October 13, 2021 Gladys, the ‘Largest Owl You’ve Ever Seen,’ Is on the Loose in Minnesota A huge owl named Gladys escaped from the Minnesota Zoo earlier this month, and zoo officials need help tracking her down. Read more… via…
October 13, 2021 HTC’s New VR Headset Leaked, and It’s the Weirdest-Looking One Yet Even if you put aside its decidedly bug-eyed appearance, the leaked HTC Vive Flow is a baffling headset. By all accounts, it’s supposed to…
October 13, 2021 io9 Halloween Costume Show Week 2: Into the Spooky-Verse Last week we kicked off our returning, mostly annual Halloween Costume Show, inviting all you very well-prepared early birds to give us a glimpse…
October 13, 2021 Apple TV+ Reportedly Struggling to Control Digital Piracy 🎻 While it’s no secret that Apple executives sit up in their sierra blue ivory tower and count their guilders as the most profitable company…
October 13, 2021 NASA Advisor Quits Over Space Telescope Named for Homophobic Administrator Astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz has resigned from a NASA advisory committee on account of the space agency’s perceived mishandling of a request to rename the…
October 13, 2021 Celebrate Ursula K. Le Guin’s Legacy By Reading a Classic Earthsea Story This year marks some big anniversaries in the world of groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin: 50 years for The…
October 13, 2021 Acer’s Beastly Predator Orion 7000 Is One of the First Desktops With Intel’s New 12th-Gen Chips Acer just took the wraps off a powerful new Predator Orion 7000 desktop, notably running on Intel’s soon-to-launch 12th-gen CPU. Read more… via Gizmodo…
October 13, 2021 reMarkable’s E Ink Tablet Now Requires a Subscription to Access Its Best Features Of the growing number of E Ink based e-note devices hitting the market, none provide as excellent a simulated pen-on-paper experience as the reMarkable…
October 13, 2021 Gullible OpenSea Users Were Vulnerable to ‘Malicious NFT’ Attacks, Researchers Say OpenSea, the world’s largest market for NFTs, says that it recently patched security flaws that would have allowed bad actors to pilfer users’ digital…
October 13, 2021 Aquaman: King of Atlantis’ Creators Want to Embrace the Cringe Aquaman: King of Atlantis takes a different path than most other recent incarnations of the legendary underwater hero—instead of turning him into a rough-and-ready…