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Out of The Order‘s Ashes, Netflix Finds The Imperfects

The streaming giant may have canceled the well-regarded The Order last November, but it isn’t done with the show’s creators by a long shot. Netflix has announced The Imperfects, a new sci-fi series from the same team. Not to be confused with Netflix’s other similarly named recent series The Irregulars, the Hollywood Reporter says The…

io9 Rob Bricken Apr 15 '21

Researchers Created the Whitest White Paint Ever

If you’ve ever redone a room in your house and gone to the hardware store to pick out some fresh paint, you know that there’s a lot of different shades of white on the market. Turns out, there’s a new shade of white in town—and this one may have some pretty cool (literally) climate implications.…

Climate Change Molly Taft Apr 15 '21

Apple’s Fitness+ Adds Workouts for Pregnant People and Older Adults

Starting April 19, Apple is adding new workouts to its Fitness+ on-demand workout service aimed at pregnant people and older adults, as well as more options for beginners. The service is also expanding its stable of trainers. In a press release, Apple said it’s adding 10 prenatal workouts in the strength, core, and mindful cooldown…

Tech News Victoria Song Apr 15 '21

The Best iPhone Home Screen Widgets We’ve Found So Far

The launch of iOS 14 brought iPhone owners the ability to start experimenting with home screen widgets.

Gadgets David Nield Apr 15 '21

U.S. Lawmakers Pressure DOJ Over Funding of Predictive Policing Tools

Ratcheting up pressure on the Justice Department to crack down on unregulated predictive policing algorithms, Democratic lawmakers on Thursday called for strict new requirements on any DOJ-funded research into police tools promising to forecast crime, saying that research into some programs already in use has revealed “major problems with their effectiveness and reliability.” “These algorithms,…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Apr 15 '21

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Indiana Jones 5 Adds Mads Mikkelsen to Its List of Priceless Artifacts

It feels like we’ve known about a fifth Indiana Jones movie for years and years at this point (mostly because we have, time’s just exhausting like that). But, at long last, it seems like Harrison Ford’s return to whip-cracking archaeological antics is finally starting to pick up the pace of a perilously large rolling boulder…

Movies James Whitbrook Apr 15 '21

Jeff Bezos Tells Amazon to Treat Employees Better While He Prepares to Flee Planet Earth

Earth today received parting words from Jeff Bezos, as the soon-to-be-former Amazon CEO turned over his shoulder on the slow walk to the rocket launch pad and observed: damn, you guys really need to turn this dump around—I mean, Christ, look at yourselves. The message was transcribed in a press release included in Amazon’s annual…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Apr 15 '21

Chimeric Human-Monkey Embryos Kept Alive for a Record 19 Days

Building on previous experiments, an international team of scientists has created chimeric human-monkey embryos, which were kept alive for nearly three weeks. The breakthrough could lead to new ways of testing drugs and generating organs for transplant, but this line of research is raising some ethical concerns. New research in Cell details the experiment, in…

Health George Dvorsky Apr 15 '21

Before Game of Thrones Got Big, Intimacy Was Its Greatest Strength

10 years on, looking back at what made Thrones ' first season a huge success.

Television James Whitbrook Apr 15 '21

Peloton Quietly Scales Back Apple GymKit Support

One of the selling points for Peloton’s new Bike+ was GymKit integration with the Apple Watch for easier and more accurate workout recording. Now, it appears that Peloton recently removed GymKit support for its bike bootcamps, limiting Apple Watch integration to just cycling classes. The news was first spotted by ConnectTheWatts. The report contains a…

Gadgets Victoria Song Apr 15 '21

There’s a Black Market for Ketchup Packets Now

If you’re one of the fast-food aficionados left reeling from stories of the current nationwide ketchup shortage, then get a squirt of this. People are now putting their unopened packets up for sale across eBay and Facebook Marketplace right now, for prices ranging from $1 per pack to over $1,000 for just a few. The…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky Apr 15 '21

U.S. Hits Russia With Heavy Sanctions Over SolarWinds Hack, All That Other Bad Stuff

The Biden administration on Thursday imposed “sweeping” sanctions on Russia over a historic cyberattack that impacted multiple government agencies and major businesses, as well as its interference in U.S. elections. President Joe Biden’s executive order imposes sanctions on 32 organizations or people it believes were involved in election meddling and names six companies that allegedly…

