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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Preventive mammograms for breast cancer might be less worthwhile for older women, according to research released this week. The study’s authors estimate that a substantial percentage of cancer cases caught through screening in women over 70 are overdiagnosed, that is, the detection of a tumor that isn’t likely to…
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Dracula Attacks in Exclusive Clip From The Last Voyage of the Demeter
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Disney Has a New Task Force to Spread AI Throughout Its Not So Magic Kingdom
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Disney is jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon.
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The Gaming Shelf Reaps What It Sows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]So... Gen Con happened. To like, all of us. The annual gaming con held in Indianapolis brought “record breaking” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] through the convention center. Also, a few awards. Yours truly lost the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming to a truly excellent and deserving game, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Additionally Free…
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Hottest July on Record Kills Hundreds of Cows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Alarming heat and humidity killed hundreds of cows in Iowa last month. These losses have further decreased the size of the overall U.S. cattle herd, which has shrunk to a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The Department of Natural Resources in Iowa told [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that it had received a much higher than normal number of body…
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Streaming Platform Dropout Is Resuming Production
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The ongoing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have made it so that Hollywood productions are largely ground to a halt, and other arms of the entertainment industry are similarly in stasis. Things have been a little murkier over in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], where actors play a roleplaying game on YouTube or another streaming…
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Valve Puts Cheaper, Refurbished Steam Decks up for Sale
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Update: They’re real! For those thinking about getting a Steam Deck but who recently missed out on sale prices, Valve now says customers will be able to buy used, refurbished Steam Decks at discounted prices.
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'Hypnotized' ChatGPT and Bard Will Convince Users to Pay Ransoms and Drive Through Red Lights
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Security researchers at IBM say they were able to successfully “hypnotize” prominent large language models like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] into leaking confidential financial information, generating malicious code, encouraging users to pay ransoms, and even advising drivers to plow through red lights. The researchers were able…
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Russia Elbows Into the New Moon Race With Upcoming Luna-25 Launch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Russia is getting ready to launch its first mission to the Moon in nearly fifty years in an attempt to stay relevant amidst a renewed space race.
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Ridley Scott Says He 'Should Have' Directed Blade Runner 2049
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a new interview with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] revealed that he regrets being forced to turn down the director position for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] sequel. Because of scheduling conflicts with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], he was asked to choose between the two films (the Alien franchise is released by 20th Century, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by Warner…
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Marvel's Preparing the X-Men for Their Time In the Spotlight
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For a long time, the X-Men were an oddity in the pages of Marvel Comics. They were extremely popular for years on end and able to stand toe-to-toe with the likes of Spider-Man and the Avengers through multiple series, but during the late 2010s, the characters were gradually diminished in favor of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (which…
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Open Channel: Tell Us Your Favorite Keith David Role
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier in the week, game developer Bungie revealed that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] would be portraying the role of Destiny 2's Commander Zavala beginning with 2024's The Final Shape expansion. The actor is taking over the role from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], who passed away earlier in the year, but his relationship with Bungie goes all the way…
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Ahsoka's New Trailer Brings Back an Old Friend
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The upcoming [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]has spent much of its marketing thus far showing that our titular former Jedi (played by Rosario Dawson) is teaming up with members of old [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]characters. But there’s one important character from Ahsoka’s past that hasn’t been discussed so far: her old master [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Timothy Olyphant Nearly Lead Star Trek's Reboot Films as James Kirk
[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 one of those actors you love to see pop up in things, either as a leading man or a reliable character actor. Over the years, he’s made a name for himself thanks to leading hit shows like Justified and Deadwood and popping up in guest roles like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for The Mandalorian and Joel in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Use Beeper to Put All of Your Chats in One Place
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Through the years there have been plenty of apps promising a one-stop shop for all your messages, and the latest of these is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: It collects all of your conversations from WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Slack, Google Chat, Twitter (or X), and, yes, even iMessage.
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Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed This Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don’t forget to check out our weekly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which will go into more detail on this same topic.
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The Last Ronin Brings the Ninja Turtles to the World of Blockbuster Games
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Throughout the decades, there’ve plenty of video games based on or featuring the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. While each of them have their own fans, one thing they all share in common is that they exist pretty comfortably in a space for young kids and maybe a nostalgic fan. After all, when the whole property is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Has Swung Over to Disney+
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Back in April, Disney+ started to gradually add a number of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to its catalog, from the old Sam Raimi trilogy to the considerably less older Spider-Man: Homecoming and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Also added in that mix (eventually) was 2012's [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], though it wasn’t clear at the time when its sequel would…
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Barbie's So Big, Folks Made It Their First Theatrical Pandemic Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Across [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] where it’s released, [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 been a big hit, and it’s already shaping up as one of the biggest [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the year, film or otherwise. And its impact is so big that it got people to break their mid-pandemic rule and actually see a movie in theaters as it was playing…
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After Newest AMPTP Meeting, WGA Says Offer is Being Evaluated
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Since early May, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has been striking for better pay and protections against AI (among [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]). Over the months, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the union has persisted across [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and grown as SAG-AFTRA has also joined in on the strike efforts. Though last weekend saw botched…
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Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Google's Pixel Fold Cost the Same, but They're Very Different Devices
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Folding phones haven’t replaced the standard smartphone, but the summer of foldables heated up when Samsung announced the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The fifth-generation folding device is the more expensive of Samsung’s two [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and the more feature-filled. It’s essentially a package of everything Samsung wants you to…
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How to Download Maps on Your Phone to Travel Offline
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Even in this day and age, you can’t always guarantee a strong cellular connection to a mobile network everywhere you go, especially if you’re on vacation. That can cause a problem when you’re trying to make your way from A to B using your map app of choice. The solution is to download and cache sections of the map…
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NASA Spacecraft Will Reunite With Earth After 17 Years of Studying the Sun
For the past 17 years, a lone spacecraft has been following Earth’s tracks in its orbit around the Sun and capturing unprecedented views of our host star. Now, STEREO-A has finally caught up with its home planet, lapping us in our cosmic trail and meeting the Earth for a brief rendezvous.
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AI This Week: Zoom's Big TOS Disaster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hello! We are officially launching a THING. It’s going to be a weekly roundup about what’s happening in artificial intelligence and how it affects you.
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We're in for an 'Above Average' Atlantic Hurricane Season, NOAA Predicts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’ve got a storm coming, maybe. The rest of the 2023 hurricane season will be busier than previously thought, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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The 5 Best VPNs for the Back to School 2023 Season
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Virtual Private Networks, better known as VPNs, are services that route your traffic through a sort of encrypted tunnel, hiding your online activities from your internet service provider and anyone else who manages your network. That makes VPNs a tool you should definitely not consider using when you land at your…
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Jurassic Park Celebrates Turning 30 by Stomping Into RealD 3D Theaters
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Back in 1993, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] mined agonizing tension from the simple image of water rippling in a glass. Those heavy T-rex footsteps are going to make an even more menacing impact when Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi tale—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—hits theaters in RealD 3D.
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Blue Beetle Reactions Blast Low Expectations With Resounding Praise
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See the Flying Cities of Landscape With Invisible Hand
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OnePlus Claims Its New Screens Can Work Even in a Downpour
Modern smartphones have become incredibly water resistant, so much so that even foldables are boasting they can survive a 30-minute bath without crapping out. The one issue is that wet touchscreens are still a pain to control, and holding a phone out in the rain guarantees you’re not scrolling until you dry it off.…
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Elon Musk Wants to Brawl with Mark Zuckerberg in Ancient Rome
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Are you not entertained?! Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk’s will they/won’t they continues, and it appears that the long awaited fight between the two tech billionaires could take place in Italy.
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Judge Throws Bankman-Fried Back in Jail
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Once the lord of a multibillion-dollar crypto empire under the FTX brand name, Sam Bankman-Fried will now have to prepare himself for his upcoming trial from a cell. A New York federal judge revoked Bankman-Fried’s bail and sent the crypto wiz to jail Friday to await trial later this year.

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Futurama Has Fun With Dune in Clips From Next Week's Episode
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]may have debuted over 30 years after Dune was published, but its homage to the classic sci-fi tale feels like another way [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. While we wait for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the big screen, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is sending [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Scientists Just Discovered a ‘Strawberry-Like’ Antarctic Invertebrate With 20 Arms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Another day, another terrifying sea creature for our fragile human minds to process. A team of marine scientists say they’ve confirmed the existence of a bevy of new species living around Antarctica. One of these apparent discoveries is an invertebrate that somewhat resembles a strawberry, albeit with 20 arms.

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Zoom Backtracks on Training AI on Your Calls
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After massive backlash over its wishy-washy communication regarding [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Zoom wants to set the record straight. Today, Zoom issued an update to its previous announcement on its plans for AI to formally claim that the company will not use audio, video, chat, or similar…
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At Gen Con, Independent TTRPGs Got Their Spotlights Too
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As a parliament of nerds (affectionate) walked up and down the lanes of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the annual tabletop gaming convention in Indianapolis, there seemed to be a never-ending supply of new games to try—and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] were giving con-goers a massive variety to choose from.
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Baldur's Gate 3 Has Taught Me D&D's Eldritch Blast Memes Were True
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the rare times I’ve had, well, the time to actually play [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], I’ve never played a Warlock. I usually go for some form of Ranger, or a more traditional caster class. But in my many years adjacent to the biggest TTRPG around, I’ve heard the rumors about Eldritch Blast being the D&D equivalent of…
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See 17 Years of an Exoplanet’s Orbit in One Captivating GIF
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Beta Pictoris b is a young exoplanet about 12 times as massive as Jupiter, with an orbit nearly twice as long. Now, a timelapse video of the planet’s nearly 23-year orbit lets you see most of that journey in just ten seconds.
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Daryl Dixon Clip Teases The Walking Dead's Grim Take on Post-Apocalyptic France
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We still don’t know exactly how [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Norman Reedus) made it from zombie-infested America to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but as this new teaser for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] spin-off informs us, “a bunch of bad decisions” had a lot to do with it.

