to Launch a Starship Prototype to High Altitude [Update: It Exploded]
Update 6:15 p.m. ET: The Starship prototype launched and ascended to high altitude, but it crashed while attempting the landing, creating a massive fireball. The vehicle was absolutely obliterated in the explosion. The launch seemed to be going well at first, but it appears that one of the rocket’s three Raptor…
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Facebook Continues To Call The Kettle Black
On the same Wednesday that Facebook is reportedly facing a major state-led suit over its anticompetitive practices, the company seems to be falling back on the tried-and-true tactic of pointing at Apple instead.
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FTC and 48 Attorneys General Sue to Break Up Facebook
Dozens of attorney generals, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, filed two separate lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday which attempt to break the social media giant into its component parts: specifically, the divestiture of WhatsApp and Instagram.
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Canada Is Latest to Approve Covid-19 Vaccine—and U.S. Is Likely Next
On Wednesday, Canada became the third country in the world to grant approval for Pfizer and BioNTech’s covid-19 vaccine. The decision comes just as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to make its own call this week, following a meeting of independent experts on Thursday who will recommend whether or not …
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Get Wasteland 3 for $30 and Enjoy Some Good Old Fashioned Dystopian Action
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Gee, Thanks A Lot YouTube
YouTube has announced that it’ll finally start removing baseless election fraud claims, over a month after virtually every major news outlet called the election for Joe Biden and the Trump camp lost or withdrew from over 30 election-related lawsuits. According to YouTube, election results were only certain after…
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It's Totally Fine to Beg Trump Supporters to Die for Him, Twitter Says
Donald Trump has spent the weeks since his humiliating loss in the Nov. 3 presidential elections to Democrat Joe Biden lying about the outcome and urging various Republican governors and GOP-controlled state legislatures to burn democracy to the ground and cast their electoral votes for him instead. Since he’s had…
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Cobra Kai Season 3 Trailer Reveals Old Favorites and New Problems
The glory of love is alive and well in the world of Cobra Kai. After a long delay where the show went from YouTube to Netflix and became a fan favorite all over again, the first trailer for the highly anticipated third season is here. And in it, we see the return of two familiar faces from a certain international…
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Today's Your Last Day to Save $10 on Cyberpunk 2077 When You Preorder on PlayStation 4
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Ryan Zinke Unveils Official Portrait Featuring National Monument He Shrunk
It’s portrait season in Washington, DC. The latest Trump official to get the official portrait treatment is scandal-plagued former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. He unveiled his official portrait (as well as an unofficial joke one) that will serve as a reminder of his greatest accomplishment during his tenure:…
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Super Mario Manga Mania’s English Translation Will Take You on a Wild World Tour
Each time Mario and Luigi journey off for the Mushroom Kingdom—or any one of the other countless worlds found within Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. franchise—the pair of titular brothers get down to the nitty, gritty business of protecting the innocent from those who would do them harm. The plumbers also happen to look…
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Brighten Up Your Pandemic Life With One of Google Search’s 50 New AR A
Ever since I was young, I’ve always been a cat fan (although dogs are lovely, too). Nonetheless, my current landlord doesn’t allow me to have a cat, so I just settle for following cute ones on Instagram. Considering that I live alone, there have been many times during the pandemic where I’ve thought, “Wouldn’t this be…
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Disney Will Stop Photoshopping Face Masks Onto Maskless Guests On Rides
Disney World will reportedly stop “enhancing” on-ride photos by pasting digital face masks onto maskless park guests. And no, you aren’t reading the Onion. It’s 2020, baby, where reality is so much of a joke at this point that headlines and punchlines are literally synonymous.
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Virgin Galactic Aborts New Mexico Launch Because of Rocket Motor Issues
Nearly two years after its last flight, Virgin Galactic—the space tourism venture founded by Richard Branson, another billionaire who loves space—aborted the scheduled test launch of its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into suborbital space today because of an issue with its rocket motor.
