What's New on Netflix in December 2020
Because I am a Serious Cineast (I even subscribe to The Criterion Channel!), it is my job to be incredibly excited about the Dec. 4 premiere of David Fincher’s MANK, which marks the extension of Netflix’s relationship with the renowned auteur into feature films after two lauded seasons of the serial killer drama …Read more...
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The Way The U.S. Coast Guard Replaces Its Largest Ship's Motor Is Mind-Blowing
A fire broke out on the United States Coast Guard’s largest ship last summer, destroying one of the vessel’s enormous electric motors. Now the Coast Guard, one of the five service branches of the U.S. military, is replacing that motor and documenting the entire process, which involves cutting a giant hole in the hull.…Read more...
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Bill Gates Sucks at Being the Most Billionaire
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who later pivoted to a career in being the richest man in the world, is losing his touch. If any of us were as bad at our jobs as Gates, we’d be on the bread lines faster than you can say, “guillotines are the future.” And this week, the man’s downward spiral continued. Read more...
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Unexplained Monolith Discovered in Rural Utah's Red Rock Country
Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety discovered a shiny metallic monolith in rural Utah’s Red Rock Country on November 18 while surveying big horn sheep by helicopter. The monolith has drawn comparisons to the black monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the helicopter crew…Read more...
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Twitter Will Now Warn You Before You Like a Tweet Containing Misleading Information
Expanding upon an existing feature that warns users who attempt to retweet content that has already been flagged as “misleading information,” Twitter will now issue the same warning when users attempt to like content that has been similarly designated.Read more...
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Uber and Lyft Awarded $810 Million Federal Contract
After waging a nefarious and ultimately successful campaign to avoid paying gig workers in California a living wage at all costs, Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc have been rewarded with an $810 million government contract.Read more...
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What's the Best Monitor for PlayStation 5?
Recently, we asked for your thoughts on the best monitor for an Xbox Series X is. We’ll be compiling your responses in a post soon, but first we need to ask you about the other side of the next-gen equation. While the Series X appears to be the powerhouse for graphics this generation, the PlayStation 5 is no slouch…Read more...
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Snapchat Spotlight Is TikTok Except It's on Snapchat
In another universe, this year in tech might have been defined by TikTok’s survival of numerous assassination attempts. Just as the (first) TikTok ban came down, Instagram swooped in with Reels; today, Snapchat announced that it’s launching a TikTok copycat feature called Spotlight. It’s not the first TikTok ripoff…Read more...
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Comcast Prepares to Screw Over Millions With Data Caps in 2021
Next year, Comcast will start charging Xfinity customers in northeastern US states overage fees for exceeding their monthly data cap. As The Verge reports, customers not on an unlimited plan who exceed 1.2 TB of data in a month will have to pay $10 for every 50 GB of data they go over, topping out at $100. To put that…Read more...
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Apple Security Chief Indicted for Allegedly Trading iPads for Gun Permits
A newly released indictment charges Apple’s Head of Global Security, Thomas Moyer, with for his alleged participation in a scheme to acquire concealed-carry gun permits for Apple’s security team in exchange for providing cops with iPads. Read more...
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Finally! An Apple TV Remote I Might Use
Despite what you may have heard online, there is at least one redeeming feature of Apple TV’s divisive touchpad remote: it can be replaced. The latest alternative that more or less maintains its slim, compact footprint is from Universal Electronics and unlike other third-party Apple TV remotes, this one includes a…Read more...
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The Danger of Big Oil’s New Methane Emissions Pledge
On Monday, 62 oil majors that represent 30% of the world’s oil and gas production signed an international agreement to report methane emissions with a far higher level of transparency.Read more...
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Solomon Islands Says Facebook Ban Is Needed for the Sake of 'National Unity'
It’s never the good ones who want to ban Facebook.Read more...
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Another Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine Seems Effective, Doesn't Need Extreme Cold Storage
On Monday, researchers in the UK became the latest to announce promising results from their experimental vaccine candidate against covid-19. In the data seen so far, the vaccine appeared to be at least 70% effective at preventing infection from the coronavirus, though it may be up to 90% effective with a certain…Read more...
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FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Regeneron Monoclonal Antibody Cocktail
The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday issued an emergency use authorization to Regeneron for its covid-19 monoclonal antibody cocktail, which is made up of the antibodies casirivimab and imdevimab, citing a reduction in hospitalizations and emergency room visits in patients in a clinical trial as well as a…Read more...
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Snoop Alert: Twitter Bug Lets People See Fleets Past Their Expiration Dates
It looks like Twitter just can’t catch a fleeting break. Days after the company unveiled Fleets, its new Instagram Stories-like posts that are theoretically supposed to disappear after 24 hours, a bug has basically made them pretty useless. Even worse, the bug could open the door to snooping galore. Read more...
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Sunday's Best Deals: TCL 65" Android TV, Instant Pot Duo Plus, Vava 8-in-1 USB-C Hub, All That FAB Skincare Set, Baby Yoda & Nintendo Character Pillows, and More
A TCL 65" Android 4K TV and a sale on character pillows lead Sunday’s best deals.Read more...
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Stay Cozy Inside This Winter With a $500 Sharp AQUOS 70-inch 4K Smart TV
Sharp AQUOS 70" Class 4K HDR Smart TV | $500 | Best BuyRead more...
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Attackers Dupe GoDaddy Staff Into Helping Them Take Down Cryptocurrency Services
Roughly one year after a data breach at GoDaddy compromised 28,000 customer accounts, the world’s largest internet domain registrar is once again at the center of a security scandal. Hackers brought down several cryptocurrency services using GoDaddy domains in recent weeks, and apparently the company’s own staff…Read more...
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California Says Tesla Workers Are Now ‘Essential,’ and Can Ignore Stay-at-Home Order
Workers that make Teslas during the coronavirus pandemic are now apparently considered “essential” in the state of California, which has reported an average of 10,981 new covid-19 infections per day in the last week. This means that Tesla’s workers will not be affected by the state’s new limited stay-at-home order,…Read more...
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It Doesn’t Matter If Trump Never Concedes, Twitter Is Giving @POTUS to Biden
Outgoing President Donald Trump is set to receive a rude awakening on Jan. 20, 2021 on his favorite social media platform: Twitter. That day, Trump will no longer see a picture of himself on the popular @POTUS account—the official presidential Twitter account, although Trump prefers to use his own personal, …Read more...
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More States Are Offering Contact-Tracing Apps—Now if Only They Could Get People to Use Them
Google and Apple rolled out their covid-19 contact-tracing APIs months ago for state officials to use in developing their own covid-19-tracking apps, but adoption has proceeded at a snail’s pace. Just 15 states and Washington, D.C. are currently employing the tech giants’ “exposure notification” tech while a handful…Read more...
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This Video Takes a Tour of the Hidden Tunnels Underneath the Original Disney Animation Buildings
What do Paris, Disney, and sprawling nuclear fallout shelters have in common? Catacombs!Read more...
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We Need to Talk About Franklin
Way back at the very beginning of Marvel’s Dawn of X, the Fantastic Four and members of the newly founded mutant nation of Krakoa crossed paths in a fateful, chance encounter that underlined just what it is about this new mutant age that scares the rest of the world so much. That subsequent tension between the…Read more...
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Saturday's Best Deals: TCL 50" 4K Smart TV, BarkBox Monthly Subscription Box, Succulents & Plants, SodaStream Kit, Fenty Poutsicle Lipsticks, and Dyson V10 Absolute
A 50-inch TCL 4K smart LED tv and a SodaStream sparkling water making kit lead Saturday’s best deals.Read more...
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