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May 17, 2024

The X-Men '97 Team Dishes on the Finale's Big Bad Reveal
That X-Men ‘97 season finale was quite the sucker punch for fans invested in Marvel Animation's revived classic series coming into a modern era. We saw the X-Men overcome seemingly insurmountable odds against Bastion after the reveal that he was this season's big bad—not the red herrings Magneto and Sinister (who…

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May 17, 2024

Why George Miller Is So Excited for You to See Furiosa
Think about the expectations. Nine years ago, you released maybe one of the best films ever made. It won a ton of Oscars, made solid money at the box office, and has since only risen in respect and reverence. And now, you're going back. Not just to that world, but to that story and those specific characters.

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May 17, 2024

Coroner's Report Reveals Boeing Whistleblower's Cause of Death
Details surrounding the death of John Barnett, a corporate whistleblower who was in the midst of suing aviation giant Boeing when he was found dead in a parking lot earlier this year, have finally been revealed.

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May 17, 2024

Make a Summer Splash With These Disney Fashions and Vacation Must-Haves
With Memorial Day weekend coming up and summer vacation not far behind, here's some of our favorite Disney-inspired fandom fashion, accessories, and other fun essentials to throw in your luggage.

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May 17, 2024

Who's Up for Some Killer Bee Beer?
If you're looking for booze with an extra bit of buzz, you're in luck. Microbiologists in the U.K. have just created beer using yeast sourced from the guts of Africanized honey bees, a.k.a. killer bees.

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May 17, 2024

John Krasinski's IF: The Spoiler FAQ
Who could have guessed that John Krasinski would be so good at making horror movies? His directorial debut was A Quiet Place, he followed it up with A Quiet Place Part II, and now he's made IF, not a horror film by genre but a horrible film in quality. We reviewed the film quite unfavorably here but now that it's in…

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May 17, 2024

The Truth Behind Alkaline Water
Alkaline water will improve your metabolism, boost your liver health, and even help you fight off cancer—at least according to its fans. The actual truth, however, is far more mundane. There is little good evidence for these and many other health claims attached to alkaline water, and the only thing that it's clearly…

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May 17, 2024

Head of Sony Seems Pretty Sure Spider-Man 4 Is Happening
Two things are true when listening to the head of a movie studio. One, they're not going to say anything bad about their movies, and two, they definitely know everything happening with those movies. That's why a new interview with the chairman of Sony Motion Pictures Group, Tom Rothman, should both be taken with the…

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May 17, 2024

25 Great Things About The Phantom Menace
This weekend, The Phantom Menace turns 25—and while we've celebrated the ways the film brought so much to Star Wars in the past, for its 25th anniversary we wanted to look back at a few different things, big and small, that make Phantom Menace so great all these years later, whether you caught it on the big screen agai…

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May 17, 2024

RIP Silk: Spider-Society
Conspicuously absent from the incredible news this week that Nicolas Cage was coming to Prime Video to play Spider-Man Noir was a single mention of Silk: Spider-Society, another Spider-Verse show that has been in the works for a long, long time.

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May 17, 2024

NYPD Should Equip Drones With Tasers for 911 Calls, According to Pro-Trump Congressman
The New York Police Department plans to use drones to respond to some 911 calls in a new program, according to testimony delivered Thursday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. And while that's concerning enough, one Republican congressman had some ideas about how to improve the idea.…

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May 17, 2024

OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
OpenAI's Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team's founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.

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May 17, 2024

X-Men '97's Finale Managed to Tie Up a 26-Year-Old Spider-Man Mystery, Too
The third and final episode of "Tolerance Is Extinction,"the season finale of X-Men ‘97, had a lot to pay off—not just from the plot threads it wove throughout its own debut season, but in bringing to a head years of lingering character work dating back to the original X-Men: The Animated Series. But in just a few…

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May 17, 2024

What the Hell's Going on With This Space Cloud?
It looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud?

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May 17, 2024

How to Turn Off YouTube Ads for Alcohol, Gambling, Weight Loss and More
The last thing an alcoholic wants to see is YouTube ads featuring alcohol, which can trigger the desire to drink. The same goes for someone who has perhaps experienced a miscarriage and continues to see YouTube ads for diapers and baby clothes, sending people into a spiral of depression. But if you're struggling with…

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May 17, 2024

Everything You Need to Know About Game Emulators on iPhone
This page was updated 5/17/24 to include information on how to access the PPSPP and RetroArch emulators on iPhone.

