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Best wine gadgets 2020: Electric openers, smart thermometers, geek decanters and more

(Pocket-lint) – Wine – it’s not quite literally the nectar of the gods (ambrosia, if anyone’s asking), but it’s not far off, eh? The further you get into proper expertise about wine, though, the more likely you are to want some extra little bits to make your sipping experience the best it can be. Best… Read more

Star Wars novelist says Disney won’t pay him royalties it owes him

Alan Dean Foster, author of several Star Wars novelizations, says Disney hasn’t paid him his royalties. According to Foster, Disney has also asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement before the company will speak with him. “You continue to ignore requests from my agents,” Foster wrote in a letter published by the Science Fiction and… Read more

US greenhouse gas emissions see historic plummet

Carbon dioxide emissions from the US economy are nose-diving this year to a level not seen since 1983, according to new estimates by BloombergNEF. The planet-heating pollution is on track to fall by 9.2 percent from last year, which the private research organization says would be the biggest reduction on record. The steep drop is… Read more

Facing collapse, the famed Arecibo Observatory will be demolished

The world-famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, known for helping scientists peer into deep space and listen for distant radio waves, is set to be decommissioned and demolished after engineers concluded that the facility’s structure is at risk of a collapse. While teams will try to salvage some parts of the observatory, the decommission will… Read more

Best DAB radio for 2020: Get your daily digital radio fix.

(Pocket-lint) – Don’t tell Spotify, but radio is far from dead. Even though people are flocking to streaming music and podcast platforms in their multitudes, millions of people each day still tune into radio shows to get their fix of news, music or chat shows. Best Bluetooth speakers: Top portable speakers to buy today The… Read more

Amazon customer support team makes geography fail and inadvertently unites Ireland

An Amazon support member trying to help a subscriber on Twitter was apparently not fully up to speed on world geography when they suggested to the user that Northern Ireland wasn’t part of the United Kingdom. Chris Jones was tweeting to the AmazonHelp account on Saturday, asking why he wasn’t able to view the Autumn… Read more

Netflix’s The Liberator is another war story too focused on spectacle

Netflix’s The Liberator almost didn’t get made. The four-episode miniseries, now streaming, was initially envisioned as an eight-episode drama for the History Channel. The story — both in that version and the one that exists now — was based on the true story of the “Thunderbirds” battalion, a group of US forces that spent 500… Read more

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla review: A bloody good Viking escapade

(Pocket-lint) – One of the joys of playing an Assassin’s Creed game lies in seeing how its gameplay is influenced by the particular historical period in which it is set. Valhalla is set in the late ninth century, and with its Viking protagonists, it feels more like a conventional mediaeval RPG – along the lines… Read more

How Bunny the dog is pushing scientists’ buttons

Bunny the dog lounges with her buttons.Image: Alexis Devine TikTok’s most famous talking dog has inspired some serious research Like many devoted dog owners, Alexis Devine spends hours every day sitting in her living room talking to her dog, Bunny. The peculiar thing is that Bunny “talks” back. Scroll through Devine’s TikTok page and you’ll… Read more

Digital capitalism: Public law platforms against Facebook & Co.

“The social media are outside of our constitutional system,” complained Shoshana Zuboff, who coined the term surveillance capitalism, on Tuesday at the start of the online congress “Digital capitalism – a turning point through Corona?” of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. When Facebook went public, the founder Mark Zuckerberg was given “total control over the world’s… Read more

Best blender 2020: Blitz and juice food with ease

(Pocket-lint) – Blenders are one of those bits of kitchen kit that doesn’t feel essential until you’ve got one. Whether it’s to help you get into a daily smoothie routine, or you’re hoping to make more soups, or if milkshakes particularly float your boat, there are myriad reasons to pick up a blender. Best stand… Read more

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Benchmark Test & Performance Analysis

Introduction The Assassin’s Creed franchise has served up fascinating period-specific, historic set-pieces, in addition to the action-adventure gameplay, and the new Assassin’s Creed Valhalla takes us to the golden age of Norse Vikings, around the 9th century AD. Assassin’s Creed games tend to have such a production focus on history that some of its games… Read more

Netflix: VOD movie and series premieres on November 9 – 15, 2020

Although on Netflix you should not always count only on relatively fresh cinematic titles, the platform often brings a lot of proven hits and its own interesting productions (often, unfortunately not always). Admittedly, Netflix is still gaining attention, as is this weekly list. So, as every week, we check what will appear on the website… Read more

The failure of click days: a cultural issue, not a technological one

This year’s click days they failed for the same reason. Which, contrary to what one might think, is not technological. It is cultural. A direct reflection of the country’s immobility, which seems refractory to any change of Riccardo Robecchi published on 06 November 2020 , at 14: 36 in the Innovation channel The digital revolution… Read more

These Ghost of Tsushima art prints let you get lost in the game’s stunning landscapes

Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima is one of the most visually breathtaking games of the last generation, making it a fitting swan song for the PlayStation 4 in the lead-up to next week’s launch of the PlayStation 5. Now, you can take some of the role-playing adventure’s most iconic scenes and frame them on… Read more