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    Default 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
    Dyson V7 Allergy | $200 | 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
    Razer Kishi (iPhone) | $90 | Amazon
    Razer Kishi (Android) | $58 | Amazon
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    Gear Up and Get Your Game On in Today’s Best Xbox Deals
    Featured Deal: Save 10% on Xbox Gift Cards | Amazon
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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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    The Best Streaming Services, According To Our Readers
    Top Pick: Hulu | $6/Month After Free 1-Month Trial
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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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    Get a Refurbished Oculus Quest VR Headset for Just $199
    Oculus Quest (Refurbished) | $199 | Oculus

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    Default Norway to Decriminalize Personal Purchase, Possession, and Use Of All

    The government of Norway is moving to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all recreational drugs as well as their use, including everything from weed and coke to heroin, per Bloomberg.

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    Ransomware Gang Says It's Selling Data from Cyberattack That California DMV Warned About
    A ransomware gang called “Cuba” claims to be selling off data on the dark web belonging to Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS), a Seattle-based financial services and data management firm that suffered a bad ransomware attack in early February.
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    The Texas Think Tank Giving Cover for This Week’s Republican Wind Power Lies
    Almost exactly a month before Texas plunged into darkness, a panel convened in Austin to host a discussion about the superiority of the Texan electric grid. Called “Keep the Lights and Ventilators On: The Future of Texas’ Grid Reliability,” the panel was part of an annual conference held by the Texas Public Policy…
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    Default Microsoft: Chinese Hackers Have Been Exploiting Our Email Product to S

    In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, Exchange, in order to target American companies for data theft.
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    Uber Is Spinning Out Postmates' Robotics Division Into Its Own Company
    After acquiring the delivery startup Postmates for $2.65 billion last year, Uber Technologies announced on Tuesday that plans to spin the company’s robotics division out into a separate company: Serve Robotics.
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    Smoke 100 Cigarettes Right Now If You Want a Vaccine in North Carolina (Kidding, Please Don't)
    Have you smoked 100 cigarettes in your life? Can you take up, and kick, a pack-a-day habit in the next two weeks? Are you capable of looking a health professional square in the eye and lying? I do not condone these things, but if any of the above applies to you, and you are a North Carolina resident, you may be…
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    Japanese Billionaire Who Bought Tickets on SpaceX's Starship Announces 8 Seats Are Up for Grabs
    Yusaku Maezawa, the billionaire Japanese fashion CEO who paid big bucks to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the first seats on its Starship spacecraft for a trip round the Moon in 2023, recently teased a big announcement regarding the journey. Mystery solved: Maezawa proclaimed on Tuesday he is offering anyone interested a shot…
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    Cuttlefish Are Able to Wait for a Reward
    Perhaps the most unsung members of the cephalopods, a group that counts octopuses, squid, and nautiluses among their ranks, the cuttlefishes is left with a lot to prove. Recently, a crew of six common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) did just that, focusing their sinusoidal pupils and collective 48 arms and 12 tentacles…
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    'Frustrated' Facebook Oversight Board May Seek to Examine Its Algorithm (or 'Whatever')
    Facebook’s so-called “Supreme Court” is reportedly planning to seek the company’s permission to review the underlying machine-learning models that determine which posts are given the most prominence in each Facebook user’s feed.

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    The Long History of Godzilla's Cinematic Looks
    Godzilla isn’t just a monster movie icon, the king of all kaiju: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades he’s been stomping around the box office, Godzilla’s gone through more appearances than most cinematic legends ever could. From his earliest days to his upcoming smashup with Kong in Warner’s W…
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    The User Reviews for Puma's Gaming Shoes Are Peak Internet Trolling
    Last year, Puma entered the gaming apparel world with its $100 Active Gaming Footwear, which are basically fancy socks with a bit of added tread. But now the user reviews are in, and reader, they are priceless.

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    Amazon Rolls Back Icon That Was a Little Too, Uh, Below the Nose
    Amazon has quietly edited its app icon, possibly because users noticed that it resembled a smiling, err, uh... we’ll go with Charlie Chaplin, but we don’t really mean Charlie Chaplin.

