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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One of the Affordable Care Act’s most hardcore and hardheaded opponents has finally struck down one of the most consequential and beneficial aspects of the law. On Thursday, Texas District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that insurance companies are no longer forced to offer free cancer screenings, HIV screenings, diabetes…
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Severe Storms Coming to Central U.S.: 'Start Preparing'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What may be a series of severe storms is predicted to hit states all over the U.S. Midwest, Central Plains, and the South beginning Friday. This includes the risk of thunderstorms and even tornadoes extending through the next couple weeks.

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Star Trek Is Finally Making That Starfleet Academy TV Series
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Paramount has been trying to figure out a show centered around Star Trek’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—you know, the place where Starfleet educates its captains, science officers, engineers, etc. before sending them out on five-year missions to explore strange new worlds and whatnot. Well, now they’ve found the…
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April Fools' Day Is the Perfect Time to Watch These 10 Horror Parodies
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Twitter Details How Much Money API Access Will Cost Now
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a poorly thought out plan to make Twitter as profitable as possible, Twitter has officially unveiled three new tiers of API access: Free, Basic, and Enterprise. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] after public backlash.

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The Power Shows That Political Satire Hasn't Lost its Spark
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In The Power, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the same name, women begin to spontaneously emit electricity. Across the world, for seemingly no reason, young girls activate a latent organ–called a skein–in their bodies that allows them to generate and then direct electrical currents.…
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Bing Chat Is Already Polluted With Bad Ads
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it’s no surprise that tech giants like Microsoft are shifting their attention to monetization. As with so many struggles, the real question of who comes out winning will probably be determined by who manages to make the most profit. Enter: Bing Chat ads.

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Netflix Might Bring Its Games to TVs in Effort to Get People to Actually Play Them
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Higher quality TV and movies? No. A standard of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? Nah. Mobile games on your TV? Yup. That appears to be Netflix’s plan after a developer found some hidden code while digging through the platform. The company’s actually been offering games on mobile since 2021, but given paltry…
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AI Ethics Group Says ChatGPT Violates FTC Rules, Calls for Investigation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A prominent AI ethics organization submitted a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission this week urging the agency to investigate [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and halt its development of future large language learning models. The complaint, filed by the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), alleged [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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NASA's Massive Rocket Transporter Is Officially a Record-Breaking Big Boy
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 was originally designed to carry [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] nearly 60 years ago. The aging giant recently got a much-needed upgrade for supporting the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], beating its twin vehicle for a world record.
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Working on Star Trek: Picard Together | LeVar and Mica Burton Interview
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Elon's Ego Can Rest Easy Knowing He Now Has the Most Followers on Twitter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] CEO [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] surpassed former President Barack Obama in followers on Thursday,making him the most followed person on the platform. At the time of writing, Musk has more than 133 million followers, according to [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...] his count hovers at 40,000 more than Obama.
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Matt Damon Says He Did That Dumb Crypto.com Ad Because His Water Nonprofit Was 'Down'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Actor Matt Damon [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with his “history is filled with almosts” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Despite crypto’s ballooning prices in 2021, after the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in 2022 the entire industry is feeling more like an…
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Scott Pilgrim Movie Cast Reunites to Voice Their Characters in Netflix Anime
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Netflix has just announced the voice cast of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]which will feature the return of all the major stars from the live-action Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World film, including Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to reprise their movie roles, this time in voice form.
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Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future Tech
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Mike Flanagan Wants to Direct a Standalone Batman Villain Film
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Clayface leers.Yesterday’s news included speculation that Mike Flanagan—you know, the one who did [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? The Haunting of Hill House? [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? Upcoming director of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? That Mike Flanagan—had pitched a movie about Bat-villain Clayface to James Gunn. The famed horror…
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Airplanes Face a Growing Risk of Being Hit by Uncontrolled Incoming Rockets
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On May 11, 2020 a deadly threat flew from Los Angeles to New York City in under nine minutes. It was a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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1,000 Years of Tree Rings Show Just How Hardcore the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Was
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In June and July 2021, an extreme heat wave swept across the historically temperate Pacific Northwest, killing hundreds of people and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now, scientists have used information etched into tree rings to demonstrate that, yes, the heat wave was unlike anything the region had seen in a…
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All the Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Merch You Can Shake a Lightsaber At
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s not every day you get to exclusively debut a brand new line of merchandise [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—but today, the Force is with us. io9 is very excited to share products from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] which debuts on Disney+ and Disney Jr. May 4.
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Newly Declassified Report Contradicts Officials, Suggests Havana Syndrome Might Be Caused by Directed Energy
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Several weeks after the intelligence community very publicly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] claims that “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]”—the bizarre rash of neurological disorders plaguing U.S. foreign service officers—was the result of a directed energy weapon, a newly declassified report alleges that may very well be what it is.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore could finally hitch a ride to the ISS aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on July 21, but tests of the capsule’s parachute system threaten to delay the beleaguered project even further.

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Reddit Has Leaned Harder on its Banhammer Over Non-Consensual and Hate Content
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Reddit released its 2022 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Wednesday, in part showing that the site has been laying on the “ban” button hard after the company started a crackdown on non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) after a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in March of last year. These instances of NCIM include [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] posted…
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Google Play Store Wriggles Way Out of Housing Third-Party App Stores in Android's Biggest Market
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google will not have to host third-party Android app stores in the Indian version of its Play Store, following antitrust rulings from January. The company is still facing a $161 million fine from Indian regulators, though they have eased up on how Android should function in the country moving forward. This comes in…
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Ex-Tesla Factory Worker Takes the Stand in Racial Discrimination Trial
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An ex-Tesla factory worker took the stand following a lawsuit he filed against the company for racial discrimination from mid-2015 through 2016. Owen Diaz, a Black former escalator worker at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California claims he was subjected to racially discriminatory comments and actions from his…
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Yes, That's Who You Thought It Was on This Week's Mandalorian
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In Star Wars, when you see a creature that reminds you of a specific character, it might not actually be that character. Grogu, for example, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], despite what some people originally thought. The Kowakian monkey-lizards hanging around on The Mandalorian aren’t [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Not every astromech droid is R2-D2.
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The EPA Is Investigating Itself Over Its East Palestine Disaster Response
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The fallout from last month’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in East Palestine, Ohio is still unfolding. The Environmental Protection Agency continues to oversee clean-up efforts, is still [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] suitable treatment sites for contaminated waste water, and is conducting some [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and…
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Watch the Trailer for Magic: The Gathering's New March of the Machine Set
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Nokia Is Sending 4G Internet to the Moon
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New Lockheed Martin Company Wants to Build a Satellite Constellation Around the Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Denver-based company Lockheed Martin has announced the launch of a subsidiary for the purpose of setting up communication and navigation services around the Moon for future lunar missions.
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Man Behind Hack-for-Hire Campaign That Targeted Environmental Activists Is Keeping His Mouth Shut
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The key figure in a hacker-for-hire scheme that targeted U.S. environmental activists and others is due to receive his prison sentence soon but, despite facing a potentially lengthy stint behind bars, he still won’t name the co-conspirators who hired him.
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California Officials Find Some of the Deepest Snowpack Ever After a Stormy Winter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the state’s snowpack is now one of the highest that officials have ever documented.
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Yes, Tinder Is Working on a $500 Subscription Tentatively Called 'Tinder Vault'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tinder is working on an ultra-expensive subscription offering that seems explicitly geared toward those wealthy enough (or at those feigning affluence) looking to swipe right on other semi-influential folks. The company is leaving the door open to abandon the idea altogether, meaning that those with deep pockets would…
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Unknown Government Agency Disobeyed White House, Using Front Company to Purchase Banned Spyware
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In November of 2021, after years of ongoing scandals, the Biden administration formally [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a notorious spyware maker from Israel, shutting it off from American business and investment opportunities. But the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] now reports that not every part of the government was on the same page…
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China's Space Pioneer Becomes First Private Company to Reach Orbit During Debut Launch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Chinese company Space Pioneer established a pair of milestones this past Sunday, becoming the first startup to successfully reach orbit on its first attempt, and the first Chinese company to reach orbit with liquid rocket propulsion.
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The Next Game of Thrones Prequel Could Be About Aegon's Conquest
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]prequel may be about to get a prequel. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] HBO is in active discussions to make another series based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, this time set even earlier in the timeline than the current prequel, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. If made, however, it’ll…
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Google Could Be Setting Itself Up for Failure With New Flight Price 'Guarantees'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google is taking a bold step in the world of online travel planning. The tech giant is piloting a price guarantee for airline bookings. Now, certain flights departing U.S. airports will come with a money-back promise. If a Google-guaranteed ticket price gets cheaper before the time of the flight, Google says it will…
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Drinking for Your Health Isn't Really a Thing, Study Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A new study is the latest to suggest that modest alcohol consumption isn’t likely to provide any health benefits. The research, a review of existing studies, found no strong evidence that light to moderate drinking can reduce people’s risk of dying early. Past studies that did find a positive effect might have failed…
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These Are the 25 U.S. Cities Where a $100k Salary Goes the Furthest
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]More Americans are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City, opting for less dense areas where their dollar can go farther. As the housing market skyrockets in these cities and their surrounding areas, a household income of $100,000 just doesn’t stretch as much as it used to.
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Spotify Live Dies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Spotify is officially shuttering its Clubhouse copycat called Spotify Live. The feature was a bit like a live radio station that listeners could access on the Spotify mobile app.

