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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
ICE Granted Access to Data on Migrant Children as Part of Deportation Initiative

ICE Granted Access to Data on Migrant Children as Part of Deportation Initiative

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ICE Granted Access to Data on Migrant Children as Part of Deportation Initiative As part of a push to bolster deportation efforts, the Trump administration took steps this month to blur the lines between ICE and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), an agency responsible for unaccompanied migrant children, according to six current and former administration officials who spoke with the …Read more... Go to Source
THIS Replaced Every PC in my House!

THIS Replaced Every PC in my House!

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Five Inexpensive Ways to Organize Your Mess of Gadgets

Five Inexpensive Ways to Organize Your Mess of Gadgets

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Five Inexpensive Ways to Organize Your Mess of Gadgets I wouldn’t call myself a tech hoarder, but I definitely have an abundance of gadgets strewn about my office. If it feels like you’re constantly battling a mountain of cables, discs, and screens, you can make much better use of your space with a few cheap organizing tools. Here’s what I use to keep my clutter to a…Read more... Go to Source
Big Pharma Money Really Does Influence What Doctors Prescribe, Report Finds

Big Pharma Money Really Does Influence What Doctors Prescribe, Report Finds

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Big Pharma Money Really Does Influence What Doctors Prescribe, Report Finds A new ProPublica report out Friday confirms what many people already suspect about Big Pharma’s influence on health care: Doctors who get money from a pharmaceutical company related to a specific brand name drug are more likely to prescribe that same, often expensive drug to their patients.Read more... Go to Source
In a New Look at Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc’s a Man on a Mission

In a New Look at Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc’s a Man on a Mission

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In a New Look at Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc's a Man on a Mission We might be just over a month away from Star Trek: Picard, but now we can while away the wait with a short, but oh so sweet new look at the series—one that gives us tiny new hits at the familiar threats Jean-Luc Picard faces in his latest mission, as well as a reminder of the past that haunts him.Read more... Go to Source
Flickr Could Be In Serious Trouble

Flickr Could Be In Serious Trouble

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Flickr Could Be In Serious Trouble Flickr, where we could live free if only we were willing to pay for it, may be on its last leg (again). On Thursday, TechCrunch reports, Flickr’s relatively new owner SmugMug has sent out an appeal to paying subscribers to tell their friends, bluntly describing Flickr as: “the world’s most-beloved, money-losing…Read more... Go to Source
Native Hawaiians Scored a Major Victory in the Fight Over the Thirty Meter Telescope

Native Hawaiians Scored a Major Victory in the Fight Over the Thirty Meter Telescope

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Native Hawaiians Scored a Major Victory in the Fight Over the Thirty Meter Telescope Many Native Hawaiians have been protesting the construction of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope atop sacred Mauna Kea for months. They scored a victory on Thursday when Hawaii Governor David Ige announced that construction efforts were hitting pause.Read more... Go to Source
MIT Engineers Create Laser Ultrasounds That Can Look Inside Your Body Without You Even Feeling It

MIT Engineers Create Laser Ultrasounds That Can Look Inside Your Body Without You Even Feeling It

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MIT Engineers Create Laser Ultrasounds That Can Look Inside Your Body Without You Even Feeling It Engineers at MIT have come up with a new approach to medical imaging that is both non-invasive and hands-off the patient. Using lasers, they can peer beneath the surface of the skin without any physical contact required, improving upon the limitations of equipment like ultrasound machines.Read more... Go to Source
Netflix Autoplays the Murder of Kittens to Angry Subscribers

Netflix Autoplays the Murder of Kittens to Angry Subscribers

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Netflix Autoplays the Murder of Kittens to Angry Subscribers At a time when its seat as top U.S. streaming service has never been more precarious, the fact that Netflix would decide now to push out a docuseries about a creep who tortures and murders kittens among other horrifying acts is . . . a choice. But one I can at least wrap my head around. What I fail to understand,…Read more... Go to Source
Ransomware Goons Had a Great 2019, With At Least 948 Reported Attacks

Ransomware Goons Had a Great 2019, With At Least 948 Reported Attacks

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Ransomware Goons Had a Great 2019, With At Least 948 Reported Attacks Ransomware operators are closing out a year of extorting local governments, hospitals, and schools across the country with a bang, with at least four more U.S. cities falling victim to sophisticated scams this month alone and a recent report tallying the total number of incidents at nearly a thousand.Read more... Go to Source