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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/90ace1d0d28a70d754ad5f2b0ffa1a06.jpgStar Trek likes to imagine itself as a franchise that is largely above conflict (https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-discovery-spoilers-burnham-vs-burnham-fight-1851422141), but it is defined by it (https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-worst-defeats-in-starfleet-history-paramount-1851164275): and how its most idealized heroes in Starfleet and the Federation react to, and become shaped by it. While Trek’s history is littered with devastating battles (https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-wolf-359-explained-tng-ds9-borg-picard-sisko-1851178204), few conflicts hold a mirror to Star Trek quite like…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/0fa11038eb2b0abdbca123c27fdc2f3f.jpg This guide was updated on April 19, 2024, to add the Belkin BoostCharge 10K and Belkin Magnetic Wireless 5K.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/bbede7bae559fd25f8eced7a77c623b4.jpg This guide was updated on April 19, 2024, to reflect the latest “real-life” leaks of the Pixel 9 and upcoming satellite connectivity available on Android.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/6702c38054cd6f3906a77457b62ace30.jpgAn iconic horror duo makes its debut in Abigail (https://gizmodo.com/abigail-horror-vampire-review-radio-silence-dan-stevens-1851419820) with Alisha Weir’s vampire ballerina and Melissa Barrera (https://gizmodo.com/melissa-barrera-scream-7-firing-neve-campbell-horror-1851371773)’s would-be kidnapper Joey. The Radio Silence film introduces a friends-to-enemies relationship you root for between Barrera—one of this generation’s best final girls, having left an indelible mark on the Scream franchi… (https://gizmodo.com/scream-6-movie-review-jenna-ortega-ghostface-horror-fil-1850193641)
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/1f4b30d8a36b9155fa41f0126dea7bb0.jpgTypically, when a person isn’t performing well at their job, they get put under review or get a stern talking to. Well, unless you’re a top executive, that is. Then you might get a 25 percent raise, as the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery just did.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/805add0dfeabc4814aef80f3f84d8f4f.jpgA breakout anime’s (https://gizmodo.com/chainsaw-man-new-trailer-anime-tatsuki-fujimoto-1849376158) first movie often falls into one of two categories. Either it’s a showcase of the source material that feels like a stretched-out arc of the anime itself, or it attempts to fill in some backstory and set up some dominoes (https://gizmodo.com/jujutsu-kaisen-0-film-review-1848649784) for the season to come. In the case of the former, the question of whether it’s…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/0cefe8e09adcfbffb02494bbb978bcea.jpgApple (https://gizmodo.com/tech/apple) removed several U.S.-based messaging apps from its App Store in China, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Threads, according to the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/19/apple-whatsapp-threads-china/) Friday. Officially, the apps were already banned in China but could still be accessed by users with a VPN.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/411e6b2b4c6f09c1ff5850f83a988c5e.jpgYou don’t make a movie as sumptuous and engrossing as Dune: Part Two and not think of every little detail (https://gizmodo.com/how-make-sandworm-scenes-in-dune-2-denis-villeneuve-wb-1851345846). How the planets move, who all the people are, how people get off the sandworm (https://gizmodo.com/dune-2-sandworm-dismount-denis-villeneuve-messiah-wb-1851306314). In preparing and making both Dune films, Denis Villeneuve thought of everything (https://gizmodo.com/denis-villeneuve-interview-dune-part-2-sandworms-lego-1851288462). And, to illustrate that, in a new interview he…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/b9d9df8d9fa73881bfba28a97a1920d9.jpgAs the year 2000 approached, pop culture channelled its millennial unease into science fiction. While 1999 did see some standout horror (The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project (https://gizmodo.com/blair-witch-project-25th-anniversary-1999-horror-trends-1851138052)) and fantasy (Toy Story 2, The Mummy (https://gizmodo.com/if-you-have-to-watch-a-mummy-movie-this-weekend-make-i-1795964092)) releases, one genre reigned supreme—and it involved aliens, time-travelers, virtual realities, robots,…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/cacc660e76435ac5359d135ad799d3a8.jpgIt’s been a wild and wacky last few weeks in space, not to mention awe-inspiring, as a spectacular total solar eclipse (https://gizmodo.com/photos-the-great-north-american-solar-eclipse-1851395950) graced the skies across North America. We also said goodbye to a trusty old rocket, while saying hello to what might finally be the first crewed mission of Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner spacecraft.