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Kaiju No. 8's New Trailer Is a Gross, Monstrous Origin Story
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Johnny Knoxville Loved Collectibles | First Fandoms
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Card Heist Occurs at Gen Con 2023, Over $300K's Worth Stolen
[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 in full swing, but the day before the festivities started, a heist occurred on the show floor.

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New Dungeons & Dragons Sourcebook Features AI Generated Art
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One of the artists working on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants!, has stated that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to help generate “certain details or polish and editing” in a recent post on X, on the site formerly known as Twitter. Ilya Shkipin, who drew the art in question, has deleted his posts, but…
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Black Adam Didn't Get a Sequel Literally Because the Hierarchy of Power Changed
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Warner Bros.’ plans for its DC movies have shifted enough times that even Mystique would tell the company to chill, and last year’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]only served to further complicate things. Prior to release, its claim to fame was that Dwayne Johnson would finally play a comic book superhero (that he had an iron grip on for…
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The Government's Secret Footage of Nuclear Tests Is Still Eerie Decades Later
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Christopher Nolan’s new movie [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], eponymously named after the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the atomic bomb, has renewed public interest in America’s dark history with nuclear weapons. Nolan’s movie focuses primarily on the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—the first test of an nuclear bomb to occur in the U.S. But for years after Trinity, the…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem's Director on Making 'a Monster Movie for Kids'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for many reasons: the energetic teens who voice the Turtles, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], its unique animation style, and the way [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] TMNT lore. But the movie’s more than just a light-hearted nostalgic trip.
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Twitch Star's NYC Event Devolves Into Chaos, Transforming Union Square Into Thunderdome
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A social media influencer’s event spun wildly out of control in downtown Manhattan on Friday. For some reason, thousands of people who had turned out to Union Square park to to see Youtube star and Twitch streamer [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] began rioting, obstructing traffic, and antagonizing police. The unruly crowd eventually…
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Halloween News From Universal Studios Horror Nights, Disney Parks, and More!
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s a lot of monsters ready to be let out of their crypts for Halloween haunt season.
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A New Witcher Novel Is on the Way
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Need something Witcher to sink your teeth to now that Henry Cavill has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to the Netflix show? Well, there’s good news: series author Andrzej Sapkowski has revealed he’s working on a new novel set in the world of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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ISS Experiment Hopes to Develop Air Conditioning for Future Habitats on Other Worlds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A group of engineers is testing an air conditioning system in space, seeing how two basic processes work in an environment with less gravity than Earth in order to design a system for future habitats on the Moon and Mars.
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Everyone's Favorite Knife-Wielding Robot Returns in Next Week's Futurama
[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 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with next week’s “How the West Was 1010001,” which sees the gang heading to, ahem, Doge City to cash in on the bitcoin mining craze. Like most places they visit, they encounter absurdities, even more puns, and some very shady robot…
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Google Takes a Page Out of Twitter's Book: Invites Employees to Sleep 'On Campus' for a Fee
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google is trying to lure employees back to the office by offering a special for its on-campus hotel in Mountain View, California. The special will run through Sept. 30 and is serving as another attempt for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to establish the new norm of a hybrid work-from-home schedule.
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Canada’s Wildfire Smoke Smashes Annual Pollution Record in Just Seven Months
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Widespread wildfires across Canada have broken a carbon pollution record this year, a European climate monitoring agency said this week.
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Creating Dracula for The Last Voyage of the Demeter
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More Than a Meme: Artists See the GIF Format as a Beautiful Medium for Perpetual Art
There’s something about an elevator that touches on the very nature of the .GIF format. There’s a repetition to its design, a cyclical nature of destination and return, a permanent transience. It loops, constantly, permanently. What changes is the people who are there to inhabit it—or witness it.
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Google Needs Its Own Genius Bar, How About the Geek Squad?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Samsung isn’t the only phone maker expanding its quick-fix repair network. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] reports that Google will set up Pixel repair kiosks within select Best Buy locations to rival the Korean electronics giant’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Apple’s Genius Bar.

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Show Us Your Baldur's Gate 3 Characters
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—after six years of waiting, and three of those spent in early access, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has finally released on PC. If you’ve already started gathering your party and venturing forth, we want to see the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with to venture into this latest D&D adventure.

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Los Angeles Has a Growing Typhus Problem, Thanks to the Fleas
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A disease spread by fleas is becoming more common and deadlier in Los Angeles, California. In a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] this week, health officials say that recorded cases of flea-borne typhus have steadily risen in LA since 2010, with the highest tally seen last year. Additionally, three people are thought to have died from…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Musical Episode Songs, Ranked
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Strange New Worlds’ musical episode [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], giving us a wonderful, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] hour of Star Trek. But now that we’ve had a chance to give the Enterprise crew’s showtunes [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], we’re ready to declare which hit the high notes and which should’ve been left on the cutting room floor.

