Sea Level Rise Driven by a Crucial Ice Sheet Could Be 30% More Than Predicted Look out world—the ice sheet is coming. New research says that the total collapse of a crucial ice sheet in Antarctica could mean that sea levels would rise an additional 30% more than scientists currently predict.Read more... Go to Source
The Craft at 25: A Couple of First-Timers Dive Into the Witchy Cult Classic Growing up in the 1990s, everyone knew The Craft. It was one of those cool, R-rated movies you maybe quoted with your friends or watched again and again at a sleepover. The characters were unique and fresh. The material was edgy and provocative. At the time, the film hit such a cultural nerve that people at my high…Read more... Go to Source
Scans of Medieval Skeletons Show Cancer Has Been Common Longer Than We Thought Cancer may have been a bigger menace in medieval times than previously assumed, new research this week suggests. The study, based on X-ray and CT scans of preserved bones, estimates that around one in every 10 residents of medieval Britain died with cancer in their body.Read more... Go to Source
Lucifer's New Trailer Gives Us a Devil With a God Complex The second half of Lucifer’s fifth season is soon to arrive, and now we’ve got a trailer that shares rather a lot about what we can expect, including an outright explanation as to why a sweater-clad God (Dennis Haysbert) has visited Lucifer (Tom Ellis) and the rest of his squabbling family on Earth: he wants to retire!Read more... Go to Source
Why You Should Use a Physical Key to Sign Into Your Accounts The benefits of two-factor authentication (2FA) are clear: A person trying to get into your accounts will need something else besides your username and password, which makes it more difficult to hack you. That something else is often a code sent via SMS or through an app, but there’s another option: a physical…Read more... Go to Source
Elon Musk Shares Painfully Obvious Idea About the Difficulty of Self-Driving Cars Elon Musk, one of the wealthiest people on the planet, sent a tweet Thursday night about the real problem with self-driving cars. And as you can probably guess by now, it’s one of those things that sounds profound until you stop to think about it for three seconds. That’s more or less Musk’s brand at this point. Read more... Go to Source
Netflix Finally Adds a Shuffle Play Feature for Those of Us With Decision Paralysis Netflix rolled out its new “Play Something” feature this week, a shuffle play option for when you have thousands of TV shows and movies at your fingertips and no idea what to watch. Read more... Go to Source
Instagram Realizes It Had a Clubhouse In Its Heart All Along As more and more social media platforms start cooking up their own Clubhouse clones, Instagram is adding new features to its existing livestreaming service to get in on the voice chat craze. On Thursday, Instagram announced it’s rolling out the option to turn off your audio or video while using Instagram Live.Read more... Go to Source
Windows 10 Is Finally Getting Better Support for AirPods Part of Microsoft’s great big overhaul to Windows 10 finally includes some major changes to Bluetooth support and audio endpoints. These changes are now live in the latest Windows 10 Insider preview build, reports The Verge.Read more... Go to Source
Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine Just Had a Dark Side Squid Fight That’s not even the most ridiculous thing I can tell you about Marvel’s latest Star Wars comic, Darth Vader #11.Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Renews Invincible for 2 More Bloody Seasons It shouldn’t be a surprise. Robert Kirkman’s animated adaptation of his own 2003 comic has been even more popular and well-reviewed than its source material, thanks to its airing on Amazon Prime. Clearly, Amazon isn’t unaware of this fact, since it’s just renewed Invincible for not one but two more seasons.Read more... Go to Source
Biden's Labor Secretary Wants to See Gig Workers Reclassified as Employees Tech stocks tumbled on Thursday following a Reuters interview in which U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh stated that many of the millions of gig workers across the country should, in fact, be classified as employees, rather than independent contractors.Read more... Go to Source
Scientists Find Billion-Year-Old Fossil Life, 'Something Which Has Never Been Described Before' On the shores of a Scottish loch lie geologic deposits dating back a billion years, and within the rocks is evidence of the earliest known non-marine multicellular organism, according to a study published in Current Biology. It’s a fascinating new detail in the story of how animals may have evolved from the soup of…Read more... Go to Source
Yasuke Writer Nick Jones Jr. on Exploring Japan's Legendary Black Samurai Netflix’s anime selection is huge and growing by the day. One new original project in particular—Yasuke, created by LeSean Thomas and starring LaKeith Stanfield—tells a true story but uses some truly fantastical elements to do it. io9 recently spoke to head writer Nick Jones Jr. about his journey to becoming a writer,…Read more... Go to Source
Scientists Closer to Creating Psychedelic-Like Drugs That Work Without Hallucinations In a new study this week, researchers describe their work with experimental compounds that could offer the mental health benefits of a psychedelic drug, without causing people to trip out. Their early research, so far only conducted in mice, might someday provide people with more first-line treatments for illnesses…Read more... Go to Source
