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by Andrew Liszewski on (#5K4ZP)
A photo can bring back fond memories, but a video can help transport you back to the tropical destination you vacationed at years ago. So researchers at the University of Washington have developed a deep learning method that can turn a single still image into moving video without requiring any reference footage…Read more...
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by Whitney Kimball on (#5K4ZQ)
In 2014, director Steven Soderbergh came up with an acid test for visual storytelling. Soderbergh stripped the film Raiders of the Lost Ark of color and replaced dialogue with an ambient soundtrack including Trent Reznor; as a result, Soderbergh’s Raiders reveals Steven Spielberg’s masterful utilization of every…Read more...
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by Jody Serrano on (#5K4ZR)
In my pre-teen and teenage years, there were few things that made me happier than going on adventures to other worlds. I carried around the “portals” to those worlds in a clear plastic box full of colorful floppy disks. They were my cultural coffers, a way for me to store and quickly access stories about the magical…Read more...
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by James Whitbrook and Gordon Jackson on (#5K4WY)
The seventh Transformers film is expanding its cast. Vin Diesel teases Groot’s future in the MCU. Work on the next Scream is nearly done. Plus, what’s to come on The Flash and Superman & Lois, a new teaser for American Horror Stories, and raise your ax to a new Green Knight poster. Spoilers get!
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by James Whitbrook on (#5K4WZ)
In over a decade of movies and now TV shows, we’ve gotten used to Marvel media that sets up a big mystery that hangs over its runtime, only to be answered in the endgame. What’s going on in Westview? Who’s behind Loki’s attack on NYC? Where’s Captain Marvel during the Snap? Why is Falcon and the Winter Soldier like thisRead more...
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by Florence Ion on (#5K4X0)
As everyone is gearing up to head back into the office, Lenovo is updating its ThinkPad lineup of work-focused laptops with new hardware. The ThinkPad P1, P15, and P17 laptops include better graphics and Intel’s 11th-generation processors, and the P1 even sports a 1080p webcam, which feels like finding a diamond in…Read more...
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by Sam Rutherford on (#5K4TE)
It’s been more than a decade since Alienware last put an AMD CPU in any of its laptops, but all that is changing with the m15 R5. Not only does the m15 R5 support a range of AMD’s latest Ryzen processors, it also sports a revamped design, a bunch of new display options, better cooling, and even a mechanical keyboard…Read more...
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by Matt Novak on (#5K4P7)
Apple has been quietly testing a program that would allow the tech company to provide primary health care service to patients with doctors employed by Apple at clinics also owned by Apple, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The ambitious project, code-named Casper, was reportedly conceived in…Read more...
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by Matt Novak on (#5K4H8)
Police is Western Australia have accessed private data from the state’s covid-19 check-in app at least twice to aid in a criminal investigation, despite promises the app would only be used by contact tracers. The revelations are likely to make people think twice before using the app, a public health tool that’s…Read more...
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by Victoria Song on (#5K4CJ)
Following news that Peloton’s API exposed private user account data, McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team says the Bike+ had a dangerous flaw that could enable hackers to invisibly and remotely gain control of bikes.Read more...
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by Germain Lussier on (#5K483)
A person doesn’t get to be as famous as Jennifer Lopez without having a wide-ranging career. Music, movies, television—she’s basically done it all, with a few small exceptions. One of those is science fiction. Oh sure, she was in The Cell and Anaconda, but those came out decades ago. Now, Lopez getting back into…Read more...
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by James Whitbrook on (#5K46S)
Good news! There’s new footage from Toonami’s adaptation of one of Junji Ito’s most beloved horror tales, Uzumaki. Bad news! You’re getting the footage now because the show itself isn’t coming for a long, long while.
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by Brianna Provenzano on (#5K484)
In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of angry Trump supporters, Parler — the online hub for bigots and far-right extremists — was quickly painted as an instigating force, one that zealots had used to mount their offensive. But during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday…Read more...
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by Tom McKay on (#5K44W)
One of the far-right goons awaiting trial for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6—who was infamously photographed inside Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s office—wants out of home detention to go to a car show.
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by James Whitbrook on (#5K44X)
Summer may be upon us in sweltering force, but the CW’s already looking to its fall line up, and what can you expect? Well, the answer is simple: the new 4400 and more comic book heroes than you can shake a batarang at.
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by Sam Rutherford on (#5K44Y)
Earlier today Google announced a slate of new features coming to Android devices later this summer, and buried amongst the updates is news that the Google Messages app is finally getting support for end-to-end encryption.
