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Tile Is Reportedly Launching a New Tracker to Make Finding Your Lost Keys Easier

Tile is looking to make its Bluetooth item-finders more powerful with ultra-wide band technology and by adding augmented reality to its mobile phone app, reports TechCrunch. Like Tile’s current trackers, the new UWB trackers will also use short-range, wireless communication protocols, but they will reportedly be way more accurate than Bluetooth—and even wifi. UWB measures…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Transformers Just Shook Up Its Lore in a Wild Way

Transformers is a franchise that from the get-go has almost been ceaselessly fascinated with its past. The long shadow of the fabled “G1” era—from its design sensibilities to its origin deep-dives—has cast a long shadow over so much of what has come since, including Netflix’s latest re-litigation of the War for Cybertron. But its newest…

io9 James Whitbrook

In The Night’s Ominous Trailer, a Family Is Trapped Inside a Frightful Hotel

You can check out, but you can never leave. IFC Midnight has released the first trailer for director Kourosh Ahari’s horror debut, The Night, about a couple forced to confront their secrets while trapped in a haunted hotel. The Night stars Shahab Hosseini (star of A Separation, Iran’s first Best Foreign Language Film winner) and…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Verizon Says It Will Be Delaying the Shutdown of Its 3G Network For Now

While AT&T prematurely scared its customers about the upcoming shutdown of its older 3G network, Verizon has recently decided to take things slower by delaying the shutdown of its 3G service indefinitely. Verizon spokesperson Kevin King told Light Reading that the carrier’s 3G network “is operational and we don’t have a plan to shut it down…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

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Trump Administration Issues Last-Minute Blows to the Arctic

The Trump administration is trampling on the Arctic on its way out. On Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management will auction off the drilling rights for plots on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain on its eastern North Slope, an area currently untouched by developers. The move will encourage more oil and gas development…

Earther Dharna Noor

A Dramatic New Expanse Examines the Difference Between Feeling Right and Being Right

The Expanse season five has somehow already reached episode six with “Tribes,” a somewhat calmer installment that’s still packed with action and incredible character work, especially for Cara Gee’s Drummer and Wes Chatham’s Amos. Tensions are sky-high as the season enters its second half. If you haven’t watched “Tribes” yet, stop right there and go…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Facebook Kills the Wrong Likes

What fresh chaos will Facebook bring in the new year? How will it contend with a new political dynamic? Will Zuckerberg stick to his “no more annual challenges” pledge? To kick things off, the world’s biggest social network is making some changes to Pages including the retirement of “likes.” On Wednesday, Facebook announced a wide…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Amazon Might Be Working on an Alexa-Enabled Sleep Apnea Gadget

Amazon might be working on an Alexa-enabled device that could potentially track sleep and detect sleep apnea, according to a Business Insider report. Citing anonymous sources and an internal Amazon document, Business Insider claims the device is about the size of a person’s palm and looks like a hexagonal pad with a metal wire base.…

Commerce Victoria Song

Intel Pivots Its RealSense Cameras Into Facial Recognition Tech

Intel announced today that it will make its RealSense 3D cameras available for customers hoping to utilize the tech for faster facial recognition in the form of RealSense ID. The move comes months after competitor Amazon shied away from its own facial recognition program, which has been accused of perpetuating dangerous racial biases and endangering…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Pixar’s Pete Docter Reminds Us Sequels Help Keep the Lights On

Pixar is responsible for some of the greatest animated films of our time…and then some of them were milked into franchises. For a time, it seemed like the studio cared more about repeating past successes than creating new ones. But it looks like Pixar’s latest studio head is ready to get down to brass tacks,…

Movies Beth Elderkin

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Unprecedented Camera Trap Footage Shows a Jaguar Capturing an Ocelot

Conservationists in Guatemala have documented a rare example of a predatory wildcat preying on another. Sadly, climate change could make these sorts of interactions more common. The jaguar had been lying in wait near the edge of the waterhole for the better part of an hour. The predator had decided on a fortuitous spot, as…

Biology George Dvorsky

A Solar-Powered Remote and MicroLED TVs Are Bringing Samsung Into the Future

Big changes are coming to the Samsung home entertainment product lineup in 2021. The company recently announced that it was borrowing the technology used for its modular microLED display The Wall for new consumer-ready microLED TVs that don’t require professional installation. When Samsung initially broke the news last month, it had only announced a monstrous…

