SEC Charges 4 People in $295 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme
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Meta's Oversight Board to Elon Musk: Stop Pissing Off Twitter's Advertisers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Members of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] weighed in on Elon Musk’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as Twitter CEO Friday, offering their competitor some tactical advice, and even leaving open the possibilities of one day extending its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] judicial services to his platform.
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Everything We Know About the Future of Doctor Who
- Doctor Who [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of both Chris Chibnall as series showrunner and Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor in 2022 with “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...],” bringing to a close a three-season, three-special run.
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The Most Disturbing Hallmark Ornaments of the Last Decade
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Westworld Has Been Canceled by HBO
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Biden's Graphite Headscratcher
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Federal Watchdog Demands Deeper Environmental Reviews of Proposed Satellite Constellations
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a new report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reevaluate how large constellations of satellites are regulated and approved for launch.
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Interview With the Vampire Works So Well Because of Daniel Molloy
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Joe Rogan Walks Back Fake Story About School Using a Litter Box for 'Furry' Student
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] talks a lot of shit, and his newest narrative involved schools providing litter boxes to students that identify as furries. Except that’s not true—obviously—and Rogan clarified his fib on a recent episode of his podcast.
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The First Things To Do In VR, Part 1
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Photos Show the Mississippi River Drying Up
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Mississippi River is still in drought, with no end in sight. The historically low water levels in the busy waterway are disrupting transportation, recreation, and even water quality along the river.
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Nintendo's New Pokémon Themed Switch is Inspiring Me to Buy an OLED Upgrade I Don't Need
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The holidays are a challenging time for so many of us, which is why the last three years having so many Pokémon releases has morphed into a welcome comfort for me, rather than seeming like a blatant cash grab. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will be here on Nov. 18, and Nintendo has launched a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in…
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15 She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Facts Revealed in the Making of Documentary
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Fugitive Crypto Founder Do Kwon May Be Hiding in Europe, Despite Claims He's Totally Not on the Run
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Do Kwon, the Terraform Labs founder who says he’s “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” to hide from South Korean authorities investigating him for violating the country’s capital markets laws may be “vacationing” in Europe.
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How To Start Replacing Your Phone's Passwords With Passkeys
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What to Know About COP27, the World Climate Conference in Egypt
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s that time of year again in climate world, when everyone starts packing their bags and sending emails and writing news articles about a process that is completely and totally incomprehensible to most normal people: the Conference of Parties, or COP. It’s frustrating, boring, and dominated by corporate interests,…
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The Good and Bad of Writing Star Wars, According to Andrew Stanton
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Andrew Stanton knows a thing or two about storytelling. A two-time Oscar winner best known for directing [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...] Stanton has been with Pixar since the very beginning, lending his expertise to not just his films, but [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the studio has released. In between, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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Astrophysicists Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Scientists have discovered a relatively small black hole lurking next to a star in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 1,600 light-years away. It’s now the closest-known back hole to Earth.
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Netflix's Ad-Supported Tier Doesn't Work on Apple TV Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The dawn of streaming with advertising has arrived. This week, Netflix’s ad-supported tier [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on several platforms. Current subscribers can essentially “downgrade” their account to the $7/month tier for Netflix Basics With Ads. It’s a little pricier than competing streaming services, but Netflix hopes you’ll…
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Everything You Know Is Wrong (But So Right) Inside Weird Al's New Graphic Novel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Weird Al’s up to a lot lately, especially with the arrival of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Weird: The Al Yankovic Story on Roku today. But the musician is also dipping into the world of comics with a superstar team up trawling through the lyrics of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and we’ve got a sneak peek.
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NASA’s Megarocket Rolls Back to Launch Pad, With Blastoff Just 10 Days Away
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The towering Space Launch System is back at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following a nine-hour trek from the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building. The agency is targeting November 14 for the rocket’s first launch, an event that will kick off the Artemis 1 mission and NASA’s return to the Moon.
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U.S. Needs a Space Bureau to Regulate the 'New Space Age,' FCC Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has announced a plan to launch a bureau dedicated to the space industry, a move prompted by the ever-increasing number of satellites sent to space.
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These Avatar Funko Pops 'See You'
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Scientists Use Satellites to Measure Tallest Volcanic Plume Ever Recorded
Volcanic eruptions can create serious impacts on human activity and climatic behavior, as ash, gases, and water are lofted high into the sky. While most eruptions are relatively shallow in the atmosphere, the plume generated by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano…
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The 11 Wildest Moments from Elon's First Week at Twitter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just before midnight last Thursday, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] tweeted “the bird is freed.” The message confirmed once and for all that he’d finally, officially, really, actually purchased Twitter. It marked the end of a long saga during which Musk spent months trying to wriggle out of buying the company, leading to a public feud with…
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Here's What's More Likely to Happen to You Than Winning the Powerball
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A winning Powerball lottery ticket is one of the most coveted items in modern capitalism, and with the current estimated jackpot at $1.5 billion, lots of people are buying tickets today. We all know that winning the lottery is rare, but with the jackpot cresting over a billion, the odds of you actually walking home…
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A Warning to Twitter Verified Users: Don't Take the Bait
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There are approximately one million pieces of Twitter news circulating this week. If you’re a user of the site, it could be hard to keep tabs on what’s happening behind the scenes amid Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover.
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Gmail Adding Package Tracking Just in Time for Your Holiday Shopping Spree
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In an effort to streamline your online shopping habit, Google’s Gmail is reportedly adding a feature that lets you track your package.
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Welp, There Goes Twitter's Ethical AI Team, Among Others as Employees Post Final Messages
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter began its highly anticipated mass layoffs Thursday evening by eliminating its top internal critics. Twitter’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], according to former staff, is no more.
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Could They Recast Chadwick Boseman? | Black Panther 2 Interview
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Newly Described Owl Species Looks Like a Meme and Sounds Like a Squeaky Toy
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Bird alert: Scientists formally described a previously obscure species of owl this week. And, good news, it’s a flying meme-generator that sounds like a newborn puppy. Sadly, this special owl is already likely critically endangered.
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Elon 'Dogefather' Musk Reportedly Tells Twitter to Pause Crypto Wallet Efforts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter is refocusing all its efforts on making the most money in the shortest possible time, according to some reports.
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China’s Wayward Rocket Has Disintegrated Over the Pacific Ocean
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The booster from a Chinese Long March 5B rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 6:01 a.m. ET Friday, with debris falling west of the Mexican coast. There are no reports of injuries, but the 22-metric-ton core stage threatened populated areas during its final orbit.
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Google's Long History of Messaging App Rebrands, Pivots, and Retirements—Explained
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google is an absolute menace when it comes to messaging. As it officially [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] its long-running Hangouts app, it’s worth noting that the company has launched [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] different messengers over the course of the last decade and a half. Some of them have had long, confused life cycles; others have died quick and…
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Danny Boyle Really Wants to Direct a New 28 Days Later Sequel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Joker sequel finally starts filming next month. Lewis Pullman teases the new Salem’s Lot adaptation. Agatha: Coven of Chaos keeps expanding its cast. Plus, what’s next on Ghosts, and another new look at Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Spoilers, away!
