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White House Knew of Ukrainian Plot to Blow Up Nord Stream Pipeline Months in Advance: Report
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Three months before the Nord Stream pipeline exploded in what was almost certainly a brazen act of international sabotage, the Biden administration was briefed on a plot by the Ukrainian military to target the energy project for destruction, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from the Washington Post.

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This Pride Month, Catch Up With the Traumatized Sapphics of The Witch From Mercury
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Pride month is a time for members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the progress queer people have made across the world and to take a stand and resist [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that still seek to challenge, diminish, and eradicate them. It’s also a pretty good time to get on board with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Here's What Early Testers Are Saying About Apple's Vision Pro Headset
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] left us with more questions than ever about where the tech giant hopes to take its brand into the future. Monday’s developer conference shook the tech world with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a device that Apple tried to imply is nothing like your average VR headset while…
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The Flash Is Apparently Not the DC Disaster It Once Threatened to Be
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’ve been hearing about The Flash for so long—it had [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], plus there were [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] along the way—it’s hard to believe it’s finally opening in theaters next week. The first full reviews are now online; [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but not everyone was a fan.
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Federal Judge Allows 3M to Delay Its Forever Chemical Trial
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A U.S. federal judge allowed a delay yesterday in the water contamination trial against manufacturing giant 3M, Reuters [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The trial was brought on by the Florida city of Stuart, which is suing the company for $100 million for water filtration and forever chemical remediation.

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Al Ewing Reaches for Godhood With Immortal Thor
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It isn’t easy, in these jaded comic book times, for a superhero relaunch to make fans sit up and take notice. But Marvel’s announcement last month that writer [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], alongside artist [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], would be spearheading a fresh start for the publisher’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as The Immortal Thor this August was that…
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Salesforce Tells Employees It Will Donate $10 Per Day to Charity if They Come Back to the Office
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Business software monolith Salesforce is reportedly so desperate to see its employees back in the office that the company will donate a little less than the price of a McDonald’s Big Mac meal to charity for every day workers physically drag themselves to the office.
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NASA Mission to Explore Metal World Psyche Is Back on Track After a Troubled Year
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a rough ride for NASA’s Psyche mission even before the spacecraft has had a chance to leave the ground. Things are looking brighter, however, as the highly anticipated mission is all set for its new launch date in October, marking a second chance to explore one of the most intriguing objects in our solar…
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Outer Space Activities Are Poised to Dramatically Reshape Regional Inequalities
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Science fiction has always been a tool for processing life on Earth. Norwegian sci-fi expert Karl Kristian Swane Bambini [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that the space-bound genre is well placed to “interrogate and reimagine real-world economic disparities.”

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Rewrote Whole Sections to Get Pavitr Prabhakar Right
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] swings through Mumbattan—the home of [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...]—he shows off a happy-go-lucky, confident attitude that audiences have been praising. Surprisingly, though, that wasn’t in the film’s first draft.
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The Spider-Spotters Guide to the Famous Spider-Heroes of Across the Spider-Verse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The web of life and destiny ties together the fates of many heroes—and while Into the Spider-Verse introduced us and Miles Morales to quite a few, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] throws him into the deep end with a whole super group of them. There are plenty of new Spidey heroes in the sequel, but just as many are classic…
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The Flash Has No Business Being This Good, But It Is
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Despite what the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are telling you, The Flash is not a movie about Batman or Supergirl. They’re [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], sometimes more than once, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Warner Bros. thought their inclusion would help get people into the theater. It probably will.
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These 21 Subreddits Are Going Dark to Protest Reddit's API Changes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Reddit is in for a rude awakening, just ask some of its most popular subreddits. To protest [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], some of the platform’s biggest communities will be going dark for at least two days.

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New Webb Image Reveals 45,000 Sparkling Galaxies in Ancient Star Formation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This infrared image taken by the Webb Space Telescope comprises more than 45,000 galaxies, many of which existed in the first billion years of the universe.
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The First Figures From The Marvels Are, Well, Marvelous
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] means new [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 kicking things off at Hasbro with the first action figures based on the upcoming team-up movie. Check out the new figures for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—as well as a few comic book faves joining them.
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Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Might Be More Star Wars Than He Realizes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the early 2010s, not long after [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] director Zack Snyder met with Lucasfilm to pitch a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to be directed by him. The partnership didn’t work out, but a decade later, Netflix embraced the idea with open arms, a sizable budget, and the option to turn [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]into two movies. But…
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Watch Mark Get Zucked to the Mat in Recent Jiu-Jitsu Match
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Yesterday, Gizmodo put out a call to action to track down [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] where he may or may not have been choked out by a competitor. Now, that video has been shared...just not with us.

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Talk to Me's Latest Trailer Will Give You the Heebie-Jeebies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Talk to Me doesn’t open until July, but you can get a head start on your nightmares just by watching its trailers. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], setting up the film’s premise of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in which kids willingly allow themselves to be demonically possessed. This new trailer further fleshes out the…
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Houston, We Have a Dust Problem: Future Moon Landings Could Jeopardize Spacecraft
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When it comes to the future of spaceflight, the Moon is the place to be. Several missions are set to land on the Moon in the next few years in an effort to establish a human presence on the lunar surface. Although they’re meant to bolster lunar activity, those landings, however, could in turn have a negative effect on…
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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...] of Marvel’s God of Thunder helped radically redefine the character in Thor: Ragnarok. But though his follow-up, Love and Thunder, was largely [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it drew a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from fans and critics—and according to Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, some of those critics were a…
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Everything Apple Tried to Kill at WWDC 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For an event positioned as being for developers, Apple’s WWDC can be a little stressful for app makers when Apple’s top brass take the stage for the opening keynote and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for its various platforms that could potentially make existing third-party apps and products obsolete.
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See This Season's Wildfires Blazing Throughout Canada
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Canada is in for a fiery summer. Hundreds of active fires are burning across almost every single Canadian province and territory this week. And officials worry that this year will see higher than normal wildfire activity through August, the CBC [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Feds Sue Coinbase One Day After Filing Suit Against Binance
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] The Securities and Exchange Committee filed a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] against [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Tuesday, accusing the largest crypto exchange in the US of operating as an illegal, unregistered broker and exchange for its crypto exchange, Coinbase Prime, and its Coinbase Wallet. The legal action comes less than 24 hours after the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Google Brings AI to Priceline to Help Plan Your Vacations
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The days of relying on a travel agent may be making a come-back, but not with humans. Google is reportedly bringing its own AI engine to online travel agency Priceline to help customers book trips through a chatbot.