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    The 10 Best Deals of March 2, 2021
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    Researchers Create Tiny, Cicada-Like Drones to Invade Small Spaces
    When we think of drones, we imagine massive, quadrotor machines that buzz around like manic seagulls. But what if your drown was small enough to accidentally swallow?
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    Software Workers at Glitch Get a Historic Union Contract
    Glitch, the software company behind Trello and Stack Overflow, now has a collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The news is extraordinary, not just because they claim to be the first software workers to have secured a collective bargaining agreement, but because the lead-up…
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    Crank up the Savings With $20 off Marshall's Acton Bluetooth Speaker
    Marshall Acton II | $230 | Best Buy
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    Mesh Is Microsoft’s Vision for Sending Your Hologram Back to the Office
    Today at Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, the tech giant revealed a bold glimpse at the future of digital collaboration with Mesh, a new mixed reality experience set to shape how people work and socialize online.

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    Raya’s Kelly Marie Tran and Adele Lim Talk Heroes and Much Needed Representation
    Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is a film that’s so different from most other movies of its kind, it didn’t even have to be fully formed for writers and actors to jump at the chance to be part of it.
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    Leaked Big Oil Docs Hint at Support for a Carbon Tax, but the Money Trail Tells a Different Story
    The #resistance is growing. The American Petroleum Institute, which is the nation’s largest lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, is planning to endorse levying a price on carbon pollution, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
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    Roku Makes a Big Investment in Better Ad Targeting
    On Monday, Roku announced a new “strategic alliance” with the market research giant Nielsen, that sees the connected TV giant swallow Nielsen’s Advanced Video Advertising business—and take on two major pieces of ad-targeting tech in the process.
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    A Tesla-Stan Showed Me What They Thought Was An Amazing Autopilot Save But Boy Is It Not
    You may remember last week when I wrote about an absurdly hyperbolic claim of alleged life-saving from a Tesla driving via its Level 2 semi-autonomous Autopilot system; this week, I have another one, but this one is a little different because it was brought to my attention by a Tesla-stan who was very sure this would…
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    NOAA Acknowledges the New Reality of Hurricane Season
    We’re one step closer to officially moving up hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center announced Tuesday that it would formally start issuing its hurricane season tropical weather outlooks on May 15 this year, bumping it up from the traditional start of hurricane season on June 1. The move comes after a recent…
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    What's the Best Camera for Home Security?
    There are plenty of uses for a camera system in your home. First and most importantly, they’re powerful tools for home security. That’s especially useful in the work from home era when we’re cooped up inside all day. If anything suspicious is happening, you’ll want to know right away. But home cameras can also be used…
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    An AI Was Taught to Play the World's Hardest Video Game and Still Couldn't Set a New Record
    What’s the hardest video game you’ve ever played? If it wasn’t QWOP then let me tell you right know that you don’t know how truly difficult a game can be. The deceptively simple running game is so challenging to master that even an AI trained using machine learning still only mustered a top 10 score instead of…
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    Now That WandaVision's Said the Scarlet Witch's Name, Here's What It Means
    In the final moments of WandaVision’s most recent episode, the name that’s been on everyone’s mind ever since Wanda Maximoff first showed up in Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s post-credits sequence was spoken.
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    Merck Will Help Johnson & Johnson Make Its New Covid-19 Vaccine With Biden Push
    Johnson & Johnson is getting some help to make their newly available covid-19 vaccine. On Tuesday, the White House confirmed that pharmaceutical company Merck has agreed to step in and produce some of J&J’s vaccines, in order to address a potential shortfall in supply. The single dose vaccine was authorized for…
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    Cloud Gaming's Missing Piece Is 5G
    When my brother and I were kids, our family took a lot of road trips. We loved the end destinations, but getting there was a major drag. We had Game Boy Colors and other handhelds, but we had already played the games we owned way too many times. Consoles and desktop PCs aren’t exactly portable, so we often got bored…
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    Default Sony Is Killing On-Demand Video in the Playstation Store as Streaming

    The streaming video business is booming, and while that makes it easier to access tons of content, for some companies like Sony, it makes it less attractive to manage digital storefronts, so at the end of August, Sony is disabling the ability to buy on-demand videos in the PlayStation Store.
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    Default Samsung's Upgraded Smart Tracker Can Help You Find Your Keys Using AR

