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Demolition Man’s Writer Wasn’t Trying to Be Prescient, He Just Wanted to Make a Funny Movie

Demolition Man’s Writer Wasn’t Trying to Be Prescient, He Just Wanted to Make a Funny Movie

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Demolition Man's Writer Wasn't Trying to Be Prescient, He Just Wanted to Make a Funny Movie If there was any piece of entertainment that no one expected to be a foreteller of the future, it was Demolition Man. However, the 1993 sci-fi action comedy predicted everything from corporate conglomerates to smoking bans—and now, social distancing. In a new interview, writer Daniel Waters said he’s just as surprised…Read more... Go to Source
Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Exoplanet Spotted in the Kepler Reject Pile

Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Exoplanet Spotted in the Kepler Reject Pile

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Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Exoplanet Spotted in the Kepler Reject Pile For years, a dedicated team of experts has manually sifted through troves of rejected Kepler data in hopes of finding something the computers had missed—an exercise that has resulted in the discovery of what is now arguably the most Earth-like planet known to astronomers.Read more... Go to Source
Today’s Extreme Floods Could Happen Daily by 2100

Today’s Extreme Floods Could Happen Daily by 2100

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Today's Extreme Floods Could Happen Daily by 2100 The U.S. is already facing a flooding crisis as sea-level rise pushes tides ever higher. But it’s only going to get worse with flood risk doubling every five years in the coming decades, according to a new study. That means floods that used to happen once in a person’s lifetime occur every year or even every day.Read more... Go to Source
17 Corpses Found in Nursing Home As Elderly Care Facilities Are Devastated by Coronavirus

17 Corpses Found in Nursing Home As Elderly Care Facilities Are Devastated by Coronavirus

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17 Corpses Found in Nursing Home As Elderly Care Facilities Are Devastated by Coronavirus Police in New Jersey found 17 corpses at a nursing home in the town of Andover on Monday, according to a new report from the New York Times. The bleak news serves as a devastating reminder that the coronavirus pandemic is still wreaking havoc on the country’s most vulnerable people, despite calls from many Republicans…Read more... Go to Source
Amazon to Shut Down for 5 Days in France After Court Finds Its Coronavirus Response Inadequate

Amazon to Shut Down for 5 Days in France After Court Finds Its Coronavirus Response Inadequate

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Amazon to Shut Down for 5 Days in France After Court Finds Its Coronavirus Response Inadequate Amazon will temporarily shut down in France after a court there ruled it had to stop delivering all products outside of food, medicine, and hygienic categories because of poor safety conditions at its warehouses during the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.Read more... Go to Source
Doctor Who’s Newest Short Story Gives 13 a Lockdown of Her Own to Deal With

Doctor Who’s Newest Short Story Gives 13 a Lockdown of Her Own to Deal With

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Doctor Who's Newest Short Story Gives 13 a Lockdown of Her Own to Deal With A small light in these peculiar times, for Doctor Who fans at least, has been the outpouring of fiction from writers from across the series’ recent history, detailing bite-sized adventures to distract us from the realities of our own wanderings in the fourth dimension. But this week’s story feels a little bit too real.Read more... Go to Source
Melting Ice Exposes Mountain Pass Used by Vikings, Including Ancient Dog and Leash

Melting Ice Exposes Mountain Pass Used by Vikings, Including Ancient Dog and Leash

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Melting Ice Exposes Mountain Pass Used by Vikings, Including Ancient Dog and Leash Archaeologists in central Norway have uncovered evidence of a heavily traveled mountain passageway that was used during the Viking Age. Hundreds of beautifully preserved items were found atop a melting glacier, in a discovery that was, sadly, made possible by global warming.Read more... Go to Source
White House Stockpiled 3,600 Surgical Masks as CDC Said General Public Didn’t Need to Wear Them

White House Stockpiled 3,600 Surgical Masks as CDC Said General Public Didn’t Need to Wear Them

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White House Stockpiled 3,600 Surgical Masks as CDC Said General Public Didn't Need to Wear Them White House officials rushed to secure for themselves 3,600 surgical masks from Taiwan even as the administration advised there was no reason for the general public to wear them during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Wednesday report in the Washington Post.Read more... Go to Source
Google Does the Bare Minimum to Keep Industry It Destroyed on Life Support

