Roku Will Debut Its First Exclusive Series This Month With Cypher
Roku’s first exclusive series to arrive on the Roku Channel will premier this month.Read more... Go to Source
YouTuber Tim Pool Sounds Like He's Doing Great Except for Alleged Cat Hostage Thing
Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool’s plan to found a media company is allegedly collapsing amid infighting over footage of the Jan 6. Capitol riots and allegations he held a cat hostage for leverage over one of his partners in the venture, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.Read more... Go to Source
Star Citizen Developers Fed Up After Being Expected To Work During Devastating Texas Snowstorm
Last month, the entirety of Texas ground to a halt after a colossal winter storm pushed the state’s cordoned-off power grid to the brink. Power and heat outages, as well as resulting food and water shortages, led many businesses to temporarily shut down. This included a large number of Texan video game studios. Of…Read more... Go to Source
Listen to Lasers Zapping Rocks on Mars in Perseverance’s Latest Dispatch
Unprecedented audio recordings taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover are transporting us to the surface of the Red Planet, allowing us to hear the sound of a gentle alien breeze, and the click-clicking of lasers zapping a Martian rock.Read more... Go to Source
Congress Has a New $94 Billion Plan to Bring Affordable Internet to Everyone
The so-called digital divide in the U.S. has become all the more glaring over the course of the current pandemic. A new bill could help close the gap.Read more... Go to Source
Star Wars: Republic Commando's Spirit Still Lives, Even in a Franchise That Killed It
There’s a paradoxical relationship between the legacy of one of Star Wars’ best games and the animated show that became one of the most beloved pillars of the franchise at large. Arguably, Star Wars: The Clone Wars killed Republic Commando at its apex—but without the groundwork it laid, the animated series and its own…Read more... Go to Source
Thursday's Best Deals: M1 MacBook Pro, Free Atlas Coffee Club Bag, Tacklife Tabletop Fire Pit, Cornbread Hemp CBD, The Last of Us Part II Art Book, and More
Atlas Coffee Club and Apple’s MacBook Pro lead Thursday’s best deals.Read more... Go to Source
AeroMobil Says Flying Cars Are Still Just Two Years Away
Did you see the headlines this week promising that AeroMobil would be making flying cars available for purchase in 2023? That’s just two years from now, if you can believe it. The company’s latest video even ends with the optimistic words, “coming 2023.” But can they pull it off? Let’s just say we’ve been hearing that…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook's Dream of Running a Giant Cable From California to Hong Kong Once Again Dashed
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, the old maxim goes, and apparently, that advice counts double if you’re Facebook, a company that has at this point tried a cartoonish number of times to install a high-capacity internet conduit between California and Hong Kong only to be continually thwarted by the U.S.…Read more... Go to Source
Apple Tells Parler It's Still Too Friendly to Racist Filth for iOS
Parler, the social media network for people furious that Lola Bunny’s animated boobs are too small now, won’t be returning to iOS anytime soon.Read more... Go to Source
This Unassuming Little Device Can Hack Your Smart Home
This strange little device may look unassuming—after all, it’s a nod to William Gibson’s famous cybernetic dolphin, Jones. But Flipper Zero, a pocket-sized, dolphin-themed hacking tool, can actually open NFD-based locks, hack access points, and even send keyboard commands to unsuspecting laptops and PCs.Read more... Go to Source
THX 1138 at 50: Looking Back at George Lucas' Dystopian Art Film
Say the name George Lucas and people obviously think Star Wars. That tends to happen when you create one of the biggest film franchises of all time. But when Lucas himself thinks of his career, you have to suspect he thinks back to its origins. It all began with a dystopian sci-fi student film that became a feature…Read more... Go to Source
Alien's In, Metal Gear's Out, and More of the Latest Gaming News
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This week, there’s bad news for fans of Solid Snake, good news for the fans of Xenomorphs, and downright weird news for the final days of Kickstarter’s third RPG Zine Quest event.Read more... Go to Source
Why the PRO Act Is Part of a Green New Deal
On Tuesday night, the U.S. House passed an essential piece of climate policy. But the legislation makes no mention of greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, or extreme weather. Instead, it’s all about labor protections. Read more... Go to Source
