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Get a Load of the Glorious Kaiju Art Stomping Into Mondo’s New Godzilla Gallery

Get a Load of the Glorious Kaiju Art Stomping Into Mondo’s New Godzilla Gallery

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Get a Load of the Glorious Kaiju Art Stomping Into Mondo's New Godzilla Gallery There are few more iconic giant creatures than Godzilla—he’s the king for a reason, after all. Now, he’s getting a poster collection worthy of such royalty, and io9 has an exclusive first look at what’s going to be charging its way into your hearts (and your wallets) with a mighty skree-onk!Read more... Go to Source
Doing the Best We Can

Doing the Best We Can

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Doing the Best We Can NEW ORLEANS, LA—In barely over a week, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Louisiana has spiked from one to nearly 200, making its per-capita infection rate the highest in the country behind Seattle. Nearly everyone I’ve spoken to in New Orleans believes the virus has been circulating undetected here for some…Read more... Go to Source
Japanese Man Who Threatened to Intentionally Spread Covid-19 Dies

Japanese Man Who Threatened to Intentionally Spread Covid-19 Dies

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Japanese Man Who Threatened to Intentionally Spread Covid-19 Dies A 57-year-old man in Japan who contracted the new coronavirus and threatened to intentionally spread it in public spaces has died, according to multiple news reports from Japan. The infected man, who told family he was going to “spread the virus” by visiting bars in central Japan, died in a hospital on Wednesday.Read more... Go to Source
On the Plus Side, Maybe George R.R. Martin Will Finish Winds of Winter Now

On the Plus Side, Maybe George R.R. Martin Will Finish Winds of Winter Now

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On the Plus Side, Maybe George R.R. Martin Will Finish Winds of Winter Now Things are...bad, right? There’s a deadly disease spreading across the planet. The world’s governments and health organizations are struggling to catch up. Most people are isolated to their homes hoping to curb the panic, events are cancelled, and gathering places are almost all closed. Read more... Go to Source
I Work From Home and These Three Habits Give Me Structure

I Work From Home and These Three Habits Give Me Structure

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I Work From Home and These Three Habits Give Me Structure Working from home can be a challenge for so many reasons, not the least of which is that it requires you to create your own structures and routines. It’s a cliché to say “put on pants” when giving advice to people who are just starting a work from home life, but it’s a cliche for a reason: Putting on pants is kind of…Read more... Go to Source
Major Book Publisher Abandons Terrible Plan to Keep New Ebooks Out of Libraries

Major Book Publisher Abandons Terrible Plan to Keep New Ebooks Out of Libraries

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Major Book Publisher Abandons Terrible Plan to Keep New Ebooks Out of Libraries Trying to maintain social distance while not losing your mind from boredom? Your public library’s collection of ebooks is an excellent resource, and now you have an even larger selection: One of the Big Five U.S. publishers walked back its 8-week delay on licensing new ebook releases to libraries.Read more... Go to Source
Alphabet Still Needs to Answer a Big Question About Its Covid-19 Site

Alphabet Still Needs to Answer a Big Question About Its Covid-19 Site

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Alphabet Still Needs to Answer a Big Question About Its Covid-19 Site By now, you’ve probably heard about Verily, the strangely named Alphabet subsidiary that’s in charge of the “coronavirus testing website” endorsed by Donald Trump. Now that the company has launched the first round of its proposed coronavirus program in the Bay Area, there are a few specifics about the program that are…Read more... Go to Source
Vulkan API Now Supports Ray Tracing and That’s Great News If You Game

Vulkan API Now Supports Ray Tracing and That’s Great News If You Game

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Vulkan API Now Supports Ray Tracing and That's Great News If You Game Khronos Group, the company behind the Vulkan application programming interface (API), announced today that it now supports ray tracing the buzzword friendly feature Nvidia pushed and console makers like Sony and Microsoft seem to be adopting into their next-gen consoles. The support makes it the only cross-OS platform…Read more... Go to Source
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Jalopnik Watch Jay Leno Drive A Bonkers Six-Wheeled Briggs And Stratton Car  |Jezebel How Berkeley High's Whisper Network Sparked a Movement  |The Root America's Response to the Coronavirus Is a Natural Consequence of White Supremacy  |The A.V. Club It's time to ask ourselves if 2004's Catwoman is the worst superhero movie ever made  |Read more... Go to Source
Public Transit Is the Way to a Green New Deal