    On Thursday, Samsung announced plans to launch an upgraded version of its Galaxy SmartTag smart trackers, the aptly named SmartTag+, globally on April 16 with a U.S. rollout expected sometime “in the coming weeks.”
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    Emails Show Amazon Pressured USPS to Install Mailbox at Alabama Warehouse Ahead of Union Vote
    Amazon reportedly pressured the United States Postal Service to expedite the installation of a mailbox outside of its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse ahead of a high-profile union vote, a move union supporters argue is a blatant tactic to intimidate employees.
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    Biden Orders DOJ to Come Up With a Way of Regulating Untraceable Gun Kits
    Joe Biden’s administration made its first move on gun control on Thursday, issuing executive actions for the Department of Justice to develop rules regarding so-called “ghost guns” and attachments that turn high-powered pistols into rifles, as well as write model legislation to keep volatile individuals away from…
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    MacBook and iPad Production Reportedly Hit by Component Shortage
    MacBook and iPad production have reportedly been impacted by an electronics component shortage.

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    The Best Office Chairs Under $300, According To Our Readers
    Top Pick: Nouhaus ErgoFlip | $230 | Amazon
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    Pinterest Makes Moves to Be the Least Hellacious Hellhole Online
    You might not think of Pinterest as being as creator-driven as some of its contemporaries, but that’s an image the company clearly wants to change. This week, the company rolled out a buffet of new creator-focused features in the moderation space, with a focus on playing nice.
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    Scientists Finally Figured Out a Way to Make Natural Cyan-Blue Food Coloring
    Using pigments found in red cabbage, an international team of scientists has created a natural blue food colorant that could eventually replace synthetic versions.

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    Leak of a Reported 500 Million Profiles Actually Very Boring, LinkedIn Assures Users
    Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles were leaked to the digital underworld, the world’s largest professional network seems to have suffered a similar fate. It would appear that, like Facebook, approximately 500 million scraped LinkedIn profiles are now being sold on…
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    11 Apple Watch Apps You Need to Install ASAP
    If you’ve finally splurged on a brand new Apple Watch (or been the lucky recipient of a very nice gift), you’re probably wondering: Now what? The Apple Watch comes with plenty of great built-in features, but you should hit the watch’s App Store to find third-party options that can make the device even more useful.

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    Goodbye, Asteroid Bennu, It's Been Real
    Yesterday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passed by the asteroid Bennu for the last time, ending its two-and-a-half-year relationship with the space rock. But OSIRIS-REx is still lingering in the asteroid’s vicinity, as if hesitant to embark on its roughly 200-million-mile return to Earth. That trip will begin in early…
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    Bolsonaro Oversaw a Connecticut-Sized Chunk of Deforestation in the Amazon Last Year
    Last year was a bad one around the world—but especially, it seems, in the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon rocketed up 17% last year, due in large part to increased logging, agriculture, mining, and wildfires, new data published Wednesday shows.
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    There's Now a Tiny Washing Machine to Clean Your Wax-Encrusted Earbuds
    If you’re ashamed to take your earbuds out of your ears in public because of what might be caked inside them and yet too disgusted to clean them at home, you better believe there’s a Kickstarter product to solve that. Imagine a washing machine miniaturized to sit on a desk that cleans earbuds instead of clothing.…
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    Spider-Man Movies Will Stream on Netflix First Thanks to New Sony Deal
    For the past few months, every studio has been figuring out how to balance theatrical movies with growing streaming services. Warner Bros. has one strategy, Disney another, and Paramount yet another. Now Sony has its own strategy and it’s got the biggest name recognition possible: Netflix.
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    The 10 Best Deals of April 8, 2021
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    Brazil's President Mocks Claims He's 'Genocidal' While Doing Nothing About Covid-19 Killing 4,000 People a Day
    Covid-19 is ravaging Brazil, but the country’s sweaty, fashy president, Jair Bolsonaro, refuses to do jack shit about it.