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Lorcana Hopefuls Wait in Line for 14 Hours for Disney Magic
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An older woman with steel gray hair, wearing a tiara and a stylish red dress-suit combo, sits at the front of the Lorcana line at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], explaining to a group of four younger men what happened that morning. She has a diagram. This is Esther Emerald. That’s not her real name; that’s her character’s name for a [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...]Players jumping into the hotly anticipated Dungeons & Dragons RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 will likely want to skip through the intensely rambling licensing agreement. But for those players who actually decide to stay awhile and listen—er, sorry, wrong game—I mean read the mountainous EULA agreement, developer Larian has a…
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NASA Chooses Axiom Space for Fourth Private Mission to the ISS
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Axiom Space will fly a fourth crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as NASA once again selects the private space venture for another mission to low Earth orbit.
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Three Trump Sycophants Charged With Manipulating Michigan Voting Machines
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A failed state attorney general candidate endorsed by Donald Trump, a former Republican Michigan state representative, and a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have all been criminally charged with attempting to tamper with voting machines, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] The Detroit News.…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Will Coax a Warriors Musical to Come Out to Play-Yay
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is a noted fan of bringing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] stories to the stage and screen ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lyrics call it “the greatest city in the world,” after all), and he’ll be tackling a new tale set in his hometown for his next project: a stage musical adapting Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel The Warriors—previously the…
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Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’re only a month out since Meta released its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Twitter-killer app Threads. Since then, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now, two separate data analysis firms say that the number of users logging in each day on the app has similarly flatlined just a month after its release.
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Tinder Is Getting an AI Upgrade to Help You Decide What Photos Are the Hottest
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Like every other tech company, Tinder is bringing artificial intelligence to its operations in an attempt to create a better user experience, its parent company Matchgroup said in its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Wednesday. The company says it plans to create new features around the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit’s controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits. It marks the end of months of fighting, which included site-wide blackouts. Now…
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Andrew Tate Is No Longer Under Romanian House Arrest
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Internet “alpha” and extreme misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother are reportedly free from house arrest following an arrest in December. The brothers and two conspirators are now awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking and sexual assault.
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Hasbro Explains How Star Wars Toys Get Chosen, and Why They Sometimes Take Forever
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When I was 19 years old, I stood outside a Toys “R” Us for hours, waiting for midnight so I could buy toys from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It was mere weeks before the movie was released, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and I spent a lot of money because of it.
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Blazing Ocean Temperatures Threaten Critical Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Scientists and conservationists are working to observe and save coral reefs off the coast of Florida after a year of heat waves and alarming ocean temperatures.
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New Ahsoka Footage Gives Us Some Very Ready Rebels
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Dark rises, and light to meet it—so when Ahsoka Tano finds out these god damn Imperials [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it’s a good job she’s got plenty of friends on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to call in some favors.
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'Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde' Plead Guilty to Billion Dollar Crypto Laundering Scheme
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Thursday, Heather Morgan, a.k.a. Razzlekhan, and her husband pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive money laundering scheme. Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein became known as the modern-day “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” after they were linked to the 2016 theft of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Excellent Musical Soundtrack Is Now Streaming
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Strange New Worlds’ musical episode was a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but it was also a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—a soundtrack laden with a frankly distressing number of earworms. And now you can listen to it without having to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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AI.com Now Belongs to Elon Musk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the latest chapter of Elon Musk’s saga to take over the world with corporations named after the letter “X,” the billionaire tech tycoon just snagged a coveted URL: AI.com.

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It's Time For Even More Casting Rumors for Fantastic Four
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Final Destination’s Jeffrey Reddick says the sixth film is ready to enter production—as soon as the SAG-AFTRA strike comes to an end. Dracula strikes in even more footage from Last Voyage of the Demeter. Plus, you’re not ready for the first details about Riverdale’s final episode. To me, my spoilers!

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The Top 10 Countries Being Bombarded by Data Breaches
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Security breaches rose by a shocking 156% globally from the first quarter of 2023 to quarter two, according to a report published by VPN service [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Tuesday. As [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] become more prevalent so too does the rate at which the breaches occur.
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Talk to Me's Directors Hope to Terrify Us Again With More Talk to Me Movies
[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...]—the siblings behind [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the summer’s scariest movie—they described the “mythology bible” they assembled to keep track of the story’s many [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now, it seems they also picked up their cameras to create additional contextual material.
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Pixar's Slow-Burn Hit Elemental Is Coming Home Soon, With Tons of Extras
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—initially a disappointment for Pixar and Disney—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and now [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has a new income stream in its near future: home viewers. [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...] will soon arrive on digital, followed by a physical release, and it’s bringing tons of extras…
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The Fall of X Is Throwing Krakoa's Rules Out the Window
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When mutantkind established its own sovereign nation on Krakoa, it established [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the newly-unified species to live by: Make More Mutants, Murder No Man, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. For the most part, give or take a few loopholes, the Krakoan Age was defined by these tenets until last week’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Sorry Folks, Jack Quaid Is Not Johnny Storm in Marvel’s Fantastic 4
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nothing, the company behind the second-gen, see-through, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that’s generated positive user reviews since its debut last month, has announced a new brand called CMF by Nothing. In a quarterly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Nothing’s co-founder and CEO, Carl Pei, explains that CMF by Nothing will be focused on…
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Spotted Lanternflies Are Flapping About Again. Squash Their Buggy Brains Out.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s peak summer in the U.S. and spotted lanternflies have graduated into full-grown adults that are flapping about in all their spotty glory. Another year of sighting these winged insects means another year for us to do our part in squishing lanternflies and eliminating them from our ecosystems.
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Elon Really Wants to Turn Twitter Into Wall Street
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What’s the point of an app if you can’t make money on it? Such is the thought process of Twitter owner Elon Musk, as the first part of his grand plan to turn the bird app into the “everything app” will start with transforming the site into yet another stock trading platform.
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Treating GIFs as Fine Art | Gizmodo Interview
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10 Global Artists Reimagine WB Classic Icons in Art and Fashion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Legendary [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] get reimagined by 10 global artists in a new collection for WB 100, marking the studio’s 100th anniversary.
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Apple Patent Says Siri Could Be Trained to Read Your Lips
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As with many inquiries to Apple’s helper bot, asking Siri to “read my lips,” comes back with a “I’m not sure I understand” message. After all, Apple has so far eschewed talking much about modern AI systems. Why would the voice recognition service also want to be staring at me like HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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15 Pieces of Apple History That Hit the Auction Block for Big Bucks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You don’t become one of the largest tech companies on the planet without leaving a trail of artifacts in your wake. While many of Apple’s former products and ventures may have been lost to time, others have been scrounged up by antique collectors and enthusiasts to be auctioned off for some huge returns. Everything…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Musical Episode Is a Glorious Triumph
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“Will this work/Who can say?/We’re gonna sing it/anyway!” An interlude in the climactic song of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and an underlying thesis that guides it as it swings for one of the boldest ideas the franchise has ever tried... and by god, does it nail it.

