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Marvel Studios Thor: Love and Thunder, helmed by Taika Waititi, brings more of the directors signature wild flair to the franchise with the return ofNatalie Portman as Jane Foster鈥攆inally wielding Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor鈥攁nd the addition of Christian Bale as the villainous Gorr the God Butcher. The fourth film in the Chris Hemsworth-led superhero series鈥攁lso starring Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie and Waititi himself as Korg鈥攚as screened Thursday evening for critics and soci airmaxplus al media commentators. So whats the early verdict Read on to find out! Heres a roundup of reactions from across t af1 he web. ThorLoveAndThunder is like what I imagine living in the mind of Taika Waititi might be like. Its wild, funny, a little all over the place in the middle but by the end it all comes together in a surprising, yeezy slide touching, satisfying way. So much Guns n Roses too. So much. 鈿★笍 pic.twitter/FCuilspvHH mdash; Germain Lussier @GermainLussier June 24, 2022 ThorLoveAndThunder has an Appetite For Destruction laughs. Its totally rad! Taika Waititi delivers a subversive, irreverent spectacle. Great story, stakes character-building. Chris Hemsworth Natalie Portman, superb.Russell Crowe Christian Bale slip easily into the world pic.twitter/W7PUUXIfM5 mdash; Courtney Howard @Lulamaybelle June 24, 2022 Wow!! ThorLoveandThunder is great! The best entry in Phase 4 behind Shang-Chi and No Way Home. I laughed. I cried. Then I laughed and cried some more, in that order. N Giwd Here Is the Most Ridiculously Badass Moment in Comics This Week, Courtesy of聽Karnak
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A project established to conserve Tasmanian devils has backfired, as the carnivorous marsupials have been a little too successful in their new habitat. Theyve killed scores of seabirds since their arrival nearly a decade ago, according to the local branch of the Birdlife conservation organization. T adidas samba og he devils were brought to Maria Island, just a few miles off the Tasmanian coast, in 2012, in an attempt to protect the a nike air max nimals from the contagious facial cancer that was threatening the species. At the time, the Tasmanian government released multiple reports mentioning the possibility of harm to the shorebird colonies, which included little penguins Eudyptula minor 聽and shearwaters, a shorebird in the petrel family. Its very clear that the devils have had a catastrophic ecological impact on yeezy the bird fauna on Maria Island, Eric Woehler, a seabird ecologist at the University of Tasmania and a researcher for BirdLife Tasmania, told the BBC. Devils spread their facial disease through biting one another in social and mating scenarios. Photo: ANOEK DE GROOT/AFP Getty Images This is not to understate the danger facing the marsupials, though. The endangered species has been the largest carnivorous marsupial on Earth since the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, went the way of the dodo. The devil facial-tumor disease DFTD wiped out as much as 90% of the species since it was first identified in 1996; it spread easily because the devils bite each other with abandon during social int Oxxz Google s Interpreter Mode Comes to Phones and Will Make Traveling a Helluva Lot Easier
Last year, Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo crashed catastrophically above the Mojave desert, killing one of its pilots. Now, the pilot of White Knight Two, which carried SpaceShipTwo to altitude, has spoken out about what happened on the day. Dave Mackay, who is Virgin Galactics chief pilot and was flying White Knight Two when the accident occurred, hasspoken to the BBC. He explains: We were listening out on the radio and it became apparent fairly early that something had gone seriously wrong. We didnt see anything. We launch the spaceship and it drops below us several hundred feet before it ignites the rocket motor. When it was apparent the wreckage had hit the