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Forget the Metaverse, Zuck Says WhatsApp Could Be the Real Money Machine
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Latest MoMA Exhibit Is an AI-Generated Swirling Hallucination of Other Museum Art
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As it often happens with AI-generated art, there’s confusion surrounding whether attribution should be handed to the person who generated the AI’s prompt, the AI itself, the AI’s creators, or the artwork the machine learning model “borrowed” from. In the case of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition on display…
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Just 42% of Religious Americans Pray for the Environment
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special May Include a Major MCU Reveal
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Monster High will return. Get a glimpse of what’s coming on the finales of Chucky and Stargirl, and what’s next on Kung Fu and The Winchesters. Plus, more details about the return of Rick and Morty. To me, my spoilers!

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The 140 Funniest Tweets of All Time
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter employees left the company in droves Thursday, choosing to take a severance rather than stick around for whatever Elon Musk has in store. And that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] left many Twitter users to assume the site will eventually just stop working. In that apocalyptic spirit, Twitter users were remembering all the things…
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Missing Employees, a Billion-Dollar Loan, and Emoji Payments: The 9 Most Batshit Revelations From FTX's Bankruptcy Filing
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Once upon a time, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was a jewel of the web3 world. Now, in the span of a week, its reputation has gone from shooting star to sinking ship. After admitting to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] large amounts of customer money, the exchange’s founder and CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (also known by his initials “SBF”)…
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Watch This Horror Short in the Darkest Room Possible
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Hollywood Is Trying to Remake Escape From New York Again
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Make Way for the Baby as Grogu and Mando Take Over Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It was only a matter of time before [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Starting this week, The Mandalorian heroes Din Djarin and Grogu will be appearing in Batuu’s Black Spire Outpost at Disneyland.
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The Walking Dead Has Finally Died
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10 Antivax Lies to Watch Out for This Holiday
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For many people, family gatherings at the holidays mean suffering through painful conversations with antivax relatives. While there may be little sense in trying to change anyone’s mind, here are some common antivax talking points about the covid-19 vaccines to be aware of.
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FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried's Parents Reportedly Bought Millions of Dollars Worth of Bahamas Property
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the former CEO and founder of FTX, has been having a rough couple of weeks. With his reputation on the line amidst the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a new report indicates that FTX and Bankman-Fried’s own parents purchased a collective 19 properties in the Bahamas over the past…
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Bliss Out to This View of NASA's SLS Launching in Super-Slow Motion
NASA has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a stunning slow motion video showing its new Space Launch System rocket blasting off from Kennedy Space Center last week.

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Behind the Choice of the New Black Panther
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Elon Musk Delays $8 Blue Check Twitter Verification Again, This Time Indefinitely
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Another day, another bit of news broadcast from Elon Musk’s Twitter account. The social platform’s owner and CEO posted that, once again, he would be delaying the final rollout of his paid verification system on the site.

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More Details About Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Mysterious Indiana Jones 5 Character
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania teases Kang’s arrival. Filming has wrapped on Star Trek: Discovery season 5. New M3GAN footage turns up the pressure. Plus, what’s coming on Chainsaw Man this week, and a new look at The Walking Dead: Dead City. Spoilers, away!

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Hundreds of Arizona Households Set to Be Without Water by End of Year
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]More than 500 households in the rural Arizona desert are set to be without running water starting January, 1 2023, as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by NBC News. The homes, located in Rio Verde Foothills—an affluent, unincorporated community in the state’s Maricopa County, were built without complying to Arizona’s usual [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Meta's 'Cicero' AI Trounced Humans at Diplomacy Without Revealing Its True Identity
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ever since IBM’s Deep Blue artificial intelligence system [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] world chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game in 1997, humanity has watched, haplessly, year after year as our code based underlings vanquish us in ever more [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. There’s a catch though. While AI bots increasingly excel at trumping…
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The Xbox 360 Controller is Back, and Now it Natively Works With Modern Consoles
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You never forget your first game console, but like the bond between a newborn and parent, the bond between a gamer and their first controller is even stronger, forging muscle memories that will last a lifetime. And if your first console happened to be the Xbox 360, you might be thrilled to learn that Hyperkin is…
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Why Do We Love the Music We Love?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’ve ever made a playlist—for yourself or someone else—you’ve done the delicate dance of music curation. By what logic did you order the songs? What nearly made it on, but got left out, and why?

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An iCloud Feature Is Enabling a $65 Million Scam, New Research Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As you read this, there’s an army of bots pretending to be Apple users surfing the web and looking at ads, according to new research shared exclusively with Gizmodo. The ad fraud scheme is weaponizing a privacy feature called Private Relay, coopting a vast swath of traffic to show ads to robots and costing…
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Bitcoin Price Slides to Two-Year Low as Fears Persist Over FTX Contagion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The price of Bitcoin slid to just $15,680 on Tuesday morning, the lowest level in over two years for the cryptocurrency. And most people expect the price to continue to fall substantially as traders worry the fallout from the implosion of FTX, once the second largest crypto platform in the world, could have more…
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Avatar: The Way of Water's Latest Trailer Is Pure James Cameron
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In James Cameron’s career to this point, he’s made exactly three sequels. One, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], was his first film. It gets a pass. The other two, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], are inarguably two of the best sequels ever made. That’s why, with only a few short weeks to Cameron’s next film—another sequel—you’d be…
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Star Wars: The High Republic - Convergence Audiobook Excerpt
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Supreme Court to Take on Jack Daniel's Dispute Against Parody Dog Toy Maker
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Whiskey conglomerate Jack Daniel’s Property, Inc has filed a dispute against the dog toy maker VIP Products LLC for making a toy parody of its signature whiskey bottle. The company has even successfully pushed the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their dispute, which they agreed to on Monday.
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Here's the (Mostly) Blue People You'll Have to Distinguish Between in Avatar: The Way of Water
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]is almost here and it’s gonna be big. Big action, big effects, big running time. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], James Cameron’s latest mega sequel picks up years after the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Jake and Neytiri (Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana) are married, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and have to face a whole…
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Two of America's Largest Rail Unions Are Split on Tentative Agreement
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amidst ongoing tension between [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and the Department of Labor, a strike may be looming at the end of the tunnel. In a split decision, two rail unions have made two polar opposite agreements over White House-brokered bargaining agreements.
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Texas Just Had Its Biggest Earthquake in Decades, and Fracking Is a Prime Suspect
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Railroad Commission Texas, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, is investigating a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that rocked communities in West Texas last Wednesday, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a drilling technique common in the area that is known to cause earthquakes.

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Blade Finds New Blood With Lovecraft Country Director Yann Demange
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Disney and Marvel Studios’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has found a new director in Yann Demange, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Demange previously worked on the fan-favorite supernatural horror television darling [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for HBO and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Japan’s tiny lunar lander never got to touch down on the Moon, as it failed to communicate with ground controllers shortly after launching aboard NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The spacecraft was one of 10 cubesats that participated in the Artemis 1 launch, which endured several delays that may have affected…
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How to Set Screen Time Limits on Your Phone or Laptop To Keep Yourself Focused
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As our devices continue to get more and more distracting, they are also adding more and more tools to try to manage this distraction—so that, you know, you can actually get some work done or actually communicate in real life with other people in the same room as you. Besides all the third-party options, there are now…
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Golden State Warriors Face Class Acton Lawsuit Over Partnership With Doomed FTX
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Golden State Warriors are the latest business to find themselves on the receiving end of class action lawsuits alleging them of misleading FTX customers about the safety and reliability of the flailing cryptocurrency platform. The suit, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Reuters, comes on the heels of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] class action suit…
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Sam Bankman-Fried Deepfake Video Attempts to Scam the Scammed
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A deepfake video posted to Twitter over the weekend shows the face and approximate voice of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried—offering assurance in the form of a crypto giveaway (i.e. a phishing scam).
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COP27 Was a Historic Compromise, and Not Nearly Enough
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Another UN climate change conference has come and gone, as thousands of international delegates ended two weeks of intense negotiations on Sunday morning in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt. Despite the historic conclusions in the final text from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the conference once again failed to commit the world to taking some of the…
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Pick Up and Play at Your Next Game Night With These 10 Accessible TTRPGs
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Beyond Meat’s Pennsylvania Plant Reportedly Had Mold and Bacteria Problems
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you had to read Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle in high school, then you would know just how notorious the meat packing industry was back in the early 20th century. Unfortunately few paid a similar amount of attention to the plight of immigrant communities who worked in early meat packing plants. But as…
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Quecto, Ronna: Meet the Newest Metric Prefixes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You know kilo, centi, and milli, but how about ronto? Four new metric prefixes got the official stamp of approval last week at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures held at Versailles, the extravagant palace outside of Paris. The scientists who gathered there agreed on the need for new prefixes to…
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Choosing Marvel's New Black Panther and Who Awaits in the Ancestral Plane
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T. Rex Pulled From Auction After Skeleton Raised Questions
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Auction house Christie’s has pulled a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen from an upcoming roster after a paleontologist expressed concerns that some parts of the dinosaur might belong to another T. rex specimen.

