We talked to the Broadway stars behind a virtual performance of the animated film. Inspiration started with quirky TikTok segments circulating this fall. ‘Ratatouille,’ the Musical: How This TikTok Creation Came Together Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe “billionaire millennial” Lin Qi was working with Netflix and the “Game of Thrones” creators to bring a Chinese best seller to the screen. The police have a suspect, and fans have questions. How Lin Qi's Poisoning Death Shocked China Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe live action show’s second season ended in December, but it set up a whole bunch of spinoffs and paved the way for its third season. The Mandalorian season 3: Everything we know about the Disney Plus Star Wars show's future – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBen Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Report: 10 ex-members of Apple’s supplier responsibility team say it avoids or delays removing suppliers guilty of labor violations when doing so hurts business — A new report today claims that Apple is reluctant to ban suppliers found guilty of labor violations, and can take years to do so, even in
Read MoreThe CueCat barcode scanner | Tomkinsc In a hopeless attempt to overthrow an American election, a ridiculous cast of characters has heeded outgoing President Donald Trump’s call to misadventure — including, now, the inventor of one of the worst gadgets of all time. His name is Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, and yesterday he gave a poor
Read MoreIf you’re still figuring out how to ring in the new year, Krispy Kreme would like to humbly suggest feasting on doughnuts. And not just any doughnuts—their melt-in-your-mouth original glazed doughnuts. To make these treats more accessible, Krispy Kreme is offering them at a special price. Read more… Get Deeply Discounted Doughnuts at Krispy Kreme
Read MoreIn the early days of the pandemic, my social media feeds were filled with people boasting about all the reading they were getting done during quarantine, which only made me wonder when they were finding time to nurse their anxieties and care for their suddenly omnipresent children. Certainly for as many of us who …
Read MoreSuper Heavy could launch one Starship and return to Earth to launch another one as soon as an hour later. Elon Musk plans to catch SpaceX's most powerful rocket rather than land it – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe rarely see teardowns this detailed. [txyzinfo] wanted to know what hardware was under the hood, and did an amazing Amazon Halo Teardown. Sometime around the middle of 2020, Amazon jumped on to the health and fitness tracker space with the introduction of the Halo — a $100 device with an add on $4 monthly
Read MoreIt’s New Year’s Eve, which means that your Instagram feed — if it’s anything like mine — is probably filled with people posting “top nine” grids of their most liked photos from this year. But, bafflingly, for yet another year, everyone will be turning to sketchy-looking third-party apps and sites to make them. Because once
Read MoreTo enjoy great espresso at home, you’ll have to invest in a quality machine. Here’s a list of our favorite models we tested from Breville, Nespresso, Mr. Coffee, Cuisinart, DeLonghi and others. The best espresso machine for 2021: Cuisinart, Breville, Mr. Coffee and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAn LG 4K monitor and Google Nest Audio 2-pack lead Thursday’s best deals. Read more… Thursday's Best Deals: LG 4K Monitor, Google Nest Audio 2-Pack, Crash Team Racing, Sunday Scaries CBD Gummies, Style & Co Dress Boots, Aukey Power Bank, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreNASA is always keen to highlight the space agency’s many successes, and rightly so — those who pay for these expensive projects have a right to know what they’re getting for their money. And so the news was recently sprinkled with stories of the discovery of electron bursts beyond the edge of our solar system,
Read MoreIt’s not uncommon in the tech world for new product concepts to never make it to reality. A sizeable number of ideas never even see the light of day and remain the cosseted secrets of boardrooms around the world. In other cases though, companies are very keen to tell the world before the idea, concept,
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge If you just got a brand-new Android phone for the holidays, you probably want to play some games on your shiny device. Luckily, that’s especially easy to do this year with Google’s $5-per-month Google Play Pass games and apps subscription service, which offers free access to hundreds of
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: Ticketmaster agrees to pay a $10M fine after admitting to hiring an ex-CrowdSurge staffer and using his credentials to access the rival ticket seller’s systems — It used stolen login credentials at a company summit — Ticketmaster has agreed to pay $10 million for breaking into a competitors’ network. Ticketmaster
Read MoreElon Musk received the suggestion on Twitter and it sounds like he’s all for it. Tesla vehicles might be able to call 911 in the future – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThough it’s easy to label someone who frequently slips, trips, falls and/or knocks into things as being “clumsy,” there is usually more to the story than that. While it’s possible that their main problem is not looking where they’re going or paying attention to their surroundings, a large part of being steady on your… Read
Read MoreTLDR: These seven kits are all designed to spark STEM learning and get a kid engaged in science, engineering, robotics, and more. And they’re each now an extra 20 percent off. If you noticed a whole bunch of video games and action figures under the tree this year for the kid in your life, that
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This time last year, Apple Arcade was still a fledgling service, but one with a lot of potential. For $5 a month, you could get unlimited access to a big library of interesting games, the kind that no one really sells in the App Store anymore. It’s
Read MoreImage: Disney When the clock strikes midnight this New Year’s, The Great Gatsby and other works copyrighted in 1925 will enter the public domain, becoming freely available for re-publication and — most importantly — puppet-themed adaptation. More than anything in 2021, I need the Muppet version of The Great Gatsby. Picture this: Kermit in period-specific
Read MoreI am so tired of thinking and typing about this stupid year, but I’m still a little excited that it is finally ending (if only because that means I can quite thinking and typing about it). I don’t believe that 2021 will necessarily be any better—we will, as far as I can tell, still be
Read MoreThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a recall for some Sportmix pet food products, following the deaths of at least 28 dogs after eating the food. So far, there are concerns over the safety of nine total lots of cat and dog foods manufactured by Midwest Pet Food, Inc. for potentially fatal levels
Read MorePei Li / Reuters: Report: Apple removed 46K+ apps, including 39K games from its China store on Thursday, as it set a year-end deadline for game publishers to obtain a license — HONG KONG (Reuters) – Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day …
Read MoreGoogle has made CES a lot more fun over the last several years. That comes to an end with 2021’s CES going online only. Google's annual spectacle at CES is no more, with tech show going virtual – CNET Source: CNet
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