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WandaVision‘s Teyonah Parris Promises More of Monica Rambeau’s Backstory

It isn’t until WandaVision’s second episode that Teyonah Parris actually makes her first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She’s one of the many people living alongside Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) in the small town of Westview, where the most pressing thing on most everyone’s mind recently was a local talent…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Apple, the Company That Basically Invented Podcasts, Has Reportedly Decided to Give This Whole Podcast Thing a Try

Apple has been slowly building its empire of subscription services for everything from news and fitness to TV and cloud storage. But Apple has dragged its feet on podcasts, which is strange considering the company popularized the creation and distribution of podcasts about [checks notes] 16 years ago. Apple is reportedly coming around to a…

Internet Catie Keck

Covid-19 Vaccine Stockpile Already Empty When States Were Promised New Shipments

A plan meant to speed up the delivery of covid-19 vaccines to the American public is already facing trouble. On Friday, Oregon governor Kate Brown tweeted that the state won’t be getting additional vaccine shipments as expected next week, because the federal government had shipped out its remaining reserves earlier than advertised. Other states have…

Health Ed Cara

Leaked Parler Data Points to Users at Police Stations, U.S. Military Bases

Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the social network Parler and archived days before Amazon restricted access to the app reveal its users included on-duty police officers across the U.S. and U.S. service members stationed at home and abroad. The presence on Parler of active military and police raises concerns, experts said,…

Tech News Dell Cameron & Dhruv Mehrotra

A Teen Made $3 Million in Five Weeks on Snapchat, and How’s Your Life Going?

Last year, Snapchat announced what sounded like a real-life Scrumdiddlyumptious bar scheme to lure TikTok users with promises of riches beyond their wildest dreams. The company announced that, in order to promote its TikTok clone Spotlight, it would pay out $1 million total to creators, every day. The company provided scant additional details other than…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

For All Mankind Season 2 Trailer Brings War to the Stars

The rules of engagement are changing for the second season of Ronald D. Moore’s alt-history space race series: because war’s coming to the moon. Maybe moon pirates, too? Apple just dropped a new trailer for the second season of For All Mankind, the alternate history sci-fi series that imagines a world where the space race…

Trailers James Whitbrook

This Was WhatsApp’s Plan All Along

Even if you aren’t the type of person who peruses WhatsApp on a regular basis, chances are you’ve tried perusing its new privacy policy. Emphasis on “tried.” The roughly 4,000-word tome fell under fire from countless WhatsAppers across the globe after the company told its users that they’ll be ejected from the platform unless they…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

You Can’t Block Climate Action And Say You Support Democracy

In the wake of last week’s right-wing riot at the Capitol, some businesses are turning away from the politicians that incited it. The president of the National Association of Manufacturers, a lobbying group that represents 14,000 companies in the manufacturing sector, issued a statement calling the incident “disgusting” and calling for Trump’s removal. Dow Chemical…

Earther Dharna Noor

Mortal Kombat‘s Fascination With Blood Wants to Go Beyond Gory Fatalities

Although there’ll be plenty of those too, it seems. Warner Bros. has stayed relatively quiet about its latest attempt to reboot the beloved, buckets-o’-blood-laden video-game fighting franchise Mortal Kombat as a new movie series so far. But a new preview from Entertainment Weeklyreveals that the film is going to go down an alternate path to…

Movies James Whitbrook

New Intel CEO Talks a Little Trash About Apple While Trying to Reverse Company’s Woes

Pat Gelsinger was just named as Intel’s new CEO earlier this week, and apparently is off to a bold start following a recent employee meeting where Gelsinger told employees that Intel needs to deliver better PC products than anything made by that “lifestyle company in Cupertino.” Ouch. Following a rocky tenure mired by multiple delays…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

The World’s Blackest Paint and Sparkles Make a Car Look Like the Night Sky

By now we’ve all seen the astonishing results of covering an object in black paint that absorbs over 99% of light—it loses all shape, form, and depth. But what happens when you mix those super-black paints with highly-reflective color-shifting sparkles and then paint a car? The result is like staring into the deepest reaches of space.…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Darkened SpaceX Satellites Can Still Disrupt Astronomy, New Research Suggests

SpaceX’s attempt to reduce the reflectivity of Starlink satellites is working, but not to the degree required by astronomers. Starlink satellites with an anti-reflective coating are half as bright as the standard version, according to research published in The Astrophysical Journal. It’s an improvement, but still not good enough, according to the team, led by…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Firefly Is Still Great, But It’s Not Quite What I Remembered