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Will Ryan Coogler Finish the Black Panther Trilogy?
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Elon Musk Welcomes Ye's Return to Twitter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, is back on Twitter after owner Elon Musk reinstated his account on Sunday. Musk restored Ye’s Twitter account two weeks after it was locked for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that went against [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] policies.
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Get a Look Inside Star Wars: The High Republic Phase 2's First Adult Novel, Convergence
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Lucasfilm’s High Republic era is making some big moves—mostly ones backwards, as we leap away from the dramatic climax of the transmedia campaign’s first phase to a time [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And now, io9 has your look inside one of the next big steps of that sophomore chapter.

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Neuralink Co-Founder Unveils Rival Company That Won't Require Patients to Drill Holes in Their Skull
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk’s displayed willingness to quickly burn bridges with anyone who opposes him at his assortment of companies might be biting him in the ass. In the most recent case, Neuralink’s former president, who [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with the company last year, now has his own rival brain company with $160 million in total funding.…
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Next Exit Is About Being Vulnerable While Facing Death
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Space Rock Strike on Webb Telescope Was Just Bad Luck, NASA Team Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In late May, the Webb Space Telescope’s tranquil commissioning process was interrupted by an uncommonly large micrometeoroid strike on one of the $10 billion observatory’s mirrors. Now, a NASA-led analysis of the event indicates the impact was a statistical anomaly and the telescope will be less susceptible to space…
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Indiana Jones 5 Will Begin With Flashback Magic
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is in theaters next year, star Harrison Ford will be celebrating his 81st birthday. Not your typical age for the star of a big action-adventure film, and certainly not an age you’d expect to see a person running and jumping around like they’re 40. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the filmmakers found a…
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Orion Completes First Lunar Flyby and Captures Stark Image of the Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Artemis 1 mission continues to unfold as planned, with the uncrewed Orion capsule successfully performing a critical course correction maneuver Monday morning. NASA’s capsule came to within 80 miles of the lunar surface during the flyby, in what will be Orion’s closest approach.

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Qatar Claims the 2022 FIFA World Cup Is Carbon Neutral. It’s Not.
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I Have No Idea What's Happening in the First Gridman/Dynazenon Crossover Movie Trailer, But I Love It
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What are two great tastes that go great together? Well, firstly, the team-up between anime icons Studio Trigger and Tsuburaya, the Tokustatsu company behind [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: Gridman. The second? Taking two excellent anime collaborations between those companies and mashing them into one big movie.

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International Time Keepers Scrap The Leap Second
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The final countdown has begun for leap seconds. A global group of scientists and government officials voted ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) Friday to axe the small time adjustment method, in a change scheduled to take place by 2035.

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Apple Says Your iPhone's Usage Data is Anonymous, but New Tests Say That's Not True
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A new test of how Apple gathers usage data from iPhones has found that the company collects personally identifiable information while explicitly promising not to.

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Meta Is on the Prowl for 'Suspicious Adults' Messaging Teenagers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] says it is taking additional steps to help protect the youth on its platforms. Now, anyone under the age of 16 years old can enroll in new privacy settings that are meant to limit who can see their [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Likewise, Meta says it’s also testing the removal of the messaging button on teen’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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A Soil Fungus That Causes Lung Infections Is Spreading Across the U.S.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An illness-causing fungus known as histoplasma is in the soil of nearly all U.S. states, a new study suggests. The researchers behind the work say doctors may be relying on outdated risk maps and therefore missing diagnoses of the infections, which can sometimes be deadly.

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Marvel's Thunderbolts Movie Might Have Found Its Villain
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nicholas Hoult teases a Maximum Cage performance for Renfield’s Dracula. Disney+’s Percy Jackson finds itself some more gods. Daredevil: Born Again could feature another street-level hero. Plus, what’s coming on the next Rick and Morty. Spoilers now!

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Amazon Plans to Close Up Shop on Wickr’s User-Centric Encrypted Messaging App
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A little more than a year ago, Amazon, specifically Amazon Web Services, flashed its stacks of cash as it [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] it was buying up the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Wickr. AWS users could suddenly use Wickr’s services, and some reporters speculated Amazon could have been trying to make a move in the…
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Rings of Power's Answer to Lord of the Rings' Special Features Appendices Is Here
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]may have wrapped up its first spectacular season, but there’s still a lot more to explore in Middle-earth. Amazon has just released an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of its sweeping epic fantasy series—basically a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]that will pop up on screen to give you an inside look at some…
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Elon Musk Explains Why He's Never Letting Alex Jones Back on Twitter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk was asked Sunday whether he’s going to let conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back on Twitter. And it’s a reasonable question, considering all the other fringe people Musk has welcomed back on the bird app recently. But Musk had a very personal response, indicating that Alex Jones will never be allowed to return…
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Ahsoka Tano Fans Will Find Columbia's New Star Wars: The Clone Wars Winter Wear Hard to Resist
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11 Thanksgiving Lessons Bob's Burgers Taught Us
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“Uh-oh, somebody’s getting excited about Thanksgiving!” As [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] fans well know, Thanksgiving is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Given the care and creativity that goes into the long-running Fox series’ Thanksgiving-themed episodes, it’s safe to say [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are fond of it too—if only for all the, ah, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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You Can Run Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii and Turn it Into the Ultimate Gaming and Productivity Machine
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With over 100 million units sold since its debut in 2006, there’s no denying the popularity of the Wii, but two Nintendo consoles later, people are still finding [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the console. This hack focuses more on productivity than gaming, however, by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Is it Strange That Idiocracy Kinda Became a Documentary?
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How to Set Up Your Smart Home for the Holidays
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I don’t know about you, but I’m both ready for holiday cheer this year and am feeling a little too worn out by *gestures broadly at everything* to spend much time setting it up myself. Much of what I’ve figured out to relieve the strain involves gadgets I already have around the house, but during my search, I…
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Former Paralympic Athlete Selected as World's First Disabled Astronaut
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I Tried to Sleep in a Casket and All I Got Was This Story
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A couple of weeks ago G/O Media had a casket delivered to the office. We received a crimson red burial fixture from Titan Casket because my colleague, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], has made Taylor Swift a facet of his personality that can be mined for news, and this casket (in a different colorway) was featured in her Anti-Hero music…
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Here's How Tech Is Shaping the 2022 FIFA World Cup
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is the first of many things: the first World Cup held in the Winter, the first held in Gulf Arab state, and the first to use a whole suit of new tracking technologies vying to modernize soccer’s traditionalist culture. Like most incremental changes in sports, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Nanny Weaves a Powerful Folk-Horror Tale
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Senegalese [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Aisha ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’ Anna Diop) arrives in New York City willing to work hard to achieve her dreams—chief among them making enough money to reunite with her beloved son, who she had to leave behind. But as we see in Nikyatu Jusu’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], unexpected malevolence awaits in both…
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Lyft Says It Will Start Recycling E-Bike and Scooter Batteries
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Lyft plans to start recycling its e-bike and scooter batters through a newly announced partnership with Redwood Materials, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by The Verge. Lyft [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] municipal bike share programs—like New York City’s Citi Bike and San Francisco’s Bay Wheels—in addition to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in four…
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Amazon Reportedly Plans to Burn $1 Billion on Over a Dozen Theatrical Movies Every Year
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Armand Is the Reason to Re-Watch Interview With the Vampire's First Season
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Rian Johnson Wouldn't Mind If His Return to Star Wars Was For a TV Show
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Rian Johnson has a lot on his plate right now, from the launch of Knives Out sequel Glass Onion to his Peacock mystery series Poker Face. So much so, it’s the reason we’ve not [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] out of his plans for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Star Wars movies other than that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to keep doing them. But…
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U.S. Navy Forced to Pay Software Company for Piracy
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The U.S. Navy was found guilty of piracy and is ordered to pay a software company $154,400 for a lawsuit filed back in 2016. The company, Bitmanagement Software GmbH, filed a complaint against the Navy, accusing the military branch of copyright infringement.
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Bolsonaro Denies Brazil Election Results on the Basis of a Software 'Malfunction'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—noted [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], according to his own country’s Senate—filed a complaint on Tuesday contesting the results of the run-off [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] more than three weeks ago. In it, Bolsonaro’s lawyer Marcelo de Bessa claims that a “software bug” on 59% of the voting machines used across…
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Authorities in Western U.S. Agree to Rip-Up Grass Lawns for Water Conservation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A group of agencies that provide water to millions of customers in the western U.S. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]rip-up grass lawns in public spaces across multiple states as part of an effort to reduce water usage as the Colorado River continues to suffer from a major drought.

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Mercedes-Benz Wants You to Pay to Drive Faster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you gotta go fast, Mercedes-Benz says you gotta cough up some more dough. The German car manufacturer has unveiled a new feature called “Acceleration Increase,” which will increase your car’s ability to accelerate (get it?) but it’ll cost you $1,200 annually.

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Even the Andor Post-Credits Scene Was Perfectly Andor
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the final credits rolled on what has been [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], you almost didn’t want to see Andor do anything that might be considered derivative of modern blockbuster entertainment. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], no huge surprises, just good old-fashioned storytelling. But then something popped up at the end…
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Google's Accidentally Refunding Some Customers for Stadia Pro
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google started issuing refunds for games and in-game purchases [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and it’s been messy—look at some of the comments in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] 9to5Google article. Over on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], some folks have noticed receiving refunds from Google for Stadia Pro, even after the company said it wouldn’t issue them.