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May 17, 2024

10 Hole-y Questions We Have After Outer Range Season 2
Sci-fi Western Outer Range released its second season on Prime Video this week, bringing more time-travel shenanigans for the people of Wabang, Wyoming—especially the families of Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) and Wayne Tillerson (Will Patton). The show's giant hole still contains more secrets than answers, and just like…

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May 17, 2024

iPhone 16 Pro Max Could Get Longer, Better Battery Life
According to Apple analystMing-Chi Kuo, there's a possibility we could get a longer battery life on the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro Max, which will be expected to launch later this year.

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May 17, 2024

Wild Video Shows Deep-Sea Squid Using Its 'Headlights' to Attack Camera
A team of marine researchers with the Minderoo—UWA Deep Sea Research Centre got a treat recently, when a rare deep-sea hooked squid (Taningia danae) mistook the crew's baited camera for prey. The team captured the remarkable footage about 3,281 feet (1 kilometer) beneath the waves in the South Pacific, north of the…

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May 17, 2024

Orbital Paparazzi Captures a Sneaky Picture of the ISS
The International Space Station (ISS) was caught looking a little undignified in a new photo captured by an imaging satellite in orbit.

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May 17, 2024

Elon Musk's Neuralink Is Looking for a New Cyborg
Elon Musk's Neuralink is now accepting applications for a second patient to receive its brain-computer interface, just five months after Noland Arbaugh became the first human to have the startup's technology surgically implanted. The second patient will receive the same fame and life-changing technology Arbaugh has…

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May 17, 2024

Alkaline Water Is Useless
Alkaline water will improve your metabolism, boost your liver health, and even help you fight off cancer—at least according to its fans. The actual truth, however, is far more mundane. There is little good evidence for these and many other health claims attached to alkaline water, and the only thing that it's clearly…

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May 17, 2024

How Has Louis Changed Since Season 1 of Interview With the Vampire?
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May 17, 2024

Updates From Furiosa, Silent Hill, and More
Return to Silent Hill lifts the lid on its Pyramid Head. Halle Berry gets frightful in the new trailer for Never Let Go. Plus, The Thundermans could be making a return. To me, my spoilers!

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May 17, 2024

17 Roger Corman Movies You Should Watch Right Now
Roger Corman, one of the most prolific, influential filmmakers of all time, died last weekend at the age of 98. Prominently known for his campy, 1960s horror films (his nickname was "King of the B's"), Corman was far more than a small-time B-movie director. He helped launch the careers of droves of actors and…

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May 17, 2024

How to Purge the AI From Your Google Searches
"Let Google do the searching for you."

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May 17, 2024

What I Love and What I Can't Stand About the 2024 iPads
The latest iPads are strange beasts. Beyond the cheaper base iPad, you have the iPad Air and the iPad Pro. They're both at the top of their game. They're more powerful than ever, and the more expensive version has processing capabilities nearly equivalent to that of a MacBook. And as tempting as they are, before you…

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May 16, 2024

Superman and Fantastic Four Lead 2025's Amazing IMAX Slate
This year is already off to a very good start at the movies but 2025 is looking even bigger, in more ways than one. Fresh off the huge success of last year's Oppenheimer and this year's Dune: Part Two, IMAX just revealed 14 titles in 2025 that will not only be released in IMAX, but are being filmed specifically for…

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May 16, 2024

The Stars of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Promise Things Will Actually Happen This Season
The debut season of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power—for those that actually ended up making it through all eight episodes—often struggled to really really feel there was narrative moment outside of that one hella cool moment when a mountain blew up. By its climax, it felt like things had barely just started, in…

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May 16, 2024

This Is the Coolest, Most Unique Obi-Wan Kenobi Figure Ever
Whenever a new set of Star Wars toys is announced, fans have come to expect to see characters in some sort of armor. Be it Mandalorian armor, stormtrooper armor, or Clone Trooper armor, toy companies love it because all they have to do is make a new head and reuse an old body. It's a cheat on 99% of occasions. But,…

