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Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)Google used a secret program called “Project Bernanke” for years to increase its clients’ chances of winning bids for competitive ad space, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing court documents filed in the Texas-led antitrust suit against Google. The state argues that the program gave Google an unfair competitive…

Acer has reportedly been hit with a $50 million ransomware attack, the largest attempted ransom to date.Photo: Sam YEH / AFP (Getty Images)Acer has purportedly become the victim of a massive ransomware attack, in which hackers are asking for $50 million to release the company’s stolen data, Bleeping Computer reported on Friday. Nonetheless, the company…

James (Harry Shum Jr.) becomes obsessed with his quest in Broadcast Signal Intrusion.Image: Courtesy Queensbury Picturesio9 ReviewsReviews and critical analyses of fan-favorite movies, TV shows, comics, books, and more.In 1999, a Chicago man named James (Harry Shum Jr.), still acutely grieving the loss of his wife three years prior, toils at a job that suits…

Photo: John Moore (Getty Images)For years, Big Oil has cozied up to American public schools—and now they seem to be cashing in their chips. New emails appear to show that some elected officials in charge of public schools may have been helped in attacking the Biden administration’s recent decision to pause oil and gas leasing…

Fontemon is the answer to a question absolutely no one asked: What if Pokémon was a playable font? Oh, and let’s set it in Minnesota too. Because why the hell not. The font-turned-Pokémon-parody was spotted by software engineer Daniel Feldman this week and created by developer Michael Mulet. Playing it is as simple as typing,…

CW’s Legend of Tomorrow Season 6 TeaserImage: The CWTrailer FrenzyA special place to find the newest trailers for movies and TV shows you're craving.Admit it. You didn’t think CW’s Suicide Squad—I’m sorry CW’s Legends of Tomorrow was going to get past the first season. It’s ok to be wrong, though. Not only is the show…

Graphic: Elizabeth LanierA Samsung 70-inch smart 4K tv and a Grepro jump starter lead Saturday’s best deals.Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | MediaPromoted Deal: Ergonomic Chair | $299 | BranchG/O Media may get a commissionAs torn up as I am that this is my last week at The Inventory, I recently accepted…

Photo: Martin Bureau (Getty Images)As the world descended into lockdown last year, people overwhelming tuned into livestreams to connect with others and stave off boredom while stuck in their homes. And that pandemic-fueled growth shows no signs of slowing down even as the world attempts to return to business as usual, with both Twitch and…

Ms. Nyxly as seen in DC Comics; Peta SergeantPhoto: (Left: DC Comics), Gaye Gerard (Getty Images)The CW is not playing around and is dominating the nerd news cycle this weekend. Supergirl is heading into the final stretch as the upcoming season six will be the show’s last, and actress Peta Sergeant (The Originals) is now…

Photo: Ming Yeung (Getty Images)Regulators in the Brazilian state of São Paulo slapped Apple with a nearly $2 million fine on Friday for failing to include chargers within iPhone 12 boxes, according to 9to5Mac and a Google translation of a report from Brazilian tech news outlet Tilt. The consumer protection agency Procon-SP also accused Apple…

The Apple logo is seen on a window of the company’s store in Bangkok on February 14, 2021. Photo: Mladen Antonov/AFP (Getty Images)Apple is in spring cleaning mode when it comes to its product inventory. In recent weeks, not only has it said, “mmm, bye,” to the iMac Pro and the original HomePod, but now…

Ran, the unscrewed submarine that the scientists used, heading down into the depths under the Thwaites GlacierPhoto: Filip Stedt (Getty Images)Glaciers all over Antarctica are in trouble as ice there rapidly melts. There’s no Antarctic glacier whose fate is more consequential for our future than the Thwaites Glacier, and new research shows that things aren’t looking…

HP’s Omen 25L and a Buy 2 Get 1 Free games sale lead Monday’s best deals.Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | MediaPromoted Deal: Unicorn Jerky CBD Candy | $19 | Sunday Scaries | Promo Code CHILLOUTI’ve been taking Sunday Scaries CBD on the reg for several months now, and I have to…

Remains of the ancient Egyptian city, “The Rise of Aten.”Image: Zahi Hawass/FacebookAn expedition working near Luxor has stumbled upon the remains of a lost ancient Egyptian city, in what is being hailed as the most significant archaeological discovery in the region since the 1920s.Archaeologist Zahi Hawass, the former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs in…

Wonder what John is looking at?Photo: Marvel StudiosEpisode four of Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was all about contrasting viewpoints, mainly from two people—neither of which were the Falcon or the Winter Soldier—who represent factions on a collision course for possible war. And it might be up to Sam (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky…

