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Disney+ Will Let You Keep Downloaded Content Even After It Leaves the Platform [Update]

Disney+ Will Let You Keep Downloaded Content Even After It Leaves the Platform [Update]

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Disney+ Will Let You Keep Downloaded Content Even After It Leaves the Platform [Update] Update 10/24 5:16 PM: A Disney spokesperson replying to Gizmodo’s request for confirmation told us that Disney CEO Bob Iger comments were misinterpreted when he said, “if you are a subscriber, you can download it and put it on a device and it will stay on that device as long as you continue to subscribe.” According to…Read more... Go to Source
Filtered Cigarettes Are One of the Worst Types of Pollution and We Should Ban Them, Experts Argue

Filtered Cigarettes Are One of the Worst Types of Pollution and We Should Ban Them, Experts Argue

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Filtered Cigarettes Are One of the Worst Types of Pollution and We Should Ban Them, Experts Argue Some scientists have had it up to here with cigarette butts, particularly those from cigarettes with filtered plastic tips. In a new op-ed this week, researchers have called for a global ban of filtered cigarettes, pointing out that the products aren’t any safer for us (as was once commonly advertised). In addition,…Read more... Go to Source
Pedro Pascal’s Wonder Woman 1984 Character Is Exactly Who You Thought He Was

Pedro Pascal’s Wonder Woman 1984 Character Is Exactly Who You Thought He Was

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Pedro Pascal's Wonder Woman 1984 Character Is Exactly Who You Thought He Was It feels like eons ago we learned Game of Thrones star Pedro Pascal would be joining the highly-anticipated Wonder Woman sequel in an undisclosed role, what with him picking up another juicy role in the meantime you can’t really blame us for getting distracted. So it was a bit of surprise to see director Patty Jenkins…Read more... Go to Source
Disney+ Will Let You Keep Downloaded Content Even After It Leaves the Platform

Disney+ Will Let You Keep Downloaded Content Even After It Leaves the Platform

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Disney+ Will Let You Keep Downloaded Content Even After It Leaves the Platform Disney+ is making a more compelling case for itself seemingly by the day as it nears its release date. In yet another impressive reveal about the service, Walt Disney Company chief Bob Iger said this week that the enormous soon-to-launch streaming service will allow users to keep content on their devices even after it…Read more... Go to Source
Biden Forgot to Buy the Web Address For His Latinx Outreach Campaign and Now Trump Owns It

Biden Forgot to Buy the Web Address For His Latinx Outreach Campaign and Now Trump Owns It

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Biden Forgot to Buy the Web Address For His Latinx Outreach Campaign and Now Trump Owns It Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced a new campaign yesterday called “Todos Con Biden” (Everyone With Biden) to help organize Latinx support for the former vice president. But there’s just one little problem: The Biden campaign forgot to register the web address, Facebook name, and Twitter handle for…Read more... Go to Source
Don’t Watch This Trailer for Antlers Unless You Want to Discover Its Big Secret

Don’t Watch This Trailer for Antlers Unless You Want to Discover Its Big Secret

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Don't Watch This Trailer for Antlers Unless You Want to Discover Its Big Secret The first teaser for Scott Cooper’s Antlers—which is produced by Guillermo del Toro and is based on a story by Channel Zero’s Nick Antosca—dropped some pretty heavy hints about the peculiar family troubles facing the small boy at its center. But a new trailer reveals a whole hell of a lot more.Read more... Go to Source
The Daily Bugle Is on the Hunt for a Major Scoop in Its Very Own Comic Book

The Daily Bugle Is on the Hunt for a Major Scoop in Its Very Own Comic Book

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The Daily Bugle Is on the Hunt for a Major Scoop in Its Very Own Comic Book Two-thousand nineteen: A bad year for the media, by and large. Venture capitalists running amok, local news structures being torn apart and shut down, institutions being reshaped and ruined by the influence of massive tech companies like Facebook and Google. That’s the real world, at least. In superhero comics? It’s…Read more... Go to Source
First Look at ‘Sycamore,’ Google’s Quantum Computer

First Look at ‘Sycamore,’ Google’s Quantum Computer

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First Look at 'Sycamore,' Google's Quantum Computer Between the mountainous and coastal vistas of Goleta, California, sits an unassuming office on the side of a building next to the freeway. It could belong to any Southern California company; workers sit in gray cubicles beneath fluorescent lights, and there’s a rack to hold employees’ bikes and surfboards. But at…Read more... Go to Source
The NASCAR Crash Compilation of Mark Zuckerberg’s Six-Hour Congressional Testimony