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May 16, 2024

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis Chaotically Wows Cannes
Reactions for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis have begun to hit the internet and they are as all over the place as the film itself seems to be. Megalopolis is a sci-fi love story between architect Cesar (Adam Driver) and socialite Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), who become caught up in the plans that Julia's powerful…

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May 16, 2024

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Will Bring Its Dead-Eyed Horrors to December 2025
Video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy's proved unstoppable at both the box office and on Peacock, and its follow-up hopes to repeat that success when it arrives December 5, 2025. The release date for Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is the biggest calendar addition for a slew of upcoming Universal Blumhouse releases,…

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May 16, 2024

Possible SpaceX Debris Crashes Onto Canadian Farm
It's raining space junk. Just one month after NASA admitted that a piece of trash tossed from the International Space Station (ISS) crash-landed through a home in Florida, a massive piece of space debris ended up on a farm in Canada.

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May 16, 2024

The Big Problem With Hertz's Used Teslas
Hertz gambled and lost when it placed its big EV bet on Tesla a few years ago. It was a chance for the rental car company to shake up the industry, instead the company bought 30,000 Teslas, got scared away by depreciation and expensive repairs and now wants to get rid of them. While all those used Teslas looked to be…

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May 16, 2024

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' Director on the Film's Opening
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May 16, 2024

Friday the 13th Just Got a Huge Update. Maybe.
A new company just announced it's come on board and is ready to take Jason Voorhees and the Friday the 13th franchise into the future. What exactly that means though, is not quite crystal (lake) clear.

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May 16, 2024

OpenAI Staffers Responsible for Safety Are Jumping Ship
OpenAI launched its Superalignment team almost a year ago with the ultimate goal of controlling hypothetical super-intelligent AI systems and preventing them from turning against humans. Naturally, many people were concerned—why did a team like this need to exist in the first place? Now, something more concerning has…

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May 16, 2024

George Miller on Why His Mad Max Action Is So Incredible
George Miller has been directing pulse-pounding action sequences for almost 50 years. It started in the late 1970s with his first film, Mad Max, and continued through the decades, reaching a whole new level of awesome in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Next week, he takes things to yet another new level with…

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May 16, 2024

Yes, That Morph Moment in X-Men '97's Finale Meant Exactly What You Thought It Did
This week's season finale of X-Men ‘97 brought an emotional, explosive climax to mutantkind's battle against Bastion and the Prime Sentinels—and the X-Men love nothing more for their soap operatic drama than a big emotional twist while everything's going bonkers. The finale delivered on that front... although as with…

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May 16, 2024

Samsung Disses Apple Over iPad Commercial Fiasco
Every now and then a corporation is at least a bit funny when going about their late-stage capitalism. For instance, Samsung has released an absolutely perfect diss-ad response to Apple's recent crushing PR disaster.

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May 16, 2024

Samsung Mocks Apple Over iPad Commercial Fiasco
Every now and then a corporation is at least a bit funny when going about their late-stage capitalism. For instance, Samsung has released an absolutely perfect diss-ad response to Apple's recent crushing PR disaster.

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May 16, 2024

Europa's Icy Crust Is 'Free-Floating' Across the Moon's Hidden Ocean, New Juno Images Suggest
On September 29, 2022, NASA's Juno spacecraft made its closest flyby of Europa, coming to within 220 miles (355 kilometers) of the Jovian moon's frozen surface. The closeup view of Europa revealed incredible details of the moon's chaotic terrain, which suggest that its icy crust is not where it used to be. The images…

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May 16, 2024

Exercise Changes the Way Our Bodies Handle Saturated Fat, Study Finds
Scientists in the U.K. seem to have unearthed yet another benefit of exercise: It could make our bodies better at using up certain kinds of fat. In a new study out this week, researchers found that endurance athletes were much better at burning off saturated fat compared to sedentary people with type 2 diabetes—a…

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May 16, 2024

Autopsy Confirms 14-Year-Old Died From Spicy Chip Challenge
When 14-year-old Harris Wolobah of Massachusetts died last fall, the boy's family suspected it could be related to a viral spicy potato chip he ate just a few hours earlier. Wolobah's family was correct, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press.

