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The Latest Sneak Peek at Toy Story 4 Shows How Big the World Is for a ToyFebruary 3, 2019 at 10:15 PM The last Toy Story may have ended with Andy’s favorite toys getting a new, loving home, but the latest peek at Toy Story 4 shows the next adventure may be a lot bigger than Bonnie’s backyard.Read more...Tags: Science, Disney, Tom Hanks, Animation, Pixar, Tim Allen, Andy, Bonnie, Toy Story 4 63 people like this. Like Feared or Celebrated, Amazon Alexa Is Star of Super Bowl AdsFebruary 3, 2019 at 10:19 PM Amazon had its own commercial, where it poked fun at Alexa. The ad featured rejected ideas for the technology -- including a microwave, dog collar and hot tub -- and even depicted a massive power outage triggered by Alexa. Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos also made an in-person appearance at the Super Bowl, where he was spotted with National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell.Tags: Amazon, Science, National Football League, Jeff Bezos, Alexa, Alexa Amazon, Celebrated Amazon Alexa 99 people like this. Like Twilight Zone's First Teaser Trailer Will Make You Question RealityFebruary 3, 2019 at 8:07 PM You’re entering the vicinity of an area area adjacent to the Superb Owl. The kind of place where there might be some sports, or some sort of weird advertisements. These are just examples. It could also be something much better, like Jordan Peele inviting you to follow him into the CBS’s new Twilight Zone.Read more...Tags: Science, Cbs, Twilight Zone, Jordan Peele, Jordan Pelle 149 people like this. Like 'Super' Sci-Fi Sports, Blocking Tech Giants, and the Worst Planet: Best Gizmodo Stories of the WeekFebruary 3, 2019 at 8:50 PM It’s Super Bowl Sunday! There will be drinking (if you partake)! And wings (also if you partake)! And fervid screaming about sports! It’s one of the biggest of days of the year for many sports fans. But reader, if this isn’t you, no worries. Around here we know “super” pairs best with sci-fi, and this week we brought…Read more...Tags: Science Fiction, Science, Super Bowl, Razer, Planetary Science, Best Of Gizmodo, Blocking The Tech Giants 58 people like this. Like Muscovites declare cold war on corrosive snow saltFebruary 3, 2019 at 9:58 PM From the first snowfall in November to the very end of the thaw in April, Moscow enlists a small army of shovelers, scrapers, road gritters and plough drivers to keep the city moving. "Russia without snow is not Russia," says Alexei Babunashvili, the head of one such melting station, on a January morning after a normal week's worth of snow has fallen overnight. "It's like a man without a woman... no life at all," he adds, as behind him a truck carrying around 30 cubic metres of dirty snow dump...Tags: Science, Russia, Moscow, Alexei Babunashvili 108 people like this. Like New Avengers: Endgame Footage Already Won the Super BowlFebruary 3, 2019 at 6:30 PM The biggest movie during last year’s Super Bowl was Avengers: Infinity War. And so Earth’s Mightiest Heroes had to come back for 2019, right? Well, half of them at least.Read more...Tags: Science, Marvel, Earth, Marvel Studios, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers Endgame 83 people like this. Like Small Plane Crashes in California's Yorba Linda, Setting Fire to HomeFebruary 3, 2019 at 6:30 PM A small plane on Sunday crashed into a residential area in Yorba Linda, a city in California’s Orange County.Read more...Tags: Science, California, Planes, Plane Crash, Yorba Linda, Orange County Read, Yorba Linda Setting Fire to Home 139 people like this. Like New Avengers: Endgame Footage Already Won the SuperbowlFebruary 3, 2019 at 6:30 PM The biggest movie during last year’s Super Bowl was Avengers: Infinity War. And so Earth’s Mightiest Heroes had to come back for 2019, right? Well, half of them at least.Read more...Tags: Science, Marvel, Earth, Marvel Studios, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers Endgame 89 people like this. Like Small Plane Crashes in California's Yorba Linda, Setting Fire to HomesFebruary 3, 2019 at 6:30 PM A small plane on Sunday crashed into a residential area in Yorba Linda, a city in California’s Orange County.Read more...Tags: Science, California, Planes, Plane Crash, Yorba Linda, Yorba Linda Setting Fire to Homes, Orange County Read 84 people like this. Like Crypto Exchange Says It Can't Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only PasswordFebruary 3, 2019 at 6:50 PM Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX says it cannot repay most of $190 million in client holdings after its 30-year-old founder Gerald Cotten, the only person who knew the passwords to its “cold storage,” unexpectedly