Adam Pally Tells All About the Day He Punched Baby Yoda
Adam Pally Tells All About the Day He Punched Baby Yoda The Mandalorian’s biggest criminal finally tells his side of the story. Read more... Go to Source
Science, Tech and Gadgets
Be Careful What You Click On: This Texas School District Lost $2.3 Million in a Phishing Scam
Be Careful What You Click On: This Texas School District Lost $2.3 Million in a Phishing Scam Given that it’s the beginning of a new year, it’s important to remember to be careful what you click on. A school district in Texas learned this the hard way when it lost approximately $2.3 million due to a phishing email scam. Read more... Go to Source
U.S. Sanctions Are the Reason You’re Not Seeing Pro-Soleimani Posts on Instagram
U.S. Sanctions Are the Reason You’re Not Seeing Pro-Soleimani Posts on Instagram Instagram is removing posts on its platform that support the slain Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani because of U.S. sanctions on the country. In the days after Soleimani was killed, Instagram and Twitter had been flooded with posts supporting him, which some considered a coordinated propaganda campaign, and calling for…Read more... Go to Source
Samsung and Microsoft’s Working-Class Smartphone Coming to the U.S. for $499
Samsung and Microsoft's Working-Class Smartphone Coming to the U.S. for $499 Samsung and Microsoft are joining together to bring an ingenious new idea to the workplace. Are you ready to have your mind blown? Get this: walkie talkies.Read more... Go to Source
This Featurette Explains Why Gretel & Hansel Is Returning to the Classic Fairy Tale
This Featurette Explains Why Gretel & Hansel Is Returning to the Classic Fairy Tale Gretel & Hansel is a stylish upcoming horror movie that bases its premise on a fairy tale we all know and have heard so often that there’s nothing left in it even remotely frightening. So why go back to that well? There are a lot of creepy houses in the woods—why pick that one?Read more... Go to Source
Anker’s Tiny New 18W USB-C Charger Can Charge Your Laptop and Switch For Just $16
Anker’s Tiny New 18W USB-C Charger Can Charge Your Laptop and Switch For Just $16 Anker PowerPort III Nano 18W USB-C Charger | $16 | Amazon | Clip the coupon on the pageRead more... Go to Source
Syfy’s Chucky Series Is Officially on the Way
Syfy's Chucky Series Is Officially on the Way Last year, we got news that, aside from the Child’s Play reboot, another updated take on the Chucky mythos might be on the way. And this weekend, at the Television Critics’ Association winter press tour, it was confirmed. Make room in your heart for more haunted puppet shenanigans, ‘cause Chucky’s back. Read more... Go to Source
SpaceX’s First Private Billionaire Passenger Launches Search for Girlfriend to Take on Trip Around the Moon
SpaceX’s First Private Billionaire Passenger Launches Search for Girlfriend to Take on Trip Around the Moon When SpaceX revealed the name of its first private passenger to fly around the moon, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, it wasn’t that much of a surprise. Being a billionaire helps when paying for the ticket, after all. However, Maezawa appears determined to control the narrative of his trip, and he wants one thing…Read more... Go to Source
Sunday’s Best Deals: Apple AirPods, Anker USB-C Charger, Civilization VI, Kindle Sale, and More
Sunday's Best Deals: Apple AirPods, Anker USB-C Charger, Civilization VI, Kindle Sale, and More A Netgear switch, Washington Post subscription, and a RavPower Qi charger lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.Read more... Go to Source
The Weirdest and the Worst of CES 2020
The Weirdest and the Worst of CES 2020 The tiniest tech companies and the largest tech companies, and plenty of in between sized tech companies descend on Las Vegas the first full week in January every single year. Their goal is to excite us with new products or advertise plenty of existing ones. In some cases their goal is just go get us to murmur the…Read more... Go to Source
Cartoon Network Has Posted the First Episodes of Thundercats Roar Online
Cartoon Network Has Posted the First Episodes of Thundercats Roar Online Did you remember that the Thundercats were getting another reboot? I sure didn’t! Announced in 2018, Thundercats Roar is a new take on the tale of super space cats from Warner Bros. Set initially to air last year on Cartoon Network, the show has slightly slipped that release date but now rears its meowing head in the…Read more... Go to Source
Pokémon Go Somehow Still Relevant in the Year of Our Lord 2020
Pokémon Go Somehow Still Relevant in the Year of Our Lord 2020 Remember the bygone era of 2016? Oh, to return to that sanguine time, where instead of fretting over deadly vaping illnesses and the possibility of World War III, we all held hands and sang kumbaya united by a serious case of Pokémon Go fever that swept the globe.Read more... Go to Source
Add a Smarter, 8-Port Gigabit Switch to Your Home Network for Just $20
Add a Smarter, 8-Port Gigabit Switch to Your Home Network for Just $20 NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch | $20 | AmazonRead more... Go to Source
Modder Creates Custom GameCube Controller For Switch
Modder Creates Custom GameCube Controller For Switch It took a lot of work, planning, and tinkering, but a modder has created a custom GameCube controller that can split apart and connect to a Switch tablet, allowing for handheld play. Read more... Go to Source
Walmart Wants to Build 20,000-Square-Foot Automated Warehouses With Fleets of Robot Grocery Pickers
Walmart Wants to Build 20,000-Square-Foot Automated Warehouses With Fleets of Robot Grocery Pickers Walmart has unveiled a new initiative that aims to make in-store fulfillment, one of the biggest challenges for its online grocery business, more efficient. Say hello to Alphabot, a robotic fulfillment system that uses human labor and robot speed to pick more than 800 products per hour. Read more... Go to Source
Batman Actor Burt Ward Claims ABC Gave Him Pills to Shrink His Superheroic Penis