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Rocket Lab Aborts Second Attempt at Catching a Rocket With a Helicopter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Rocket Lab gave it a second go at its dangerous stunt: catching a rocket mid-air using a large helicopter. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.
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90% of U.S. Coal Plants Are Contaminating Groundwater, Report Finds
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Twitter Is Getting Sued as Elon Musk's Mass Layoffs Start
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Five former Twitter employees who were fired on Thursday have already filed a lawsuit against the social media company for failing to adhere to California’s WARN Act, a law that requires large employers to provide 60 days of notice to employees before mass layoffs. And the lawsuit even calls out another company run by…
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Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Discovered in Ancient South Americans
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Scientists investigating the genomes of ancient South Americans have made a surprising discovery: the presence of DNA from Neanderthals and Denisovans, two species of humans that are now extinct. The findings complicate our understanding of ancient South Americans and their ancestries.
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AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs are Way Cheaper Than the RTX 4090
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Back in August, Dr. Lisa Su introduced the world to AMD’s newest iteration of CPU technology, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]–but she didn’t stop there. We got an announcement for an announcement: RDNA 3, AMD’s next generation of GPU technology. Well, today is November 3rd, and we now know more about AMD’s answer to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Andor Enlists 3 New Directors to Tackle Season 2
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the first season of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] hurtles toward its season finale later this month, development for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is already in the works.
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Fast and Furious Star Sung Kang Just Made a Horror Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Fast and Furious fans would do just about anything for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Case in point, they were so vocal about how poorly his character, Han, was treated, they all but convinced the studio to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now though, Kang might need those fans to support him [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—by seeing a movie he made.
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Please, for the Love of God, Someone Just Let Henry Cavill Talk About
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a very busy time for Henry Cavill lately, what with his formal return to the [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...] from The Witcher, and even throwing a reprisal as London’s second greatest detective in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But he is concerned not with these things. He just wants [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's Talokan Warriors on Opening Doors for More Representation
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Candy Crush Company Finagles Massive Drone Display Over Hudson River Despite NYC’s Ban on Drones
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Drones are going to be lighting up the night sky above the Hudson River Thursday night. Why, you may ask? Well how could you not know it’s Candy Crush Saga’s 10th anniversary? Such an event obviously demands filling the western New York City skyline with displays of poking a silly cupcake to make other cupcakes…
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I Slept in Taylor Swift’s Casket and Did Not Rest in Peace
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s something you need to know about me: I am a huge Taylor Swift fan. So much so that I’ve successfully weaseled my way into transforming that interest into [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It’s also important for me to point out that I get a lot of pitches here at Gizmodo—that’s not a flex, that’s just a fact. With that…
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Jeff Bezos's Former Housekeeper Is Suing Him Over Inhumane Work Conditions
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Billionaire Jeff Bezos is being sued by one of his former housekeepers, Mercedes Wedaa. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], filed Tuesday in Washington’s King County Superior Court, alleges that Wedaa worked for three years in the Amazon founder’s primary residence and other homes. It details alarming claims of racial discrimination, long…
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Largest Trial Yet Shows Promising Results for Psilocybin as Depression Treatment
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A study out this week is the largest of its kind to suggest that psilocybin—the key ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms—can be a potential treatment for depression. The randomized trial found that people with treatment-resistant depression who received a large dose of psilocybin along with psychological support…
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Andor Episode 9 Review
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We Are Less Than 3 Decades Away From Losing Every Glacier in Yosemite National Park, Europe's Dolomite Mountains, and All of Africa
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]All of the glaciers in Yosemite National Park, Italy’s Dolomite mountains, the continent of Africa, and thousands of other individual ice giants are set to disappear over the next 30 years, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from the United Nations.
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Substack Courts Unhappy Twitter Users Looking for a New Home Post-Musk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’ve been on Twitter at all since it [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], you’ve no doubt seen apoplectic users imploding as they worry it’s becoming more of a swamp than it was before—if that’s even possible. In recent days, a barrage of users has lamented the state of blue bird app and collectively asked: What [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Halo's Identity Problem Began With an Admirable Mess
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s a law of nature that eventually, every long-running game franchise will have a particular entry that gets dinged for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from what made it so fun in the first place. Your Super Mario Sunshine, your [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Assassin’s Creed III, and so on. Whether or not that opinion changes more favorably over…
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Open Channel: What's Your Favorite Moment from the God of War Series?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Come this Friday, the PlayStation 5's big hit for the holiday season, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], will finally release. The second installment in Sony Santa Monica’s soft reboot of the hack-and-slash franchise (which started with the PlayStation 4's [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) isn’t just getting good reviews, it’s getting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]ones from…
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Andy Serkis Discusses Andor's Kino Loy and Returning to Star Wars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Over the past month and a half, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]has proven itself to be a pretty excellent show, and its cast is a big reason why. In each arc thus far, Cassian (Diego Luna) has drawn in a variety of different characters into his often chaotic orbit who are, like him, trying to get by under the Empire’s rule. This most recent…
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Vault Comics Launches "Headshell" Imprint for Musician-Led Comics
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John Wick May Have Video Games Involved in His Future
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Henry Cavill's Spent Years "Very Gently" Hoping for a Superman Return
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]That Henry Cavill is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] after technically five years still feels pretty fresh, even though it’s been about two weeks since the news officially broke. Since he finally broke the news, he’s made clear that he wants to come back as a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Man of Steel, and his gratefulness that he’s able to get…
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The Three-Body Problem's Chinese Anime Adaptation Hits Next Month
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Cixin Liu’ssci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem can’t stop jumping to other formats. In addition to next year’s Netflix series from The Terror: Infamy’s Alexander Woo and Game of Thrones creators [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], last year saw the release of a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (different from the audiobook version). And…
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What We Know About the Financiers Who Helped Create This Twitter Mess
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]While Elon Musk’s massive $44 billion buyout of Twitter might seem like a one-man show, it’s really a kind of Suicide Squad of big tech moguls and financiers coming together in a strange rogue’s gallery reunion. Not only were Musk’s personal rich friends in the mix, but the holding companies of Middle Eastern nations…
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Westworld May Be Over, But Its Stars and Creators Still Get Paid for It
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Late Friday afternoon, news broke that HBO had pulled the plug on its sci-fi drama [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] after four seasons. Before this, creators [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] had already planned to bring the twisty and often convoluted series to a close with a fifth and final season, but those plans have been dashed as Warner…
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Microsoft Exec Says We Need More Climate-Smart Workers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft president and vice chair Brad Smith wants thousands of companies to shift from pledging to help solve climate challenges to actually making good on those promises. These companies can’t rise to meet the challenge unless their workers are trained in sustainability, he wrote in a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] this week.