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May 16, 2024

Google Rolls out New Accessibility Feature That Lets You Talk by Staring At Emojis
Sure, Google I/O was one massive AI-palooza focused mostly on Gemini. But for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, there are a few more AI-enhanced vision features coming to some accessibility features coming to the Look to Speak app that will let users talk by staring at pictures, symbols, and-yes-even emojis, which…

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May 16, 2024

Star Trek: Discovery Took the Best Episode of Its Season and Gave Us a Much Less Interesting Version of It
Since it aired a few weeks ago, I keep touching on what still remains the standout episode of Discovery's final season so far: "Face the Strange," an incredible hour of television that used a format the series excels at to reflect on how far its central character and the series itself has come. This week, the show…

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May 16, 2024

Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branch of the Nile River
Thirty-one different Egyptian pyramids appear to have been built along a branch of the Nile River that dried up millennia ago, according to new research published today in Communications Earth & Environment.

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May 16, 2024

This Xbox Accessibility Controller Made of ‘Power Cubes' Will Cost You a Pretty Penny
Want a controller that looks like a box? How about one shaped like a worm? The Proteus controller, which just went up for preorder Wednesday, is made up of interconnected dice that can do both with one of the most interesting and modular accessibility controllers we've seen so far. And yet, as adaptable as it is, it's…

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May 16, 2024

Ultraman Rising's New Trailer Makes Parenting and Fighting Monsters Equally Challenging
We've known for a while that the big twist with Netflix's Ultraman movie—beyond its sumptuous looking animated style—was that it was less of a traditional Ultra action epic, and more about its young inheritor of the heroic mantle finding himself thrust into an even greater challenge that fighting monsters: being a dad.…

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May 16, 2024

Ancient Black Hole Collision Spotted, Occurred Shortly After the Big Bang
The cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which occurred when the universe was just 740 million years old. It's the first time astronomers have seen a merger so early in the universe's history, making it a record breaker.

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May 16, 2024

21 Men Are Trapped Without Their Phones on Ship Involved in Baltimore's Bridge Collapse
It's been roughly seven weeks since Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, but nearly two dozen sailors remain on the cargo ship responsible for the disaster. The Dali was finally unstuck on Monday from a giant piece of bridge that fell on the ship's bow. However, the BBC reports that 21 Indian and Sri Lankan…

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May 16, 2024

Marvel's Fantastic Four Movie Just Keeps Expanding Its Mysterious Cast
Andy Samberg is heading to Amazon for a new sci-fi comedy. The Mortal Kombat sequel has a new release date. Plus, get a look at what's to come on today's Star Trek: Discovery. To me, my spoilers!

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May 16, 2024

Evil Is Back to Remind Us That Horror TV Can Be Smart, Clever, and Dripping With Doom
It's time to crack open a canned margarita and whip up some candy salad: Evil is back for its fourth and final season. All signs have been pointing to an impending doomsday since early in the show's first season—and really, there's no other horror show we'd rather be watching as that happens.

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May 16, 2024

France Bans TikTok in Island Territory After Pro-Independence Protests Turn Violent
France declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in its territory of New Caledonia following protests against changes to the election laws that turned violent and have left four people dead. The emergency declaration will allow police to severely restrict civil rights in a number of ways, including a ban on public…

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May 16, 2024

The OnlyFans Model Who Ruined the Portal Previously Went Viral for Licking a Toilet
In a turn of events that should shock no one, it turns out that the OnlyFans model who recently went viral for flashing the New York City "portal" has a habit of doing outlandish things to get attention.

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May 16, 2024

How ‘Kitty Cats' Are Wrecking the Home Insurance Industry
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May 15, 2024

Oreo's Special Edition Star Wars Cookies Are Here to Feed Your Inner Wookiee
Oreo has dropped a collaboration with Lucasfilm featuring special edition Star Wars sandwich cookies. Fans will be able to buy packs of the classic treat representing either the light side or dark side of the Force.

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May 15, 2024

Donnie Yen Is Getting the Next John Wick Spinoff Film
Donnie Yen's character Caine was at the center of John Wick: Chapter 4's end credit scene and now we know that's exactly where the franchise will continue.