The NASCAR Crash Compilation of Mark Zuckerberg’s Six-Hour Congressional Testimony

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The NASCAR Crash Compilation of Mark Zuckerberg's Six-Hour Congressional Testimony Mark Zuckerberg, America’s pluckiest boy-technocrat and the inventor of the Retreating Bowl Cut, sat before the House Financial Services Committee for a marathon six-hour hearing today. In theory, he was there to talk about his attempts to prop up a new worldwide currency. In practice, he was grilled about nearly…Read more... Go to Source
Fresh Look at New Horizons Data Shows Pluto’s ‘Far Side’ in Unprecedented Detail

Fresh Look at New Horizons Data Shows Pluto’s ‘Far Side’ in Unprecedented Detail

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Fresh Look at New Horizons Data Shows Pluto’s ‘Far Side’ in Unprecedented Detail When New Horizons zipped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, the NASA spacecraft was only able to observe one side of the dwarf planet. Scientists have now reviewed data collected by New Horizons during its approach and as it traveled away, resulting in the most detailed analysis yet of Pluto’s elusive far side.Read more... Go to Source
Scientists Say Their Experimental Drug Knocks Out the Flu, in Animal Tests at Least

Scientists Say Their Experimental Drug Knocks Out the Flu, in Animal Tests at Least

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Scientists Say Their Experimental Drug Knocks Out the Flu, in Animal Tests at Least We might be inching closer to a holy grail of medicine: an incredibly effective flu-killing drug that the virus can’t quickly adapt to. A new experimental treatment was able to rapidly reduce the flu virus in ferrets, but human trials are still a ways off. Read more... Go to Source
How Those Memes You Just Posted Could Soon Cost You $30,000

How Those Memes You Just Posted Could Soon Cost You $30,000

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How Those Memes You Just Posted Could Soon Cost You $30,000 You’re served with a notice. Apparently you’d shared some photos you didn’t own on the internet a while ago, and now someone–possibly an artist, possibly a copyright troll–can file for damages of up to $30,000. Scam, you think, and toss the paper. You’re served with a second paper 30 days later, but you toss that too.Read more... Go to Source
Our Favorite Features in the New Firefox 70 Browser

Our Favorite Features in the New Firefox 70 Browser

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Our Favorite Features in the New Firefox 70 Browser It’s time to update to a brand-new version of Firefox Quantum. While your browser will eventually do this for you, I recommend forcing the issue by clicking the hamburger icon, clicking on “Help,” and then clicking on “About Firefox.” And while Firefox 70 downloads to your desktop or laptop, here’s a quick look at…Read more... Go to Source
Raytheon Delivers First Anti-Drone Laser Weapon to U.S. Air Force

Raytheon Delivers First Anti-Drone Laser Weapon to U.S. Air Force

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Raytheon Delivers First Anti-Drone Laser Weapon to U.S. Air Force Raytheon has announced that it delivered the first publicly acknowledged anti-drone laser weapon to the U.S. Air Force earlier this month. The military contractor said the Air Force will deploy the weapon in a year-long experiment overseas in order to train people how to use it and test its effectiveness out in the…Read more... Go to Source
Just My Opinion: The Company Offering $130,000 for the Perfect Robot Face Should Choose Luigi

Just My Opinion: The Company Offering $130,000 for the Perfect Robot Face Should Choose Luigi

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Just My Opinion: The Company Offering $130,000 for the Perfect Robot Face Should Choose Luigi British engineering firm Geomiq is now accepting submissions from the public to be the literal face of a “state of the art humanoid” robot slated for production in exchange for $130,000, CNET reported on Tuesday.Read more... Go to Source
Rick and Morty Side-Eyes Stranger Things With a Suitably Cheeky Title Reveal

Rick and Morty Side-Eyes Stranger Things With a Suitably Cheeky Title Reveal

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Rick and Morty Side-Eyes Stranger Things With a Suitably Cheeky Title Reveal Everything about Rick and Morty’s fourth season has been an event, from its limbo, to its mere existence, to its renewal—and that’s even before we get to actually see the damn thing. So why not treat episode titles with the same haughty status as Netflix does for its own critical genre darling, Stranger Things?Read more... Go to Source
The Best Things Xbox One Has Done This Generation

The Best Things Xbox One Has Done This Generation

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The Best Things Xbox One Has Done This Generation This console generation, sales for the Xbox One are estimated to be around 47 million units behind sales for the PlayStation 4. That’s a huge gap that Microsoft isn’t likely to close before we learn more about the next generation of consoles next year, but it isn’t because the Xbox One failed to innovate, or come up…Read more... Go to Source