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Rosario Dawson Talks Preparing For Ahsoka in This Star Wars Insider Excerpt
[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 been a part of the Star Wars galaxy [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but she’s on the precipice of even greater prominence in Ahsoka. The live-action continuation of the character’s journey across animation and now the live-action world of The Mandalorian hits [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But how is the star behind this…
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Russia Launches Its First Moon Landing Mission in 47 Years
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Russia has successfully launched its Luna-25 mission to the Moon, which will attempt to land on the lunar south pole later this month. If it sticks the landing, Russia will become the first country to pull off a soft landing on the south polar region of the Moon.
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8 Things We Liked (and 2 We Didn't) About Hulu's Solar Opposites Season 4
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with 11 new episodes, featuring [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], as well as the returning Thomas Middleditch (Terry), Mary Mack (Jesse), and Sean Giambrone (Yumyulack). The Shlorpians remain stuck on Earth—more assimilated than ever before, but still dealing with fish-out-of-water scenarios…
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Get a Peek at Landscape With Invisible Hand's Surreal Sci-Fi Setting
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There are so many weird, awesome things to see in the upcoming sci-fi film [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. There’s a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and there are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—aliens living with humans, with a creepy alien way of communicating. And there are the very exclusive alien cities that float above the…
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American Suicides Reached All-Time High Last Year, CDC Data Shows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Suicides have risen in the United States for the second straight year, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. In 2022, there were nearly 50,000 estimated deaths attributed to suicide in the U.S. An increase in suicide was found across most demographics, but numbers did decline for Native…
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Supermarket AI Offers Recipe for Mom's Famous Mustard Gas
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Betty Crocker never had the chance to release her down-home recipe for mustard gas, but modern generative AI is making up for lost time, helping to put the “die” in “diet.”
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Sorry, Chief, Microsoft Cortana Is Finally Dead
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You can now visit the gravestone of Microsoft’s virtual assistant app Cortana in the growing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The company ended support for the Bing search-based voice control engine on Windows to help make room for its continuing AI-ization of Bing and its bevy of other digital products and services.
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Olivia Rodrigo Unveils Instagram's New Musical Carousel Feature
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Capitalism may breed innovation, but Instagram is no stranger to ripping off TikTok. The social network’s newest feature is a rotating carousel of images set to music, delightfully similar to TikTok’s own.

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Updates From Deadpool 3, Loki Season 2, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]David Gordon Green talks casting Pazuzu in The Exorcist: Believer. Rick & Morty executive producer Steve Levy talks about the show’s life after Justin Roiland. Plus, get a glimpse at the finale, inevitably bonkers episodes of Riverdale. Spoilers get!

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California Lets Self-Driving Taxis Loose In San Francisco All Day and Night
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nascent robotaxi services Waymo and Cruise are going to be out in force on the Streets of San Francisco like rambunctious, autonomous, teenaged hooligans after a state public utilities body granted the companies license to drive out at all hours of the day and night, even without a safety driver behind the wheel.
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Check Out This Year's Harvey Award Nominees
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The year 2023 marks the 35th anniversary of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]s, one of the most [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and a celebration of the myriad forms they’ve inspired across the world and across mediums. To mark the occasion, io9 has teamed up with the organization to lift the lid on this year’s nominees, ahead of the…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The ongoing fires in Hawaii that have burned homes, trees, and historic sites to the ground have killed over 50 people as of Friday, according to officials. The reported death toll this Wednesday was 6 people, but yesterday [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and as of today the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] dead due to the fires. Officials…
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GM's New $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ Won't Have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Bad news for iPhone and Android users looking to snag a luxury car. GM just confirmed that Cadillac’s upcoming Escalade IQ—which boasts a hefty price tag of $130,000—will not have CarPlay or Android Auto support.
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Twitter's CEO Makes New Excuses for Musk's Dumb 'X' Rebranding
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter—the site that owner Elon Musk has desperately tried to convince users is now “X”—has a CEO, but based merely off public pronouncements, you’d still think the billionaire tech mogul is still its head. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] back in June, but since then we’ve…
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There's Never Been a Better Time to Build Up Your Pathfinder Tales Library
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s not every Pathfinder Tales volume, but there still are a lot represented in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s current bundle deal of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ebooks inspired by the fantasy world of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. You can build your collection, or start one from scratch, in a charity promotion that starts at just five dollars.
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Looks Like the Situation Around Wonder Woman 3 Is Getting Even Weirder
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After recent repeated statements from Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot that new DC film head honchos James Gunn and Peter Safran are working with her to develop the in-limbo [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a new report suggests that actually... nothing of the sort is happening.

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How to Play Lorcana, Plus a Few Starting Tips and a First Impression
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Disney’s trading card game [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] experienced a fan frenzy at last week’s Gen Con—something that publishers Ravensburger were really not expecting. Drawing overnight lines and selling out of product every day, Lorcana was the game that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was talking about. Some folks were in…
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Key to Europe's Space Ambitions, Ariane 6 Rocket Delayed to 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The highly anticipated debut of the Ariane 6 rocket will not happen this year as the European Space Agency (ESA) grapples with getting its heavy-lift launch vehicle off the ground.
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Assembling the Blue Beetle Cast | io9 Interview
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Woman Taking Supplements for Infertility Gets Lead Poisoning Instead
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A Canadian woman’s attempt to treat her infertility went drastically wrong, her doctors say. In a new case report this week, they detail how she developed lead poisoning from taking supplements filled with the toxic metal. The woman’s symptoms were successfully treated. This discovery prompted authorities to seize…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a previously recorded appearance on Josh Horowitz’s podcast Happy Sad Confused promoting Gran Tourismo, the film’s star David Harbour discussed the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] finale and joining James Gunn’s [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...]. Both projects are currently being paused as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue as…
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What’s Next for Blue Beetle in the DC Universe? | io9 Interview
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The State of the Star Wars Galaxy Coming Into Ahsoka
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When Ahsoka [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], we’re getting even further insight into a Star Wars galaxy at a[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—arguably the first major crisis of a nascent New Republic, and a galaxy still picking itself up after the fall of the Galactic Empire. But what do we [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the run-up to the…
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Pentagon Launches Study on How to Start an Economy on the Moon in the Next 10 Years
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Moon is so hot right now, metaphorically speaking. Several [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 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are plotting for mankind’s return to the lunar surface over the next decade. Unlike the days of Apollo, the modern-day race to the Moon involves establishing a sustainable…
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How birth/rebirth Explores the Joys and Horrors of Motherhood
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]io9 first caught director and co-writer Laura Moss’ debut [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2023—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and its grisly yet deeply emotional exploration of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has stuck with us for months. With the film about to hit theaters, we were excited to speak to Moss all about it.

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What Did the Actors Bring to Their Back to the Future: The Musical Performances? | io9 Interview
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Samsung's Freestyle Gen 2 Lets You Play Cloud Games on Your Ceiling
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s no better way to play video games than lying down. That can be hard to do when the TV is situated straight ahead. But with Samsung’s new Freestyle Gen 2 projector, you can lay on your back and indulge in your favorite cozy game projected on the ceiling above.

