Actor Nick Offerman as everyone on Full House is the stuff of nightmares.
New Addams Family trailer brings a little bit of goth to New Jersey
A new trailer for MGM’s upcoming animated Addams Family movie brings America’s favorite goth family to bright and sunny New Jersey.
The movie, which is a reboot of the franchise, follows the Addams family as they attempt to be their unique selves in a place where everyone wants them to either assimilate (there’s a joke about this in the trailer) or leave. They’re perfectly happy continuing to live their best creepy lives in their house of actual horrors, but the residents of this New Jersey town aren’t here for it.
It’s the first time that the Addams Family has been animated for a feature film, but many of the kooky quirks that made people fall in love with the original show seem to be represented. Wednesday Addams is still wreaking…
Pokemon Sword and Shield trailer reveals Galarian forms and Team Yell – CNET
The Pokemon Company introduced new forms for Weezing, Zigagoon, Linoone and new evolution Obstagoon, as well as form-changing new Pokemon Morpeko in a fresh trailer on Wednesday.
Best college laptops for 2019 – CNET
With picks from Acer, Apple, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft, we’ve got an affordable laptop for every student.
Microsoft contractors are listening to select Skype calls and Cortana recordings
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Microsoft contractors are manually reviewing voice recordings gathered via Skype’s automated translation feature and the Cortana voice assistant, a new report from Motherboard has revealed. In audio recordings shared with the publication, users could be heard having intimate conversations and discussing relationship issues as well as other personal topics like weight loss. “The fact that I can even share some of this with you shows how lax things are in terms of protecting user data,” the contractor who shared the audio files with Motherboard said.
The unnamed contractor describes having heard what they describe as “phone sex” as part of the review process, and they also said that they have heard users entering their full addresses using…
Inventor Flies Jet-Powered Hoverboard Across English Channel in Just 22 Minutes
Franky Zapata already has a world record to his name, for longest hoverboard flight. But the inventor and daredevil just wasn’t satisfied. So he decided to fly his hoverboard—actually, we’ll use the preferred term, Flyboard—across the English Channel.
His first try on July 25 didn’t go well. His second try on August 4? He made it in 22 minutes. On a tiny flying platform, from the coast of France to England.
Zapata invented the Flyboard and Flyboard Air. Flyboards are ubiquitous anywhere people vacation near the water. Using a vacuum for propulsion, it allows the brave and possibly drunk to scoot across the water in much the same way Zapata traversed the Channel.
The unit Zapata took, however, runs on “5 small turbojet engines” according to the AFP, and can reach speeds up to just under 120 mph.
Zapata wasn’t so crazy he did this all alone, of course. He was backed up by a French support team that included choppers and boats and was toting a backpack full of additional fuel.
It was a challenging crossing, too. Speaking to reporters after his arrival in England, Zapata said, “Your body resists the wind, and because the board is attached to my feet, all my body has to resist to the wind. I tried to enjoy it and not think about the pain.”
Given it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing you can safely just grab off the shelf and cruise through the city with, don’t expect to see Zapata’s jet-powered hoverboard in the store anytime soon.
But we can dream, and after seeing this once ridiculous sci-fi scenario come true, it seems like Back to the Future-style hoverboards are just that much closer to reality.
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Elizabeth Warren proposes $85 billion grant for expanding rural internet access
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Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has announced a plan to dramatically expand internet access in rural communities, aiming to give “every home in America” fiber broadband at an affordable price. Her proposal includes an $85 billion grant program for nonprofits and local governments to build fiber networks, as well as protections for cities that want to run their own broadband services. And it would overhaul a deeply flawed reporting system that’s hidden huge service gaps across the country.
Warren laid out her “public option for broadband” in a policy paper released this morning. It’s designed to encourage locally and publicly operated broadband networks while reducing the power of big internet service providers…
Lawmaker Proposes Bill To Curb Social Media Addiction
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would ban “addictive” social media features such as infinite scrolling effect and autoplay while introducing a 30 minute limit on such websites. What do you think?