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Violent Night's David Harbour Talks Making Santa His Own
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Imagine [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]except John McClane is Santa Claus and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is a New England mansion. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a hugely entertaining R-rated holiday action film that hits theaters on December 2. In it, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] David Harbour plays Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick, who is feeling pretty dejected…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A cat’s attempt to score a free airplane ride was foiled at the last minute by TSA agents earlier this month. The fur-raising tale was publicized Tuesday on social media by the agency, complete with X-ray scans and photos of the cat stowing away in a piece of luggage belonging to its owner’s roommate. Thankfully, the…
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Doctor Who Celebrates Its 59th Anniversary With Hype for Its 60th
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Fifty-nine years ago today, families across the UK sat down to tune into “An Unearthly Child,” the beginning of an adventure across space and time decades in the making for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. We’ve come a long way since then, and gained [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] since we last celebrated, and the BBC really wants you to…
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Twitch is, Vaguely, Working to Fix its Child Predator and Groomer Problem
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitch has been hounded for months after a September report showed just how many sexual predators were stalking the streaming platform’s halls, targeting children that were not supposed to be there in the first place. Now the company says it’s developed systems to combat child sexual abuse material, though it’s not…
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New York Becomes First State to Temporarily Ban Some Crypto Mining
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a historic regulatory step, New York has become the first U.S. state to bar certain types of cryptocurrency mining. Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill on Tuesday that triggers an immediate moratorium on energy-intensive “proof-of-work” crypto mining powered by fossil fuels. For two years, no new permits for such…
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Andor's First Season Finale Made Star Wars Better
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Andor’s season one finale, “Rix Road,” capped off a journey taken by many, not just one, in a perfect hour of television. Diego Luna solidified Cassian as one of the most important characters in the canon—retroactively at that—and the Lucasfilm series, led by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], proved it’s simply operating on a level that’s…
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Hackers Could Cause Next Deepwater Horizon-Level Disaster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The network of offshore oil and gas facilities in the U.S. is at serious and increasing risk of a potentially devastating cyberattack, a government watchdog says. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] last week finding that if a cyberattack successfully hits the nation’s offshore…
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‘A Brave New World of Software Piracy:’ Lawsuit Takes Aim at Scrapping Methods Underpinning Modern Artificial Intelligence
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Anyone following the tech industry knows lawsuits at this point are a dime a dozen, however, a new entry filed this month against Microsoft owned Github challenges the fundamental foundational principles underpinning some of the most important artificial intelligence advancements in the past three decades.
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NASA Unexpectedly Lost Contact With Orion Last Night
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA experienced a data connection glitch between the Orion spacecraft and ground control for nearly an hour early this morning, in a surprising disruption to the craft’s otherwise fair-weather journey around the Moon.

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First of Its Kind Gene Therapy Treatment Approved for Hemophilia
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A novel medication for hemophilia B has just been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The treatment is a form of gene therapy, intended to replace a dysfunctional gene that leaves people unable to control their bleeding. It’s expected to cost $3.5 million per patient.
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The White House Is Ready to Shell Out $13 Billion to Modernize U.S. Power Grid
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The White House and the Department of Energy (DOE) are soliciting applications from utility companies, state governments, and tribal nations to create a stronger energy grid. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that it is ready to use $13 billion in funding for the much-needed energy upgrade.

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You Cannot Resist the Lure of the New Lego Spacebaby Minifigure
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Don’t bother putting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] new minifigure collection on your holiday wish list because it’s not slated to hit stores until January 1, but Lego does make up for that unfortunate timing with an excellent roundup of weird and wonderful new figures, including an irresistible Spacebaby.
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See the Coolest Images So Far From Orion's Historic Mission to the Moon
We’re into the eighth day of the 25-day Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, and the incoming imagery has been as spectacular and intriguing as expected.

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Another Artemis 1 Satellite Is Experiencing Problems
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The inaugural launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) sent the Orion capsule on a historic mission to the Moon and back, but the rocket’s secondary payloads have been faltering.
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Is Holly Jolly Good Fun
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Over the past few years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the characters have almost become family. Fans know and love them so much, any chance to spend even one or two more minutes with them outside of their own films feels like a gift. And that’s why [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is…
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Judge Recommends Prison Camp for Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]District Judge Edward Davila has proposed sentencing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to a federal prison camp in Texas, according to court filings. “The Court finds that family visitation enhances rehabilitation,” Davila wrote in the filing, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which summarized the terms of Holmes’ sentencing.
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It Turns Out the Walking Dead Was Me All Along
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Remains of a Spider Monkey Traded by Ancient Maya Elites Found in Mexico
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Archaeologists working on the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] site at Teotihuacán have made a surprising discovery in the ancient Maya capital: the remains of a 1,700-year-old spider monkey, which the archaeologists suspect was once a state gift between elites.
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HP Announces Layoffs as PC Demand Drops
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] continues to plague tech companies worldwide, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is the next titan to fall on its sword. In reporting its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] yesterday, the company also announced that it was reducing its workforce by up to 6,000 people by the end of their 2025 fiscal year.

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This Simple USB Dongle Could Help the Average Person Type 600% Faster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It sounds like an ad you’d find in the back pages of Popular Science for a miracle gadget that couldn’t possibly deliver on its promises, but the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] can legitimately and dramatically [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—assuming they’re willing to put the work in to learn how to use it.
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Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Will Have a Lot of Riker
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Chris McQuarrie talks about naming the next Mission: Impossible. A Cosmology of Monsters is being turned into a show. James Gunn drops the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special’s soundtrack. Plus, what’s coming on Doom Patrol season 4. Spoilers now!

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Workers Battle Police at China's Main iPhone Plant Amid Protests
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Workers who staff Apple’s main China iPhone production factory have reportedly had enough of alleged broken promises and unpaid work. Dramatic videos capture the scene as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] stormed the iPhone factory campus overnight, breaking through barricades and security checkpoints. Reports say protesters were…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Two years goes by fast when it comes to politics. While the country is, in many ways, still recovering from the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump made his official 2024 announcement last week, and speculation on who the GOP presidential candidate will be has kicked off in earnest. Looking ahead to 2024,…
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Why Does Shuri See ____ in the Ancestral Plane?
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All the Worst Twitter Policy Offenders Elon Musk Is Giving Free Rein To
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last month, Gizmodo considered who could be [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to get their Twitter accounts back under [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Well, we guessed right with a few of those accounts already back on while other, completely unexpected accounts have also had their profiles reinstated.
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Elon Musk Tweets Defense of Cop Who Killed Unarmed Black Man in Ferguson, Missouri
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk tweeted a defense of the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown—an unarmed Black man in Ferguson, Missouri back in 2014—early Wednesday before deleting the incendiary post. Musk said the police officer was “exonerated” and that the narrative around the shooting was a “fiction.”

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This Is Your Brain With a Migraine
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New research seems to offer the closest look yet at how migraines might affect the brain. Scientists at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles collected detailed MRI scans from patients suffering from migraines. Compared to those without migraine, they found that these patients had a higher number of…
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Civil Rights Groups Renew Calls for Advertisers to Drop Twitter After Elon Reinstates Trump
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier this month, dozens of civil rights groups advised top brands and marketing agencies to pause advertising on Twitter unless CEO Elon Musk offered serious assurances that he’d protect vulnerable users from a flood of harassment and hate speech. Now, those same groups are renewing their call for companies to cut…
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So You Want to Start Reading (or Writing) Fanfic
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Buckle up babes, we’re all in tonight. In a ridiculous moment of hubris a few weeks ago, I posted on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that I was debating between [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and doing work while on a plane home from a work trip. My editor saw it, and now, wouldn’t you know it, I’m doing a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to introduce you to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...],…
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Fill Your Black Friday List With Fandom Finds From Stranger Things, Marvel, DC, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With Thanksgiving nearly upon us, we’re off to the races with holiday shopping. It’s a good time to be a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], because not only are we are feasting on dinner, we’re faced with a bounty of options to help flash our favorite fandoms.
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Watch Power Rangers' Touching Tribute to Jason David Frank
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Power Rangers fans across the world are still in shock from the sudden passing of Mighty Morphin’ star [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] this past weekend at the age of 49, with tributes rolling in from across the worlds of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to honor the actor—including a touching new video from Hasbro.

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The Walking Dead Finale Originally Had a Different Ending
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Did you hear? The Walking Dead, one of our generation’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Besides wrapping up as many core stories as it could, the big reveal was something our own Rob Bricken [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] “all that anyone still watching the show wanted to see.” However, the ending you saw was not…
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Elon Says He’ll Make His Own Phone If Apple and Google Deplatform Twitter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter’s new ruler Elon Musk makes so many pronouncements on the platform, it’s hard to keep track. This week alone, Musk [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over whether he should provide “general amnesty” to suspended accounts and got into a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over whether the disgraced founder of FTX, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], owns a part of…
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This Weeks Toys Rip, Tear, Swindle, and... Comfort?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys around on the internet. This week: Star Trek’s 1/6 figure line goes to Deep Space Nine, the hottest anime of the season gets a hot new figure, and sit back and relax Pokémon style. Check it out!