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Draganfly’s CEO Believes Drones Will Have a Bigger Impact on War Than Tanks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When Draganfly launched as a small drone company in 1998, its co-founders did not predict hobbyist products like theirs would one day become, in the words of CEO Cameron Chell, “bigger than the advent of the tank in World War I.” Now, 25 years later, Draganfly’s drones—which are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by the Smithsonian as being…
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D&D Beyond's First Third-Party Product for Sale Is a Critical Role Release
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San Francisco Begs California to Pause Waymo & Cruise Robotaxi Infestation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The future is nigh, but San Francisco wants to push it off just a little farther. The Bay Area city is asking California regulators to push pause on the expansion of robotaxi services from Waymo and Cruise.
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Microsoft Teases Event for September 21st
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft started issuing invitations for a “special event” on Thursday where it may introduce some new hardware and software, including [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and additional AI products. The event is scheduled to be held in New York City on Sept. 21, Microsoft announced in its email and will be the first…
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Barbie vs. The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is a Perfect 2023 Hollywood Microcosm
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When all is said and done, the biggest movies of 2023 are going to be based on a 60-year-old doll and a 40-year-old video game. [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...] have each, in their own unique ways, shown the best of what modern studio filmmaking can be. In an era when [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] continue to be the…
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America's Favorite Killer Doll to Take the Capitol In Chucky Season 3
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Talk about a killer campaign. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Brad Dourif) takes the stage for a run—more like a run for the lives of his next victims—to tease whats next in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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A New Walking Dead Video Game Lets Players Rewrite the Show's 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...] is always a fascinating question. It lets us explore our imaginations in scenarios we’ll never actually see play out. Now though, you can see them play out in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and it’s arguably the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to happen to the franchise in years.
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Apple Won't Be Shipping Nearly as Many iPhones When the New One Drops
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple’s promising several upgrades to its upcoming iPhone 15 to entice more people to upgrade, but behind the scenes, the company is reportedly expecting far fewer sales of its mainline smartphone this time around.
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Remains of Teenage Girl May Push Back Funerary Traditions in Neolithic Iberia by a Millennium
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Archaeologists studying ancient human remains in a Spanish cave system posit that one individual’s burial is the oldest Neolithic funerary site in Iberia by over 1,000 years.
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WokeGPT: Study Says ChatGPT Shows Liberal Bias
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A study from researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK suggests ChatGPT demonstrates liberal bias in some of its responses. Tech companies spent recent years desperately trying to prove their systems aren’t part of some left-wing political conspiracy. If the study’s findings are correct, ChatGPT’s…
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Xbox 360 Store to Become a Thing of the Past Starting in 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft is bringing an end to its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace starting July 29, 2024, the company announced on Thursday. The closure brings an end to Xbox 360’s 18-year run of bringing video games and other content to players everywhere.
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David Yost Is Returning to Power Rangers for Cosmic Fury
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When Cosmic Fury—seemingly the last iteration of Power Rangers as fans have known it for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as Hasbro looks to a new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the transforming teens—comes to Netflix last month, it’s bringing a legend with it: the original Blue Ranger, Billy Cranston, is back in spandex.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 Review: The Best Folding Phone Still Costs Too Much
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Over the past year of using Samsung’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] out in public, people have told me that, while they think folding phones are cool, they seem like nothing more than an expensive party trick. I don’t disagree. Life is fine with just one screen in your pocket and a smartphone that doesn’t unfold into a tablet. No…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A few short weeks ago, the world was taken aback by claims of a room-temperature superconductor—a scientific finding that could redefine modern physics as we know it. Those claims turned out to be bunk, and a South Korean university is investigating a complaint made against the professor who published them in a paper.
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Prey, Released Exclusively on Hulu, Will Get a Physical Release
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Prey, Dan Trachtenberg’s installment into the Predator franchise, is arriving on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on October 3. There will also be a collector’s edition steelbook for the 4K edition, designed by Attila Szarca, exclusively available at Best Buy. Notably, Prey didn’t make it to theatrical release, and was…
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High Winds, Heavy Rain, and Tumultuous Waves Are Headed to California This Weekend
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tropical storm Hilary in the Pacific Ocean has strengthened to officially become a hurricane.
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Razer Launches Its First Hot-Swappable Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Razer has done an impressive job with its mechanical gaming keyboards. Since launching the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in 2021, it’s cut back on the physical bloat and opted for simpler designs so that the boards have become like blank canvasses. I’m still not on board with the decidedly masculine “esport” aesthetic, but at…
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New York Times Reportedly Considering Lawsuit That Could Throw OpenAI Into Chaos
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Leaked Images Show Lenovo's Legion Go Is a Switch and a Steam Deck Rolled Into One
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The handheld console market is about to go full-circle. Leaked images of Lenovo’s upcoming Legion Go gaming device show that the company has taken inspiration from Nintendo and Valve for its next product, with the silhouette and controls of the Steam Deck plus the snappable, swappable controllers of the Nintendo…
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Apple TV+'s Monsterverse Series Has a Title and a Hello From Godzilla
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Alleged Stalking Victims Accuse Tile of Advertising Its Devices as Women Trackers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Two alleged stalking victims filed a class-action lawsuit against Tile and its parent company Life360 Monday accusing the companies of failing to implement useful safety features and of mounting advertising campaigns that encouraged stalking. They also accuse the company of tanking the case against their alleged…
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The Worst YouTube Apology Videos of All Time
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One of the most maligned tropes of the social media age is the infamous apology video. Whether it be blackface, showing a dead body to children, posting racist tweets, a convention gone wrong, or texting minors, there have been plenty of apology videos posted in the last decade of YouTube’s popularity.

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‘Race Records’ to AI Drake: How Tech Produced Key Moments in Hip-Hop
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Elemental's VFX Crew on How to Make a Hero Out of Water
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Hulu's The Other Black Girl Looks Like a Solid Entry in the Office Dystopia Trend
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When editorial assistant Nella (Sinclair Daniel) meets her new co-worker Hazel (Ashleigh Murray), she’s thrilled that her otherwise [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] company has hired another Black person. But as the trailer for new Hulu series The Other Black Girl reveals, sometimes it’s better to be careful what you wish for.

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James Gunn Keeps Sending DC Comics to Amazon's Bestseller Lists
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“How do you sell a superhero comic these days?” is a question [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and comics retailers are grappling with, but apparently at least in some very specific cases, the answer is “have James Gunn tweet about it.”