Photo: Postmodern Studio (Shutterstock)When the internet was mourning the impending shutdown of Yahoo Answers, announced earlier this week, there was a sentiment that you saw over and over again: that shutting the site down was akin to the library of Alexandria burning down.Honestly, that’s not too much of an exaggeration. When the service rolled out…

Image: Turner “Tfue” Tenney / Medium RareAs of last month, the age of NFTs was officially upon us. As of this month, it might be on its way out. Average prices have declined by as much as 70% since a peak in February, according to Bloomberg. That, however, has not stopped big-name streaming and esports…

Sequel time!Image: New Line CinemaWe sincerely apologize for doing this but you’re about to feel old. Today, March 22, is the 30th anniversary of the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze. That means the film you probably loved as a kid is officially starting to find grey hairs, gain…

Picture a long, white rod. The rod has a smooth, curved head. Is your heart rate speeding up?The rod is undulating at a quick but steady pace. It’s moving back and forth. Are you sweating?Now imagine the rod is big. Like, really big.Like, 10 feet (3 meters) long.And now imagine it’s generating carbon-free electricity. That’s…

An orca chases herrings on Jan. 14, 2019 near the Norwegian northern city of Tromso.Photo: Olivier Morin (Getty Images)Between offshore oil and gas drilling, shipping, wind turbines, and even jet skis, the ocean is a pretty loud place. But amid covid-19, a lot of that activity came to a halt. That’s given scientists a rare…

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)People’s love of processed meat might come back to bite them in the long run, new research from the UK suggests. The study found a link between greater consumption of processed meat and higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. At the same time, it also found a…

Perseverance and Ingenuity together on the surface of Mars.Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSWe’re used to seeing stark images of rovers all alone on the Red Planet, but Perseverance brought a friend. NASA has just released a stunning photo showing two vehicles—the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter—in a single shot. Captured by the WATSON camera located on the…

Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | MediaPromoted Deal: Ergonomic Chair | $299 | BranchAs torn up as I am that this is my last week at The Inventory, I recently accepted a new job that’ll have me working from home indefinitely ... unless I move to LA, which I won’t. So if…

Image: LenovoWhile I can’t confirm it, I suspect someone in Lenovo’s phone department is a big fan of Vin Diesel movies. Why? Well, it seems like Lenovo has just released a gaming phone inspired by 2 Fast 2 Furious. Lenovo is doubling down on its follow-up to last year’s Legion Gaming Phone with a ton…

Flaring during oil and gas production is a big source of methane.Photo: Matthew Brown (AP)There’s more methane in the atmosphere than any other time since record keeping began—and levels really spiked last year, despite the fact that we were all inside for most of the time. On Wednesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency said that…

Image: OnePlusThe OnePlus Watch was not a well-kept secret by any means. Renders of it leaked last week, and we’ve heard rumors about the platform the watch is based on for some time now. Now that it’s officially here though, the coolest thing about the OnePlus Watch is the fact that you can get a…

Image: Samsung via Evan Blass (Other)Just last week a leaked product roadmap revealed a number of Samsung’s upcoming gadget launches for the year, including the arrival of new mainstream laptops. Now some photos of the devices have also surfaced, giving us a peek at Samsung’s new Galaxy Book Pros a few weeks early. In the…

Photo: Carl Court (Getty Images)With unemployment at formidable levels and the economy doing weird, covid-related reversals, I think we can all agree that the job hunt is a pretty hard slog right now. Amidst all that, you know what workers really don’t need? A LinkedIn inbox full of malware. Yeah, they don’t need that at…

Photo: Joanna Nelius/GizmodoAs part of its ongoing mission to improve how iPad and iPhone apps run on M1 Macs, Apple has added game controller emulation to macOS Big Sur’s current 11.3 beta. Basically, Apple’s trying to make its M1 Macs more like gaming PCs.According to MacRumors, running an iPad or iPhone app on an M1…

A visitor enters the the offices of Google in London.Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP (Getty Images)The UK government launched a new watchdog agency on Wednesday that will be tasked with keeping an eye on Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook, according to an announcement published online. The stated goal of the new watchdog is to police…

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (L) and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez pose for a picture during their visit at the Taj Mahal in Agra on January 21, 2020.Photo: Pawan Sharma/AFP (Getty Images)Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, released a statement late Tuesday saying that he generally supports President Joe Biden’s desire to invest in…

Image: DellAt this point, laptop makers that don’t support some kind of AMD-based config are kind of trolling, and now Alienware is finally back on board with its first AMD-powered gaming laptop in more than a decade. With the new m15 Ryzen Edition R5, Alienware is releasing its first AMD-based laptop since the Aurora mALX from…