ground, we descended to try to give some support in any way we could. Which involved, basically, finding out where air force 1 the vehicle was and finding out where the surviv reebok stoffschuhe or was and relaying that position back to emergency services. While hes given no new insight into the technicalities of what happened on the day, a full crash report is to be issued about the disaster in the coming weeks. Reports following the incidentsuggested that the crafts rear-mounted feathering system鈥攚hich tilts the two distinctive wings of SpaceShipTwo up, to slow the plane and bring its belly up during re-entry鈥攔otated just seconds after its rocket fired. Analysis suggested that ShipShipTwos co-pilot鈥攚ho died in the accident鈥攎oved a lever in the cockpit to unlock the tail feathers , which happened too salomon winterschuhe early in the flight and two seconds later t

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Happy International Womens Day, or as brands have it circled on their calendars The Day We Get To Show Off Our Feminist Bona Fides In The Form Of An Unconvincingly Earnest Publicity Stunt. Rather than view the day as an opportunity to, for instance, close the wage gap or hire more women into leadership roles, companies generally view it as an opportunity to roll out a fun new feature dedicated to women. Here are few ways tech firms are doing just that. This Vodka-Branded Spotify Tool Is a Great Way to Find Out If You Are, in Fact, a Feminist Spotify and Smirnoff teamed up to launch a tool, Smirnoff Equalizer, that figures out the percentage of male versus female artists you listen to on the streaming service. The concept is cool: its illuminating to see the gender breakdown of artists you listen to in simplified terms. Its strange, however, to let an alcohol brand access your Spotify data including your email address and private playlists to view that information. My results skewed male, so adidas yeezyslide the tool generated an Equalized Playlist for me, which was nice! I also learned that, at 34 percent women, I listen to more female artists than adidas samba og the average user. Look at This Fun New Feature We Definitely Just Came Up With Just in Time for Womens Day Google anno adidas samba unced on Wednesday that business owners on Google My Business can now self-identify as women-led, which means that these companies will now feature a female symbol when they appear on Google Maps or Search. We strive to o Gucl Report: Sad Brexit Loser David Cameron Encouraged London Mayor to Drop Uber Regulations
We think of bats as swooping through the air to hunt their prey, but the vampire bat is known to creep along the ground to stalk its prey. Put it on a tiny treadmill, and the crafty critter can also break into a full gallop, using its wings to propel itself along the ground. crocs badelatschen The above highly disconcerting video is actually from 2005, but its making the rounds on the Internet today, no doubt in honor of Halloween. And also because its a vampire bat. On a treadmill. Man, that never gets old. For all the inherent entertainment value, this is bona fide legit research dating back to 2005, when Nature published a short communication by Cornell professor John W. Hermanson and his then-graduate student, Dan Riskin. While doing field work in Trinidad, they captured five adult male vampire bats Desmodus rotundas and stuck them on tiny treadmills inside a Plexiglass cage, the better to study the biomechanics of how they moved. They started with the treadmill at slow speeds 鈥?even vampire bats need a good warmup period 鈥?and then gradually increased the speed to see how the animal would adapt. The bats surprised them by eventually breaking into a run 鈥?unprecedented behavior among bats until then. At the time, Riskin likened the gait to being like a horse going from a walk to a gallop ove hoka trekkingschuhe r a very short amount of time. [Via Slate] Reference: Riskin, D.K. and Hermanson, J.W. 2005 Independent evolu salomon supercross tion of running in vampire bats, Nature 434: 292.