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Sparked an Exodus of Climate Voices, Researchers Find
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Accounts that used to regularly engage and tweet about climate-related issues have been dropping like flies on Twitter, less than a year after Elon Musk’s purchase of the company. A report published in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] this week found that almost 50% of over 300,000 “environmentally oriented”…
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Amazon Now Punishes Merchants Who Ship Their Own Products
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Third-party merchants on Amazon who ship their own packages will see an additional fee for each product sold starting on Oct. 1st. Sellers could previously choose to ship their products without contributing to Amazon, but the new feemeans members of Amazon’s Seller Fulfilled Prime program will be required to pay the…
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NYC Bans TikTok on City Devices
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Big Apple is joining the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. New York City issued a new directive on Wednesday banning TikTok from city-owned devices and forcing local agencies to remove the app from its phones and tablets within 30 days. Starting today, anyone using a city-owned device or network is prohibited from downloading …
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Coraline Just Made a Box Office Killing, 14 Years Later
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Coraline, the 2009 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by The Nightmare Before Christmas directorHenry Selick, was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from the instant it was released. It had [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], critical acclaim, award recognition, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. What [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] though was the film’s staying power, which was…
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Space Force Forms New Intelligence Unit to Target Enemy Satellites
[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...] has launched a unit dedicated to warding off threats from other countries in space.
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Self-Driving Car in San Francisco Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Self-driving cars are one of the funniest broken promises of the modern age. Far are we from the fantasy of The Jetsons and Total Recall, self-driving vehicles may be some of the dumbest creatures to roll across planet Earth. One such car found itself stuck in wet cement while cruising through San Francisco on Tuesday.
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AP Shares Guidelines Prohibiting Staff From Using AI to Write Publishable Content
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Associated Press is putting its foot down on journalists using any kind of AI program to write articles, though that isn’t stopping the company itself from making a quick buck in exchange for training generative AI on older AP content.
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Ahsoka Tano Is Star Wars' Biggest Paradox
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Star Wars is a franchise with a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but all of them all feel rooted in a particular place in time. You can feel that the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Han Solo are products of the late 1970s to some degree or another. Similarly, you can see that someone like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or Mace Windu is born out of the late 2010s…
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8BitDo’s Latest Tiny Controller Weighs Less Than a Single AA Battery
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What is this, a game controller for ants? The company that brought you [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] now has a controller so compact it seems purpose-built for getting lost between the couch cushions.
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HBO's The Last of Us Might Have Its Abby, But They're Not Talking Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As we all know, with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA currently on strike, the production of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has been put on pause. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is The Last of Us, the hit HBO adaptation of the PlayStation game which was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Co-showrunner Craig Mazin said that before the…
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NYU Professor Locked Out of Twitter After Reportedly Declining to Meet With Elon Musk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New York University professor and Kara Swisher’s podcasting buddy Scott Galloway voiced his outrage at being banned from posting on Twitter in a Threads post on Tuesday. Galloway claims he’s been locked out of Twitter ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) two days after allegedly declining an invitation to meet with the chief Twit himself.
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The Wheel of Time Spins Toward Season 2 With New Character Posters
[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...] on September 1, when the first three episodes of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] will reunite us with characters who went through a lot in season one—and introduce some new faces too. Get a glimpse of everyone in these new character posters that tease what’s to come in the upcoming episodes.
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Unique Triassic Reptile Had Slenderman Claws and a Beak
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought.
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Twitter 'Nickel and Dimed' Feds for Trump's Personal Data
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Newly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] following a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] accusing Donald Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 elections show the lengths Twitter lawyers went to try and notify the former president of the government’s inquiry and delay investigators from obtaining detailed information from the former president’s…
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Blue Beetle Sets the Bar for DC's New Movie Era
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Barbie Is Closer to Digital This September
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Genetic Analysis of ‘Ötzi the Iceman’ Reveals Ancient Mummy’s Ancestry
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ötzi made international headlines when he was found by a pair of climbers, sticking out of an ice patch high in the Italian alps. When he was found, Ötzi had already been dead for about 5,300 years, but his remarkably preserved remains have since given scientists a unique window into Copper Age Europe.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What’s this? A new book about the making and impact of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, just in time for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Essential Back to School Gear Guide for Pop Culture Fans
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]School is back in session and if there’s still fandom gear to check off your shopping list, io9 has you covered.
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Barbie's Breakout Hit Song Gets Hilarious Behind-the-Scenes Video
[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...] of Barbie [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but what were they like to film? Well, a new video has surfaced thanks to Atlantic Records answering that question and more. It’s a full music video for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] chart-topping bop “I’m Just Ken” by Ryan Gosling, but it’s filled with behind-…
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Baldur's Gate 3 Characters Sheets for D&D Let You Put Your D&D in Your D&D While You D&D
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Been playing a lot of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and found yourself thinking “god, I love all of these Dungeons & Dragons characters in this Dungeons & Dragons video game. What if I [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Dungeons & Dragons?” Well, the good news is that Wizards of the Coast and Larian have made that even more absurdly easy than…
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The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]US government regulators reportedly tried to come to an agreement with TikTok to prevent banning the app that would have granted the federal government vast powers over the app. That’s according to a draft of a deal between TikTok and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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Google’s Pixel 8 Could Eliminate the SIM Slot, Just Like the iPhone
[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...] has started fizzling out, and now we’re moving on to the next batch of flagship phones. Google’s Pixel 8/8 Pro is expected to be the next major Android smartphone release this fall. And it might be Google’s first eSIM-only smartphone. Apple went eSIM-only with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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How Many People Does It Take to Start a Colony on Mars?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It might only take 22 people to establish a colony on Mars, though that small group of cosmic inhabitants should have agreeable personality types to survive on the Red Planet, according to new research.
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Godfather NFTs Weren’t Enough to Prevent Recur From Sleeping With the Fishes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Even with the inclusion of collectibles from the Nickelodeon, Paramount, and Hello Kitty back catalogs, the NFT platform Recur is calling it quits after several years of pumping the internet full of monetized images of The Godfather’s similarly ineffective Fredo.
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This New Ahsoka Clip Finally Brings the Chopper Chaos
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What we’ve seen so far of Ahsoka [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], especially for fans of Star Wars Rebels waiting to see just what is up [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] after the events of the show. But something has been missing: a spark, an energy, a little frisson of silliness and personality. That something is Chopper, and, at long last, a…
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Here’s What the WGA Has to Say About the Big 3 Streaming Monopolies
[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...] has released a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the big three streaming services, outlining exactly how far each one has gone to preserve and maintain their monopoly in the space. The three companies at the heart of the report are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Amazon, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. All three of these streaming services…
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850 People Remain Missing in Maui After Devastating Wildfires
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]850 people are currently still missing in Maui, more than two weeks after the fires first sparked, [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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Montana Compares TikTok to 'Cancer-Causing Radio' in Defense of State's Ban
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Montana’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Austin Knudsen wants US courts to think of TikTok less like a light-hearted home for viral trends and more akin to the harbinger of a life-threatening disease. In recent [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] defending his state’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Knudsen compared TikTok …
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Webb Space Telescope Drops Two Spellbinding Shots of the Ring Nebula
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Ring Nebula with its two primary imagers, revealing the gaseous formation in never-before-seen detail.
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'Benefits of Slavery:' Google's AI Search Gives Ridiculous and Wrong Answers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google’s experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google gave cooking tips for Amanita ocreata, a poisonous mushroom known as the “angel of death.” The…
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Elon Musk's X is Testing User Verification That Requires Government ID
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]X (the social media site [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial. The feature, which is currently only offered to/forced on premium [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], asks users to fork over a selfie and a picture of a government issued ID to…
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Movie Theaters Are Charging Only $4 Per Ticket This Sunday
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Creepshow Season 4 Promises Generous Portions of Ghosts, Ghouls, and Gore
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s a scarily good time to be a fan of horror TV, with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and now [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] announcing its own return. Season four of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] drops Friday, October 13 on Shudder and AMC+.
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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 are the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best…
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YouTube Says Its Music AI Incubator Will 'Protect' Artists
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]YouTube is embracing the future of artificial intelligence in the music industry by creating a YouTube Music AI Incubator to “protect” artists and their work, the company said in a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Monday. The streaming platform partnered with Universal Music Group (UMG) to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], working…
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Samsung Tries to Entice iPhone Users With Fake Foldable Experience
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With Samsung pouring its marketing money into its latest foldable phones, the company is trying to snatch up potential iPhone 15 customers by showing them all the fun and weirdness of using two screens, so long as they have an additional iPhone on hand and they’re easily distracted by playing a dull game of air hockey.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The point of BeReal is simple: Keep your circle tight. The app where most accounts are private and users can only post once a day is unveiling a new Friends of Friends feature that allows users to explore what people they kinda know are up to.
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See How Tropical Storm Hilary Flooded Southern California
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Hubble Space Telescope Snaps Galaxy Cluster That Could Hold Secrets of Dark Matter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Hubble Space Telescope is no spring chicken, having operated in space for over 30 years. But the veteran observatory soldiers on. It recently imaged a massive galaxy cluster that could hold secrets about both dark and ordinary matter.
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Easter Eggs in Blue Beetle | io9 Interview
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Wandavision, Loki, and The Mandalorian Will All Get Physical Home Releases
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the streaming era devolves into a wave of cutbacks, consolidation, and the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the sake of tax breaks, it’s become more important than ever that physical releases of streaming original media offers a legal path to people still being able to actually access that content. Thankfully,…
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Russia's Long-Awaited Return to the Moon Crashes and Burns
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Luna-25 mission crashed on the surface of the Moon this weekend, ending Russia’s quest to prove it still has what it takes to land on the lunar surface.
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David Tennant Teases How Different His Return to Doctor Who Is
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Could a fifth Thor movie really be on the way? Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is getting ready to celebrate Life Day. Al Gore strikes back in new Futurama pics. Plus, what’s coming on Riverdale’s final episode. To me, my spoilers!
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Tesla Says Massive Data Breach Was an Inside Job
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tesla’s data breach in May, which affected more than 75,000 people, was an inside job, the company said in a notice released to its customers on Friday. According to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], German news outlet Handelsblatt informed Tesla of the breach on May 10 after obtaining the confidential information.
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Charles Martinet, Longtime Voice Actor for Mario and Luigi, Retires
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nintendo has announced on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] formerly known as Twitter, that Charles Martinet, who has been the video game voice actor for Mario since 1991, is retiring. He will be stepping into a “new role” of Mario Ambassador.
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Threads Is Finally Getting a Web Browser
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the cold war between Elon Musk’s Twitter (recently rebranded as X) and Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads rages on, the latter is preparing to launch a new offensive. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced that Threads was finally getting a bona fide browser version.
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Apple Is Already Working on Chips for iPhone 15's Successors
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Are you already entirely up to date with all the iPhone 15 rumors ahead of its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? Well, don’t let the impending release stop you from squinting at the product IDs for Apple’s processor series two years in advance.
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New One Piece Featurette Goes Behind the Seas With the Cast and Crew
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‘I Was Shadowbanned:’ How Hinge's Algorithm Decides Who You Date
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last year, a friend came to me with a strange tech problem. “The algorithm is screwing me over,” he said, peering over a drink at a bar in Manhattan’s East Village. Anthony, a 31-year old engineer who asked to withhold his real name, had been on the dating app Hinge for five years. He said he always had a hard time…
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Looks Like the Website for Trump's Patriot Legal Defense Fund Just Got Hacked
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The website for former President Donald Trump’s legal defense fund appears to have been hacked and defaced over the weekend. As of the writing of this blog, the defacement is still live on the site and has not been taken down.
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Twitch Will Finally Let You Ban Users From Your Streams
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitch is finally letting streamers block out those viewers they’ve already banned from chat. However, these bans won’t be based on any user identifier beyond accounts, so the various kinds of insufferable Twitch-holes who are dedicated enough could still find ways to watch.
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Taika Waititi Thinks Thor 5 Would Need a Truly Worthy Villain
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Open Channel: Tell Us What You Thought of Blue Beetle
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My Animal Finally Lets Werewolves Be Gay
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Studios Complain Strikes They Caused Are Hurting Their Movies' Box Offices
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Hollywood strikes have been going on for quite a while—specifically Day 38 for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and Day 111 for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. During this time, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and writers haven’t been doing promo for any project they’re involved with that’s been released out into the world. It’s the price they’re willing to pay in order to get…
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Don't Think of Superman: Legacy as a "Young Superman" Film, Says James Gunn
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For our series on innovation, Gizmodo spoke to Olivia Grace, senior director of product management at Slack’s headquarters in San Francisco, about recent and upcoming changes to the…
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11 Cool Tricks You Can Do With the Google Search Box
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Getting Google to search the web for you is all well and good, but there’s a ton of functionality available through the simple-looking box on the world’s most-visited website. You could call these bonus features, or Easter eggs, or hidden tricks—but they’re all useful in your own way, and can be launched by heading to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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The Flash Finally Speeds Onto Max Next Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]First it seemed like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]would never come out, for a variety of reasons. Then when it did actually see the light of day, its time in theaters was...kind of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now, after [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and getting a surprise VOD drop in-mid July, the DC Comics movie is coming to Max about a week from now.
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Uber and Lyft Could Leave Minneapolis Over $0.51
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Uber and Lyft threatened to leave Minneapolis after the city council approved a minimum wage for drivers that would force the tech companies to pay drivers $1.40 per mile and $0.51 per minute during rides. The ordinance, which passed the Council 7-5 on Thursday, could still be vetoed by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey,…
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Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed This Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don’t forget to check out our weekly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which will go into more detail on this same topic.