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NASA’s Artemis Moon Landing Program: Launches, Timeline, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Not since 1972 has a human set foot on the Moon, but NASA is aiming to change that through its ambitious Artemis program. The lunar missions kicked off on November 16, 2022 with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and now the space agency is preparing its astronauts for bigger and bolder missions to the Moon.
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Pro-Putin Blogger Handed Bust of Himself Before Explosion Killed Him
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] pro-Kremlin blogger who was known for his support of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was killed in an explosion on Sunday that authorities believe was inside a gift. Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name is Maksim Fomin, was speaking at a cafe in St. Petersburg for the pro-war group Cyber Front Z when witnesses say…
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Physicists Recreate Classic 'Double-Slit' Experiment Using Time Instead of Space
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A team of physicists has recreated a classic experiment in particle physics with a dimensional twist, by performing it in time instead of just space. In the process, they showcased the utility of a unique material for future experiments.
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Android's Answer to AirDrop is Available to Try in Beta
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Android’s answer to Apple’s AirDrop is almost ready for Windows PCs, and you can try it out now. In an official [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Google announced that Nearby Share in Beta is already available to download to your PC. It’s compatible with PCs running Windows 10 and up and phones on Android 6 and up. ARM-based machines, like…
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India Performs Successful Flight Test of Prototype Spaceplane
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Indian Space Research Organization successfully conducted a test yesterday of its Reusable Launch Vehicle, an in-development spaceplane that took flight from an air force helicopter at an altitude of 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) and landed autonomously on a runway.

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Paddington in Peru Will Bring the Beloved Bear Back for Another Adventure
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The world always needs more [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and production has finally started on the third film in the wonderful, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] starring [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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The Texas Legislature Is Considering Some Absurdly Evil Environmental Bills
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For a crash course in how to fuck up the environment, look no further than the Texas Legislature. At the start of this year’s legislative session, lawmakers have introduced a slew of bills with some jaw-droppingly bad environmental ramifications—including bills that would override the EPA’s authority and punish people…
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Meet the First Four Artemis Astronauts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The next phase of NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program is underway, with the space agency naming the four-person Artemis 2 crew who will fly around the Moon and back.
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Apple Reportedly Ordering Fewer M2 Chips as MacBook Demand Falters
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple is reportedly facing lagging demand for its M2-powered MacBooks, so much so it’s held back significantly on any more M2 chip production in what’s turning out to be a rough start for Apple’s 2023 laptop ambitions.

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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Mixtape Has Been Revealed
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies were scored to Peter Quill’s musical tastes for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (having been abducted by aliens in 1988). But like the reality-warping Infinity Stones, a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—Microsoft’s defunct MP3 player—has radically reshaped the soundtrack to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and…
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NASA Announces Astronauts Who Will Fly Past the Moon on Artemis 2
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Four astronauts—three men and one woman—have been selected for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. As expected, the crew also features a Canadian, who will become the first non-U.S. citizen to venture past Earth orbit.
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Disney and Dwayne Johnson Announce Moana Live-Action Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a surprising turn of events, Dwayne Johnson and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are fast-tracking a live-action adaption of their [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] tale [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Johnson will reprise his role as Maui.
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April Is Bringing Tons of New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books
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Wild Iguana Steals Little Girl's Cake, Gives Her Rare Bacterial Infection
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A 3-year-old girl’s holiday in Costa Rica was ruined by an iguana in more ways than one. The scaly reptile stole her cake, but not before biting her hand and transmitting a rare bacterial infection that endured for months, according to the girl’s doctors. Fortunately, the infection was treatable.
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Scientists Capture Deepest-Ever Footage of a Fish
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Researchers using baited camera traps recorded an unknown species of snailfish more than 5 miles (8 kilometers) deep just off the coast of Japan. These are the deepest fish ever caught on film.
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What Does It Take to Make the Criterion Collection of Video Games?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you want to watch the famously bad 1956 Sci-Fi film Plan 9 from Outer Space, you have several options on both free and paid streaming services. The film has been archived, restored, and documented by people who care about the history of cinema. The same can’t be said about the similarly horrible 1993 Atari Jaguar…
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Doctor Who Recruits Drag Race's Jinkx Monsoon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The TARDIS has picked up[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: drag star Jinkx Monsoon, who will appear in the upcoming 14th season of the show in what the BBC describes as a “major new role.”

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Turns Out Asus' Flashy ROG Ally Steam Deck Competitor is Real
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Most companies will avoid making real product announcements on April Fools’ Day, as the news will inevitably get buried under a mountain of pranks from companies incorrectly assuming they can be funny. But not Asus. It used April 1 this year to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], leaving fans wondering if it…
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ICE Used Shady Subpoena to Get Data from Elementary Schools, Abortion Clinics, and News Orgs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly used a little-known administrative subpoena more than 100,000 times over six years to request information from schools, abortion clinics, and newspapers, all without first procuring warrants from judges.
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DC's Blue Beetle Trailer Is Here With a Fun, Family-Filled Superhero Origin
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Behind the Scenes at Gerard Piqué’s Kings League Finals
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Au Revoir, Electric Scooters: Paris Votes to Ban E-Scooter Rentals
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]E-scooters are set to make a final French exit from the City of Lights. Residents of Paris, France have overwhelmingly voted to ban the electric micro mobility rentals in a Sunday referendum.

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The Chinese Spy Balloon Captured Sensitive Military Info After All
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]U.S. officials confirmed on Monday that the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. in February transmitted sensitive military information to China in real time. The Chinese government continues to claim it was a weather balloon that had blown off course.
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Elon Musk Makes It Harder to Distinguish Between Blue Verified and Paid Checkmarks to Save Face
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After sparking a heated debate for saying he would [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] if those users didn’t pay $8 for Twitter Blue, Twitter CEO Elon Musk backed away from his threat. To save face, though, Musk has simply made it harder to tell the difference between verified…
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California Takes the Lead on Curbing Big Oil Price Gouging
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This Week in Spaceflight: NASA's Artemis Astronaut Reveal, Plus a Space Station Shuffle
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This week, NASA announces the names of the four astronauts who will venture beyond the Moon for the planned Artemis 2 mission next year, and we couldn’t be more excited.

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Move Aside, Crypto. AI Could Be The Next Climate Disaster.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The coming age of powerful AI chatbots may very well reshape the world in radical and unforeseen ways, but it could do so at an immense environmental cost. A new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] released today by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence estimates the amount of energy needed to train AI models like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Working on Everything Everywhere All at Once | Harry Shum Jr. Interview
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Elon 'The Dogefather' Musk Asks Judge to Toss $258 Billion Racketeering Lawsuit
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has moved to dismiss the $258 billion Dogecoin lawsuit he is facing, according to documents filed with Manhattan federal court. The plaintiffs claim that Musk peddled a pyramid scheme in the form of Dogecoin with accusations including wire fraud and gambling.

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Senator Ted Cruz Will Unfortunately Speak Today at NASA’s Artemis Astronaut Unveiling
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Marvel’s Wonder Man show adds to his cast. Get a look at new footage from Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. The Last of Us plans a filming move for season 2. Plus, the end of Ghosts, and what’s coming on Hello Tomorrow! Spoilers, away!

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Musk's Twitter Downranks Any Post Regarding the 'Ukraine Crisis'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“Free speech absolutist” Elon Musk’s Twitter algorithm has been heavily suppressing any topic regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine, downranking it with the same vehemence as toxic, violent, or hate content on the platform, according to an analysis of the Twitter source code. This forced head in the sand for all…
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This Week's Toy News Goes Across the Spider-Verse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy news hitting the internet shelves. This week: Hasbro gets us ready to thwip with an entire legion of Across the Spider-Verse toys, Nerf goes fancy for its latest blasters. Check it out!

