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Microsoft's Phil Spencer Wants the Gaming Industry to Embrace Game Preservation Through Emulation

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 06:55 AM PST

Replaying the favorite video games of your youth isn't as easy as re-reading a loved book or re-watching a movie you've already seen 100 times. And Phil Spencer, Microsoft's Executive Vice President of Gaming, thinks that's a problem the games industry needs to address by embracing emulation with open arms.

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Updates From The Matrix Resurrections, Riverdale and More

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 06:40 AM PST

Get a look at Kate Bishop and her friends in some new Hawkeye character posters. Doctor Who teases a dire season finale. Legends of Tomorrow gets riveting. Plus, what's next on Yellowjackets and Batwoman. Spoilers now!

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The Alienware x15 Is a Sleeker (and Pricier) Way to Game in Style

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 05:30 AM PST

An Alienware executive once told me that Alienware would never make a thin and light gaming notebook, because the company preferred to deliver systems with good value and performance without compromising on thermals. But that exec doesn't work at Alienware anymore, and after years of waiting for a system I thought…

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How to Use Adaptive Battery to Make Your Android Phone Last as Long as Possible

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 05:00 AM PST

From dimming the screen brightness to switching on airplane mode to carrying around a portable charger, keeping a smartphone battery alive as long as possible between charges is a challenge that we've faced for as long as smartphones have been around. With the many upgrades we've seen from smartphones over the years,…

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Spotify Finally Adds Lyrics to Save You Some Embarrassment

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST

You'll no longer have an excuse to mess up the lyrics of every song. Spotify is finally adding a live lyrics feature, so all you have to do is play a song to finally find out if Taylor Swift is singing about "Starbucks lovers" (the answer, sadly, is no).

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AstraZeneca Scientist Defends Plan to Start Selling Covid-19 Vaccine For Profit

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 03:00 AM PST

A scientist who works on the AstraZeneca vaccine with Oxford University in the UK has come out to defend the decision to sell its covid-19 vaccine at a profit, according to a new report from the Financial Times. AstraZeneca was previously unique because it sold the covid-19 vaccine at cost, unlike most other vaccine…

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Beware of Flying Phones: Instagram Has Announced a New Feature Called 'Rage Shake'

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 07:15 PM PST

Whenever an app on my iPhone doesn't work, I tend to open it and close it over and over again to try to will it back to life. If that doesn't yield results, I tend to stare at my device and attempt to burn an imaginary hole through it with my annoyance. Yet, I have never been filled with "rage" about an app not…

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Robinhood Reveals Hackers Stole ‘Several Thousand’ Phone Numbers

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 05:58 PM PST

More than a week after popular investment and trading platform Robinhood revealed that hackers had obtained access to a "limited amount" of its customers' personal information, the company has now stated that some of the stolen information included thousands of phone numbers.

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Monstrous Mayhem Awaits in the Trailer for the Alien-Inspired Death Valley

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 04:30 PM PST

It's not that uncommon for a director or writer to also star in the movie they director or wrote. What's less common, by far, is when writer-director also plays the horrifying monster in their movie—but that's the case with Death Valley, Matthew Ninaber's new sci-fi horror movie coming to Shudder next month. The…

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Spider-Man: No Way Home's Hot Toys Figure Showcases Peter's Newest Look

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 03:20 PM PST

Still excited by last night's Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer? Well, you can prolong those Marvel Cinematic Universe endorphins by checking out Hot Toys' new figure of the upcoming movie's Spider-Man. Not only is it gorgeous (as usual) but it offers a great look at the new costume Peter Parker (Tom Holland) will be…

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Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower Picks Wyoming for First Advanced Nuclear Reactor

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:52 PM PST

TerraPower, an experimental nuclear power company backed by Bill Gates, could open its first site as early as 2028 in the coal mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming. Adding a touch of symbolism for out with the old, in with the new, the company says their plant would be constructed near the premises of a pair of coal…

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Apple Is Reportedly Betting Big On Sports Streaming

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:30 PM PST

Apparently seeking to bring users more access to the wonderful world of sports, Apple is reportedly hard at work on a new framework that would potentially improve streaming coverage within its iOS and Apple TV apps.