About 15 years had passed since I last spent time aboard the Serenity with Mal, Zoe, Wash, and the gang. But with plenty of free evenings during a global pandemic, I decided it was time to take another journey into the Verse and bring my adoring wife along for the ride. Oddly enough, she had…

Television Germain Lussier

Galaxy Buds Pro Review: Samsung’s Real Answer to the AirPods Pro

It’s been less than six months since Samsung released its last pair of wireless earbuds. But now there’s the Galaxy Buds Pro. By switching over to a more traditional design, keeping built-in ANC, and slapping on a price tag of $200, Samsung has finally created a worthy and more affordable competitor to Apple’s $250 AirPods…

Headphones Sam Rutherford

WandaVision’s Behind the Scenes Video Teases What’s to Come (and That Gorgeous Retro Kitchen)

Sure, sure, we’re all interested in just what weirdness WandaVision’s first two episodes is cooking up for our titular sorceress and synthezoid. But also? We’re interested in cooking of a more literal sense. Marvel’s dropped a brief new featurette going behind the scenes on the making of WandaVision, and while the primary focus of the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

A Startup Demonstrated a Wirelessly Powered TV at CES 2021 and I Want to Believe

A big TV no longer needs an even bigger home entertainment center to support it thanks to hidden wall mounts, but you still have to deal with wires. You can either route them through the wall so they’re out of sight or cross your fingers that this completely wireless TV technology demonstrated at CES 2021…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Rare Wolverine Spotted in Yellowstone for the First Time in Years

A camera trap set up to catch cougars prowling Yellowstone National Park has captured an even rarer creature. The park released footage this week showing a wolverine tearing through the forest, marking the first on-camera sighting since the camera traps were deployed in 2014. Wolverines are in many ways ghosts of the forests. They prefer…

Earther Brian Kahn

MagSafe Might Be Coming Back to MacBook Pros and the Touch Bar Might Be Going Bye Bye

If you’ve been missing MagSafe, good news—rumor has it that Apple’s magnetic power adaptor is set to make a return to two upgraded MacBook Pros later this year. The news comes via Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has a pretty good track record when it comes to Apple predictions. MagSafe was first introduced on the MacBook…

Tech News Victoria Song

The CW’s Batwoman/Superman & Lois Crossover Scrapped Over Coronavirus Concerns

Doug Liman says it’s up to the stars if an Edge of Tomorrow sequel happens. Patrick Dempsey will be back for Enchanted 2. Swamp Thing won’t get a second chance on the CW, but its stars could on another of the network’s DC shows. Plus, even more Avatar sequel concept art, and what’s next for…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

It’s Hard to Be Excited About New Laptops and GPUs When Supply is Scarce

If you believed the rumors, AMD and Nvidia were supposed to deliver a bunch of show-stopping CES announcements. Rumors that Nvidia was going to announce a RTX 3080 Ti or a RTX 3070 Super. Rumors that AMD was going to launch its RX 6700 by the end of this month. Even Intel was quiet about…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

WandaVision‘s Teyonah Parris Promises More of Monica Rambeau’s Backstory

Apple, the Company That Basically Invented Podcasts, Has Reportedly Decided to Give This Whole Podcast Thing a Try

Covid-19 Vaccine Stockpile Already Empty When States Were Promised New Shipments

Leaked Parler Data Points to Users at Police Stations, U.S. Military Bases

A Teen Made $3 Million in Five Weeks on Snapchat, and How’s Your Life Going?

For All Mankind Season 2 Trailer Brings War to the Stars

This Was WhatsApp’s Plan All Along

You Can’t Block Climate Action And Say You Support Democracy

Mortal Kombat‘s Fascination With Blood Wants to Go Beyond Gory Fatalities

New Intel CEO Talks a Little Trash About Apple While Trying to Reverse Company’s Woes

The World’s Blackest Paint and Sparkles Make a Car Look Like the Night Sky

Darkened SpaceX Satellites Can Still Disrupt Astronomy, New Research Suggests

Firefly Is Still Great, But It’s Not Quite What I Remembered

Galaxy Buds Pro Review: Samsung’s Real Answer to the AirPods Pro

WandaVision’s Behind the Scenes Video Teases What’s to Come (and That Gorgeous Retro Kitchen)

A Startup Demonstrated a Wirelessly Powered TV at CES 2021 and I Want to Believe

Rare Wolverine Spotted in Yellowstone for the First Time in Years

MagSafe Might Be Coming Back to MacBook Pros and the Touch Bar Might Be Going Bye Bye

The CW’s Batwoman/Superman & Lois Crossover Scrapped Over Coronavirus Concerns

It’s Hard to Be Excited About New Laptops and GPUs When Supply is Scarce

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