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    New Beginnings: The Sobering Journey To Restore My Game Boy Micro
    We all have our coping mechanisms. Last summer, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, mine was reliving my childhood by purchasing old models from Nintendo’s long-retired Game Boy lineup. While I’m not a particularly nostalgic person—hell, I didn’t even grow up with half the consoles I’ve collected over the…
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    This $47,500 Watch Contains a Tiny Moon
    Lunaphiles, rejoice! Arnold & Son, a luxury watchmaker that traces its origins back to the creator of the first ship’s clock, has released a unique watch that shows the phases of the moon in a unique way. The trick? They almost magically rotate a marble-sized moon right inside the movement, something that only a few…
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    General Grievous' Clone Wars Debut Remains a Masterclass—But Not for the Reason You Think
    Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars Clone Wars micro-series is remembered—deified even—for its action. It is all killer, no filler: the dialogue is spartan, its themes layered but simple. This is Star Wars and you are here for tight, explosive, bombastic action unlike anything the franchise had dared to dream of before,…
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    Early Humans Were Walking Around With Ape-Like Brains, Study Finds
    Humans can be distinguished from other apes in many ways, such as our general hairlessness, our upright bipedalism, and, of course, our powerful brains. But it turns out that our cognitive ability didn’t evolve as early as previously thought, according to new research by an international team of researchers.

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    Someone Found a Way to Make Video Calls Even Worse With a Realistic Robot Eye Webcam
    For anyone who doesn’t think a year spent trying to work and socialize through video calls could get any worse, behold the Eyecam: an anthropomorphic robotic webcam designed to look like a human eyeball that even blinks and looks around the room. Maybe telephone calls and email weren’t so bad after all?
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    Spotify Will Use Your Voice To Pummel You With Ads
    For just under a year now, we’ve been seeing Spotify make acquisition after acquisition and product update after product update in order to establish a foothold in the ad-targeting space. Now, the company’s embarking on a new dataset for this purpose: your voice.
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    Voyagers' Riff on Lord of the Flies in Space Is All Too Familiar
    Voyagers, the new sci-fi film from writer-director Neil Burger (Divergent), begins with an interesting twist on a tried and true premise: Earth is screwed. Disease, climate change, and more have doomed humanity unless it can find a new home. Which, luckily, it does. The problem is it’ll take 86 years to travel there.
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    Lenovo's Legion Phone Duel 2 Has 2 Fans, 2 Batteries, and One of the Weirdest Camera Bumps Available Today
    While I can’t confirm it, I suspect someone in Lenovo’s phone department is a big fan of Vin Diesel movies. Why? Well, it seems like Lenovo has just released a gaming phone inspired by 2 Fast 2 Furious.
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    Methane Has Never Risen This Fast in the Atmosphere
    There’s more methane in the atmosphere than any other time since record keeping began—and levels really spiked last year, despite the fact that we were all inside for most of the time.
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    Well Here’s Something You Don’t See Every Day
    We’re used to seeing stark images of rovers all alone on the Red Planet, but Perseverance brought a friend. NASA has just released a stunning photo showing two vehicles—the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter—in a single shot.
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    Default You Had One Job, Ghostbusters: Afterlife Cereal

    There’s something strange in the neighborhood grocery store’s cereal aisle. Something. And by “strange,” I mean bad.

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    The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sequel Has a Trio of New Directors
    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was so big, it needed three directors to bring it all together. Now we know the sequel will be the same, albeit this time with three new directors.
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    MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Told Us What He Would Do If Someone Said There Were Knives in His Pillows
    Many weird and wild things are coming out of Mike Lindell’s 48-hour bananathon livestream today—Ted Nugent, a crank call from a “reporter,” another crank call from “Donald Trump”—and somehow, I, too, was there. After a press request this morning to MyPillow, which has ignored my emails on two previous occasions, my…
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    Sasquatch Director Joshua Rofé on Chasing After Murder Mysteries and Monsters
    Filmmaker Joshua Rofé’s previous project, Lorena, offered an in-depth look at a true-crime story that grabbed headlines worldwide. His latest, Sasquatch, investigates a far more enigmatic case, though—as the title suggests—it does revolve around an American icon who’s both famous and famously elusive.