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Twitter Briefly Grows a Spine, Says It Was an Accident
What many might have hailed as Twitter setting an example by restricting engagement with President Donald Trump’s misleading and incredulous tweets about his election loss was, according to the company, an accident. Hold your fanfare. The company has since reversed course, fully restored engagement to Trump’s tweets,…
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Make Your Latte or Cappuccino Habit a Little Friendlier on Your Wallet With a $190 Deluxe Keurig Coffee Maker
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This Marceline and Princess Bubblegum Relationship Recap Is the Wholesome Gay Content Your Weekend Needs
Look at them. They’re gay. (Well, Princess Bubblegum is bi, if we’re being exact.) Good for them.
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Jaimie Alexander Is Finally Back as Sif in Thor: Love and Thunder
One knock against Thor: Ragnarok is that it was Sif-less, a lack that fans of Jaimie Alexander’s Asgardian warrior took sharp note of. Fortunately, Thor: Love and Thunder won’t be nearly so bereft.
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All the Star Wars, Marvel, and Other Disney News You Might Have Missed
Usually, investor calls are dry, numbers-heavy business meetings intended for people far richer than you or I. But because It’s Capitalism, yesterday Disney turned its 2020 Investor Day call into something that would’ve been right at home screamed from the rooftops of San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H. Here’s all the…
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Saturday's Best Deals: Alienware Peripherals, Sharp AQUOS 70" 4K TV, Keurig Cappuccino & Latte Maker, Rechargeable Batteries, Infrared Thermometer, and More
A sale on Alienware peripherals and a 70-inch 4K Sharp AQUOS tv lead Saturday’s best deals.
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Zodiac Killer's Cipher Cracked by Amateur Codebreakers More Than 50 Years Later
A team of amateur codebreakers has reportedly cracked the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher, solving a mystery that’s had law enforcement stumped for more than 50 years.
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The FDA Has Authorized Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization to the covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, making it the first vaccine against the viral pandemic that will reach the American public. The decision was expected and came soon after a group of outside experts assembled by…
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Oracle Ditches Silicon Valley for Austin, Texas
Oracle is relocating its California-based headquarters to Austin, Texas, making it the latest tech company to decamp from Silicon Valley.
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Candles Recalled For Presenting Fire Hazard
Candles, an ancient technology that has contained fire since time immemorial so that we may safely fill our dwellings with light and warmth, have been recalled by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) as fire hazards.
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Matt Smith and Olivia Cooke Join Game of Thrones Prequel House of the Dragon
This dance (of the dragons) card is starting to fill up. Ready Player One’s Olivia Cooke, Doctor Who’s Matt Smith, and Truth Seekers’ Emma D’Arcy have signed onto HBO’s next journey into Westeros: House of the Dragon. It’s about the fall of Targaryen empire, which led to the rise of the Mother of Dragons.
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Turns Out Pretty Much Anyone Can Claim to Be a Black-Owned Business on Uber Eats
In June, amid nationwide protests against police racism and brutality set off by the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd, Uber Eats released a feature intended to signify solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement: Tools to “Support Black-owned restaurants” by ordering from them without a delivery fee.
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The Top New Features to Try Out in macOS Big Sur
I know macOS Big Sur has been available to install for about a month now, but I also know that there are plenty of Mac users who have dismissed that update button every day for weeks. That’s understandable: While macOS Big Sur has been stable for me, some have reported issues with it.
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This Hideously Expensive Smart Bed Cured My Back Pain
In the last few years, tech companies have sunk an incredible amount of time, money, and hype into solving sleep. Some companies offer to help you track your sleep with wearables, some aim to help you sleep more soundly with meditation services or devices, and others have developed products that will cure your…
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The Mandalorian Tempers High Action With Some Rewarding Character Work
After Moff Gideon kidnapped Grogu (Baby Yoda), the Mandalorian and his newfound crew had a singular goal: Find the Child and get him back. That journey took them to a few new places, with a few familiar faces, and through some tense, emotional moments that got to the core of Star Wars as we know it.
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Volunteers Are Racing to Save Endangered Sea Turtles Stunned by the Cold
For decades, volunteers in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts have spent November and December trekking up and down the area’s beaches during high tide. They have a very important mission: finding stranded sea turtles that are so cold they can barely move, leaving them essentially defenseless on the shore.
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Dune Director Slams Warner Bros. for HBO Max Release, Warns It May Doo
Fear might be the mind killer, but streaming could wind up killing Dune itself. Director Denis Villeneuve is speaking out against WarnerMedia’s recent decision to give all of next year’s movies simultaneous releases on HBO Max, warning that it could mean the end of the franchise before it’s even begun.