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Facebook Isn’t Giving Up on Smart Glasses, Even if It Probably Should
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Remember when the company once called Facebook tried to convince the world to spend [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] capable of snapping photos of people while they weren’t looking? Neither did we, really, but that hasn’t stopped Meta from moving forward with a pricey multi-year plan to roll out new…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After 100 days of the writers’ strike, and nearly a month of the actors’ strike, Disney has realized it needs [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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A New Alien Tradition Emerges in Exclusive Solar Opposites Season 4 Clip
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Pirate Borg Is a Grimdark Undead Nightmare Fueled by Sea Shanties
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s an incredibly busy day at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—the annual tabletop gaming convention held in Indianapolis—and the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]table is full of books, dice, and, off to the side, a galleon figurine. The galleon is suitably manned by skeletons, half-dead pirates, and I think I spotted a shark or two shadowing the water.

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Massive Maui Wildfires Fueled by Hurricane Dora Cut Power and 911 Service for Thousands
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Devastating wildfires that have been fueled by hurricane winds have killed several on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Emergency responders are overwhelmed by the devastation. Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen confirmed during a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] today that the fires have killed at least 6…
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Gen Con Heist: Retailer Confirms Magic Cards Stolen in $300K Haul
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] cards worth an estimated $[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from Pastimes, an Indiana gaming company, last week during Gen Con in Indianapolis—one of the largest gaming conventions in the world. Zack Reiter, a manager at Pastimes, confirmed via email to io9 that it was his store that was affected by the theft. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Yes, Marvel Really Is Revisiting the Spider-Man Story About Radioactive Semen
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The House of Ideas’ latest is something that indeed could diplomatically be described as an “idea:” Marvel has confirmed after a brief period of teasing that Spider-Man hasn’t gotten enough attention for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lately.

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Fewer Than 10,000 Steps a Day Needed to Keep Death at Bay, Study Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Getting enough steps in to stay healthy might be easier than expected, a new review of the evidence suggests. The study found that walking just under 4,000 steps a day is associated with a reduced risk of early death, while even less than 2,500 steps a day could cut your risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.…
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Code Orange: Spirit Halloween Unleashes Horror Film Fan Decor, Props, and Toys
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The ISS Has Higher Levels of Potentially Harmful Contaminants Than Most Homes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The International Space Station (ISS) has been home to more than 250 astronauts who have lived and worked on board the orbiting lab for months at a time. Unlike homes on Earth, however, the space station has been discovered to have higher levels of chemical contamination lingering in dust.
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Should You Flip Out for This Samsung Phone? | Gizmodo Review
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Saudi Arabia Passes Law Requiring USB-C Charging on New iPhones, Androids, and Laptops
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Apple has once again had a wrench thrown in its plans for smartphone hardware, though it won’t affect the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Saudi Arabia had passed a law requiring all future smartphones sold in the country to have USB-C ports beginning in 2025.
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Hear More From Dan Stevens' Solar Opposites Debut in This Exclusive Clip
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] arrives August 14 on Hulu, bringing a new cast member ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) and a new set of adventures for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], who always manage to entangle themselves in plots that are somehow both mundane and potentially apocalyptic. io9 has an exclusive clip to share…
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CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tech news website CNET has deleted thousands of old articles over the past few months in a bid to improve its performance in Google Search results, Gizmodo has learned.
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Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion Talks D&D, Acting, and Yes, Bear Sex
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After six years of development, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—Larian Studio’s highly anticipated successor to the legendary Dungeons & Dragons CRPG series—finally hit PC last week. Players have been gathering a party and venturing forth to chaos, heroics, and a motley [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But for one of those “heroes” in particular,…
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Meet the 'Event Horizon Explorer', Which Aims to See Light Rings Around Black Holes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Astronomers transfixed the public in April 2019 when they released the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], produced by radio wave data from a collaboration of telescopes around the world known collectively as the Event Horizon Telescope.
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Epic Games Loses Supreme Court Appeal to Force Apple to Change App Store Right Now
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The U.S. Supreme Court denied Epic Games’ appeal against Apple on Wednesday, which would have required the iPhone maker change its App Store’s payment options. Epic Games, the owner of the popular video game “Fortnite,” filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple in 2020 accusing the company of holding a monopoly over…
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Apple Is Moving the iPhone's End Call Button
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Do I actually use my iPhone to call people? Yes, yes I do, as it so happens. The thing about calls is that their function hasn’t changed in any major way since the first iPhone started the whole smartphone craze, despite the addition of extra features like Facetime. Now Apple’s latest iOS 17 beta has changed the…
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Twitter Fined $350,000 for Delaying Search of Trump's Account in Jan. 6 Prosecution
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Watch Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's Riveting Ghost Spider Opening
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Can AI Fix America's Cybersecurity Woes? The White House Thinks So.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Here’s some potentially happy news: Depression and anxiety might not raise the chances of cancer after all, new research this week has found. The study, a review of existing research, found no significant link between either condition and an increased risk of cancer in general, or many of the most common types of…
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The Witcher Season 3's Big Fight Was Meant to Make Up for a Season 1 'Plot Hole'
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Slack Drops a Big Redesign to Change How You Chat
Your work chats are going to look very different very soon. On Wednesday, Slack said it would update its interface for the first time in three years, adding new ways to quickly gauge who’s screaming for your attention across multiple channels and chats and mark conversations for followup.

