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Why You Should Use a Keyboard and Mouse With Your PS5 or Xbox Series X/S

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Why You Should Use a Keyboard and Mouse With Your PS5 or Xbox Series X/S There are plenty of good reasons to hook up a keyboard and mouse to your next-gen console. Not only do peripherals give you greater precision and flexibility while gaming, they also make entering text and using other apps much less of a chore. It opens up ways of using your games box—to browse the web, for…Read more... Go to Source

Oxygen Looks Like It’ll Leave You Gasping For Air

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Oxygen Looks Like It'll Leave You Gasping For Air Director Alexandre Aja is always happy to mess you up. Whether it’s basement alligators in Crawl, flesh-eating fish in Piranha 3D, or surprising serial killers in High Tension, he’s become very skilled at making audiences incredibly, deliciously uncomfortable. His new movie looks to take that to new heights.Read more... Go to Source

Muppet Man Will Bring Jim Henson’s Life Story to the Big Screen

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Muppet Man Will Bring Jim Henson's Life Story to the Big Screen A long-awaited project for the Jim Henson Company is finally taking a step toward production: Muppet Man, a biopic of puppeteering legend Jim Henson (The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth), has a writer aboard to pen a script about Henson’s remarkable career.Read more... Go to Source

Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke Has Written a Very Peculiar Superhero Comic

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Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke Has Written a Very Peculiar Superhero Comic The Mother of Dragons conquered Westeros; now, she’s coming for the comics industry. Actor Emilia Clarke—who just recently joined the MCU—has written a new superhero comic for Image. It’s titled M.O.M.: Mother of Madness, and it involves significantly more heroin-addicted raccoons than I would have guessed.Read more... Go to Source

Congrats to OnePlus for Making Its Smartwatch Slightly Less Awful

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Congrats to OnePlus for Making Its Smartwatch Slightly Less Awful The OnePlus Watch launch was catastrophic. Never had a flagship smartwatch since Will.i.am’s infamous Puls smartwatch failed in such spectacular fashion. I recently wrote 2,000 words about how it was the worst smartwatch I’ve ever used. Today OnePlus pushed out an over-the-air update that claims to fix some of the…Read more... Go to Source

Postal Service Cops Are Monitoring Social Media, ‘Sensitive’ Internal Document Says

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Postal Service Cops Are Monitoring Social Media, 'Sensitive' Internal Document Says Add another pushpin to the string wall of America’s shadowy force of postal service cops. Yahoo News reports that the USPS’s security arm, the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), monitored social media for potential threats of domestic violence. According to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo…Read more... Go to Source

This Device Proves Apple Could Crush Nintendo (If It Wanted To)

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This Device Proves Apple Could Crush Nintendo (If It Wanted To) My phone time is usually spent sanding down the edges of my mind on TikTok and Twitter, with a “healthy” dose of emailing, calendar massaging, and capital-S Slacking to get things done. But recently, a new category of app has crept up my iPhone Screen Time leaderboard: gaming, especially through platforms like Steam…Read more... Go to Source

Trump’s Unfinished Border Wall Could Worsen Texas Flooding

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Trump’s Unfinished Border Wall Could Worsen Texas Flooding Former President Donald Trump’s border wall loomed large in American consciousness throughout his campaign and presidency—and wreaked a path of ecological destruction as he raced to fulfill his promise to build it. And while President Joe Biden has halted construction on the wall, what has been built (or more…Read more... Go to Source

The U.S. Is About to Run Out of People Who Want the Vaccine

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The U.S. Is About to Run Out of People Who Want the Vaccine This week, all 50 states officially opened up eligibility for covid-19 vaccination to all adult residents. But while millions of Americans are still lining up to get their dose, experts warn that the country is quickly approaching a vaccine surplus, with too few takers to meet the supply we have available. Once that…Read more... Go to Source

Radioactive Fallout From Cold War Nuclear Tests Is Still Creeping Into U.S. Honey