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Someone Managed to Overclock a 14-Year-Old Intel Processor to 8.36 GHz
There’s overclocking, and then there’s overclocking. Sure, there’s a certain satisfaction in overclocking a brand new AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, but that seems like child’s play compared to what one overclocker was able to do with a 14-year-old Intel processor. According to TechSpot, HWBot.org user ivanqu0208 took an Intel…
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The 10 Best Deals of December 11, 2020
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Have You Ever Heard of This App by Apple? Well, It’s Dying
While Google launches and discontinues products at a rate that no one can keep up with, Apple’s modern track record for sticking with its bets is virtually unparalleled among its peers. But nothing lasts forever, and this week brought the beginning of the end for Music Memos.
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A New Windows Insider Build Lets ARM PCs Emulate x64 Like Apple's Rosetta 2
Yesterday, Microsoft announced it released the first preview of x64 emulation for ARM64 devices on Windows 10 to users enrolled in the Windows Insider Program. The new feature is a part of Build 21277 (RS_PRERELEASE), which also includes updates to emojis, redesigned touch keyboard, voice typing, and theme-aware…
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Members of Congress to Receive Covid-19 Vaccine While Debating How Man
Members of Congress will be able to get vaccinated for covid-19 in the first round of inoculations currently being rolled out by Pfizer and BioNTech, according to the physician to Congress and a new report from Reuters. Meanwhile, those same members of Congress are still debating whether to give Americans $600 each in…
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Twitter Starts Testing Spaces, Its 'Dinner Party'-Like Voice Chat Rooms
The social media company that brought you the Fleet began testing its take on audio-0nly chat rooms on Thursday. In a thread announcing the private beta tests, Twitter said a small group of users would be able to create Spaces, as the feature is now being called, and invite any of their followers or other Twitter…
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TikTok Is Reportedly Booting Off OnlyFans Creators and Sex Workers
OnlyFans creators and sex workers have seen TikTok delete their accounts en masse in recent months for violating the platforms sex and nudity policies, Rolling Stone reports. Of the half a dozen creators the outlet spoke with, all of them said their videos didn’t violate TikTok’s policies and believe they were banned…
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Yes, Donald Trump Had a Twitter Password Any Rube Could Guess, Netherlands Authorities Say
Twitter and the White House have both denied reports that a Dutch security researcher was able to log into Donald Trump’s infamous Twitter account with the impossibly easy to guess password “MAGA2020!” But it turns out that really did happen, at least according to Dutch prosecutors.
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Herman Miller's 'Experiential Concept Store' Has To Be the Classiest Place on Earth to Buy a Gaming Chair
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How Google Ruined the Internet (According to Texas)
Among all of the antitrust probes facing Google right now, the case dropped on Wednesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stands out for a few reasons. First, it focuses on the tech giant’s dominance in digital ads, rather than focusing on search the way that the Justice Department and more than 30 states have in…
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Facebook Repays News Industry It Destroyed With Print Ads Begging You to Hate Apple
Facebook has taken out its second round of full-page ads in two days seeking to have Apple... not roll out a privacy update or something.
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The Best 4K HDR Movies to Show off Your New TV
Top Pick: The Matrix (4K UHD Blu-ray) | $25 | Amazon
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Well, Well, Well, Tim Cook and Craig Federighi Must Testify in Epic Case
Yes, Apple and Epic are still in a legal battle over in-app transactions in Fortnite. And apparently, a judge has now ordered both Apple CEO Tim Cook and Craig Federighi, Apple’s perfectly coiffed senior vice president of software engineering, to testify.
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The Pop Culture Highlights and Lowlights of 2020
In a year full of all kinds of bad real-world news, pop culture still managed to poke its head up periodically to remind us that not everything sucks. Of course, this being 2020, that same realm also managed to leave a few steaming piles for us to step in, too. Here are our picks for the year’s highlights and…
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Streamers Flabbergasted After Twitch Partially Bans The Word 'Simp'
It’s been yet another long 24 hours for Twitch—the latest in what’s shaped up to be an agonizingly long year for the company (and also everybody on Earth). Yesterday afternoon, Twitch held a live town hall with the goal of illuminating recent policy changes and features around DMCAs, sexual harassment, ads, and other…
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Twitter Is Relaunching its Troubled Verification Process After a 3 Year Hiatus
After suspending the program back in 2017, today Twitter announced that it’s bringing back its verification process supported by an updated policy beginning next month in January 2021.