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Rob Savage on Collaborating with Yellowjackets’ Sophie Thatcher
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EU Demands Facebook, TikTok, and Google Start Labeling AI Content to Fight Deepfakes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The European Union is absolutely set on regulating AI, and now the biggest online platforms in the world need to help folks tell if the growing number of fake [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...] was created with artificial intelligence. Major tech companies including Google, Facebook, and TikTok have until Aug. 25 to start…
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Captain America 4 Has a Brave New Title
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]James Gunn might have found a director for one of his upcoming DC superhero movies. Disney’s ready to put the cauldron back on the fire for a third Hocus Pocus movie. Meet the Transformers who have disguised themselves as giant prehistoric animals in a new Rise of the Beasts featurette. All that and more, now that…
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Tesla's Cybertruck Supply Chain Lead Quits to Work at Rival Rivian
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Cybertruck lovers longingly waiting to see [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the road may have to wait a little longer—yet again.
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Coastal Animals Are Thriving on Plastic Pollution Out in the Pacific Ocean | Extreme Earth
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Facebook's Supreme Court Receives an Appeal Every 24 Seconds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the Supreme Court-esque body formed as a check on Facebook and Instagram’s content moderation decisions, received nearly 1.3 million appeals to the tech giant’s decisions last year. That mammoth figure amounts to an appeal every 24 seconds, 3,537 cases a day. The vast majority of those appeals…
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Is a Fun Return to Form for the Franchise
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Let’s face facts. The bar of quality for Transformers movies [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Michael Bay’s 2007 original is OK and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but in the 11 years between those, films like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and the rest are all varying levels of crap. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the last movie, coming back…
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Treat AI Like a Biological Weapon, Not a Nuclear One
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Humans today are developing perhaps the most powerful technology in our history: artificial intelligence. The societal harms of AI — including discrimination, threats to democracy, and the concentration of influence — are already well-documented. Yet leading AI companies are in an arms race to build increasingly…
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Critical Role's Candela Obscura Gazes Into the Darkness
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A few weeks ago [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]debuted its newest campaign: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. io9 had a chance to talk with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Candela Obscura’s Game Master, and two players—Laura Bailey and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—about the game, the production, and what’s next for the game at hand.
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Apple's Updates to MacOS: Game Mode, Increased Privacy and Security, and Adjustable Widgets
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At this year’s WWDC, Apple has announced a number of exciting new updates for its operating systems and there’s plenty to be intrigued by. Here’s a quick look at this year’s announced software updates for Apple computers and tablets.
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Apple's 'Vision Pro' Headset Wants to Be the $3,499 Anti-Metaverse
Apple’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], announced at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Monday, and it’s both more and less compelling than the initial rumors had us believing it would be. While Apple is claiming to have some of the most advanced augmented reality technology packed into its $3,449 wearable device, the Vision Pro’s…
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Boogeyman Star Sophie Thatcher Wrote Howl's Moving Castle Fan Fiction | io9 Interview
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Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2023
Although Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference has always had a focus on software, the company always manages to include a few surprise hardware announcements during the event’s keynote address, and this year didn’t disappoint with our first look at the next chapter in Apple’s best-selling laptop, the MacBook…
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All the New Features Apple Is Bringing to WatchOS 10 This Fall
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last year’s WWDC brought major updates to the Apple Watch’s hardware, including the introduction of the extra-durable [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. This year, it’s software. During today’s WWDC keynote, Apple revealed that 2023 will bring similarly major updates to the wearable’s software when watchOS 10 arrives in the fall.
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Lynch/Oz Peers Over the Rainbow and Into the Mind of a Cinematic Genius
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s not unusual to have a favorite film. But it’s rare to find a movie—or any piece of art, really—that you connect with so profoundly it resonates throughout your life, exerting its influence in surprising ways. Lynch/Oz examines one notable example, burrowing into the ways [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]has influenced [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Lung Cancer Pill Cuts Risk of Dying by Half in Major Trial
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A pill for lung cancer has delivered impressive results in newly published research over the weekend. The pill, called osimertinib, was found to cut the risk of dying in half over a five-year span in those who received it alongside surgery. The treatment is intended for patients whose tumors carry a relatively common…
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Apple Unveils 15-Inch MacBook Air at WWDC 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s here, it’s thin, and it’s got a wider screen. Apple revealed it has a new laptop in store for 2023. It’s another entry in the popular Air line, this time with a 15.3-inch display.

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple revealed what could be its most consequential new piece of technology in years at WWDC Monday. The Apple “Vision Pro” headset is a slimmed-down headset device meant to facilitate both virtual reality and augmented reality.

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Allstate Quietly Paused New Home Insurance Policies in California Months Ago
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Allstate has stopped writing new homeowner and commercial insurance policies in the state of California due to rising repair costs and wildfires. The company was the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] homeowner’s insurance provider in the state, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
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The Best New iOS 17 Features Coming to Your iPhone Later This Year
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With Apple focusing a lot of its development efforts on its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], expected to be revealed at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], iOS 17 won’t arrive with as many major feature introductions as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] did, but will still bring plenty of welcome upgrades and, in addition to new ways to use iOS 16's lock…
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Spider-Man's Miles Morales Is Coming to Live-Action, But Is That What He Needs?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Since his debut, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has been an odd character. Though he was far from the first non-Peter Parker person to take on the Spider-Man mantle, his lead writer Brian Michael Bendis hoped he’d be a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and represent a community that was otherwise primarily underserved in Big Two comics at the time. And though…
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Binance Charged With Running Illegal Crypto Exchange in New SEC Complaint
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was hit with a new lawsuit from the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission Monday. The federal regulator [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] against the world’s largest crypto exchange and its founder Changpeng Zhao Monday, alleging violations of U.S. securities law, accusing the company of operating an illegal exchange.
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Do You Have Video of Mark Zuckerberg Getting Choked Out?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta CEO and avid Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know that he definitely didn’t get choked out at a competition last month. But, if you have the video of Mark Zuckerberg getting choked out at a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition last month, please send it to Gizmodo.

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Games Workshop Is Hoping Warhammer 40,000's Big Relaunch Isn't a Nightmare
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Next week, the moment Warhammer fans have been waiting for arrives: the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Warhammer 40K officially kicks off with pre-orders for its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Leviathan. But there’s one big question at the back of players’ minds, and it’s not about rule changes or new miniatures. It’s whether or not…
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Ancient Human Relative Buried Its Dead and Used Symbols Long Before Us
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A team of paleoanthropologists has discovered evidence that the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]not only intentionally buried their dead, but also used symbols, perhaps for mortuary reasons.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Netflix has been stocking up on animated shows based on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over the last few years. Though most of them hail from video games, the steamer’s next series, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is based on Legendary’s MonsterVerse movies, and continues the story of everyone’s favorite giant ape, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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A Star Trek Movie Should've Been Out This Weekend
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Making movies is a hard endeavor, and it’s very easy for things to go wrong. The last few years have proven that numerous times as various tentpole blockbusters have been delayed (sometimes [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...])—or, in the current case of the WGA strike, have had their [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the foreseeable future. While…
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Comic Book Artist Ian McGinty Has Passed Away at Age 38
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ian McGinty, a comic book writer and artist,died earlier on Thursday, June 8.

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Superman: Legacy Will Bring The Authority to the Forefront
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]News on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]has been gradually coming out in recent weeks as it seems like WB is close to finding its new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. As the first movie in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] interconnected universe, Legacy will end up setting the path for the next decade’s worth of movies, and in more ways than…
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Leprechaun is Coming Back to Life With a New Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Lionsgate is gearing up to bring Leprechaun out of the rainbow.

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Tag Yourself: Here Are the Most Personal Ways Advertisers Target You
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As you read this, an ocean of data about the most minute details of your life floats around the internet. It changes hands millions of times a second as it’s bought, sold, exchanged, and collected in a vast effort to turn your attention into purchases and profits.