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Movie: The Retro Review
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]So much has happened to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] franchise in the last 14 years that it can be difficult to remember that the new canon actually began with Dave Filoni’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]cartoon. It was retroactively added into Disney’s new Star Wars stories by virtue of being a pretty good show helmed by the guy who would eventually…
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Nina West on the Importance of Kindness and Embracing Being a Fantastical Fan
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NASA Successfully Maneuvers Orion Into Its Target Orbit Around the Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The uncrewed Orion capsule has reached its ultimate destination, a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The spacecraft successfully executed a short trajectory correction burn earlier today.
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Transformers: Earthspark Twists the Franchise In a Great Way
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The new Transformers animated series, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is doing a lot of things that might make dyed-in-the-wool fans wary at first. It’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], in that its primary focus is on its robotic heroes as they sit hand-in-hand with two young kids and their parents. It’s also not about Autobot/Decepticon conflict, in so…
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Brilliant Self-Stacking Lego Domino Machine Is Perpetually Mesmerizing
Although it’s a game that can trace its origins back over 700 years, most people know Dominoes as a fun chain reaction toy that’s actually only fun when it comes to knocking them down, not the stressful process of stacking them up. With that in mind, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] built a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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DROP's Gorgeous Lord of the Rings Keyboard Broke My Elvish-Loving Brain
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When I first received my [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] keyboard, it was one of those packages that you come home to after a trip: a delightful surprise, and one I had been looking forward to since I had first agreed to write a review of the new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. I debated between the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Spacesuit Malfunction Forces Cancelation of ISS Spacewalk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were unable to perform a scheduled maintenance task outside the ISS today due to a malfunctioning coolant system on a Russian-built Orlan spacesuit.

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'This is the Best Film I’ve Seen in My Life'
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Hubble Telescope Observes Surreal Galactic Collision
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The James Webb Space Telescope has been getting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] these days, but Hubble, in space since 1990, continues to make stunning astronomical observations.

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8BitDo Turned the Classic NES Gamepad Into a Wireless Charger
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The original Nintendo Entertainment System’s bundled controller is burned into the memories of millions of gamers for its unergonomic boxy corners that dug into your hands and made long gaming sessions a real test of endurance. It’s remembered fondly, but only missed for nostalgic reasons, so [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Chris Hemsworth Discusses What It Would Take For Him to Return as Thor
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Chad Stahleski talks about the influences on John Wick 4. Get a new look at HBO’s The Last of Us. Plus, a look at what’s coming in Doom Patrol’s fourth season, and new pictures from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. Spoilers, now!

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Shipping Emissions Are Black Friday’s Dirty Secret
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It may be tempting to load up on online shopping deals this Black Friday—but before you order a whole new wardrobe or electronics setup, take a moment to think about the trip all those packages may take. International shipping to bring all that stuff to your door is responsible for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of global greenhouse gas…
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The Onyx Boox Leaf 2 E-Reader is Like Having a Kindle and a Kobo All in One Device
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When it comes to choosing an e-reader, for most users it comes down to which device has easy access to the books they actually want to read, and the answer is usually either the Amazon Kindle or the Rakuten Kobo. There’s now a third option, the Boox Leaf 2 from Onyx, that lets users buy books from the competition’s…
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7 Obscure Government Podcasts You Never Knew Existed
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As a serial podcast listener, I can confirm what you all already know: Everyone has a podcast now. As we learned this year, that “everyone” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which hopes its show, The Langley Files, will make you forget some of the very bad things it’s done. (The title makes it sound a lot more interesting than it…
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At-Home Ketamine Treatments Could Be a Game-Changer—or a Big Problem
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Around 2.8 million Americans [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from treatment-resistant depression, and though research has shown that IV ketamine can significantly improve their quality of life, these ketamine treatments are expensive, and access to them is limited. Early in the covid-19 pandemic, the Drug Enforcement Agency loosened…
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What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
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Read a Story of Queer Love and Hope for the Future in the Apocalypse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Now for something a bit different to distract you [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. io9 has run short fiction before, from our collaborations with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to excerpts from novels [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But here’s “Post-Nihilism,” an original tale of love and hope in a near-future world ravaged by climate disaster, from Gizmodo’s…
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More Spider-Man: No Way Home Funko Pops Are Swinging Your Way
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The 25 Greatest Moments From Andor's Incredible First Season
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'Gap' in App Store Rules Endangers Reproductive Data, Top Law Enforcement Chiefs Say
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Attorneys general in nine states and the District of Columbia are urging Apple this week to introduce new App Store requirements designed to safeguard sensitive health data linked to reproductive care.

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NASA Will Let You Send Messages to an iPad On Board Orion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s Artemis 1 mission features a host of demonstration technologies, including Callisto—a collaboration between Lockheed Martin, Amazon, and Cisco. The Callisto team is making it possible for anyone to communicate with the system, in which messages will be shown on an iPad screen “for the world to see.”
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In Historical Fantasy, When Does History End and Fantasy Begin?
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Omega Recreated the Iconic James Bond Opening on This $7,600 Watch Using Only Mechanical Parts
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The Pop Culture We're Thankful for Getting Us Through 2022
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Thanksgiving is here. A day to sit back, reflect, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Family, friends, your health—those are all worthy. But what about shows, movies, and comics?
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11 Thanksgiving Lessons Bob's Burgers Taught Us
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“Uh-oh, somebody’s getting excited about Thanksgiving!” As [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] fans well know, Thanksgiving is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Given the care and creativity that goes into the long-running Fox series’ Thanksgiving-themed episodes, it’s safe to say [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are fond of it too—if only for all the, ah, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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You Can Run Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii and Turn it Into the Ultimate Gaming and Productivity Machine
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With over 100 million units sold since its debut in 2006, there’s no denying the popularity of the Wii, but two Nintendo consoles later, people are still finding [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the console. This hack focuses more on productivity than gaming, however, by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Is it Strange That Idiocracy Kinda Became a Documentary?
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How to Set Up Your Smart Home for the Holidays
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I don’t know about you, but I’m both ready for holiday cheer this year and am feeling a little too worn out by *gestures broadly at everything* to spend much time setting it up myself. Much of what I’ve figured out to relieve the strain involves gadgets I already have around the house, but during my search, I…
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Former Paralympic Athlete Selected as World's First Disabled Astronaut
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected a new class of astronauts that includes the first “parastronaut,” in what is the agency’s attempt to make spaceflight more accessible.
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I Tried to Sleep in a Casket and All I Got Was This Story
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A couple of weeks ago G/O Media had a casket delivered to the office. We received a crimson red burial fixture from Titan Casket because my colleague, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], has made Taylor Swift a facet of his personality that can be mined for news, and this casket (in a different colorway) was featured in her Anti-Hero music…
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Here's How Tech Is Shaping the 2022 FIFA World Cup
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is the first of many things: the first World Cup held in the Winter, the first held in Gulf Arab state, and the first to use a whole suit of new tracking technologies vying to modernize soccer’s traditionalist culture. Like most incremental changes in sports, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Nanny Weaves a Powerful Folk-Horror Tale
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Lyft Says It Will Start Recycling E-Bike and Scooter Batteries
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Lyft plans to start recycling its e-bike and scooter batters through a newly announced partnership with Redwood Materials, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by The Verge. Lyft [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] municipal bike share programs—like New York City’s Citi Bike and San Francisco’s Bay Wheels—in addition to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in four…
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Amazon Reportedly Plans to Burn $1 Billion on Over a Dozen Theatrical Movies Every Year
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Armand Is the Reason to Re-Watch Interview With the Vampire's First Season
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Rian Johnson Wouldn't Mind If His Return to Star Wars Was For a TV Show
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Rian Johnson has a lot on his plate right now, from the launch of Knives Out sequel Glass Onion to his Peacock mystery series Poker Face. So much so, it’s the reason we’ve not [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] out of his plans for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Star Wars movies other than that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to keep doing them. But…
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U.S. Navy Forced to Pay Software Company for Piracy
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The U.S. Navy was found guilty of piracy and is ordered to pay a software company $154,400 for a lawsuit filed back in 2016. The company, Bitmanagement Software GmbH, filed a complaint against the Navy, accusing the military branch of copyright infringement.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—noted [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], according to his own country’s Senate—filed a complaint on Tuesday contesting the results of the run-off [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] more than three weeks ago. In it, Bolsonaro’s lawyer Marcelo de Bessa claims that a “software bug” on 59% of the voting machines used across…
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Authorities in Western U.S. Agree to Rip-Up Grass Lawns for Water Conservation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A group of agencies that provide water to millions of customers in the western U.S. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]rip-up grass lawns in public spaces across multiple states as part of an effort to reduce water usage as the Colorado River continues to suffer from a major drought.

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Mercedes-Benz Wants You to Pay to Drive Faster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you gotta go fast, Mercedes-Benz says you gotta cough up some more dough. The German car manufacturer has unveiled a new feature called “Acceleration Increase,” which will increase your car’s ability to accelerate (get it?) but it’ll cost you $1,200 annually.

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Even the Andor Post-Credits Scene Was Perfectly Andor
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the final credits rolled on what has been [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], you almost didn’t want to see Andor do anything that might be considered derivative of modern blockbuster entertainment. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], no huge surprises, just good old-fashioned storytelling. But then something popped up at the end…
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Google's Accidentally Refunding Some Customers for Stadia Pro
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google started issuing refunds for games and in-game purchases [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and it’s been messy—look at some of the comments in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] 9to5Google article. Over on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], some folks have noticed receiving refunds from Google for Stadia Pro, even after the company said it wouldn’t issue them.