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Watch Live as NASA Reveals the Artemis Astronauts Who Will Fly to the Moon
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Figure Out These Bizarre Words?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What are the shortest words with a given number of syllables? “I” and “a” each contain one letter and one syllable, which is the tightest ratio we could realistically expect. Are there any two-letter words with two syllables? The only one I’m aware of (not counting things like “BB,” as in “BB gun”) requires that we…
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Secret Invasion Has Nick Fury Hunt for the Shapeshifting Truth
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] hasn’t been seen in the MCU in a hot minute, and even longer when you remember that his last live-action appearance technically [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...], the former SHIELD director is back on Earth to get to the bottom of something that’s been quietly going on in the background of various…
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These Looney Tunes Dubs Are 2023's Best April Fools Joke
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Open Channel: Who'd Be the MCU's Silliest (or Dumbest) Skrull Reveal?
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First Mario Bros. Movie Reactions Say It Brings Fan Service, But Not Much Else
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Marvel Sets Up Spider-Boy and a Krumbling Krakoan Age for the Summer
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The conveyor belts haven’t even finished delivering components to the right hands, and we’re already talking about what to expect from Apple’s iPhone 15. Rumors started circulating right after the launch of the iPhone 14/14 Pro, and they’ve only gotten louder and more persistent in recent months.

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A McDonald's Exec Is Worried Elon's Tweets Are 'Perpetuating Racism'
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My New Smart Bird Feeder Showed Me That Birds Are Absolutely Brutal
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Everything We Know About OpenAI's ChatGPT
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Star Trek: Picard Finally Got What It Wants—But at What Cost?
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Pet Dog Dies of Bird Flu After 'Chewing on a Wild Goose'
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These Are the Best Free Roku Channels To Watch Now
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Magnus Carlsen's Mouse Slip Cost Him His Last Match as World Champion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lost his final match as world champion with a slip of the mouse during Thursday night’s game against his longtime rival, Hikaru Nakamura. Carlsen made it to the Armageddon round, to face off against Nakamura after their previous two games ended in draws. Carlsen has defended his title as world champion…
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The Best Laptops In 2023
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The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are more capable than ever, to the point where some people might not even need a laptop anymore. Tablets are more convenient, and we acknowledge that you don’t need an attached keyboard for every task. But for all the tablet market offers in convenience, laptops outdo them in power and potential. As…
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The Best Tablets, E-Readers, and E-Notes of 2023
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Tablets continue gaining ground in the market, even as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] slim down enough to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. They’re useful as both highly portable productivity tools and as entertainment devices—whether you’re a gamer, binge watcher, or an avid reader. Sometimes, you just don’t need a whole keyboard attached…
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Why Is Tetris So Addicting?
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
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The smartphone audience is so wide that it’s difficult to settle on just one best phone of 2023. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there’s the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best…
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Did a Harvard Environmental Law Professor Lobby for an Oil Company?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If an environmental law professor at a prominent university—who makes more than $350,000 a year advising a major oil and gas company—helps that company set up meetings with the federal government, is that lobbying? This is the question surrounding Harvard law professor Jody Freeman, who has come under increasing…
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A Find My iPhone Error Is Sending Hordes of Strangers to a Single Texas House
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you lose your iPhone in the greater Houston area, don’t show up at Scott Schuster’s house expecting to get it back. The resident of the city’s Richmond suburb says he doesn’t have it: not your phone, not anybody else’s. But that fact hasn’t stopped Apple Maps from directing a large number of grumpy strangers to his…
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Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy Against Card Skimming Devices
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has banned the incredibly versatile F[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] pen-testing tool on its platform, labeling it as a prohibited card-skimming device.
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The Mandalorian’s Relationship With Droids Is Completely Messed Up
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The Dude With Sign Instagram Account Is Suing a Chocolate Company
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The company behind the viral Dude With Sign meme is suing an Oregon chocolate company, alleging copyright infringement. FJerry LLC, also behind the popular @fuckjerry Instagram account, claims the copyright for the specific Dude holding the particular Sign, accusing JEM Organics of using the Dude’s face for posts, and…
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John Wick Is Fantastic Because It Has Restraint
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] answers the door to his home, lights and sirens clearly visible outside. Wick isn’t bothered, half-covered behind the door, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] clutched in his hand, held at the small of his back. A cop stands a respectful distance away from the door, turns his head, looks past [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and sees bodies–not a body, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Star Wars Celebration and May the 4th Merch You Can Find Near You
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Scientists Are Desperate to Save a Venus Mission on NASA's Chopping Block
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Andor's Most Uncomfortable Costume Is Star Wars Celebration's Hottest Cosplay
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Are the Politics of The Power Timeless/Modern/Contemporary? | io9 Interview
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See How Different This Supernova Looks to Webb Versus Hubble
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]About 340 years ago, a brilliant light appeared in Earth’s night sky—a distant star had died in an enormous explosion. That light, which we now know is from the supernova Cassiopeia A, has just been captured in never-before-seen detail by the Webb Space Telescope.

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Lower Drought Conditions In California | Extreme Earth
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Bog Is the Rubber-Suit Monster Movie You Never Knew You Needed
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] terrorizing a small town, 1979's Bog is quirky enough to make it notable and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Its highlights include a script stuffed with howlers and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that looks like a middle-school art project.

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DC Release Dates: When to See DCEU Movies and HBO Max Shows
The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is finally giving Marvel a run for its money—something that’s bound to increase now that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is running the show. The DCEU’s myriad projects stretch far beyond superhero mainstays [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], promising to include [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on DC Comics’…
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E Ink's New Color E-Paper Looks Almost as Good as LCD Screens
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] having debuted almost two decades ago, it’s been a long road transitioning the technology from black and white to color. But yesterday, E Ink revealed some tantalizing details on its latest color electronic paper panels, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], with color reproduction that looks almost as good as what…
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Tuberculosis-Infected Woman Still Going Out in Public Despite Arrest Warrant
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A Washington woman with acute tuberculosis remains free despite having an arrest warrant filed against her. She was diagnosed over a year ago and has continued to refuse treatment or to isolate herself from others while contagious. Local health officials are expected to once again obtain a court order on Friday.
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We've Seen 6 Minutes of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At Star Wars Celebration, James Mangold, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and current director of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, could have stopped at just showing fans the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but he wanted to do more. So after the trailer, he also showed six minutes of…
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Star Wars Release Dates: Where and When to See Upcoming Star Wars Movies and Disney+ Shows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Bill Murray said it in 1978 and we’re still saying it today: “Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars! [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]! Don’t let them end...” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], with multiple movies and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the works from Disney and Lucasfilm. This article will give you the most up to date Star Wars release…
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Maggie Rogers Swipes at Ticketmaster With IRL-Only Ticket Pre-Sale
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Maggie Rogers announced she’s going “old school” ahead of her upcoming tour by bringing ticket sales back to the in-person box office. Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. today, and Rogers told her fans on her [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to “buy an in-person ticket like it’s 1965” while expressing her frustration over [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Substack Is Totally Borked on Twitter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Like a voodoo doll that’s been poked and prodded by an overly-enthusiastic amateur magician, Elon Musk’s Twitter has started to come apart at the seams. Now it’s an open question if [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has broken another aspect of the site as Substack writers say their attempts to promote their work on…
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Doge's Twitter Reign Ends, Triggering Memecoin Slump
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]‘What goes up must come down’ is a fundamental truth of physics, and also seemingly of cryptocurrencies. Sometimes though, the coins get a little help on the roller coaster ride. On Thursday evening, after hyping the blockchain bucks, Twitter pulled the rug out from under Dogecoin.

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Andor's First Season 2 Footage Showed the True Birth of a Rebellion
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Investigation Finds YouTube Served New Teen User Almost 30 Andrew Tate Videos in Less Than 2 Hours
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After signing up to YouTube as a new, 13-year-old user, Sky News found that YouTube flooded the feed with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] videos, despite the professional misogynist being banned from the platform. The report highlights criticisms that YouTube is algorithmically pushing young boys to become fans of the toxic influencer…
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More Guardians of the Galaxy News Than You Can Shake a Groot at
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Star Wars: The Acolyte Reveals a First Look at Its Stellar Cast in Action
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’ve never known much about what to expect from Star Wars: The Acolyte, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Russian Doll), other than it’s set at the end of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] around 100 years before The Phantom Menace, will explore the Dark Side, and has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. At Star Wars Celebration…
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Climate Change Is Making Baseball Worse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Famines, sea level rise, extreme weather, more pandemics—by this point, you’ve probably heard about the most disturbing consequences of climate change. What you might not have heard is that it could also hurt Major League Baseball. That’s right, America’s favorite pastime is imperiled by its other favorite hobby:…
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Jon Watts' Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Shares a First Peek at Jude Law's Space Adventures
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Star Wars: Ahsoka's First Trailer Gives the Former Jedi Her Due
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At Star Wars Celebration 2023, Disney unveiled the first official look at Star Wars: Ahsoka. The series picks up after [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Rosario Dawson)’s live action appearances on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]and Book of Boba Fett, and once again features Dave Filoni as a driving creative force for the series. Take a look at the…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Star Wars has kicked off Star Wars Celebration 2023 with the official announcement for the highly anticipated next live-action film. Rumors about the film circulated when [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the panel lineup that included “live-action” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now, we finally know what they were talking about. After a hiatus from…
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Everything We Know About the Future of Doctor Who

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Cha-Ching: Google Pay Bug Might Have Sent You Free Money
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sorry Venmo and CashApp heads, you’re missing out. Earlier this week, Google Pay users began reporting that they were receiving phantom payments in their accounts. The amounts ranged anywhere from a few bucks to over $1,000.