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8 Times ‘Deepfake’ Videos Were Actually Real
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Digitally altered and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], dubbed “deepfakes,” have existed for years and have recently seen drastic improvements. Those videos, mixed with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and declining trust in traditional media, have experts worried of harmful rises in political disinformation; those same experts…
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The Latest News From Disney Parks, Universal Studios Resorts, and More Fan-tastical Destinations
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Behold the future of meet and greets: Disney Parks has introduced a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]! Elsewhere, unrelated horrors are unveiled for Midsummer Scream, the Halloween convention that annually ushers in a preview of the fall season. Also in this week’s news: updates on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s first Texas location, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Breaking the Fourth Wall in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | io9 Interview
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16 Tabletop RPGS That Have Legend of Zelda Vibes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nintendo is (very likely) never going to release that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] tabletop roleplaying game that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] played a few weeks ago, but you know what, that’s probably a good thing. And besides! We have tons of TTRPGs that are out or in production right now that are either inspired by the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or have…
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Across the Spider-Verse Explores Spider-Man's History With Cops in Messy Ways
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]From the very beginning and all the way to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], anyone who takes on the legacy of Spider-Man’s mantle—across the comics that started it all, to the myriad film, tv, and game adaptations—has had to navigate [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with the police. Both Into and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have…
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Casper, Scooby-Doo and Yogi Rock: How NASA's Naming System for Martian Landscape Evolved Over Time
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On February 18, 2021, a car-sized robot [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to begin searching for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. From that day on, the landing site where NASA’s Perseverance rover plopped down became known as Octavia E. Butler, named after the prolific science fiction author…
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10 Practical Yet Urgent Lessons Black Mirror Has Taught Us (So Far)
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NASA Fears Budget Cuts Are Imminent After Biden Signs New Legislation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA is anticipating a bit of a cash crunch after deficit reduction legislation went into effect this week, potentially encroaching on the space agency’s budget for the upcoming year.
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Feds Say They've Finally Identified the Hackers Behind the Mt. Gox Crypto Collapse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Department of Justice unsealed [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Friday that claims to identify the two hackers who brought down the notorious Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange more than a decade ago.

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Venom Is Spider-Man 2's Big, Sticky Wild Card
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Disney's Dancing Baby Groot Robot Prepares for World Domination
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Whistleblower's Alleged UFO Leak Piques Congress' Curiosity
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Following unconfirmed claims from a former intelligence officer—who says the U.S. government captured a crashed spaceship of non-human origin—the House Oversight Committee is now planning a hearing to investigate the issue further.

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Spotify Is Testing an 'Offline Mix' Option for Spotty Internet Connection
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Andor's Cast Really, Really Hated Those Prison Scenes
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Does Donald Trump Know What ChatGPT Is?
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Let's Talk About Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' Shocking Ending
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All the Coolest Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Trailers From Summer Games Fest 2023
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Ancient Bird Bones May Have Been Fashioned Into Flutes for Catching More Birds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]12,000-year-old bird bones found in the far north of Israel may have been used as instruments by prehistoric humans to lure more birds to their death, according to a team of archaeologists that studied the artifacts.
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Julian Assange Is One Step Closer to American Prison After Losing His Latest Extradition Appeal
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Meta, King of Copycats, Makes Power Play for Twitter Users With Instagram Spinoff
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This Is Your Brain on Space: New Research Uncovers Perils of Long Duration Spaceflight
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The brains of astronauts hanging out in microgravity environments start to change over time and need at least three years to reset, new research suggests.
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Secret Invasion Has an Appropriately Sneaky New Trailer
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[UPDATED] Upper Deck Sues Ravensburger Over Allegedly Stolen Disney Game
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Upper Deck sent out a press release today stating that it is suing Ravensburger over the publication of Disney’s Lorcana, which it alleges was stolen from an Upper Deck original game by a game designer previously contracted by Upper Deck. Lorcana is a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that has already received a lot of hype from both…
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Superman Legacy Could Be Close to Finding Its Clark and Lois
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Director Travis Knight teases Laika’s epic battles for its adaptation of Wildwood. Get a look at the French remake of One Cut of the Dead. Plus, what’s coming on Riverdale, and What We Do In the Shadows sets its season 5 premiere date. To me, my spoilers!

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Binance Halts Trading of American Dollars on Its U.S. Exchange
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Here’s What Health Experts Want You to Know About This Week’s Wildfire Smoke
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These Are the Best Desktop Apps for Gmail
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LIGHTSPEED Presents: 'Spaceship Joyride' by Dominique Dickey
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Watch Live as Astronauts Install Solar Arrays Outside the ISS
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Transformers’ Cristo Fernandez on Dragon Ball | First Fandoms
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Why You Need to Get Yourself to the Nearest Meow Wolf Portal and Jump In
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] continues to get right what other ambitious endeavors ultimately couldn’t sustain in transporting people to other worlds. With three locations currently in operation, the immersive art collective is making way for more portals which depict a sort of future nostalgia of hope we can only work to make real in…
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Pornhub Begs Users to Put Down the Tissues and Contact Their Legislators
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New Blade Runner Art Captures the Grim Yet Gleaming Beauty of the Movie
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13 Horror Graphic Novels to Keep You Up All Night
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Martial arts superstar [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was just 32 when he died in 1974; he’d only made a handful of films, but the loss of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] left a huge void. Naturally, it didn’t take long for movie studios [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—as a new documentary, Enter the Clones of Bruce, explores.