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Violent Night's David Harbour Talks Making Santa His Own
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Imagine [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]except John McClane is Santa Claus and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is a New England mansion. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a hugely entertaining R-rated holiday action film that hits theaters on December 2. In it, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] David Harbour plays Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick, who is feeling pretty dejected…
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Doctor Who Celebrates Its 59th Anniversary With Hype for Its 60th
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Fifty-nine years ago today, families across the UK sat down to tune into “An Unearthly Child,” the beginning of an adventure across space and time decades in the making for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. We’ve come a long way since then, and gained [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] since we last celebrated, and the BBC really wants you to…
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Twitch is, Vaguely, Working to Fix its Child Predator and Groomer Problem
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitch has been hounded for months after a September report showed just how many sexual predators were stalking the streaming platform’s halls, targeting children that were not supposed to be there in the first place. Now the company says it’s developed systems to combat child sexual abuse material, though it’s not…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The World Health Organization is officially renaming the emerging viral disease known as monkeypox. On Monday, WHO [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that it will now use the term “mpox” instead, which is likely to be adopted widely by doctors, public health agencies, and others. The change was prompted by criticism from scientists that the…
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BlockFi Files for Bankruptcy Months After Accepting Helping Hand From FTX
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Crypto lender BlockFi was once eager to hand practically anybody a sack of money containing gold-plated crypto coins, without even a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Now they themselves would like some investor to lay out some cash without asking too many questions, especially not about their obvious connections and contagion from…
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Twitter Failed to Flag Christchurch Shooting Video Re-Uploads
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter removed newly posted videos on Sunday of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] only after the clips were flagged as harmful content by the New Zealand government.
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The Best Gifts for Musicians
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Buying a gift for a musician can be stressful, especially if you’re not a musician. But it doesn’t have to be!
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NASA's Orion Poised to Set Milestone Distance Record Today
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s Artemis 1 mission continues to go well, with Orion entering into its target orbit around the Moon on Friday. We’re now into the latter half of the 25.5-day demo mission, and with it comes a watershed moment for the record books.

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Lego's Potential Dungeons & Dragons Sets Are Critical Hit or Miss
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A touch less than [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Lego’s Ideas division announced it would be holding a contest where fans could submit their own potential playsets based on the venerable role-playing game [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to celebrate its upcoming 50th anniversary. Now, the submissions have been winnowed down to five, and per…
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This Question-Answering Typewriter Is Like if We Had Siri in the '70s
Although they’re far from perfect in their modern incarnation, Maker [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s latest video [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] could have been like in the ‘70s, decades before voice recognition and even personal computers, when an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to interact with them. We’re…
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Apple Pulls Lyrics From iPhone 14 Ad After Being Mistaken for Slur
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Elon Ignores Crypto Bros Who Took $600,000 Sculpture of Him to Tesla HQ
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Despite tech magnate Elon Musk’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with Twitter, his newest company, there can be no doubt that the man still has legions of adoring followers. One group of fanboys took their devotion to the next level this past Saturday, delivering a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to Tesla headquarters in Austin,…
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Chinese Spam Accounts Block Covid Protest News With Porn Links on Twitter
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Gotham Knights Is Messy, But Brings Some Heart to Batman Games
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At a time when superheroes are ridiculously omnipresent in popular culture, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is among the most prevalent of all. No matter the medium, stories starring or featuring DC’s flagship hero come out with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that it can sometimes be hard for particular stories to stand out. Even in the stories that focus…
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What if You Turned a Formula 1 Wheel Into a Onewheel Style Self-Balancing Skateboard?
The internet is full of talented engineers and designers building all kinds of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that, quite frankly, look absolutely terrifying to climb aboard. Like The Q’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], reminiscent of the Onewheel, but built around a beefy Formula 1 wheel.
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The Best Video Game Gifts for the n00b in Your Life
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The holidays only mean one thing for a certain type of person: a bounty of new video games to play.
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Harrison Ford Escapes the Past in New Indiana Jones Production Images
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] officially gets a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], surprising no one. Tobin Bell is back as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in some behind-the-scenes [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] photos. And our first look at the new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the new ˆmovie—Optimus Primal, Rhinox, Airazor, and Cheetor—may have come from... a promotional coffee mug? Please buckle…
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Gifts for the Spaceflight Enthusiast in Your Life
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The new space race has everyone excited for more powerful rockets, treks to Mars, and everything in between. For your friends and family caught up in all this excitement, we have these excellent gift recommendations to share.

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Bahamas Attorney General Gets Defensive as FTX Users Wonder About Sam Bankman-Fried
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Attorney General of the Bahamas, L. Ryan Pinder, released a video statement on Sunday night about the investigation into crypto platform FTX, which was based in the Bahamas before it imploded earlier this month, taking billions of dollars with it. And at least one thing is clear: Pinder knows investors in FTX…
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Houston Issues Boil Water Notice and Cancels School on Monday
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Houston, Texas issued a boil water notice on Sunday night for over 2.2 million people after a power outage occurred at three water treatment facilities on Sunday morning. Residents of Houston should boil all water used for drinking, bathing, or even just brushing teeth, for at least three minutes, according to a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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For Kevin Bacon, Joining the Guardians' Holiday Special Was the Easy Part
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If there’s one thing you can count on the MCU to often provide, it’s often a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The recently released [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] offers maybe the greatest callback of the whole enterprise by bringing in Kevin Bacon as himself. You may recall that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is deeply enamored with the …
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Albert Pyun, B-Movie Film Director, Has Passed Away
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Filmmaker Albert Pyun passed away on Saturday in Las Vegas at the age of 69, reports [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The news was confirmed by his wife and producer Cynthia Curnan on Facebook, and comes years after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and dementia.

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Open Channel: Pick a Marvel Hero to Headline a Future Holiday Special
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amongst the cinematic and television hits that made up the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s 2022 output, the megafranchise got into the holiday spirit with a pair of one-hour specials. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]headlined the recently released Christmas special, while [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] kicked things off with one for…
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Great, Now We're Getting a Horror Movie Where Bambi's Killing People
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You may recall that earlier in the year, news broke of a horror movie based on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], of all things. With the character having re-entered the public domain after Disney let the rights lapse, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]took the children’s character and made him a serial killer, at which point the internet freaked…
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Rian Johnson on Knives Out's Future Inspirations and Keeping the Franchise Fresh
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When the original Knives Out released in 2019, it received such a strong, mostly positive reaction that it wasn’t a surprise when a follow up was eventually announced. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which recently began its one-week theatrical run before it goes to Netflix on December 23, is the first of two [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Before Black Panther: Wakanda Forever released in theaters and became a juggernaut in the way [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] do, there was plenty of anticipation to see how the film would handle [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now that the film has come out, the character’s received a new surge of attention thanks to his portrayal by …
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Tony Gilroy on Andor's Post-Credits Scene and Season Two Time Jumps
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It doesn’t feel like that long ago that the idea of Diego Luna’s Rogue One character [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] getting a solo series felt strange. But over the past two months and change, Andor has proven itself to be a pretty great show. Not just “great for Star Wars,” but [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in a way that could easily make you…
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Elon Says He’ll Make His Own Phone If Apple and Google Deplatform Twitter
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This Weeks Toys Rip, Tear, Swindle, and... Comfort?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys around on the internet. This week: Star Trek’s 1/6 figure line goes to Deep Space Nine, the hottest anime of the season gets a hot new figure, and sit back and relax Pokémon style. Check it out!

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Movie: The Retro Review
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]So much has happened to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] franchise in the last 14 years that it can be difficult to remember that the new canon actually began with Dave Filoni’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]cartoon. It was retroactively added into Disney’s new Star Wars stories by virtue of being a pretty good show helmed by the guy who would eventually…
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Nina West on the Importance of Kindness and Embracing Being a Fantastical Fan
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Being a multi-hyphenate performer is something Nina West knows well. Winning Miss Congeniality on Ru Paul’s Drag Race season 11, partnering with Dolly Parton on a kindness campaign, making music for kids, acting opposite Daniel Radcliffe in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], becoming the LGBTQ face of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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NASA Successfully Maneuvers Orion Into Its Target Orbit Around the Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The uncrewed Orion capsule has reached its ultimate destination, a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The spacecraft successfully executed a short trajectory correction burn earlier today.
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Transformers: Earthspark Twists the Franchise In a Great Way
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Brilliant Self-Stacking Lego Domino Machine Is Perpetually Mesmerizing
Although it’s a game that can trace its origins back over 700 years, most people know Dominoes as a fun chain reaction toy that’s actually only fun when it comes to knocking them down, not the stressful process of stacking them up. With that in mind, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] built a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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DROP's Gorgeous Lord of the Rings Keyboard Broke My Elvish-Loving Brain
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When I first received my [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] keyboard, it was one of those packages that you come home to after a trip: a delightful surprise, and one I had been looking forward to since I had first agreed to write a review of the new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. I debated between the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Spacesuit Malfunction Forces Cancelation of ISS Spacewalk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were unable to perform a scheduled maintenance task outside the ISS today due to a malfunctioning coolant system on a Russian-built Orlan spacesuit.