Epic Is Taking Google to Court (Again)
In the latest leg of Epic Games’ case against the tech giants, the Fortnite developer is taking Google to court—in Australia this time around.Read more... Go to Source
The Roblox Boom Is About to Meet Reality
Today, the online children’s gaming platform Roblox is dumping 199 million shares of mammon onto the market through its direct listing, which likely means a Black Friday-level mob and hours of free content for CNBC’s Squawk Box on a yet-unprofitable company. Nothing new there, but it’s also an almost psychedelic…Read more... Go to Source
NASA Scoops a Seat Aboard Russian Rocket Without Having to Pay For It
An unusual arrangement involving NASA, the Russian space agency, and a commercial intermediary will see an American astronaut fly to the ISS in a cashless exchange meant to preserve a tradition that dates back over 20 years.Read more... Go to Source
This Drone in a Bowling Alley Is the Coolest Video You'll See All Week
Do you love expertly choreographed drone videos? Then you’re in luck, because we’ve got the coolest video you’ll see all week—an expertly piloted and impressively directed video that was shot at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis.Read more... Go to Source
Hackers Target Surveillance Firm, Exposing 150,000 Live Camera Feeds in Hospitals, Jails, and Tesla
A hacker group claims to have broken into the networks of cloud-based surveillance startup Verkada, gaining unfiltered access to thousands and thousands of live security camera feeds in the process.Read more... Go to Source
Get a $100 Xbox Gift Card for $90 and Put That Extra $10 Towards More Xbox Games
$100 Xbox Gift Card | $90 | Newegg | Use code EMCETEB25Read more... Go to Source
Elon Musk Explains Why the Starship SN10 Prototype Exploded After Landing
The third high-altitude test of a SpaceX Starship prototype ended with a successful landing on March 3 — and then, moments later, ended for a second time with an explosion.Read more... Go to Source
Samsung's Next Galaxy Unpacked Event Set for March 17
Samsung’s last product launch was just two months ago, but it seems the Korean tech giant has enough shiny new devices to hold another Galaxy Unpacked event on March 17. Read more... Go to Source
Cloud Gaming Platform Shadow Has Filed for Bankruptcy, a 'Victim of Its Success'
The company behind the cloud gaming platform Shadow has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and receivership in France, according to 9to5Google. Shadow recently posted an update to its blog confirming that it was undergoing a “reorganization” to get rid of the debt it had amassed building its cloud gaming platform in…Read more... Go to Source
Some Mandalorian Books Have Been Canceled, But Not for the Reason You Think
Fans looking forward to the universe of The Mandalorian expanding in print are going to be disappointed, as two future books centered on the Disney+ Star Wars franchise have been cancelled. But it’s not for the reason you think.Read more... Go to Source
No, Mark Zuckerberg, Virtual Reality Goggles Won't Solve the Climate Crisis
The billionaires are once again claiming that tech will save us. In an interview published Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that by the end of this decade, he expects we’ll all have access to virtual reality goggles that will allow us to feel like we’re teleporting into other people’s houses and hanging out.…Read more... Go to Source
Expert Panel Calls for More Smokers to Get Tested for Lung Cancer Starting at 50 Years Old
More people with a long history of smoking should be tested annually for lung cancer, even if they’ve quit in recent years, according to new guidance released Tuesday by a government-backed panel of health experts.Read more... Go to Source
Tyrannosaur Teens Didn’t Have the Bone-Crushing Bite of Adults
Adult tyrannosaurs were basically bone crushing machines on two feet. New research suggests juvenile tyrannosaurs couldn’t match the same level of brutality, resulting in a distinctive bite that set them apart from their adult counterparts.Read more... Go to Source
Samsung's Galaxy S21 Ultra S-Pen Is a Useful Stylus With an Inconvenient Case
For a long time, if you wanted a phone with a legit stylus—and I don’t mean one of those weak-sauce sticks with a squishy nub on top—your only real choice was a Galaxy Note. However, after adding stylus support to a number of its tablets and laptops, this year Samsung decided to free the stylus on its phones, too, by…Read more... Go to Source
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