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Two of Chernobyl’s Largest Wildfires on Record Are Out

Two of Chernobyl’s Largest Wildfires on Record Are Out

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Two of Chernobyl's Largest Wildfires on Record Are Out More than a week has passed since two major fires broke out inside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. They were inching closer to the shuttered power plant and the radioactive waste now disposed of on-site as hundreds of firefighter battled the blazes. As of Tuesday, however, the fires appear to be out.Read more... Go to Source
Couple Fined For Violating Lockdown After Posting Old Vacation Photos to Facebook

Couple Fined For Violating Lockdown After Posting Old Vacation Photos to Facebook

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Couple Fined For Violating Lockdown After Posting Old Vacation Photos to Facebook An Australian couple was issued hefty fines this week for violating lockdown orders after they posted photos to Facebook that were taken at a vacation spot two hours from their home. Police showed up at their door and issued over $3,300 in fines for the photos, according to multiple reports. The only problem? The…Read more... Go to Source
SoftBank’s Vision Fund Not Feeling So Good, Will Take Nearly $17 Billion Hit Amid Pandemic

SoftBank’s Vision Fund Not Feeling So Good, Will Take Nearly $17 Billion Hit Amid Pandemic

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SoftBank's Vision Fund Not Feeling So Good, Will Take Nearly $17 Billion Hit Amid Pandemic Japanese investment titan SoftBank disclosed on Monday that it expects to take up to a $16.7 billion loss for the past year in its Vision Fund, a key backer of huge, growth-at-all-costs tech firms like WeWork and Uber. According to the Wall Street Journal, that likely means its investments are worth less now than when…Read more... Go to Source
Wargaming Paint Companies Are Pivoting to Hand Sanitizer

Wargaming Paint Companies Are Pivoting to Hand Sanitizer

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Wargaming Paint Companies Are Pivoting to Hand Sanitizer We’re all looking for things to do while we’re under various states of lockdown and social distancing. You might be taking the opportunity to knock away at a few model projects, tackling a backlog of things to build and paint. Well, the people behind those models and paints are also looking for things to do—and doing…Read more... Go to Source
Apple Maps Will Soon Show You How Few Coronavirus Testing Centers There Are In the U.S.

Apple Maps Will Soon Show You How Few Coronavirus Testing Centers There Are In the U.S.

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Apple Maps Will Soon Show You How Few Coronavirus Testing Centers There Are In the U.S. Coronavirus testing centers are slowly opening up across the country, but tracking them down and finding out if you’re even eligible to take the test has been a challenge. Apple over the weekend rolled out an application for labs and businesses offering covid-19 tests to submit their information to Apple Maps, which…Read more... Go to Source
Digimon Adventure: Upped Its Game By Focusing on the Real World

Digimon Adventure: Upped Its Game By Focusing on the Real World

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Digimon Adventure: Upped Its Game By Focusing on the Real World Toei’s Digimon reboot could have easily just been a rehashing of the original story with a fresh coat of present-day animation slapped on top of it. Thankfully, the new series has endeavored to go for something much more fascinating: a take on the Digital World with connections to the real world that make the…Read more... Go to Source
What’s the Best Final Fantasy Game?

What’s the Best Final Fantasy Game?

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What's the Best Final Fantasy Game? Last week I asked our readers to chime in on the whole “my friend Eric doesn’t want to buy Final Fantasy VII Remake” for The Inventory’s Buy Committee column. Vitriol in the comments was mostly directed at me. One reader in particular called me out for not finishing a game that had literally come out the same day.Read more... Go to Source
How to Create a Looping Video of Yourself for Your Virtual Meetings

How to Create a Looping Video of Yourself for Your Virtual Meetings

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How to Create a Looping Video of Yourself for Your Virtual Meetings Depending on how creative you’re feeling, virtual backgrounds can make video calls a lot more fun. But they also have a strong potential to be used for evil. Case in point: In Zoom, you can make a virtual background from most any image or video file. That means you can use the feature to display a looping video of …Read more... Go to Source
Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Must-Watch Episodes

Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Must-Watch Episodes

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Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Must-Watch Episodes Star Trek is one of the most beloved bits of sci-fi TV around, but perhaps most beloved of all is its sophomore entry into the franchise: The Next Generation, the apex of Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the future writ large. Want to dive into this classic series but don’t know where to start beyond “Maybe all of…Read more... Go to Source
Monday’s Best Deals: Taotronics True Wireless Earbuds, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, Rosetta Stone Software, Customizable Face Masks, Facebook Portals, and More

Monday’s Best Deals: Taotronics True Wireless Earbuds, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, Rosetta Stone Software, Customizable Face Masks, Facebook Portals, and More

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Monday's Best Deals: Taotronics True Wireless Earbuds, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, Rosetta Stone Software, Customizable Face Masks, Facebook Portals, and More A pair of Taotronics Bluetooth headphones, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, Rosetta Stone, customizable face masks, and Facebook Portals lead Monday’s best deals.Read more... Go to Source
8 TV Episodes to Watch for Some Self-Aware Silliness

8 TV Episodes to Watch for Some Self-Aware Silliness

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8 TV Episodes to Watch for Some Self-Aware Silliness Fourth wall jokes. Secret references. General tomfoolery. It’s great when shows take a step back and allow us to have a little extra fun with them. Sometimes it’s just a harmless goof—other times it’s actually deepening the story and our relationship to the characters. Here are a few times our favorite television…Read more... Go to Source
How What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 Builds Deeper, Creepier Vampire Worlds