Declassified Satellite Images Show Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Ever The world’s glaciers are melting faster and the climate crisis is to blame, a new study shows.Read more... Go to Source
Neil Gaiman, Chuck Wendig, and More Are Uniting to Make Disney Pay Royalties Late last year, Alan Dean Foster—the novelist who wrote the first Star Wars novels, the ghost-written novelization of A New Hope and its direct sequel, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye—went public with his struggles to negotiate a royalty contract for his work since Disney took ownership of Lucasfilm. Although Foster’s…Read more... Go to Source
U.S. Court Says Ghost Gun Blueprints Can Stay Online The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled this week that posting plans for so-called “ghost guns”—homemade firearms and firearm parts designed to route around gun regulations—is technically legal. The ruling, which affirmed the Trump-era removal of these gun and gun parts from the State Department’s…Read more... Go to Source
This Fast & Furious Promo Is Either Fantastic or Terrible, I Can't Decide Do you have trouble remembering which movies are Fast & Furious movies? This perplexing UK promo, which is not only for F9 but the entire franchise, is here to help by telling you exactly what makes one of these movies, beginning with “cars.” There are cars in the Fast & Furious movies. Who knew?!Read more... Go to Source
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Australian Political Staffer Fired for Filming Himself Jerking Off on Female Politician's Desk Says Video of the Incident Is 'Revenge Porn' How do you define revenge porn? It might seem easy enough when it’s an angry man posting a naked photo of his ex-girlfriend to 4Chan. But what happens when it’s an image of a lewd act in the workplace that touches off a national conversation about gender bias, power imbalances, and sexual assault?Read more... Go to Source
The Razer Blade 15 Advanced Is the Definition of a Premium Gaming Laptop Gamers aren’t a monolith, and neither are the systems they game on. Some prefer more barebones systems that aren’t much more than a collection of components, while others seek out beastly desktop replacements that light up like a battleship. But when it comes to premium gaming notebooks, the Razer Blade 15 Advanced…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Says Posts Criticizing India's Prime Minister Were 'Mistakenly' Blocked Facebook posts criticizing India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi were being blocked on Wednesday, the tech giant confirmed to Gizmodo, adding that it was a “mistake.” But why was Facebook content with the hashtag #ResignModi being censored in the first place? Facebook is being incredibly cagey about the specifics.Read more... Go to Source
Hackers Leak Data on D.C. Cops as Part of Extortion Scheme In an attempt to extort some unknown amount of money out of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, hackers with the Babuk ransomware gang have leaked large amounts of data on five of the department’s officers. Read more... Go to Source
A Cloud-Based Google Chrome Sounds Neat, but Consider Upgrading Your Hardware Instead As I sit at my desk typing this blog, I have 15 Chrome tabs eating up 790MB of memory. I also have 17 Microsoft Edge tabs open, which take up 535MB of memory. Aside from those two extra tabs on Edge, I have the same webpages open, yet Chrome is hogging more memory. Complaints about the resource-hogging Google Chrome…Read more... Go to Source
Shadow and Bone Fans, What on Earth Do You See in This Douchebag? Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse series of novels made a big splash in the YA realm and beyond, so it’s no surprise Netflix chose to adapt Shadow and Bone into a series. The question I still have—as a watcher, not a reader—is... what does anyone see in General Kirigan?Read more... Go to Source
The Secrets of the 'Cyber Ninjas' Will Not Stand in Arizona GOP's Useless 2020 Recount, Judge Rules The state judge overseeing a Democratic challenge to the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate’s “audit” of the 2020 election—a secretive effort the state GOP is using as a sort of Hail Mary to overturn or at least delegitimize Joe Biden’s victory there—has ordered that the process no longer be conducted behind closed…Read more... Go to Source
Hey Tomorrow War, WTF Is This? I woke up this morning very excited to see the first footage from The Tomorrow War, the new Chris Pratt sci-fi action film directed by Chris McKay (The Lego Batman Movie). Everything we’d heard about it over the years made it sound like one of those mega-blockbusters we love to geek out about—Independence Day,…Read more... Go to Source
Titans Season 3 Casts a Mad Men and Angel Alum as Scarecrow We’ve gotten a few glimpses of what to expect from DC series Titans when it returns to HBO Max, like the excellent outfits we’ll be seeing Starfire and Red Hood rocking in season three. Today, however, we got a bit of important casting: Vincent Kartheiser is coming aboard as Dr. Jonathan Crane.Read more... Go to Source
Exactly How Many Pandemic Apple Products Did You Jackals Buy? In news that appears to defy all odds, Apple reported $23.6 billion in profit on $89.6 billion in revenue for the quarter ending March 27, making the second fiscal quarter its strongest non-holiday quarter ever. iPad sales spiked 79% year over year. Mac sales were up 70%. iPhone sales jumped 65.5%. These are…Read more... Go to Source
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