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If you’re in the market for an oil pipeline, you’re in luck—we’ve got a lot of extra ones right now. About half of the oil pipelines in the U.S. are sitting unused, energy research firm Wood Mackenzie said in figures shared with Reuters Thursday. The situation reflects a downturn in oil production that was kicked off…Read more...

Members of the now-infamous “meme stock” vigilante subreddit r/WallStreetBets may have found their ultimate target—the mothership itself. The subreddit has been filled with users discussing the prospect of deploying some of the same successful tactics used to pump the stocks of GameStop and AMC earlier this year and…Read more...

Netflix’s live-adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender may have lost the original showrunners, but the sprawling cast just keeps getting bigger. The streaming service has announced who’ll be playing a bevy of roles, including major antagonist Azula.

Centuries-old DNA collected from the bottom of a lake on the Faroe Islands is turning back the clock on human occupation of the archipelago. Vikings arrived there around 850 CE, but a team of researchers has deduced that some unknown group of humans must have arrived at these North Atlantic islands several hundred…Read more...

‘Tis the season to start your holiday shopping at the last possible second when you realize time is running out and not even an ongoing pandemic will get you out of buying a gift. Google Chrome is adding new features to help you get in and out unscathed.

Two NYPD officers allegedly faked vaxx documents and submitted them to…the NYPD. The police department reports that they have been stripped of their guns and badges and demoted to desk duty. They’re the newest representatives of the unmasked, vaxx-resistant cop contingent, regularly sighted maskless on subways, some …Read more...

Just like USB, SD, and other ports, not every HDMI input is the same, and using the right one could have a marked effect on things like picture quality, frame rates, and latency.

The new dark comedy Don’t Look Up shakes up the idea of what makes a good climate movie. Rather than focusing purely on weird science or Al Gore, it tells a great story by highlighting the criminal inaction on climate change. (Well, technically it’s about a comet headed for Earth, but it’s a clear stand-in for our…Read more...

Laurence Fishburne has a present for you. The actor has bestowed the very first look at the upcoming Disney Channel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur upon the world, and while it’s extremely short, it’s also extremely big on style.

Pour one out for corporate tech lobbying. The Internet Association, the once towering D.C. behemoth that turned policy water into wine for the likes of Facebook, Amazon, and Google, is set to dissolve this week following months of reduced relevance and diminished support from its increasingly at-odds members.Read more...

Well, it’s certainly been a year for cyber debacles, so, sure, why not tie things off with a nice, fat security vulnerability that affects almost everything on the internet? That sounds about right.Read more...

Billy Zane wants to get back to The Phantom. Cheryl Blossom casually puts curses on her friends in a new look at Riverdale. Disney wants to bring Zorro back with Wilder Valderrama. Plus, new looks at Superman & Lois’ return and the latest, Cronenberg-tastic episode of Star Trek: Discovery. To me, my spoilers!

Android tablets are, against all odds, still alive thanks to the success of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab products, and now the company is launching a new mid-range option. I haven’t seen then Galaxy Tab A8 in person yet, and some important details remain unanswered, but the specs and features suggest the new Tab A8 could be a…Read more...

The U.S. can add high winds to the list of weather calamities this year. Just days removed from a deadly tornado outbreak, a huge swath of the country will face dangerous winds that could lead to prairie fires and blowing dust and snow.

The U.S. Navy tested a new laser weapon in the Gulf of Aden, between Yemen and Somalia, on Tuesday and hit a floating target, according to a press release from the U.S. military. And as the Associated Press notes, the Navy could soon be using this technology to fight uncrewed boats sent by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the…Read more...

DJI, the largest hobby drone maker in the world, will soon be added to a U.S. investment blacklist by the Biden administration, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The blacklist designation comes over DJI’s alleged involvement in human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, though it’s not…Read more...