Batman Actor Burt Ward Claims ABC Gave Him Pills to Shrink His Superheroic Penis Earlier this week, Burt Ward, famous player of Robin in the 1960s Batman TV show, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. During the ceremonies, he revealed some information that has us just bursting at the seams with curiosity. Read more... Go to Source
The Very Best Gadgets We Saw at CES 2020
The Very Best Gadgets We Saw at CES 2020 It’s Saturday, CES is finally done, and over 150,000 people have fled Vegas for less light-saturated locales. We walked the show floor and went to every secret hotel meeting we could to find the best gadgets coming out of CES this year.Read more... Go to Source
One Of Climate Change’s Biggest Contributors Is In Your Car, But It’s Not Coming From The Tailpipe
One Of Climate Change's Biggest Contributors Is In Your Car, But It’s Not Coming From The Tailpipe As you drive your internal combustion car, the engine is drinking gas, gobbling up air, and farting out a continuous stream of carbon dioxide, among other things. This is bad, because CO2 traps heat in the earth’s atmosphere, resulting in a runaway greenhouse effect that will leave earth a barren hellscape. But, there…Read more... Go to Source
Saturday’s Best Deals: Indochino Shirts, Sex Toys, Weighted Blankets and More
Saturday's Best Deals: Indochino Shirts, Sex Toys, Weighted Blankets and More A Garden of Life Gold Box, TRX suspension kit, Genki Switch Bluetooth adapter, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web. Read more... Go to Source
A New Study Claims to Disprove Dark Energy—but Cosmologists Aren’t Convinced
A New Study Claims to Disprove Dark Energy—but Cosmologists Aren't Convinced It would be really, really exciting if a single observation could completely overturn astrophysicists’ current understanding of the universe. But that hasn’t happened yet, at least with regards to dark energy.Read more... Go to Source
Iran Says It “Unintentionally” Shot Down Ukrainian Airlines Flight
Iran Says It "Unintentionally" Shot Down Ukrainian Airlines Flight Iran’s military admitted to “unintentionally” shooting down a Ukrainian International Airlines passenger jet that crashed shortly after takeoff earlier this week, per a recent Associated Press report.Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Employees Leak Customer Data to Third-Party Agent (Again)
Amazon Employees Leak Customer Data to Third-Party Agent (Again) Online retail giant Amazon fired several employees this week after they leaked private customer data to an undisclosed third-party. If reading that gives you some serious déjà vu, it’s probably because the same damn thing happened less than six months ago. Read more... Go to Source
This $5 Donut Dog Toy Is One of the Only Toys To Survive My Super Chewer
This $5 Donut Dog Toy Is One of the Only Toys To Survive My Super Chewer Hi guys, it’s Tyrone’s mom again! Have you missed my weekly musings about how wonderful Tyrone is? Me too. Well, I’m back to share one of Tyrone’s favorite toys. Just like his mama, Tyrone loves donuts. Except, his are sugar and carb-free and they squeak.Read more... Go to Source
Hummer Is Coming Back As An Electric Off-Road Pickup By GMC: Wall Street Journal
Hummer Is Coming Back As An Electric Off-Road Pickup By GMC: Wall Street Journal In the latest and juiciest of Hummer-related rumors, the Wall Street Journal claims that “people familiar with the matter” say GM is bringing back Hummer as an off-road electric pickup model under the GMC brand. Set to debut in early 2022, the truck will be shown off by basketball genius LeBron James during this…Read more... Go to Source
MIT Report Finds That Jeffrey Epstein Donated $850,000 to MIT Media Lab, Professor Seth Lloyd
MIT Report Finds That Jeffrey Epstein Donated $850,000 to MIT Media Lab, Professor Seth Lloyd Disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein donated $850,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, per a university investigation that has found ex-MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito and mechanical engineering professor Seth Lloyd solicited the contributions.Read more... Go to Source
Can The Good Place Change, Well, Everything?
Can The Good Place Change, Well, Everything? It’s all come to this. Everything they’ve been through has all happened so they could be here, together, as the very best version of themselves to solve the ultimate problem in the nick of time. “You’ve Changed, Man” may be the most important episode in the history of The Good Place. Read more... Go to Source
Samsung Saved Its Best New TV Tech for the Wrong Damn TVs
Samsung Saved Its Best New TV Tech for the Wrong Damn TVs Samsungs’s new line of 8K televisions for 2020 takes a pretty incredible new approach to sounds. With additional speakers built into the TV set, including two that face up towards the ceiling, Samsung is able to get incredible, almost surround-sound-like sound stage, in a TV about as thick as your thumb. The problem…Read more... Go to Source
Goodbye From Josh and Gita
Goodbye From Josh and Gita Today, Joshua Rivera and Gita Jackson are both leaving Kotaku. They sat down to talk about what they love about this place, as well as the state of games journalism and its diversity, worker solidarity and herbs.Read more... Go to Source
Americans’ Body Temperature Has Been Dropping Since the 19th Century, Study Finds
Americans' Body Temperature Has Been Dropping Since the 19th Century, Study Finds A new study has found evidence that the average blood temperature of people in the U.S. has lowered over the past century and a half—probably because we’re in better health.Read more... Go to Source
The Amazon Website Is a Clunky Mess—Here’s How to Make It Suck Less
The Amazon Website Is a Clunky Mess—Here's How to Make It Suck Less For an enterprise as big and as dominant as Amazon is, you would expect its website to be maybe a little bit more polished and easier to navigate—as it is, it feels like 20 years’ worth of bits of web code bolted rather haphazardly together. While we wait for Amazon to do a ground-up revamp, here’s how to make your…Read more... Go to Source