It’s Officially Trump Nightmare Season
It's Officially Trump Nightmare Season
For Allison, the nightmare is a recurring one.Read more...
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This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners
This Budget Pet Camera Is Perfect for Neurotic Pet Owners
Despite my partner’s disdain for pet cameras, it makes sense that I, the neurotic dog mom, would want one. Every time we leave the house for several hours, there’s a small part of me that’s convinced our furballs have died gruesome deaths due to freak accidents. I imagine their ghosts staring at me dolefully, asking…Read more...
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NOAA Taps New Chief Scientist Who Downplays Climate Change
NOAA Taps New Chief Scientist Who Downplays Climate Change
On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moved to replace its acting chief scientist with a full-time hire. Ryan Maue, a hurricane researcher who has worked for a number of private weather companies, is taking over the position being vacated by Craig McLean.Read more...
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What’s the Best Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker?
What's the Best Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker?
You know, the importance of waterproof tech has waned in recent months. Rain has become my defacto signal of a lazy stay-home day, and the frequency of neighborhood pool parties took a nosedive this summer, though some are throwing caution to the wind regardless of today’s circumstances.Read more...
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Pro-Trump NIH Goon to ‘Retire’ After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts
Pro-Trump NIH Goon to 'Retire' After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts
One of the Trump administration’s flacks at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases secretly trashed the agency under the persona “streiff” for the right-wing blog RedState, according to a Monday report by the Daily Beast. He is now planning to “retire.” Read more...
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One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal
One Year Later, Apple Arcade Is Still A Great Deal
On September 19, 2019, Apple launched Apple Arcade, a $5-a-month subscription service dedicated to bringing top-tier, bullshit-free mobile games to iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV. One year later the service has more than 130 mostly great games with more arriving on a semi-weekly basis, and I’ve never once considered…Read more...
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Buy 80 Rolls of Toilet Paper for $46, or a Bidet for $27 and Never Buy Toilet Paper Again
Buy 80 Rolls of Toilet Paper for $46, or a Bidet for $27 and Never Buy Toilet Paper Again
Toilet Paper (80 Rolls) | $46 | AmazonRead more...
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Arctic Sea Ice Hit a Scary Milestone
Arctic Sea Ice Hit a Scary Milestone
Arctic sea ice shrank to its second lowest level on record, researchers announced on Monday. Sorry.Read more...
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Anyone Want to Buy a Quibi?
Anyone Want to Buy a Quibi?
Executives at Quibi, the spectacular disaster that no one asked for and evidently no one wants‚ may be looking to bail from their own failed experience.Read more...
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Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You’ll Let It
Amazon Sidewalk Wants To Connect Your Neighborhood—If You'll Let It
Over the years, Amazon has made it very clear that it’s no longer satisfied with being “the everything store.” What was once just a hub where you buy shit online has since branched into the world of autonomous vehicles, pharmaceuticals, drones and space travel. Earlier today, the company unveiled some of the details…Read more...
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Android’s 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here’s How to Use Them
Android's 2 Best Features Come to iOS 14: Here's How to Use Them
For a long time, one of the key benefits of choosing Android over iOS has been the ability to break away from the rigid inflexibility of multiple home screens, split up into uniform grids of app icons. Now with the introduction of home screen widgets and the App Library in iOS 14, that advantage has disappeared.…Read more...
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Two Critically Endangered Javan Rhino Babies Spotted in Indonesia
Two Critically Endangered Javan Rhino Babies Spotted in Indonesia
Conservationists in Indonesia are celebrating the birth of two Javan rhinos—a species listed as critically endangered and one of the rarest large mammals on Earth.Read more...
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Save 20% on Internal and Portable SSDs by Sabrent, Today Only
Save 20% on Internal and Portable SSDs by Sabrent, Today Only
Save 20% on Sabrent SSDs | Amazon Gold BoxRead more...
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What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?
What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg fucking loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked—using phrases like “surveillance capitalism,” “passive radicalization,” “kind of a boring place”—he would probably disagree with them, maybe even strongly. For that reason, and many others, it seems unlikely that Zuck…Read more...
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Logitech’s New MX Anywhere 3 Is a Great Pint-Sized Productivity Mouse with a Super Slick Scroll Wheel
Logitech's New MX Anywhere 3 Is a Great Pint-Sized Productivity Mouse with a Super Slick Scroll Wheel
Last fall, Logitech released its flagship MX Master 3 mouse, which featured a super smooth scroll wheel that immediately put everything else on the market to shame. And now with the new MX Anywhere 3, Logitech is about to do the same in a smaller and more portable package.Read more...
