Science, Tech and Gadgets

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Win an Emmy for Watchmen, Coming One Step Closer to the Broodiest EGOT Ever The most prestigious award combination in entertainment, the EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony—is an incredible accomplishment for any musician/actor/creator. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are a little closer. Read more... Go to Source

TikTok Files Complaint Against Trump Administration to Prevent Impending Ban Although the clock is ticking, pardon the pun, TikTok is not going down without a fight.Read more... Go to Source

The Ms. Marvel Series for Disney Plus Has a Directing Team, Including Pakistani Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Kamala Khan’s TV debut is in the works, and Disney has assembled a marvelous (ahem) directorial team. Read more... Go to Source

How to Buy Everything Apple Announced This Week: Apple Watch Series 6, SE, iPad Air 4, and More Apple’s September event concluded earlier today, where they announced updates to the iPad Air and standard iPad, alongside the Apple Watch Series 6, the Apple Watch SE, and the ‘Apple One’ streaming bundle. Here’s the lowdown on what was announced, and where you can purchase the devices.Read more... Go to Source

Sony Apologizes For PS5 Pre-Order Clusterfuck And Says More Consoles Will Be Available This Year Earlier this week, PS5 pre-orders started up at various retailers around the world at different times and with little warning. This created a giant mess and now Sony has officially apologized for the clusterfuck.Read more... Go to Source

David Harbour Says Hopper Is Going Through a Major Transformation in Stranger Things Season 4 Think of it less like a return than a resurrection. Read more... Go to Source

Saturday's Best Deals: Dyson Hot + Cool Air Purifier, Huckberry Onsen Bath Towels, Beats Solo Pro Headphones, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, USDA Certified Organic CBD Oil, IT Brush Bath, and More A Dyson HP01 Pure Hot + Cool desk purifier, sets of Huckberry Onsen Bath Towels, Beats Solo Pro headphones, a 3-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, a Dyson Ball vacuum cleaner, a 2-pack of hand sanitizer bottles, some organic USDA certified CBD oil, and IT Brush Bath purifying makeup brush cleaner lead…Read more... Go to Source

Lego's New Batman 1989 Batwing Is a Work of Art You Can Actually Hang on Your Wall Almost a year after it was first revealed, the Lego 1989 Tim Burton Batmobile remains my favorite Lego set of all time. The model is gigantic, packed with fun details, and a beautiful recreation of an iconic vehicle. So I’m glad to see that Lego has given another one of Batman’s wonderful toys the brick treatment with…Read more... Go to Source

Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 2 Is Proof That You Should Skip First-Gen Tech The original Galaxy Fold was the most important phone of 2019. It showed how flexible display tech could create a totally new type of device with the portability of a phone and the big screen and improved multitasking experience of a tablet. However, like a lot of first-gen products—especially something that…Read more... Go to Source

John James Audubon Was Never Good The most famous name in American ornithology is that of a slave owner, grave robber, and fraud who invented birds and falsified scientific results. Birders and ornithologists are grappling with John James Audubon’s legacy today, but problematic behavior doesn’t stop at a single 19th-century naturalist. Some in the…Read more... Go to Source

Amazon: Hope You Weren't Expecting Your Pre-Ordered PS5 to Ship on Time With retailers royally jumping the gun on PlayStation 5 pre-orders, count yourself lucky if you managed to snag one before they sold out everywhere. Unless you got yours on Amazon. In which case, you might still be screwed.Read more... Go to Source

In Ironic Twist, Founder of Cyber Fraud Prevention Startup Gets Arrested on Fraud Charges That headline sounds like the set-up to a joke, I know, but 2020 has proven time and time again that you can’t make this shit up anymore. Read more... Go to Source

Fuck In continuing with this impossibly horrific year, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of gender equality and women’s rights, has died due to complications from cancer, NPR reports. She was 87 years old. Read more... Go to Source

Through the Ghosts of Revenge of the Sith, Darth Vader Finds a Semblance of Peace The third run of Darth Vader at Marvel Comics has done a grand job building on its predecessor’s examinations of the titular Dark Lord. It’s looked at him both as the fascinating figure of power we’ve admired across Star Wars’ long history, but also as the equally intriguing bridge between Star Wars’ original and…Read more... Go to Source

This $300 AI-Powered Toothbrush Left Me With That Post-Dentist, Just-Got-Robbed Kind of Feeling When I purchased my first electric toothbrush about a year and a half ago, a Quip, it felt like an outrageous indulgence. Fifty-five dollars seemed far too steep for something so silly, but I wanted to make a long-term investment in healthy teeth, and I was able to justify the expense—at least at the time—because the…Read more... Go to Source