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/f909b18be78356f601bc4c7e0d6c4eec.pngThis week’s excellent episode (https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-discovery-recap-season-5-episode-4-burnham-1851417726) of Star Trek: Discovery (https://paramountplus.qflm.net/c/379647/175360/3065?subId1=GO-&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2Fshows%2Fstar-trek-discovery%2F%3FsearchReferral%3Ddesktop-web%26source%3Dgoogle-organic%26ftag%3DPPM-23-10bfh8c), “Face the Strange”, let the series take a moment to reflect on the four seasons that came before it in a wonderful meld of a classic Star Trek storytelling (https://gizmodo.com/alex-kurtzman-star-trek-short-seasons-filler-episodes-1851416497) device and metatextual commentary. But in preparing to do so, its star found it much more challenging than…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/0ddbd47a359dbefbb14c16d0ffe99a95.jpgThis article originally appeared on Quartz (https://qz.com/bitcoin-bitcoin-halving-cryptocurrency-1851421828).
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/5b3782d631eecc11498fafcf685f61c3.jpgThe U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill (https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-bytedance-ban-real-shot-becoming-law-this-week-1851425798#replies)on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18 (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/roll-call-vote-not-available.htm). The bill, which bans TikTok (https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-bill-passes-in-the-house-1851330061) unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner, flew through Congress this week as part of a broader package to provide $90 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. President Joe Biden said in a statement (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/23/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-senate-passage-of-the-national-security-package/)…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/21fa3864062d620c275e8592a81c34d7.jpgIt’s not only food CEOs (https://qz.com/ozempic-wegovy-weight-loss-drugs-novo-nordisk-food-1851238272) who need to worry about their bottom lines thanks to in-demand weight loss drugs like Ozempic. Big Tobacco and Alcohol have reason to fret, too.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/d23be26639aa1bf523db94826a129e49.jpgBioluminescence, the eerie, beautiful phenomena that allows living things to glow, is way more ancient than previously thought, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the ability in octocorals.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/4ad1041a35998e9f750a05e6c93aff15.jpgAfter a fourth-month wait, Netflix viewers turned up by the tens of millions to see how Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon saga finished (https://gizmodo.com/zack-snyder-rebel-moon-2-interview-netflix-scargiver-1851411654), but the number didn’t quite hit that of the first film.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/5cef4018639f092c968a8718b40edb62.jpgAt over 13 inches tall, Mondo (https://gizmodo.com/mondo-x-men-animated-series-rogue-figure-evolution-head-1851270650)’s take on Bane (https://gizmodo.com/christopher-nolan-explains-why-his-dark-knight-rises-vi-5867899) as he appears in Batman: The Animated Series (https://gizmodo.com/even-the-perfect-batman-cartoon-was-bullshit-once-in-a-1845589110) will lend plenty of charismatic villainy to your toy shelf. He comes with swappable facial expressions and hands, with options increased if you go for the deluxe version.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/a656a5ee1f4b6250923572564e240679.jpgNon-compete clauses are a thing of the past thanks to a new ruling from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/c7ff5ab3368ccba3ac891b3477b4fcfe.pngWe’ve all been there before. You unbox your shiny new PC (https://gizmodo.com/best-gaming-budget-work-laptop-macbook-razer-dell-hp-1849814722), everything preinstalled, and you’re so excited you’re practically molting in your chair in anticipation for it to boot up. You’re so engrossed that you forget there’s a 10-ton gorilla lying in wait just around the corner. It’s Windows 11, a mammoth operating…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/c23da56d76fb237928964c5240a0546f.jpgAxon, the public safety contractor that popularized the Taser (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/axon-taser-exposures/), has launched a new product that is less actively terrifying but still vaguely concerning: an AI-powered software program that lets cops automate their police reports.