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by Tom McKay on (#5K44Z)
GOP complaints about voting procedures in Michigan, phantom “anomalies” on ballots in Georgia, and Italian satellite hackers: Emails released by the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday show to what ridiculous extremes officials in Donald Trump’s White House went to enlist the Department of Justice in its attempt to…Read more...
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by Ed Cara on (#5K450)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is enacting a temporary ban on imported dogs coming to the U.S. from over 100 countries, due to a heightened risk of rabies.Read more...
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by Beth Elderkin on (#5K451)
Central Park is a magical place, so it’s no surprise that a visit there can inspire a song or two. But it’s going to take more than music to save this park from a greedy land developer—and as we see in the first trailer for season two of Central Park, from the creator of Bob’s Burgers, the Tillerman-Hunter family is…Read more...
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by Sam Rutherford on (#5K41C)
Even though they share the same parent company, Realme is on a mission to take the “flagship killer” throne away from OnePlus with its latest handset, the Realme GT.Read more...
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by George Dvorsky on (#5K41D)
NASA has reached an important milestone, as the 188,000-pound core stage of its latest rocket is now standing vertically inside an assembly building in Florida.
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#5K41E)
When you’re designing a robot to emulate the moves of an agile animal that can leap across gaps and carefully tip-toe across uneven terrain, it only makes sense to copy Mother Nature’s designs. It’s why you often see robots with tails, which help improve balance and agility. But staring at Tencent Robotics’ Ollie, I…Read more...
by Charles Pulliam-Moore on (#5K3YT)
When Infinity Train first premiered on Cartoon Network in 2019, its dark and mysterious story brought a different kind of energy to the network’s slate of animated programming. Though Infinity Train was certainly a show that could appeal to children, it also felt crafted to hook an older, broader audience with its…Read more...
by Florence Ion on (#5K3YV)
We’re just one week away from finding out what Microsoft has in store for the next version of Windows, but developer build leaks indicate Windows 11 is getting a dramatic visual overhaul.
by Isaac Schultz on (#5K3W8)
And boom goes the… earth? Residents of the seaside hamlet of Robe in South Australia awoke June 9 to find that a huge hunk of limestone had fallen inward, leaving a sinkhole in its wake.
by James Whitbrook on (#5K3YW)
It is, apparently, not all sitting around in a tub before you kill a monster for coins and bardic inspiration, apparently.
by Whitney Kimball on (#5K3W9)
Today the senate overwhelmingly confirmed tech critic and 32-year-old Columbia professor Lina Khan to join the Federal Trade Commission by a vote of 69-28. They can agree on reforming big tech; given their track record of bitching and moaning and proposing terribly uninformed and/or nefarious proposals to do it…Read more...
by Ed Cara on (#5K3WA)
Late last year, a deadly yeast known as Candida auris was found in Brazil for the first time. In a new paper this week, the scientists who treated and investigated these initial cases say the covid-19 pandemic helped create a breeding ground for the fungus to emerge and spread inside a hospital’s intensive care unit.Read more...
by Germain Lussier on (#5K3SA)
The first thing you’ll notice about the new Masters of the Universe show is that “He-Man” isn’t in the title. The original ‘80s cartoon was called He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and this new Netflix version was named Masters of the Universe: Revelation. That’s not because He-Man isn’t in it—of course, he…Read more...
by Andrew Liszewski on (#5K3SB)
As much as we loved Nintendo’s Game & Watch revival featuring the original Super Mario Bros., we regretted the handheld’s limited selection of games. Today the company revealed a follow-up with the Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda that includes four games instead, but it now seems very likely that Nintendo might…Read more...
by Andrew Liszewski on (#5K3SC)
Apple’s introduction of MagSafe charging in the iPhone 12 line has enabled some clever accessories, but none as useful as portable chargers that stick to the back of your phone while juicing it up. Realizing that portable chargers actually have two sides, Zens has put back-t0-back wireless charging coils on each side…Read more...
by Germain Lussier on (#5K3SD)
Here’s how Pixar’s latest film, Luca, does not end: a huge kraken does not show up and face off against the heroes. At one point in production, it did happen, though. During Pixar’s film development, director Enrico Casarosa and producer Andrea Warren were working on a movie that got that way bigger and busier than…Read more...
by Whitney Kimball on (#5K3NB)
Better late than never: Airbnb is preventing landlords from renting units where tenants have been evicted for not paying rent after the Center for Disease Control’s pandemic eviction moratorium expires on June 30th. According to an analysis by think tank the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 10.4 million…Read more...
by Cheryl Eddy on (#5K3NC)
Timewasters—a sharp, funny 2017-2019 British series that’s now available stateside, thanks to Amazon’s free streamer IMDb TV—follows the adventures of a struggling jazz quartet after they’re suddenly transported to 1926 London. Along with the usual fish-out-of-water stuff that comes with time travel, the group must…Read more...