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Twitter’s Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist
Twitter's Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist
The neural network Twitter uses to generate photo previews is a mysterious beast. When it debuted the smart cropping tool back in 2018, Twitter said the algorithm determines the most “salient” part of the picture, i.e. what your eyes are drawn to first, to use as a preview image, but what exactly that entails has been…Read more...
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Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie
Janina Gavankar to Write and Star in Mythological Monster Movie
If you know Janina Gavankar, chances are, it’s from her turn on True Blood or as the protagonist in the singleplayer campaign of Star Wars: Battlefront 2, where she played the (fantastic) Iden Versio. Now the actress and writer is getting to work on a rad monster movie based on Hindu mythology. Read more...
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The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren’t So Tragic
The TikTok Saga Would Be a Comedy if It Weren't So Tragic
The United States is ceding its position as a world technological power. For decades, the world’s brightest landed here to build. They chose the U.S. for a few simple reasons, among them access to world-class equipment and education, the ability to take high-paying tech jobs, and a business climate that rewarded the…Read more...
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Celebrate a Late Batman Day With This Stunning Illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz
Celebrate a Late Batman Day With This Stunning Illustration by Bill Sienkiewicz
Yesterday was the day commonly celebrated by nerds everywhere (yes, that includes us) as Batman Day. If you didn’t spend any time brooding over the Dark Knight yesterday, today we’ve got just the thing. Read more...
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Amazon’s Fall Hardware Debut Is Set for Sept. 24
Amazon's Fall Hardware Debut Is Set for Sept. 24
September has been chock-full of tech launches and announcements so far (mostly virtual, naturally, since these are still covid times, after all). But the month’s not over yet: Amazon has revealed that it’s debuting its fall product line on Thursday, Sept. 24.Read more...
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Archer Returns to Ruining Spy Missions in This New Episode Promo
Archer Returns to Ruining Spy Missions in This New Episode Promo
I’m glad Archer is back. Like, real Archer, without weird fantasy coma worlds or film noir or whatever. Just spy hijinks, dysfunctional characters, and the slow, painful possibility of growth. Read more...
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Giancarlo Esposito Discusses His Greatest Acting Challenge Yet: A Cartoon Supervillain
Giancarlo Esposito Discusses His Greatest Acting Challenge Yet: A Cartoon Supervillain
Giancarlo Esposito is a well respected actor. He played Gus Fring on Breaking Bad. He filled up the screen as Moff Gideon on The Mandalorian. But that pales in comparison to the challenge before him now: playing a cartoon villain on DuckTales. Read more...
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Up Your Zoom Game With This Highly-Rated 2K Rotating Webcam For Only $20 With Promo Code
Up Your Zoom Game With This Highly-Rated 2K Rotating Webcam For Only $20 With Promo Code
DYY 1440P HD Webcam | $20 | Amazon | Promo Code 50WDW2CVRead more...
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There Is Now a TikTok Deal That Has Trump’s ‘Blessing,’ Delaying Ban
There Is Now a TikTok Deal That Has Trump’s 'Blessing,' Delaying Ban
Talk about TikTok whiplash, although that’s normal thing these days. Hours before a new ban was supposed to be put in place to block new downloads and updates of the popular video-sharing app, President Donald Trump has come out to say there is a deal, and it has his “blessing.”Read more...
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First Ransomware-Related Death Reported in Germany After Attack Paralyzes Hospital
First Ransomware-Related Death Reported in Germany After Attack Paralyzes Hospital
It sounds like something out of a tragic Black Mirror episode: A woman seeking urgent care died this week after an apparently bungled ransomware attack took down a major hospital in Germany, thus forcing paramedics to rush her to another city for treatment, according to several outlets.Read more...
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Win an Emmy for Watchmen, Coming One Step Closer to the Broodiest EGOT Ever
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...
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TikTok Files Complaint Against Trump Administration to Prevent Impending Ban
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...
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The Ms. Marvel Series for Disney Plus Has a Directing Team, Including Pakistani Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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...
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How to Buy Everything Apple Announced This Week: Apple Watch Series 6, SE, iPad Air 4, and More
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...
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Sony Apologizes For PS5 Pre-Order Clusterfuck And Says More Consoles Will Be Available This Year
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...
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