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Go on a Walk With the Real-Life Master Roshi and His Giant Tortoise Friend, No Dragon Balls in Sight
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you thought the picture of the elderly man walking around with a giant turtle looked strangely familiar, you’re not alone. Give the man some sunglasses and beard, and he could be mistaken for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s long-lost twin brother from Dragon Ball. Alas, this man is not skilled in the kamehameha, but is special for…
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Volunteers Needed for Research. Must Like Talking About Your Cat
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Researchers in California are calling for cat owners to do their favorite thing in the name of science: talk about their cat. The team aims to understand how to make remote vet visits more appealing to owners, in hopes of better ensuring that cats can get the regular medical care they need.
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Do Dating Apps' Algorithms Really Expand our Match Pool?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Dating apps present an endless sea of potential matches. But do they actually expand our horizons? And is that good for us? Some studies suggest that dating apps can make us feel that settling down with someone isn’t important or that our chances of romantic and sexual success are infinite and guaranteed, increasing…
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Researchers Spin up Terrifying Hacker Drone That Can 'See Through Walls' With Wifi
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Using a $20 off-the-shelf drone, researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario have created what is effectively an airborne scanning device that can triangulate the location of every WiFi-connected device in your house. Yikes.
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Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his…
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A Carbon Capture Company Wants to Sell Credits on Tech That Hasn’t Been Commercially Tested Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]UK-based “clean” energy company Drax Group is looking to sell offset credits tied to U.S.-based power plants that the company hasn’t even built yet, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. While the company is being vague about specifics, Drax says its first biomass plant with carbon capture technologyis expected to be up and running…
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This Week's Toy News Is Full of Witches, Rebels, and Heroes
[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 merchandise on the internet lately. This week, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] gets her own figure, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lifts the lid on a whole host of Star Wars toys, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] gets hairy. Leafy? Check it out!
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Mayan Representation in Black Panther
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12 of Keith David's Most Memorable Genre Performances (So Far)
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Meta's Oversight Board to Elon Musk: Stop Pissing Off Twitter's Advertisers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Members of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] weighed in on Elon Musk’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as Twitter CEO Friday, offering their competitor some tactical advice, and even leaving open the possibilities of one day extending its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] judicial services to his platform.
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Everything We Know About the Future of Doctor Who
- Doctor Who [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of both Chris Chibnall as series showrunner and Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor in 2022 with “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...],” bringing to a close a three-season, three-special run.
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The Most Disturbing Hallmark Ornaments of the Last Decade
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Back in 2012, I made a list of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] I could find. I updated the list in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but since then, it’s lain dormant while Hallmark has not. The company has been churning out more Christmas ornaments every year, and while most of them are[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], goofy, or lousy, there are a few…
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Westworld Has Been Canceled by HBO
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Biden's Graphite Headscratcher
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Federal Watchdog Demands Deeper Environmental Reviews of Proposed Satellite Constellations
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a new report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reevaluate how large constellations of satellites are regulated and approved for launch.
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Interview With the Vampire Works So Well Because of Daniel Molloy
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Joe Rogan Walks Back Fake Story About School Using a Litter Box for 'Furry' Student
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] talks a lot of shit, and his newest narrative involved schools providing litter boxes to students that identify as furries. Except that’s not true—obviously—and Rogan clarified his fib on a recent episode of his podcast.
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The First Things To Do In VR, Part 1
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Photos Show the Mississippi River Drying Up
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Mississippi River is still in drought, with no end in sight. The historically low water levels in the busy waterway are disrupting transportation, recreation, and even water quality along the river.
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Nintendo's New Pokémon Themed Switch is Inspiring Me to Buy an OLED Upgrade I Don't Need
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The holidays are a challenging time for so many of us, which is why the last three years having so many Pokémon releases has morphed into a welcome comfort for me, rather than seeming like a blatant cash grab. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will be here on Nov. 18, and Nintendo has launched a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in…
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15 She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Facts Revealed in the Making of Documentary
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Fugitive Crypto Founder Do Kwon May Be Hiding in Europe, Despite Claims He's Totally Not on the Run
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Do Kwon, the Terraform Labs founder who says he’s “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” to hide from South Korean authorities investigating him for violating the country’s capital markets laws may be “vacationing” in Europe.
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How To Start Replacing Your Phone's Passwords With Passkeys
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What to Know About COP27, the World Climate Conference in Egypt
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s that time of year again in climate world, when everyone starts packing their bags and sending emails and writing news articles about a process that is completely and totally incomprehensible to most normal people: the Conference of Parties, or COP. It’s frustrating, boring, and dominated by corporate interests,…
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The Good and Bad of Writing Star Wars, According to Andrew Stanton
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Astrophysicists Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Scientists have discovered a relatively small black hole lurking next to a star in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 1,600 light-years away. It’s now the closest-known back hole to Earth.
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Netflix's Ad-Supported Tier Doesn't Work on Apple TV Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The dawn of streaming with advertising has arrived. This week, Netflix’s ad-supported tier [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on several platforms. Current subscribers can essentially “downgrade” their account to the $7/month tier for Netflix Basics With Ads. It’s a little pricier than competing streaming services, but Netflix hopes you’ll…
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Everything You Know Is Wrong (But So Right) Inside Weird Al's New Graphic Novel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Weird Al’s up to a lot lately, especially with the arrival of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Weird: The Al Yankovic Story on Roku today. But the musician is also dipping into the world of comics with a superstar team up trawling through the lyrics of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and we’ve got a sneak peek.
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NASA’s Megarocket Rolls Back to Launch Pad, With Blastoff Just 10 Days Away
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The towering Space Launch System is back at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following a nine-hour trek from the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building. The agency is targeting November 14 for the rocket’s first launch, an event that will kick off the Artemis 1 mission and NASA’s return to the Moon.
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These Avatar Funko Pops 'See You'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Head back to the world of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s Pandora, but make it cute and tiny with Funko Pops. In celebration of the upcoming release of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], we’ve got a first look at the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]line hitting shelves for the holidays. You can find the pre-order for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Scientists Use Satellites to Measure Tallest Volcanic Plume Ever Recorded
Volcanic eruptions can create serious impacts on human activity and climatic behavior, as ash, gases, and water are lofted high into the sky. While most eruptions are relatively shallow in the atmosphere, the plume generated by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano…
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The 11 Wildest Moments from Elon's First Week at Twitter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just before midnight last Thursday, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] tweeted “the bird is freed.” The message confirmed once and for all that he’d finally, officially, really, actually purchased Twitter. It marked the end of a long saga during which Musk spent months trying to wriggle out of buying the company, leading to a public feud with…
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Here's What's More Likely to Happen to You Than Winning the Powerball
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A winning Powerball lottery ticket is one of the most coveted items in modern capitalism, and with the current estimated jackpot at $1.5 billion, lots of people are buying tickets today. We all know that winning the lottery is rare, but with the jackpot cresting over a billion, the odds of you actually walking home…
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A Warning to Twitter Verified Users: Don't Take the Bait
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There are approximately one million pieces of Twitter news circulating this week. If you’re a user of the site, it could be hard to keep tabs on what’s happening behind the scenes amid Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover.
