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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Is a Show to Dissect, But in a Different Way From WandaVision

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Is a Show to Dissect, But in a Different Way From WandaVision

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Is a Show to Dissect, But in a Different Way From WandaVision The Marvel Cinematic Universe has always trained fans to look ahead. To uncover the mysteries. Piece together the connections. Nowhere has that been more evident than in WandaVision, Marvel’s first Disney+ TV series. Fan speculation and excitement for WandaVision was so feverish, in fact, it’s almost a shock that the…Read more... Go to Source
This Machine Creates 3D Objects In Seconds

This Machine Creates 3D Objects In Seconds

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This Machine Creates 3D Objects In Seconds When we think of 3D printing we usually think of a little robot that squirts out endless lines of plastic onto a surface. But vacuum forming—smoothing a sheet of thin plastic over an object to make a hollow copy—has been around much longer and is the premise behind Myyard’s Formart 2.Read more... Go to Source
Apparently the Pentagon Is Thinking of Giving Jetpacks a Try

Apparently the Pentagon Is Thinking of Giving Jetpacks a Try

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Apparently the Pentagon Is Thinking of Giving Jetpacks a Try If you need further proof that we are living in a literal science fiction movie right now, look no further than the fact that the U.S. Defense Department is thinking about strapping jetpacks onto its special forces cadres. Well, actually the term they are using is “portable personal air mobility system,” but you get…Read more... Go to Source
California Passes New Regulation Banning “Dark Patterns” Under Landmark Privacy Law

California Passes New Regulation Banning “Dark Patterns” Under Landmark Privacy Law

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California Passes New Regulation Banning "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law New regulations were approved under California’s Consumer Privacy Act on Monday that will prohibit the use of so-called dark patterns — tricks deployed by websites or apps that seek to frustrate or bamboozle users into doing things they wouldn’t normally do.Read more... Go to Source
Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space

Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space

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Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space Some 230 million light-years from Earth, there’s a black hole going places. These extraordinarily dense objects are usually found sitting at the center of a galaxy violently gobbling up matter, so it was a surprise when astronomers spotted this one moving out of step with its resident galaxy.Read more... Go to Source
What’s the Best Dash Cam for Your Car?

What’s the Best Dash Cam for Your Car?

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What's the Best Dash Cam for Your Car? I recently posted a deal on a dash cam that seemed pretty slick. It had all sorts of neat features that made it more robust than your average recording device. When I posted it, it became clear that this was a topic our readers have strong opinions on. People came into the comments to one-up the deal and recommend…Read more... Go to Source
Maybe There’s Hope for Wear OS Yet

Maybe There’s Hope for Wear OS Yet

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Maybe There's Hope for Wear OS Yet There are a lot of reasons why Google’s Wear OS as a smartwatch platform is so frustrating. It lacks the advanced health features you see from other wearables makers, nearly all the available watches are still reliant on outdated chips, and historically, Google hasn’t been the best at delivering timely updates. Recent…Read more... Go to Source
Zack Snyder’s Grand Embellishments Make Justice League a Better, Stranger Thing

Zack Snyder’s Grand Embellishments Make Justice League a Better, Stranger Thing

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Zack Snyder's Grand Embellishments Make Justice League a Better, Stranger Thing For years, fans of director Zack Snyder have wondered, often to the point of questionable fervor, what could’ve happened in an alternate world where he got to finish 2017's Justice League. Four years and tens of millions of dollars later, Warner Bros. has opened a Pandora’s box to place us in that reality—and it turns…Read more... Go to Source
Cricut Now Wants Users to Pay Extra for Unlimited Use of the Cutting Machines They Already Own

Cricut Now Wants Users to Pay Extra for Unlimited Use of the Cutting Machines They Already Own

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Cricut Now Wants Users to Pay Extra for Unlimited Use of the Cutting Machines They Already Own Over the weekend, people who own Cricut’s crafting machines—which are printer-like devices that can precisely slice up documents—learned of an upcoming update that will limit how often they can use the machines they’ve paid for. The company, whose cheapest machine is $180, will now start charging users a monthly…Read more... Go to Source
Beijing Is Choking on Bright Yellow Dust