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9 Reasons Why Octopuses Are the Smartest, Pettiest Animals
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Consider the octopus. With eight arms, elliptical pupils, color- and texture-changing skin, and a scary beak, it is a creature that seems conjured from the most Boschian of realities.
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SpaceX Starship Woes Have NASA Worried About Artemis Moon Landing Delays
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]SpaceX’s Starship could end up delaying humanity’s return to the Moon as NASA waits on the company’s lander to be ready to touchdown on the lunar surface, according to a space agency official.
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The Witcher's Final Henry Cavill Season Teases Chaos and Change
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Star Wars' Order 66 Problem Has Never Been That Jedi Survived It
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ten thousand Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice across the Star Wars galaxy before the rise of the Empire laid them low. But as devastating as Palpatine’s issuing of Order 66 was to the Jedi, in recent years we’ve seen more and more tales of Jedi that survived its wrath. Is that a problem? As always…
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Apple's Vision Pro Seems Cool, Doesn't Look Cool | Future Tech
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Here Are 30 of the Hundreds of Subreddits Going Dark to Protest Reddit's API Changes
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WhatsApp Launches One-to-Many Channels Feature
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Diego Luna and Hayden Christensen Can Keep a Star Wars Secret
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]While they might be on opposite ends of the Star Wars universe, it’s still surprising that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Cassian Andor) and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Anakin Skywalker/[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) had never met before [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] paired them for an “actors on actors” discussion. One of the things that kept coming up for both of them was the…
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Archaeologists Find Three Shipwrecks In the Mediterranean's Treacherous Keith Reef
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A team of archaeologists from eight nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea has come together to scrutinize shipwrecks sitting at the bottom of the water body sitting between them.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Barbie will soon hit the big screen, and our excitement over every aspect of this film—director Greta Gerwig’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] approach, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—can barely be contained. Today’s scrap of fun to tide us over comes in the form of a whole lotta photos…
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Damn, Final Fantasy XVI Really Does Want to Be Its Own Game of Thrones
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Before the release of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]expansion, Shadowbringers, game director Naoki Yoshida joked that George R.R. Martin needed to finish his A Song of Ice and Fire books before he’d consider [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with the MMORPG. Four years later and with Winds of Winter [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it would…
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Carrie Fisher's Last Film Will Finally Be Released
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Seven years after beloved actress [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s untimely passing, her final film Wonderwell will receive a limited release. Fisher had just completed shooting the film before getting ready to reprise her role as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in what would ultimately become [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Sony Introduces Cloud Streaming Test for PS5 Games
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In its latest attempt to compete with Microsoft’s Game Pass, Sony is bringing cloud streaming support for PS5 games to PlayStation Plus Premium members. Soon, members will no longer need to download games to the PS5 console, and hopefully, that means Sony’s recently announced handheld is going to be more useful than…
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SpaceX Is Preparing for the Next Starship Launch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’re still not over the sight of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in a fiery flame following its first-ever liftoff, but the company is reportedly ready to see its heavy-duty launch vehicle fly once again.
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Composer Sherri Chung Talks Scoring Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
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Comcast Whines to FCC Because It Really Doesn't Want to List All Its Broadband Fees
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Some of the biggest internet service providers in the U.S. have come crawling on hands and knees to the Federal Communications Commission, signing a joint petition asking the agency to cut them some slack with new requirements that they report all their fees to consumers.
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Subreddits Are Planning an Indefinite Blackout in Response to Leaked Reddit CEO Memo
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Despite assurances from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman in an internal memo this week, who assured employees that “like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass,” the chaos at the social media site has not subsided, and now it seems like could go on for the long haul.
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Biden Administration Tells Car Manufacturers to Ignore Right-to-Repair Law
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The right-to-repair movement has suffered a setback in Massachusetts this week. The Biden administration told car manufacturers not to comply with a state law that would allow independent auto shops and car owners the ability to fix their own vehicles.

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Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Mom and Dad's Ok
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Texas passed a sweeping new social media law Wednesday banning users under the age of 18 from accessing social media sites or creating accounts without first obtaining parental content. The law, which targets social networks but is written in a way that could include a large swath of online services, is the latest in…
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Animated Video Shows How Japan's Astroscale Will Toss Satellites to Their Fiery Death
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Low Earth orbit is littered with defunct satellites floating without purpose. A Japanese company is developing a satellite able to stalk those dead satellites, capture and release them towards a fiery reentry through Earth’s atmosphere, thereby putting an end to their misery.
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Everything to Remember Before Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tomorrow we return to the strange new worlds of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], for season two of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of 2022. But while season one was certainly full of memorable moments, if you haven’t quite remembered all of them, we’re here to help get you adjusted from your time on shore leave.
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Philadelphia Zoo Suspects Topical Dye Killed Five of Its Meerkats
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Philadelphia Zoo is mounting an investigation into the deaths of five meerkats, in particular whether a dye used to differentiate the animals killed them instead.
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Senators Introduce Bill to Exempt AI from Section 230 Protections
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Two U.S. Senators are joining hands across the aisle to try to separate artificial intelligence from the rest of the internet. Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal have introduced [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that, if passed, would exempt AI from Section 230 protections. The proposed bill would leave AI companies…
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Tom Holland Suggests There's an Idea in Place for Spider-Man 4
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The end of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] teased a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Peter Parker. With his secret identity now secret once again, he’s free to go back to being both Spider-Man and Peter, even if that means his friends and loved ones don’t know who he is. It was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—but,…
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A Skyscraper-Sized Asteroid Is Swinging by Earth Tomorrow (We’ll Be Fine)
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An asteroid roughly as long as Chicago’s Willis Tower is tall is set to pass by Earth tomorrow. It poses no threat to our world, like it or not.

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The Comics Industry Mourns John Romita Sr.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last night comics lost a titan with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] John Romita Sr., the man who defined the Silver Age aesthetic of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with his work on The Amazing Spider-Man and beyond. Tributes from all over the industry continue to come in, reflecting on the inspiration and…
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There's Now an Over-the-Counter Gel for Erectile Dysfunction
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An easily accessible treatment for male erectile dysfunction is coming to the public. This month, the Food and Drug Administration [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the marketing of the first over-the-counter topical gel for ED to be sold in the U.S., developed by the company Futura Medical. In clinical trials, the gel worked within minutes…
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Nimona Is a Hilarious, Visionary Film of Queer Triumph
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Taking place in a medieval-themed science-fantasy world, Nimona is a joyful, hilarious, and sometimes even painful romp that tackles what it means to be an outsider and explores how queer community can literally save lives. It is an incredibly poignant, deeply [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that made me cry at least three times. It is…
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The New Daredevil and Batman Shows Are Stopping Production
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Curiosity rover took two shots of a valley on Mars at different times of day; the images were then colorized and combined by NASA scientists to produce a picturesque panorama of the planet.
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Warner Bros. Executives Visited Peter Jackson to Chat About the New Lord of the Rings Movies
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Feds Say Facial Recognition IDed a Bosnian War Criminal Living in Tennessee
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Homeland Security agents used facial recognition to identify and arrest a man living in Tennessee they say stands committed war crimes during the Bosnian War nearly thirty years ago. The arrested man, who went by the name Sead Dukic for the past 24 years, was actually Sead Miljkovic, an alleged criminal long wanted by…
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This Space Factory Will Attempt to Produce Medical Drugs in Orbit
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off this week while carrying 72 small satellites, including the first in-space manufacturing spacecraft with a mission to produce pharmaceutical drugs in orbit and return them back to Earth.
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Texas Is Going to Be Slammed by Sky-High Temperatures This Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A lot of South Central Texas can expect dangerous, three-digit heat indices this week and into this weekend.
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Europeans Push Regulatory Threat in First-of-Its-Kind AI Act
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The European Union is one step closer to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with a first-of-its-kind AI Act which sets out to ban any AI applications that pose a risk to the public at large. The act places AI in one of three categories identifying it as an unacceptable risk, a high-risk application, or largely left…
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One of the Best Lego Pirate Sets Is Back With the Redesigned 2,509-Piece Eldorado Fortress
As a general rule, remakes are usually a disappointing rehash of the original. But every once in a while they justify their existence, like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] set from its Pirates line in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, introducing more details and more play value with a reconfigurable layout.