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Double-Decker Bento Box Rice Cooker Promises Hot and Fresh Work Lunches That Rival Take Out
Back in March, when working at an office wasn’t something we all took for granted, we marveled at Thanko’s bento box rice cooker that made a single serving of rice at a time. But, realizing that eating nothing but rice every day for lunch would get tiring, Thanko’s released an updated double-decker version of the…
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The Best Apple-ish Gear for Apple Haters
Apple products weren’t exactly allowed in my house growing up. My school had a lab filled with Apple computers, so I got exposed to the basic ins and outs of macOS. But inside my home it was Microsoft-Microsoft-Microsoft. My dad was a computer hardware engineer, and he worked with Windows, so it’s not surprising.
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Jeremy Bulloch, the Man Behind Boba Fett, Has Died
The first man to embody the most notorious Bounty Hunter in Star Wars history, influencing the franchise’s direction even to this very day, has passed away at 75.
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State AGs Accuse Google of Abusing Its Monopoly on Search in Third Antitrust Suit
We’ve waited years to see antitrust action taken against Google, and now there’s too much to keep up with. On Thursday, more than 30 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the search giant claiming that its search giant-ness has become too giant.
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The 10 Best Deals of December 17, 2020
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Cozy Lo-Fi Winter Games to Study and Relax To
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Put a Virtual Baby Grogu in Your Home
If you haven’t already brought Baby Yoda/Grogu/The Child into your home for the holidays—whether in the form of a giant stuffed animal, a walking toy, or just obsessive rewatchings of The Mandalorian—there is another... option (to borrow Yoda’s dramatic phrasing from Return of the Jedi): Use your Android phone to drop…
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The Federal Government Spends More on Fire Prevention in Rich, White Neighborhoods
This year, California’s record-breaking fires caused untold suffering and destruction, and future wildfire seasons are expected to be even worse. New findings show that poorer communities of color aren’t receiving as much funding to prepare for future fires as their wealthier, white counterparts.
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Giancarlo Esposito's 10 Best Genre Roles (So Far)
Giancarlo Esposito is having a moment. The acclaimed television and film actor has recently starred in some of the biggest franchises around, including The Mandalorian, The Boys, and Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. But with almost 200 acting credits to his name, there’s so much more to love.
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Parler Forced Offline After Amazon Pulls Hosting Services
Parler has gone offline after Amazon made good on its promise to drop the controversial social media site from its AWS web hosting services. Amazon pulled the plug at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, saying that Parler wasn’t properly moderating its content and the violence being called for on the site posed “a very real risk…
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You Can Now Stalk Yourself With Google Maps' 2020 Timeline Update
It’s no secret that Google, as well as other big tech companies, know a lot about you. Probably a lot more than you think they do. And while in general that’s really creepy, sometimes it can briefly produce cool results, before going back to being creepy. Case in point: You can start off the year by stalking yourself…
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Dropped by Virtually 'Every Vendor,' Parler Is Scrambling to Find a New Safe Space Online
Parler is learning a hard lesson this week that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.
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New Report Suggests Hyundai’s Big Mouth Did Not Kill Potential Partnership With Apple—Yet
Earlier this week, we theorized that Hyundai’s big mouth could get it kicked out of the running of working on a self-driving car with Apple, given that the latter deplores leaks. Days later, though, it appears the Korean automaker has not burned all bridges—yet.
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The HP Envy 14 Sports a Taller Display and Webcam Shutter to Better Balance Work and Play
As the line between home and work continues to blur, HP has revamped its mainstream Envy 14 laptop with a fresh new design, which includes a taller display, a physical webcam shutter, and faster components to better balance play and productivity.