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'This is the Best Film I’ve Seen in My Life'
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Hubble Telescope Observes Surreal Galactic Collision
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The James Webb Space Telescope has been getting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] these days, but Hubble, in space since 1990, continues to make stunning astronomical observations.

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8BitDo Turned the Classic NES Gamepad Into a Wireless Charger
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The original Nintendo Entertainment System’s bundled controller is burned into the memories of millions of gamers for its unergonomic boxy corners that dug into your hands and made long gaming sessions a real test of endurance. It’s remembered fondly, but only missed for nostalgic reasons, so [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Chris Hemsworth Discusses What It Would Take For Him to Return as Thor
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Chad Stahleski talks about the influences on John Wick 4. Get a new look at HBO’s The Last of Us. Plus, a look at what’s coming in Doom Patrol’s fourth season, and new pictures from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. Spoilers, now!

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Shipping Emissions Are Black Friday’s Dirty Secret
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It may be tempting to load up on online shopping deals this Black Friday—but before you order a whole new wardrobe or electronics setup, take a moment to think about the trip all those packages may take. International shipping to bring all that stuff to your door is responsible for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of global greenhouse gas…
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The Onyx Boox Leaf 2 E-Reader is Like Having a Kindle and a Kobo All in One Device
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When it comes to choosing an e-reader, for most users it comes down to which device has easy access to the books they actually want to read, and the answer is usually either the Amazon Kindle or the Rakuten Kobo. There’s now a third option, the Boox Leaf 2 from Onyx, that lets users buy books from the competition’s…
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7 Obscure Government Podcasts You Never Knew Existed
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As a serial podcast listener, I can confirm what you all already know: Everyone has a podcast now. As we learned this year, that “everyone” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which hopes its show, The Langley Files, will make you forget some of the very bad things it’s done. (The title makes it sound a lot more interesting than it…
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At-Home Ketamine Treatments Could Be a Game-Changer—or a Big Problem
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Around 2.8 million Americans [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from treatment-resistant depression, and though research has shown that IV ketamine can significantly improve their quality of life, these ketamine treatments are expensive, and access to them is limited. Early in the covid-19 pandemic, the Drug Enforcement Agency loosened…
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What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This article originally appeared in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a leftist print magazine of critique, fiction, poetry, and art.

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Read a Story of Queer Love and Hope for the Future in the Apocalypse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Now for something a bit different to distract you [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. io9 has run short fiction before, from our collaborations with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to excerpts from novels [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But here’s “Post-Nihilism,” an original tale of love and hope in a near-future world ravaged by climate disaster, from Gizmodo’s…
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The 25 Greatest Moments From Andor's Incredible First Season
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'Gap' in App Store Rules Endangers Reproductive Data, Top Law Enforcement Chiefs Say
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Attorneys general in nine states and the District of Columbia are urging Apple this week to introduce new App Store requirements designed to safeguard sensitive health data linked to reproductive care.

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NASA Will Let You Send Messages to an iPad On Board Orion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s Artemis 1 mission features a host of demonstration technologies, including Callisto—a collaboration between Lockheed Martin, Amazon, and Cisco. The Callisto team is making it possible for anyone to communicate with the system, in which messages will be shown on an iPad screen “for the world to see.”
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In Historical Fantasy, When Does History End and Fantasy Begin?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In its published format, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is unapologetically epic fantasy, featuring [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], gods, giants, fire demons, and magical runes, but the story did not begin that way. At the beginning, I believed that I was setting out on an epic quest to write historical fiction, with an emphasis on the historical.
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Omega Recreated the Iconic James Bond Opening on This $7,600 Watch Using Only Mechanical Parts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]James Bond has been saving the world on the big screen since 1962, and to help mark the 60th anniversary of the 007 films, Omega, Bond’s preferred timekeeper since 1995, is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the back.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Chinese officials will begin cracking down on internet users liking social media posts that are deemed illegal or harmful amidst nationwide protests against China’s zero-Covid policy.
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Latest Test of Gigantic Starship Booster Takes SpaceX Closer to Launch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Yesterday, SpaceX performed a static fire test of a prototype booster in which 11 of its 33 Raptor engines were briefly engaged. The private company could very well be on target to launch the fully stacked Starship system next month.
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Biggest Questions After Watching the Original Willow
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Twitter's Ads Problems Are Even Worse Behind the Scenes
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Andor Was Ready to Drop Star Wars' First F-Bomb
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One thing that always confused me about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was why Fiona Shaw—a Shakespearean actor extraordinaire and multiple award-winning star of stage, screen, and TV—would have accepted the small, muted role of Maarva Andor, Cassian’s adoptive mother. That is, until I saw the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], where Shaw’s massive talents were…
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It's Time to Make Apple Pay for Its Faulty Butterfly Keyboards
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple’s poor keyboard design, which the company spent half a decade shoving into its MacBooks has finally, officially, come to bite the company in the posterior, at least financially.
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Amazon Satellite Experiment Puts the Cloud in Low Earth Orbit
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Satellite operators are often challenged by the horrendous amounts of data that satellites collect and transmit back to Earth. A recent experiment with prototype Amazon Web Services (AWS) software suggests cloud-based solutions, when used way above Earth’s actual clouds, can lessen the data load.

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Bright Flash Detected in February Was a Black Hole Jet Pointed Straight at Earth
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On February 11, astronomers saw a distant flash of light that seemed to come from a source as bright as a quadrillion suns. They alerted other scientists to the event, and several telescopes quickly pivoted to focus on the flash. Now, two teams of researchers have identified its source: a black hole feasting in the…
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Airbnb Reinvents Feudalism
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Airbnb has launched a new long-term listing service intended to make it easier for would-be-renters to find apartments where they’re allowed to sublet short-term. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], similar to Zillow or StreetEasy, currently shows listings for about 175 buildings in more than 25 U.S. locations.

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Disney Made a Movie Quality AI Tool That Automatically Makes Actors Look Younger (or Older)
Further demonstrating the power of artificial intelligence when it comes to photorealistically altering footage, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have revealed a new aging/de-aging tool that can [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], without the need for weeks of complex and expensive visual effects work.

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Spotify Wrapped Is Finally out—Here's How to See Yours
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Updates From Indiana Jones 5, Supernatural Spinoff The Winchesters, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Jon Kasdan talks about the importance of the Willow RPG and Ghostbusters 2 to the new series. Jeffrey Dean Morgan teases his arrival on The Boys. Plus, Terry Matalas talks about making Picard’s final season feel even more like Star Trek: The Next Generation. To me, my spoilers!

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Photos Show Eruption at Mauna Loa, World's Largest Active Volcano
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—the longest quiet period for the volcano in recorded history. I’ve been fascinated by the eruption since it began on Sunday and realized I had a lot of questions, including some that seemed pretty…
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European Central Bank Says Bitcoin Is On 'Road to Irrelevance'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We can now add the European Central Bank to the ranks of high-ranking crypto skeptics, with high-ranking execs going further to say that crypto shouldn’t be legitimized by any government or major financial institution.
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San Francisco Votes to Give Cop Robots Explosives—and Permission to Kill
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the near future, police in San Francisco may be able to deploy robots armed with explosives and instruct them to kill a human being.
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FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Says He Made Secret Donations to Republicans
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, says he donated equally to both Democratic and Republican politicians before his cryptocurrency platform filed for bankruptcy [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], wiping out billions of dollars in customer deposits. And that fact is going to come as a real shock to right-wing political operatives…
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Eufy Cameras Have Been Uploading Unencrypted Footage to Cloud Without Owners Knowing
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Eufy, the company behind a series of affordable security cameras [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over the expensive stuff, is currently in a bit of hot water for its security practices. The company, owned by Anker, purports its products to be one of the few security devices that allow for locally-stored media and don’t need…
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Company Successfully Tests World's First Hydrogen-Powered Jet Engine
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Rolls-Royce and easyJet, a European-based airline, have successfully tested a hydrogen-powered jet engine, the two companies announced in a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Tuesday. The pair say the goal is to curb emissions by 2050 and said the ground test marks “the world’s first run of a modern aero engine on hydrogen.”
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10 International Holiday Cult and Horror Movies to Chill You in Any Language
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You could spend every night of December watching a different [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—heck, there are almost enough [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] entries to fill up an entire week by themselves!—but [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] would hail from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], with maybe [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Canadian entries tagging along. This yuletide season, why…
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The Flu Is Definitely Back
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The influenza virus has finally returned in earnest. Flu season activity is high throughout the U.S., and experts expect many more cases and hospitalizations to occur in the weeks ahead. One bright spot is that this year’s vaccines appear to be well-tuned to the currently circulating flu strains, so they should…
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Arma 3 Devs to Public: Stop Using Our Game to Spread Fake News
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Video games depicting armed military combat have come a long way from the rudimentary, textureless early iterations of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor. But what happens when graphics and gameplay collide and progress to a point where they can fool casual observers into mistaking gameplay for reality? While Fox News…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the semi-proud owner of a cracked, dirty, degrading Google Pixel 3 phone, I would never make claims that its night camera is very good for taking pictures of something as fast moving as a meteor shower, let alone my late night, near dark selfie sessions (don’t judge).
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Japan-U.S. Geotail Mission Officially Comes to an End After 30 Glorious Years
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An irreparable software glitch has put an end to Geotail, a JAXA-NASA joint mission. The satellite observed Earth’s magnetosphere for more than 30 years within an extremely elliptical orbit, but the mission has officially been terminated, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (ISAS).
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie Has a New Trailer That Goes Full Mario Kart
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Even though a second trailer is now here, it’s still a little hard to fully fathom that this is real: Nintendo [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Illumination and made a full-on animated Super Mario Bros. movie. And [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the franchise’s villain, Bowser, this one shifts to those lovable Italian plumbers,…
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These Are the 10 Most Streamed Songs on Apple Music in 2022
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has finally unveiled the songs and artists that ruled the streaming service this year. Everything from TikTok viral hits from GAYLE and Jack Harlow to veteran Elton John revisiting his own discography in a collaboration with Dua Lipa to the respective comebacks of Harry Styles and Adele, 2022 was…
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Here Are the Best Apps and Games of 2022, According to Apple
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As 2022 winds to a close, Apple is ready to reflect on the apps and games that made its tech so fun to use. Today, Apple released [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the best apps and games from the year, curated by Apple’s global App Store editorial team.