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Card Heist Occurs at Gen Con 2023, Over $300K's Worth Stolen
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Neil Gaiman Won't Let Good Omens' Story End Like That
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The Mic Cardi B Threw at a Fan Just Sold for Nearly $100,000 on eBay
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Google Says It Will Scrape Publishers’ Data for AI Unless Forced Not To
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google hungers for all that content produced by the wealth of digital publishers creating text, video, and images on a daily basis. To deal with the sticky copyright issues at the heart of AI training, Google is proposing that all those companies who don’t want their content gobbled up will need to “opt-out” to ensure…
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Just Won't Quit, Resuming Flights After an Untimely Landing
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has had a rough few months, first losing communication with its home planet and later suffering a glitch that interrupted its flight. But you can’t keep a good chopper down. Ingenuity soared above the Martian terrain once again as its team on Earth tries to figure out what went wrong with…
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The 5 Best VPNs for the Back to School 2023 Season
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WeWork Offices Could Close As The Company Struggles To Stay Afloat
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]WeWork, the company that offers flexible co-working spaces, said in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Tuesday that it is at risk of bankruptcy. The business has struggled since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when offices shuttered their doors and moved to remote work, resulting in WeWork…
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Updates From DC's Creature Commandos, Archer, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Peter Dinklage welcomes you to The Academy in a new Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes teaser. Universal’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon has been hit with indefinite delays. Plus, more behind the scenes on Last Voyage of the Demeter. Spoilers now!

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How to Watch Apple Unveil the iPhone 15
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]No, Apple hasn’t officially declared it iPhone time. We’re still waiting for the company to create a splashy signature graphic to usher in the event. But until that happens, we have rumors and reports to reference on when we can expect the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to launch.
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How to Watch This Year’s Promising Perseid Meteor Shower
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This year’s Perseid meteor shower is set to be a good one, and it’ll reach its peak this coming weekend. Here’s what you need to know about the Perseids and the best way for you to catch this dazzling display.

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Lyft CEO on Surge Pricing: 'We're Trying to Really Get Rid of It'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The days of sky-high carshare rates could be behind us—at least if Lyft is your app of choice. The Uber competitor announced during a quarterly earnings call yesterday that phasing out surge pricing is on its list of priorities moving forward.
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You Can Now See Your Likes on Instagram Threads, Just Like on Twitter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta is adding more features to Instagram Threads. Users will now be able to see their own liked posts if they update the app. The feature was beta tested on Android last week but rolled out for all users over the weekend.
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Gizmodo Back to School 2023 Guide
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The back-to-school season has a different feel now than in the pre-pandemic days. Today, hybrid learning is a given for many students, and having a reliable computer is table stakes for even grade schoolers, not just high school and college students.
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Hollywood Should Actually Cast Matt Berry in a Star Wars Project
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Netflix Game Controller App Randomly Sprouts Up in the App Store
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Ken Stars in the Second Wave of Barbie Movie Dolls
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Orion's Heat Shield Remains 'Biggest Open Issue' Ahead of NASA's Artemis 2 Mission
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA is working to resolve a lingering issue with the Orion capsule’s heat shield, which is designed to protect the astronauts on board the spacecraft during its return to Earth as part of the Artemis 2 mission.