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Google Claims Its AI Can Guess How a Shirt Will Fit on Every Body Type
While some of us are gearing up for a Hot Girl Summer, Google is instead taking the shirt off of its AI features and letting them bask in the sun. One of the latest ways Google is trying to integrate generative AI into its existing products is helping users guess how a shirt for sale online might look in their size…
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Anker's Largest Battery Yet Can Keep Your Entire Home Powered During an Outage
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UPS Drivers Finally Get AC in New Trucks as Strike Authorization Vote Looms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Don’t forget to thank your mailman, come rain, snow, heat, or hail. After years of putting up with sweltering temperatures inside their vehicles, UPS has reached a deal with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents nearly 340,000 drivers, to add air conditioning to UPS trucks both new and…
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The Vanilla iPhone 15 Will Reportedly Receive a Massive Camera Upgrade
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If the granules of news falling out of the rumor mill end up true, the iPhone 15 could be a huge shakeup for Apple’s phone line. The next iteration of the Cupertino company’s flagship phone will reportedly grant a 48-MP lens—currently only a feature of Pro iPhones—to the everyman.
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Microsoft and OpenAI's Bromance Is Off to a Rocky Start
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]OpenAI and Microsoft are the Silicon Valley power couple leading the “AI revolution.” For years, Microsoft has poured money into OpenAI (we’re talking [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of dollars) and OpenAI has allowed Microsoft exclusive access to its software. This partnership has led to big success for both firms (OpenAI’s…
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One Major Hero Won't Return for Deadpool 3
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Get a behind the scenes look at Avatar 3 after yesterday’s delay news. The Klingons arrive in new pictures from Strange New Worlds season 2. Even the Paw Patrol is joining the superhero bandwagon. Plus, more footage from Secret Invasion. Spoilers now!

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The EU Wants to Break Up Google's Biggest Business
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google was hit with a new antitrust complaint Wednesday, fresh from EU regulators who say the search giant may need to sell part of its online advertising empire. The formal statement of objections ratchets up pressure as Google contends with two other antitrust cases in the US over the same issue, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Samsung Galaxy Watch's Irregular Heartbeat Monitoring Feature Is Coming This Summer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Samsung’s Galaxy Watch will soon ask users to check if something more than newfound love is sending their heart a-fluttering. The watch is joining other wearables from the likes of Google and Apple that let users track if they experience any periods of irregular heart rhythm.
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Apple Vision Pro Is Strange Days for Spatial Computing
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After you slip on the knitted head strap and turn a small dial to get a light-tight fit, the view of the real world through Apple’s Vision Pro headset is nearly seamless. Nearly. You’re not seeing the world through a transparent lens, but instead, a real-time video recreation of it beamed from external cameras onto a…
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23 New Free Channels Are Coming to Freevee This Year
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Mom Recounts 'Terrorizing' Deepfake Kidnapping Scam in Gripping Testimony
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]January 20 started out like most typical Friday afternoons for Scottsdale, Arizona resident Jennifer DeStefano. The mother of two had just picked up her youngest daughter from dance practice when she received a call from an unknown number. She almost let the number go to voicemail but decided to pick it up on its…
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John Romita Sr., An Icon of Superhero Comics, Has Died
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The comics industry has lost one of the most prolific artists it has ever seen: John Romita Sr., a titan who defined the[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for generations, and other [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and beyond, has died.

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After Decades of Independence, Moog Sells Out
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Correction 6/13/2023, 10:23: P.M. ET: An earlier version of this story and headline incorrectly implied that Moog Music has been an independent company for 70 years. However, the company was previously sold to parent muSonics in 1971, and later Norlin Industries. After bankruptcy, the company was returned to its…
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The Mario Movie's Cast and Crew Talk Bringing the Mushroom Kingdom to Life
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Amazon Web Services Meltdown Temporarily Breaks the Internet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amazon Web Services, the ubiquitous [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] provider that is responsible for supporting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], endured a pretty bad meltdown today. For obvious reasons, that was bad news for the droves of websites and companies that rely on it to keep things running smoothly.
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Glow-Worms Can’t Find Their Spark Under Harsh Light Pollution
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nights on Earth are getting brighter with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects that rely on their luminous abdomens to procreate.
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Thank God, Star Wars Outlaws Isn't Set During the Rise of the Empire
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Of all the surprising things we’ve learned about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the days since its reveal—its focus on the galaxy far, far away’s underworld elements; [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]; its intriguing protagonist Kay Vess—one of the most pleasant is a simple chronological shift that presents so much potential.

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Google Delays Bard AI Launch in the EU Over Privacy Concerns
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The CIA Warned Ukraine Not to Blow Up the Nord Stream Pipeline: Report
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The Gaming Shelf Travels With The Last Caravan
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Forget Boxes, Ikea’s Experimental Designers Created a Couch That Fits in an Envelope
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ikea has turned stuffing big things into small packages into an art form with its flat-packed, easy-to-transport furniture. But how far can the company take its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? How about a couch that can be [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]?
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Alabama Congressman Wants to Restrict Air Force Travel Funds as Battle Over Space Command HQ Heats Up
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Alabama lawmakers are tightening the screws in the ongoing battle over the relocation of the Space Command headquarters, a move that the current U.S. administration is looking to reverse due to the state’s severe anti-abortion law.
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Transformers and G.I. Joe Unite for Skybound's Energon Universe
[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 G.I. Joe are two of Hasbro’s biggest properties, and the pair have crossed over numerous times over the decades. Coming off the heels of the recently released [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]movie, Hasbro is going all in on mixing its two brands together, and throwing them into a shared universe.

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Open Channel: Tell Us What You Thought of This Weekend's Big Movies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The weekend of June 16, 2023 has been a pretty big one for movies here in the west. Though the big one is arguably Warner Bros.’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it’s sort of sharing the spotlight with four other movies, and each of them with their [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Johnny Young Bosch Joins Ultraman Blazar's English Dub
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a couple of weeks, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] will be returning with another installment as part of its Reiwa era. Blazar also serves as the 35th entry in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] overall, and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the New Generation sub-series.