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Newborn Megalodons Were Larger Than Adult Humans and Probably Ate Their Siblings
Picture this: It’s about 20 million years ago, and you’re inside the giant womb of an extremely pregnant Otodus megalodon. Everything’s hunky-dory—some baby sharks have already hatched, and others are on the way. But before any more of those egg-bound brethren can emerge, one of the baby sharks wriggles over and…
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Spain’s Worst Snowstorm in Decades Collapses Parts of the Country
Snow has the bad habit of completely collapsing regions that aren’t used to experiencing it. In this case, Storm Filomena slammed into Spain and blanketed many of its regions, including its capital, with more snow than they had seen in decades.
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This Video Explains the Story Behind Every Lightsaber Luke Skywalker Ever Wielded
In the movies, Luke Skywalker has only ever had the two lightsabers. In other canon materials, it’s a bit more complicated. Star Wars Explained can, uh, explain.
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Police Use of Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech Spiked After Capitol Raid
Clearview AI’s controversial facial-recognition app has seen a spike in use as police track down the pro-Trump insurgents who descended on the Capitol on Wednesday. With so many of those idiots snapping selfies and livestreaming the raid as if it was a school field trip, I’m surprised police even needed the help.
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Watch the Stars of Batwoman Season 2 Describe the New Season in One Word
The second season of Batwomanwill represent a soft reboot for the series, a beginning of a rebuilding effort after the first star, Ruby Rose, left the show. With Javicia Leslie as the new Batwoman, the show is geared up to begin anew. But what’s it going to be like?
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The Instagram Insurrection
The first inkling I had that something was very wrong on Wednesday was when my wife said, “Oh shit, is this real?” as we were en route to Trader Joe’s after spending a few hours on the cold, sun-drenched beaches of Long Island for a winter walk on our last day of a vacation. A friend had texted about the Capitol.
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DraftKings Now Allows Betting on Drone Races in Certain States
So far, 21st-century tech hasn’t quite lived up to all that sci-fi tropes promised. But while everyone may not have flying cars or their own holodeck yet, you can now bet on drone races from your phone in certain states, and I think that’s pretty dang futuristic.
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YouTube Kicks Steve Bannon’s War Room Podcast Off the Platform
Banning, it seems, is in this week. Google and Apple have kicked out social media app Parler from their app stores; Reddit has banned r/donaldtrump, the unofficial subreddit dedicated to President Donald Trump; and Twitter has banned the president himself, as well as other high-profile supporters of the QAnon…
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This Gorgeous Soul Art Tribute Was Made in Virtual Reality
This tribute to Disney and Pixar’s Soulis impressive, and even moreso when you find out how it was made.
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Mozilla Calls for Sites to Go Beyond Just Deplatforming Bigots
Online platforms are hastily cutting ties with President Donald Trump and his ilk after years of milquetoast responses to the hateful and violent rhetoric fomenting under their watch, and all it took was a deadly insurgency at the nation’s capital. However, Mozilla says deplatforming doesn’t go far enough and has…
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This Video Goes Behind-the-Scenes on Star Trek: Discovery's Climactic Season 3 Finale
That was a big one, wasn’t it?
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Early WandaVision Impressions Suggest the Marvel Series Is as Good as
Critics have seen the first three episodes of WandaVision, the upcoming Marvel Studios Disney+ series starring Scarlet Witch and the Vision as they take on their greatest challenge yet: the sitcom. Which means we’ve got impressions.
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Marvel's Moon Knight Series Has 2 New Directors
Oscar Isaac is attached to star in Disney’s upcoming Moon Knightseries. Now, the project has added two additional directors to its lineup. A TV show usually needs more than one, you know.
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A water flosser and a 65-inch Westinghouse Roku 4K tv lead Saturday’s best deals.
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Meteorites From the Beginning of the Solar System May Have Carried Water Quite Recently
Meteorites that formed in the earliest days of the solar system may contain liquid water, according to new research, lending credence to the theory that meteorites brought water and other precursors for life to our planet billions of years ago.
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Bumble Reactivates Political Filter That Women Used to Catfish and Report Capitol Rioters
Man, finding love sure is hard when you’re a domestic terrorist wanted for treason.
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Godzilla vs. Kong Is Hitting Streaming a Bit Earlier Than Expected
These big friends are ready to fight. They can’t wait.
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HBO Has Tapped a Russian Indie Director for The Last of Us's Pilot
Another director joins the crew. Considering the subject matter, it seems like he’ll fit right in.
