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GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies
Last week, GitHub took down the popular YouTube video downloader tool “YouTube-dl” after the Recording Industry Association…
X-Men: Dark Phoenix director to write and produce Battlestar Galactica film
After many years of attempting a Battlestar Galactica feature film, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Universal…
RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos | ZDNet
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more…
Still filing your emails? Science says it’s a waste of time | Torsten Bell
Inbox slobs who just leave messages where they land are 10% more productive Read more at…
Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor
In 2019, two multimedia artists, Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, set about to pursue a provocative…
‘The Wire’ Inspired a Fake Turtle Egg That Spies on Poachers
Scientists 3D-printed sea turtle eggs and stuffed transmitters inside. When poachers pulled them out of nests,…
Netflix faces criticism over ‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners’ ‘Three-Body Problem’ series
Netflix has responded to criticism over comments by the author of the books on which the…
Gaming companies are reportedly the next targets in the US government’s potentially broader Tencent purge – TechCrunch
Some of the biggest names in online gaming in the United States have received letters from…
Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk
Ability to digest dairy as an adult evolved later—and much more quickly—than scientists thought Read more…
Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns Trump will appear to win big on election night
Way more Democrats will vote by mail than Republicans given partisan differences about fears of the…
Comedian uses Trump supporters’ ‘conservative logic’ to defend the most evil people in history
Comedian Greg Larsen on Monday challenged his Twitter followers to name some of the most evil people in…
Star Trek: Short Treks Eps, Lower Decks Opener Available on YouTube
CBS All Access is offering episodes of Star Trek: Short Treks and the series-opener to Lower…
Play Steven Spielberg’s Interactive Movie Starring Quentin Tarantino
‘Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Choices’ lets you dial in exactly how much overacting you want from Tarantino.…
Emma Watts’ Top Priority At Paramount: Figure Out ‘Star Trek’ Reboot
EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Paramount’s plan to next make the Star Trek movie that Noah Hawley wrote…
China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI | ZDNet
The block was put in place at the end of July and is enforced via China’s…
The Tragic Physics of the Deadly Explosion in Beirut
A blast injury specialist explores the chemistry—and history—of explosions like the one captured in videos that…
Fun New Way to Annoy Your Friends: Text Them in Hieroglyphics
You know you want to. Read more at Popular Mechanics…
Why You Can Smell a Fart Through a Mask
As that anti-masker having a tantrum in a Panera pointed out, you can smell a fart…
Microsoft Proves AI Can Realistically Sing Lyrics
The new experiment could have implications for the music industry. Read more…