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Anker's 67-Pound Rolling Battery Is Peace of Mind on Wheels
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you rely on one of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to ensure your smartphone survives a day of heavy use, the company now offers a product that offers the same peace of mind super-sized for your home appliances. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is the largest battery the company makes, and it can make a power outage much less…
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Website Owners Say Traffic Is Plummeting After a Facebook Algorithm Change
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An apparent change to Facebook’s algorithm in May caused a dramatic drop in traffic to news and media websites, according to a growing list of publishers and data from Echobox, a social media management company.
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More and More Americans Want to Attend Church Digitally, Study Finds
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All of Netflix's Nerdy Announcements at Tudum 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Netflix had its annual Tudum event, which highlighted the streamer’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of media for the remainder of 2023 and well into 2024. During the livestreamed presentation in São Paulo, Brazil, Netflix gave first looks at upcoming series like its live-action adaptations of Avatar: The Last Airbender and One Piece …
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The Flash Went Through Three, Equally Bonkers Endings
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Rick & Morty Will Return This Year With a New Voice Actor
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Asteroid City Comes Alive in New Immersive Experiences
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In Wes Anderson’s new film [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], stage actors take on the role of ordinary Americans who’ve arrived at the titular (and fictional) desert town for a Junior Stargazer convention. If you’ve seen [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], then you know that the movie is Anderson in all the ways that usually entails, with a quirky period…
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Beyond the Spider-Verse Will Be a Gwen Stacy Jamboree
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Both of Sony’s animated Spider-Verse movies have helped to turn Miles Morales into a household name, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] isn’t far behind. The alternate reality version of Peter Parker’s old flame Gwen Stacy has gotten real boost thanks to these movies, and the recently released [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]is as much about…
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Apple's Bigger-Screen 15-inch MacBook Air | Gizmodo Review
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Primal Gets a Season 3 as Adult Swim Pushes Prestige Animation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For decades, Genndy Tartakovsky has been one of Cartoon Network’s definitive voices thanks to the likes of shows like Dexter’s Laboratory and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. When he returned to give Jack a proper ending, the show jumped ship to the network’s late night block Adult Swim, and he continued that relationship with his [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Biden Announces $930 Million in Grants to Expand Rural Internet Access
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] announced $930 million in grants on Friday aimed at expanding access to broadband access in rural America. The “Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure” grants cover 35 states and Puerto Rico as part of the Department of Commerce’s program to bring high-speed internet access and large amounts…
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Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA Next to Neo-Nazi Propaganda
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter ran ads from household-name brands like Disney, Microsoft, and The Telegraph newspaper alongside neo-Nazi propaganda this week. Family-friendly media conglomerates, tech giants, and legacy newspapers running ads on social media platforms may try to do so with some confidence their names won’t appear [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Apple MacBook Air 15-inch Review: A Bigger Screen for a Better View
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a long time coming, but Apple finally has a 15-inch version of the classic MacBook Air. I say a long time because I recall covering rumors of a 15-inch Air more than 10 years ago. This time around, however, the rumors were correct – at its annual WWDC event in June, the 15-inch Air debuted alongside the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Get Summer-Ready With the Latest Fandom Fashion and Pop-Culture Merch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sun’s out, fandom fits out, for a summer of geeky fashion and more. Check out these blockbuster-inspired merch collections out in time for the release of [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...], [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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Stellan Skarsgård Explains the Intensity of Filming His Iconic Andor Speech
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“Calm. Kindness, kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace, I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do.”
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Emily Blunt Wants That Edge of Tomorrow Sequel Just as Much as We Do
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Emily Blunt has no shortage of gigs—the star of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Mary Poppins Returns, and the first two Quiet Place movies, to name just a few, is currently doing the pre-Emmy nomination rounds for her BBC-Prime Video series The English. But there’s one project many sci-fi fans have been hoping to see: [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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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Reddit CEO Steve Huffman slammed subreddit moderators who continued to push back against the company’s plan to charge for access to its API, a change that would shutter beloved third-party Reddit apps like Apollo, calling them “landed gentry” and saying they weren’t considering the desires of their communities.
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This Amazing Star Trek Box Set's Answer to 'How Much Captain Picard Do You Want?' Is 'Yes'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]From TNG to Picard, Jean-Luc has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the Star Trek galaxy—and now, an overwhelming majority of it is going to find itself bundled all into one pricey, but glorious package.
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How Did Star Wars Outlaws Make a Droid So Hot?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier this week Ubisoft dazzled gamers with a surprise [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], its upcoming open-world [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. In what we’ve seen so far, Outlaws wants to play with Star Wars in ways other recent games maybe haven’t so much—an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a smuggler protagonist…
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How Bluesky Is Seizing the Opportunity of Twitter's Decline With Custom Algorithms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter is in freefall—ad revenue is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], owner Elon Musk is mucking around and firing people left and right, and users (including me) have noticed a steep decline in the quality of their feeds. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a near-clone of Twitter built on a decentralized protocol with the support of…
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Pixar's Leader Talks Balancing Originals and Sequels
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After years of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Pixar has entered a whole new phase. Its past few releases have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the company’s impossible standard, and more and more animation studios seem to have caught up to Pixar in terms of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. This week, Pixar’s latest film, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], hits theaters,…
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Pediatricians Warn Weighted Baby Sleep Sack May Cause SIDS
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Doctors are warning parents against buying the baby sleep sack, a weighted swaddle blanket designed for infants. In a major public service announcement, pediatricians say the blanket, which is meant to mimic the sensation of “being held or hugged” could turn deadly.
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The FTC Is Rewriting the Rules of the Internet, Just in Time for the AI Sea Change
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s a widespread misconception about whether or not federal law protects your privacy. It doesn’t, at least not explicitly. Congress has managed to squander a decade’s worth of bipartisan agreement about the internet’s data problems. In the absence of legislation, one group of regulators recently stepped in to…
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On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, New Crew Capsules and Artificial Gravity: NASA's Latest Tech Initiative
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A new Blue Origin crewed spacecraft is in the works as part of a NASA collaboration designed to advance the orbital economy, with the space agency lending its expertise to seven different commercial partners.
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Turtle Power with Star Trek's Melissa Navia | First Fandoms
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El Niño Is Here and It's Taking the Heat for the Death of 300 Wild Birds in Mexico
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]El Niño is here and bringing record temperatures this June. As of this month, the global shift has officially arrived and is “expected to gradually strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2023-24,” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to a recent announcement from NOAA.
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UPS Drivers Officially Vote to Authorize a Strike
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], UPS drivers have officially voted to go on strike. 97% of drivers in the Teamsters Union voted in favor of the motion.

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Watch Margot Robbie Guide You Around the Gorgeous Artificiality of Barbie's Dreamhouse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Part of what has made Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie look immediately enchanting, aside from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is how its design has embraced the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Barbie’s chintzy aesthetic—nothing in Barbie’s world in the movie feels real, and yet Barbie and her fellow Barbies (and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) have to…
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8 Things We Liked (and 2 We Didn't) About Black Mirror Season 6
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Meta to Help People Craft More Zuck Deepfakes With ‘Voicebox’ AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta has another new AI model on the docket, and this one seems perfectly engineered for the land of tomorrow if that utopian future is filled with nothing but deepfakes and modified audio. Like AI image generators, Voicebox generates synthetic voices based on a simple text prompt from scratch—or, in actuality—sound…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Banned in UAE, Probably Because of a Poster
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Jamal Khashoggi's Widow Says Notorious Spyware Left Her 'Irrevocably Altered'
[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...]—a Saudi journalist brutally executed by intelligence agents for writing critically about the regime—is suing the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], an Israeli surveillance company allegedly responsible for creating malicious spyware surreptitiously installed on her and her late husband’s devices. Hanan Elatr…
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Wrap Yourself Up in a Classic Apple OS While Your Brain Turns to Mush With a Modern One
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Next year marks the 40th anniversary of what’s now considered the second most momentous on-stage reveal by Steve Jobs (after 2007's iPhone debut): the Apple Macintosh. You can get a head start on the festivities with Throwboy’s new blanket featuring a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to several different iterations of the…
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Let's Talk About the Ending and End Credits of The Flash
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Star Trek: Infinite Really Does Just Look Like the Ultimate Stellaris Mod
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Stellaris has long had a history of rich and deep total conversion mods, fan-made overhauls that let players take one of the most successful space strategy games of recent history and turn it into everything from Warhammer to Star Wars. Trek mods are no stranger to it either, but now they have new competition: an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Slightly Lost Bumblebees Use Scent to Find Their Way Home
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Researchers have shown that returning foragers of buff-tailed bumblebees use their own passively laid out scent marks, as well as visual information from landmarks, to find their way back to the nest entrance. These results highlight the importance of both vision and odor for guiding the navigation of bumblebees.