Photo: David Zalubowski (AP)As the Biden administration puts the federal government’s muscle behind widespread electrification, one fact has becoming increasingly clear: The electric vehicle revolution is coming. But states have a lot of catching up to do if they want to make sure everyone is included, a new report shows.The report, released Wednesday by the…

Photo: Joe Raedle / Staff (Getty Images)Radio Shack, the once-popular electronics chain, went bankrupt in 2015 and again in 2017. The physical stores, once a nerd’s paradise full of electronic components and computer gear, closed one by one, and a company called Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) bought the brand and most of the company’s assets.Fast…

A Consol Energy Horizontal Gas Drilling Rig explores the Marcellus Shale outside the town of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.Photo: Mladen Antonov (Getty Images)It’s clear that we need to stop natural gas production to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis. But a new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute’s U.S. Center and the Ohio River Valley…

Image: Project SoapbottleI’m always trying to reduce the amount of plastic I throw away, and this new Kickstarter project’s clever solution, which uses soap to create a multi-purpose, zero-waste container, has me intrigued. Project Soapbottle, which was initially conceived by Jonna Breitenhuber as part of a student design contest, is a new line of packaging that uses…

Photo: Catie Keck/GizmodoThe parent company behind Paramount+ has announced it’s looking to raise $3 billion to help fund operations, including for its new streaming service—that some consumers evidently have no idea exists.ViacomCBS said Monday it will offer $2 billion in Class B common stock and $1 billion in Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock. J.P.…

Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty Images)Yahoo announced on Monday that it will soon send its Answers service to that great trash bin in the sky, bringing about 15 years’ worth of absurd, typo-ridden questioning and equally irreverent answering to an end. Yahoo Answers will be read-only as of April 20, and fully defunct by May 4,…

Amazon workers begin to gather in front of the Spheres, participating in the climate strike Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, in Seattle.Photo: Elaine Thompson (AP)The laundry list of fired organizers at Amazon has grown suspiciously lengthy, and the National Labor Relations Board has noticed.A regional director for the NLRB has found merit for two activists’ claims…

File photo of a woman passing a quotation board displaying share price closing numbers of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo.Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP (Getty Images)Japan’s central bank has started trials of a new digital currency in an effort to experiment with how it might be used, the Bank of Japan announced on Monday. The announcement…

Photo: ODD ANDERSEN / Contributor (Getty Images)The invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse is sweetening the deal for creators by offering a direct payment option that would allow them to reap 100% of the rewards.In a Monday blog post, Clubhouse announced that it would partner with the payment processing startup Stripe to offer direct payments on…

Saturn’s moon Enceladus.Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteA planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and probably even better for life than Earth-like environments. Should an intelligent species arise beneath the frozen crust, however, they’d find themselves in perpetual isolation, in what is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox.Several moons in…

Screenshot: MIT CSAILWhile smart clothes seem like a cool idea in theory, in reality we’ve mostly been stuck with useless overpriced smart pajamas from Tom Brady, smart running shoes, and other dubious fitness recovery paraphernalia. The reason? Incorporating electronics into clothing in a natural way is a tall order. Researchers from MIT CSAIL, however, say…

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Photo: Samuel Corum (Getty Images)Federal investigators began looking into Florida U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz following a mysterious after-hours visit to a Florida tax agency where a former local official was allegedly churning out fake IDs, the Daily Beast reports. Little did they know that was just the tip of the iceberg. Gaetz now faces a…

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is one step closer to taking its first flight on Mars. On Saturday, the space agency announced that the helicopter had been successfully dropped off on the surface of the planet by the Perseverance rover, which has essentially served as the Ingenuity’s space taxi, charging station, and heater until now.Since arriving to…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)After reportedly calling the requirements of a new Russian law a security threat and threatening to pull out of the country, Apple caved and decided to let Russia have its way, saying it would allow users to install government-approved Russian apps during iPhone setup. In recent days, we’ve gotten a first…

Photo: Sam RutherfordMore than four years after its launch, the Nintendo Switch remains a unicorn among video game consoles. But that hasn’t stopped a lot of companies from dreaming about trying to capture some of that Switch magic for themselves, and now it seems Qualcomm may attempt to clone Nintendo’s hybrid device.According to a new…

Photo: Rick Bowmer (AP)Utah governor Spencer Cox has signed the infamous porn filter bill. If enacted, smartphones and tablets purchased in Utah will automatically block a potentially sweeping range of content based on fluctuating value judgments. There’s plenty of time, for now, in the sense that it’s the legislative equivalent of an active volcano.Under HB…

Photo: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images)The online pinboard site Pinterest is reportedly in talks to scoop up VSCO, a photo-editing and sharing app that you may remember for inspiring a teen subculture back in 2019. Negotiations remain ongoing, two sources with knowledge of the matter told the New York Times, and there’s still no word on…