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Riverdale Killed Off a Major Character (Kind of)

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:20 PM PST

Oh, Riverdale, please never change. Your ridiculousness is always a delight, and you somehow manage to keep getting more ridiculous. However, last night's season six premiere on the CW set a bar so high I honestly don't know how you'll top it. It was also the beginning of a five-part Riverdale "event" and it kicked…

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TikTok May Owe You a Chunk of Its $92 Million Data-Collection Settlement

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:10 PM PST

TikTok just agreed to settle a massive $92 million class action lawsuit, and anyone who used the app prior to Sept. 30 of this year could be entitled to a payout.

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10 Companies That Think Following Facebook Into the Metaverse Is a Good Idea

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:00 PM PST

By this point, you are probably already sick of the metaverse, and it hasn't even arrived. Though the term has existed in science fiction for decades, it quickly became tech's hottest buzzword and greatest source of marketing material since Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook (now Meta) would become a metaverse company…

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Paul Gosar First Congressman to Be Stripped of Powers Because of Anime

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 01:37 PM PST

Arizona Representative Paul Gosar, the far-right Republican conspiracy theorist who unsuccessfully tried to launch a white nationalist caucus with QAnon-loving Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene earlier this year, was censured in a full vote of the House on Wednesday. At issue was an anime video that Gosar shared…

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NASA Has a New Plan to Wake Up the Hubble Space Telescope

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 01:29 PM PST

Hubble Space Telescope, with all but one of its science instruments currently in safe mode, could soon be back in business, as mission team members prepare to roll out a recovery plan.

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Breaking Down Spider-Verse Shadows in the Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 01:00 PM PST

Our latest look at Marvel and Sony's Spider-Man: No Way Home is here, and Peter Parker's got new mentors, new foes, and a whole new multiverse of mess to deal with in his latest superhero movie. Let's break down the new trailer and see what secrets we can speculate about for our latest trip into the Spider-Verse.

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Farmers on Jet Skis Are Racing to Save Cows Trapped by British Columbia Floods

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 12:40 PM PST

Farmers in British Columbia are working overtime to save their livestock from devastating floods, including leading cattle through neck-deep water using jet skis and pulling calves onto motorboats. While the images of the cow rescue may seem a little ridiculous, it's a deadly serious sign of the destruction wrought by…

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Is the Crypto-Fueled Plan to Buy the U.S. Constitution a Scam?

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 12:30 PM PST

On Thursday, ConstitutionDAO might realize the blockchain's fullest democratic potential and purchase a copy of the United States Constitution at Sotheby's auction house. It's reminiscent of the group of collectors that bought the single-edition Wu-Tang album this past summer, except it's open to all, and it's…

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Riz Ahmed Is a Father Who Sees Aliens in the Intense Encounter Trailer

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 12:20 PM PST

In the dead of night, Malik Khan (Rogue One's Riz Ahmed) suddenly turns up at the home of his young sons Jay (Lucian-River Chauhan) and Bobby (Aditya Geddada). Though he hasn't seen them in years, he's intent on whisking them away on top-secret business. But is the mission—and the implied alien threat behind it—real,…

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What to Know About Kessler Syndrome, the Ultimate Space Disaster

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 12:14 PM PST

The world got a stark reminder this week that Earth's orbit is increasingly a crowded and potentially dangerous place. After the Russian military destroyed one of its defunct satellites in a weapons test early Monday morning, the crew of the International Space Station was forced to take shelter as high-speed debris…

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Experimental Anti-Tick Vaccine Aims to Stop Bites That Could Spread Lyme

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 12:01 PM PST

In the not-so-distant future, campers and hikers may be able to get a shot that not only protects them from Lyme disease but also from the bloodsucking ticks that spread it—at least if Yale-led research into an anti-tick vaccine continues to show promise. In a new study involving guinea pigs, an experimental…

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Tidal Is Finally Doing the Spotify Thing With a Free Subscription Tier

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 11:51 AM PST

Tidal, the premium streaming music service geared toward audio enthusiasts with artist backers like Jay-Z, is making some significant changes to its subscription plans to bring in more listeners.

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Don't Look Up Is a Climate Change Movie in Disguise

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 11:22 AM PST

I don't have to see more than the two-and-a-half-minute trailer for Don't Look Up to feel confident in saying that it will almost surely be the best climate film made to date.

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