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FAA Authorizes First Commercial Smart Drone Flights
The Federal Aviation Administration greenlit American Robotics this week to become the first company to operate smart drones without needing on-site pilots or spotters, the company announced Friday.
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Facebook Bans Creation of New Events Near Federal and State Houses Leading Up to Inauguration
To head off a potential encore of last week’s violent insurrection, Facebook is blocking users from creating new Facebook events in the vicinity of the White House, the U.S. Capitol building, and any state capitol buildings through President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. It’s also restricting features for…
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The Best New-Ish Movies You Have To Watch This Month
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The iPhone 13 Might Sport an In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor, Which Sure Would Be Useful Right Now
Apple is reportedly testing an in-screen fingerprint reader, one of the key upgrades the company has planned for this year’s iPhones, according to Bloomberg.
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Trump Administration Clears Way for Mining Company to Take Over Sacred Indigenous Land
After more than 15 years of protest by tribal organizations, local communities, and environmental groups across the country from Arizona to Washington, DC, an extended battle over a valuable parcel of land in central Arizona entered a new phase. On Friday, the Forest Service released the final environmental impact…
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Iranian Spying Campaign Sent Holiday Greetings Riddled with Malware
What did you ask for over the holidays? Surely not an infestation of foreign spies in your phone or laptop, but that’s the present you would’ve received had you been foolish enough to click on some very dodgy texts and emails swirling around the internet late last year.
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Amazon Warehouse Employees in Alabama Will Vote to Unionize
Amazon workers might make a breakthrough at a company that’s done everything it can to trample organized labor. Nearly 6,000 employees at a Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center will soon be able to vote on whether to unionize; mail-in ballots are to be submitted by March 29, and the National Labor Relations Board…
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Apple Reportedly Planning to Redesign the iMac at Long Last
The Apple rumor mill sure is churning fast and furious today.
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Report: Google About to Face Its Third State Antitrust Suit, This Time Over Play Store
Google is reportedly about to face its third antitrust lawsuit from state attorneys general–this time challenging its stranglehold on the Play Store, the default app portal for hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.
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Apple Is Reportedly Cracking Down on App Sideloading on M1 Macs
Well, that was fun while it lasted.
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After Failing to Tweet Through It, WhatsApp Delays Privacy Policy Updates
After trying—and failing—to combat public outrage using a series of ostensibly well-intentioned tweets, WhatsApp announced on Friday that it would postpone its plans to implement a spate of controversial changes to its privacy policy.
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The Stand-Out Laptops of CES 2021
It was definitely strange not being able to hold, type on, or touch the brand new laptop screens at CES as we would have in pre-covid times. There’s only so much you can tell about a product you only see or read about online, so that tangibility is an absolute necessity to figuring out what a laptop is all about.…
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The Legend Of PB Blaster
My dad swore by PB Blaster, and later I would too.
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The Sex Toy Industry Fought for Normalcy at the All Digital CES 2021
Last year was a watershed moment for sex tech. For the first time in CES’s decades-long history, the category wasn’t banished to the dark corners of the showroom floor. This was after a contentious 2019, when the Consumer Tech Association (CTA) revoked an award from Lora DiCarlo’s Osé sex toy for being “immoral,…
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The 10 Best Deals of January 15, 2021
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Mortal Kombat's Fascination With Blood Wants to Go Beyond Gory Fatalities
Although there’ll be plenty of those too, it seems.
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Paul Feig, Charlize Theron, and Kerry Washington Are Taking Us to The
Paul Feig continues on his personal mission to give us gifts in the form of powerful lady team-ups. This time, it’s Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron playing best friends and the Deans of The School of Good and Evil.
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Google Fires Another Top Researcher on Its AI Ethics Team
Google has fired another top artificial intelligence researcher, Margaret Mitchell, in the latest escalation of internal tensions at the company following December’s controversial ouster of Timnit Gebru, a Black AI ethicist. As if the PR fire with Google’s AI ethics team didn’t have enough fuel already.
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Cut the Cord on Cleaning: Dyson's V7 Allergy HEPA Cordless Vacuum Is Down to $200 at Newegg
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J.J. Abrams' Subject to Change Will Be a 'Mind- and Reality-Bending' New Series
A new J.J. Abrams-created thriller is coming to HBO Max. No, not that one, another one.