Our gadgets have advanced at an unprecedented rate in recent years, and yet, fundamental limitations with the way we use them remain. Plugging in a cable, switching between profiles as you move from one device to another, and attempting to recall a file you stashed away are some of the clunky tasks we still deal with…Read more...

Morpheus said it best: “No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.” That goes double for the upcoming fourth film in the franchise, The Matrix Resurrections. Even someone who has seen every single trailer, TV spot, or clip that’s been released so far probably can’t say for certain what the…Read more...

Just about one year from this very moment, audiences will be lining up to see Avatar 2. Or at least James Cameron hopes so. The sequel to Cameron’s 2009 movie, which remains the highest grossing film of all-time, is set for release December 16, 2022, and a new piece of concept art gives us our first look at its new …Read more...

Thousands of residents from Arkansas to Illinois are reeling from a weekend of devastating tornadoes that touched down across six states and left at least 88 dead. Around 30 tornadoes rampaged through farmland and towns, with one of the largest twisters spreading debris 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) into the air and…Read more...

DC Attorney General Karl Racine has filed a federal civil lawsuit targeting two far-right groups involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, the street brawling “Western chauvinist” Proud Boys and wannabe vigilante group the Oath Keepers, accusing them of conspiring to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald…Read more...

No, you’re not a trillionaire. But you’d be forgiven for soiling your trousers when you took a peek at the price of your favorite cryptocurrency investments on CoinMarketCap on Tuesday afternoon.Read more...

Pretty much everyone agrees Pacific Rim: Uprising wasn’t very good, but that wasn’t the sequel we were supposed to get. Guillermo del Toro, who directed the original, had signed aboard, written a script, and was getting ready to shoot the film when various studio shenanigans put it on hold. But del Toro, for the first…Read more...

Engineers in Korea have developed a highly dexterous robotic hand that’s capable of crushing beer cans or gently clutching an egg.

Viscose rayon is often billed as a more sustainable fabric. But a new investigation shows that one of its most popular purveyors is contributing to deforestation in Indonesia.Read more...

LastPass, a popular password management service, is spinning off from its parent company, LogMeIn, and has announced new features to entice users away from competing password managers.

In the buildup to the Fantastic Four’s 60th anniversary this year, the classic team’s actually been alive, well, and prominently featured throughout some of Marvel’s notable comics. Though Marvel could have closed the year out by simply doubling down on boosting the team’s profiles within its core comics universe, the…Read more...

If you owned a Game Boy, there’s a good chance the Game Boy Camera was your first digital camera. It was cheap, it was easy to use, and the 2-bit pixelated images it captured had an undeniable charm. For the first time in nearly 23 years there’s finally going to be an easy way to get those digital pics onto other…Read more...

If you’ve ever found it strange that modern society managed to figure out how to use the internet to facilitate the sale of millions of dollars worth of GIFs but still can’t seem to implement secure online voting, then you’re not alone. The United States Postal Service, which isn’t normally known for its…Read more...

While 2021 was a year we spent revisiting some old favorites (and old new favorites), it was also a year of exciting discoveries, bringing new movies, TV series, and unforgettable characters into our lives. Here are seven projects and people that brightened up our nerdy lives in 2021.

Today in utter lack of surprises: The House committee investigating the Donald Trump-incited riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 dug up texts showing Fox News stars and at least one of Trump’s interminable sons sent panicked texts urging Trump to call the whole thing off—then promptly went back to pretending Trump did…Read more...

A New Orleans-based arcade is picking up the wreckage left after a man brandishing various weapons repeatedly rampaged the business for over 24 hours.

The U.S. Library of Congress handles a lot of things, including running the National Film Registry, which “selects 25 films each year showcasing the range and diversity of American film heritage” to “ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America’s film heritage to increase awareness…Read more...

After spending close to half a year combing through the UK government’s proposed Online Safety Bill, Ofcom—the UK parliamentary wing responsible for overseeing broadcasting and telco businesses throughout the region—finally dropped its suggestions to tighten the drafted legislation. The 194-page report is chock-full…Read more...