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    Blaze It: More Than 90% of Americans Support Legal Weed in New Poll
    On the eve of the coolest holiday of the year, here’s some relevant news: A recent poll suggests that more than 90% of Americans support cannabis legalization in one shape or another. The results come in the wake of several more states having legalized the drug in 2021, as well as a renewed push by some politicians to…
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    Louisiana Representative Boldly Offers to Make His State a ‘Sanctuary’ for Fossil Fuels
    A brave Louisiana legislator has a plan to protect poor, helpless fossil fuels by offering up his state as a safe space where they can be dug up, refined, and burned free from judgment (and government regulation).
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    Microsoft's Surface Laptop 4 Is Nearly Perfect
    The Surface Laptop 3 was a special machine due to Microsoft’s decision to put an AMD processor in it for the first time. But the company has outdone itself with the smart improvements it’s made to the Surface Laptop 4, which has a more compelling price and better battery life, all while keeping key features and design…
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    A Not-So-Brief History of The Flash Movie, Which Is Now Filming
    Today is a momentous day for fans of DC speedster the Flash. Six years, six months, and four days since the announcement that Ezra Miller would be playing the character in a Flash solo film, production has officially begun on that movie.

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    See New Footage of Ingenuity’s Remarkable Rise and Successful Landing
    Ten vertical feet and 40 seconds. Those are the two numbers that signify a horizon-bending shift in human ambition on Mars and beyond. With Ingenuity’s first hover on Mars early Monday morning, the proof-of-concept for future craft like it has been a resounding success.

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    Discord Walks Back iOS Block on NSFW Content
    Discord has walked back an earlier decision to ban NSFW servers completely from its iPhone and iPad apps.

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    Sony Changes Its Mind, PS Store Will Remain Open On PS3 and Vita
    About a month ago, Sony said it planned to shut down the PlayStation Store on some of its older systems later this summer. But today, Sony decided to reverse course and will now continue to support the PS Store on the PS3 and PS Vita for the foreseeable future.
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    Avatar: The Last Airbender Accidentally Trolled Its Fans Hard
    Last Friday, Nickelodeon announced a brand-new Avatar: The Last Airbender series! Then, uh, it kind of changed its mind.

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    The Future of Western Water Restrictions Is Here
    The West is dry and getting drier. Federal officials said this week that a major source of water for the Southwest could face some of its first official water restrictions later this year if water levels keep dropping.
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    9 Totally Nightmarish Imaginary Friends
    Drop Dead Fredwas released in May of 1991, meaning it’s now been shorthand for “imaginary friend out of control” for three decades. While not all imaginary friends in movies and TV are evil, a fair number of them (including these nine, who range from pesky to psychotic) do take advantage of their positions to make…
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    CBP Releases Video From Predator Drone Deployed Over George Floyd Protests
    Shortly after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd last year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flew a Predator drone over the city in an effort to surveil the ongoing protests against police brutality occurring there. The drone, which took off from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and flew in a…
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    In a Scientific First, Astronomers Capture a Complete View of Venus’s Orbital Dust Ring
    A band of dust that follows Venus along its entire orbital path has finally been viewed in full, thanks to a series of fortuitous maneuvers involving NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.

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    My Pillow Goblin Sues Dominion for $1.6 Billion, Swears His Pillows Aren't Filled With Knives
    Americans had prepared today (and also last week) for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to unleash his nebulous avant-garde invention, Frank: a social media platform billed as a cross between YouTube and Twitter with elements of newspapers and television, except with free speech. We’ll have to wait a little longer to see the…
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    For Those Who Hate Smartwatches, Fitbit Has a Fancy New Fitness Tracker
    The Fitbit Luxe, the company’s newest and most expensive band, can best be described as: fitness tracker, but make it fashion.
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    Xbox Games Will Be Playable On PC and iOS Starting Tomorrow—If You Score an Invite
    Xbox announced this morning its cloud gaming platform is nearly ready for Edge, Google Chrome, and Safari browsers. Starting tomorrow, the company will send out a limited number of invites to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in 22 countries to take part in the beta.