died in India in December 2018, Coindesk reported on Friday.Read more...Tags: Science, Technology, Passwords, India, Cybersecurity, Bitcoin, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Crypto Exchanges, Gerald Cotten 61 people like this. Like A New Captain Marvel TV Spot Wants to Take You Higher, Further, FasterFebruary 3, 2019 at 7:00 PM That’s how Carol Danvers has always done it.Read more...Tags: Science, Marvel, Marvel Studios, Brie Larson, Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel 122 people like this. Like Spotted handfish: Saving Tasmania's unusual 'walking' speciesFebruary 3, 2019 at 7:02 PM The spotted handfish is critically endangered and found only in a small area of Tasmania.Tags: Science, Tasmania 46 people like this. Like Magna Carta: how experts nursed history back to healthFebruary 3, 2019 at 7:01 PM 800-year-old parchment underwent painstaking tests after Salisbury hammer attackIn the corner of a small, plain room near Salisbury Cathedral – the precise spot must remain a secret for security reasons – conservation expert Chris Woods and archivist Emily Naish are hunched over one of the world’s most precious documents.Three months after Salisbury’s Magna Carta was the focus of a hammer attack, Woods and Naish are minutely checking the 800-year-old parchment for damage before it is put back on...Tags: Science, UK News, Culture, Heritage, Woods, Salisbury, Magna Carta, Salisbury Cathedral, Naish, Chris Woods, Emily Naish 39 people like this. Like Swine fever outbreak may bury China's small pig farmersFebruary 3, 2019 at 6:15 PM Since African swine fever struck a farm in nearby Shenyang city last August, the couple has racked up about 300,000 yuan ($44,712.72) in debt, 10 times what they make in a good year raising pigs. The incurable disease has since traveled thousands of kilometers, striking mainly small farms in the world's biggest pork-producing country and triggering unprecedented upheaval in China's $1 trillion hog sector. Beijing banned the transport of live pigs from infected provinces in September, part of i...Tags: Science, China, Beijing, Shenyang 115 people like this. Like The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 Looks Grim as HellFebruary 3, 2019 at 6:50 PM Just when you thought The Handmaid’s Tale couldn’t get darker, welcome to season 3.Read more...Tags: Science, Streaming, Margaret Atwood, Hulu, The Handmaids Tale 126 people like this. Like Security Sets Man on Fire With 'Taser-Style Device' in PhiladelphiaFebruary 3, 2019 at 5:05 PM A “Taser-style device” set a man’s clothing on fire on South Street in Philadelphia early Saturday morning after a security guard attempted to stun him, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported this weekend.Read more...Tags: Security, Science, Technology, Law Enforcement, Philadelphia, Taser, Philadelphia Inquirer, South Street, Stun Gun, Electroshock Weapons, Axon International 60 people like this. Like 8 Things to Avoid When You're Breaking OutFebruary 3, 2019 at 5:30 PM Here's what
not to do when you're trying to get rid of zits.Tags: Science 91 people like this. Like 8 Things to Avoid When You're Breaking OutFebruary 3, 2019 at 5:30 PM Here's what not to do when you're trying to get rid of zits.Tags: Science 138 people like this. Like WWI Hand Grenade Found Among Potato Shipment at Chip Factory in Hong KongFebruary 3, 2019 at 4:20 PM A hand grenade that authorities say is from World War I turned up unexpectedly at a potato chip factory at an industrial estate in Hong Kong last week, the South China Morning Post reported Saturday.Read more...Tags: Hong Kong, Science, Potatoes, South China Morning Post, Hand Grenade 58 people like this. Like Trump says U.S. military intervention in Venezuela 'an option;' Russia objectsFebruary 3, 2019 at 5:58 PM Trump said U.S. military intervention was under consideration in an interview with CBS aired on Sunday. "Certainly, it's something that's on the - it's an option," Trump said, adding that Maduro requested a meeting months ago. "So, I think the process is playing out." The Trump administration last week issued crippling sanctions on Venezuelan state-owned oil firm PDVSA, a key source of revenue for the country, which is experiencing medicine shortages and malnutrition.Tags: Science, Russia, Cbs, Venezuela, Trump, Maduro, PDVSA 105 people like this. Like Jim Lee Takes Aquaman’s Black Manta and Brings Him Back to the PageFebruary 3, 2019 at 2:45 PM The design for Black Manta in the Aquaman movie was, especially for comics films, remarkably close to his drawn counterpart, capturing his silhouette and outfit rather effectively. Even still, it’s neat to see Jim Lee take that design and turn it