Google Does the Bare Minimum to Keep Industry It Destroyed on Life Support

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Google Does the Bare Minimum to Keep Industry It Destroyed on Life Support Despite surging traffic and readership as coronavirus keeps people in their homes and on the internet, the media layoffs and pay cuts just keep coming. Now, here to save journalism in its hour of need, Google has launched the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to “deliver urgent aid to thousands of small, medium and…Read more... Go to Source
10 TV Shows That Are Not (Yet) Postponed or Canceled

10 TV Shows That Are Not (Yet) Postponed or Canceled

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10 TV Shows That Are Not (Yet) Postponed or Canceled Every movie you’ve been looking forward to has been postponed; (nearly) every convention you wanted to attend has been canceled. Even some of the TV shows you’ve already been watching have gotten the bump. But a blessed few series are still on their way! Here are 10 genre shows you can still watch as intended.Read more... Go to Source
NBCUniversal Rolls Out a Free Sneak Peek of Its New Streaming Service, Peacock, to Comcast Users

NBCUniversal Rolls Out a Free Sneak Peek of Its New Streaming Service, Peacock, to Comcast Users

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NBCUniversal Rolls Out a Free Sneak Peek of Its New Streaming Service, Peacock, to Comcast Users Right on cue, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex customers are getting early access to the premium tier NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock roughly three months before it’s set to officially launch. While these customers won’t see much of the service’s originals right away, they will get access to thousands of…Read more... Go to Source
Workers at Hollywood Reporter and Billboard Vandalize Website After Getting Laid Off

Workers at Hollywood Reporter and Billboard Vandalize Website After Getting Laid Off

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Workers at Hollywood Reporter and Billboard Vandalize Website After Getting Laid Off Valence Media, the corporate owner of the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard magazine, laid off several writers, editors, and its entire IT staff on Tuesday. But some workers apparently still had access to the company’s websites on Tuesday night. Billboard magazine’s website was vandalized with an image from the movie …Read more... Go to Source
Check Out These Free Print-and-Play Games, Plus More in Tabletop Gaming News

Check Out These Free Print-and-Play Games, Plus More in Tabletop Gaming News

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Check Out These Free Print-and-Play Games, Plus More in Tabletop Gaming News Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. Things are...complicated right now. Some game companies have had to shut down production, while others are releasing free games to help folks out during social distancing. We’ve got all of that plus some exciting…Read more... Go to Source
Trump Announces Freeze on U.S. Funding to World Health Organization in Middle of Pandemic

Trump Announces Freeze on U.S. Funding to World Health Organization in Middle of Pandemic

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Trump Announces Freeze on U.S. Funding to World Health Organization in Middle of Pandemic Donald Trump announced the White House would implement an immediate hold on U.S. funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, making good on threats earlier this month to punish the UN health organization in the middle of the novel coronavirus pandemic. News of the freeze comes as confirmed cases of the…Read more... Go to Source
ThunderCats Roar Is Good, Actually

ThunderCats Roar Is Good, Actually

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ThunderCats Roar Is Good, Actually Cartoon Network’s ThunderCats Roar is real good, but actually real good. If you’re a person of taste, you read that hearing the original ThunderCats theme song playing in your mind because, silly as it was, the tune was an absolute banger. Though ThunderCats Roar’s journey to the small screen was fraught, what Cartoon…Read more... Go to Source
How to Pair Bluetooth Headphones to Your Switch, Plus Recommendations

How to Pair Bluetooth Headphones to Your Switch, Plus Recommendations

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How to Pair Bluetooth Headphones to Your Switch, Plus Recommendations The Switch is a wonderful handheld, but it’s not perfect. It’s a big piece of tech for something that’s portable, and hooking up a set of wired headphones can make it all even more awkward. Thankfully, third-party companies are picking up Nintendo’s slack, creating adapters to hook up wireless Bluetooth headsets.Read more... Go to Source
Grocery Delivery Apps Are Booming—And That’s Bad News for the People Who Need Them Most

Grocery Delivery Apps Are Booming—And That’s Bad News for the People Who Need Them Most

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Grocery Delivery Apps Are Booming—And That's Bad News for the People Who Need Them Most Amadi Lovelace has been using Instacart, one of the most popular grocery delivery apps in the U.S., for more than a year. Three of four adults in her household are disabled, including herself, and grocery delivery is an important resource. Lovelace said she never had a problem getting same-day or next-day delivery…Read more... Go to Source
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