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Samsung Unpacked is coming up in a jiffy this July, which means it’s the time of the year for leaked renders to start making their way to the interwebs. The latest leaked renders of the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 show that it will likely maintain much of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], only…
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Virgin Galactic Is Ready to Kick Off Its Commercial Trips to the Edge of Space
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Virgin Galactic is officially open for suborbital business. The private space venture is set to launch its first commercial flight in late June, the first in a series of trips to the edge of space.
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Some of the Biggest Subreddits Are Retreating From the API War
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Mortal Kombat 2 Has Found Some of Its Biggest Bads
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Check out a veritable smorgasbord of Barbie clips. Doctor Who adds another young hero to its cast. Netflix sets a date for its Chicken Run sequel. Plus, Mads Mikkelsen discusses the chances of ever coming back to Hannibal, and some major Superman & Lois cast shakeups are on the way. To me, my spoilers!

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Star Trek Release Dates: When to Expect All the New and Returning Shows
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Google Sells Its Databank of More Than 10 Million Domain Names to Squarespace
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For once, the tech conglomerate that is Google is getting smaller, and by its own volition no less. Google said it is extricating itself from the domain name business. Its massive bank of domain names and the millions of customers who pay for them will soon be placed in the hands of Squarespace. The webpage creation…
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Asthma ER Visits Shot Up in NYC When Wildfire Smoke Choked the Northeast
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Canadian wildfire [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and throughout the Midwest last week. It darkened skies over multiple major cities, including New York City. The unhealthy air quality also increased the number of asthma-related emergency room visits throughout the city.
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Biden Reaches Deal With Ticket Companies to End Hidden Fees
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Even Joe Biden is sick of annoying and excessive fees. To take action, the president is reportedly hosting executives from the likes of SeatGeek, Live Nation Ticketmaster, Airbnb, xBk, DICE, TickPick, Wisconsin’s Pablo Center at the Confluence, and Rhode Island’s Newport Festivals Foundation at the White House today…
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Parler Is Dead, but Trump Is Still Using Its Newsletter to Raise Cash and Own the Libs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Former users of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the defunct right-wing social media app, got an email from Donald Trump on Tuesday.

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The New Batman Movie Sets Flash Director
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Indiana Jones Imitators, Ranked From Worst to Best
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Marvel's 'What If?' Novels Will Bring New Tales of Loki, Scarlet Witch, Venom, and More
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United Airlines Finally Addresses Long Wait Times With App's New Rebooking Feature
[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 attempting to address stressed flyers’ needs with an in-app upgrade that allows customers to rebook their flights and receive vouchers in the case of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The airline changed its rebooking protocol as lines at customer service desks and phone wait times surge in an effort…
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FDA Warns 180+ Retailers to Stop Selling Illegal Elf Bar Vapes, or Else
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Vape purveyors be warned, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is on a mission to clear the air of cotton candy clouds. The federal agency has issued official [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over claims that the retailers are selling illegal e-cigarettes and related products, according to a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Reveals Tasty Digital and Blu-ray Special Features
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At Least 4 Dead and 100,000 Without Power After Texas Tornadoes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A twister formed over Texas on Wednesday night, flattening homes and killing a reported four people in the town of Matador. Several others were injured during the storm, according to the Lubbock Fire Department.

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The 2 Marvel Movies Sam Jackson Wishes Nick Fury Was In
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] joined the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it wasn’t a universe at all. It was just the 2008 film Iron Man... but Marvel Studios was clearly feeling ambitious. It signed Jackson to a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] even before its first movie had come out, and now, 15 years later, the actor has starred in far more…
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TikTok's #2 Exec Bails as Company Fights for Its Life
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]TikTok Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas, the long-time face of the company’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is calling it quits. The top executive revealed their resignation in an email to staff Thursday saying the “time is right to move on and refocus.” Their departure comes at a time of extreme uncertainty at the company, with…
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Gigantic Satellite Beams Data From Space at 4G Speeds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Texas-based AST SpaceMobile used its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to transmit signals at 4G speeds to off-the-shelf smartphones, marking a success for its prototype satellite.
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'Catastrophic Implosion:' Titanic Tourist Sub Wreckage Found, All Five Passengers Presumed Dead
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A “debris field” was found in the area where authorities were searching for the missing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] four days after the vessel disappeared, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday. In a race against the clock, the search and rescue mission, which started Sunday, has come to a close, Rear Admiral John Mauger…
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Rey's Star Wars Movie Is Already Generating False Info
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A new, very official-looking report has just dropped for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] but io9 has learned it’s mostly inaccurate.
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This Gaming La-Z-Boy Is a Comfort Power-Up For Gaming Chairs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Gaming chairs are close enough in design to office chairs to make it feel like you’re doing important work, even if you’re just spending hours terrorizing families of five in The Sims. But if you’ve managed to shrug off the societal guilt of gaming and only care about being comfortable, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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NASA Linked to Missing Titanic Submersible
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Titan submersible vessel, which has gone missing with five people on board, was partially constructed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Swarms of 'Cannibal' Crickets Invade Small Nevada Town
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elko, Nevada, is playing host to a real life horror movie scenario. The town is experiencing a substantial invasion of Mormon crickets. Thankfully, the imposing insects are not directly harmful to people.
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What Rules Were Written for Skrulls and Their Powers in Secret Invasion? | io9 Interview
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People Are Betting Cash on Whether the Titanic Tourist Sub Will Be Found
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A slew of users of the online prediction marketplace Polymarket are betting tens of thousands of dollars on whether the missing Titanic tourist submersible, named the Titan, will be found by midnight ET on June 23, at which point it is likely the five passengers onboard will have run out of oxygen.
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Hearing Over Microsoft's Takeover of Activision Blizzard Begins, With Bigwigs Set to Testify
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft’s $68.7 billion [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Activision Blizzard has arrived in court. An evidentiary hearing that pits both tech giants against the Federal Trade Commission began at 8:30 A.M. Pacific (11:30 A.M. Eastern) on Thursday morning. Big money and an industry-wide restructuring are at stake over…
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Is Half Great
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I’ll never forget where I was at roughly 3:00 am on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. While most people were sleeping, myself and a few friends poured out of the midnight showing of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. And we each felt like we’d been punched in the gut.
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Massive Black Holes Littered the Early Universe, Simulation Suggests
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Since the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein were first detected in 2015, astrophysicists have been pondering the gravitational wave background—the cumulative undulations of these spacetime ripples as they cross the cosmos.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Device makers have struggled to incorporate temperature sensors into smartphones and smartwatches to turn them into medically accurate body thermometers, but researchers at the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] claim they’ve come up with a way to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] into exactly that–with nothing but a new app. T…
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A Toxic Algae Bloom Is Killing California's Sea Lions
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sea lions and dolphins that swim off California’s central coast are dying. Toxic algae blooms off the state’s coast are believed to be stranding and even killing the marine animals at alarming rates, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Secret Invasion's Samuel L. Jackson Won't Be Resurrected Via AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] appeared in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the actor was digitally recreated to look like an age-appropriate version of himself for the 1990s-set film. But underneath that was the modern actor’s performance, not mere computer graphics. So Jackson is no hypocrite when he swears he won’t allow himself to be…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Day in Court Gets by on a Technicality
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There simply comes a time when a Star Trek show [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Whether it’s internal Starfleet politics, or the chance to advocate Federation ideals to an alien society, Star Trek loves an opportunity to make its subtexts so text it can practically beat a book of them over your head. And so it’s no…
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Twitch Will Let Viewers Pay to Pin Their Messages in Streamers’ Chats
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Eager to get out of the shadow of its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Twitch on Thursday unveiled Hype Chat, a new way for its large and mid-sized streamers to earn money from viewers by allowing them to pay between $1 and $500 to pin messages to the live chat.
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Oz vs. Elon: Australia Threatens to Fine Musk's Twitter $470,000 Per Day Over Hate Speech
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but Australia’s online safety commissioner is ready to rumble down under with Elon Musk. Julia Inman Grant, a former regional Twitter exec herself and now an Australian government official, has issued a legal warning to the Musk-owned site, that could lead to a fine of up to 700,000…
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NASA Makes Progress on SLS Launch Pad Repairs and Upgrades Ahead of Artemis 2 Launch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is being prepped for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years, with repairs underway to fix the damage caused by the inaugural flight of the space agency’s lunar program.
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K-12 Students in the U.S. Now Have Free Access to Figma
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Students in kindergarten through high school are getting free access to Figma and FigmaJam, a cloud-based design tool. The release of the program follows a nationwide beta test in select high schools across 50 districts from urban areas like Portland to smaller rural districts in Texas.
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10 Demons We Wouldn't Mind Hanging Out With, Actually
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] usually mean bad news, for obvious reasons: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], damnation sounds awfully boring, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. However, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. In fact, there are a few we wouldn’t mind hanging out with, despite the consequences.
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Humans Might Be Fueling the Spread of a Cat-Loving, Mind-Altering Parasite
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Humans could be contributing to the spread of a cat-loving, mind-altering parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, new research this week suggests. The study found that domesticated and wild cats were more likely to carry the parasite in areas densely packed with humans.
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Shin Kamen Rider Comes to Amazon on Barbie Day
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a long road for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] fans waiting for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to become easier to watch outside of Japan—especially if you missed out on the handful of days it [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But good news: for the specific venn diagram of people who love Tokusatsu superheros and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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'Hold Out Hope:' Deep Diving Bots Search for Titanic Tourist Sub as Oxygen Runs Out
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A French robot capable of diving 20,000 feet deep has been deployed in the search for the Titanic tourist sub that’s been missing with five passengers aboard since Sunday. The salvage system is supposed to arrive sometime Wednesday evening, though there’s still no hint that rescuers have pinpointed the exact location…
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Apple Opens VisionOS Access for Devs to Start Making 'Spatial' Apps for Vision Pro Headset
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The apps are coming for Apple’s not-VR/AR headset. Even though the Vision Pro headset won’t see release until 2024, Apple is hoping to have a wide suite of 3rd party apps available at launch, potentially some that could entice more customers to drop $3,500 on a its so-called “spatial computer.”