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    Marvel's Secret Invasion Is Being Invaded by Oscar Winner Olivia Colman
    How big is Marvel Studios these days? It can get Oscar-winning actors to appear not just in its movies, but on its streaming shows. Case in point: Olivia Colman, who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2019, is joining up with Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn for Secret Invasion, one of several upcoming Disney+…
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    Mortal Kombat's Stars Believe the Film's Diversity Gives It Added Resonance
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    Default Great, We Gave Covid-19 to Otters

    Otters have joined the ever-growing list of animals known to be susceptible to the coronavirus behind covid-19. Over the weekend, officials at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta reported that several of their otters became sick with respiratory symptoms and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Thankfully, all are expected to…
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    Default Too Bad, Zuck: Just 4% of U.S. iPhone Users Let Apps Track Them After

    Apple recently rolled out its highly anticipated App Tracking Transparency feature with iOS 14.5, which lets users decide whether apps track their activity for targeted advertising. Overwhelmingly, users seem happy to leave app tracking disabled. Just 4% of iPhone users in the U.S. have agreed to app tracking after…
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    Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and snazziest merchandise on the internet. This week, Star Wars: The Bad Batch descends on the world of Lego, while Star Trek beams itself back up to action figures, and... no one can withstand beach balls of this magnitude!? Check it out!

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    Default Elon Musk Backpedals on the Doge Hype 48 Hours Before SNL Appearance

    Elon Musk, richer than God and therefore a trusted source of investment advice for mortals, has pivoted now to offer some sober advice about the dangers of meme currencies. He provides previously unshared information: Doge’s only tangible value is hype, and HODLers mayreach price discovery and then realize they’ve…
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    Default Justin Trudeau Uses Fake Mac, Like a Commoner

    More news from Canada, nation of paradoxes, which printed the wrong leaf on its currency and where a mayor’s approval rating can rise after a world-famous crack scandal. This week’s mystery from the north: Justin Trudeau has been photographed masquerading as a Macbook user. Why, Canada?

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    Horror movies are scary, but things get downright terrifying when objects in real life seem to have horrifying powers. Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a 14,000 square foot mansion filled with actual artifacts, all of which have their own creepy stories attached. Whether you choose to believe them…
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    It’s reasonable to think of nuclear bombs in terms of their destructive capabilities; splitting the atom means obliteration for anything in the blast radius. But, as a team of geologists and physicists recently figured out, it also means creation: specifically, the transfiguration of ordinary crystalline structures…
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    One of the most popular YouTube videos of 2020 was from former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Mark Rober who attempted to build a squirrel-proof obstacle course. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, so a year later he’s trying again, and this time taking inspiration from movies like Mission Impossible and Ocean’s Eleven
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    Bill Gates Hoped Jeffrey Epstein Could Help Him Schmooze His Way to Nobel Peace Prize: Report
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    The 1983 vampire movie The Hunger didn’t exactly win over critics when it was first released, but since then it’s become a cult film for its stylish looks, its bisexual lead character, and its influence on goth culture. These are presumably three of the reasons Warner Bros. has decided to reboot the movie, with the…
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    Default John Ridley Will Pick Up the Black Panther Torch After Ta-Nehisi Coate

    While Ta-Nehisi Coates’ run on Marvel’s Black Panthersolo comic may be coming to an end just as the writer turns his sights to the future of DC’s Superman, the Wakandan King’s story is anything but over.
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    Default Rally, Mozilla's New 'Privacy-First' Platform, Shares Your Data With R

    It’s no secret that companies are quietly siphoning your data whenever you go online. Mozilla believes that people should have more control over their data. That’s why it’s launching Rally, a “privacy-first” data sharing platform designed to provide users with more agency over how their data is collected, used, and…
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    We might not be getting a Gambit movie anytime soon, but at least we’ve got another card-wielding superhuman on the way: DC Comics’ Madame Xanadu. True Blood writer and executive producer Angela Robinson is heading to HBO Max with a new TV series based on the immortal clairvoyant, with J.J. Abrams serving as producer.