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The Louisiana City Struck by Two Hurricanes Last Year Is Suffering in This Week's Deep Freeze
On Monday night, the temperature in Lake Charles, Louisiana dipped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-10 degrees Celsius), more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit (16.7 degrees Celsius) below average. Hours later, just before the sun rose on Tuesday morning, the city’s power supply abruptly shut off, taking the six local water…
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An Artist Used a Drone to Photograph Rarely Seen ICE Detention Centers
Unfortunately, it’s not hard to find information about the disturbing, unhealthy, and inhumane conditions that immigrants face in ICE detention centers, many of which are privately-owned. It is, however, more complicated to find photos of these detention centers. Access to photographers is often not on the table.
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Saturday's Best Deals: Compustar 2-Way Remote Start Kit, Dyson V7 Allergy, Gooloo Car Jump Starter, Kasa Smart Plugs, Corsair Virtuoso Headset, and More
A 2-way remote start system and a case of Pedroncelli rosé lead Saturday’s best deals.
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Remastered Nyan Cat Gif Sold for the Equivalent of $587,000 in a Crypto Art Auction
Nyan Cat is turning 10 years old in April (feel old yet?), and to celebrate the anniversary of one of the internet’s most wholesome memes, the artist behind the gif, Chris Torres, put a newly remastered version up for auction. On Friday, the piece sold for 300 Ether on the crypto art platform Foundation, which…
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The Razer Kishi Is a Godsend for Cloud Gaming, at Least Where It’s Supported
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Plex Is Experimenting With Apple TV App Integration
Plex appears to be exploring an integration with Apple’s streaming app.
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Apple Wants Valve To Hand Over A Bunch Of Steam Info For Its Fight With Epic
Epic Games’ legal battle against Apple over App Store fees continues to drag on into ever weirder and more esoteric fronts. The latest development? Apple is actively trying to subpoena years of in-depth sales information from Valve about all of the games listed on Steam, in order to show that Epic has plenty of other…
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Gizmodo Dot Com Should Pay For Me To Buy An Aquarium
If you’re anything like me, the last year of social distancing and lockdowns has not been good for your social life, hobbies, or generally doing interesting things at all. Going to movies, restaurants, bars, concerts, or events are for the most part non-starters; parties and other social gatherings involving more…
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The Flu Season That Wasn’t
This winter has been a complete nightmare for Americans, thanks to the raging covid-19 pandemic. But new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to show one bright spot: The flu has been suppressed to some of the lowest levels on record. It’s likely that the interventions meant to slow the…
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WandaVision Just Gave Us 2 Very Different Origin Stories
Just as WandaVision’s stakes have grown—both literally and metaphorically— the show’s begun answering of some its most mysterious questions with revelations that have only made it that much more difficult to parse what the show’s building to. “Breaking the Fourth Wall,” WandaVision’s seventh episode, lives up to its…
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Here's What's Next for Perseverance Rover's Journey on Mars
NASA has a new toy to play with on Mars, but the space agency has some important work to do before the Perseverance rover is ready to start rolling through its new stomping grounds.
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The 10 Best Deals of February 19, 2021
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Comcast Graciously Drops Data Caps, but Only for Northeast Customers, Until 2022
Comcast has once again decided to cut some of its customers a break with their data caps, Ars Technica reports. Facing ever-increasing pressure from customers and lawmakers, the internet service provider has decided to not enforce data cap overage fees on its Northeast customers until 2022.
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Vitamin D Supplements Don't Seem to Help People Sick With Covid-19
The results of a new clinical trial suggest that vitamin D supplements don’t help people hospitalized with moderate to severe covid-19. Elsewhere, a controversial and preliminary paper that had suggested vitamin D did offer a benefit has now been pulled by the Lancet due to “concerns” over the research design.
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The 60-Year Evolution of Psycho's Norman Bates
When most people think of Psycho, they think of Alfred Hitchcock’s direction, Bernard Herrman’s shrieking score, and Anthony Perkins’ vulnerable yet terrifying performance as Norman Bates. They probably don’t immediately think “horror franchise,” but Psycho did turn into one over the years.
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