How Candlekeep Mysteries Is Bringing One of Dungeons & Dragons' Most Iconic Libraries to Life
When Dungeons & Dragons fans think of the Sword Coast, they might cast their mind’s eye to its most infamous locale: the city of Baldur’s Gate, the titular trade hub that was brought to life in the legendary CRPG series. But true adventure in the Forgotten Realms is born of knowledge—and adventurers in the know would…Read more...
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Virgin Galactic Chairman Cashes Out Entire Personal Stake in Space Tourism Company
The chairman of space tourism company Virgin Galactic, Chamath Palihapitiya, has sold his entire personal stake in the company for $211 million, according to a new regulatory filing with the SEC made public on Friday and first noticed by Bloomberg News. Palihapitiya still indirectly owns millions of shares through an…Read more...
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Italy Becomes First Country to Actually Block Covid-19 Vaccine Exports
The Italian government has blocked a shipment of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine to Australia in the first case of a country stopping vaccine exports in order to make sure it has enough for its domestic population. Italy consulted with the European Commission before halting the shipment of 250,000 vaccine doses,…Read more...
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Texas Attorney General Sues Griddy for False Advertising in Wake of Winter Storm Price Hikes
Griddy, the Texas power supplier that’s made headlines recently for customers’ sky-high energy bills in the wake of widespread winter storm outages, has racked up another lawsuit. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the company for “false, misleading, and deceptive advertising and marketing practices” that he…Read more...
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Razer's New Smart Glasses Promise to Make WFH a Little Less Awful
I know, I know. Another pair of open-ear audio smart glasses? Were the Bose Frames, Echo Frames, and JLab JBuds not enough? Nope. Not according to Razer, which just announced its Razer Anzu Smart Glasses. Read more...
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LiquidVPN Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Promoting Pirating Content
Virtual private networks can be great for folks wary of how their data is tracked online, but what happens when a VPN provider directly markets itself to those who would use that promise of anonymity to break the law? Read more...
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Setting Spotify as a Default Music App in iOS 14.5 Isn't a Feature After All
What appeared to be one of the most exciting features of iOS 14.5 turns out to work a little differently than it originally seemed.Read more...
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CodeMiko Is The Future Of Streaming, Unless Twitch Bans Her First
CodeMiko is nervous. I can tell because she tells me. “This is, like, my first interview ever,” she says over a Discord call. “I’m sorry, I’m a little shy.” It’s December of 2020, and Miko’s entire life is about to change.Read more...
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CBS All Access Is Now Paramount+, Celebrate With Copious Amounts of Free Star Trek
On the downside, we now have our 14-billionth streaming service that is just called Something+. On the upside, only one of them gets to celebrate with oodles of Star Trek goodness.Read more...
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How to Get an Amazon Echo to Tell You a Room's Temperature
Little thermometers you can buy and hang anywhere are fairly cheap, but there’s no need to get one if you own an Amazon Echo. That is, if you own one of two kinds of Echos: a fourth-generation Echo or a second-generation Echo Plus. Both of these have temperature sensors built into the smart speakers; you just have to…Read more...
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A Boy’s Smelly Nose Was Caused by a BB Pellet Stuck Inside for Years
A young teen boy’s years of nasal congestion and other bizarre symptoms had an unusual culprit. His doctors say that the boy unknowingly had a BB gun pellet lodged in his nasal cavity for nearly a decade, which eventually caused him to give off an awful odor every time he blew his nose. Fortunately, they were able to…Read more...
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Samsung and Mastercard Are Teaming Up On a Biometric Credit Card
Samsung and Mastercard are officially teaming up on a credit card with a built-in fingerprint scanner, Samsung announced on Thursday. These so-called “biometric cards” will come baked in with a “several key discrete chips” from Samsung’s side, and are planned to be compatible with any point of sale (POS) terminal, or…Read more...
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Man Who Oversaw Texas Blackouts Shown the Door
A Texas power grid oversight official who held the spectacularly wishful belief that he could keep his job after the state’s grid sputtered last month, leading to dozens of deaths and utility bills Texans will be paying for decades, has been fired. On Wednesday night, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) CEO…Read more...