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Sony has released an official response to the recently reported news that Disney and Sony reached an impasse on its Spider-Man partnership, calling many of the stories mischaracterized and squaring much of the blame on Marvel Studio president Kevin Feiges workload. In a rare public statement, Sony released a thread on Twitter late last night discussing the widely-circulated and contentious news. The company said its disappointed by Disneys decision to no longer have Feige as a lead producer on Sonys Spider-Man films, claiming its because of Feiges increased workload adidas campus following Disneys acquisition of Fox. Disney has not commented on these claims but also said it hopes the situation might change in the future. https://gizmodo/spider-man-will-no-long ... 1837416155 Heres the statement in full: Much of todays news about Spider-Man has mischaracterized recent discussions about Kevin Feiges involvement adidas samba donna in the franchise. We are disappointed, but respect Disneys decision not to have him continue as a lead producer of our next live action Spider-Man film. We ho air max plus pe this might change in the future, but understand that the many new responsibilities that Disney has given him鈥攊ncluding all their newly added Marvel properties鈥攄o not allow time for him to work on IP they do not own. Kevin is terrific and we are grateful for his help and guidance and appreciate the path he has helped put us on, which we will continue. Deadline reported on Monday that Disney an Tnpb Google s Hitting Pause on Political Ads鈥擜t Least for Now
Two year ago, basically no one outside of diehard comics fans knew who the Guardians of the Galaxy were. Flash forward to now, each member of the movies team is starring in their own comic book series, including Drax. Announced at C2E2 over the weekend, Drax will be the characters first ever standalone series since the character was introduced in 1973, and sees the Destroyer spend his downtime from fighting alongside the Guardians to go on personal battles across the galaxy to prove that hes the greatest fighter crocs absatz in the Marvel Cosmic. The series is also a first for its writer, former wrestler/upcoming UFC fighter CM Punk 鈥?Punk has written several one-off comic stories before, including a story in Thor Annual 1 and Vertigos Strange Sports Stories, but Drax will be his first attempt at writing an ongoing comic book series. Details other than that are scarce 鈥?neith adidas originals samba er Punks co-writer or the artist for the series have been revealed yet, other than the fact that Ed McGuinness has draw air force one n the cover for the first issue. Check it out in full: As I mentioned earlier, the release of Drax means that each Guardian from the movie now has their own ongoing comic series: Legendary Star-Lord in which Peter Quill has even adopted his movie costume Rocket Raccoon Groot The upcoming Gamora series written by Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel screenwriter Nicole Perlman Not bad for a cast of characters the mainstream public had no idea existed just a few years ago, eh Drax 1 will

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The 1988 Alien Nation film took place after a race of alien refugees found a second home on Earth. The show inspired a TV series, and for a long time we thought it would be remade into a show. But Fox has decided to reboot the film instead. Alien Nation starts out as an interesting this is the worl reebok sneaker d we live in now kind of flick, but r reebok de eally it was an alien/human buddy cop movie between James Caan and Mandy Patinkin who played the alien cop . And now THR is reporting that two Iron Man screenwriters, A sketcher sportschuhe rt Marcum and Matt Holloway, have been hired to remake the script for today audiences. No producers are currently working with them on the film. This sounds cool and all, but if they don ;t bring back Mandy Patinkin and James Caan to reprise their roles in some way, I ;m going to flip a chair. Movies

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Humanitys run as the dominant force on the Earth nearly came to an end on Tuesday, when a tumbleweed uprising gave the 120,000 residents of Victorville, California quite a scare. Stirred by swift winds and a desire to unleash great vengeance and furious anger, tumbleweed poured into the city for a battle royale. The dead, prickly plants pinwheeled down streets, covered cars and stacked up to the second story of hous yeezy slide es. Panicked residents called the city. Then they called 911. No word on if the National Guard was needed. It seems like every time we get the tum adidas campus 80s bleweeds cleared up, the wind blows and blows them right back again, Bryan Bagwell, a local real estate broker, told the Washington Post. Its a nasty nightmare. Tumbleweed are the remnants of plants but are usually Russian thistle, an invasive that first appeared in the U.S. in the late 1800s. The plants have since spread across the West, and when they get uprooted or die, they can get swept up by the wind. Fences are usually enough to stop their wind-driven rampage, but they couldnt hold back this yeezy pack of wild weeds. In the end, the onslaught was thwarted, and cleanup has begun. Firefighters, town public works employees, and a waste management company are doing the heavy lifting and taking tumbleweeds outside the citys limits. Yesterday I cant even stand here in my garage, resident Nav Mangat told the local ABC affiliate. There was like a hundred of these bushes. They were just flowing like it was a tornado yeste Idsv This Apple Watch Pipboy Is All the Smartwatch I Ever Need