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Gmail Adding Package Tracking Just in Time for Your Holiday Shopping Spree
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In an effort to streamline your online shopping habit, Google’s Gmail is reportedly adding a feature that lets you track your package.
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Welp, There Goes Twitter's Ethical AI Team, Among Others as Employees Post Final Messages
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter began its highly anticipated mass layoffs Thursday evening by eliminating its top internal critics. Twitter’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], according to former staff, is no more.
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Could They Recast Chadwick Boseman? | Black Panther 2 Interview
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Newly Described Owl Species Looks Like a Meme and Sounds Like a Squeaky Toy
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Bird alert: Scientists formally described a previously obscure species of owl this week. And, good news, it’s a flying meme-generator that sounds like a newborn puppy. Sadly, this special owl is already likely critically endangered.
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Elon 'Dogefather' Musk Reportedly Tells Twitter to Pause Crypto Wallet Efforts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter is refocusing all its efforts on making the most money in the shortest possible time, according to some reports.
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Indiana Jones Could Be Getting Its Own Disney+ Show
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] set to be the last time Harrison Ford dons the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], seemingly for real this time, the world of the globe-trotting, Nazi-decking archaeologist might live on beyond him in a new streaming show.
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Elizabeth Holmes Won't Get the New Trial She Desperately Wanted
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We may be finally drawing close to the end of the migraine-inducing episodic Theranos drama, and we’re not even talking about the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes now has a sentencing date after being convicted of scamming close to $900 million from investors with her company’s blood testing startup.
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Ex-Twitter Engineer Accuses Twitter of Retaliation for Helping Doomed Coworkers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] One of the nearly 4,000 Twitter employees [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the company‘s tumultuous post-Elon Musk [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] says the company illegally targeted him for trying to help fellow employees save documents prior to their abrupt removal from the company.
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Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not, New Research Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For all of Apple’s talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones do have a privacy setting that is supposed to turn off that tracking. According to a new report by independent researchers, though, Apple collects extremely detailed information on you with its own apps…
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John Wick Spin-Off Ballerina Is Bringing Back Ian McShane as Winston
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Winston—the linchpin of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—is not only getting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Peacock exploring his younger days, he’ll also appear in spin-off movie Ballerina. There, the de facto Continental boss will be played by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], who originated the character opposite Keanu Reeves in 2014's [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Florida Braces for Possible Hurricane as Tropical Storm Nicole Strengthens
Parts of Florida’s East Coast and multiple islands in the Bahamas are under a hurricane warning. Tropical Storm Nicole is about 310 miles away from the northwestern Bahamas and 420 miles away from West Palm Beach, and is expected to grow stronger, into a category 1 hurricane, as it moves westward, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Art Is a Revolution in This Look Inside Salamandre
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]How do you grieve in a land where art is forbidden? That’s the fascinating question at the heart of Tales From the Umbrella Academy writer [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the latest release from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s comics imprint at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and io9 has a sumptuous look inside.
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The U.S. Is in For A Dry Winter | Extreme Earth
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The Best Printers for Making Professional Looking Photos at Home
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Every photographer eventually runs into the question of how to make prints. Maybe a client wants one as part of their package for a wedding, or a follower absolutely loves a shot you posted on Instagram and wants to hang it in their home. Maybe you just want to hold the work you’re proud of in your own hands and hang…
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Drought Looms Over Midterm Elections in the Arid West
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Chuck Wendig's Wayward Is Almost Here, and io9 Has Another Sneak Peek
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Way back in 2019, io9 revealed an excerpt from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—a book about a pandemic of sorts that went on to be a hit amid a real-world pandemic. Then, in late 2021, we revealed [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Wayward, which was originally due in August 2022. That got bumped a…
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Webb Telescope's Mid-Infrared Camera Is Fully Back in Action After Worrisome Glitch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After a hiatus, one of Webb Space Telescope’s cameras will be fully operational again following an engineering test that took place last week.
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A Lot Can Change in 10,000 Years—Maybe These Hot Cheetos Won't
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Drought Is Killing Zebras, Elephants, and Wildebeest in East Africa
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]More than one thousand of some of Kenya’s most endangered animals have died this year because of a devastating drought gripping the region.
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Largest Crypto Firm Binance to Acquire Rival FTX After Exchange Stops Processing Withdrawals
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The crypto winter has swallowed one of the world’s leading crypto suppliers. FTX, which up until now was ranked the third largest exchange by trading volume, announced Tuesday they were being acquired by rival exchange Binance, the absolute largest exchange in the biz.
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Terrifier 2, the Sleeper Horror Hit of the Season, Arrives on Digital This Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hollywood loves a good underdog story, and this year, there wasn’t a bigger underdog success than indie sensation Terrifier 2. A sequel to an even smaller 2016 film, the gross-out slasher about a killer clown named Art [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] outside of the horror community. That it got a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Deadpool 3 Director Shawn Levy to Develop a Star Wars Film
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Add yet another mysterious Star Wars movie to the mix. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] reports that Shawn Levy, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] behind Stranger Things, Night at the Museum, and Free Guy is gearing up to develop a film in a galaxy far far away. He’ll focus on that after completing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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If You Weren’t Zuko & Korra, Which Character Would You Perform? | Avatar’s Janet Varney & Dante Basco
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De Bethune's $93,500 Timepieces Now Come With Custom, Robot-Powered Calibration
Unlike $20 digital Casios, mechanical watches are incredibly finicky devices, and their ability to keep accurate time can be affected by a number of factors, from the weather to how they’re worn. Swiss watchmaker De Bethune has come up with an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to avoid issues, by…
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Is a Cathartic Cinematic Celebration
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]That [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] works completely defies logic. The film juggles so many storylines, so many characters, and so many emotions, when you’re watching it, you half expect it to fall apart. Which, frankly, most of the audience would probably be okay with. It’s not every day a major Hollywood blockbuster…
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Runners Suffer Heat Injuries During Record-Hot New York City Marathon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]About 50,000 people registered for the New York City Marathon this year. It was the first time the race was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] since 2019 and the beginning of the pandemic. Yet not all of those who started the marathon made it to the end. More than [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] cross the finish line before the cut-off time.…
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The First Things To Do In VR, Part 2
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See the Best Photos of This Morning's Lunar Eclipse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This morning, the Sun, Earth, and Moon aligned in such a way that our planet’s shadow completely enveloped the Moon in a lunar eclipse. During the fleeting event, the Moon took on a blood-red hue across many parts of the world.
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McDonald's Created a Grease-Proof Gaming Chair
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Auto Detailing Company Recalls a Batch of Its Hand Sanitizers That May Contain Methanol
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A Colorado-based auto detailing company has recalled its hand sanitizer from the market due to it possibly containing methanol, a toxic type of alcohol that could lead to death if ingested.
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Maybe James Cameron Won't Make 5 Avatar Movies After All
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]How many [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]does one person need in a single lifetime? For years—pretty much since the film debuted in 2009, becoming the highest-grossing movie in the world—that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], according to director James Cameron. Now, he seems to be hedging his bets on his giant, lanky blue cat people.