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Musk Is Having Second Thoughts About Labeling NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter CEO Elon Musk is having second thoughts over sticking NPR with a “state-affiliated media” label this past Wednesday, a decision which opened a debate about press freedom and led NPR to stop tweeting in protest.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Whips Up an Incredible New Trailer
[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 arriving in June—but so far, all fans of [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...] hero have gotten is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. That changed today when the fifth entry in the beloved franchise got a fresh look at the film as part of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at Star Wars Celebration Europe.

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Let's Recap Baby Yoda's Day Out With Dutchess Lizzo on The Mandalorian
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Google is Finally Bringing Live Translate Captions to Chrome
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After nearly two years, Chrome browsers may soon finally get a feature that has thus far been restricted to Google Pixel phones. On Thursday, Reddit user and Chrome Canary beta tester Leopeva64 posted [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the r/chrome subreddit showing off an upcoming Live Translate caption feature coming…
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This WB100 Merch Is Full of Movie Magic
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U.S. Chemical Plants Would Have to Make Big Changes Under New EPA Rule
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] new regulation that would make chemical plant owners and operators responsible for their toxic emissions. Facilities would have to measure and reduce hazardous compounds beyond just the property that a chemical plant sits on, a change that could…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ever wanted to feel as small as Mario did when confronted by his original, seven-foot tall gorilla nemesis? On Monday, the Strong National Museum of Play shared its new plans to create an enormous, 20-foot-tall Donkey Kong arcade cabinet. Even though it will be close to four times as big as the 1981 original, the…
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The Walking Dead: Dead City Will Quadruple-Down on Maggie-Negan Drama
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Researchers Want You to Walk Around in VR by Acting Like You Really Have to Pee
Virtual reality headsets now come close enough to fooling your eyes into believing you’re someplace else, but the experience doesn’t translate as well to the rest of your body. Researchers from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] want VR to be a whole body experience, and have created a way to…
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Upper Stage of NASA's Artemis 2 Megarocket Is Ready for Tests
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s Artemis 2 is feeling realer by the minute. The next upper stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket is now ready for tests at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in advance of the upcoming mission.
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Bid Star Trek: Picard a Supersized Farewell by Watching the Finale in Imax
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Everything We Spotted in The Marvels' Totally Cosmic Trailer
This morning we got [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and our first inkling of just how Kamala Khan, Monica Rambeau, and Carol Danvers will [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But this first trailer also gives us some very intriguing hints about the current state of the MCU’s cosmic side—at least, a little closer to home than what we’ll…
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'Better Drugs, Better Health': A Human Genome Pioneer Talks About the Future of Genetics
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twenty years ago, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It was a feat of collaborative science that took 13 years—from 1990 to 2003—and involved researchers from around the globe.

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'Thirsty' AI: Training ChatGPT Required Enough Water to Fill a Nuclear Reactor's Cooling Tower, Study Finds
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How Prime Video's Dead Ringers Tells a New Kind of Horror Story
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]set a new standard for twisted twin tales—but [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], with Rachel Weisz playing sister versions of Drs. Elliot and Beverly Mantle, the brothers Jeremy Irons played in the movie, carves out its own disturbing place in the genre. Ahead of its…
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Pentagon Classified Documents Leak Linked to Discord
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from the Pentagon, it appears open-source intelligence analysts have pinned the leak down to an unlikely place: Discord. The documents were apparently used by patrons of the messaging platform, which is frequently used by avid video game players, in order to settle a…
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Can Star Wars Really Make Things Right with Finn?
[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 over, and for the first time in years, we have a solid idea of what the franchise’s cinematic future will be.
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Binance Searches for Alleged Source Code Leaker
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The world’s largest crypto exchange is on the hunt for a user it says publicly posted the keys to its crypto kingdom. In [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] first filed April 7, Binance asked the court to grant a subpoena against GitHub, trying to find any information about a user whom the company said had leaked excerpts of the Binance…
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New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S. Constitution, but rather on a tome revered by space enthusiasts everywhere: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot.
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China Will Smash a Spacecraft Into This Near-Earth Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]China has selected a small, near-Earth asteroid as the target for an upcoming mission that will help it prepare against future threats of incoming space rocks.
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Netflix's Mulligan Shows That Rebuilding Earth Takes Some Work
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Instagram Founders' News App Artifact Adds 'Reputation Scores' and Comments
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram’s co-founders, has added comments and discussion on articles, marking the first public social components of the new app.

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Why Godzilla Has Returned, Cuter Than Ever
[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 used to towering over cities and lording his size and strength as the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—but his latest show is a little different. It’s smaller, it’s certainly cuter, and it’s the return of Chibi Godzilla in a new way: the adorably adult-oriented Chibi Godzilla Raids Again, making its U.S. debut today.

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Former Twitter Executives Are Suing Elon's Twitter Over Legal Fees
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter’s ex-CEO Parag Agrawal is suing Elon Musk’s Twitter for the enormous amount of legal fees Agrawal argues he had to pay out of his own pocket. Agrawal is joined by the company’s former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde and former Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal in seeking repayment.

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See Dramatic Changes to Waterways After Heavy Rains
After a series of dry months, England is rainy once more.

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Sul Sul: Study Mixes ChatGPT With 'The Sims' to Delightful Effect
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At long last, researchers from Stanford University and Google teamed up to answer one of the most pressing questions about AI: Can we make ChatGPT play The Sims? The answer, thank god, is yes (sort of). In a new study, computer scientists whipped up a pixel-art game to test whether you can separate AIs will simulate…
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Now You Can Pay Thousands of Dollars to Look Like Minecraft Steve
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Your favorite retro games will never look as good as you remember unless you play them on an old tube TV whose analog technology helped to smooth out the pixelated graphics of the 8 and 16-bit gaming eras. Or, you can just embrace the pixelation, which is what [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has done [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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Stay Warm Like a Polar Bear With Sunlight-Capturing Fabric
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Rahul Kohli Is Now a Warhammer Video Game Star, Already Painting Miniatures of Himself
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Talk to Me's Spooky New Trailer Reveals the Perils of Going Viral
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Judge Orders Elizabeth Holmes to Trade Mansion for Prison as She Appeals
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Elizabeth Holmes was hoping to remain free on bail while she appeals the decision. Unfortunately for her, a federal judge has denied her that luxury.

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Netflix Is Turning Stranger Things Into a Saturday Morning Cartoon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ivanna Sakhno teases her mysterious Ahsoka dark sider. Evil Dead Rise promises a bloody good time in new footage. Will Poulter discusses Adam Warlock’s moral compass in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Plus, get a look at what’s coming on Gotham Knights. To me, my spoilers!

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The Human Genome Project Turns 20: Here's How It Altered the World
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On April 14 2003, scientists [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the end to one of the most remarkable achievements in history: the first (nearly) complete sequencing of a human genome. It was the culmination of a decade-plus endeavor that involved thousands of scientists across the globe. Many people hoped the accomplishment would change the…
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Twitter Is Dead: It's All 'X Corp' Now
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter has been subsumed by billionaire Elon Musk in more ways than one. Now, however, the company itself is officially no longer its own entity, having been officially gobbled up by Musk’s X Corp. It stands as the blue bird app owner’s first official move to reinvent Twitter into a twisted version of its former…
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The Marvels' First Trailer Sticks Carol, Monica, and Kamala Into a Superhero Switcheroo
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Elon Musk Is Using Wikipedia to Determine Which Media Outlets are ‘Government Funded’
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter CEO Elon Musk apparently trusts Wikipedia more than any expert or [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and uses it to make crucial decisions about press freedom.
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FTX's Cybersecurity Was Hilariously Bad
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Director Peter Sohn on How Pixar's Elemental Creates Its Own Cultures
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Is Twitter Circles Broken?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re a regular Twitter Circles user, you should probably stop posting things you wouldn’t want seen by the wider public. Numerous tweeters are reporting that their supposedly private Twitter Circle posts are accessible to the whole Twittersphere, letting their more private thoughts or pics loose on the wider…
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Pentagon Leaks Show Russian Hacktivists Claim to Have Targeted a Canadian Pipeline
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A leaked intelligence briefing that emerged over the weekend seems to reveal a hacking episode carried out by a pro-Russian hacktivist group against a major Canadian gas pipeline.
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Google is No Longer Supporting These Five-Year-Old Devices
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google does not plan to update third-party smart displays in the future. If you own any of the Lenovo, JBL, or LG-made smart displays that have come out over the past five years, it’s time to consider alternatives for your Google smart home. Another reason to be wary of being a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Biden Wants to Create a Press Briefing Room for Influencers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]How do you do fellow kids? In an effort to reach younger voters ahead of the 2024 election, President Joe Biden is looking to use social media influencers to tout his accomplishments through an exclusive briefing room.

