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Voyagers’ Riff on Lord of the Flies in Space Is All Too Familiar

Voyagers’ Riff on Lord of the Flies in Space Is All Too Familiar

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Voyagers' Riff on Lord of the Flies in Space Is All Too Familiar Voyagers, the new sci-fi film from writer-director Neil Burger (Divergent), begins with an interesting twist on a tried and true premise: Earth is screwed. Disease, climate change, and more have doomed humanity unless it can find a new home. Which, luckily, it does. The problem is it’ll take 86 years to travel there.Read more... Go to Source
Lenovo’s Legion Phone Duel 2 Has 2 Fans, 2 Batteries, and One of the Weirdest Camera Bumps Available Today

Lenovo’s Legion Phone Duel 2 Has 2 Fans, 2 Batteries, and One of the Weirdest Camera Bumps Available Today

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Lenovo's Legion Phone Duel 2 Has 2 Fans, 2 Batteries, and One of the Weirdest Camera Bumps Available Today While I can’t confirm it, I suspect someone in Lenovo’s phone department is a big fan of Vin Diesel movies. Why? Well, it seems like Lenovo has just released a gaming phone inspired by 2 Fast 2 Furious. Read more... Go to Source
AWESOME MINI DEVICES THAT YOU CAN BUY RIGHT NOW

AWESOME MINI DEVICES THAT YOU CAN BUY RIGHT NOW

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LG Pledges Three Years of OS Updates After It Stops Making New Phones

LG Pledges Three Years of OS Updates After It Stops Making New Phones

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LG Pledges Three Years of OS Updates After It Stops Making New Phones LG will continue to provide operating system updates for its mobile phones over the next three years, even after the company stops making phones entirely by July of this year, according to an announcement posted on LG’s website. And that’s good news for anyone who recently bought an LG phone or may be thinking of…Read more... Go to Source
Dallas Police Used Face Recognition Software Without Authorization, Installed on Personal Phones

Dallas Police Used Face Recognition Software Without Authorization, Installed on Personal Phones

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Dallas Police Used Face Recognition Software Without Authorization, Installed on Personal Phones Dallas police officers used unauthorized facial recognition software to conduct between 500 and 1,000 searches in attempts to identify people based on photographs. A Dallas Police spokesperson says the searches were never authorized by the department, and that in some cases, officers had installed facial recognition…Read more... Go to Source
These Headphones Offer Solid Active Noise Cancellation for Those on a Budget

These Headphones Offer Solid Active Noise Cancellation for Those on a Budget

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These Headphones Offer Solid Active Noise Cancellation for Those on a Budget Urbanista isn’t a household name. Founded in Sweden, the company makes low-cost, high-design headphones for folks who don’t want to spend a few hundred dollars on options from Apple, Bose, or Beats. Their latest product, the Miami, is a pair of active noise-canceling headphones with 50-hour battery life and a tempting…Read more... Go to Source
These Mole-Like Critters Lived Under the Feet of Dinosaurs

These Mole-Like Critters Lived Under the Feet of Dinosaurs

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These Mole-Like Critters Lived Under the Feet of Dinosaurs Before an asteroid completely changed the course of Earth’s evolutionary trajectory, the world was filled with scaled and feathered dinosaurs, web-winged pterosaurs, and, as a new study describes, precursors to modern mammals that eked out existence in burrows they dug into the Cretaceous soil.Read more... Go to Source
Researchers Say Their ‘Brain Glue’ Could Someday Help People With Severe Brain Injuries

Researchers Say Their ‘Brain Glue’ Could Someday Help People With Severe Brain Injuries

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Researchers Say Their 'Brain Glue' Could Someday Help People With Severe Brain Injuries Scientists say they’re one step closer to showing that their experimental hydrogel technology—more plainly known as “brain glue”—can help people with traumatic brain injuries. In a recent study, they found that their brain glue helped prevent long-term damage and tissue loss in the injured brains of rats, while also…Read more... Go to Source
Apple Tightens Its Rules Around Its New Anti-Tracking Tech

Apple Tightens Its Rules Around Its New Anti-Tracking Tech

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Apple Tightens Its Rules Around Its New Anti-Tracking Tech Apple’s offering a bit more clarity surrounding the anti-tracking tech that’s going to debut this spring. On Wednesday, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that Apple’s so-called App Tracking Transparency (ATT) protocol will crack down on all identifiers an app might use to track you—not just identifiers…Read more... Go to Source
Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste

Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste

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Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste One of the unique challenges of 3D printing is that models that feature structures hanging in mid-air, like the spout of a teapot, also need temporary structures to support the soft extruded plastic until it hardens. This can result in a lot of wasted material, because those supports are just discarded afterwards. A …Read more... Go to Source
How to Ensure Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Is Accessible to Everyone

How to Ensure Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Is Accessible to Everyone

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How to Ensure Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Is Accessible to Everyone As the Biden administration puts the federal government’s muscle behind widespread electrification, one fact has becoming increasingly clear: The electric vehicle revolution is coming. But states have a lot of catching up to do if they want to make sure everyone is included, a new report shows.Read more... Go to Source
UK Launches New Watchdog to Police Big Tech’s Ad Market Monopoly

UK Launches New Watchdog to Police Big Tech’s Ad Market Monopoly

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UK Launches New Watchdog to Police Big Tech's Ad Market Monopoly The UK government launched a new watchdog agency on Wednesday that will be tasked with keeping an eye on Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook, according to an announcement published online. The stated goal of the new watchdog is to police the “concentration of power among a small number of firms” in the world…Read more... Go to Source
Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

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Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, released a statement late Tuesday saying that he generally supports President Joe Biden’s desire to invest in infrastructure, along with a rise in the corporate tax rate. But some of the things Bezos doesn’t support in the statement are conspicuous in their absence.Read more... Go to Source
A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn

A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn

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A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn With unemployment at formidable levels and the economy doing weird, covid-related reversals, I think we can all agree that the job hunt is a pretty hard slog right now. Amidst all that, you know what workers really don’t need? A LinkedIn inbox full of malware. Yeah, they don’t need that at all. Read more... Go to Source
Report: Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies

Report: Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies

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Report: Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy surveillance firm Clearview AI. Individuals at 1,803 public agencies—many of which are police departments—have used its facial recognition software at some point over recent years, according to data reviewed by the news outlet. Read more... Go to Source
Stop Shaming Vaccinated People for Socializing

Stop Shaming Vaccinated People for Socializing

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Stop Shaming Vaccinated People for Socializing As the U.S. speeds ever closer toward mass vaccination against covid-19, a curious trend has started to emerge on social media and elsewhere: well-intentioned people downplaying the benefits of vaccination, often by arguing that vaccinated people still pose a major transmission risk and that they shouldn’t do things…Read more... Go to Source
There’s Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World

There’s Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World

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There's Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World There’s one phrase I’ve been using a lot, as I’ve been promoting my young adult space-opera Victories Greater Than Death: “Save all the worlds.” Because I love the idea of a group of kids who are mostly LGBTQIA+ and come from cultures all over the world get to be the ones to help “save all the worlds.” And I love …Read more... Go to Source
What’s the Best Office Chair Under $300?

What’s the Best Office Chair Under $300?

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What's the Best Office Chair Under $300? So, the vaccines are finally getting into arms. This spring, many Americans will actually be able to get their doses just in time for summer. However, don’t expect things to return to normal just yet. It’s going to take a long time for everyone to get vaccinated, so there’s no guarantee we’ll be back at 100% even by…Read more... Go to Source