Hasta La Gadget!

The filmmaker “was never accused, much less ‘charged,’ with ‘killing’ an animal,” Bay’s attorney wrote in a legal letter obtained by Variety.

“Our place is super inclusive,” the brewery CEO told The Texas Tribune. “We are super pro-law enforcement. … We have a lot of gay patrons.”

Struggling with the Wordle puzzle for January 15th, 2023? Reach new heights with our hints and, if you’re truly stumped, the solution to today’s puzzle.

Twitter appears to have deliberately cut off third-party clients from accessing its API. Since Thursday evening, many of the most popular apps you can use to scroll Twitter without going through the company’s own software, including Tweetbot and Twitterrific, have not worked, with no official communication from Twitter. On Sunday, The Information shared messages from Twitter’s internal Slack channels that suggest the company is aware of the outage and likely the cause of it as well.

“Third-party app suspensions are intentional,” reads one message seen by the outlet in a channel the company’s engineers use to triage service disruptions. On Friday morning, one employee on Twitter’s product partnerships team reportedly asked when their team could expect a list of “approved talking points” related to “3party clients revoked access.” Per The Information, a product marketing manager told their co-worker that same morning that the company had “started to work on comms,” but could not offer a timeline for when those would be ready. The Information notes it could not learn the reasoning behind Twitter’s actions.

Twitter did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request. It has not operated a communications department since Elon Musk started downsizing the company’s workforce. Musk has also not tweeted about the outage, and the developers of Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix and other third-party clients say they’ve not heard anything from the company. “We’re in the dark just as much as you are,” wrote Paul Haddad, the co-creator of Tweetbot in a recent Mastodon post.

Because where we’re going, we don’t need roads; Hot Toys is releasing a highly detailed 1/6th-scale replica of Doc Brown’s time-traveling DeLorean DMC-12 from Back To The Future II. Available at Sideshow Collectibles, the large 72cm (~28″) model includes functional gullwing doors, and the wheels even fold up when it’s time to fly. I must have it. Oh, it’s $825. I can wait. At least until I get my hands on a Grays Sports Almanac.

The time machine can be displayed either in traditional wheeled mode or comes with a stand for displaying in in-flight mode. It has working exterior lights (including headlights, brakes, yellow wheel hub lights, and undercarriage lighting) and interior lights (instrument panel, time circuits, flux capacitor). The real rubber wheels move, the gullwing doors can be posed in different levels of openness, and the interior features a moveable steering wheel, gear shift, and time circuit handle. Impressive! But can the Mr. Fusion turn 1/6th-scale banana peels and beer cans into nuclear power?

As far as scale models go, this one is an absolute beauty. Am I going to try to convince my wife that it belongs on the fireplace mantle more than the boring old urns that are there now? Please, if marriage has taught me anything, it’s that I have to pick and choose my battles, and this is one definitely worth fighting for.

[via TechEBlog]