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    Perhaps weary of America’s gruesome mass-murder ritual, cows across the country have decided to do something else and go somewhere. We can’t know why or where because we can’t talk to them, but the thought process was probably along the lines of: There’s somethin’ happenin’ somewhere. Baby, I just know that there is.
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    Covid-19 booster vaccines could eventually be needed for everyone, though some faster than others—at least, those are the apparent expectations coming from the World Health Organization. On Thursday, Reuters reported on WHO internal documents laying out their scenarios for the near future of the pandemic, including…
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    The truth is finally out here. On Friday, the Pentagon released its highly anticipated report summarizing previously classified information about the military’s research into UFOs—or as it prefers to call them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). What bombshell revelations does the report contain? Well, it’s only…
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    It’s been nearly 30 years since a NASA spacecraft went to Venus, a yellowish planet 67 million miles from the Sun and 141 million miles from us. Venus is often thought of as a sibling planet to Earth, both being rocky worlds close enough to the Sun to bask in its heat. And yet, at some point in their histories, the…
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    Virgin Galactic Gets Official Clearance to Start Flying Paying Customers to Space
    An upgraded FAA operators license now allows Virgin Galactic to include paying customers on its space flights, in what is a major milestone for the company and also the nascent space tourism sector.

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    Insert “the spice must flow... later” joke here. Warner Bros. has shaken up its 2021 release schedule, moving Dune once again further down the line. However, this time it isn’t as dramatic. It’s only by three weeks.

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    Even though many people agree Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is the worst Star Wars movie, it’s one of the most consequential. The latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch dug deep into that film, with characters and revelations that will get even the most casual Star Wars fans speculating.
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    Researchers peering at layered deposits on Mars’ south pole found what appear to be dozens of subsurface lakes, though many of them are in areas where water would be frozen.

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    When Microsoft introduced Windows 11 this week, it also made a fanfare of bringing Android apps to the OS through the Amazon Appstore. It’s an exciting feature both for Windows diehards looking for more ways to tinker and for casual users who might want the added utility of an Android app. But the initial announcement
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    Evilis back—streaming on Paramount+ instead of CBS in its second season—and its most memorable character, Leland Townsend, is already causing mischief for its trio of Catholic Church-sponsored supernatural investigators. To learn more about what’s to come, we hopped on the phone with the actor who brings him to life:…
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    California App Maker Turns Overseas Gig Workers Into Intelligence-Gathering Military Assets
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    Amazon's AWS Is Buying Encrypted Messaging Service Wickr
    In what looks to be a bigger push into the secured messaging space, Amazon’s AWS has just announced that it is acquiring Wickr.
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    Default Maps Show North America's Growing Tick Invasion

    Here are some terrifying images of the growing tick threat in North America, courtesy of NASA satellite data. The images accompany recent research showing that warmer climates over the past two decades have allowed Lyme disease-carrying deer ticks to survive and spread farther into Canada and parts of the Northern U.S.

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    Warren Ellis, known for his work across Marvel and DC Comics and Netflix’s Castlevania adaptation, has made a new statement after a year of public silence following numerous allegations in 2020 of longstanding sexually predatory behavior. The author has asked his fans not to defend his prior actions in the wake of a
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    Default This Is Not the Samsung Wear OS Watch I Was Expecting

    Last week, we got a glimpse at what the rumored Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 4 might look like. This week, Android Headlines leaked what it claims are renders for the flagship Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. But, looking at the design itself, perhaps Samsung is going a little too classic.
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    On Wednesday, Tim Berners-Lee sold off a copy of the source code of the world wide web (that he’d written) for a mind-boggling $5.4 million at Sotheby’s. Apparently, though, the lucky anonymous buyer should have gotten a bit of a discount. Not long after the sale, a security researcher uncovered some errors hiding in…
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    Facebook Is Expanding Its Cloud Gaming Efforts with Wider Coverage and More Ubisoft
    Last fall, Facebook announced a preview for its cloud gaming service, and today, Facebook is updating its cloud gaming efforts with expanded coverage and a new injection of content from Ubisoft.

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    He-Man was the most powerful man in the action figure universe during the ‘80s, a pioneer in kid’s cartoons that made the toy company Mattel $400 million in 1986 alone during the height of his popularity. But after that, he and the other Masters of the Universe fell from grace to near total obscurity, minus the…
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    The Pacific Northwest’s hell is just beginning. After being seared by record heat, the fires arrived with a roar.

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