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The Nun's Bonnie Aarons is Taking Warner Bros. to Court
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Judge Rules Wholly AI-Created Art Can't Get Copyright Protections
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For those in the entertainment industry (and creative fields more generally), AI has been an extremely divisive topic. As various websites like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have decided to basically let art created by the controversial technology persist on their platforms—either freely or with specific guidelines—Hollywood [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...]
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The Peripheral Canceled After Prime Video Undoes Season 2 Renewal
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Check Out These Winning Pics of Plants, Fungi, Whales, and Dinosaurs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The BMC Ecology and Evolution photo competition has come to an end, and the winners and runners-up cover a diverse sweep of the animal and fungal kingdoms.
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How to Export All Your Photos and Videos Out of Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Messenger
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You’ve probably got a ton of photos and videos in your social media and messaging apps at this point—pictures of sunsets posted to Instagram, pictures of the kids posted to family WhatsApp groups, and so on—but you might not necessarily have those pictures and videos saved anywhere else.
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Knott's Scary Farm 50 to Feature Throwback Haunts and Interactive Play
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Record-Low Ice Levels in Antarctica Killed Thousands of Penguin Chicks, Study Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Thousands of penguin chicks in four emperor penguin colonies likely died after Antarctic ice broke up earlier than usual last year, creating a “catastrophic breeding failure.”
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Ahsoka's Sweeping End Titles Are the Most Fascinating Thing About Its Titular Character
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ever since Ahsoka Tano stepped out of the mists of Corvus and into live-action Star Wars history on The Mandalorian, I’ve had complicated feelings about the direction of one of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in contemporary canon. Those feelings haven’t changed much in the opening episodes of her [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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The Marvels' Iman Vellani Reveals How Being a Mutant Will Change Kamala Khan
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NLRB Says Companies That Union-Bust Must Recognize Busted Union
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The union push of the 2020s is gaining more momentum, this time from the National Labor Relations Board. New guidelines from the NLRB say that if a company opts to bust a union, that company will be forced by the Board to recognize the union.
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Star Wars' Official Timeline Guide Offers Intriguing Hints at the Past and Future
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier this year at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], looking ahead to a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Lucasfilm officially unveiled a new chronological look at continuity, breaking down thousands of years in the galaxy far, far away into nine distinct periods. Now, the official website has gone a little deeper—and teased some…
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Everyone on Riverdale Accepted the Insanity by the End
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Across seven seasons of Riverdale a lot of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Archie [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the premiere would ultimately be one of the most normal things to happen on a show that turned Cheryl Blossom into a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], did time travel and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], flung multiple teachers out the same…
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Just a Month After Launch, Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Is Already Dying
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’ve already had your iris scanned for Worldcoin’s crypto-based “free money” promise, your biometric investment has been cut in half since launch.
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Webb Telescope Data Suggests There May Not Be a Ton of Supermassive Black Holes
A team of researchers scrutinizing the Extended Groth Strip, a region of space between the constellations Ursa Major and Boötes, saw fewer growing supermassive black holes and less dust than they expected.

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Cryptozoologists Enlist Drones to Find the Loch Ness Monster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but few as notorious as the Loch Ness Monster. This weekend, a group of cryptozoologists will be taking to the namesake body of water to hunt for the mythological creature with a suite of technology in the biggest manhunt—or “monster-hunt”—in over…
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Barbie Is Officially the U.S. Box-Office Champ of 2023
[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 you, me, and Luigi are just living in it. Greta Gerwig’s subversive comedy starring Margot Robbie as a toy that breaks free from her plastic world was already [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and already Warner Bros.’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] after passing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now, it’s…
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Cherry Goes After Copycats With a New Generation of Mechanical Keyboard Switches
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Could The Flash's Alternate Ending Have Changed Its Fate?
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Get a Rare Look Behind the Scenes of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—publishers of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—have another essential release for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the way. From authors John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] - The Making of the Classic Film reveals rare and previously unpublished…
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Maui County Sues Hawaiian Electric, Claims Negligence Led to Devastating Wildfires
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Maui County filed a lawsuit against [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] this week over the fires that destroyed thousands of structures and killed over 100 people this month. Officials said that the utility company did not shut off power during the dangerous combination of high winds and dry conditions that helped spark and…
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You Can Rest Your Switch or Steam Deck in This Comforting SNES-Styled Cradle
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]GuliKit is offering modern handheld gamers a way to feel safe and snug in a piece of retro gaming history. The company’s new docking station is an all-in-one kit for supporting the Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, and more, and it’s all packaged in something that looks very similar to the old Super Nintendo…
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Everything to Remember About Wheel of Time Ahead of Season 2
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Samsung Galaxy Watch 6's Bigger Screen Makes It a Better Watch
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Hiked Up Lorcana Prices Could Hurt Game Stores in the Long Run
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ravensburger’s much-anticipated new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] will be released in big box stores on September 1, but ahead of it’s global release, Ravensburger has given local game stores an exclusivity window of two weeks. This means that from mid-August through the first of September, local brick-and-mortars…
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Reddit Is Handing Out Awards to Its Frustrated Moderators
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A tidal wave of strife plagued Reddit following the popular social media platform’s decision to charge exorbitant fees for access to its API. Now, the company wants to reward the free labor of the moderators it once antagonized.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Dropbox is no longer offering new customers unlimited cloud storage. The company says crypto miners and other dastardly individuals pooled or resold storage space. Now, none of us can have nice things.
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Blue Beetle's Director Teases a Big Future For DC's New Hero
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The BBC might have slip just when Ncuti Gatwa’s first Doctor Who season will begin. Could there be even more of Ahsoka and The Acolyte on the way? Futurama goes festive in new pictures. Plus, get another look at Invasion’s return. To me, my spoilers!
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The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Many students have no choice about working with the College Board, the company that administers the SAT test and Advanced Placement exams. Part of that relationship involves a long history of privacy issues. Tests by Gizmodo found if you use some of the handy tools promoted by College Board’s website, the organization…
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Trump is Back on Twitter (or X, as Elon Musk Calls It)
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a busy night in Trumpland. On the same evening that the former President was booked into jail in Georgia—thus spawning an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—Trump also returned to Twitter (which is now called X, thanks to Elon Musk). In fact, the first new tweet from Trump is his mugshot. After leaving Georgia, Trump…
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Here’s Trump’s Mugshot. Do Your Thing, Internet.
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Wolf Like Me Shares a Season 2 Peek, Premiere Date, and New Cast Member
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Tony Gilroy Says the AMPTP Has 'Almost Nothing in Common But Greed'
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Dune 2 Has Been Delayed to 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We will not return to Arrakis in 2023. Warner Bros. has confirmed that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Dune will now release March 15, 2024, a four-month delay from its original planned November 2023 release.