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Amazon Removes AI-Generated Books That Spoofed an Author's Byline
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amazon has removed half a dozen AI-generated books published under a living author’s name without her consent following a social media backlash. Though the misleading content was finally removed on Tuesday, the author, veteran publishing industry writer Jane Friedman, worries that a lack of clear, coherent policies at…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Preventive mammograms for breast cancer might be less worthwhile for older women, according to research released this week. The study’s authors estimate that a substantial percentage of cancer cases caught through screening in women over 70 are overdiagnosed, that is, the detection of a tumor that isn’t likely to…
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Dracula Attacks in Exclusive Clip From The Last Voyage of the Demeter
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Disney Has a New Task Force to Spread AI Throughout Its Not So Magic Kingdom
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The Gaming Shelf Reaps What It Sows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]So... Gen Con happened. To like, all of us. The annual gaming con held in Indianapolis brought “record breaking” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] through the convention center. Also, a few awards. Yours truly lost the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming to a truly excellent and deserving game, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Additionally Free…
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Hottest July on Record Kills Hundreds of Cows
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Streaming Platform Dropout Is Resuming Production
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The ongoing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have made it so that Hollywood productions are largely ground to a halt, and other arms of the entertainment industry are similarly in stasis. Things have been a little murkier over in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], where actors play a roleplaying game on YouTube or another streaming…
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Valve Puts Cheaper, Refurbished Steam Decks up for Sale
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Update: They’re real! For those thinking about getting a Steam Deck but who recently missed out on sale prices, Valve now says customers will be able to buy used, refurbished Steam Decks at discounted prices.
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'Hypnotized' ChatGPT and Bard Will Convince Users to Pay Ransoms and Drive Through Red Lights
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Russia Elbows Into the New Moon Race With Upcoming Luna-25 Launch
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Ridley Scott Says He 'Should Have' Directed Blade Runner 2049
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Marvel's Preparing the X-Men for Their Time In the Spotlight
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Open Channel: Tell Us Your Favorite Keith David Role
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Ahsoka's New Trailer Brings Back an Old Friend
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Timothy Olyphant Nearly Lead Star Trek's Reboot Films as James Kirk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is one of those actors you love to see pop up in things, either as a leading man or a reliable character actor. Over the years, he’s made a name for himself thanks to leading hit shows like Justified and Deadwood and popping up in guest roles like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for The Mandalorian and Joel in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Use Beeper to Put All of Your Chats in One Place
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Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed This Week
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The Last Ronin Brings the Ninja Turtles to the World of Blockbuster Games
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Has Swung Over to Disney+
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Barbie's So Big, Folks Made It Their First Theatrical Pandemic Movie
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After Newest AMPTP Meeting, WGA Says Offer is Being Evaluated
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Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Google's Pixel Fold Cost the Same, but They're Very Different Devices
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Folding phones haven’t replaced the standard smartphone, but the summer of foldables heated up when Samsung announced the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The fifth-generation folding device is the more expensive of Samsung’s two [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and the more feature-filled. It’s essentially a package of everything Samsung wants you to…
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How to Download Maps on Your Phone to Travel Offline
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Even in this day and age, you can’t always guarantee a strong cellular connection to a mobile network everywhere you go, especially if you’re on vacation. That can cause a problem when you’re trying to make your way from A to B using your map app of choice. The solution is to download and cache sections of the map…
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NASA Spacecraft Will Reunite With Earth After 17 Years of Studying the Sun
For the past 17 years, a lone spacecraft has been following Earth’s tracks in its orbit around the Sun and capturing unprecedented views of our host star. Now, STEREO-A has finally caught up with its home planet, lapping us in our cosmic trail and meeting the Earth for a brief rendezvous.
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AI This Week: Zoom's Big TOS Disaster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hello! We are officially launching a THING. It’s going to be a weekly roundup about what’s happening in artificial intelligence and how it affects you.
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We're in for an 'Above Average' Atlantic Hurricane Season, NOAA Predicts
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The 5 Best VPNs for the Back to School 2023 Season
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Jurassic Park Celebrates Turning 30 by Stomping Into RealD 3D Theaters
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Blue Beetle Reactions Blast Low Expectations With Resounding Praise
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See the Flying Cities of Landscape With Invisible Hand
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OnePlus Claims Its New Screens Can Work Even in a Downpour
Modern smartphones have become incredibly water resistant, so much so that even foldables are boasting they can survive a 30-minute bath without crapping out. The one issue is that wet touchscreens are still a pain to control, and holding a phone out in the rain guarantees you’re not scrolling until you dry it off.…
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Elon Musk Wants to Brawl with Mark Zuckerberg in Ancient Rome
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Are you not entertained?! Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk’s will they/won’t they continues, and it appears that the long awaited fight between the two tech billionaires could take place in Italy.
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Judge Throws Bankman-Fried Back in Jail
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Once the lord of a multibillion-dollar crypto empire under the FTX brand name, Sam Bankman-Fried will now have to prepare himself for his upcoming trial from a cell. A New York federal judge revoked Bankman-Fried’s bail and sent the crypto wiz to jail Friday to await trial later this year.

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

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Zoom Backtracks on Training AI on Your Calls
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At Gen Con, Independent TTRPGs Got Their Spotlights Too
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Baldur's Gate 3 Has Taught Me D&D's Eldritch Blast Memes Were True
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See 17 Years of an Exoplanet’s Orbit in One Captivating GIF
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Beta Pictoris b is a young exoplanet about 12 times as massive as Jupiter, with an orbit nearly twice as long. Now, a timelapse video of the planet’s nearly 23-year orbit lets you see most of that journey in just ten seconds.
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Daryl Dixon Clip Teases The Walking Dead's Grim Take on Post-Apocalyptic France
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Rosario Dawson Talks Preparing For Ahsoka in This Star Wars Insider Excerpt
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Russia Launches Its First Moon Landing Mission in 47 Years
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Russia has successfully launched its Luna-25 mission to the Moon, which will attempt to land on the lunar south pole later this month. If it sticks the landing, Russia will become the first country to pull off a soft landing on the south polar region of the Moon.
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8 Things We Liked (and 2 We Didn't) About Hulu's Solar Opposites Season 4
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Get a Peek at Landscape With Invisible Hand's Surreal Sci-Fi Setting
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American Suicides Reached All-Time High Last Year, CDC Data Shows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Suicides have risen in the United States for the second straight year, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. In 2022, there were nearly 50,000 estimated deaths attributed to suicide in the U.S. An increase in suicide was found across most demographics, but numbers did decline for Native…
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Supermarket AI Offers Recipe for Mom's Famous Mustard Gas
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Betty Crocker never had the chance to release her down-home recipe for mustard gas, but modern generative AI is making up for lost time, helping to put the “die” in “diet.”
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Sorry, Chief, Microsoft Cortana Is Finally Dead
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You can now visit the gravestone of Microsoft’s virtual assistant app Cortana in the growing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The company ended support for the Bing search-based voice control engine on Windows to help make room for its continuing AI-ization of Bing and its bevy of other digital products and services.
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Olivia Rodrigo Unveils Instagram's New Musical Carousel Feature
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Capitalism may breed innovation, but Instagram is no stranger to ripping off TikTok. The social network’s newest feature is a rotating carousel of images set to music, delightfully similar to TikTok’s own.