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May 15, 2024

Sonequa Martin-Green Looks Back on Her Gory Walking Dead Fate
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May 15, 2024

Lord of the Rings Team Teases Plot and Characters for The Hunt for Gollum
When news broke that Warner Bros. was making a new Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum, directed by Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, and produced by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh, we instantly wanted someone to pick their brains about it. Why come back? Why this story? Who will return? Now, someone has.

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May 15, 2024

3 Body Problem Has Been Renewed at Netflix
We're officially going to get some answers to the burning questions we had after watching Netflix's 3 Body Problem: the streamer is bringing back the sci-fi series—which explores what happens as humanity prepares for a slow-moving but inevitably arriving alien invasion—for more.

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May 15, 2024

Bird Flu Has Made It to the Big Apple
Avian influenza has come for New York City's birds. In a new study Wednesday, scientists report traces of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a small number of NYC's wild bird population. Though this discovery may not be directly related to the ongoing outbreaks of H5N1 in U.S. dairy cattle, it's another sign that these viruses…

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May 15, 2024

Stunning 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows a Brittle Star Cloning Itself
To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you'd expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the brittle star was cloning itself, regenerating three of its arms as it died.

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May 15, 2024

Twin Probes Suffer Thruster Glitch on the Way to Mercury
For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have been traveling through the solar system to reach the innermost planet Mercury and observe its extreme conditions. During its complex journey, the BepiColombo mission ran into a problem that's preventing its thrusters from operating at full power, potentially…

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May 15, 2024

Furiosa Is Every Bit the Mad Max Masterpiece You're Hoping For
If you think of Mad Max: Fury Road as The Hobbit, Furiosa is its Lord of the Rings. They're two stories set in the same world, with the same characters, taking place at different periods of time. One is a little more singular and focused while the other is larger and more expansive. They're two stories that stand…

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May 15, 2024

The Acolyte's Lee Jung-jae Could Be the Coolest Jedi Ever
The next live-action Star Wars series, The Acolyte, arrives in less than a month—and a new video released today shares fresh footage from the much-anticipated show, with a focus on key character Master Sol, played by Emmy-winning Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae.

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May 15, 2024

Drug Overdose Deaths in America Have Finally Stopped Climbing
For the first time in a long while, America's drug overdose crisis has not gotten worse. New preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that total overdose deaths took a slight dip in 2023, including deaths tied to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Deaths tied to certain other…

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May 15, 2024

On X-Men '97, the Road to Xavier's Dream Is Paved With Good Intentions
And so, X-Men ‘97's largely successful first season has come to an end. What does it have to say about the state of mutantdom in the face of the overwhelming threat our heroes have thrown down against these past three episodes in Bastion? Honestly, not all that much. But it does have a lot to say about Charles Xavier,…

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May 15, 2024

John Krasinski's IF Is an Absolute Disaster
In a world of cinematic universes, it makes no sense that IF exists. You may think we mean that becauseIF is an original, big-budget Hollywood release, the likes of which we don't see much anymore. But that's not it at all. What we mean is in a sea of films that are beholden to strict rules of canon and storytelling, …

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May 15, 2024

150-Million-Year-Old Brittle Star Fossilized in the Middle of Cloning Itself
To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you'd expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the brittle star was cloning itself, regenerating three of its arms as it died.

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May 15, 2024

Everything Announced at Google I/O: Gemini Takes Over
You only need two letters to describe best the latest iteration of Google's big yearly developer shebang: AI. That's right; Google I/O has touched on a slew of new features coming to the Mountainview company's software ecosystem, specifically what could be coming to the still-in-betaAndroid 15. A big chunk of these…

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May 15, 2024

Google I/O: Android 15's Second Public Beta Is Here, and It's Focused on Keeping Your Secrets
Google is rolling out Android 15's second public beta in tandem with the second day of the Google I/O developer conference. Google announced that many new features, fixes, and tweaks are coming to the operating system, including Private Space and Theft Detection Lock, which are designed to help protect your stuff. A…

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May 15, 2024

Looking Back at the Delightful, Unhinged Jar Jar Binks Merchandise of 1999
Star Wars and merchandise have been hand in hand since the very beginning. But there was still something unlike anything the galaxy had ever seen when, 25 years ago this coming weekend, The Phantom Menace launched: a brand new Star Wars saga, completely backed by an overwhelming, frequently insane merchandising push…

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May 15, 2024

Billionaire Real Estate Mogul Hopes to Turn TikTok Into His Utopian Internet Dream
Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is currently working on a bid to buy TikTok, according to reports from several reputable news outlets. And while it remains to be seen whether TikTok's parent company ByteDance will agree to a sale to anyone, McCourt's…

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May 15, 2024

Edible Gel Promises Hangover-Free Mornings
Just how far would you be willing to go to avoid the dreaded hangover? Researchers in Switzerland have developed an oral gel meant to prevent booze from breaking down into the toxic compounds most responsible for a hangover. In mice, it appeared to work as intended.