The dino-killing asteroid smashed into an unfortunate spot and at the deadliest possible angle, and as a group of scientists have now concluded, it also struck Earth at a sensitive time of year—at least for animals living in the northern hemisphere.

Dozens of Florida residents have been hospitalized with uncontrolled bleeding and at least two have died after they took synthetic cannabinoid products, local health officials reported this week. The outbreak bears an uncanny resemblance to a string of bleeding cases across the country that occurred in 2018, which…Read more...

In season three of The Expanse, Clarissa Mao was an enemy to all aboard the Rocinante—but with the passage of time, Amos Burton came to see another side of her. Their friendship was cemented during their post-apocalyptic Earth adventures during season five, and as season six begins, they’re crewmates aboard the very…Read more...

Piles of new trash on Arctic shores, rain in unprecedented places, noises from ships disrupting wildlife: Human influence has made the Arctic unrecognizable from what it looked like even just a decade ago. That’s the verdict of the new Arctic Report Card, which scientists presented on Tuesday.

In its never-ending quest to get Android phones in the hands of every person on this earth, Google announced that it’s bringing a few of Android 12’s marquee software features directly to Android 12 (Go edition). This is excellent news for folks using Android Go, as it’s a lower-end version of Android that runs on…Read more...

It has come to Earther’s attention that the U.S. apparently has weather weapons. Noted chumbox enthusiast Alex Jones spent a recent episode of his eponymous show shedding light on the U.S.’s long history of developing and using them.Read more...

By the standards of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man teaming up in Spider-Man: No Way Home is somewhat unexpected. But the idea of the two frequent Avengers hanging out and getting into trouble with one another makes quite a bit of sense over in the world of Marvel comics, where they’ve both…Read more...

Pa Edrissa Manjang, an Uber driver in the UK, spent a year of his life working for the ride-hailing company before he was abruptly fired by an algorithm. “It wasn’t good at all,” Manjang said in an interview with Worker Info Exchange. “It felt like most of the time you were dealing with robots.”Read more...

When the third film in a franchise is released, it’s usually a good idea to look back at the previous two. Get yourself reacquainted with the world, characters, where the story left off, etc. That’s not always the case though. The King’s Man is the third film in the Kingsman series and we strongly advise against…Read more...

By combining the light from four powerful telescopes, scientists have captured the deepest and clearest views yet of the immediate environment around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

YouTube TV hardly knew peace after squaring away its differences with Roku before it was launched into a fresh carriage dispute, this time with Disney. In a Dec. 13 blog post, Google-owned YouTube TV warned users that stalled negotiations with the Mouse House have now threatened the partnership, jeopardizing the…Read more...

LG is giving us a sneak peek at what next year’s gadgets will look like with a preview of its CES 2022 announcements, which include two TVs that are designed to blend into your home’s decor by emulating stuff that’s already in your house.Read more...

Gadget makers are slowly grappling with the electronic waste created by their products, and now it looks like a more sustainable future is on the horizon. Dell’s Concept Luna aims to make the company’s laptops more environmentally friendly, and in the process will also make them more repairable. While Dell hasn’t…Read more...

The neighborhood vigilante app Citizen is on the verge of getting a union, an outcome Citizen’s chaotic leadership very much preferred to avoid. According to the Communications Workers of America, a supermajority of analysts in Citizen’s intelligence agency-evoking “central operations department” voted to join the…Read more...

Sometimes you watch a trailer and just know you are seeing something special. Like this might be the first glimpse of a film you’re likely to cherish for the rest of your life. Those instincts are not always right, but the trailer for Everything Everywhere All at Once gives off those vibes. You are not ready for its…Read more...

An elaborate burial from the Mesolithic Period is surprising archaeologists, not because of decoration of the tomb but its occupant: an infant girl who lived just 40 to 50 days. The 10,000-year-old burial is providing a unique look at the baby’s brief life and changing ideas about how some prehistoric humans treated…Read more...