Above, vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccinePhoto: Patrick T. Fallon (Getty Images) More Americans are willing to get a covid-19 vaccine, new polling suggests. According to a survey run by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Americans are more likely to have been vaccinated or to want vaccination in February than they were a month ago, while…
In Defense of an Alexa-Enabled Coffee Maker
Photo: Catie Keck/Gizmodo If you happen to be in the market for a new coffee maker, may I recommend a smart assistant-enabled model? Let me be clear that this isn’t something that you absolutely need, but it’s something I’ve found has made my morning routine marginally smoother. I typically wake up very, very early—often before…
Go Update Your Passwords Right Now
Photo: Michael Smith/Newsmakers (Getty Images) Hey, you, casual internet user. Why not go and update your passwords right now? I’m not trying to boss you around or anything, but semi-frequent password changes are widely considered a great way to avoid getting hacked and having your information spilled all over the web. Yes, bad actors break…
CPAC Panelist Tried to Launch Japanese Tea Party for Guru Who Communed With Pro-Trump Spirit
Happiness Realization Party candidates, including Jay Aeba (seen in the gray suit at center), at a Tokyo hotel in 2009.Photo: Harumi Ozawa (Getty Images) One of the speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the potential coronavirus super-spreader event being thrown by Republicans in Orlando, Florida this week, is a former leader of the…
Netflix is making a Terminator anime with the studio behind ‘Ghost in the Shell’
A Terminator anime from the legendary studio behind the Ghost in the Shell franchise is coming to Netflix. The streaming giant didn’t share any details on the plot, but showrunner Mattson Tomlin, who worked on Project Power for Netflix, told Variety he plans to approach the franchise in a way that “breaks conventions, subverts expectations…
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It’s the first day of the big Republican conference CPAC and a star has already been born. The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel has been keeping his Twitter followers up to speed on the comments from the various speakers at the conference today, and it’s mostly been the usual parade of clowns like Tom Cotton and…
The 10 Best Deals of February 26, 2021
Gif: Juliana Clark Friday’s Best Deals | Kinja Deals It’s February 26, and we at Kinja Deals are here to bring you the top 10 deals of the day. Multi-task to your heart’s content with the iRobot Roomba i6+. Relax with the Naipo Mini Massage Gun. And cash in on 30% off pop culture tees…
Streaming music made up 83 percent of the record industry’s revenue in 2020
The coronavirus pandemic may have made it nearly impossible to check out live shows last year, but the music industry still found a way to grow despite all the hardships. According to the Recording Industry Association of America’s annual year-end report, overall recorded music revenue increased by 9.2 percent to $12.2 billion in 2020. That…
Netflix’s first ‘Shadow and Bone’ trailer shows off the fantasy world of Ravka
Netflix has shared the first trailer for Shadow and Bone, its live-action adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s best-selling fantasy novel series. The clip introduces us to protagonist Alina Starkov, played here by Jessie Mei Li, as she sets off on a journey to cross the Shadow Fold, the darkness that is at the center of both…
MSI GS66 Stealth review (2021): The gaming sweetspot comes to laptops
MSI’s latest GS66 Stealth may look the same as last year’s model, but it has a lot more going for it. It’s powered by NVIDIA’s new RTX 30-series GPUs, and it’s one of the first gaming notebooks with a 1440p (or 2K) screen. That’s a big deal. For the last few years, laptop gamers could…