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May 15, 2024

The Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band Is Breaking Up
Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch's Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades. The New York Times reports that the arcade-pizzeria franchise will soon power down the bands at all but two of the chain's more than 400…

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May 15, 2024

Boeing Violated Agreement to Avoid Criminal Prosecution, Justice Department Says
Boeing may be subject to criminal prosecution after the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused it of violating the terms of a 2021 settlement agreement.

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May 15, 2024

Netflix's Terminator Anime Shares Its Dystopian First Look, Title, and Release Date
The most recent Terminator film—2019's Dark Fate—wasn't quite a return to blockbuster form. But the franchise James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off in 1984 (and were "back" with in 1991) is, much like its titular killer robots, never going to die. Today, we have our first look at Netflix's long-teased…

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May 15, 2024

Why ‘Multimodal AI' Is the Hottest Thing in Tech Right Now
OpenAI and Google showcased their latest and greatest AI technology this week. For the last two years, tech companies have raced to make AI models smarter, but now a new focus has emerged: make them multimodal. OpenAI and Google are zeroing in on AI that can seamlessly switch between its robotic mouth, eyes, and ears.

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May 15, 2024

Wicked's New Trailer Soars Way Beyond Our Dreams of Oz
The first full trailer for Universal Pictures' Wicked is finally here and is bursting with the star power of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. It also offers a fresh glimpse at Oz through the story of two friends: Elphaba (Ervivo), a powerful green-skinned outcast, and the popular, fairy-like Galinda (Grande). They're…

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May 15, 2024

Scientist Trap Sunlight to Reach Temps of Nearly 2,000 Degrees Fahrenheit
Engineers are cooking up a new clean energy solution: charging up crystals with solar energy to temperatures of 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius), potentially making them a greener substitute for the carbon-intensive processes that smelt steel and cook cement.

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May 15, 2024

Apple Adds Tons of New Accessibility Features Like Eye Tracking to iPhones and iPads
Today, Apple announced a host of new accessibility features, such as eye tracking and vocal shortcuts, that should arrive on iPhones, iPads, and Apple Vision Pros later this year.

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May 15, 2024

Apple Adds Tons of New Accessibility Features to iPhones and iPads
Today, Apple announced a host of new accessibility features, such as eye tracking and vocal shortcuts, that should arrive on iPhones, iPads, and Apple Vision Pros later this year.

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May 15, 2024

Dune: Prophecy's Haunting First Trailer Plays God With the Universe
It was only just recently that we started hearing about Warner Bros.' plans for Dune: Prophecy, the mysterious streaming series prequel inspired by the events of Sisterhood of Dune, again. But out of nowhere, we've just got a thunderous first look at its take on Dune's world.

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May 15, 2024

Josh Brolin's Outer Range Returns for a Hole Lot More Western Weirdness
Outer Range's first season was a wild ride—a sci-fi Western about a rancher whose land contains a mysterious hole made of time itself. The Prime Video series returns with plenty of fresh weirdness, but it feels sharper—as star Josh Brolin promised—with a plot that's less meandering this time around.

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May 15, 2024

Cerebral Valley Hackers Build $20 Open Source Smart Glasses
What started as a 36-hour hackathon project last weekend could empower the open-source community to upend the smart glasses industry. Five team members built a $20 pair of smart glasses, dubbed Open Glass, that connects what you see and hear to an AI chatbot, such as Meta's Llama 3.