Tech News Andrew Couts Apr 15 '21

New Leaks Give Us a Peek at Samsung’s Next Tablet

While Samsung isn’t expected to officially announce the Galaxy Tab S7 Lite until sometime in June, new leaked images have seemingly just given us a peek at Samsung’s next tablet a couple of months early. In what appear to be press renders posted by noted leaker Evan Blass, the Tab S7 Lite appears to share…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Apr 15 '21

The U.S. Can Get to All Electric Vehicles by 2035

If all cars and trucks sold in the United States are electric by 2035, it could save consumers in the United States some $2.7 trillion over the course of the next 30 years, working out to roughly $1,000 in savings per household per year, a new analysis finds. And if you’re itching to start seeing…

Earther Molly Taft Apr 15 '21

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Future State: Gotham Will See the Red Hood Rise to Hunt Batman

DC Comics has released a first look at Future State: Gotham #1 today and Jason Todd’s Red Hood is hunting heroes. Though Christopher Nakano was first introduced as a mere former cop in DC’s Joker War event, when the character popped up in the pages of Future State: Batman, the company’s near-future series starring Tim…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 15 '21

Bang & Olufsen’s Book-Shaped Bookshelf Speaker Will Disappear Into a Shelf Full of Books

It’s hard to believe that anyone spending $900+ on a 10-inch tall, ultra-slim wireless speaker is not going to want everyone visiting their home to see their $900+ speaker, but that didn’t deter Bang & Olufsen from designing its new Beosound Emerge to look like a handsome tome that can disappear into a shelf full…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 15 '21

Horseshoe Theory, Now on the Blockchain

Republicans whining about how social media moderators are violating their inalienable right to lucrative follower counts have found an ally in Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Earlier this month, SCOTUS threw out a lower court’s ruling that Donald Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked his haters on Twitter, finding that the issue was…

Internet Tom McKay Apr 15 '21

Loki’s Tom Hiddleston Teases the Trickster’s Shapeshifting Abilities

The Toxic Avenger reboot finds a major star. Shazam director David F. Sandberg throws some water on some Fury of the Gods casting rumors. Ben Wheatley talks about taking on The Meg 2. Plus, what’s next on Debris and Nancy Drew. Spoilers, away! The Toxic Avenger Deadline reports Jacob Tremblay has joined Peter Dinklage in the…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Apr 15 '21

DJI’s Upgraded Mavic Air 2S Has a Much Larger Camera Sensor

DJI’s Mavic Air 2 drone already offers a great balance of price and performance, but with the new Mavic Air 2S, DJI is revamping its latest quadcopter with a way bigger camera sensor. By jumping up from the half-inch sensor on the Mavic Air 2 to the new 1-inch sensor on the Mavic Air 2S,…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Apr 15 '21

Google Earth’s New 3D Time-Lapse Feature Shows How Humans Are Affecting the Planet

Google Earth is already a powerful tool for observing our planet, but today it’s getting a major upgrade with the introduction of a new 3D time-lapse feature. Described by Google Earth director Rebecca Moore as the biggest update to Google Earth since 2017, Timelapse in Google Earth combines more than 24 million satellite photos, two…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Apr 15 '21

Out of The Order‘s Ashes, Netflix Finds The Imperfects

Researchers Created the Whitest White Paint Ever

Apple’s Fitness+ Adds Workouts for Pregnant People and Older Adults

The Best iPhone Home Screen Widgets We’ve Found So Far

U.S. Lawmakers Pressure DOJ Over Funding of Predictive Policing Tools

Indiana Jones 5 Adds Mads Mikkelsen to Its List of Priceless Artifacts

Jeff Bezos Tells Amazon to Treat Employees Better While He Prepares to Flee Planet Earth

Chimeric Human-Monkey Embryos Kept Alive for a Record 19 Days

Before Game of Thrones Got Big, Intimacy Was Its Greatest Strength

Peloton Quietly Scales Back Apple GymKit Support

There’s a Black Market for Ketchup Packets Now

U.S. Hits Russia With Heavy Sanctions Over SolarWinds Hack, All That Other Bad Stuff

New Leaks Give Us a Peek at Samsung’s Next Tablet

The U.S. Can Get to All Electric Vehicles by 2035

Future State: Gotham Will See the Red Hood Rise to Hunt Batman

Bang & Olufsen’s Book-Shaped Bookshelf Speaker Will Disappear Into a Shelf Full of Books

Horseshoe Theory, Now on the Blockchain

Loki’s Tom Hiddleston Teases the Trickster’s Shapeshifting Abilities

DJI’s Upgraded Mavic Air 2S Has a Much Larger Camera Sensor

Google Earth’s New 3D Time-Lapse Feature Shows How Humans Are Affecting the Planet

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