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Instagram's 'Billionaire Gucci Master' Handed 11-Year Sentence for Money Laundering and Fraud Scam
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One former star of the luxury Instagram influencer circuit will spend some time behind bars after he admitted to gaining much of his wealth through a massive, international money laundering and fraud scheme.
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LG's Stretchable, Smooshable Screen Promises a Future of Shatter-Proof Gadgets
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The price of gadgets is only going to continue to increase, making the sting of accidentally dropping your smartphone or tablet and watching the screen shatter to thousands of pieces even more painful. But what if screens were the most durable part of a touchscreen device? That’s a future I’m ready for, and one that…
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Jason Momoa Teases a Mysterious New DC Project Thanks to James Gunn's New Era
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The cast of Dwayne Johnson’s wild Santa Netflix movie Red One continues to get more absurd. Chris Pratt’s Garfield adds a few more faces to its cast. The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon spinoff has found a major star. Plus, The Umbrella Academy teases its end. Spoilers, away!
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Would You Read a Book of Spiritual Poetry Written by an AI?
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All Is Not Well at NASA's JPL
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s JPL is struggling with issues related to budget, staffing, and poor communications, forcing the space agency to delay a highly anticipated mission to Venus.
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Researchers Claim TikTok's Suppressing Get Out The Vote Efforts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]TikTok, once viewed by many as a type of digital life raft largely removed from politics, may be “consistently and dramatically suppressing,” nonpartisan voting content on its platform amid the high stakes midterm elections. If confirmed, the supposed suppression efforts could risk reigniting still smoldering concerns…
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$1.9 Billion Powerball Numbers Finally Drawn After Security Delay
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Update November 8, 10:00 a.m. EST: The Powerball numbers have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] following last night’s security issue.
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Elon Musk Considers Putting All of Twitter Behind Paywall in Latest Genius Idea
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk is considering a change to Twitter that would put all of the site’s content behind a paywall, according to a new report from tech journalist Casey Newton at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The news comes in the wake of some bizarre decisions by Musk after he took control of the social media company late last month—a marriage…
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Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Created a VR Headset That Kills You If You Die in the Game
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in a lot of dumb sci-fi movies that involve virtual reality: you die in the game, you die in real life. In said movies, characters get trapped in a video game and must play for their lives. If their avatar perishes, so do they.
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The Batman Live Score Headlines the 'DC in Concert' Series
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Andor Season 2 Was Inspired by a Mystery Summer Blockbuster
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Greece Is Banning All Sales of Spyware After a Huge Phone-Tapping Scandal
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After continually deflecting accusations that it [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] droves of politicians and journalists using invasive phone-tapping software, the Greek government has decided to ban the sale of spyware altogether. But the government also wants everybody to know that this is in no way an admission of guilt and that it…
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Brace Yourself, Nerd: Holiday Shopping Starts Now
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The window between [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Christmas is a whole lot smaller than it used to be, thanks to the likes of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] who is now in full Sandy Claws mode. It’s officially time to start getting those holiday lists ready and see what pop culture goods are going to be fit to put under (or on!) the tree.
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DOJ Announces Expanded In-Person Poll Monitoring
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Department of Justice will be stepping up its in-person election monitoring efforts on Tuesday, compared with 2020's presidential election. The agency plans to deploy federal monitors from the its Civil Rights Division, Office of Personnel Management, and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to polling places in 64 …
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Twitter's Ex-Election Head Says the Real Test for Blue Bird Will Be Post-Midterms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just how ready is Twitter to handle the likely deluge of new election disinformation after Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections? According to one recent exec, it’s not looking good.
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Zootopia+ Invites You to Watch Some Bite-Size Slices of Life
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Step back into the sprawling animal metropolis of Disney’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]with Zootopia+, anew series that spins off side adventures with some of the film’s scene-stealing characters. Taking the reins from film directors Rich Moore and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] original series are Josie Trinidad (who was co-head of…
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It Shouldn't Be This Hot
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]November is supposed to bring colder weather to the Northern hemisphere, but this year the month began with unusually high temperatures.
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Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Fails to Deploy Solar Array Shortly After Laun
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Cygnus cargo spacecraft has run into some trouble on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), as one of its two solar arrays is refusing to deploy.
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Please Don't Lick the DMT Toads, Begs the National Park Service
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you kiss a frog, you don’t get a prince. But if you lick a Sonoran desert toad (Incilius alvarius, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Bufo alvarius) you might have a transformative, quasi-religious psychedelic experience—or you might get sick and die. And either way, the National Park Service is asking that you don’t do it on the agency’s…
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How Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's Talokan Will Impact the Marvel Cinematic Universe Going Forward
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Potential Hurricane Poses Threat to NASA’s Upcoming Moon Launch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has entered into a hurricane preparedness mode as Subtropical Storm Nicole threatens the peninsula. At the same time, the space agency says its 321-foot-tall SLS rocket will remain at the launch pad—at least for now.
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Instagram's Video Selfie Age Verification System Goes Live in the U.K.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Instagram’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for teens went live this week in the United Kingdom, around six months after the the company began testing the tool.
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William Shatner on Jeff Bezos
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Billionaires Are Funding Climate Destruction
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The world’s wealthiest people are responsible for about a million times more emissions than the world’s lowest earners when you take into account their investments, a new report has found. The report, issued Sunday by Oxfam, finds that the world’s 125 wealthiest people—including American billionaires Bill Gates, Jim…
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Feds Seize Over $1 Billion in Crypto Originally Stolen from Dark Web Drug Marketplace Silk Road
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The largest amount of illicit funds ever recovered by federal law enforcement came in the form of bitcoin on a disconnected drive stuffed at the bottom of one Georgia man’s linen closet.
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Segment of Doomed Challenger Space Shuttle Found at Bottom of Atlantic
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A film crew working on a series about the Bermuda Triangle has made an unexpected discovery off the coast of Florida: a 20-foot segment of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which exploded in flight in one of NASA’s major tragedies.
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The Best Robotic STEM Toys to Fill The Lego Mindstorms Hole in Your Heart
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For almost a quarter of a century, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which allowed both kids and adults to build fully-functional bots from Lego and Technic pieces, was one of the most capable STEM toys available, both for those looking to dive into robotics and those who just wanted to build cool machines.