by George Dvorsky on (#5K3ND)
A new computer simulation shows that a technologically advanced civilization, even when using slow ships, can still colonize an entire galaxy in a modest amount of time. The finding presents a possible model for interstellar migration and a sharpened sense of where we might find alien intelligence.
by Molly Taft on (#5K3NE)
Calling all dermatologists. There are some hot sharks who need you. Marine biologists say that warming oceans could be responsible for a mystery skin affliction that is taking a toll on sharks off the coast of Malaysia.Read more...
by Tom McKay on (#5K3NF)
Twitter is floating “early concepts” of new anti-abuse features—such as the ability for a user to untag themselves from another’s posts, or even revoke the ability of another user to tag them entirely.
by Andrew Liszewski on (#5K3HY)
There are those that are happy to toss a naked gadget into a bag full of loose items and let nature take its course, and then there are those who need to baby every device they own with a protective case. The BAD Wrap exists for that latter group, but instead of being purpose-built for a specific gadget, it’s designed…Read more...
by Sam Rutherford on (#5K3HX)
Android 12 isn’t expected to be ready for its official release until later this fall, but in the meantime Google is rolling out six new features to Android devices this summer.Read more...
by Beth Elderkin on (#5K3HZ)
It’s the question that, I suppose, some people have been asking: “What were Gaston and LeFou up to before they started harassing Belle?” That’s the idea behind a new Beauty and the Beast prequel series coming to Disney+, which sees Briana Middleton joining the cast as LeFou’s step-sister.Read more...
by Dharna Noor on (#5K3J0)
The record-setting drought in California has brought water levels to new lows. Now, dropping reservoir levels may have helped solve the mystery of a plane that crashed 56 years ago.
by Shoshana Wodinsky on (#5K3EF)
Joe Exotic—the zoo operator turned convicted felon turned Netflix docuseries superstar—is the latest celeb to hop on the NFT hype train. On Tuesday, the cryptocurrency platform MORE announced a new collaboration with Exotic featuring digital Tiger King tokens and real-world collectibles that the star will be fronting…Read more...
by Victoria Song on (#5K3EG)
A few months ago, Ikea teased on its Instagram that it was teaming up with Sonos for another Symfonisk speaker. At the time there was speculation that it’d be some kind of wall art-speaker combo. And yup, that’s exactly what the two companies unveiled today.Read more...
by Beth Elderkin on (#5K3EH)
Humanity is fighting a losing war against Insert Generic Evil Aliens Here, and they need to recruit a new fighting force from the past. Instead of pulling a DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and finding the greatest warriors from across time, The Tomorrow War goes back a few decades to where Chris Pratt happens to be.Read more...
by Andrew Liszewski on (#5K3B6)
Complain if you want about the Apple Watch’s boxy design, but it facilitates one of the wearable’s best low-key features: propping it up and using it as a bedside alarm clock. The screen’s a little small, but that’s now easily solved with a clever Apple Watch charging dock that uses a polished lucite orb to magnify…Read more...
by James Whitbrook and Gordon Jackson on (#5K3B7)
Something gets glitchy with Spider-Man: No Way Home. Andy Muschietti teases The Flash’s new suit for Barry. There’s trouble ahead in Alexandria for The Walking Dead’s final season. Plus, a new clip from F9, and Kevin Smith talks Masters of the Universe: Revelation influences. To me, my spoilers!
by Molly Taft on (#5K3B8)
Cherrie Lynn Almonte is an influencer with 192,000 Instagram followers and a bio that includes the phrase “Travel | Lifestyle | Good vibes.” Her posts follow standard travel-influencer protocols, with perfectly framed photos of stunning vistas and cityscapes, lots of saturated colors, and geolocations for most shots…Read more...
by Sam Rutherford on (#5K398)
OnePlus has already released a handful of affordable 5G phones, but the $240 Nord N200 5G might be the company’s best low-cost 5G handset yet.Read more...
by Matt Novak on (#5K324)
Taco Bell is giving away one free taco, specifically a Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco, to anyone who brings proof of vaccination against covid-19 to their restaurants in California. But if you’re looking to score a free taco, you better act fast. The offer is only good today, June 15.
by Brianna Provenzano on (#5K2QS)
For anyone who was worried about the health of the new, direct-to-consumer emphasis of Disney’s business model, worry no more: During a virtual conference appearance on Monday, Disney CEO Bob Chapek touted the success of the company’s recent reorganization, saying that the decision to shift energy towards the creation…Read more...