Enlarge (credit: Tetra Images | Tetra images) As TikTok’s popularity and earnings soar, the company has decided to crack down on political content creators—sometimes with thousands of followers—who violate the app’s policies against paid political ads. TikTok says it has been aware of the problem since 2020, but it became an issue of public concern in…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Tim Burton directed Netflix’s new eight-episode original series, Wednesday. Netflix has dropped the first official teaser for Wednesday on the heels of yesterday’s exclusive first-look images for the Tim Burton-directed series in Vanity Fair. All in all, it looks deliciously Burtonesque, and we’re keen to give it a chance. As I’ve written previously, American cartoonist Charles Addams created…
Enlarge / The stylish leads of We Are OFK—and yes, that includes the cartoony cat, though I’ll leave its involvement in the series vague for now. (credit: Team OFK) Imagine versions of The Monkees TV series or Beatles films like Hard Day’s Night for the modern era. What might those look like? I don’t just…
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes another round of discounts on Amazon’s Fire HD tablets, with both the 10.1-inch Fire HD 10 and the 8-inch Fire HD 8 on sale for $100 and $50, respectively….
Kapwing is now offering free subscriptions for education users of its browser-based video editing software, which works on all platforms, including Chromebooks.Read More
Rocket Lab hopes to have it self-funded satellite en route next year. Rocket Lab It’s been well over 30 years since humanity last sent a satellite into the Venusian atmosphere, but a private spacefaring startup hopes to end that lull by launching its own probe towards the planet in 2023 in search of alien life….
Snapping turtles are omnivores. Kerry B Wix / KB Originals This article was originally featured on Field & Stream. In 2015, professional photographer Kerry Wix was fishing at Dale Hollow Lake in Tennessee when he noticed a big northern water snake that appeared to be struggling to haul itself out of the water onto a…
TikTok’s new filter is an abstract take on text-to-image generators. DEPOSIT PHOTOS TikTok has launched a new in-app AI-powered text-to-image generator called the “AI greenscreen” filter. First reported by The Verge, users can now type a prompt like “exploding galaxy flowers” and TikTok will create an abstract interpretation that can be used as a video…
Human pheromones are still not a real thing. Deposit Photos The award for weirdest TikTok trend of summer 2022 may go to “vabbing,” a supposed hack where people dab vaginal secretions on their skin like perfume, all for the art of seduction. If that sounds familiar, it’s because many animals spread bodily compounds called pheromones,…
An asteroid splits apart while traveling in space, in an artist’s illustration. NASA/JPL-Caltech When Africa and South America split apart during the Jurassic, birthing the Atlantic Ocean, the separation left a plateau of shallow ocean off the west coast of Guinea. “All the sediments are very flat, almost like a layer cake,” says Uisdean Nicholson,…