Hurricane Season Breaks Records, Map Take a quick glance at the map above and you may think there are only two named storms and a tropical depression in the Atlantic. But look closer, my friends.Read more... Go to Source

Step on a Eufy Smart Scale C1 for $25 Eufy Smart Scale C1 | $25 | AmazonRead more... Go to Source

How Is It September and HBO Max Still Does Not Do 4K or HDR? Today DC Entertainment announced that its streaming service DC Universe was becoming the comics-only DC Universe Infinite, and while I had the urge to give myself a wedgie just for subscribing to such a truly stupidly named service, the thing that really sent me into a nerd rage was the realization that I would no…Read more... Go to Source

Australia's 7-Hour 'Flight to Nowhere' Sells Out Instantly As People Lose Their Damn Minds Hoping to Feel Normal Again in the Midst of a Pandemic That's Infected 30 Million and Killed Almost 1 Million Globally But Will We Ever Feel Normal Again and What Even Qualifies As Normal Anymore Australia’s Qantas Airlines will fly a seven-hour “flight to nowhere” that takes off and lands in Sydney, a bizarre idea hinging on the idea that people who have been cooped up during the pandemic would want to just experience air travel, even if their destination is the same airport where they departed. And,…Read more... Go to Source

Federal Judge Blocks USPS Sabotage, Blasts DeJoy's ‘Politically Motivated Attack’ to Rig Election A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction regarding controversial changes at the U.S. Postal Service that have been pushed by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major donor to President Donald Trump, ahead of the November presidential election.Read more... Go to Source

Why Isn't Close Encounters Considered Steven Spielberg's Ultimate Masterpiece? Because It Kind of Is Many people would agree that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a straight-up masterpiece. That’s not some wild stretch. And yet, ask those same people what the best Steven Spielberg movies are and there’s a very good chance it barely makes the top five. (Seriously. I ran a poll to check this. It’s true.) To make a…Read more... Go to Source

iOS 14 Bug Will Bork Your Default Mail and Browser Settings With iOS 14 now officially here, it was only a matter of time before we started hearing about the bugs. There are always bugs—some are more inconsequential than others.Read more... Go to Source

RIP Nintendo 3DS One of Nintendo’s most beloved handheld consoles, the 3DS, has been discontinued. Nintendo confirmed in a statement today to Polygon that “manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended.” The announcement comes a little over a year after Nintendo said the Switch Lite wasn’t going to replace the 3DS. Read more... Go to Source

So You Bought an Apple Watch. Now, for the Accessories Top Product: AirPods Pro | $199 | AmazonRead more... Go to Source

Tonal, the Latest Company Competing to Upgrade Your Home Gym, Raises Another $110 Million The virtual home fitness start-up Tonal, which folks have already started calling the Peloton of strength training, announced on Thursday that it raised an additional $110 million in its latest round of funding, making it clear that investors are eager to get in on the increasingly crowded digital fitness market. A…Read more... Go to Source

Free Speech Champion Mark Zuckerberg Announces Plan to Censor His Employees Facebook employees have recently been wondering if perhaps Facebook—which lets politicians lie in ads, festers with extremist movements like QAnon, and by design amplifies authoritarian propaganda, misinformation, and hate speech—is actually the bad guy.Read more... Go to Source

Why Scientists Should Use Magic to Study Animal Intelligence Scientists should use magic tricks to better understand animal intelligence and perception, argue a team of researchers in a new paper. The idea makes sense, particularly when humans and animals can be fooled by the same illusion.Read more... Go to Source

Boeing's 'Culture Of Concealment' Led To 737 Max Crashes, Congressional Report Says The deadly crashes of two Boeing 737 Max airliners can be chalked up to a company keeping everyone in the dark and giving Boeing employees the authority of federal regulators who could then be pressured by their company. That’s according to a new report released Wednesday that could lead to big changes in how the…Read more... Go to Source

The Verdict Is In: These Are the Best Non-Stick Pans You Can Buy Online, According to the Experts There’s a bunch of debate on which frying pans are going to give you the best bang for your buck. As a seasoned home cook, I personally can make a meal or two in any pot or pan you give me, but recently, after cooking a couple of duck breasts in my old, off-brand pan I bought maybe seven years ago, I thought I should…Read more... Go to Source

The Sony Xperia 5 II Is a Sleek and Sneakily Sophisticated Little Phone Following a couple years of lackluster releases, Sony’s Xperia phones have sort of flown under the radar—especially in the U.S. where Sony phones are typically only available unlocked and not sold through carriers. But Sony just announced the Xperia 5 II, which looks like a sleek little phone with some surprisingly…Read more... Go to Source