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Sony's Next Spider-Man Spinoff Has Been Removed From Its Schedule
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Pom Klementieff discusses her villainous new Mission: Impossible character. The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin has a small part to play in Dune 2. Plus, what’s to come on the series finale of Gotham Knights. Spoilers now!

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Soon You Can, but Really Shouldn't, Pre-Order This Flame-Throwing Robodog
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When Boston Dynamics [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it’s four-legged robot, it came with one stipulation: users couldn’t use it to harm people. But while the creators of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] aren’t actively promoting it as a weapon, you don’t want to be within 30 feet of a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to the back of a robodog.
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Space Travel Alters Gene Expression, Weakening Our Immune Systems
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Scientists have shown that the expression of (mostly protein-coding) genes in white blood cells changes rapidly when astronauts reach the International Space Station. This may explain why astronauts appear more susceptible to infectious diseases while in space.

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No, Betelgeuse Won’t Go Supernova in 'Tens of Years'—or Even Centuries
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The expiration date of Betelgeuse, a massive dying star about 642 light-years from Earth, is a hot topic in astronomy because of the star’s superlative size and its life cycle stage.
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'Send Me Location:' Mark Zuckerberg Says He's Down to Fight Elon Musk in a Cage Match
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What would you give to see two of the world’s richest men throwing poorly aimed haymakers at each other? Better give that question some serious thought because The Verge is now [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk may get into a fight.
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Boots Riley Delivers Surreal, Heartfelt Hilarity in I'm a Virgo
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]First things first: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s I’m a Virgo is essential viewing. It’s some of the best that’s come out of television this year. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]filmmaker [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...]co-creator Tze Chun are among the talents behind this giant-sized, modern mythical coming-of-age tale.
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Star Trek Is Reviving a Classic DS9 Novel in a Glorious, Garak-Packed Audiobook
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Satine Kryze seemingly changed Star Wars forever when she was introduced in Clone Wars as the face of a Mandalore unlike anything fans and stories had imagined in the decades since Boba Fett first appeared in Empire Strikes Back. But in her wake, as Star Wars has pushed deeper [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it’s like…
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James Mangold on Addressing Indiana Jones 5 Rumors | io9 Interview
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Biden Gives the Endangered Species Act a Boost
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s never really a great day to be endangered, but for U.S. species, today is a better one than most. The Biden Administration issued a set of three policies on Wednesday that strengthen the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA). These [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] reverse a number of Trump-era changes that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Has Tesla Already Won the EV Charging War?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tesla’s bid to become the future of electric vehicle charging is gaining traction. Texas, where Tesla is headquartered, announced on Tuesday that all new EV chargers built using federal funding in the state will have to include Tesla’s “North American Charging Standard” (NACS) port, as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by Reuters, and…
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Lab-Grown Chicken Is Officially Coming Soon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The lab-grown future of food starts now as two California companies—Upside Foods and Eat Just—have received final approvals from the United States Department of Agriculture to begin hocking lab-grown chicken.

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SpaceX's Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Begin Sending Data Back to Earth
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Starlink V2 Minis, a smaller version of SpaceX’s next-generation internet satellites—which have yet to launch—have turned on and are actively transmitting data back down to Earth.
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Wow, Turns Out People Still Want More Walking Dead
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Since 2016 and its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at the end of season six, ratings for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—once the most popular series on TV—steadily [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. That, along with the end of Fear the Walking Dead announced less than two months after the flagship series’ poorly received finale, led many to think…
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These Companies Want to Beam Space-Based Solar Power to Earth
Space manufacturing startup Orbital Composites and space energy company Virtus Solis have announced a collaboration to bring space-based solar power even closer to reality. The two have announced a megawatt-scale space-based solar power station that can collect energy from the Sun and beam it down to Earth.

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Orca Explained in 1977 Why Killer Whales Are So Angry Today
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The towering success of 1975's Jaws inspired [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and one of the less terrible ones—1977's Orca—is suddenly feeling very contemporary, what with all [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. While Orca emphasizes aquatic drama over science, the mood it captures still…
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Pedro Pascal Thinks People Will Always Get 'Butthurt' About Blind Casting
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’re seemingly in the age of adaptations, as studios race to lock in franchises and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And though there’s an increasing demand to see these projects reflect the world we live in, we’ve also seen [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] stoked around blind casting. In a world where we cannot escape that, Pedro Pascal…
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Getting Off (With a Partner) Helps You Doze Off, Study Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A good night’s sleep might start with a happy ending, recent research suggests. The study found that people reported better sleep on nights when they had sex and experienced an orgasm.
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