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Study Finds Shockingly Fast Sea Level Rise Around U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coast
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sea level rise is transforming the U.S. coastline across the country, but researchers have noticed that the rate of sea level rise has increased faster in the last decade around the Gulf and Southeastern coasts.
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What's the Deal with The Mandalorian Season 3?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The third season of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]has felt a little odd, hasn’t it? Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau’s space western slice of the Star Wars franchise felt like a breath of fresh air back in 2019, and the second season the following year helped show that the series’ breakout success wasn’t a fluke. By comparison, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Strep Throat Is Surging, Alongside an Antibiotic Shortage
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Covid-related precautions helped minimize the spread plenty of other communicable diseases. But now, those bugs are back, along with some new challenges. The CDC [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that strep A infections (a.k.a strep throat), caused by a bacterium known as A Streptococcus, have surged from covid lows to above pre-pandemic…
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10 Horror Movies About Horrifying Pregnancies
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Absolutely Everything Announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There was plenty to celebrate at Star Wars Celebration Europe, which wrapped up today in London. The Lucasfilm lovefest wowed fans with all sorts of news, including when the franchise will finally [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and who’ll be directing the new movies. Plus, there were new trailers for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Clever Elephant Starts Peeling Her Bananas After Seeing Humans Do It
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elephant see, elephant do, it seems. In a new paper this week, researchers describe an Asian elephant that has learned how to peel a banana before eating it. The pachyderm, named Pang Pha, likely adopted the trick from watching humans but appears to only peel certain bananas.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In San Francisco, tech “disruption” is often framed as good. It’s the goal of “move fast, break things” start-ups and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs: innovation, paradigm shifts, etc.... But, so far, it’s in the original sense of the word that self-driving taxi companies Cruise and Waymo are disrupting San Francisco’s…
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What Other Nintendo Games Should Be Adapted Into Movies? | io9 Interview
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Disney's Peter Pan & Wendy Shares a Fanciful New Trailer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just because [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it doesn’t want you to think any less of what it’s describing as an “epic movie event.” A new trailer suggests this latest release from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—the director of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—will indeed be cramming as much epic as it…
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Apple Shipped 40% Fewer Macs in the Start of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]None of the big PC makers have managed to crawl out of the muck of 2022 declines, and new data shows that Apple’s been among the hardest hit. According to an industry report, Apple has significantly scaled back shipments of its MacBooks and other computers in the first few months of 2023, pointing to a significant…
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The Strangest Amber Fossils Ever Discovered
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amber fossils are like a time capsule, preserving the three-dimensional structure of animals, plants, and other prehistoric items of interest. Every once in a while, however, paleontologists stumble upon some particularly bizarre specimens and scenes.

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Studio Ghibli Teases Another Star Wars Collaboration
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last November, the nerd-o-sphere understandably freaked out when Studio Ghibli co-founder and all-time most beloved anime filmmaker [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] released a single photo of the director with the above [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Star Wars fans (including us!) wondered if it meant the legendary anime studio would be making a…
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SpaceX's Starship Is So Close to Flying for the First Time
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The SpaceX [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has been in the works for months, but it looks like it might finally be happening in a little over a week. No, we really mean it this time.
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Google Pixel 7a Leak Shows a 90Hz Refresh Rate, More Memory
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’ll be a while before Google reprises its flagship Pixel series. Until then, we have Pixel 7a leaks to tide us over. The latest hints from overseas include a look at the phone itself and hint as to what kind of specs might be inside it. Google’s next mid-range Pixel could have more memory than its predecessor and a…
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James Bond's Casting Director Thinks Young Actors Don't Have What It Takes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]wasn’t that long ago in the grand scheme of things (even though its delays made you feel like it). With [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] time as James Bond now come to an end with that movie, the question has naturally shifted to “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]”. Not unlike with the next Doctor, figuring out who’s going to play Bond next…
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The Pope's Exorcist's Julius Avery on Making a Man of the Cloth Into a Hero
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Hell's Paradise's English Dub Starts Today, Here's Its Cast
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The Latest News From Disney Parks, Universal Studios Resorts, and More Fan-tastical Destinations
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] crash lands on the way to Coachella for an interactive installation that will feature music and merch from the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] film, while [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] reveals the opening date for Rogers: The Musical and announces a Pride night celebration.
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Mechanical Keyboard Swaps Out Keycaps for Tiny OLED Screens
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I love a mechanical keyboard with an OLED on it—remember the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? It was neat because of the customizable window in the corner of the keyboard. Now, imagine getting those same OLEDs for each key on your board. This would let you change your layout and label macros on the fly. And it’s exactly the…
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Did The Mandalorian Just Drop Star Wars' First F-Bomb?
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Montana Just Passed the First State TikTok Ban
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Montana made history on Friday by becoming the first state legislature to approve a wholesale TikTok ban affecting nearly all devices in the state. The first-of-its-kind ban, which goes far beyond previous state efforts [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], could set the precedent for a wave of TikTok bans in other…
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Emergency Rule Seriously Restricts Trans Health Care For Adults, Minors in Missouri
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Gender-affirming healthcare is now much more difficult, nigh impossible, to access in Missouri, even for adults. Medical treatments, including hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as safe and critically important for many transgender people, are behind a bevy of new limitations in the…
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Everything You Need to Know About Star Wars' Imperial Shadow Council
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] set the stage for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s finale with big stakes and reveals not just for Din Djarin and his Mandalorian friends, but [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and in the process, revealed the ace up Moff Gideon’s sleeve. But what precedent has there been for the Remnant’s new leaders in Star Wars…
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
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The smartphone audience is so wide that it’s difficult to settle on just one best phone of 2023. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there’s the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best…
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NASA Wants an International Fleet of Spacecraft to Monitor Asteroid Flyby
[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 scheduled for a brief rendezvous with Earth and NASA is hoping to get a good view of the close encounter in order to prepare for potentially hazardous visits by other rocky bodies.
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Ben Schwartz on Balancing Scripted Comedy and Improv in Renfield | io9 Interview
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Watch Live as SpaceX Launches 51 Small Satellites After Delay
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The Best Tablets, E-Readers, and E-Notes of 2023
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Tablets continue gaining ground in the market, even as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] slim down enough to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. They’re useful as both highly portable productivity tools and as entertainment devices—whether you’re a gamer, binge watcher, or an avid reader. Sometimes, you just don’t need a whole keyboard attached…
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Substack’s CEO Would Rather Not Think About the Racist Stuff. Okay?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Substack, best known as a subscription newsletter platform, just launched a copycat Twitter competitor called [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Elon Musk wasn’t pleased and apparently took a number of steps to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Substack CEO Christ Best went on the Verge’s Decoder podcast to discuss his company’s rocky…
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Star Trek: Picard's Showrunner on How That Big Twist Wouldn't Affect a Legacy Spinoff
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] set up big stakes for what will be the very last episode of the series—and you can’t have big stakes without some big threats and big blows for our heroes. But it turns out episode nine’s biggest blow may not matter so much in the grand scheme of things, if [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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What Is an Xvid File and How Do I Play or Convert One?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, and it’s been around since 2001. It’s been stylized in a number of ways over the years, so while most file formats,…
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How To Drop a Pin in Google Maps
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google Maps is so reliant on pins that it uses one for its app icon. These helpful virtual landmarks exist to direct you not only to your destination, but also towards shops, bars, restaurants, and other places of note. You can also place your own pins, though the amount of options you have in both the mobile and…
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These Are the Best Free Roku Channels To Watch Now
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Here Are 14 Characters Who Would Absolutely Pay for Twitter Blue
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Kids vs. Aliens Delivers a Kick-Ass Close Encounter
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NASA Apparently Needs a Second Babysitter for the Ambitious Mars Sample Return
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA is setting up an independent review board to oversee the Mars Sample Return mission plans, in an effort to make sure the mission will be completed on time and—crucially—under budget.
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OpenAI's Sam Altman Says There's No Chat GPT-5 to Worry About...Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sam Altman has squashed [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] OpenAI is already working on ChatGPT-5, just a month after the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Currently, there is no GPT-5 in training, Altman said while [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Elijah Wood Has Some Thoughts on Those New Lord of the Rings Movies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier this year, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] would be making new Lord of the Rings movies and the collective response was, “Wait, what?” Director Peter Jackson already made six of those—and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], as well as a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on what these…
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See Fort Lauderdale Underwater Following This Week's Torrential Downpour
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Historic rainfall over Fort Lauderdale sparked intense flooding that shut down schools and businesses this week. And the threat of flooding isn’t over just yet, an already waterlogged South Florida may see more rain this evening.
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Debut Launch of ULA's Vulcan Rocket Likely in Jeopardy After Dramatic Explosion at Test Stand
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A highly-anticipated heavy-lift rocket was getting prepped for its inaugural flight when a spark triggered a fiery explosion at NASA’s Alabama launch facility, potentially threatening next month’s rocket debut.
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These School A/V Carts Have Killed at Least Three Kids and Are Being Recalled
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The only thing more attractive to 5th graders than snow days are the days when the teacher wheels an A/V cart into the classroom. Even educational videos are a welcome reprieve from a teacher lecturing at the whiteboard, but according to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] means there’s now reason to…
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James Mangold's Star Wars Movie Has Infinite Potential
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The Smart Gun Arms Race Is Here With First Commercially Available Firearm
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After decades of hype, biometrically enabled “smart” guns are officially on the market. Colorado-based Biofire Technologies this week said it released the first commercially available smart handgun which uses a fingerprint and facial recognition biometrics identity verification tool to unlock a 9mm handgun intended…
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2,807 Lego Pieces Later…We Have The Mighty Bowser™ | io9 Builds
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Your Weed Might Be a Lot Less Potent Than Advertised
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A warning to those of you looking forward to celebrating 4/20 in style this year: Your weed might not be as potent as advertised. In a new study this week, scientists found that cannabis products bought from legal dispensaries in Colorado were often much lower in THC levels than their labels indicated.