back into a piece of comic book art. Read more...Tags: Science, Warner Bros, Aquaman, DC Entertainment, Jim Lee, Black Manta, Jim Lee Takes Aquaman 57 people like this. Like The long battle against infectious diseases | LettersFebruary 3, 2019 at 1:08 PM Readers respond to a recent article and letter published in the GuardianI would like to clarify that, contrary to your article (The microbes are fighting back, and if anyone thinks there is a simple solution, they are wrong, 25 January), a few decades ago precisely no one in drug discovery thought that the war against infectious diseases had been won. Sir Alexander Fleming, who first discovered antibiotics, warned of microbial resistance and it has been known about ever since.The reason drug com...Tags: Health, Science, London, Biology, China, Society, World news, Medical Research, Asia Pacific, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, People in science, Antibiotics, Alexander Fleming, Dominic PyeResearch 10 people like this. Like Trump wants U.S. military in Iraq to 'watch Iran': CBS interviewFebruary 3, 2019 at 1:27 PM The Republican president lamented "endless wars" in Syria and Afghanistan in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" and made clear he wants to reduce the costly U.S. military presence in those countries despite warnings against such moves from his military advisers and spy chiefs. The United States could rely heavily on intelligence work in Afghanistan, he said, and respond to developments in Syria from U.S. bases in neighboring Iraq. Iran's Revolutionary Guards have sent weapons and thousan...Tags: Science, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, United States, Cbs, Bashar Al Assad, Trump, CBS Face the Nation, Iraq Iran 115 people like this. Like 44 Cases of Measles Confirmed in Washington State Amid Ongoing OutbreakFebruary 3, 2019 at 1:30 PM The measles outbreak that led Washington Governor Jay Inslee to declare a public health emergency last month has worsened, with a dozen more cases of the highly contagious virus confirmed since.Read more...Tags: Science, Washington, Vaccines, Jay Inslee, Outbreaks, Measles, Measles Outbreak, Cases of Measles Confirmed 124 people like this. Like Google Yanks 29 Malicious Photo Apps From Play Store, But Not Before Millions of DownloadsFebruary 3, 2019 at 1:50 PM Google yanked some 29 photo apps from the Play Store this week after they were discovered to have malicious code that pushes full-screen ads, steals information from users by tricking them into believing they have won a contest, and in some cases even lifted photos from devices to send to the malware designers behind…Read more...Tags: Google, Apps, Science, Technology, Privacy, Malware, Cybersecurity, Scams, Play Store, Google Yanks 144 people like this. Like The Second Trailer for Jordan Peele's Us is Full of Menace and DoppelgangersFebruary 3, 2019 at 12:15 PM “Who’s that?”Read more...Tags: Science, Horror, US, Lupita Nyongo, Jordan Peele, Winston Duke 79 people like this. Like Sunday's Best Deals: Free Anime, Smart Home Gear, Five Pounds of Atomic Fireballs, and MoreFebruary 3, 2019 at 10:20 AM $50 off an Echo Show (plus a free Hue bulb), the best deal we’ve seen on a smart scale, and a five pound bag of Atomic Fireballs leads off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...Tags: Deals, Kinja Deals, Science 139 people like this. Like Chris Pratt is the Latest Actor to Insist That Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Is Definitely Still HappeningFebruary 3, 2019 at 10:38 AM Just no one’s really sure when or how. Read more...Tags: Science, Marvel, Disney, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Chris Pratt, Marvel Studios, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 109 people like this. Like A U.S. Navy Railgun: A Dying Dream?February 3, 2019 at 11:00 AM Or not?Tags: Science 106 people like this. Like The future of male contraceptives? A layered cocktail.February 3, 2019 at 11:18 AM Scientist propose a layered cocktail as a future male contraceptive. Chemical layers block the flow of sperm and can be dissolved with near-infrared light.Tiny umbrella not included. None Layered drinks are definitely a thing. Whether it's a Paradise Cocktail for grownups or a California Adventure Infinity Fizz for kids, these colorful comestibles have been around a while — they first appeared as pousse-cafés in France around the beginning of the 20th century. The drinks involve a sciency mix...Tags: Science, California, Sex, France, China, Pregnancy, Chemistry, Medical Research, Innovation, Invention, Contraceptive, Birth Control, Human body 75 people like this. Like |
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