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AMC Eyes Layoffs as Its Streaming Services Aren’t Making Enough Money
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Many of the traditional companies that jumped into digital streaming to catch up to the likes of Netflix are now finding that the streaming wars haven’t done much to help their business. Like the kingdoms of old regularly found out, wars are costly, and drained coffers won’t do anything to help you stay in the fight.
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It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie Is the Maddest Muppet Special Ever
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I don’t know why the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] love Christmas so much, but they certainly do. Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and the extended Muppet cast of characters have made nearly a dozen holiday specials, along with a feature-length TV movie and a theatrical movie. That last one is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], one of the…
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Mind-Altering Parasite Could Be Making Wolves Bolder
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The mind-altering effects of a well-known parasite may extend to more species than we thought. In new research this month, Yellowstone scientists are making the case that Toxoplasma gondii infection can influence the behavior of gray wolves in the area. It appears to increase their odds of risk-taking behaviors, such…
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Texas Company Wins $57 Million From NASA to Develop Lunar Construction Tech
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Texas-based ICON has been assigned the pivotal task of developing the means for NASA to build critical infrastructure on the Moon to further its Artemis ambitions.
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Sci-Fi Board Game Terraforming Mars Has Been Optioned for Film
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the resource-building [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]where you play as rival CEOs attempting to make [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], might be [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], reports [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The game is widely considered a fantastic example of larger strategy hex games, and has already been adapted as a video game.

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Software Claiming to 'Unfilter' TikToks and Expose Nudes Actually Infects Users With Malware
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Digital thieves are using horny TikTok viewers’ thirst for nude images against them in a new malware attack.
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The Lingering Willow Questions the Stars Want Answered
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The original Willow film feels like the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. While it does end with the defeat of the evil Queen Bavmorda [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], almost every other major character and storyline is left dangling. The whole film is predicated on this small child, Elora Danan, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Elon Musk Is Extremely Pissed at Apple, but He Deleted a Tweet About 'Going to War'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Frequent Elon Musk watchers raised an eyebrow on Monday when the billionaire started lashing out at Apple and its CEO, Tim Cook, over the many ways Twitter had been wronged, at least in his view. At one point, Musk even tweeted a meme about “going to war” with Apple, but later appeared to change his mind. He deleted…
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Amazon Alexa's 'Colossal Failure' Is Just a Symptom of a Larger Hemorrhage in the Tech Industry
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UN Wants to List the Great Barrier Reef as 'in Danger.' Australia Disagrees
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Great Barrier Reef is in danger and should be labeled with that official designation on the list of World Heritage sites, according to a joint assessment by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...],…
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The Gaming Shelf Seeks Out Far Horizons
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Two major tabletop conventions are happening this weekend: Dragonmeet in London and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Philadelphia, and if you’re going to either, I am very jealous and hope you have a wonderful time. So many of my favorites will be there; if you’re in the UK say “hi” to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at Stall 41 and if you’re…
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California Cities Brace for Water Cuts and a Fourth Year of Drought
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Federal water authorities warned California cities and industrial water users to prepare for water cuts in 2023 as the state enters what is likely to be a fourth consecutive year of drought.
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SpaceX Set to Launch Private Moon Lander, Along with NASA 'Flashlight' Probe
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]SpaceX is readying a Falcon 9 rocket for launch on early Wednesday morning. The mission, featuring both private and public payloads, exemplifies the current state of the spaceflight industry and the changing manner in which we’re exploring space.
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Connecting with Director Mike Flanagan | Next Exit Interview
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Sony's Mocopi Can Turn You Into an Anime Girl With Just Six Small Sensors and a Smartphone
Starting early next year, Sony plans to capitalize on the rise in popularity of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—virtual YouTube (and sometimes Twitch) celebrities—and our slow but steady transition to a life spent entirely in VR. The company will be introducing a new and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that relies on just [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Read the First Chapter of Chloe Gong's Adult Epic Fantasy Debut, Immortal Longings
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just over a year ago, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that best-selling YA author Chloe Gong ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) would be making the leap to adult fantasy fiction with 2023's Immortal Longings, the first in a new trilogy. Now, we have the first excerpt from the novel for you to peruse.

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Celebrate 40 Years of Return of the Jedi With Some Familiar Star Wars Faces
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Next year, the final movie in the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi, turns 40. And just as it had done so with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and The Empire Strikes Back before it, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is celebrating with familiar faces in classic packaging.

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Deep Fake Zuckerberg Thanks Democrats for Their Service and Inaction on Antitrust
The Monopoly Man, AKA Rich Uncle Pennybags, has been [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at big tech hearings on Capitol Hill. As much as these hearings often lead to no tangible action on actually addressing the tech industry’s missteps, at their worst those hearings allow CEOs like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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The First Things To Do In VR, Part 3
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Houston Is Just the Latest Texas City to Boil Water for Safety
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Return to the Darkest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Timeline in The Last Ronin: Lost Years
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been two years since [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s runaway [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin arrived on shelves, an alternate-universe tale starring a bitter Michaelangelo as the sole survivor of the Turtles and their friend. Soon, fans can return to Mike’s gritty adventures in a new follow-up: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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The Star Trek: TNG Crew Keeps Hinting About That Picard Spin-Off
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China Launches 3 Astronauts to Its Fledgling Space Station
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]China sent a new crew to its brand new Tiangong space station on Tuesday. The astronauts will spend around six months aboard the orbital outpost, preparing it for operations.
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Houston Cancels School Again Over Boil Water Notice for City's 2.3 Million Residents [Updated]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Update, 3 pm ET, Nov. 29, 2022: Houston lifted its boil water notice Tuesday after tests found no evidence of contamination in the drinking water. The city’s public works department wrote in a press release, “Customers no longer need to boil water before drinking, cooking, and making ice. Water quality testing…
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Man in Alaska Rescued With New iPhone 14 Satellite Emergency Feature
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Webb Telescope Turns Its Eye on Saturn's Mysterious Moon Titan
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Webb Space Telescope snapped images of Saturn’s moon Titan last month, which are now released for our viewing pleasure. The images offer a newly detailed view of Titan’s atmospheric makeup and even elements of its strange surface.
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Google Messages is Finally Encrypting Group Chats
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Netflix Cancels The Midnight Club Hours After Creator Moves to Amazon
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Turn Your Apple Watch Into a Cordless Alarm Clock With Otterbox's New Power Bank
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Is David Harbour Worried About Typecasting as Santa?
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Hate Speech on Twitter Skyrocketed While Elon Said He Was Winning, New Research Shows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On November 23rd, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] tweeted that hate speech “impressions” were down by one third on the platform, along with a graph and a victorious congratulations to his employees. During the same period, the actual use of hate speech on Twitter rose exponentially, according to new research.
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10 Ugly Sweaters That'll Bring Holiday Cheer to the Nerd in Your Life
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]‘Tis the season to bust out the box of holiday-themed sweaters. I have about five that I cycle through every year, and each represents a different side of me. This year, I’m showing off my nerdy side with Microsoft’s Holiday Clippy sweater, which the company sent over to promote its existence. It’s a fine sweater, but…
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Updates From Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Guillermo del Toro waxes lyrical about what he’d do with At the Mountains of Madness. The cast of Dune: The Sisterhood keeps growing. Plus, what’s to come on the series finale of Stargirl, and The Boys casts a mysterious figure. Spoilers, go!

