This Video Shows You How to Make Brilliant Fluorescent Lightsabers for Your Star Wars Action Figures 2020 seems like a good year to take up new hobbies. Let’s take that nice, collectible action figure collection you might have. Why not make it a bit more impressive?Read more... Go to Source
Chinese Government Decides to Throw Wrench Into Potential TikTok U.S. Deal China has something to say about the potential deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations: not so fast. Read more... Go to Source
Google Failed to Remove Misleading Ads About Voting By Mail Because of a Technicality. Blegh. Google reportedly took five days to review misleading ads from an organization that echoes the president’s crock about voting by mail, and then declined to take them down essentially because of a technicality. Read more... Go to Source
Nicolas Cage Will Play an Alcoholic Dragon in Hiding in Amazon's Highfire Adaptation If there’s anyone who can pull that off, it’s Nicolas Cage. Read more... Go to Source
South Korea Holds Off Imposing Maximum Social Distancing Measures As Cases Surge South Korea, one of the world’s leading examples for novel coronavirus containment, is struggling with a recent surge of thousands of infections of the virus. Some in the country are calling for a version of a tried-and-true solution practiced all around the world: restrictive social distancing measures.Read more... Go to Source
The REFACE App Has Turned Me Into Narcissus If you’ve ever wanted to know what your face would look like carelessly pasted over Jason Momoa or Cardi B’s bone structure, a new app will let you do that. REFACE maps and plasters your face onto another, an innovation that surely had noble intentions but has instead served to create some truly eldritch horrors.…Read more... Go to Source
Zuckerberg Admits That Facebook Screwed Up by Ignoring Milita Group Complaints Before Kenosha Shooting Facebook made “an operational mistake” in ignoring reports about a page encouraging an armed militia to “defend” Kenosha, Wisconsin, against Black Lives Matter protestors, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video post Friday. Read more... Go to Source
Chadwick Boseman, Star of Black Panther, Has Passed Away at 43 The Associated Press has just revealed actor Chadwick Boseman has passed away from cancer at just 43 years old.Read more... Go to Source
Elon Musk Reveals His Cyborg Pigs On Friday, Elon Musk demonstrated the tech behind his brain-computer interface startup, Neuralink, in a livestreamed demo that involved significantly more pigs than anyone expected. Read more... Go to Source
The Beauty of “Beater” Gear: Cheap Stuff That Can Take a Hit I’m the kind of guy who, on a hike, will trip over a cactus because I wasn’t paying attention. I run my earbuds through the washing machine, scratch up my sunglasses, and drop my phone while jogging. And as someone who hates even the smallest signs of wear and tear, my clumsiness is often at odds with my ability to…Read more... Go to Source
We Absolutely Do Not Need a Comcast OS on Smart TVs If there’s one thing TVs absolutely do not need, it’s a TV OS from Big Cable.Read more... Go to Source
Maybe It's Time to Retire the Phrase 'Big Oil' It’s been a week bookended with bad financial news for the oil and gas industry. It began with Exxon getting the boot from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and now comes news that energy companies are the tiniest piece of another venerable stock index, the S&P 500. These may be different indices, but they tell the…Read more... Go to Source
Viking Sword Dug Up in Norway Likely Belonged to a Left-Handed Warrior The unusual placement of a sword found in a Viking grave suggests the weapon was brandished by a southpaw warrior, in what is an unusual discovery. Read more... Go to Source
In the Newest Trailer for His Dark Materials Season 2, Will's Higher Purpose Is Unveiled Lyra Belacqua (Dafne Keen) might be the long-rumored “child of destiny,” but there is another who must play an equally important part. HBO has released a new teaser trailer and release month for season two of His Dark Materials, which hints at Will Parry’s (Amir Wilson) greater destiny and the dangers that await…Read more... Go to Source
It Won't Replace a Laptop, But the CrowPi2 Is a Powerful Learning Tool My kids love laptops. They especially love laptops that play Minecraft and let them watch YouTube for hours at a time. But, I wondered, would they like a laptop that features a four-segment LED display, motion sensor, and RFID programmer? Further, would they like a laptop that looks, at first glance, unlike any other…Read more... Go to Source
America's Nice Guy Finally Says 'Fuck You' to Trump Supporters on Twitter Jim Gaffigan, arguably America’s most wholesome comedian, has finally had enough of Donald Trump’s shit. And he’s here to tell you that Trump and his minions are destroying America.Read more... Go to Source
A Tesla Employee Foiled an Alleged Ransomware Scheme CEO Elon Musk called a thwarted cyberattack against Tesla “serious” on Thursday after a Russian national reportedly tried to recruit and bribe an employee to install ransomware on the company’s network at its Gigafactory in northern Nevada.Read more... Go to Source
The New Mutants Apparently Had Some Serious Behind the Scenes Drama We’ve been talking about The New Mutants for so long they’re more like “The Old Mutants” at this point. The first trailer came out way back in 2017 and ever since, rumors and speculation about its release became so abundant it truly felt like the movie would never happen. Well, it’s happening. This weekend. And a new…Read more... Go to Source
DNC Warns Campaign Staffers to Swipe Left Amid Espionage Concerns The Democratic Party sent out an email blast to staffers on Wednesday urging them to “swipe carefully” on dating apps because undercover political opponents could be trying to slide into their DMs to gather dirt for the campaign, according to a CNN report. Read more... Go to Source
Portland's Most Famous Bookstore Will No Longer Sell Books on Amazon One of Portland’s most beloved bookworm attractions, Powell’s Books, will stop selling books on Amazon this weekend, Aug. 29, Oregon Live reports. Aug. 29 is also Independent Bookstore Day. Fitting, no?Read more... Go to Source
Hurricane Laura Sparks a Chemical Plant Fire, Continues to Wreak Havoc on the Gulf Coast Hurricane Laura’s devastation is becoming clear as light spreads over Gulf Coast. The storm made landfall as a powerful Category 4 hurricane in Louisiana early Thursday with “catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding, according to the National Hurricane Center. When it made landfall, Laura tied the…Read more... Go to Source
The New Mutants Cast Explains the Simple Beauty of the Film's LGBTQ Relationship Many, many things about The New Mutants make it stand apart from the rest of the superhero movies out there. Its many delays are one. The fact it’s being released in the middle of a pandemic is another. But inside the story, it’s also one of the first Marvel movies to have an honest, open, LGBTQ relationship.Read more... Go to Source
Return of the Revels Revel—the moped-sharing company which has blessed major cities with fleets of lightweight, cheap, zero-emissions minibikes but also cursed them with a brigade of untrained scooter jockeys—has returned to New York City’s streets this morning after three fatal crashes halted service in July. Whereas people over 21 with…Read more... Go to Source
Unhatched Dinosaur Egg Reveals the Surprising Face of a Baby Sauropod A rare egg fossil containing an unhatched dinosaur suggests baby sauropods were not miniaturized versions of the four-legged, long-necked behemoths we all know and love, exhibiting a unique set of physical characteristics that included a little rhino-like horn.Read more... Go to Source
Dim Tweets You've Already Seen With This Browser Extension Twitter’s insistence on showing tweets out of order has been a long-running complaint. Sure, there’s a setting that claims to show your feed in chronological order, but it almost always resets back to the “top tweets” view if you don’t keep an eye on it.Read more... Go to Source
Maybe Just Delay Next-Gen Already The Xbox Series X comes out in November, probably around the same time as the PS5 if Sony ever gets around to announcing its release date. But they don’t need to come out then. In fact, maybe it would be for the best if they were just delayed until some time next year.Read more... Go to Source
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