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Radioactive Fallout From Cold War Nuclear Tests Is Still Creeping Into U.S. Honey A spring break assignment for geology students has resulted in the discovery of radioactive isotopes in honey produced along the U.S. East Coast, and at levels higher than expected. The amount of radiation isn’t considered dangerous, but the finding points to the drawn-out legacy of nuclear tests done during the Cold…Read more... Go to Source

Bowers & Wilkins’ New Wireless Earbuds Can Stream Audio From Devices Without Bluetooth, Including Airplane Seats

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Bowers & Wilkins' New Wireless Earbuds Can Stream Audio From Devices Without Bluetooth, Including Airplane Seats Every new set of true wireless earbuds seems to refine the experience with better ANC, improved sound quality, or longer battery life. But Bowers & Wilkins is introducing an entirely new feature in its PI7 truly wireless earbuds. Using the charging case as a wireless adapter, the earbuds can actually stream audio…Read more... Go to Source

The A to Z of Star Trek’s Q

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The A to Z of Star Trek's Q Star Trek’s galaxy is filled with mysterious alien races, unexplained phenomena, and incomprehensible technology that our Starfleet heroes would love to explore and understand. And then there’s the Q Continuum, a group of beings that a lot of those Starfleet officers wish would leave them alone instead.Read more... Go to Source

Batman’s in Fortnite Now, and He’s Just as Lost as You Are

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Batman's in Fortnite Now, and He's Just as Lost as You Are Fortnite’s invasion of comics has no doubt left some people unaware of the smash global phenom of a video game/metaculture black hole confused about just what the appeal of a thing that has seemingly taken over the planet really is. Well, Batman’s among those people now, for very different reasons—but putting the…Read more... Go to Source

The Nation’s Biggest Miner Union Is Ready for a Transition to Clean Energy

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The Nation’s Biggest Miner Union Is Ready for a Transition to Clean Energy On Monday, the nation’s largest union of coal miners announced that it’s down for the shift to renewable energy as long the transition includes aid—and new jobs—for workers laid off from their sector. It’s the latest sign that workers aren’t buying the fossil fuel industry’s narrative that it’s a great protector of…Read more... Go to Source

Apple’s New iMacs Are Here, and They Look Powerful and Pretty

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Apple's New iMacs Are Here, and They Look Powerful and Pretty Last month, Apple discontinued two iMac configurations with either 512GB and 1TB of SSD storage for the 21.5-inch iMac with 4K display, fueling speculation of an Apple Silicon-based iMac announcement. The rumors were true: Not only did Apple officially announce the iMacs are getting its impressive M1 processors, but…Read more... Go to Source

Dune’s Next Comic Dives Deep Into the Heart of the Imperium’s Greatest Warriors

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Dune's Next Comic Dives Deep Into the Heart of the Imperium's Greatest Warriors In Dune, the Sardaukar are some of the Imperium’s most elite soldiers: bodyguards to the Emperor of the Known Universe, and the deadly right hand of House Corrino. But a new comic book from Boom Studios is going to explore what lies beyond the martial skills of the Sardaukar, and we’ve got a first look.Read more... Go to Source

Facebook’s Long-Stalled Digital Currency Could be Tested This Year: Report

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Facebook's Long-Stalled Digital Currency Could be Tested This Year: Report Facebook hopes to launch a trial of its long-stalled digital currency project by the end of this year, according to a new report from CNBC. The currency, first announced in 2019 as Libra and then renamed Diem after some bad publicity, will now be pegged to the U.S. dollar, provided the tech giant can actually get it…Read more... Go to Source

Venmo Launches Ability to Buy, Sell, and Hold Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin

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Venmo Launches Ability to Buy, Sell, and Hold Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin Payment app Venmo will now let users buy, sell, and hold four cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and bitcoin cash, according to a press release from the company Tuesday morning. But users won’t be able to send cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to their Venmo friends just yet.Read more... Go to Source