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How NASA's Perseverance Landed On Mars: An Aerospace Engineer Breaks It Down In Fascinating Detail
The world rightfully gawked at the engineering prowess of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as it successfully landed the car-sized rover named Perseverance on the surface of Mars. You might think that I, an engineer with experience working on a deep space mission, would be less impressed than most. But trust me: The…Read more...
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All of Motorola’s New Phones Are on Sale, With the 2021 Moto G Play for Just $160
Moto G Play (2021) | $160 | AmazonMoto G Power (2021) | $230 | AmazonMoto G Stylus (2021) | $280 | AmazonMotorola One 5G Ace | $380 | AmazonRead more...
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Underwater Robot Stealthily Swims With a Propulsion System You Can't See
Sound travels faster and farther underwater because it’s denser than air, and that can make it harder for researchers trying to study marine life who get an early heads up to go into hiding. But a new underwater robot could move stealthily through the waves using a propulsion system that doesn’t rely on a propeller or…Read more...
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Seresto Flea Collars Tied to Over 1,600 Pet Deaths in U.S. Since 2012
Seresto, a popular flea collar produced by the company Elanco Animal Health, has been tied to over 1,600 pet deaths in the U.S. alone since 2012, according to a new investigation by USA Today. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates flea collars and any other pet treatment containing pesticides,…Read more...
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This Embattled Navajo Nation Hospital Is Still Recovering From a Recent Ransomware Attack
If you want a good example of the kind of havoc a well-placed cyberattack can wreak on an already stressed healthcare system, look no further than the Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services center in Gallup, N.M.Read more...
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Arizona's Anti-Monopoly Bill Could Help Put Fortnite Back in the iOS App Store
Arizona legislators just passed an anti-monopoly bill in a 31-29 vote, which could have big implications for Apple, Google, and, weirdly enough, Fortnite.Read more...
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Apple's New Service Helps You Transfer Your Pics and Videos From iCloud to Google Photos
For anyone who feels like they’ve been held hostage by iCloud’s 5GB of free storage or just wants to try out a different photo storage app, this week Apple launched a new service designed to make it way easier to transfer photos and videos stored in iCloud over to Google Photos. Read more...
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Study: Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It's Lies
Shocker: Despite conservatives’ endless kvetching about the supposed liberal bias of Silicon Valley technocrats, one of the easiest ways to go viral on Facebook is spouting extreme, far-right rhetoric, according to a new study by New York University’s Cybersecurity for Democracy project.Read more...
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Watch Live: SpaceX Attempts Third High-Altitude Test of Starship [Update: It Actually Landed!]
The third high-altitude test of a SpaceX Starship prototype is scheduled for Wednesday. You can watch the launch live right here.Read more...
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Your WandaVision Finale Theories May Disappoint You, Says Director
After a brief moment of hype-driven confusion as to how many episodes WandaVision’s debut season would ultimately clock in at, the series is coming to a close this week with a ninth chapter that’s likely to answer just as many questions as it leaves standing about the life of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen).Read more...
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Disney's CEO Is 'Not Sure There’s Going Back' to the Way Movies Were Released
Between states across the U.S. now vaccinating people against covid-19, and the fact that many aspects of everyday society—like movies being released—only ever really slowed during the ongoing pandemic, there’s a way in which some people have begun to think things might be returning to “normal.” As a reminder, it’s…Read more...
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Big Oil’s New Slate of Desperate Buzzwords Are Greenwashing at Its Worst
The past year has been not great for oil companies. Between financial losses from the pandemic and increasing pressure from investors and the public at large to do something about how their product is messing up the planet, fossil fuel producers are feeling the heat. Read more...
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Parler Drops One Lawsuit Against Amazon, and Files Another
Alleged domestic terrorist haven/free speech network Parler has bowed out of its antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. For a blessed moment it seemed we might get a break from conservative bitching and moaning about unfairness. No such luck.Read more...
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