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May 15, 2024

Google I/O: Hands-on With Project Astra, the AI Assistant of the Future
As usual, Google I/O 2024 is an absolute whirlwind of news and announcements. This year, rather than focusing on hardware, Android, or Chrome, Google spent most of this year's developers' conference convincing us that its AI features are worth prioritizing. One of those projects is Project Astra, a multimodal AI…

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May 15, 2024

Steven Moffat Has Already Written Another Episode for Doctor Who's New Era
Paul Walter Hauser teases his mystery Fantastic Four character. Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Tomb Raider series is a go at Amazon. Plus, what's coming in Evil's final season. To me, my spoilers!

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May 15, 2024

Livestream Portal Between NYC and Dublin Shut Down Because We Can't Have Nice Things
A 24/7 livestream "Portal" that connects New York City and the Irish capital of Dublin was temporarily deactivated on Tuesday as technicians sought to solve a critical flaw in the project's fun premise: How to stop so many people from sharing inappropriate material—like dick pics, videos of 9/11, or boobs.

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May 14, 2024

Ilya Sutskever Quits OpenAI
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist, announced he was leaving the company on Tuesday. OpenAI confirmed the departure in a press release. Sutskever's official exit comes nearly six months after he helped lead an effort with other board members to fire CEO Sam Altman, the move backfired days later.

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May 14, 2024

DC's Supergirl Movie Arrives Summer 2026
DC and its Kryptonians are now set to rule over two summers in a row. James Gunn's Superman is currently filming aimed at a July 11, 2025 release, and it'll now be joined the following year when Supergirl: World of Tomorrow comes to theaters June 26, 2026.

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May 14, 2024

Conspiracy Nuts Are Spreading a Bizarre Theory About Those Epic Auroras
Conspiracy theorists on social media have been busy at work peddling their latest conclusion: The magnificent auroras seen over swaths of four different continents over the weekend were caused by a University of Alaska program that studies the ionosphere. Which, of course, is pure nonsense.

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May 14, 2024

Marvel's Agatha Harkness Show Gets Its Actual, Obvious Title
Agatha All Along was, of course, Agatha all along. Tuesday, Marvel Studios finally finished its multi-year magic trick, changing the title of the upcoming Agatha Harkness show every few months, and landed on its official title. And it's the one we expected all along: Agatha All Along. The show will debut with a…

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May 14, 2024

How to Ride Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World This Summer
Disney Parks has revealed the opening date for its highly anticipated Tiana's Bayou Adventure attraction based on the world of Disney Animation's The Princess and the Frog. Starting June 28, visitors to Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL can finally ride the water flume boats on a new adventure that will take you "down…

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May 14, 2024

Google I/O: 'Ask Photos' Will Make it Easier to Dig Through Your Google Photos
Google's latest I/O conference was an absolute slurry of AI promises. The company took so many stabs with new AI models, showing off new AI capabilities that integrate Gemini into every single Google product or service under the sun. But take enough shots, and the law of averages says at least one will hit the mark.…

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May 14, 2024

Google I/O: Project Astra Does What the Rabbit R1 Doesn't
Just yesterday, I was talking about how Apple's new AI-powered transcription and summarization feature for voice memos on iPhone is one of the features Rabbit promised on the R1 for later this year, and that gives us one less reason to buy the device.

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May 14, 2024

Raw Milk Sales Skyrocket as Idiots Believe Drinking Bird Flu Will Give Them 'Immunity'
Sales of raw milk in the U.S. have risen 21% since bird flu was first confirmed in dairy cattle in late March, according to a report from PBS Newshour, citing new data from research firm NielsenIQ. Why on Earth would people drink raw milk at a time when pasteurization has been shown to kill the virus? Because some…

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Gizmodo
May 14, 2024

Everything Announced at Google I/O So Far: Gemini Takes its Throne on Android and Everywhere Else
You only need two letters to describe best the latest iteration of Google's big yearly developer shebang: AI. That's right; Google I/O has touched on a slew of new features coming to the Mountainview company's software ecosystem, specifically what could be coming to the still-in-betaAndroid 15. A big chunk of these…

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May 14, 2024

What Drives Director George Miller to Storytelling?
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May 14, 2024

GameStop Short Sellers Just Lost $2 Billion Amid Meme Stock Rally
The meme stock rally triggered by the return of "Roaring Kitty" to social media has cost GameStop stock short-sellers more than $2 billion in just two days, according to data firm S3 Partners.

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