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Spotify Axes Heardle—Its Music-based Wordle
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The viral word game [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], from Octordle to Absurdle to the movie-based Framed. Unfortunately, Heardle, the Spotify-owned, music-based version of the word guessing game, will be shutting down next month.

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Amazon's Plans for MGM Set Their Eyes on Robocop and Stargate
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The streaming wars might be in a[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], as all over the place the boom of Content has seemed to slow as studios rebalance their expectations for their platforms’ futures. But that’s not stopping Amazon from going full steam ahead on a swathe of reboots.

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Parler's New Owner Is Putting the Platform on Hiatus
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Parler is apparently getting another lease on life, but first it has to die. The “free speech alternative” social network, popular among conservatives and the likes of Alex Jones, officially has a new owner. And that new owner has put the site on hiatus for an unspecified length of time.

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Wonder Man Set Photos Tease the Return of Another Familiar Marvel Face
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Melissa Barrera is heading to her Scream 6 directors’ Universal Monsters movie. A new Deadite rises in clips from Evil Dead Rise.Plus, behind the scenes on The Little Mermaid, and wedding bells ring for Archie and Cheryl on Riverdale. Spoilers, away!

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Software Tweak Gives Curiosity Rover a Boost on Mars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A major software update to the Curiosity rover will allow the robot to drive faster on the Martian surface and reduce wear on its wheels, potentially boosting the mission’s lifespan.

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Conservative Group Launches Text Alert System for When Companies Go Woke
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nothing gets the conservatives riled up quite like companies promoting progressive values. As a result, a conservative nonprofit named Consumers’ Research is providing “Woke Alerts” to notify you when your favorite company goes too woke.

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Get an Exclusive Peek at Seanan McGuire's Next 2 October Daye Fantasy Releases
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This week’s Twitter kerfuffle is all about public funding. Elon Musk decided to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] first as “government-influenced media,” which it previously applied to state-operated media outlets that shade into propaganda. Later, the label was changed to “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].”

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European Data Protection Board Launches ChatGPT Task Force
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The EU’s European Data Protection Board, or EDPB, is launching a task force to monitor ChatGPT, a move that indicates that the bloc’s privacy regulators are getting serious about looking into the LLM’s potential privacy violations.
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Nine Weather Apps That Will Make You Forget Apple Killed Dark Sky
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you were among those who had [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] last week, you’re not alone. Keeping an eye on the forecast for practical reasons (what to wear, outdoor plans) is important. And knowing the forecast is especially critical when wild weather hits, whether it’s dealing with flooding, hurricanes, or…
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Europe Successfully Launches JUICE on Its Historic Mission to Visit Jupiter's Icy Moons
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A highly-anticipated mission to Jupiter and its intriguing moons is officially underway, with an Ariane-5 rocket successfully delivering the JUICE probe to space earlier today. The craft will now begin an eight-year journey through the solar system to reach icy worlds that may host some form of life.

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The Latest Push for Monetization at Twitter Is Here
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] CEO [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] announced on Thursday that users will be able to offer subscriptions to their followers, piggybacking off the platform’s previous “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” function. The new money-making effort will allow users to offer subscription content to their followers for a small fee.
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What to Expect When SpaceX's Starship Megarocket Attempts Its First Orbital Flight Next Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The time is quickly nearing for SpaceX to perform the first fully integrated orbital flight test of Starship. Here’s how the historic launch will unfold and what you can expect from Elon Musk’s revolutionary megarocket.
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Meet the Inspiring Women in STEM Behind the Scenes at Disney Parks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The happy experiences guests have at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are the sum of the many moving parts that go into the creation of all the attractions—including new ride [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and nighttime spectaculars like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. io9 talked to a trio of Disney employees, all women in STEM, whose work…
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Melissa Barrera Is Reuniting With Her Scream Directors for a Mysterious Universal Monster Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and producer Chad Villella—successfully rebooted one of horror’s biggest franchises with Scream and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now they’ve tapped the star of those films, Melissa Barrera, to join another movie reviving a beloved property from horror’s past, in the form…
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Everything You Need to Know About Monica Rambeau Before The Marvels
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Debuting in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has had a hell of a superhero career. She was the first female Captain Marvel, even before [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. She’s been on countless teams, including multiple versions of the Avengers. Her ability to become and project anything on the electromagnetic scale makes…
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Military Tech Execs Tell Congress an AI Pause Is 'Close to Impossible'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Military tech executives and experts speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday said [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] were misguided and seemed “close to impossible” to enact. The experts, who spoke on behalf of two military tech companies as well as storied defense…
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A New Fast X Trailer Has Death Star Pinball and Cannon Cars
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Matt Walsh's Twitter Hacker Says He Was Just 'Stirring Up Some Drama'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Turns out spewing conservative vitriol across your social media platforms can make you a few enemies. Right-wing personality Matt Walsh’s Twitter account was hacked, and the alleged culprit has now said that it was because he had nothing better to do.

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Spotify Is Bringing a Musical Element to BeReal
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NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission Is Already Facing a Serious Cash Crunch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s quest to return rocky samples from the surface of Mars to Earth in 2033 is already running up the bill, with the project needing a lot more money than what was allocated to the mission for 2023.
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The Makers of Stable Diffusion Now Have Their Own AI Language Model
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It seems like everybody and their mother has a large language model these days. Stability AI, one of the companies that made a name for itself early in the AI rat race, was slower than its contemporaries to enter the realm of LLMs—until now, that is. On Wednesday, the company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] it was launching [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a…
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Power Rangers: Once and Always Is a Silly, Sweet Mix of Schlock and Awe
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NASA's Blueprint for Sustainably Exploring the Moon and Mars Passes First Review
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As NASA inches closer to returning humans to the Moon and reaching Mars for the first time, the space agency has developed a comprehensive blueprint to establish a long-term human presence at both locations. In an important next step, the plan has passed its first internal review.
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Tech CEO Applauds an Employee Selling Off Their Pet Dog to Accommodate Return-to-Office Push
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meet the new hero of hustle culture: James Clarke, CEO of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a Utah-based digital marketing company. This champion of capital had his grindset on lock in a video call with employees last week.

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Google's Expensive Pixel Tablet Dock Leaks on Amazon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Pixel news is leaking left and right as Google’s developer conference fast approaches. Yesterday, we learned about the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and its apparent arrival date. Today, the delayed [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] popped up on Amazon, complete with pricing and release date info.
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Second Batch of SpaceX's Next-Gen 'Mini' Starlink Satellites Reach Orbit
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket delivered 21 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to orbit on Wednesday, launching the company’s second batch of next-generation satellites shortly after the inaugural batch ran into some trouble.

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Who is La Borinqueña as a Character? | io9 Interview
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The Utah and Arkansas Social Media Bans Won’t Protect Us
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This week, Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a bill that requires parents or guardians to grant permission for their child to have a social media account. Last month, Utah [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that goes as far as requiring tech companies to give parents the passwords to their children’s…
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Watch Live: SpaceX Attempts First Starship Launch After Valve Mishap
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is now [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the do-over. It’s the most anticipated launch of the year, and we’ve got you covered for what will hopefully be the dramatic debut of Starship.

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Rocket Lab Will Attempt First Launch With a 3D-Printed Engine That’s Already Flown to Space
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Reusability is the key to 21st century spaceflight, with many launch providers now working to make their rockets as recyclable as possible. California-based Rocket Lab is ready to take an important next step in this direction by fitting a previously flown 3D-printed engine onto its Electron rocket.