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Lucy & Danny Devito Tell io9 About Their Love for Looney Tunes and Ren & Stimpy
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The Year of Michelle Yeoh Continues in The Witcher: Blood Origin
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Even if [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] hadn’t been a bona fide hit, the prequel series Blood Origin would have had us watching the minute it announced [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] star [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was cast as a lead. And with this new look at Netflix’s Blood Origin miniseries, we’re even more all in... because it’s frickin’…
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Studio Ghibli Teases a Collaboration With Lucasfilm and Everyone Is Freaking Out
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Apple Restricts AirDrop Feature in China, Making It Harder to Share Images With Random People
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New changes to Apple’s AirDrop file sharing tool in China could make it more difficult for political dissidents or protesters to share information critical of the government. The oddly timed software changes, which limit the amount of time users can AirDrop files to non-contacts, comes less than one month after…
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Elon Musk's Layoffs Cut Deep Into Twitter's Engineering Department, Document Shows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Headlines about the massive job losses at Twitter have focused on the big numbers—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] left without a position, trying to find employment when their contracts run out on January 3, and in the meantime feeling unwanted at headquarters in San Francisco. (Unless, of course, you’re one of the…
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John Wick Aims for the Heart in Chapter 4's New Trailer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The ultra-violent John Wick series is back, this time with more heart, hurt, and neon lights than ever before. With Keanu Reeves’ signature flair for the dramatic, intense, and desperate, the newest installment is truly a testosterone-fueled gunfest of epic proportions, full of fantastic sword fights, chases on…
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WeWork Is Closing 40 Offices in a Bid to Actually Make Money
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]WeWork, the real estate startup that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] into believing it was a $47 billion tech venture, is downsizing. The co-working company plans to close 40 “underperforming locations,” according to its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] report, published Thursday.
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Guillermo del Toro Reveals Horrifying At the Mountains of Madness VFX
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last night, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] dropped some VFX footage on Instagram from his canceled production of his adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The clip was created by Industrial Light and Magic, which demonstrates that he was pretty far along in the film’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and was minutes…
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Microsoft Co-Founder's Massive Art Collection Sells for Eye-Popping $1.5 Billion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Original Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s massive art collection has already sold for over $1.506 billion as of Wednesday morning, according to the auction house [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. More than half of those lots have sold for far above their estimated price range, and five of the paintings were priced above $100 million. In…
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Keanu Reeves Will Return as Constantine
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’re horror-heavy this morning, with updates from [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...]. There are also a couple of updates from Star Girl and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]; obviously, superheroes need their due too. Don’t look now, but there’s... a spoiler following you...
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October Was Bad News for the U.S. Drought
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Recent hot and dry conditions have only fueled the seemingly endless drought that’s pummeling the U.S. for months. October saw higher-than-average temperatures and lower-than-average precipitation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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What the Midterms Told Us About the Future of Climate Action
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s that time of year again, when climate hawks gather around to read the tea leaves about what happened in U.S. national elections. This year’s climate campaign trail, for Democrats, was a lot different than previous years, thanks to the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S.’s first national…
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Hundreds of Deaths in Texas Prisons Caused by Extreme Heat
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FLIR Redesigned Its Predator-Vision Thermal Camera to Work With Any Mobile Device
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Back in 2014, FLIR brought the same thermal imaging technology used by law enforcement and militaries to consumers through an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The latest version, the new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], no longer requires a physical connection to a mobile device, and it works equally well…
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Musk Ends Twitter’s ‘Work From Home Forever’ Policy in First Email to Staff
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s clear that Twitter owner and supreme ruler Elon Musk has no problem bombarding his employees with bad news. In his first email to the remaining staff he didn’t lay off on Wednesday, Musk purportedly ended Twitter’s permanent remote work policy and said that employees would be expected to be in the office at least…
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Here's Where Tech Won and Lost in the Midterms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The 2022 midterms are officially over. Well, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. If you don’t know what’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], feel free to just Google it. For our purposes here at Gizmodo, we wanted to take a quick look at how the midterms may have impacted technology. In addition to hotly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] congressional races, this election cycle saw voters …
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Steve Jobs' Gross Old Sandals Go Up For Auction
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Have you ever wanted to own a piece of Apple history, like the first Macintosh computer or an original Steve Jobs business card? Would you settle for some gross, old sandals worn by Steve Jobs? Because, if so, have we got a deal for you.
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DOJ and SEC Investigating FTX Collapse as Entire Crypto Market Plunges
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating FTX, a crypto platform that halted withdrawals on Tuesday, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. And while the SEC’s investigation has reportedly been going “for months,” the agency’s scrutiny has only expanded this…
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Interview With the Vampire Prepares for a Bloody, Twisted Finale
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After a brutal [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], episode six of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] “Like Angels Put in Hell By God,” had a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ahead of it. The episode couldn’t downplay the horror of the violence that occurred, but it still had to find a way to make Lestat at least a little sympathetic—while…
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Andor's Torture Device Originally Had a Sound to Go With It
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The creatively cruel ways the Empire [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have been vividly showcased on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], likefloors with the power to fry people. But there’s none more disturbing than Imperial Security Bureau officer Dedra Meero’s weapon of choice: headphones that play the sounds of a species that can transmit their painful death…
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Andor's Luthen Rael Is a Profound Look at the Cost of Rebellion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]People die in the name of rebellion in Star Wars [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. X-Wings blinking out in balls of flame above the Death Star, speeders splintering on the salt of Crait. Heroic last stands like Admiral Holdo, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Anakin Skywalker, or Kanan Jarrus. But [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] offers a view of sacrifice arguably as…
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Nailed It: Amazon Becomes the First Company Ever to Lose $1 Trillion in Stock Value
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amazon, one of the first companies to join the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], just passed another, admittedly less desirable milestone. This week, Jeff Bezos’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] became the first publicly traded company to lose $1 tillion in market valuation.
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NASA on Track to Test Its Inflatable Heat Shield in Space Tomorrow Morning
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The final flight of an Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California will see the launch of an advanced weather satellite, in addition to the heat shield experiment.
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China’s New Megarocket Design Shows NASA’s SLS Is Already Obsolete
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Reusable rockets, whether large or small, are the future, and as a newly unveiled model of a Long March 9 launch vehicle suggests, Chinese rocket scientists are coming around to the idea.
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Florida Airports and Theme Parks Shut Down as Storm Nicole Closes In
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Four counties in Florida are under mandatory evacuation orders. Residents in certain zones of Nassau, Palm Beach, Flagler, and Volusia counties have all been told to leave, ahead of likely flooding coming from storm Nicole.
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Doctors Treated a Deadly Genetic Disease Before Birth for the First Time
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A team of doctors in the U.S. and Canada are reporting a medical first. They were able to start treating a child’s rare and often deadly genetic condition while she was still a fetus in the womb—the same condition that claimed the lives of her siblings. Now 16 months old, the child, named Ayla, appears to be…
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The Christmas Bloody Christmas Trailer Is Here to Spread Murderous Santa Cheer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When an “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” with laser eyes goes violently haywire, it’s up to a gaggle of over-it townspeople to defend their lives and maybe save the holidays while they’re at it. Check out this fun trailer for Christmas Bloody Christmas, set to a riff-tastic version of “Carol of the Bells,”…
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Who Is Working to End the Threat of AI-Generated Deepfakes, and Why Is It So Difficult?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Like many of the world’s best and worst ideas, MIT researchers’ plan to combat AI-generated deepfakes was hatched when one of their number watched their favorite not-news news show.