Beijing Is Choking on Bright Yellow Dust

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Beijing Is Choking on Bright Yellow Dust Beijing is currently hidden under a thick, yellow blanket of noxious smog. The dust originated in a Gobi Desert sandstorm, which has killed at least six people in Mongolia. Now, northwest winds have blown the dust through across Inner Mongolia into the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Shanxi, and Hebei.Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Launches Tool to Help Users Get Covid-19 Vaccine

Facebook Launches Tool to Help Users Get Covid-19 Vaccine

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Facebook Launches Tool to Help Users Get Covid-19 Vaccine Facebook has launched a tool in partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital to help people find covid-19 vaccine appointments, according to a press release from the social media company early Monday. The tool only works in the U.S. right now, but Facebook says it hopes to roll out the vaccine finder in more regions as…Read more... Go to Source
India Looks to Criminalize Trading, Mining, and Holding Cryptocurrencies: Report

India Looks to Criminalize Trading, Mining, and Holding Cryptocurrencies: Report

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India Looks to Criminalize Trading, Mining, and Holding Cryptocurrencies: Report A proposed law in India would make it a crime to mine, trade, or even hold cryptocurrencies like bitcoin in the country, according to a new report from Reuters citing a senior government official. It’s estimated roughly 8 million people in India hold some form of cryptocurrency.Read more... Go to Source
SpaceX Successfully Launches the Same Falcon 9 Rocket for a Record Ninth Flight

SpaceX Successfully Launches the Same Falcon 9 Rocket for a Record Ninth Flight

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SpaceX Successfully Launches the Same Falcon 9 Rocket for a Record Ninth Flight SpaceX successfully launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets into space for a record ninth time on Sunday, making it the first in the company’s fleet to launch and land nine times. The Falcon 9 rocket was carrying a new cargo of 60 Starlink satellites, which are part of the company’s efforts to provide satellite internet.Read more... Go to Source
Google Celebrates Pi Day With This Cute Calculator Easter Egg

Google Celebrates Pi Day With This Cute Calculator Easter Egg

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Google Celebrates Pi Day With This Cute Calculator Easter Egg Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! The yearly celebration of the mathematical constant π or pi, aka the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (and here I thought I’d never get a chance to use 9th-grade geometry in real life!). It falls on March 14 because pi written out numerically is 3.14... and then goes on…Read more... Go to Source
Creator Shuts Down Popular Crypto Art Carbon Calculator for ‘Abuse and Harassment’

Creator Shuts Down Popular Crypto Art Carbon Calculator for ‘Abuse and Harassment’

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Creator Shuts Down Popular Crypto Art Carbon Calculator for 'Abuse and Harassment' Cryptoart.wtf, the popular crypto art carbon calculator that allowed us to see the real impact the NFT buying craze is having on our poor planet, is shutting down. Its creator, Memo Akten, stated that he decided to take the site down after information from it was used “as a tool for abuse and harassment.” Read more... Go to Source
So This Is ‘Covid Normal’

So This Is ‘Covid Normal’

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So This Is 'Covid Normal' Last weekend I attended two days of the Brunswick Music Festival in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. In front of a sea of semi-socially distanced picnickers, local bands like indie rockers RVG tore through sets they haven’t played live in a year. People chatted with their friends, hugged, and drank beer. No one wore…Read more... Go to Source
Tiffany Haddish Will Star in Mystery Girl on Netflix

Tiffany Haddish Will Star in Mystery Girl on Netflix

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Tiffany Haddish Will Star in Mystery Girl on Netflix Tiffany Haddish will star in and produce Netflix’s adaptation of Mystery Girl. The Dark Horse comic, created by Paul Tobin, follows Trine, a psychic with no memory of the last 10 years of her life, and only an omniscient voice in her head guiding her. She meets Cooper, a cop, who wants her to help him solve a case…Read more... Go to Source