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Facebook, your uncles favorite source for information on how 5G is making everyone communist, experienced a six-hour outage聽Monday. And it wasnt just Facebook鈥攖he companys other major platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp, were also down. We finally got a statement from Facebook overnight about what happened, and the culprit was some configuration changes made internally on the companys backbone r adidas samba og outers. To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by todays outage across our platforms. Weve been working as hard as we can to restore access, and our systems are now back up and running, Facebook said in a statement published online overnight. The underlying cause of this outage also impacted many of the internal tools and systems we use in our day-to-day operations, complicating our attempts to quickly diagnose and resolve the problem, the statement continued. Those internal tools apparently included the abili adidas samba ty to even access the servers, according to multiple reports. Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a adidas campus halt, Facebook said. But Facebook assures us that everything should be working normally again, and it has no evidence that any Abub CDC Releases New Advice and Data on Double-Masking
Richard Stanley, the guy who was going to direct th nike air max e leg salomon xt 6 endarily terrible Island of Dr. Moreau movie starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer but got fired three days in, wants to try again. He finished a script for another Dr. Moreau film 8230; and this time it going to be X-rated. Stanley casually mentioned this in an interview with L.A. Weekly, where he also discussed how he snuck back onto the set of the 1996 movie whose trailer is above w air force 1 hile in a dog costume and his immense schadenfreude about the debacle that director John Frankenheimer eventually produced after he took over. It a great read if you have the time. [Via Gamma Squad] Movies

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Weve sung the praises of filmmaker K-Michel Parandi on io9 in the past, and now theres a new verse: XYZ, From Fire and Dust, a proof-of-concept sh air max ort about artificial humans that Parandi hopes may become a series one day, according to Short of the Week. Heres a description, followed by the short. Its a bit long at 15 minutes, but as youll see, it crams a lot of ideas and visual flair into that runtime. From the director of From the Future With Love, in the future there is a highly regulated process for printing human-like organisms, whom then remain under their owners control in perpetuity. These angels are incredibly valuable, but the constricted supply gives rise, as always, to a black market. We follow the Noo, a trio of 3 identical angels whom adidas samba og share a hive consciousness, as they attempt to extricate themselves out adidas campus 80s from under the control of the corrupt police officer whom has illegally created them, and secure official status for their existence. https://youtube/watch v=e8RfFJuRsCE [Short of the Week] For more, make sure youre following us on our new Instagram @io9dotcom. Short Films Vuqn Xiaomi Sues U.S. Government for Putting It on a Blacklist
It seems like every futurist and her sister wanted to turn cars into boats back in the 20th century. Remember the Water-Mobile of 1947 Or how about the poor mans yacht of 1958 Well, this Jazz Age invention had them all beat. The October 1923 issue of Practical Electrics magazine included this peek at the future of motoring鈥攁 future when every car could turn into a boat with ease. John Cowan of Kansas City even got the idea patented in 1921. From Practical Electrics: Why go to the trouble of hiring a boat when out on a fishing trip when the top of your automobile makes a very servicea salomon sommerschuhe ble skiff As a matter of fact, John A. Cowan of Kansas City, Mo., has patented an automobile of just such a type in which the top comes off. It may then be carried down to the water, the oars removed and a pleasurable boat ride may be experienced. Of course if it should rain while the rowers are on the lake, the interior of the automobile would get wet, but who wants to be in an open boat while it is raining, so the cover goes back in place. It looks like any old car 8230; But as the magazine explains, the top simply pops off 8230; And can be carried right into the water 8230; And as the author of the magazine article explained, you wouldnt want to get caught in the rain 8230; As best I can te skechers hausschuhe ll, this invention didnt really take off. But they certainly had the right idea when it came to fantasies of futuristic living. Maybe the adiletten original only thing more American than the promise of owning your ow