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The Witch From Mercury Might Be Setting Up a Dark Secret for Its Gundam
[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 no stranger to some very messed up ideas. War is hell, of course, and the ruling powers that play with it are even more hellish: for 40 years, an unending litany of bad things have happened to the good people in Gundam’s worlds. But [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] could be setting up the stage for a…
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FTX Says It May Have Been 'Hacked,' as $600 Million in Crypto is Myste
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hundreds of millions of dollars in assets were mysteriously siphoned out of the collapsing crypto exchange FTX on Friday, in what exchange officials have referred to as a potential “hacking” incident.
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Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw is Making Its Way to Podcasts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Thus far, every time you hear that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is cooking something up, it’s worth paying attention to. Just this year alone, he delivered a fun, occasionally grim look at the Hollywood and entertainment culture machinery with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]back in July, followed by his reunion with longtime collaborator Keegan-Michael Key…
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Thunderbolts Will Drop a Bomb on the Marvel Cinematic Universe
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ever since Stranger Things arrived on Netflix in 2016, folks have been enamored with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. While he’s been one of those actors who’ve always been around, you may not have realized it before his turn as Hopper in the Netflix series. That show gave his career a huge boost, and it’s only grown after he joined…
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Berserk's Original Anime is Coming to Netflix
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been 18 since months since the death of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], creator of the best-selling manga Berserk. In the time since his passing, the Young Animal manga responsible for publishing the high fantasy series has confirmed that it’ll live on past the recently released [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Mirua’s close friend Kouji Mori, who’s…
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Interview With the Vampire's Jacob Anderson on His Character Inspiration
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I hold up a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to the camera; it’s a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a resin art toy that my friend made. “Is that a plague doctor?” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], star of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, asks as I turn it around to show him the little details. Anderson has a collection of art toys himself, so I thought I’d share a few of my own…
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Grogu & the Dust Bunnies is a Cute, Innocent Collaboration Between Lucasfilm and Studio Ghibli
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier in the week, and after double checking that it was the official account, everyone’s eyebrows raised when they saw [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] use its Twitter to tease a collaboration with Lucasfilm. Followed by a single cryptic tease, speculation ran wild: did Disney convince [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to do a short for Star Wars…
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All the Execs That Have Quit Elon’s Twitter (So Far)
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has essentially set the company on fire—and critical employees are running as fast as they can to escape the flames.
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See Some of the Year's Best Nature Photos
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The world is filled with breathtaking natural landscapes and displays of life in movement. And the recently announced winners of the Nature Conservancy’s annual Photo Contest provide many dazzling examples of both.
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How Apple’s ‘Ask App not to Track’ Prompt Helped TikTok's War Against Facebook
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In April, 2021, Apple dropped a nuclear bomb on the world of online advertising. The company rolled out a new iPhone privacy setting called App Tracking Transparency, or ATT, that shows you, an iPhone user, a popup asking if you want to “Allow this app to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites?”…
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Every Terrible Thing That's Happened to Twitter in the Last Two Weeks: A Review
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Despite the fact that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is basically the real-life equivalent of the “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” meme, we just can’t look away. A train wreck in slow motion, it feels like we’re all paying witness to some horrible, once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, sorta like glimpsing the Hindenburg explode. From…
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After Attacking Medical Center, Hackers Leak Patients' Abortion Details to the Dark Web
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After attacking a major healthcare provider in Australia earlier this year, cybercriminals dumped a large selection of data to the internet this week, including customers’ personal health information. The leak reportedly includes sensitive documents related to some patients’ medical procedures, including pregnancies…
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Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users With Privacy Settings After Gizmodo Story
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly harvesting iPhone user data even when the company’s own privacy settings promise not to. The suit, filed Thursday in California federal court, comes days after [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on research into how multiple iPhone apps send Apple analytics data,…
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: An io9 Roundtable
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Black Panther: Wakanda Forever [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and to say that Marvel’s latest—the sequel to 2018’s smash hit Black Panther, which won three Oscars—at was highly, highly anticipated is putting it rather mildly. io9’s Germain Lussier and Cheryl Eddy and Gizmodo’s David Ewalt sat down to discuss the MCU’s return to…
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The Black Panther Rises in This Week's Toy News
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the most fun geeky merch around. This week, the Transformers get into the holiday spirit, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] gets a new Hot Toys figure, and all hail [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Check it out!
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Twitter Verification is a Hot Mess
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10 Years Ago Today, Final Fantasy XIV Destroyed Its World to Build a New One
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ten years ago, in a cataclysmic rain of flaring energy, Final Fantasy XIV died. That’s both true in the sense that the land of Eorzea was raked with the almighty megaflare of one of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s most powerful beings, the dragon Bahamut, and that developer Square Enix shut down the servers of its troubled MMORPG for…
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Dream Team Alert: Bitcoin Magazine (Maybe) Teams Up With Fossil Fuel Giant, Shell
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Everybody’s two favorite [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...], cryptocurrency and fossil fuels, are teaming up. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], owned by Bitcoin Inc., announced a new partnership with Shell on Thursday. The oil and gas company reportedly signed a two-year deal, agreeing to sponsor the crypto publication’s 2023 and…
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TikTok Silently Prepares to Launch In-App Shopping
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I hope you’re in the mood for more people trying to sell you stuff while browsing social media, because that’s exactly what you’re getting this Christmas. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] first reported that select businesses in the U.S. are being asked to participate in the TikTok’s new shopping experience just as the world tilts ever more…
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Satellite Sets New Relay Record for Sending Martian Messages to Earth
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For 19 years, the Mars Express spacecraft has orbited the Red Planet, providing breathtaking views and valuable insights of Mars. The hard-working orbiter has not only relayed its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] back to Earth, but also provided a communication line between other Martian missions and ground control.
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Photos and Videos Show Hurricane Nicole's Destruction in Florida
Nicole made landfall on Florida’s east coast in the wee hours of Thursday morning as a category 1 hurricane, before weakening and sweeping across the whole peninsula as a tropical storm.
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You'll Never Escape Your Cubicle Now That The Walls Can Follow You
Capitalism has resulted in the creation of some truly soul-sucking ideas, including the cubicle: an office without the privacy, comfort, or permanence of a real room. But if the open office trend (which has its own problems) has given you a glimmer of hope that one day you might be able to escape corporate America’s on…
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Sony and Toyota Are Joining Forces to Flex Japan's Semiconductor Muscles
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Some of Japan’s leading tech companies are joining forces as part of a $500 million push by their host government to cement Japan’s status as leader in the advanced semiconductor space.
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Celebrate 20 Years of Spider-Man Movies With This Trip Down VFX Lane
The last two decades have given us four Spider-Men [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], from Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker all the way to the vanguard lead in animation as Miles Morales swings across the Spider-Verse. In all that time, Sony’s Imageworks VFX house has been part of the team that’s breathed life into [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...],…
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Looks Like We're Going to Have to Get Used to China's Crashing Rockets
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Less than a week after China’s Long March 5B rocket performed an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a Chinese official revealed plans to amp up the launch rate of these rocket within the next few years.
