The long saga of the union—and separation—of Marvel and Netflix’s shared superhero streaming ambitions is reaching a peculiar end, it seems. Quietly, Netflix has revealed that all six of its original Marvel streaming series will join a rare handful of Netflix Originals to leave the service, and it’s not sure yet if,…
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Porch pirates: there are very few things worse, and if I caught one right now you better believe they’d be walking the plank straight into shark-infested waters. Here to help prevent porch plundering in the first place comes the Box Gobbler from MB Sentinel, an in-home package drop-off door that allows delivery drivers to place your packages in the safety of your home or garage instead of leaving them out in the wild.
Whenever you order a package you can include your Box Gobbler code in the 2nd address line, so delivery drivers can unlock the key-coded door and insert your package. Of course, first, you’re going to need an accessible wall to have the door installed in, and the only wall that makes sense for me right now would mean packages being dropped off behind the entertainment stand in my living room.
Box Gobblers are available in two sizes, 14″ x 28″, and 28″ x 28″, both of which are insulated to prevent the loss of heat through the door, and start at around $1,900. Now I don’t know what sort of things you’re buying on Amazon, but personally, I’d have to get about 200 packages stolen to justify the cost of buying one. I’m just saying, my last porch pirate, made off with nothing but watch batteries and dog poop bags.
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Toyota is plowing more money into EV production in the US. Just a few months after the automaker announced a $240 million investment in its West Virginia plant, it’s pumping another $73 million into the facility.
The company says this will boost hybrid transaxle production capacity to 600,000 units per year. Workers at the plant will also start making around 120,000 rear motor stators annually to bolster production of electric motors. The plant can currently roll 1 million transmissions and engines off the production line per year. Following the latest investment, Toyota will have put over $2 billion into the plant.
Meanwhile, a separate $17 million investment will enable Toyota’s Tennessee plant to make approximately 300,000 more hybrid transaxle cases and housings per year (the current capacity is around 1 million). The factory’s workers also manufacture around 1.8 million engine blocks a year. The company says these parts are essential for all the Toyota and Lexus EVs it assembles in North America. This brings the automaker’s total investment in the plant so far to $389 million.
Toyota is on a mission to offer electrified options across its entire lineup, as well as for Lexus vehicles, by 2025 and to release 30 EV models by 2030. Investing more heavily in EV production will help it reach those goals. Increasing EV battery production is important too, and the company recently announced plans to build a $1.29 billion battery plant in North Carolina.
Disney’s Netflix collaboration effectively ended years ago, but now the shows themselves are going away… for the moment, at least. As What’s on Netflixnoticed, Netflix is warning viewers that Marvel’s originals for the service will disappear on March 1st. If you haven’t caught up on shows like Daredevil, Jessica Jones and The Punisher, you’d better act quickly.
Engadget has confirmed the shows are leaving Netflix now that the Marvel licensing has expired. The alerts (shown below) only seem to appear if you first watch a show on a given profile, and only on some devices. You don’t currently see them when browsing the titles or using the mobile app.
It’s not certain if or when the shows will return on a Disney-owned service. The withdrawal isn’t exactly a shock, mind you. Disney signalled in 2017 that it would shun Netflix in favor of what would become Disney+, and the last shows were cancelled in 2019. Disney wants Marvel as a draw for its in-house services, and leaving originals on Netflix certainly wouldn’t help achieve that goal.
Just where they’re headed, if at all, is another story. The Netflix originals were notable as “adult” shows that didn’t hold back on language or violence. That’s somewhat out of line with the overall PG focus of Disney+ and suggests they might go to Hulu (the home of off-kilter shows like MODOK) instead. Whatever happens, this isn’t the end for the superheroes. Characters from the shows made appearances in Hawkeye and Spider-Man: No Way Home, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see more of the ex-Netflix crew in future productions.
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2021 was a bad PR year for Big Tech. Lawmakers, advocates, and scholars filled pages of books and held hours of hearing exalting what they viewed as an industry being strangled by a handful of players using anti-competitive practices to solidify their position as kings. Ironically, those exact same tactics were…
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The term cyborg conjures up images from Star Trek, RoboCop, and even The Six Million Dollar Man, and while we might get there someday, our first attempts at creating biohybrids are a lot simpler, but no less impressive, as demonstrated by this robotic fish powered by human heart cells.
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