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Citizen Suspends Sales of CZ Smartwatch Over 'Technical Software Issues'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Watchmaker Citizen’s latest attempt at making a traditional-looking but simultaneously tech-heavy smartwatch hasn’t gone to plan. The company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], proclaiming the device’s health features would keep track of all your sleep and physical activity to provide users “alertness tests.”…
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The Muppets Take Manhattan Commands the Spotlight in 4K Ultra HD
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Few did the timeworn Hollywood plot of “hey, guys, let’s put on a show!” better than [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...] is probably 1984's Broadway fantasy The Muppets Take Manhattan—the third feature they starred in after The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and the latest…
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Watch Live as NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Launches to the ISS
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA is getting ready to launch the next crew of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft was declared a “go” for launch earlier this week.
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GOP Candidate's Climate Change Answers, Ranked
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Eight Republican presidential candidates took the stage on Wednesday night for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Twenty minutes into the show, one of the moderators asked the candidates to raise their hands if they believed that human behavior was causing climate change.
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Are Star Wars' Extragalactic Ambitions What They Seem in Ahsoka?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This week [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] kicked off a new chapter of Star Wars’ latest [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to find people—the race between heroes and villains alike to find out just what happened to Ezra Bridger and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But in throwing out a very specific location, the show has kicked off a bevy of speculation about the true…
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Whoops: DEA Falls for Crypto Scam, Hands Fraudster $55,000 in Stolen Funds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The same federal agency that once [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the biggest crypto-based dark web drug marketplace Silk Road got swindled by one of the oldest tricks in the crypto scammer playbook. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly handed a fraudster a little more than $55,000 in confiscated crypto funds after…
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How Much Star Wars Do You Need to Watch Before Ahsoka?
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Feds Accuse SpaceX of Hiring Discrimination Against Refugees and Asylees
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday against SpaceX for allegedly refusing to hire refugees and asylees. The DOJ said the company incorrectly cited federal regulations to justify discriminatory hiring practices.
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Google's Legacy Nest Cams Now Work with the Google Home App
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Within the coming weeks, you should see options in the Google Home app for any indoor Nest cameras you have in your smart home from the original 2015 run. Finally, all my Nest security cameras can be accessed and maintained from the same app. Google announced a while back that it would eventually [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the Nest…
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Foe Looks Like Sci-Fi Oscar Bait at Its Finest
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So, Those First 2 Ahsoka Episodes Were a Prequel, Right?
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Driverless Cars Are Worse at Spotting Kids and Dark-Skinned People, Study Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Driverless car systems have a bias problem, according to a new study from Kings College London. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] examined eight AI-powered pedestrian detection systems used for autonomous driving research. Researchers ran more than 8,000 images through the software and found that the self-driving car systems were nearly 20%…
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Uber Raises Minimum Driving Age to 25 in California to Combat Rising Insurance Costs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Uber introduced a new age requirement for its California drivers on Thursday in response to rising commercial and auto insurance rates. The company said that moving forward, it will only allow people 25 years and older to transport passengers, but the rules won’t apply to Uber Eats delivery drivers.
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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...]“Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars! [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]! Don’t let them end...” Just as Bill Murray said it in 1978, we’re still saying it today. [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…
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CNN's Streaming Service Is Being Resurrected on Max
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Content Farms Are Using AI Chatbots to Plagiarize News Outlets
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Online content farms are using AI chatbots to “scramble and rewrite” thousands of news stories from major publications like The New York Times and republish them to earn advertising revenue, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] new report from misinformation monitor NewsGuard. The stories, which often repurposed entire lines directly from…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Achieve Hollywood Immortality
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Meta's Latest AI Release Is an Open Source Coding Bot
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Right on cue, Meta has shared its latest AI drop with the world, and this time, the company is letting anybody get their hands on a bot that will write, debug, and describe code in a multitude of coding languages.
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Strava's New Community Photo Feature Lets You Preview Conditions Before You Go Out
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Strava, a popular fitness tracking app with a tinge of social network built into it, announced Thursday it would make its vast library of user-uploaded photos available to paid subscribers in its Route Builder. All those photos you’ve uploaded for public viewing will help hikers and bikers who subscribe to Strava…
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Rick and Morty Season 7 Finally Has a Premiere Date
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Apple Has Finally Found a Right to Repair Bill That It Likes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This week, Apple announced its support for a California bill to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] independently. The bill, called SB 244 or the Right to Repair Act, was passed by the state senate in May with a 38-0 vote, requiring manufacturers to provide owners and repair shops with the necessary…
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Add 'Josh Brolin's Space Guitar' to List of Things You Can't Wait to See in Dune 2
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Fresh Blood Is Coming to the Area Around Disneyland's Haunted Mansion
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Investors Sue Disney for Allegedly Being Sneaky About Streaming Costs
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Facebook Rejects Its Own Supreme Court's Order to Ban Cambodia's Ex-Prime Minister
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta has rejected its own Oversight Board’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Cambodia’s former Prime Minister Hun Sen, an authoritarian dictator who [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and has been accused of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The decision marks a…
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The Original Jurassic Park Had a Great Weekend at the Box Office
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Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election
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Hubble, Webb Telescopes Team Up to Study Jupiter's Tumultuous Volcanic Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Jupiter’s orbit is swarming with nearly 100 moons, but none are as hardcore as the volcanic world Io. That’s why it’s going to take an iconic collaboration to truly probe the odd satellite in order to unravel its many mysteries.
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LaKeith Stanfield and Clark Backo on Bringing The Changeling to Life
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10 Bugs Scientists Want You to Squash Immediately
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Good News Everyone: We Found a New Species of Roundworm That Can Infect Our Brains
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Here’s some extra material for your nightmares: In a case report out this week, a group of scientists say they’ve found a new species of roundworm that’s capable of infesting our brains—one that normally plagues snakes. The discovery was made when they extracted a living worm from an Australian woman’s head during…
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Here's How That $4 Movie Day Played Out
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What happens when movie theaters [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for one day only? Apparently, people turn out in droves.
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I Scream, You Scream: iFixit Wants to Fix McDonald's Busted Ice Cream Machines
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]McDonald’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have long been a meme across cyberspace, but iFixit wants to put an end to it. The popular how-to tech website is appealing to Congress after applying to circumvent a copyright law that prevents the average Joe from fixing the problem.
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Facebook Userbase Is Apparently Unbothered by Canadian News Ban
[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 seemingly been met with a shrug by its user base. Data shows that Facebook’s users have remained steady even though the social media platform has banned news links.
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Hasbro's New Ahsoka Toys Include Some Very Good Droids
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YouTube Gives Creators an Extra Chance When Violating Company Policies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]YouTube is changing its community guidelines to give creators more leeway for violating its content rules, the company announced on Tuesday. Content creators will now have the opportunity to take an educational training course that reviews why their video violated the guidelines. The move comes as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Meta Discovers Its Biggest Misinfo Campaign Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta says it has identified and removed more than 7,700 shady accounts and 990 pages on Facebook linked to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in what the company is calling the “largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world.” The accounts, which tended to boost positive commentary about Chinese policies…
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Silo on Apple TV+ Is Really Freaking Good
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Watch an AI Learn to Play Mario Live on TikTok
On TikTok, between the “get ready with me” videos, life hacks, and memes, a few robots are working on a challenge that many of us have faced at some point in our lives: beating Super Mario World. Over the past week, users have been live streaming an AI’s attempts to learn to play Mario, and for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Apple’s ‘Wonderlust’ Event Happening September 12: New iPhones, New Apple Watch Expected
Not all who wander are lost, but some of those who “wonder” do… “lust?” Well, at least according to Apple, fans do seem to lust after whatever next product is coming down the road from its headquarters at 1 Infinity Loop. Now, the company is finally ready to share details about its upcoming iPhone 15 lineup, its Apple…
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Lupita Nyong'o Pays Tribute to Chadwick Boseman on the Anniversary of His Death
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], an accomplished actress who starred alongside the late Chadwick Boseman in the Marvel franchise, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], posted [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to the actor on Instagram. Three years ago Boseman tragically passed away from colon cancer, a medical event that he kept extremely private up until his death. Boseman…
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Archaeologists in Peru Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Priest's Burial Site
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A team of Japanese and Peruvian archaeologists working in northern Peru’s Cajamarca region have found the 3,000-year-old remains of a man they believe was a priest for the area’s temples.

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]India is getting ready to launch its first mission to the Sun, switching its attention to Earth’s host star after finally touching down on the Moon less than a week ago.
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Get a Look Inside Inferno Girl Red's Explosive Return
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Florida Officials Concerned About Gas Contamination as Hurricane Idalia Approaches
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Florida officials are warning state residents that more than two dozen gas stations may have sold contaminated gasoline, as communities prepare themselves for incoming Hurricane Idalia later this week.
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DeepMind Says It Has a Way to Identify AI Images...but Only on Google
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google’s DeepMind says it has cracked a problem that has vexed those trying to verify whether images are real or created by AI. Researchers proclaimed their new watermarking SynthID format can be used to pinpoint AI-generated deepfakes without distorting the image’s original quality. The catch is that the program…
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Ahsoka Goes Retro in These Vintage-Inspired Star Wars Toys
[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 landed, and with it, a veritable pathway to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of merchandise. And maybe Grand Admiral Thrawn. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]! To celebrate the launch of the new Star Wars series, io9 has got your first look at some of the new-old Ahsoka toys that will be hitting shelves soon.

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Amazon CEO Tells Workers: Return to Office or 'It’s Probably Not Going to Work Out for You'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Another day, another company executive blowing more hot air—the CEO of one of the world’s largest companies is coming after those pesky remote workers. Amazon CEO Andy Jassey has threatened remote workers with termination if they don’t return to the office, saying there’s no more room for disagreement.
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American Airlines Hit With Record-Setting Fine Over Extreme Tarmac Delays
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The United States Transportation Department (DOT) fined American Airlines $4.1 million on Monday for keeping passengers on board amid delays that violated tarmac delay laws. The DOT found that 43 flights were affected between 2018 and 2021, leaving passengers on board planes for extended ground delays, without…
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Chad Stahleski Teases His Highlander Reboot
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Alien TV series has paused production. Ahsoka’s credits sequence teases some mystery new planets. Another day, another creepy American Horror Story poster. Plus, get a look at what’s coming on the What We Do In The Shadows season finale. Spoilers, away!
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Apple Reportedly Expects Its Most Expensive iPhone 15 to Be Its Biggest Seller
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple is currently at the top of the heap of smartphones, at least in terms of the number of phone shipments. But for its next go around with the iPhone 15, the Cupertino, California-based tech giant is expected to ship more of its most expensive smartphone edition than any other version, according to a well-known…
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Elon Musk Responds to DOJ Lawsuit Against SpaceX's Alleged Hiring Discrimination
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In response to a lawsuit against his private space venture for employment discrimination, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called out the Department of Justice for its own hiring policies.
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ULA Set for Launch of Atlas 'Bruiser' Rocket for Space Force Threat Tracking Mission
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Update: August 29, 8:13 a.m. ET: ULA announced last night through an emailed statement that the launch has been postponed indefinitely because of the approaching Hurricane Idalia, which was just recently upgraded from a tropical storm and is expected to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday morning. ULA also said in…
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Enterprise For Businesses
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]OpenAI has launched [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which it says is specifically designed for businesses. “We believe AI can assist and elevate every aspect of our working lives and make teams more creative and productive,” the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in a blog post published Monday. “Today marks another step towards an AI assistant for…
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Interview With the Vampire and Fear the Walking Dead Will Pop Up on Max
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Suicide Squad's David Ayer Still Has Things to Say About Suicide Squad
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Grant Howitt's Eat the Reich Asks If You're Willing to Be a Monster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“It’s just a pun that got really out of hand,” award-winning game designer [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] said as he attempted to explain the inspiration behind [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Last year, sometime around Gen Con, as he was on some plane ride or another from Indianapolis to England, probably sleep-deprived, definitely exhausted, he…
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Shadowy Tech Goons Want to Build a New City in California. What Could Go Wrong?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When rich people start [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it’s always disturbing. If and when those same people start telling you that they’re going to use the land they’ve bought to make the world a better place, it’s only natural to feel certifiably creeped out. Unfortunately, this is what’s been happening in northern California,…
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Hawaii Power Company Takes Partial Responsibility for One of Maui's Wildfires
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hawaiian Electric Company, the electric company that was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], responded to the lawsuit over the weekend. In the official response, the company also faulted local firefighters for leaving the scene of the fire too early.

