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This Video Will Train You to Hold Your Breath for an Incredibly Long Time

This Video Will Train You to Hold Your Breath for an Incredibly Long Time

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This Video Will Train You to Hold Your Breath for an Incredibly Long Time As a lifelong asthmatic, I am the least-likely person to win a breath-holding contest (which is fine because it means I am also the most likely to win the “coolest person you know” contest, because there is nothing more badass than getting winded after a light jog on a cold day). But thanks to a method of breathing…Read more... Go to Source
A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More

A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More

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A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a theory that doesn’t just study individual phenomena; it’s an entirely new way to describe the universe itself. This…Read more... Go to Source
The Batman Has Landed With a Brutal, Excellent First Trailer

The Batman Has Landed With a Brutal, Excellent First Trailer

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The Batman Has Landed With a Brutal, Excellent First Trailer It’s raining Batman these days but Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, Paul Dano, and Jayme Lawson star in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. And DC Fandome gave us our first legitimate look at the upcoming superhero film in the form of a two-minute teaser…Read more... Go to Source
Zack Snyder’s Justice League Is Four Hours Long and Here’s the Epic Trailer

Zack Snyder’s Justice League Is Four Hours Long and Here’s the Epic Trailer

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Zack Snyder's Justice League Is Four Hours Long and Here's the Epic Trailer We’ve had glimpses. We’ve had black suits. We’ve had to wait for it, after years of anger and hearsay, for it to actually be given life. Now, we can behold it in action: because finally, our first proper look at the fabled Snyder Cut of Justice League is here.Read more... Go to Source
How to Deal With This TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Data Breach

How to Deal With This TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Data Breach

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How to Deal With This TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Data Breach An improperly-secured cloud database has exposed personal information for over 235 million TikTok, Instagram and YouTube accounts. The Hong Kong-based company Social Data was unknowingly storing the data in a database without proper password protection, meaning anyone could pop in and see it. Ugh.Read more... Go to Source
Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater

Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater

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Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater In 2016, a heavily armed North Carolina man barged into a Washington, DC-area pizza joint, intending to investigate a baseless conspiracy theory that it was secretly torturing children in a basement it didn’t actually have. Shots were fired and panic ensued, but no one was physically harmed. Improbably, those…Read more... Go to Source

Some Incredible Jurassic Park Movie-Making Memorabilia Is Going Up for Auction Next Week

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Some Incredible Jurassic Park Movie-Making Memorabilia Is Going Up for Auction Next Week Jurassic Park ushered in a new era of digital visual effects in Hollywood, but did you know the filmmakers originally planned to bring the movie’s dinosaurs to life using stop-motion animation? Twenty-seven years after the film’s release, some of the incredibly rare puppets used to create Jurassic Park’s earliest dino…Read more... Go to Source
Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

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Mods? MODS!?: Facebook's QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late Content and moderation decisions by tech companies are increasingly the focus of unending kicking and screaming—to the point where it’s now essentially a campaign plank for at least one of the U.S.’s major political parties. The likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are also trying to convince the public how well…Read more... Go to Source
Fun Game Ruined by Reality

Fun Game Ruined by Reality

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Fun Game Ruined by Reality I love video games. The popular battle royale game Fortnite, however, is not one of them. That’s probably a good thing for the planet because new data shows that the game is really carbon-intensive. Sorry to my 11-year-old nephew and millions of others, though, who play.Read more... Go to Source
Apple Strikes Back By Making Epic Games Look Like Jackasses, But It Seems to Have Backfired

Apple Strikes Back By Making Epic Games Look Like Jackasses, But It Seems to Have Backfired

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Apple Strikes Back By Making Epic Games Look Like Jackasses, But It Seems to Have Backfired Apple is claiming that Epic Games asked for a “special deal” to bypass its in-app purchase policies in a filing it released today. According to CNBC, former Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller, now a Fellow with the company, said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney asked “for a ‘side letter’ from Apple that would create…Read more... Go to Source
Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors

Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors

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Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors On top of the global pandemic and increasingly nightmarish election race, good chunks of the country are spending the last bits of their summer dealing with one of the most brutal wildfire seasons to date. So brutal, in fact, experts turning to new words to describe just how unprecedented this year’s California…Read more... Go to Source
What to Know About Covid-19 and Frozen Foods

What to Know About Covid-19 and Frozen Foods

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What to Know About Covid-19 and Frozen Foods Scientists are seriously investigating the possibility that refrigerated and frozen meat could be contaminated with the coronavirus that causes covid-19. Officials in New Zealand and China have even speculated that imported frozen foods could be behind recent local cases, but, for now, there’s no good evidence that…Read more... Go to Source
Do Not Be Stupid and Buy a $10,000 iPhone Just to Play Fortnite—Try These Alternatives Instead

Do Not Be Stupid and Buy a $10,000 iPhone Just to Play Fortnite—Try These Alternatives Instead

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Do Not Be Stupid and Buy a $10,000 iPhone Just to Play Fortnite—Try These Alternatives Instead With Apple having booted Fortnite from the App Store, many iPhone users may now be looking for an alternate way to get their Victory Royale. But whatever you do, I implore you, please don’t drop a ton of money on eBay to buy an iPhone with a previously installed version of Fortnite.Read more... Go to Source
Peninsula’s Yeon Sang-ho on How Zombie Movies Can Bring Us Hope Amid Real-Life Horrors

Peninsula’s Yeon Sang-ho on How Zombie Movies Can Bring Us Hope Amid Real-Life Horrors

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Peninsula's Yeon Sang-ho on How Zombie Movies Can Bring Us Hope Amid Real-Life Horrors Peninsula, the sequel to 2016 South Korean zombie sensation Train to Busan, is out today, and if you were a fan of its predecessor—or are just a fan of thrilling, post-apocalyptic, flesh-chomping action—it’s a must-watch. We got a chance to chat with director Yeon Sang-ho to learn even more about his latest.Read more... Go to Source
What If All Houses Were Covered With Solar Panels?

What If All Houses Were Covered With Solar Panels?

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http://youtu.be/Uw_bweN_90E Rise. and. shine! Get up and seize the day! You can do anything under the sun...when the sun powers everything. Your phone, your home, and all that's in between. This is life on the golden grid. But is it the utopia we thought it would be? In 2018, the state of California passed a law requiring all new houses to be built with solar panels after 2020. Now you might think that sounds both extreme and unfair, considering it will raise home prices by as much as $12,000. But it's a lot more sensible than you think. Transcript and sources: https://insh.world/science/what-if-all-houses-were-covered-with-solar-panels/ Made possible with the support of Ontario Creates http://www.ontariocreates.ca Watch more what-if scenarios: Planet Earth: https://www.youtube.com/wa...
If You Have An Older Relative With Dementia Who Still Wants To Drive, This May Be A Kind Solution

If You Have An Older Relative With Dementia Who Still Wants To Drive, This May Be A Kind Solution

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If You Have An Older Relative With Dementia Who Still Wants To Drive, This May Be A Kind Solution As a human, or at least as a primate close enough to human, I have the same anxieties about aging as anyone. As a gearhead, there’s the extra element of dread at knowing that, at some point, I will just be too damn old to drive in a safe way. And you know, not into a Safeway, which may be a possibility. For parents or…Read more... Go to Source
Google’s Limiting Third-Party Camera Apps on Android 11 to Keep Their Mitts Off Your Location Data

Google’s Limiting Third-Party Camera Apps on Android 11 to Keep Their Mitts Off Your Location Data

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Google's Limiting Third-Party Camera Apps on Android 11 to Keep Their Mitts Off Your Location Data With Android 11, Google’s forcing all apps to use the device’s built-in camera app—as opposed to whatever third-party camera app you may have set as your default—when snapping photos or taking video in order to better protect users’ location data, a company rep told the Verge on Thursday.Read more... Go to Source