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

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California Lets Self-Driving Taxis Loose In San Francisco All Day and Night
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nascent robotaxi services Waymo and Cruise are going to be out in force on the Streets of San Francisco like rambunctious, autonomous, teenaged hooligans after a state public utilities body granted the companies license to drive out at all hours of the day and night, even without a safety driver behind the wheel.
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Check Out This Year's Harvey Award Nominees
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The year 2023 marks the 35th anniversary of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]s, one of the most [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and a celebration of the myriad forms they’ve inspired across the world and across mediums. To mark the occasion, io9 has teamed up with the organization to lift the lid on this year’s nominees, ahead of the…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The ongoing fires in Hawaii that have burned homes, trees, and historic sites to the ground have killed over 50 people as of Friday, according to officials. The reported death toll this Wednesday was 6 people, but yesterday [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and as of today the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] dead due to the fires. Officials…
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GM's New $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ Won't Have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Bad news for iPhone and Android users looking to snag a luxury car. GM just confirmed that Cadillac’s upcoming Escalade IQ—which boasts a hefty price tag of $130,000—will not have CarPlay or Android Auto support.
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Twitter's CEO Makes New Excuses for Musk's Dumb 'X' Rebranding
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitter—the site that owner Elon Musk has desperately tried to convince users is now “X”—has a CEO, but based merely off public pronouncements, you’d still think the billionaire tech mogul is still its head. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] back in June, but since then we’ve…
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There's Never Been a Better Time to Build Up Your Pathfinder Tales Library
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Looks Like the Situation Around Wonder Woman 3 Is Getting Even Weirder
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How to Play Lorcana, Plus a Few Starting Tips and a First Impression
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Disney’s trading card game [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] experienced a fan frenzy at last week’s Gen Con—something that publishers Ravensburger were really not expecting. Drawing overnight lines and selling out of product every day, Lorcana was the game that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was talking about. Some folks were in…
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Key to Europe's Space Ambitions, Ariane 6 Rocket Delayed to 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The highly anticipated debut of the Ariane 6 rocket will not happen this year as the European Space Agency (ESA) grapples with getting its heavy-lift launch vehicle off the ground.
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Assembling the Blue Beetle Cast | io9 Interview
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Woman Taking Supplements for Infertility Gets Lead Poisoning Instead
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A Canadian woman’s attempt to treat her infertility went drastically wrong, her doctors say. In a new case report this week, they detail how she developed lead poisoning from taking supplements filled with the toxic metal. The woman’s symptoms were successfully treated. This discovery prompted authorities to seize…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a previously recorded appearance on Josh Horowitz’s podcast Happy Sad Confused promoting Gran Tourismo, the film’s star David Harbour discussed the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] finale and joining James Gunn’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Both projects are currently being paused as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue as…
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What’s Next for Blue Beetle in the DC Universe? | io9 Interview
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The State of the Star Wars Galaxy Coming Into Ahsoka
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Pentagon Launches Study on How to Start an Economy on the Moon in the Next 10 Years
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How birth/rebirth Explores the Joys and Horrors of Motherhood
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What Did the Actors Bring to Their Back to the Future: The Musical Performances? | io9 Interview
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Samsung's Freestyle Gen 2 Lets You Play Cloud Games on Your Ceiling
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s no better way to play video games than lying down. That can be hard to do when the TV is situated straight ahead. But with Samsung’s new Freestyle Gen 2 projector, you can lay on your back and indulge in your favorite cozy game projected on the ceiling above.