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The Dead Friends Society Is a Beyond the Grave Slasher Story
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The Logitech G Fits Are as Good as Gaming Earbuds Can Be, Which is Just OK
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Gaming headphones with special features that make them suited to the trials of competitive gaming are everywhere, but gaming earbuds are few and far between. There are plenty of Bluetooth earbuds and wired earbuds that market themselves for gaming, but the EPOS GTW 270 Hybrid buds and HyperX Cloud MIX buds are two of…
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We Finally Get Our Star Wars Prison Break | Andor Review
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Simu Liu on Manifesting Shang-Chi in Destin Daniel Cretton's Avengers: Kang Dynasty
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At the recent [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Holiday Gala in Los Angeles, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was on hand as the pop culture retailer’s Giving Ambassador for the holiday season. io9 caught up with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] star to talk about the season of giving—the event celebrated 150 million meals donated to…
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The Return of the American Bison Is an Environmental Boon—and a Logistical Mess
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Space Force Wants to Launch Satellites Faster Than Anyone Has Ever Attempted
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The prospect of losing critically important satellites during war has led to “Victus Nox”—a rapid response experiment in which private Space Force partners will need to launch a satellite within 24 hours of receiving the “go” order.
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Netflix Announces Its First-Ever Livestream Comedy Event
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Soon after bringing ads onto Netflix through its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] tier, the streaming giant is now ready to introduce a brand new feature that will make “Netflix history.” Are you ready for this? Buckle up. It’s… it’s a livestream.
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Open Channel: What Are Your Favorite Moments of Kevin Conroy as Batman?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier today, the news broke that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] passed away at the age of 66. Conroy was best known for being Batman—not just in the iconic ‘90s Animated Series and its fellow DCAU sequels [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]and Batman Beyond, but nearly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] within the last 20 years, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and very briefly in…
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A Stone Age Cold Case: Ötzi the ‘Iceman’ Thawed and Refroze Many Times, Researchers Say
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In 1991, a pair of climbers encountered a human body sticking out of the ice high in the Italian alps. Though its skin was preserved—complete with tattoos—the body turned out to be 5,300-year-old remains, mummified by the frigid, dry conditions in which the man died. Now known as Ötzi, the famously well-preserved…
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Helicopters, Gliders, and a Billionaire's Vanity Project Come to Microsoft Flight Simulator Today
Believe it or not, the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, first released in November of 1982, is actually older than the company’s most iconic product: Windows. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, today the company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that, among other aircraft,…
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How To Turn Your Phone Into a ‘Minimalist’ Phone to Reduce Distractions
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The smartphones that we carry around with us everywhere are fantastic little devices, capable of entertaining and informing and communicating with the rest of the world—but they can be incredibly distracting too. If you’ve decided that your phone is sucking up too much of your time and attention, there are numerous…
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Sam Bankman-Fried's 'Effective Altruism' Team Resigns Amid FTX Meltdown
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It turns out “effective altruism” isn’t so effective when a billionaire donor’s money dries up.
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12 Games Based on TV and Films, Ranked
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Elon Is Re-Verifying Neo-Nazis and Selling Blue Checks to Transphobes and QAnoners
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A hodgepodge of Twitter’s worst individuals were sporting shiny blue check marks on Friday, including notorious [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...] Richard Spencer, thanks to the ill-conceived money grab of the platform’s new owner, Elon Musk.
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Watch an Exclusive Clip From the Finale of Interview With the Vampire
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In this exclusive clip from the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, Louis, Lestat, and Claudia approach local businessman, Tom Anderson, with a proposal. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] airs on AMC this Sunday, November 13. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] isn’t all that spoiler heavy, but if you’re protecting your viewing…
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Android Auto's Makeover Prioritizes the Map and Focuses on a Split-Screen Experience
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Android Auto’s new look is rolling out to testers today, though it’s not ready for primetime just yet. The makeover teased earlier in the year is still only a beta. It won’t be available in full until 2023.
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How Oil & Gas Funding Distorts Energy Research
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Journalists like me often seek out academics for comment and insight on stories related to the energy transition, since these professors have often done in-depth research into various fuel sources and their impacts. The hope is that these sources are relatively unbiased; their loyalty is to the data. But a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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The Next Godzilla Movie Has an Unsurprising Title
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]J.K. Simmons is Santa in Dwayne Johnson’s Red One. The Batman’s HBO Max spinoff for the Penguin will be set after the events of the movie. Plus, what’s coming on Stargirl, American Horror Story: NYC, and more. Spoilers now!
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Kevin Conroy, the Definitive Voice of Batman, Has Died
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Kevin Conroy—the actor who became [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] when he voiced the Dark Knight in the iconic Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League cartoons, as well as a plethora of video games, including the Batman Arkham franchise—has died. He was 66.
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Elizabeth Holmes Asks Judge to Please Be Nice to Her
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elizabeth Holmes and her legal defense team are asking for an 18-month period of house arrest, as opposed to the maximum 80 years of potential jail time the Theranos founder faces. In a lengthy memo pleading for leniency, Holmes requested that the court “look beyond that caricature,” of her in the media and “examine…
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Alexa-Powered Side Table Mixes Drinks on Command
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and sometimes you just want to stay at home and drink in silence. There’s no judgment here, but a night in doesn’t mean you have to serve yourself, not when a bit of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] can [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] into a…
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Okay, Now Hayao Miyazaki Has a Grogu Figurine, What Is Happening [Upda
[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...]i, the maker of acclaimed anime films like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and more, tweeted the Lucasfilm logo yesterday, people [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] wondering what it might be. Now Ghibli has issued an even more intriguing tease, and I expect everyone will be losing their minds[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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FTX Declares Bankruptcy and Sam Bankman-Fried Resigns in Latest Crypto Blowup
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]RIP FTX. The company announced Friday morning that they were starting Chapter 11, AKA reorganizational bankruptcy proceedings. In addition, CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s other crypto firm, Alameda Research and Weste Realm Shires Services, which is also known as FTX.US, are also tangled up in the proceedings.
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DeviantArt Has a Plan to Keep Its Users' Art Somewhat Safe From AI Image Generators
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The year of our lord 2022 could be accurately described as the rise of AI. Instead of Skynet raining fire on our heads, we have AI image generators creating a different kind of apocalypse, especially for artists who promote their work online. So far, few have tried to answer how creators can actually respond to…
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15 Fake Verified Twitter Accounts Causing Absolute Chaos Right Now
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion just two weeks ago and he’s already made a complete mess of the social media company. Advertisers are fleeing, literal neo-Nazis are getting verified, and impersonator accounts are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And Musk needs to figure out a way to make $1.2 billion in debt payments each…
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25 Years Later, Pokémon's Ash Ketchum Is Finally a World Champion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]He’s wanted to be the very best for a very long time, but perpetual kid/two-and-a-half-decade-long [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Ash Ketchum is, at long last, an official Pokémon world champion.
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Twitter Brings Back 'Official' Verified Badge Because Elon Musk Has No Idea What He's Doing
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter has reintroduced the “Official” gray verification badge for high-profile accounts like brands and celebrities, according to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] account. The Official badge was first introduced on Wednesday, only to see new CEO Elon Musk get rid of the badge the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But by late Thursday, the official…
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