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Tech NewsRare African Titanosaur Was Among the Smallest of the Giants
During the Cretaceous Era some 70 to 100 million years ago, long-necked sauropods ruled the Earth. But in Africa, not so much. The discovery of a previously-unknown species of titanosaur in Tanzania expands what we know about dinosaurs on this continent, while revealing the surprising degree to which these creatures were related to similar dinos … Continued
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Netflix’s Death Note Does Way Too Much in Way Too Little Time
The thing about the adaptation of Death Note, premiering today on Netflix, isn’t that it’s bad. It isn’t even the questions raised by the whitewashing controversy. It’s that everything in it happens so fast that it’s hard to care about any of it. Adam Wingard’s Death Note takes the manga’s original premise—a book that kills … Continued
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SciencePhysics
Scientists Finally Prove Strange Quantum Physics Idea Einstein Hated
The equations of physics are things that we humans created to understand the Universe, and it can be hard to disentangle them from the Universe’s innate properties. It turns out that one of the weirdest things scientists have come up with, what Albert Einstein derisively called “spooky action at a distance,” is more than just … Continued
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io9How Skull Island Built a Bigger, Better Kong
It turns out, building a better King Kong for his latest cinematic adventure requires making him a damned dirty ape. ILM has shared a cool little visual effects breakdown of how it brought Kong to life for Skull Island—including how it took inspiration from both the original movie suit from the classic King Kong movie, … Continued
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Tech News
They Should Sell These Brilliant Paper Flashlights in Giant Rolls Like Paper Towels
How many times have you stumbled in the dark, trying to locate a flashlight, only to discover the batteries inside it are dead? It’s an inconvenience in the middle of the night, but a genuine problem in an emergency, which is why this roll-up paper flashlight from Nendo seems like a brilliant idea for when … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsFrustrated Customers Have No Idea When Their Essential Phones Are Supposed to Arrive [Updated]
One of the biggest challenges for a hardware startup is to actually create a finished product. But another is actually delivering the product to the customers that paid for them. It’s a common problem. And based on the recent frustrations of people who ordered Andy Rubin’s super hyped new phone, Essential Products is running into … Continued
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io9That Famous Watchmen Panel You Keep Seeing This Year Isn’t Actually From the Comic
I am tired of meme. These tweets. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lies. It’s been a weird year, full of large and small horrors, hasn’t it? If you spend a lot of time on Twitter, you may have seen people using a picture of omnipotent superhero Dr. Manhattan with … Continued
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Tech News
Baltimore Police Busted Yet Again for Staging Body Cam Footage
On Thursday, the Baltimore Police Department released the third of three videos since July that have raised accusations of officers planting or staging evidence. In this latest video, taken in June, two officers chase down and tackle a man suspected of dealing drugs. After his arrest, CBS reports, the suspect revealed the location of drugs … Continued
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ScienceAnimals
How This ‘Slow,’ ‘Clumsy,’ and Seriously Weird Animal Has Outsmarted Death
Many animals endemic to islands have gone the proverbial “way of the dodo,” including, well, the dodo. Island species face some of the toughest climate and human-induced challenges, and some of them just don’t make it out alive. But new research shows how one strange creature—the Solenodon—was able to escape extinction by being hungry. From … Continued
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io9TelevisionPeter Serafinowicz Knows You Loved The Other Ticks But He Deserves a Chance, Too
Starting today, fans of the Tick will finally get to dive into the character’s newest TV revival, courtesy of Amazon. The lead role on The Tick is being played by British actor Peter Serafinowicz, who’s well aware of how beloved previous iterations were. He’s gamely focused on bringing something new to his performance, though… even … Continued
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Tech NewsDeciphered Ancient Tablet Reveals Babylonians’ Mastery Over Mathematics
Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a level of mathematical sophistication that pre-dates the ancient Greeks by a whopping 1,500 years. This Babylonian tablet, known as Plimpton 322, is the world’s oldest—and most accurate—trigonometric table, according to research published this week in Historia Mathematica. The … Continued
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The Captain Phasma Novel Will Reveal Her Mad Max-ian Origin Story
Next Friday isn’t just the day all the shiny new Last Jedi toys come out—it’s when the “Journey to The Last Jedi” begins, with a whole swathe of new books and comics ready to flesh out Star Wars canon… including the mysterious past of Captain Phasma. Like Boba Fett before her, Phasma’s cool look and … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebookFacebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won’t Tell Me How
Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I knew. Facebook, however, thought we might be connected. Her name popped up this summer on my list of “People You May Know,” the social network’s roster of potential new online friends for me. The People You May Know feature is notorious for its uncanny ability … Continued
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ScienceAnimals
Ancient Parasite Found in Mummy Autopsy Tells a Timeless Horror Story
Who among us hasn’t drunkenly slung back a few raw oysters at a fourth of July barbecue, or kicked back some uncooked clams just to feel alive? While it’s usually okay to enjoy a slimy shellfish or six, remains from very dead, mummified man show what happens when things go awry. CT Scans recently performed … Continued
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ReviewsPhonesEssential ProductsThe Essential Phone Is Too Expensive to Have a Camera This Bad
In August 2017, Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, and his disciples at Essential Products descended onto this mortal plane to grace us with the PH-1—a device that seeks to right the wrongs of modern smartphone design. Almost monolithic in appearance, the PH-1, or the Essential Phone as it’s more commonly known, is forged from … Continued
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Tech News
Everyone’s Favorite Gun-Loving YouTuber Is Having a Hard Time
Federal authorities recently searched the property of Kyle Lamar Myers, the guy who’s famous for pretending to be Russian then shooting huge guns and causing violent explosions on the popular YouTube channel FPSRussia. Before the search, the sheriff of Franklin County, Georgia arrested Myers for receiving drugs in the mail. And the story only gets … Continued
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io9Here’s the First Glimpse at the Batman: Gotham by Gaslight Movie
Warner Bros. announced that the next DC animated movie would be an adaptation of Gotham by Gaslight, the classic Victorian alt-reality tale drawn by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. Now, we’re getting a preview of what that film will look like. The eight-minute first look comes as a special feature on the Batman and Harley Quinn … Continued
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ScienceSpaceThis Incredible Time Lapse of the High Plains During the Eclipse Brought Me to Tears
Folks yak a lot of crap about the High Plains—mainly they complain about it being flat or boring as they drive down the infinitely straight highways. But a tour of places like Western Nebraska or South Dakota reveals a sublime landscape beneath a vast sky, accompanied by the humbling realization that you are just one … Continued
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Samsung’s Phones Are Sick, But the King of Its Empire Is Fucked
In a historic move, a South Korean court convicted Lee Jae-yong—known as Jay Y. Lee in the western world—of bribery and embezzlement on Friday. Mr. Lee has been sentenced to five years in prison, and the future of leadership at Samsung is now in question. For South Koreans, the verdict signals a new era of … Continued
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