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5 Things We Loved, and 3 We Didn’t, About The Witcher’s Netflix Debut

5 Things We Loved, and 3 We Didn’t, About The Witcher’s Netflix Debut

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5 Things We Loved, and 3 We Didn't, About The Witcher's Netflix Debut This past weekend, Geralt of Rivia got moody, got on his horse, and “hmmed” his way onto Netflix for the first season of The Witcher. While our review got into a few of the things that worked or didn’t over the first five episodes, with the full season out, we took a spoiler-filled look at a few of our biggest likes…Read more... Go to Source
Report: Mike Bloomberg’s Campaign Quietly Pouring Millions Into a Tech Firm He Founded This Year

Report: Mike Bloomberg’s Campaign Quietly Pouring Millions Into a Tech Firm He Founded This Year

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Report: Mike Bloomberg's Campaign Quietly Pouring Millions Into a Tech Firm He Founded This Year Former New York City mayor, billionaire, and longshot presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg—who is definitely, totally not just a clueless rich guy running a widely unpopular vanity campaign—is pouring a considerable portion of his gratuitous wealth into a digital advertising firm he founded this year, CNBC reported.Read more... Go to Source
Watchmen May Be Over, But You Can Relive It All Via Its Digital Effects

Watchmen May Be Over, But You Can Relive It All Via Its Digital Effects

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Watchmen May Be Over, But You Can Relive It All Via Its Digital Effects Season one of Watchmen is in the books and it’ll probably be a long time before we see any more episodes...if we ever see any more episodes, which is a decidedly sad thought. At least now that it’s over, we can appreciate the entire season as a whole in any way that we’d like.Read more... Go to Source
Top Lawmakers Warn Against Private Equity Firm’s .Org Takeover

Top Lawmakers Warn Against Private Equity Firm’s .Org Takeover

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Top Lawmakers Warn Against Private Equity Firm's .Org Takeover A group of U.S. lawmakers on Monday raised concerns about the proposed sale of the .org top-level domain to a private equity firm by the organization created to manage it, a deal that has drawn significant scrutiny from digital rights groups and nonprofits since it was first announced last month.Read more... Go to Source
Look Upon and Fear the Man Who Attempted to Blackmail Apple for $100,000 in iTunes Gift Cards

Look Upon and Fear the Man Who Attempted to Blackmail Apple for $100,000 in iTunes Gift Cards

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Look Upon and Fear the Man Who Attempted to Blackmail Apple for $100,000 in iTunes Gift Cards A 22-year-old boss backed by a gangster cabal of “internet buddies” has been thwarted and convicted in their attempt to blackmail Apple, the UK’s National Crime Agency reports. In 2017, London-based Kerem Albayrak made Apple an offer they couldn’t refuse: deliver $100,000 in iTunes gift cards or $75,000 in…Read more... Go to Source
Uninstall ToTok, the Government Surveillance Tool Posing as a Chat App: Report

Uninstall ToTok, the Government Surveillance Tool Posing as a Chat App: Report

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Uninstall ToTok, the Government Surveillance Tool Posing as a Chat App: Report While, yes, your messaging apps are indeed spying on you, to argue that they were developed specifically for that purpose might seem like a stretch. But life is stranger than fiction in the year of our lord 2019, and now you can thank ToTok for making your worst dystopian surveillance state nightmares come true.Read more... Go to Source
Lightsabers From Star Wars Still Aren’t Real, But This Guy Made a Protosaber, Kind Of

Lightsabers From Star Wars Still Aren’t Real, But This Guy Made a Protosaber, Kind Of

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Lightsabers From Star Wars Still Aren’t Real, But This Guy Made a Protosaber, Kind Of In the old Star Wars expanded universe, lightsabers weren’t the first laser-sword weapons wielded by Jedi and the Sith. No, that honor went to the protosaber, the hilariously clunky version of the lightsaber that, instead of using an internal power cell, had an external wearable power supply. Like a wearable vacuum…Read more... Go to Source
TikTok Chalks Up Another Military Ban

TikTok Chalks Up Another Military Ban

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TikTok Chalks Up Another Military Ban Apparently taking a page from the Army’s playbook, the U.S. Navy recently announced that it considers TikTok a “cybersecurity threat” and has banned the popular short-form video app, once a controversial staple of the military’s recruitment strategy, from all government-issued mobile devices.Read more... Go to Source
There’s a New Trailer for New Mutants Coming Next Month, Which Means New Mutants Might Still Be Released