How What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 Builds Deeper, Creepier Vampire Worlds

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How What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 Builds Deeper, Creepier Vampire Worlds Iconic vampire cameos, a ruined orgy, Staten Island city council politics, and one very unlucky witch skin hat made the debut season of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows a cult hit. This past winter, io9 took a look behind the scenes of season two and talked to the creators, cast, and crew…Read more... Go to Source
Razer Just Won the Wireless Headphone Wars With Pikachu Earbuds That Charge Inside a Poké Ball

Razer Just Won the Wireless Headphone Wars With Pikachu Earbuds That Charge Inside a Poké Ball

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Razer Just Won the Wireless Headphone Wars With Pikachu Earbuds That Charge Inside a Poké Ball If you want the best wireless earbuds out there, we recommend the Jabra Elite 75t. If you want an equally excellent pair that also works great with the iPhone, you can’t go wrong with the Apple AirPods Pro. But if you want to charge and carry around your earbuds in a replica Poké Ball, you’ll need to opt for Razer’s…Read more... Go to Source
Julian Assange Secretly Fathered Two Children While in London Embassy

Julian Assange Secretly Fathered Two Children While in London Embassy

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Julian Assange Secretly Fathered Two Children While in London Embassy Julian Assange secretly fathered two children during his almost seven years in Ecuador’s embassy in London, according to a YouTube video released by WikiLeaks over the weekend. The WikiLeaks co-founder was forcibly removed from the embassy in April of 2019 and was sentenced to almost a year in prison for jumping bail…Read more... Go to Source
Location Tracking, DIY Face Masks, and the Stalk Market: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Location Tracking, DIY Face Masks, and the Stalk Market: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

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Location Tracking, DIY Face Masks, and the Stalk Market: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week Happy Easter, everyone! Or, as I like to call it, “The Day Before I Regret Eating All Those Chocolate Bunnies.” Here’s a question for you, dear reader: Do you start with the ears or the tail first? Or, if you failed decision-making 101 in adulting school and now break out in a nervous sweat at the very idea of…Read more... Go to Source
Samsung Finally Says Bye to Its S Voice Assistant

Samsung Finally Says Bye to Its S Voice Assistant

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Samsung Finally Says Bye to Its S Voice Assistant Samsung is pulling the plug on its S Voice assistant, the company’s first attempt to compete with Apple’s Siri, on June 1 of this year. In reality, Samsung itself pushed S Voice aside with the launch of its new assistant, Bixby, a few years ago. But now the company is making it official. Bye-bye S Voice. Read more... Go to Source
This Fan Film Features a Martial Arts Showdown Between Batgirl and Lady Shiva

This Fan Film Features a Martial Arts Showdown Between Batgirl and Lady Shiva

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This Fan Film Features a Martial Arts Showdown Between Batgirl and Lady Shiva Lady Shiva, despite being incredibly cool, hasn’t gotten a lot of play in adaptations of the DC Universe. But she should: she’s a brilliant martial artist and the mother of Cassandra Cain, one of the Bat family’s most interesting characters. So a chance to see her square off in live action, even if it’s not official,…Read more... Go to Source
So, Why Was a Tiger Able to Get a Coronavirus Test?

So, Why Was a Tiger Able to Get a Coronavirus Test?

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So, Why Was a Tiger Able to Get a Coronavirus Test? Nationwide shortages of coronavirus tests and related supplies have left some of America’s most vulnerable populations at risk and flying blind in the face of this pandemic, and it’s led to some serious side-eye whenever reports come in that yet another rich and/or powerful so-and-so was able to secure a test. So when…Read more... Go to Source
Daisy Ridley Has Some Diplomatic Thoughts About the Backlash to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Daisy Ridley Has Some Diplomatic Thoughts About the Backlash to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Daisy Ridley Has Some Diplomatic Thoughts About the Backlash to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Comments about quality aside (those are for a different type of post entirely), it can be readily agreed that a lot of people really did not like Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and it is also clear that those people were very vocal about their opinions. As an actor working on a film with such a harsh reception,…Read more... Go to Source
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Discharged From Hospital After Coronavirus Treatment

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Discharged From Hospital After Coronavirus Treatment

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Discharged From Hospital After Coronavirus Treatment UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was discharged from the hospital on Sunday after receiving treatment for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. According to the New York Times, Johnson will not immediately resume his duties as prime minister and will be taking some time to recover. Nonetheless, he…Read more... Go to Source
ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program

ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program

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ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program On the first day of April, Baltimore officials approved a deal between the Baltimore Police Department and Ohio-based company Persistent Surveillance Systems to use drones equipped with high-resolution cameras in order to spy on the city’s residents through around-the-clock surveillance despite formal objections filed…Read more... Go to Source
Last Night’s Saturday Night Live Featured a Weird, Dark Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Parody

Last Night’s Saturday Night Live Featured a Weird, Dark Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Parody

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Last Night's Saturday Night Live Featured a Weird, Dark Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Parody Last night, NBC  aired a historic, all-remote episode of Saturday Night Live, with a full run of sketches from performers who, due to the novel coronavirus, couldn’t actually be in the same place. And the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles played a significant role, for some reason. Read more... Go to Source