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Ahsoka's Droids Are Its Best Animated Adaptation So Far
[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 a show that culminates years of effort on the behalf of Lucasfilm to try and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] between the animated work that kept Star Wars going after the movies seemingly came to an end after the prequels, and the live-action television that has sustained it in the modern era. But for all its attempts, its…
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Foxconn Selling Two Empty Wisconsin Buildings After Failed Promises to Bring Jobs to the State
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Foxconn is selling off two of its large facilities in Wisconsin after years of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to Eau Claire and Green Bay. The Taiwanese manufacturing company has pivoted from one potential production idea to the next since it broke ground in 2017 and gave [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] an…
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CMF Smartwatch and Earbuds Leak Shows Nothing is Going Big on Budget Wearables
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nothing’s not done with this summer’s product releases, even after revealing the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and bringing Nothing OS 2 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Just this month, the company[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that CEO Carl Pei promised is focusing on accessibility and affordability. Now details for CMF’s first slate of…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been less than a week since India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission became the first to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and its lander is wasting no time collecting valuable data from the unexplored region.
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The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook GPAs and Details About SAT Scores
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Many students have no choice about working with the College Board, the company that administers the SAT test and Advanced Placement exams. Part of that relationship involves a long history of privacy issues. Tests by Gizmodo found if you use some of the handy search tools promoted by College Board’s website, the…
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Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls Promises Silly Spooks Galore
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Andrew Bowser’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has finally made it to the big screen after a successful indie campaign, and the feature, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, will hit theaters in time for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Hans Niemann's War With Chess.com Over Cheating Scandal Comes to an End
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One of the greatest chess dramas of the 21st century hasn’t ended with the bang of a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] hitting the floor but with the whimper of an arbitration agreement. On Monday, Chess.com and young “chess prodigy” Hans Niemann reached a settlement that will end the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in…
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CoinDesk Retracts Two Essays Critical of Crypto Elites Over 'Highly Personalized Attacks'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Popular crypto industry news outlet CoinDesk has retracted a pair of opinion articles criticizing the founder of the cryptocurrency TRON and the head of US investigations at Chainalysis, a company specializing in financial analysis and forensics of crypto. CoinDesk claims the articles were removed because they…
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Amazon Raises Free Shipping Minimum to $35
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The company known for squeezing every last drop out of its customers and workers is coming back for more. Amazon announced that it’s raising its minimum amount for free shipping for non-Prime members from $25 to $35.
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Barbie Is Now Warner Bros.' Highest-Grossing Film Ever
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Over a century of making and releasing movies, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. has put out some of the best and most popular movies of all time. Films like Casablanca, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Searchers, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], The Exorcist, Superman, Batman, Goodfellas, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Lord of the Rings, and Justice League, just to…
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Did Ahsoka Hurt Itself by Not Doing This?
[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...] Ahsoka immediately drops you into the action. After a crawl [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], we meet two evil Force users on a rescue mission before moving to the title character who is on the hunt for a map. There’s no time here for a detailed backstory. It’s full speed ahead from the very first…
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[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 out at the start of the summer, and it was...kind of a mess in the worst way. But a genuine bright spot within that mess is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the son of Fast Five’s Hernan Reyes who’s come looking for revenge against Team Toretto. He’s silly, he’s threatening, he’s kind of a gay techno Joker, and…
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Arcane May Make Its Grand Return in Late 2024
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Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed This Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don’t forget to check out our weekly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which will go into more detail on this same topic.
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The Last of Us Season 2 is Chomping at the Bit for the Strikes to End
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Much like the Naughty Dog games the show’s based on, HBO’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was a massive hit that secured a fanbase that’s eager for season two to begin. Of course, like almost everything else, the Writers and Actors strikes have ground production for the zombie drama’s second season to a standstill. HBO wanted to try…
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SAG-AFTRA Voting to Authorize Potential Video Game Actor Strike
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] couple of months, and now video game actors may get brought into the mix.

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AI This Week: Chuck's Big Meeting with Zuck and Elon
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See the new Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition PS5 Bundle
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sony is offering a new limited edition PS5 bundle tied into the upcoming Spider-Man 2 game. The bundle is available now, for $600, and includes a custom PS5 (really just custom outer panels), a custom DualSense controller, and a voucher code for Spider-Man 2, which you’ll be able to download starting October 20…
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108 Chapters of One Piece Are Now Available to Read for Free
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] sailed ashore yesterday and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are experiencing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the first time. But for those of you who might want to go back to where it all began, or even read One Piece for the first time, you’re in luck. Oda announced in an X post that the…
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September's Long List of New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Is Here
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Halloween is still two months away, but September’s list of new genre books has spooky vibes galore. We’re talking [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...], and other frights (cursed records! Talking cats! [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]!)—along a generous portion of non-horror fantasy and sci-fi releases too.

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Marvel Just Shifted Around Most of Its Disney+ Shows (Again)
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Season two of the Marvel Studios show Loki is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but everything after that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Some shows are coming earlier, some are coming later, and some are not coming at all. At least for a while.
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Kill More Reveals Its Sci-Fi Twist in This Exclusive Comics Preview
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A city on the edge of ruin. Detectives on the hunt for the killer behind a mass murder spree. Colonia is going to need all the help it can get in Scott Bryan Wilson and Max Alan Fuchs’ Kill More, a dark new murder mystery crime series from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]... with a spacebound twist, as io9 can [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Ouch! Jupiter Just Got Smacked By an Unidentified Celestial Object
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter is not one to play with. That doesn’t stop wandering comets or asteroids from testing the gas giant, occasionally crashing into Jupiter due to its enormous size and immense gravitational pull.
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Meta Reportedly Looking to Give Europeans an Ad-Free Option on Its Platforms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta is a multi-headed behemoth of a tech company, but for all its hungry maws, it is also somewhat predictable. Give it a problem like new regulations that will force it to be far more transparent about its targeted advertising business, and it will comply—but only on its own terms. The owner of Facebook and…
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Taylor Swift's Movie Pre-Sales Defeat Star Wars, But Not Marvel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hollywood truly is about to become Taylor’s Version. Tickets went on sale Thursday for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a nearly three-hour concert film based on the artist’s most recent tour, and it reportedly sold about $37 million in tickets on the first day from the three biggest theater chains alone: AMC, Regal, and…
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Lawsuit Blasts Amazon’s Choice of Bezos’ Blue Origin for Project Kuiper
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit against the company’s founder Jeff Bezos and its board of directors for allegedly exercising bad judgement and not acting in good faith when selecting the launch providers for Project Kuiper.
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Newly Spotted Comet May Soon Be Visible Without Telescopes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A comet recently discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura is garnering attention from NASA and skywatchers alike.
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The Best Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Streaming in September 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Let’s get streaming! Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.)

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Phase II Study Finds That Psilocybin Plus Therapy Can Help Treat Depression Symptoms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New research out this week is the latest to show that psilocybin—the active ingredient in magic mushrooms—can be a viable treatment for depression. The randomized Phase II trial found that a single dose of psilocybin combined with therapy significantly reduced people’s depression symptoms when compared to placebo over…
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The Best Free AI Art Generators, Ranked
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You now can’t go anywhere without finding some company shouting from the rooftops about generative AI. While the folks at Snapchat and Discord are busy slapping OpenAI’s ChatGPT into their systems, [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...] think more people would be interested in using a AI image generator when grabbing a…
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Silicon Valley Elites Show Off Renderings of Exclusive New City They Want to Build in the Bay Area
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You don’t have to stray too far into science fiction or comic book tales to find examples of megalomaniacal tech businessmen creating their own “utopian” metropolises, before—inevitably—everything goes to hell. Now several titans of Silicon Valley are hoping they can get their way with their own dream city that,…
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Hurricane Idalia Could Be the Most Expensive Climate Disaster of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hurricane Idalia barrelled through several states this week and could be the most expensive climate disaster in the United States this year according to analysts.
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The NYPD Is Deploying Drones to Spy on Labor Day Barbecues
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New Yorkers kicking back with beers and burgers this Labor Day weekend could have an unexpected guest hovering over their backyards. Starting Friday, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] says it will start dispatching drones to monitor potential disturbances at parties or other large gatherings. Privacy and civil liberty…
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Did a Right-Wing Network Interview a Fake AI Trump?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With the proliferation of generative AI, we’ve come to the point where technology has helped compound the sense of distrust in both media and politics that exploded during the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. Nobody is immune to deepfake suspicion, not even Trump himself.

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All the Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Genre Films to Watch Out for This Fall
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Few could have predicted that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but we know exactly what’s going to rule the fall. Welcome to the 2023 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], io9's look at all of the sci-fi, fantasy, superhero, animation, and genre films coming to your eyeballs to close out the year. And while the season [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery”
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First Look at Last of Us and Stranger Things Houses at Halloween Horror Nights
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Brace yourself for the terrors of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and the clicker-infested post-apocalyptic world of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. io9 recently took a lights-on tour of both highly anticipated haunted houses at this year’s spooky season theme park event.
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The New Hayao Miyazaki Film Has Its First Teaser, Sorta
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Few filmmakers could ever, or would ever, release their new film without any promotion. But few filmmakers are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] who released his latest film, The Boy and the Heron, in Japan this summer [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] let alone a trailer. It’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] later this year and now a…
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It's Star Wars' World With All the Lego Sets You Can Buy in September
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]August was a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], bringing plenty of bricks for you to beat the heat with. September is an altogether quieter outing... that is, unless you like Star Wars, and a certain [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Disney+ in particular...

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A Tiny Fish Is Finally Returning to Its Stomping Ground After 50 Years
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The threatened Pearl River darter (Percina aurora) has not been recorded in its namesake river for 40 years, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But now, the service is attempting to reestablish the itsy-bitsy vertebrate in its native waters.

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Dozens Sickened, Five Killed by Meningococcal Disease Outbreak in Virginia
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An outbreak of meningococcal disease in Virginia has sickened dozens of people and killed at least five, local health officials reported this week. Though severe cases are typically rare, the state has seen a noticeable increase over the past year. The bacterial infection is vaccine-preventable, and most cases during…
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The Gen Con Magic Heist Cards Have Been Recovered
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On August 17, there was an update on the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The persons of interest in the case—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—had been contacted by the police, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (formerly Twitter). The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department additionally said that “the case is expected to presented…
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Updates From The Marvels, Ahsoka, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There is somehow a Barbenheimer movie in the works. Could Hammer Studios make a return? Star Trek: Prodigy producer Aaron J. Waltke talks about bringing Voyager’s Doctor aboard the show. Plus, more clips from the next Futurama. Spoilers, away!