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Twilight May Bring Its Sparkly Vampires to TV
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Sea Urchin Murder Mystery Solved
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A team of scientists say they’ve figured out the cause of a devastating sea urchin die-off that occurred last year along the waters of the Caribbean Islands and Florida. The algae-eating sea urchins were likely wiped out by microscopic organisms known as ciliates. While the mystery has been solved, it’s not clear…
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The Mandalorian Finale Was a Satisfying, Straightforward End to a Sloppy Season
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The first two seasons of The Mandalorian ended with some kind of big Star Wars twist. In season one, Moff Gideon [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. In season two, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to help Grogu. And the expectation of something on that level for the season three finale seemed completely reasonable. Instead, fans were…
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Dimension 20 and Critical Role's Matthew Mercer Come Together for The Ravening War
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Every season of Dropout’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]offers to shake things up in some kind of way. It’s what’s what made the show so [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over the years, and now that the most recent season—season 15, Neverafter—has wrapped up, it’s once again time to shift to another setting, with the added bonus of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] …
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta has once again taken up the scythe and struck a wide swathe of staff from its field of developers. The first in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is expected to impact teams for Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and in the company’s Reality Labs division working on its virtual reality…
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Giant Underground Pools of Water Are Batteries of the Future
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In an energy-efficient future, homes may be heated and cooled by pumping from giant pools of water stored underground. A [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] published this month in Applied Energy looks at how underground aquifers could help significantly reduce reliance on fossil fuels and help store energy produced by renewables.

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New Zealand Children Will No Longer Compete to Kill Feral Cats
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Children of New Zealand, lay down your arms and step away from the feral cats. The opportunity to fire on felines for a cash prize is no more.

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The Monsterverse Returns in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Two legendary adversaries return to do battle once more, unleashing Titan mayhem on Earth when a new threat arises in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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The Venture Bros. Movie Reveals Its Wild Title and a First Look
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NASA and Japan Team Up for Unprecedented Martian Moon Mission
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]JAXA is getting ready to visit Mars’s two moons, but Japan’s space agency is no longer going alone.
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Meta's AI Is Partially Trained on Breitbart and Russia Today, Study Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]AI is sophisticated, but it’s not really intelligent. Today’s large language models used to power programs like ChatGPT, are amalgamations of scraped text found on the internet. So when [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] back in February, eyes turned to some of the datasets used to train it, especially…
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Star Trek Strange New World's First Season 2 Trailer Is Full of Kirk and Klingons
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Lego Is Adding Four New Sonic the Hedgehog Sets to its Sega Collection
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10 Class-Action Settlements That Could You Get Free Money
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You hear about class-action lawsuits all the time, like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] filed against Apple (based on a Gizmodo story), or this [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] against Apple (or [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]). Part of the reason is they’re so lucrative for lawyers; a “class” is a group of people who have the same grievance against a company, which means…
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AI-Generated Song Featuring Drake and The Weeknd Removed From Streaming Platforms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]-generated Drake and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] song was taken down from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] platforms including [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Amazon Music, SoundCloud, and others over the course of the last two days. The song calls into question existing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and whether they apply to songs created in the artist’s voice…
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Insidious: The Red Door's New Trailer Jumps Through the Wall
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Building Telescopes on the Moon Could Transform Astronomy—And It’s Becoming an Achievable Goal
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], organised by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade. Most of these will involve small robotic spacecraft, but NASA’s ambitious [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], aims to return humans to the…
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Taylor Swift Absolutely Slayed in $100 Million FTX Deal
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Taylor Swift is apparently as fluent in finance as she is in songwriting. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Swift, who was offered $100 million to promote the crypto exchange, dodged a bullet by asking about unregistered securities according to a lawyer waging lawsuits against other celebrity spokespeople.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Begins Lifting the Lid on Gamora's Return
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Parker Posey wants to make a return to Scream, somehow. James Gunn teases another familiar comics face will be in Superman: Legacy. Plus, The Mandalorian drops new posters to hype today’s season finale. Spoilers now!
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Sateliot Launches First 5G Satellite to Quash IoT Dead Zones
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Archaeologists Unearth a Fanciful Ancient Winery Near Rome
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an 1,800-year-old winery at the Villa of the Quintilii outside of Rome. By the team’s measure, the winery was designed as much for the spectacle of wine-making as the practice itself.

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The First Natural Gas Ban in the U.S. Just Got Shot Down
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Samsung Finally Enables the Temperature Sensor on the Galaxy Watch 5
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AMC Announces a Third Anne Rice Series in the Immortal Universe
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BREAK!! Into the Gaming Shelf With an Homage to Classic JRPGs
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After some 25 years, Netflix is officially retiring its DVD rental service. The company announced the move in a tweet Tuesday, explaining that its final discs will ship on Sept. 29th:
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Reddit Will Start Charging Big Companies for API Access
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] execs have noticed that everyone is getting rich off of AI but them. The company announced on Tuesday that it will start charging businesses for using its application programming interface (API) which allows users to download and process data from person-to-person conversations. as it plans to go public on…
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Musk's Twitter Decides Misgendering and Deadnaming Are OK, Actually
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As Twitter under Elon Musk’s rule continues to take shape, the platform has decided it apparently doesn’t need trans people to feel safe on its app. Twitter has reportedly removed a stipulation against misgendering and deadnaming from its policy on hateful conduct.

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Watch Live as Russian Cosmonauts Relocate a Radiator Outside the ISS
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Two cosmonauts are getting ready to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday night for some orbital maintenance work.
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Deadpool 3's Wolverine Is, Somehow, Completely New
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is returning to the big screen next year, but [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it won’t be the character fans know and love.
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Google's Pixel Fold Will Make its Debut in Just Two Months
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Amazon Prime Video Introduces AI-Boosted Dialogue to Select Original Content
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We Finally Know Something About Agatha: Coven of Chaos
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Fox News and Dominion Settle Defamation Dispute for $787.5 Million
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News have reached a settlement in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The agreement was announced by the case’s presiding judge in court on Tuesday afternoon, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—coming just hours after jury selection was completed. The decision by both parties to…
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Scientists Are About to Try to Create Stem Cells in Space
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Stem cell research is expanding beyond earthly confines. Scientists from Cedars-Sinai in California have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with the private company Axiom Space to help them produce stem cells aboard the International Space Station—an apparent first that will test whether these cells can be manufactured more efficiently in a…
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Avatar 2's Art and Costumes Stun in Immersive Experience for Earth Day
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Open Channel: What'd You Think of Evil Dead Rise?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Fans of Sam Raimi different parts of his filmography the like, but the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is often one of the most talked about. While the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]TVshow from 2015 and last year’s video game have helped keep the franchise alive in pop culture, alongside the series’ longtime fans, Fede Alvarez’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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Disneyland's Fantasmic Performance Canceled After Mickey Set Maleficent On Fire
Disney hopes that those who attend [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] leave the theme parks with fun experiences and memories that stick with attendees for. And that’s... technically what happened last night at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], because the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] dragon animatronic quite literally went up in flames. And the culprit was none other than…
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Alex Borstein’s Embarrassing Moment from Catwoman | io9 Interview
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Personalized AI-Written Spam May Soon Be Flooding Your Inbox
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can’t-miss investments choke email inboxes. Improvements to spam filters only seem to inspire new techniques to break through the protections.

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20 Times People Lived in a Wes Anderson Movie on TikTok
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Romanticizing your life on social media is nothing new, but some TikTokers are taking it to a new level of *~aesthetics*~. A recent trend has emerged on the video sharing platform that features users creating TikToks with a vibe ripped straight from a Wes Anderson movie. The shorts feature users going about their…
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12 of Twitter's Best Jokes and Memes About Elon Musk's Blue Check Apocalypse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Since the beginning of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] reign at Twitter, he’s threatened to remove the legacy verification—signified by a white check in a blue circle beside the account name—that predated his tenure. Musk even set April 1st as the date for the purge, which came and went without any changes, either because of ineptitude…
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The Wheel of Time Locks in Some More Actors for Season 2
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a bit of a wait for season two of Prime Video’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The adaptation of Robert Jordan’s (and later [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) fantasy novel series ended its first season towards the tail end of 2021, and has had a gradual drip feed of information about its second season, mainly as it relates to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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A Fortnite Movie Would Be Easy to Make Happen, Says Epic Games CCO
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]So many [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have been adapted by Hollywood lately that players have begun to consider what’s next. Much of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of adaptations are based on extremely popular games, and you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that Epic Games’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]would be getting a movie.

