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Blade Runner 2049 is still a few weeks away, but fans will be able to get another look at the sequel with the release of the second of three short film prequels over at the iTunes Trailers site, via Polygon.

A headphone jack might not have been essential enough to be part of the Essential Phone itself, but the company has confirmed it’s working on a module that includes one. “We are actively developing a high end audio accessory to support a 3.5mm jack,” the Essential team said during a Reddit AMA today.

Three women have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of discriminating against female employees by underpaying them and denying them opportunities for promotions. The plaintiffs seek to turn their complaint into a class action lawsuit covering all women who worked at Google within the last four years.

Since the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 was introduced in the Senate in August, tech companies and advocacy groups have been mobilizing in a battle to control its message. Digital rights organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation have called it “disastrous for free speech online,” asking its members to call their representatives in Congress. Meanwhile, supporters of the bill have emerged from unlikely quarters — including tech giant Oracle and Hollywood studio 21st Century Fox ... Читать дальше...

Today, Google announced that YouTube TV is expanding to eight more markets. As picked up by Android Police, the OTT service will now also be available in Albuquerque, Austin, Birmingham, Greenville, Norfolk, Portland, Raleigh, and Sacramento.

A couple more questions have been answered about the iPhone X’s Face ID feature, confirming that the function will still work even when wearing most sunglasses, and that users will be able to quickly disable the unlocking feature to mitigate against thieves. The news come straight from Apple’s SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi responding to an email sent by Keith Krimbel, via MacRumors.

Before he was shocked by a leaping electric eel, Kenneth Catania wasn’t sure what it would be like. In fact, no one was really sure. So, in the name of finding out exactly how much of a jolt the creatures could deliver, Catania, a professor at Vanderbilt University, volunteered his own arm. The eel jumped out of the water and into the air to deliver its shock. It looked like a nuzzle, but it packed the wallop of an electric fence.

A group of digital advertising and marketing organizations has come together today to condemn Apple for what the coalition says is a “unilateral and heavy-handed approach” to user privacy on Mac. The group fears that Apple, which has started taking more extreme measures to reduce ad tracking on both the mobile and now desktop versions of Safari, is unfairly exercising its muscle in a way that could snuff out an entire segment of the ad industry.

Beloved science fiction show Futurama was canceled in 2013, but it’s had a bit of a revival with a mobile game called Worlds of Tomorrow. To help promote the game, Nerdist partnered with game studios Jam City and TinyCo to produce a new episode, in podcast form, reuniting the entire cast of the show for a new adventure.

Bose is getting very close to announcing a second-generation model of its popular Quiet Comfort 35 noise-canceling headphones. In early August, The Verge revealed that the company had accidentally included an image of unreleased headphones in a marketing newsletter. 9to5Google has since followed up with reports on the headline difference between these upcoming headphones and the original model: it’s Google Assistant.

Apple’s big iPhone reveal on Tuesday was a hardware extravaganza, with the new $999 iPhone X sucking up a lot of the air in the company’s lavish new Steve Jobs Theatre. But the Apple Watch, more so than any of the less-prominent (and less-expensive) Apple products shown off, earned some significant onstage time, thanks to an introduction of the new LTE-capable Apple Watch Series 3.

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Lionsgate has set a release date for its upcoming reboot of Hellboy: January 11th, 2019. It also released an image showing off Stranger Things star David Harbour as the film’s titular demonic lead.

Seth MacFarlane’s new faux-Star Trek show The Orville premiered on Fox recently, and the reviews ranged from scathing to indifferent. People clearly aren’t sure what to make of its weird blend of straight-faced Next Generation-era Trek pastiche and MacFarlane’s particularly lowbrow brand of humor. So far, The Orville isn’t exactly a bad show, but it’s disjointed and formless as it oscillates between the different things it’s trying to do. Here’s what it’s going to need to do better to survive as a series. Читать дальше...

In one of the first moments of Absolver, someone hands you a mask. The game — a deep online fighter available now on PC and PS4 — uses this to welcome you into its strange, mysterious world. The mask is a mark. It tells the world you are a prospect, one of many up-and-coming fighters, learning the intricate ways of combat as a way to rise through the ranks and explore the realm of a fallen, but not quite forgotten empire. The mask is a symbol of strength, but it also just looks cool.

The red band trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is here, and it gives us a deeper look at what the Cold War-era movie is actually about — at least, kind of.

This may not be new information, but it’s not well-known information: Google will automatically schedule to delete backups of your Android device if the device is inactive for more than two months.

Chinese vendors on online marketplace Taobao never resist a chance to peddle their goods. Just days after Apple announced the iPhone X that replaced the home button’s Touch ID for Face ID, Chinese merchants have launched “protective masks” in response to the news.

Early tomorrow morning, NASA scientists will say goodbye to their Cassini spacecraft — a hardy probe the size of a school bus that has been orbiting the Saturn system for the last 13 years.

Daimler AG announced today that it’s bringing the Mitsubishi FUSO eCanter short-range electric truck to the United States. The first commercial partner is UPS, which will use three of the trucks in “locations to be determined.” Daimler had previously struck a deal with Seven-Eleven to send 25 of the trucks to Japan, and put them into production earlier this summer.

Apple’s new iPhone X has a spectacular edge-to-edge display that dominates the entire front of the device. Well, nearly the entire front. Unlike Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 2, Samsung’s Galaxy S8, and LG’s V30, Apple hasn’t kept the iPhone X top bezel intact; and compared to the Essential Phone, its camera array is much, much more noticeable... and odd-looking.

Tired of hearing about the iPhone X? Google clearly is, as the Mountain View company has just debuted a new marketing campaign and website that urges viewers to “ask more.” The new landing page is part of the madeby.google.com subdomain, and it carries the teasing tagline of “thinking about changing phones?”

GoPro’s Hero 6 Black action camera is slated for release this fall, and a new photo purportedly leaked to Photo Rumors shows a similar compact design to the Hero 5. Specs on the product box photographed show the Hero 6 shoots at 12-megapixels with 4K60 video and is water resistant for up to 33 feet. Shooting at 4K at 60fps is a notable upgrade because the resulting video is smoother at regular speed and has less blur in slow motion. That’s a step up from the Hero 5 and the Hero 5 Session, which both only shoot at 4K at 30fps (4K30). Читать дальше...

“Technically it did land... but not in one piece.” Elon Musk has posted a long-awaited blooper reel of SpaceX’s failed orbital rocket booster which features plenty of explosions and fire. The tongue-in-cheek video is set to Sousa’s Liberty Bell (more popularly known as the Monty Python theme song) and shows a range of rockets falling over, crashing, and exploding throughout the past few years. One sequence shows a burnt out rocket with the caption, “it’s just a scratch.”

Jaybird has added two new pairs of wireless headphones to its lineup, including the company’s first ever pair of truly wireless earbuds. Today the company announced the $179 Jaybird Run earbuds and the $149 Freedom 2 headphones, each of which will be on sale in October.