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You Can Now Preorder Sony’s Perfunctory PlayStation Portal
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sony finally has a date for its so-called “Remote Player” that’s definitely not a handheld console. The $200 PlayStation Portal, the company’s new Wi-Fi-only streaming device, is set to hit player’s hands on November 15th, and now prospective players can pre-order the device from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Hands-on: Lenovo Legion Go
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NASA's Main Hotline to Space Is in Jeopardy Due to Increasing Demand
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In order to contact its interplanetary spacecraft, NASA relies on an array of giant radio antennas spread across different parts of the world. The trusty communications network has been transferring data back and forth for more than 60 years but its antennas are currently operating at capacity, with an anticipated…
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Lenovo Legion Go Vs. Steam Deck
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Playing full-featured PC games in the palm of your hand has long been a dream for PC gamers. Yes, there were expensive specialty machines that could do it, or you could try streaming to a handheld device via a cloud gaming service like GeForce Now, but it wasn’t a mainstream, easy to use solution.

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Lenovo’s Legion Go Is a Gaming Laptop in Handheld Form
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Lenovo introduced its first Windows gaming handheld device today, the Legion Go. The Steam Deck-like mobile console runs standard PC games on its compact display and has a pair of Nintendo Switch-like removable controllers. It also joins a few other Legion-branded products in the fanfare as the company unveils its…
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See more of the Lenovo Legion Go
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Lenovo now has its own handheld gaming machine, called the Legion Go. Similar to the Steam Deck and Asus Ally, it plays PC games on the go. This version adds a unique twist in that its side controllers can pop off, much like a Nintendo Switch.
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Taylor Swift Just Scared Away One of Horror’s Most Popular Franchises
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Two things are really shaking up Hollywood these days: [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...]. Thursday morning [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was entering the fall movie season by releasing a nearly three-hour film based on her blockbuster Eras Tour. The news sent mobs of fans to online ticket sites and fear down the spines of…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta’s Oversight Board, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with reviewing Facebook and Instagram’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is taking on a case involving a bizarre and unpleasant mashup: a Nazi Squidward meme.

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A New Facebook Setting Tells Meta Not to Use Your Data for AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting Thursday that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its AI models.

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18 Fascinating Facts We Learned From the Indiana Jones 5 Making-of Doc
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]How perfect of a match was Harrison Ford’s stunt double on the set of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? The stunt double could literally unlock Ford’s phone with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. This is just one of the fascinating, but not always essential, facts we enjoyed in a brand new making-of documentary.
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Google Chrome’s New Tool Lets You Copy and Paste Screenshots From Videos
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Students, teachers, and vintage TV screencappers, the Chrome browser has a new feature that makes taking screenshots of scenes easier than before. Google used a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] about helpful classroom tools to subtly announce the ability to copy a frame from a video. It’s available in the latest release of Chrome and will…
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NASA Probe Spots Crashed Russian Moon Lander
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s trusty Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured images revealing a fresh crater on the Moon’s surface. This crater is suspected to be the impact site of the ill-fated Luna 25 mission, Russia’s first lunar attempt in nearly five decades.

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More Disney Lorcana Stock Is on Its Way to Local Stores
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Disney Lorcana trading card game arrived with a massive splash at Gen Con this year, with people [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to get booster packs. The high demand continued after the convention, and now a Ravensburger spokesperson tells io9 that “additional booster product” will be arriving at local gaming stores in…
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A Pig Kidney Has Now Survived Inside a Human Body for Six Weeks and Counting
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Surgeons at New York University have reportedly reached another milestone in making pig-to-human organ transplants a reality. They now claim to have transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney that has survived inside a human body for six weeks and counting—the longest period yet. It’s likely that larger clinical…
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Webb Telescope Spots Eye-Shaped Supernova With a Messy Filling
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), one of the brightest supernovae in the night sky and the nearest observed in centuries, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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AMC Reaches a Deal With SAG-AFTRA to Resume Production
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hollywood may be at a near-standstill due to the ongoing strikes, but AMC Studios has been granted waivers to resume work on three of its most high-profile shows. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and two of the Walking Dead spinoffs, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and The Ones Who Live, will resume production under [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by…
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Scientologists Tell Feds They Don't Want Randos Repairing Their E-Meters
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This Is What Star Wars' Republic Always Was
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In this week’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the New Republic brings to bear its frustrating head, as Mon Mothma and a cadre of senators bullishly cast aside the fact they’re sitting on a tinderbox of Imperial resurgence as the threat of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] offers a lit match. If only they could see, our heroes implore them as…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It took a hurricane in Southern California to make me sacrifice the sleep necessary to binge the entire Child’s Play and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] franchise in a single weekend—a crucial part of preparing myself to face my biggest childhood fear as part of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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10 Horror Movies to Stream for Back to School Frights
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] back in session, which means—no matter how old you are, or whether or not you’re actually returning to a classroom—it’s a fine time to immerse yourself in back-to-school horror. This syllabus includes sections on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], mind-control, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and more, all streaming for your convenience.
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Chinese Government Officials Banned From Using iPhones at Work
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Central Chinese government officials are banned from using iPhones in the workplace, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] reported on Wednesday. People familiar with the matter told the outlet that employees were notified of the ban in chat groups or meetings, and are prohibited from bringing iPhones or other foreign devices into…
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Watch Live as Japan Launches Moon Landing Mission, X-Ray Satellite
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Japan is gearing up for its first landing attempt on the Moon, launching a lunar lander designed to accurately touch down on the dusty surface.
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What TTRPG Should You Use to Play Baldur’s Gate 3? (It's Not 5e!)
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s a lot going on in Baldur’s Gate 3: incredibly detailed response options, making friends with your companions, intense battles, and sometimes even-more-intense romance scenes after the battles. Larian Studios really put a lot of depth into [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and while the basis for the way the game moves though the world is…
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The Pentagon Might Be Launching a Hypersonic Missile from Cape Canaveral This Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A secretive launch planned for this week from Florida’s Cape Canaveral could be a test of a hypersonic weapon as the U.S. tries to catch up with the speedy missiles of Russia and China.

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AI-Generated Drake and The Weeknd Song Submitted to the Grammys
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the tidal wave of hare-brained AI innovation continues to slam into our society, music is proving to be a battleground. After an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] mimicked Drake and The Weeknd’s vocals and stylings, that same song has been submitted to the Grammys.
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Sonos Says New Move 2 Speaker Can Play Music for 24 Hours Before It Needs a Charge
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sonos has revealed the second-gen successor of its portable Bluetooth speaker. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] arrives Sept. 20 and promises a whopping 24 hours of playback before requiring a charge.

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Watch the Lower Decks Crew Freak Out About Voyager, As They Should
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]So far, given its setting, Lower Decks’ particular areas of Trek fanservice have focused on the likes of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—give or take the occasional spacetime jaunt to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But in its season four premiere, the show is going to be casting its loving eye on the other Trek show of…
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Counterfeit Pills Are Becoming Deadlier in America
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The last few years have seen a significant rise in drug overdose deaths caused by counterfeit prescription pills, new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. The percentage of overdose deaths linked to fake drugs has more than doubled between 2019 to 2021, according to the study. Many…
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Actually, the Pixel 8 Pro Probably Isn't Ditching the SIM Slot
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Folks on X, formerly known as Twitter, found [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of what appears to be an interactive rendering of the Pixel 8 Pro published to the Google Store. The “Get to Know Your Hardware” page featured “Pixel 8 Pro” in the URL and a 3D model of the Pixel 8 Pro, which you could pan and rotate. Clicking on specific points of…
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California Congressman Says Tech Utopia Developer 'Sold a Fairy Tale’ to Silicon Valley Elite
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The tech billionaire-backed landgrab in Solano County California might finally be out of the shadows, but the local officials who have finally had the opportunity to speak to the developers say the group simply has no real plan to make good on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Trump Can't Stop Posting About His Legal Problems. The Feds Say He Could Prejudice a Jury.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Verbal filtration has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] been one of Donald Trump’s strong suits. But if the former President can’t figure out how to shut his trap he might end up in even more legal trouble than he [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Ellen Ripley, Snake Plissken, and Neo Finally Get the Trading Cards They Deserve
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Want to See How Bad Twitter's Bot Problem Is? Ask for Crypto Help.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the machines.

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Musk Reportedly Wants to Fold Neuralink and Tesla Into One Big Weird AI Company
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Anyone who’s spent time observing the erratic, often contradictory behavior of billionaire Elon Musk in recent years could be forgiven for believing he’s lost a sense of direction. That tale of chaotic mismanagement and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], however, isn’t the narrative told by acclaimed journalist and biographer…
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Ahsoka Just Touched on One of Star Wars' Most Fascinating Force Mythologies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Our [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in most Star Wars rarely matches the most esoteric imaginings a mystical energy field connecting all living things should be capable of. But sometimes a slice of Star Wars is willing to push that imagining [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and into something far more intriguing—and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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These 24 Members of Congress Paid for Twitter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter, now known as X, has seen [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (formerly known as Twitter Blue). Now, government documents reveal that some of Congress’ best and brightest fell for the scheme by spending taxpayer dollars on the subscription service that ultimately does nothing.
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Dictionary.com Adds AI-Related Words That 'Marked a Tipping Point for Mainstream Awareness'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Dictionary.com sashayed into AI territory on Tuesday when it announced it is adding five related terms to its ever-growing roster of definitions. The site added a total of 566 words to its “fall new words drop” to reflect updated mainstream terms.
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That Was the Episode of Ahsoka We'd Been Waiting For
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