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Alex Jones Files for Second Bankruptcy: This Time, It's Personal
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Alex Jones, the main face of the conspiracy flinging and hate spewing Info Wars, has all the charisma of a trash fire. Just like an enormous pile of burning garbage, Jones is certainly hard to ignore, even as the rank perfumes pervade the air. As many people shut their windows at the sight and smell, a fair few people…
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Huawei Made a Smartwatch That Pops Open to Reveal a Pair of Wireless Earbuds Inside
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Disney Will Close Splash Mountain Next Month For Its Princess and the Frog Overhaul
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Newly Discovered Dinosaur Looks Like a Nightmare Goose
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Paleontologists discovered a 71-million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur in Southern Mongolia that they believe had a body built for swimming and diving for prey. Though it looks a lot like a modern bird, it’s actually a non-avian dinosaur, meaning it’s likely an example of convergent evolution, a phenomenon in which…
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The SLS Moon Rocket Exceeded Expectations With Its Historic Liftoff, NASA Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA has conducted a preliminary review of the inaugural Space Launch System launch, saying the rocket met and even exceeded all expectations.
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Behold, the Brands: YouTube Releases Top 10 Ads of 2022
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Kanye West Banned From Twitter After Posting Swastika and Texts With Elon Musk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Kanye West has been banned from Twitter after posting a swastika designed to look like a Star of David and sharing personal text messages the rapper had with Twitter owner Elon Musk. It’s not immediately clear if West was actually banned for the swastika or for publicly sharing his texts from Musk, who purchased…
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Apple Spent $84,000 on Twitter Ads the Same Day Elon Tweeted It 'Mostly Stopped' Advertising There, New Data Shows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Monday, Elon Musk [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], accusing the company of freezing its advertising on Twitter and wondering aloud if the alleged pause was because “they hate free speech in America.” In fact, Apple spent $84,615 on Twitter ads that very same day, according to data from Pathmatics, a digital ad…
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Everything We Saw in the Trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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LIGHTSPEED Presents: 'Last Stand of the E. 12th St. Pirates' by L.D. Lewis
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Facebook Is Failing to Remove Brutal Death Threats Targeting Election Workers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta, despite repeatedly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to ramping up security policies ahead of the 2022 midterms, appears to fare far worse than its competing social media services in detecting and removing death threats targeting election workers.
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Google Shows Off the 10 Most-Watched YouTube Vids for 2022
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tesla is planning to deliver its first all-electric semi-trucks to client PepsiCo this evening—about three years after the vehicle maker first indicated the big rigs would be available. The company announced in a tweet that it will stream the delivery live via Twitter at 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET) on Thursday, in a…
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Kanye West Says ‘I Love Hitler' in Off-the-Rails Alex Jones Interview
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, is once again being called an antisemite for voicing his support for Adolf Hitler in an interview on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] show [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Ye told Jones he sees “good things about Hitler” after Jones suggested he has been “demonized” in the media for his antisemitic remarks.
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LastPass Hacked for the Second Time in Six Months
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you were planning on storing your precious codes in LastPass, the freemium password manager, my personal advice to you would be: maybe think again on that one. And if you do use it, maybe consider an alternative.

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An Ancient Asteroid Impact May Have Caused a Megatsunami on Mars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lander arrived on the Martian surface 46 years ago to investigate the planet. It dropped down into what was thought to be an ancient outflow channel. Now, a team of researchers believes they’ve found evidence of an ancient megatsunami that swept across the planet billions of years ago, less than 600 miles…
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3's First Trailer Is Big on Rocket
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Gas Prices Are Plummeting—but Republicans Haven’t Noticed
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s suddenly a lot less painful for Americans to pay for gas—but don’t tell that to the House’s new GOP leadership, who are determined to keep falsely blaming climate action for high energy prices.

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DeepMind's New AI Uses Game Theory to Trounce Humans in 'Stratego'
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FDA Will Finally Let More Gay and Bisexual Men Donate Blood, Report Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Food and Drug Administration is about to lift a blanket restriction on gay and bisexual men donating blood, according to a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] out Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal. The agency is reportedly planning to adopt a more individualized criteria for its screening process, one that will allow currently monogamous…
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Space Force Won a Call of Duty Tournament, Then Launched The Trophy Into Space
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Yes you read all of that correctly. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is the reigning champ of the Call of Duty Endowment’s esports league, having secured a trophy in last year’s video game tournament. Space Force is now defending its title and taunting their competitors by launching the trophy into space.

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Everything We Know About Anne Rice's Immortal Universe
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Indiana Jones 5's First Trailer Is Finally Here, and So Is Its Title
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The Mandalorian Season 3 Will Begin Next March
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Lawsuit Accusing OnlyFans of Bribing Meta Can Move Forward, Judge Rules
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The Best Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Streaming in December 2022
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16 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books for Your December Reading List
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Belkin Made an AirPods Cleaning Kit, Complete With Earwax Softener
I find it impossible to hide my disgust when someone offers me their earbuds to listen to a song. You might as well be asking me to share a spoon. Like it or not, your wireless earbuds are probably filthy and could use a deep cleaning, which Belkin is now making relatively painless with a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] designed [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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U.S. Senate Is Still Confused About How to Regulate Crypto After FTX Collapse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The collapse of FTX has sent shivers down the spines of many once-crypto proponents, including those sitting in the halls of Congress. Now that FTX has proved itself as one of the biggest cases of fraud in the often-maligned history of cryptocurrencies, there seems to be a more immediate push to dig deeper into what…
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Dungeons & Dragons Will No Longer Use the Word 'Race' in Play Material
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Netflix Is Expanding Its 'Preview Club' to Let More People View Upcoming Shows and Movies Early
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania's MODOK Design Gets Revealed Via Funko Pop
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California's Water Thieves Are Getting Away With It
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SpaceX Is Struggling to Launch a Much-Anticipated Moon Mission
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The launch of a Falcon 9 rocket has been delayed for the second time due to an unspecified issue, postponing a private Japanese mission that is poised to make history should it safely reach the Moon’s surface.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s day 16 of the 25.5-day Artemis 1 mission, which means it’s time for the Orion spacecraft to begin its journey back home. The uncrewed capsule departed distant retrograde orbit on Thursday afternoon following a successful exit burn.

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Neuralink Really Didn't Have Much to Show at Its 'Show and Tell' Event
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Rolls Out With Its First Trailer
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Physicists Say They Made a Mini-Wormhole in the Quantum Realm
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Android's Latest Update Lets You Share Digital Car Keys
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Gift the Reflection of Royalty With This Enchanting Mulan Loungefly Bag
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Google Is Launching Yet Another Way to Stuff Websites With Ads
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sure, the internet is great, but it has a serious flaw. There just aren’t enough ads. If you’re anything like me, you spend your time online casting your eyes across the screen, desperately hoping for another way to turn your attention into advertising revenue. At last, there’s some good news on that front, thanks…
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Knights of the Zodiac's First Trailer Brings the Action
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The Twitter Files, Explained
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The Last of Us Brings the Father-Daughter Road Trip to Live Action
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The Witcher: Blood Origin is a Clash of Swords and Other Worlds
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Gets His First Disney Animated Short in Decades
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'We’re Gonna Drop a Bomb' | David Harbour on Thunderbolts
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Los Espookys Canceled by HBO After 2 Seasons
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Martial Arts Game Sifu is Being Resurrected Into a Movie
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Gutsy Dogs, Dueling Birds, and Other Award-Winning Animal Photos
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In this collection from the 2022 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], you’ll see animals in their natural habitats—like a tiger lounging on a bed of flowers—and ones in decidedly unnatural environments, like a caterpillar in its nest of plastic or a fox in a snow-covered city. The contest received tens of thousands of…
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This Year's Top AP Photos Are a Haunting Reminder of the State of the World
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Associated Press showcased its top photographs of 2022, reflecting on a year that’s experienced plenty of ups and downs across the globe.

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Elon Has Restored Nearly 12,000 Banned Twitter Accounts, Data Shows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter owner Elon Musk’s goal for “general amnesty” towards banned accounts is in full swing. Since taking over, the multi-billionaire owner has given thousands of once-banned users access to their accounts once again. His extreme laissez faire-attitude has attracted some of Twitter’s worst characters back to the…
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The Latest News From Disney Parks, Universal Studios Resorts, and More Fan-tastical Destinations
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s officially time for the everything to be decked out in lights and for Sandy Claws and the Grinch to reign. Hey, they were really ahead of the curve with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] cosplay. Jack Skellington has been in residence at the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at Disneyland since fall. And of course the real [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has taken up residence at…
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Indiana Jones 5 Director James Mangold Sets Record Straight Over Inaccurate Online Rumors
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Before [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]was released, the world hardly knew anything about it. They knew [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and its release date, but until the trailer hit, 99.9% of the world didn’t even know the film’s title. In some deep, dark pockets online, though, certain fans think they know everything, and…
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This Week's Toy News Has Big Mechs, Big Knights, and Big Pokémon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest collectibles and most marvelous merchandise around. This week, we’ve got a whole host of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to assemble, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] goes retro again, and the armored star of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] braves the world of action figures. Check it out!

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‘I’ve Been Obsessed with American Shows Since I Was a Kid’
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Margot Robbie’s Pirates of the Caribbean Film Might Still Set Sail
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] female-led Pirates of the Caribbean film, which was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], might actually be back on the docket. Although Robbie said in an interview a few weeks ago that Disney “wasn’t interested” in the script, Jerry Bruckheimer, the executive producer of all five [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] films, has told [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Funky Doodles by Woman Named Eadburg Found in Medieval Manuscript
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Researchers inspecting a New Testament manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library have discovered Medieval scribbles in the tome’s margins that they believe link the text to a woman named Eadburg.

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Do or Do Not, But There Is Also Try
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...],” evokes the voice of Karis Nemik in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the spirited conclusion to the manifesto he’ll never get to see the end result of—a line that, in the moment, feels like a pointed rejoinder to the philosophy of the Jedi that are entirely absent from the show. But for all their…
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Drought and Christmas Trees | Extreme Earth
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