There’s a New Trailer for New Mutants Coming Next Month, Which Means New Mutants Might Still Be Released

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There’s a New Trailer for New Mutants Coming Next Month, Which Means New Mutants Might Still Be Released No single film has been as emblematic of the fallout of the Disney/Fox deal as New Mutants, a semi-troubled X-Men spinoff production that went from “mostly finished” to “absolute development hell” as soon as Marvel Studios got its crossover-hungry fingers on the X-Men license. While random rumors about the movie have…Read more... Go to Source
Twitter Warns Millions of Android App Users to Update Immediately

Twitter Warns Millions of Android App Users to Update Immediately

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Twitter Warns Millions of Android App Users to Update Immediately If endlessly scrolling through Twitter on your phone is part of your daily ritual, you’re going to want to update the app as soon as you can if you’re an Android user. This week, Twitter confirmed a vulnerability in its Android app that could let hackers see your “nonpublic account information” and commandeer your…Read more... Go to Source
Jonathan Hickman’s Newest Series Is Sci-Fi Epic Decorum, Launching This March

Jonathan Hickman’s Newest Series Is Sci-Fi Epic Decorum, Launching This March

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Jonathan Hickman’s Newest Series Is Sci-Fi Epic Decorum, Launching This March Recently, we all lost our collective shit over the wild treatment Jonathan Hickman and a few collaborators gave to the X-Men side of Marvel comics with House of X and Powers of X. For anyone wondering what the author’s next trick would be, here you go: it’s a new series at Image. Read more... Go to Source
In an Unprecedented Move, Universal Is Sending Theaters a Patched Version of Cats

In an Unprecedented Move, Universal Is Sending Theaters a Patched Version of Cats

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In an Unprecedented Move, Universal Is Sending Theaters a Patched Version of Cats Cats, Tom Hooper’s memetic hazard of a musical, is receiving unprecedented treatment from its distributors at Universal. As shared by the Hollywood Reporter, the company is sending theaters an updated version of the Ozymandias-like monument to hubris and toxoplasmosis. This new version of the film, according to a memo…Read more... Go to Source
Garfield Cartoonist Jim Davis Is Putting 30 Years of Strips Up for Auction

Garfield Cartoonist Jim Davis Is Putting 30 Years of Strips Up for Auction

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Garfield Cartoonist Jim Davis Is Putting 30 Years of Strips Up for Auction Garfield, the daily comic strip about a cat who does nothing and believes in nothing, has been going on for over 40 years. Now, the first three decades and change of strips, from the beginning of the orange cat’s lasagna fetishist ways in 1978 all the way to 2011, are going up for sale in a series of weekly auctions. Read more... Go to Source
Could We Have a Global Green New Deal?

Could We Have a Global Green New Deal?

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Could We Have a Global Green New Deal? The U.S. is screwing up its climate targets, but it’s far from the only country doing so. This year’s international climate talks, which included 200 nations, failed to deliver more ambitious goals to cut emissions and most countries are set to miss targets to meet the Paris Agreement goals to limit global heating.Read more... Go to Source
Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Authorized For Commercial Use In California

Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Authorized For Commercial Use In California

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Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Authorized For Commercial Use In California Are you ready to be stuck in traffic behind armies of autonomous delivery robots? No? Well good news: if you live in California you can soon stay home and have all your stuff delivered by autonomous delivery robots. Starting January 17, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will start approving permits for…Read more... Go to Source
12 Things to Do to Your Friends’ and Family’s Tech to Get Them to Stop Bothering You

12 Things to Do to Your Friends’ and Family’s Tech to Get Them to Stop Bothering You

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12 Things to Do to Your Friends' and Family's Tech to Get Them to Stop Bothering You It’s the most wonderful time of the year: The time when you get to tackle a year’s worth of tech troubles in just one visit to the home of a relative. If you’re the designated IT expert in your branch of the family, here’s how to pass on the most useful advice in the quickest time possible, so you can get back to…Read more... Go to Source
Apple’s Best Show Is an Alt-History Cold War Epic About Moon Missions With Women

Apple’s Best Show Is an Alt-History Cold War Epic About Moon Missions With Women

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Apple's Best Show Is an Alt-History Cold War Epic About Moon Missions With Women For the last month, I’ve been struck with a problem I fear far too few people have been struck with. I’ve been confusing my sharply written sci-fi shows that use alternative history to explore the ways we marginalize whole groups of people. Watchmen has explored the travesties America has committed against black…Read more... Go to Source