Monthly Archives: June 2021
'F9' opens with the biggest U.S. box office since 2019, a huge win for theaters
I told you at the end of May that F9: The Fast Saga‘s U.S. release would be a major test for the “post”-pandemic box office. Well, it was exactly that, with theater proprietors and Universal Pictures looking like the big winners. F9 posted an estimated $70 million at the U.S. box office during its opening […]
Ultimate Ears WonderBoom 2 is a killer outdoor speaker that won't break the bank
Bluetooth speakers don’t need to look cool at all, but credit to Ultimate Ears for making its products look fresh as hell anyway. As was the case with the excellent Boom 3 Bluetooth speaker, UE’s WonderBoom 2 gets a lot of style points to go along with its 360-degree sound delivery. This $99 softball of […]
See Ingenuity on the surface of Mars in NASA's new 3D photo drop
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has completed yet another successful flight on Mars. On Friday, NASA operations lead Teddy Tzanetos shared details of the Ingenuity’s eighth flight across Mars’ surface via his team’s official status blog. The four-pound helicopter, which arrived attached to the Perseverance rover in mid-February, traveled 525 feet on June 21 — flying south-southeast […]
Fallon torches Mike Pence's painful attempt to tell a joke where a dog gets shot(?!)
Mike Pence’s idea of a joke involves a car crash, a dog and a cow being euthanized, and a crash victim who doesn’t want to get shot by the responding cop. No, context doesn’t help at all here. The former vice president unleashed his idea of a joke during a speech earlier in the week, […]
Tesla recalls 285,000 cars, this time over faulty cruise-control software
Tesla is recalling almost 300,000 of its Model 3 and Model Y cars — specifically those made in China and imported into the country — due to safety risks with its cruise-control feature, The Wall Street Journal reports. Tesla’s cruise-control system in these cars can be accidentally activated, possibly causing an unprompted increase in speed, […]
Telegram now lets you video chat on group calls
Tired of voice chatting on Telegram? Well, as part of its latest update, you can now video chat with groups of people instead — whether you’re on a smartphone, tablet, or desktop. The new capability lives within the Voice Chat feature. Whenever you start a voice chat room, a camera icon will now appear. All […]
'Loki' is giving Tumblr a chance to relive its first Marvel obsession
2011 was a good year for Tom Hiddleston. The British actor, who by then had already enjoyed a 10-year career in the kind of film and TV work that keeps one employed but shy of superstardom, appeared in four movies that now look tailor-made to introduce the world to his greatest strengths. In Woody Allen’s […]
Virgin Galactic gets OK to bring customers to space
Virgin Galactic announced Friday that it has become the first company to get permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to bring customers to space. The FAA’s decision came around a month after Virgin Galactic’s successful test flight of the VSS Unity, a model in the company’s SpaceShipTwo class of spaceplanes. Two pilots on the VSS […]
Inside the shady world of influencers promoting cryptocurrency
Everyone knows Kim Kardashian, the influencer and reality TV show star, but do you know Kim Kardashian, the cryptocurrency advocate? Earlier this month, the billionaire mega star posted something a bit out of the ordinary to her Instagram Stories. Kardashian was promoting a new alternative cryptocurrency, or altcoin, called Ethereum Max. And she’s not the […]
The best dating apps for lesbians who haven't found love on TikTok yet
Online dating as a lesbian, for the most part, still involves having your space invaded by straight people. The heteronormative weirdness got so alienating that lesbians began turning to TikTok as a means of meeting other single lesbians — turns out, it’s a damn good matchmaker. But it’s unrealistic to expect a social media app to […]