Gadgets Catie Keck

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Astronomers Calculate Universe’s Age With Atacama Desert Telescope

High up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, miles away from the dull glow of light pollution, the secluded Atacama Cosmology Telescope is in prime position to search the sky for answers. The question most recently on its mind? The age of the universe, a cosmic quandary that can be answered in different ways, depending on how…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

The First WandaVision Clip Is a Campy, Retro Delight

It feels like it’s been forever since we had something new from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so thank god Wanda Maximoff and the Vision are about to show up and serve us some premium ham. Appearing on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Elizabeth Olsen debuted a brief clip from the new Disney+ series. The bit…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Discovery+ Needs to Be Part of Your Streaming Life, It’s That Good

Discovery’s new streaming service has finally arrived. The company’s official entrance into the streaming wars brought all of Discovery’s assets under a single roof, with everything from true crime to reality TV to nature documentaries. Discovery+ is home to tens of thousands of episodes from legacy broadcast channels like HGTV, the History Channel, A&E, Food…

Reviews Catie Keck

You Have No Excuse When LG’s New Stick Vac Sucks Dirt, Mops Floors, and Cleans Itself

It’s a feature first introduced on robovacs from companies like iRobot and Shark, but LG has just revealed a cordless stick vacuum with a charging station that automatically empties the vac’s dirt bin whenever it’s docked, giving you one less excuse to deal with all the chip crumbs that fall onto the floor during your…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Updates From Star Trek: Picard, Indiana Jones 5, and More

Noma Dumezweni is joining Disney’s Little Mermaid remake. Martin Donovan’s not sure how those Pym particles he swiped in Ant-Man could be involved with Quantumania. Plus, a new look at Javicia Leslie’s Batwoman, and new Are You Afraid of the Dark? To me, my spoilers! Indiana Jones 5 John Rhys-Davies spoke to Coming Soon about…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

I Miss the Commodore 64, My First Console and Computer

As a child of the 80s, I didn’t have an Atari, an NES, or even a Sega Master System. My first console was actually our family’s first computer: the Commodore 64. It was a passable gaming system, but more importantly, it was a device that taught me that technology was something that could be fun…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Julian Assange Denied Bail in UK While Trump Regime Appeals Extradition Ruling

Julian Assange has been denied bail while the Trump regime appeals a UK court’s ruling on Monday that the Wikileaks founder should not be extradited to the U.S. to face espionage and computer hacking charges. The court is worried Assange will skip bail like he did in 2012 when he claimed asylum at London’s Ecuadorian…

Tech News Matt Novak

Amazon Buys Planes From Airlines Struggling With Pandemic Slowdown

Amazon has purchased 11 passenger planes from Delta and WestJet that will be converted into cargo jets, according to a press release from the Seattle-based online retailer. It’s the first time Amazon has purchased planes outright rather than just lease them and comes as the airline industry struggles from a slowdown in demand during the…

Health Matt Novak

Tile Is Reportedly Launching a New Tracker to Make Finding Your Lost Keys Easier

Transformers Just Shook Up Its Lore in a Wild Way

In The Night’s Ominous Trailer, a Family Is Trapped Inside a Frightful Hotel

Verizon Says It Will Be Delaying the Shutdown of Its 3G Network For Now

Trump Administration Issues Last-Minute Blows to the Arctic

A Dramatic New Expanse Examines the Difference Between Feeling Right and Being Right

Facebook Kills the Wrong Likes

Amazon Might Be Working on an Alexa-Enabled Sleep Apnea Gadget

Intel Pivots Its RealSense Cameras Into Facial Recognition Tech

Pixar’s Pete Docter Reminds Us Sequels Help Keep the Lights On

Unprecedented Camera Trap Footage Shows a Jaguar Capturing an Ocelot

A Solar-Powered Remote and MicroLED TVs Are Bringing Samsung Into the Future

Astronomers Calculate Universe’s Age With Atacama Desert Telescope

The First WandaVision Clip Is a Campy, Retro Delight

Discovery+ Needs to Be Part of Your Streaming Life, It’s That Good

You Have No Excuse When LG’s New Stick Vac Sucks Dirt, Mops Floors, and Cleans Itself

Updates From Star Trek: Picard, Indiana Jones 5, and More

I Miss the Commodore 64, My First Console and Computer

Julian Assange Denied Bail in UK While Trump Regime Appeals Extradition Ruling

Amazon Buys Planes From Airlines Struggling With Pandemic Slowdown

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