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La Borinqueña’s Collab With DC Comics on Hurricane Relief | io9 Interview
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National Treasure's TV Spinoff Won't Be Coming Back for Another Adventure
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Late last year, Disney premiered [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a YA-oriented [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the cult classic two-film series starring Nicholas Cage and Dianne Kruger. The series ended its first season back in early February, and as it turns out, that’ll be its only season.
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See a Newly Discovered 'Pristine' Deep-Sea Coral Reef in the Galápagos
There’s a new, ancient coral reef in town, and it’s magnificent. Scientists working to survey the deep ocean surrounding the Galápagos Islands discovered a never-before-observed reef complex, hundreds of meters below the sea surface. And, despite [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] marine…
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7 Bonkers Corporate Earth Day Campaigns
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The Lilo & Stitch Remake Grabs Stitch's Original Actor & a New David
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Throughout the month of April, Disney’s been gradually rolling out casting information for its incoming remake of Lilo & Stitch. We’ve got our [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in newcomer Maia Kealoha, a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Sydney Elizabeth Agudong, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. All that’s missing is Stitch—or rather, he was missing before now.
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Life Beneath the Arctic Ice Is Chock-Full of Microplastics
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Picture a raft of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and you’re probably imagining a pristine marriage of white and blue. But during summertime, below the surface, something much greener and goopier lurks. A type of algae, Melosira arctica, grows in large, dangling masses and curtains that cling to the underside of Arctic…
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Why Universities Should Return to Oral Exams in the AI and ChatGPT Era
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Physicists Create the Fattest Schrödinger's Cat Ever
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Picture a cat. I’m assuming you’re imagining a live one. It doesn’t matter. You’re wrong either way—but you’re also right.

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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and Nimona Lead Netflix Annecy Debuts
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Shin Kamen Rider Is Finally Coming to the U.S., for One Day Only
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Good news! [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Hideaki Anno’s radical re-imagining of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is finally making its way to American shores. Bad news: you better be available for one day, because that’s all it’s getting.

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HBO Max's Titans Entered the DC Multiverse, Which Included Grant Morrison
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Call it the sequel to the DC CW’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], if you’d like. This week’s episode of HBO Max series [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—titled “Dude, Where’s My Gar,” which both delights and enrages me—took Gar “Beast Boy” Logan (Ryan Potter) on a brief trip to the current DC multiverse, from live-action to animation to real life,…
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How to Make Dungeons & Dragons a $1 Billion Brand
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We only just heard a leak that the Pixel Fold is slated to drop at Google I/O, and yet we’re already hearing more, including camera and screen specs. This new leak comes from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] via [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and reveals what appear to be most of the specifications of Google’s upcoming foldable device. The good news is…
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Sea Level Rise Will Wash Away Sea Turtle Breeding Grounds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Climate change is coming for sea turtles and their critical breeding grounds throughout the Americas and Australia. In a new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Scientific Reports, researchers report that rapid sea level rising is likely to swallow up beaches where sea turtles lay their eggs.

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TikTok's CEO Breaks Silence After Brutal Congressional Hearing
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew give his first interview since sparring with House lawmakers in a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] back in March. Chew is one of dozens of business leaders speaking at the TED2023 “Possibility” conference held in Vancouver, Canada. In a softball discussion that saw that the interviewer praising Chew…
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The Minds Behind Marvel's WandaVision and Star Wars: The Acolyte Are Developing a Vampire Show
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Admit it: your first reaction was “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]?” (Your second was probably “Wait, Freeform is still around?”) But the talent behind Night’s Edge, an adaptation of Liz Kerin’s forthcoming Tor Nightfire novel, is intriguing enough to make this bloodsucking tale a potential winner, including [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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This Experimental Laptop Design Has a Foldable Wrist Rest
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For those who find it impossible to sleep while crammed into an airplane seat, a long flight is a good chance to get some work done, although plopping a giant laptop onto a tiny seat tray can make that just as challenging as trying to get some shuteye. That’s where the still-just-a-design [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] seems…
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Cranberry Really Might Help Prevent UTIs for Many, Large Review Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Newly updated research suggests that cranberries really can help some people avoid urinary tract infections. The research, a review of existing clinical trial data, found enough evidence to support the use of cranberry-based products to prevent UTIs in women with recurrent infections, children, and people with a known…
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Lyft's New CEO Will Reportedly Cut 1,200 Jobs
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14 Burning Questions We Have After Star Trek: Picard Season 3's Finale
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] came to an end this week, wrapping a nostalgic season up in a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And although, as Star Trek has told us before, all good things must come to an end, even now questions still linger about the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Here’s the ones at the forefront of our mind…
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Batman Beyond Wasn’t Afraid to Show the Dangers of Sex Robots
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A lot of people love the ‘90s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] cartoon, set in a future where an elderly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] trains teen Terry McGillis to be the new Dark Knight of the future. I assume these people have forgotten about the episode “Terry’s Friend Dates a Robot,” a title that should indicate how much creativity and thought went…
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New Migraine Drug Can Even Tackle the Most Difficult Cases, Study Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A recently approved preventative migraine drug called atogepant (branded Qulipta) seems to help even the most difficult cases, preliminary research out this week has found. The study showed that patients who hadn’t responded to other treatments experienced noticeably fewer days with migraine while on atogepant than…
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Stack Overflow Joins Twitter and Reddit in Charging AI Companies for Training Data
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Stack Overflow is joining in on the AI resistance in forcing companies behind the rapidly advancing tech to pay up. The go-to resource for programmers is joining Twitter and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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The Book of Boba Fett Episode Titles Are Still Hilariously Hidden on Disney+
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Anyone who has watched a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] knows the service is careful about keeping viewers unspoiled. New episodes don’t have their titles displayed on the menu, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for audiences to discover. Then, a few days later, once most people have watched it, the title appears, as it will live on…
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Users Claim the Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Some Printers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Windows 10 seems to hate the idea of physical print, though it’s not like Microsoft’s OS is trying to save on paper. Users have reported that the latest automatic Windows 10 update has borked certain printer brands, while others claim the update has caused further issues with unresponsive desktop icons or issues with…
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Evil Dead Rise Puts Its Own (Deliciously Gory) Spin on the Cult-Beloved Series
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Cops Serve VPN Maker Search Warrant for Data It Doesn't Collect
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The VPN provider Mullvad says that it was served with a search warrant by Swedish police demanding that the company turn over servers containing logs of user data. The only problem? Mullvad doesn’t collect such logs.

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Who Asked for This: Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Releases Medical ChatGPT Knockoff
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Disgraced Pharma Bro [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Martin Shkreli is pivoting to a new venture: medical AI. Shkreli says his new medical chatbot called “Dr. Gupta” can answer a wide range of medical questions and could one day become a “replacement for all health care information.”
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Parler’s New Owner Is in It for the Money, Not the Politics
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last week, the right-wing social network Parler was sold to a media conglomerate called Starboard. The company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] indefinitely to “undergo a strategic assessment.” It marks the end of a long and tumultuous saga for the conservative social media company—once seen as a refuge from mainstream apps like…
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Star Trek: Picard's Final Scene Came From 45 Minutes of Footage
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Everything We Noticed During SpaceX Starship’s Explosive Debut Launch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The mission lasted for just four minutes, but the fiery debut of SpaceX’s Starship resulted in stunning visuals and an abundance of new questions.

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Not Even Jeopardy Contestants Know What the Metaverse Is
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only person who’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of money on the metaverse. On Thursday, three additional public figures made the mistake of betting their cash on the concept. All of the contestants on the April 20, 2023 episode of Jeopardy failed to correctly answer the final prompt of the game, and all of them…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ben Wang stars as Jin Wang in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the adaptation of the graphic novel by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the same name. The Disney+ original show takes some significant departures from the book, but the new trailer shows how it interprets the themes into a contemporary, and adventure-forward, adaptation, starting…
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Twitter Demands Advertisers Pay for a Blue Check or Spend $1,000 a Month
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One day after Elon Musk followed through on his months-long threat to remove blue checks from Twitter accounts that were verified before his tenure, Twitter sent advertisers an email telling them they can’t advertise on the platform unless they subscribe to Twitter Blue. Accounts that already spend $1,000 or more a…
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Parler Could Get a Spin-Off by Disgruntled Former Employees
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Disgruntled former [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] employees are pushing back against Starboard’s acquisition of the platform, saying they will create their own version of the far-right social media site that fulfills its original goals. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the platform is reportedly heading in a…
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How Your Washing Machine Can Help Reduce Microplastics
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All of Marvel Studios' Phase 4 Comes to Life in a Single Poster
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This Year’s Winter Storms Devastated Agricultural Workers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]California couldn’t catch a break from consecutive storms this winter. Heavy precipitation caused widespread flooding, while strong winds [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The weeks of severe weather also turned fields into a muddy mess and disrupted work for the state’s many agricultural workers.

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Doctor Who Gets Groovy in New Set Promo Pics
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Elon Musk Drops All Media Labels on Twitter, Even for State-Run Outlets
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Call Me 'DeepBrain': Google Smushes DeepMind and Brain AI Teams Together
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Talk about a meeting of the minds. In another bid to add some NOx to its sputtering AI development, Google [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] late Thursday that it plans to combine its two major AI teams, once kept separate, under one banner called Google DeepMind.
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