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

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

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

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

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Sparked an Exodus of Climate Voices, Researchers Find
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Accounts that used to regularly engage and tweet about climate-related issues have been dropping like flies on Twitter, less than a year after Elon Musk’s purchase of the company. A report published in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] this week found that almost 50% of over 300,000 “environmentally oriented”…
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Amazon Now Punishes Merchants Who Ship Their Own Products
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Third-party merchants on Amazon who ship their own packages will see an additional fee for each product sold starting on Oct. 1st. Sellers could previously choose to ship their products without contributing to Amazon, but the new feemeans members of Amazon’s Seller Fulfilled Prime program will be required to pay the…
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NYC Bans TikTok on City Devices
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Big Apple is joining the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. New York City issued a new directive on Wednesday banning TikTok from city-owned devices and forcing local agencies to remove the app from its phones and tablets within 30 days. Starting today, anyone using a city-owned device or network is prohibited from downloading …
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Coraline Just Made a Box Office Killing, 14 Years Later
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Coraline, the 2009 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by The Nightmare Before Christmas directorHenry Selick, was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from the instant it was released. It had [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], critical acclaim, award recognition, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. What [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] though was the film’s staying power, which was…
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Space Force Forms New Intelligence Unit to Target Enemy Satellites
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has launched a unit dedicated to warding off threats from other countries in space.
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Self-Driving Car in San Francisco Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Self-driving cars are one of the funniest broken promises of the modern age. Far are we from the fantasy of The Jetsons and Total Recall, self-driving vehicles may be some of the dumbest creatures to roll across planet Earth. One such car found itself stuck in wet cement while cruising through San Francisco on Tuesday.
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AP Shares Guidelines Prohibiting Staff From Using AI to Write Publishable Content
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Associated Press is putting its foot down on journalists using any kind of AI program to write articles, though that isn’t stopping the company itself from making a quick buck in exchange for training generative AI on older AP content.
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Ahsoka Tano Is Star Wars' Biggest Paradox
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Star Wars is a franchise with a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but all of them all feel rooted in a particular place in time. You can feel that the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Han Solo are products of the late 1970s to some degree or another. Similarly, you can see that someone like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or Mace Windu is born out of the late 2010s…
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8BitDo’s Latest Tiny Controller Weighs Less Than a Single AA Battery
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What is this, a game controller for ants? The company that brought you [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] now has a controller so compact it seems purpose-built for getting lost between the couch cushions.
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HBO's The Last of Us Might Have Its Abby, But They're Not Talking Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As we all know, with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA currently on strike, the production of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has been put on pause. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is The Last of Us, the hit HBO adaptation of the PlayStation game which was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Co-showrunner Craig Mazin said that before the…
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NYU Professor Locked Out of Twitter After Reportedly Declining to Meet With Elon Musk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New York University professor and Kara Swisher’s podcasting buddy Scott Galloway voiced his outrage at being banned from posting on Twitter in a Threads post on Tuesday. Galloway claims he’s been locked out of Twitter ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) two days after allegedly declining an invitation to meet with the chief Twit himself.
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The Wheel of Time Spins Toward Season 2 With New Character Posters
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Unique Triassic Reptile Had Slenderman Claws and a Beak
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought.
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Twitter 'Nickel and Dimed' Feds for Trump's Personal Data
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Newly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] following a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] accusing Donald Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 elections show the lengths Twitter lawyers went to try and notify the former president of the government’s inquiry and delay investigators from obtaining detailed information from the former president’s…
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Blue Beetle Sets the Bar for DC's New Movie Era
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This week, DC Studios starts anew with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], officially kicking off the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in earnest with the studio’s strongest film in quite a while.
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Barbie Is Closer to Digital This September
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Genetic Analysis of ‘Ötzi the Iceman’ Reveals Ancient Mummy’s Ancestry
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Essential Back to School Gear Guide for Pop Culture Fans
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]School is back in session and if there’s still fandom gear to check off your shopping list, io9 has you covered.
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Barbie's Breakout Hit Song Gets Hilarious Behind-the-Scenes Video
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Barbie [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but what were they like to film? Well, a new video has surfaced thanks to Atlantic Records answering that question and more. It’s a full music video for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] chart-topping bop “I’m Just Ken” by Ryan Gosling, but it’s filled with behind-…
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Baldur's Gate 3 Characters Sheets for D&D Let You Put Your D&D in Your D&D While You D&D
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Been playing a lot of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and found yourself thinking “god, I love all of these Dungeons & Dragons characters in this Dungeons & Dragons video game. What if I [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Dungeons & Dragons?” Well, the good news is that Wizards of the Coast and Larian have made that even more absurdly easy than…
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The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]US government regulators reportedly tried to come to an agreement with TikTok to prevent banning the app that would have granted the federal government vast powers over the app. That’s according to a draft of a deal between TikTok and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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Google’s Pixel 8 Could Eliminate the SIM Slot, Just Like the iPhone
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How Many People Does It Take to Start a Colony on Mars?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It might only take 22 people to establish a colony on Mars, though that small group of cosmic inhabitants should have agreeable personality types to survive on the Red Planet, according to new research.
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Godfather NFTs Weren’t Enough to Prevent Recur From Sleeping With the Fishes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Even with the inclusion of collectibles from the Nickelodeon, Paramount, and Hello Kitty back catalogs, the NFT platform Recur is calling it quits after several years of pumping the internet full of monetized images of The Godfather’s similarly ineffective Fredo.
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This New Ahsoka Clip Finally Brings the Chopper Chaos
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Here’s What the WGA Has to Say About the Big 3 Streaming Monopolies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has released a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the big three streaming services, outlining exactly how far each one has gone to preserve and maintain their monopoly in the space. The three companies at the heart of the report are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Amazon, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. All three of these streaming services…
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850 People Remain Missing in Maui After Devastating Wildfires
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Montana Compares TikTok to 'Cancer-Causing Radio' in Defense of State's Ban
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Webb Space Telescope Drops Two Spellbinding Shots of the Ring Nebula
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Ring Nebula with its two primary imagers, revealing the gaseous formation in never-before-seen detail.
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'Benefits of Slavery:' Google's AI Search Gives Ridiculous and Wrong Answers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google’s experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google gave cooking tips for Amanita ocreata, a poisonous mushroom known as the “angel of death.” The…
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Elon Musk's X is Testing User Verification That Requires Government ID
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]X (the social media site [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial. The feature, which is currently only offered to/forced on premium [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], asks users to fork over a selfie and a picture of a government issued ID to…
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Movie Theaters Are Charging Only $4 Per Ticket This Sunday
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Creepshow Season 4 Promises Generous Portions of Ghosts, Ghouls, and Gore
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
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The smartphone audience is so wide that it’s difficult to settle on just one best phone of 2023. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there are the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best…
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YouTube Says Its Music AI Incubator Will 'Protect' Artists