Public Transit Is the Way to a Green New Deal

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Public Transit Is the Way to a Green New Deal A new report shows that the majority of voters across party lines want to see massive transformation in the transportation sector if it means increasing access and funding for public transportation. And this report outlines exactly how the U.S. can accomplish that by 2030. A Green New Deal for transportation is here,…Read more... Go to Source
If You’re Buying Movies Online Make Sure You Sign Up for This Service to Watch Them Anywhere

If You’re Buying Movies Online Make Sure You Sign Up for This Service to Watch Them Anywhere

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If You're Buying Movies Online Make Sure You Sign Up for This Service to Watch Them Anywhere If you are like me you are, perhaps, averse to buying digital movies. We don’t own the things we acquire digitally and there’s no telling when a service will shutter, like Microsoft’s eBook store, or stop supplying the digital content you bought—like all the weed apps pulled from the iOS app store. Digital purchases…Read more... Go to Source
Boris Johnson Jokes With CEOs That Ventilator Crisis Should Be Called ‘Operation Last Gasp’: Report

Boris Johnson Jokes With CEOs That Ventilator Crisis Should Be Called ‘Operation Last Gasp’: Report

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Boris Johnson Jokes With CEOs That Ventilator Crisis Should Be Called 'Operation Last Gasp': Report Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire for mismanaging his country’s response to the covid-19 crisis in the United Kingdom, almost as poorly as President Donald Trump across the Atlantic. But Johnson’s latest comments, made on a conference call with British CEOs, might be the worst thing he’s said yet about…Read more... Go to Source
Stargirl’s Latest Promo Wants You to Laugh and Think About the Justice Society of America

Stargirl’s Latest Promo Wants You to Laugh and Think About the Justice Society of America

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Stargirl's Latest Promo Wants You to Laugh and Think About the Justice Society of America As more of DC Comics’ superheroes like Stargirl make their way onto the small screen, Warner Bros. is getting to the important business of...trying to carve out new thematic spaces for each of its series to exist in. The Arrowverse has it covered in terms of straight-up comic wildness, and DC Universe’s Titans, Doom…Read more... Go to Source
A Costume-Less Batwoman Just Crossed a Line Batman Rarely Has

A Costume-Less Batwoman Just Crossed a Line Batman Rarely Has

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A Costume-Less Batwoman Just Crossed a Line Batman Rarely Has Batwoman is a much darker show than the other CW superhero fare. It kind of makes sense—Bat stories often veer into gothic horror territory. But Batwoman frequently finds itself falling into what I like to call the “Canadian Torture Porn Trap.” Weird I know. Canada is not a place known for its torture porn! Yet I…Read more... Go to Source
What’s the Best Standing Desk?

What’s the Best Standing Desk?

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What's the Best Standing Desk? So you’re working from home, eh? What a coincidence, me too. But like me, have you spent entire days at a time sitting down for 10-12 hours straight, working nonstop, before deciding to go for a 10-mile run and calling a Lyft halfway through because the cramps make it impossible to breathe? Read more... Go to Source
Calls to Conduct 2020 Elections by Mail Are Growing as Virus Spreads

Calls to Conduct 2020 Elections by Mail Are Growing as Virus Spreads

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Calls to Conduct 2020 Elections by Mail Are Growing as Virus Spreads With the general election more than seven months away, the potential impact of covid-19 on voter turnout remains largely hypothetical. But in what could prove a parallel to the prescient (and mostly unheeded) warnings by top medical officials about U.S. unpreparedness last month, a wave of influential voices are now…Read more... Go to Source
AMD’s Ray Tracing Looks Great on the Xbox Series X, but It’s Based on Nvidia’s Code

AMD’s Ray Tracing Looks Great on the Xbox Series X, but It’s Based on Nvidia’s Code

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AMD's Ray Tracing Looks Great on the Xbox Series X, but It's Based on Nvidia's Code We’ve known for a while that Microsoft’s next-gen console, Xbox Series X, will include ray tracing, but we haven’t seen what it will look like until now. In a blog post today Microsoft gave the most spec-heavy details about the new system yet. However, a deep dive by Digital Foundry provides a closer look at what the…Read more... Go to Source
Games To Play While You’re Not Leaving The House

Games To Play While You’re Not Leaving The House

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Games To Play While You're Not Leaving The House As Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, spreads, it’s more important than ever to cancel unnecessary outings and use social distancing measures to try and limit how many people get infected. In other words, you’re going to be spending a lot of time inside. Here are some of the best video games to help you…Read more... Go to Source