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/448c7b656131b7030a63959409055933.jpgWith Fallout (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN4HV16N?asc_campaign=kinjalink-20&asc_refurl=https://gizmodo.com/westworld-hbo-props-costumes-auction-dolores-blue-dress-1851427645&asc_source=&tag=kinjalink-20)’s success and season-two renewal (https://gizmodo.com/fallout-season-2-renewed-prime-video-bethesda-new-vegas-1851420918), it’s been seeming ever more unlikely that Jonathan Nolan (https://gizmodo.com/westworld-season-5-jonathan-nolan-hopes-fallout-amazon-1851386003) and Lisa Joy (https://gizmodo.com/westworld-season-5-final-season-lisa-joy-dolores-man-bl-1849414483) would get a chance to revisit their previous sci-fi series, Westworld—cancelled by HBO (https://gizmodo.com/westworld-has-been-canceled-by-hbo-warner-bros-1849745181) after four seasons, despite talk about how season five (https://gizmodo.com/westworld-cancellation-season-5-pay-1849746601) had already been plotted out. Well, here’s another nail in…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/678e0741e8452357e28cfd518a1b6d74.jpgElon Musk (https://gizmodo.com/best-moments-from-elon-musks-deposition-1851397959) is currently battling government officials in Australia who are trying to force X to remove a video of a man being stabbed last week (https://apnews.com/article/church-stabbing-sydney-australian-assyrian-orthodox-d0930e270b8059b3a1d9d3cba7e1d407). An Australian court has ordered the video removed globally rather than just having it geo-blocked in Australia. And while Gizmodo has been extremely critical of Musk’s poor…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/mxotnraoarr73jfcm8ae.jpgIt’s not like you didn’t already have a dozen Chromecasts floating around your house. What is one more? A new Google TV dongle, potentially packed with upgraded features, is on the horizon. Hopefully, this will be a significant update to the current four-year-old favorite. But the current pricepoint that’s rumored…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/4eddaa24044d85ddcf2e8caddd126575.jpgThe deodorant of the future might be possible thanks to viruses that hunt down stink-making bacteria. Scientists in Japan believe they’ve discovered a chemical weapon sourced from bacteriophages that can target a species of bacteria known for contributing to body odor emitted by our armpits.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/f7c05d59db9b03a658d127581600aa84.jpgHouse of the Dragon returns in June (https://gizmodo.com/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-trailer-release-date-hbo-1851353427), and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight—aka “Dunk and Egg (https://gizmodo.com/game-of-thrones-prequel-casts-dunk-egg-george-rr-martin-1851391280)”—is moving full speed ahead. But despite the hunger for Game of Thrones projects, HBO is still being selective about its spin-offs. Among the shows left in the lurch: that Naomi Watts-starring prequel (https://gizmodo.com/hbo-spent-30-million-on-a-game-of-thrones-prequel-well-1848146717), the Jon… (https://gizmodo.com/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-spinoff-killed-kit-harington-1851398175)
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/940eb6c717999c3184f4f48c7110f83f.jpgMany of us have moved on from the Vision Pro (https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-already-forgotten-about-1851426564) less than three months after its buzzy launch, but Apple (https://gizmodo.com/tech/apple) can not. The company slashed its 2024 sales expectations for the Vision Pro to nearly half what the market expected for this year, according to a new report (https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/apple-cuts-2024-2025-vision-pro-shipment-forecasts-unfavorable-to-mr-headset-pancake-and-micro-38796834f930) from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Tuesday. As initial hype fades,…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/c77114fd1174365eda8719f5cb27c4f5.jpgThe best trailers are the ones that tell you absolutely nothing and that’s exactly what you get with the first trailer for Blink Twice. Directed by Zoë Kravitz (https://gizmodo.com/zoe-kravitz-will-play-catwoman-in-matt-reeves-batman-mo-1839039270) and starring a who’s who of awesome actors, it’s some kind of murder mystery cult thing that’s either supernatural or just weird rich white people stuff. It’s…
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The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on its back. Yes, the Thermonator, which was announced late last year (https://gizmodo.com/thermonator-robot-dog-flamethrower-pre-order-1850564789), is finally available for purchase in the United States. Shockingly, the product can be yours for a mere…
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