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Samsung Tries to Entice iPhone Users With Fake Foldable Experience
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With Samsung pouring its marketing money into its latest foldable phones, the company is trying to snatch up potential iPhone 15 customers by showing them all the fun and weirdness of using two screens, so long as they have an additional iPhone on hand and they’re easily distracted by playing a dull game of air hockey.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The point of BeReal is simple: Keep your circle tight. The app where most accounts are private and users can only post once a day is unveiling a new Friends of Friends feature that allows users to explore what people they kinda know are up to.
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See How Tropical Storm Hilary Flooded Southern California
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tropical storm Hilary swept over Baja California and up into Southern California this weekend, flooding roads and felling trees. This is the first tropical storm to hit the state in over 80 years, the Associated Press [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Hubble Space Telescope Snaps Galaxy Cluster That Could Hold Secrets of Dark Matter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Hubble Space Telescope is no spring chicken, having operated in space for over 30 years. But the veteran observatory soldiers on. It recently imaged a massive galaxy cluster that could hold secrets about both dark and ordinary matter.
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Easter Eggs in Blue Beetle | io9 Interview
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Wandavision, Loki, and The Mandalorian Will All Get Physical Home Releases
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the streaming era devolves into a wave of cutbacks, consolidation, and the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the sake of tax breaks, it’s become more important than ever that physical releases of streaming original media offers a legal path to people still being able to actually access that content. Thankfully,…
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Russia's Long-Awaited Return to the Moon Crashes and Burns
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Luna-25 mission crashed on the surface of the Moon this weekend, ending Russia’s quest to prove it still has what it takes to land on the lunar surface.
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David Tennant Teases How Different His Return to Doctor Who Is
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Could a fifth Thor movie really be on the way? Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is getting ready to celebrate Life Day. Al Gore strikes back in new Futurama pics. Plus, what’s coming on Riverdale’s final episode. To me, my spoilers!
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Tesla Says Massive Data Breach Was an Inside Job
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tesla’s data breach in May, which affected more than 75,000 people, was an inside job, the company said in a notice released to its customers on Friday. According to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], German news outlet Handelsblatt informed Tesla of the breach on May 10 after obtaining the confidential information.
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Charles Martinet, Longtime Voice Actor for Mario and Luigi, Retires
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nintendo has announced on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] formerly known as Twitter, that Charles Martinet, who has been the video game voice actor for Mario since 1991, is retiring. He will be stepping into a “new role” of Mario Ambassador.
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Threads Is Finally Getting a Web Browser
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the cold war between Elon Musk’s Twitter (recently rebranded as X) and Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads rages on, the latter is preparing to launch a new offensive. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced that Threads was finally getting a bona fide browser version.
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Apple Is Already Working on Chips for iPhone 15's Successors
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Are you already entirely up to date with all the iPhone 15 rumors ahead of its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? Well, don’t let the impending release stop you from squinting at the product IDs for Apple’s processor series two years in advance.
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New One Piece Featurette Goes Behind the Seas With the Cast and Crew
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One Piece, a beloved, long-running manga [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that has been read and watched worldwide, is finally coming to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the original manga’s author/artist has been working alongside [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] throughout the production. A new featurette shows off some all new footage plus interviews with the cast and…
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‘I Was Shadowbanned:’ How Hinge's Algorithm Decides Who You Date
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last year, a friend came to me with a strange tech problem. “The algorithm is screwing me over,” he said, peering over a drink at a bar in Manhattan’s East Village. Anthony, a 31-year old engineer who asked to withhold his real name, had been on the dating app Hinge for five years. He said he always had a hard time…
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Looks Like the Website for Trump's Patriot Legal Defense Fund Just Got Hacked
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The website for former President Donald Trump’s legal defense fund appears to have been hacked and defaced over the weekend. As of the writing of this blog, the defacement is still live on the site and has not been taken down.
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Twitch Will Finally Let You Ban Users From Your Streams
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twitch is finally letting streamers block out those viewers they’ve already banned from chat. However, these bans won’t be based on any user identifier beyond accounts, so the various kinds of insufferable Twitch-holes who are dedicated enough could still find ways to watch.
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Taika Waititi Thinks Thor 5 Would Need a Truly Worthy Villain
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Every superhero movie is judged by how well their villain worked, and for the MCU, the success rate of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is up and down. Nowhere is this more apparent than with Thor’s movies: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Hela are pretty good villains, Malekith and the Dark Elves aren’t, and Gorr the God Butcher ultimately depends on how you…
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Open Channel: Tell Us What You Thought of Blue Beetle
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Warner Bros. has spent years announcing (and quietly canceling) DC movies of all different shades, which made it a bit of a surprise that a movie based on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] actually made it to release. DC films have been in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for nearly a decade now, and this movie was now different, having originally been…
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My Animal Finally Lets Werewolves Be Gay
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Studios Complain Strikes They Caused Are Hurting Their Movies' Box Offices
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Hollywood strikes have been going on for quite a while—specifically Day 38 for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and Day 111 for the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. During this time, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and writers haven’t been doing promo for any project they’re involved with that’s been released out into the world. It’s the price they’re willing to pay in order to get…
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Don't Think of Superman: Legacy as a "Young Superman" Film, Says James Gunn
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For our series on innovation, Gizmodo spoke to Olivia Grace, senior director of product management at Slack’s headquarters in San Francisco, about recent and upcoming changes to the…
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11 Cool Tricks You Can Do With the Google Search Box
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Getting Google to search the web for you is all well and good, but there’s a ton of functionality available through the simple-looking box on the world’s most-visited website. You could call these bonus features, or Easter eggs, or hidden tricks—but they’re all useful in your own way, and can be launched by heading to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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The Flash Finally Speeds Onto Max Next Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]First it seemed like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]would never come out, for a variety of reasons. Then when it did actually see the light of day, its time in theaters was...kind of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now, after [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and getting a surprise VOD drop in-mid July, the DC Comics movie is coming to Max about a week from now.
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Uber and Lyft Could Leave Minneapolis Over $0.51
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Uber and Lyft threatened to leave Minneapolis after the city council approved a minimum wage for drivers that would force the tech companies to pay drivers $1.40 per mile and $0.51 per minute during rides. The ordinance, which passed the Council 7-5 on Thursday, could still be vetoed by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey,…
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Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed This Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don’t forget to check out our weekly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which will go into more detail on this same topic.

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The Nun's Bonnie Aarons is Taking Warner Bros. to Court
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Judge Rules Wholly AI-Created Art Can't Get Copyright Protections
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For those in the entertainment industry (and creative fields more generally), AI has been an extremely divisive topic. As various websites like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have decided to basically let art created by the controversial technology persist on their platforms—either freely or with specific guidelines—Hollywood [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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The Peripheral Canceled After Prime Video Undoes Season 2 Renewal
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Check Out These Winning Pics of Plants, Fungi, Whales, and Dinosaurs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The BMC Ecology and Evolution photo competition has come to an end, and the winners and runners-up cover a diverse sweep of the animal and fungal kingdoms.
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How to Export All Your Photos and Videos Out of Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Messenger
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You’ve probably got a ton of photos and videos in your social media and messaging apps at this point—pictures of sunsets posted to Instagram, pictures of the kids posted to family WhatsApp groups, and so on—but you might not necessarily have those pictures and videos saved anywhere else.
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