Lily Gladstone Has an Excellent Take on Ewoks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] star Lily Gladstone has made no secret of her love for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], especially the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The Golden Globe winner (and Oscar contender) told [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] she had a “strong desire to be an Ewok at age five”—that’s how deep the love is.
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Disney, Star Wars, Fox, Marvel, and Pixar Releases Debuting at Epcot's International Festival of the Arts
[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...] kicks off this weekend at Epcot, celebrating the rich fabric of Disney storytelling through the arts. The annual festival, a fan favorite, runs January 12 to February 19 at the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It features live Broadway music, art activations, creative curated…
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Here's Your First Look at the Freshly Painted X-59, NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Plane
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Commercial faster-than-sound travel over land doesn’t happen anymore—but in the U.S., it could soon, with the debut of a new experimental plane developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin. The X-59 aircraft is designed to test out sonic boom-less supersonic flight, producing only sonic ‘thumps’ as it speeds through the…
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China's Gravity-1 Rocket Dazzles in Landmark Sea Launch
Shandong-based Orienspace pulled off its first-ever launch, breaking the record for the largest payload capacity on a commercial rocket for China’s growing space industry.
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Hey Star Wars, Can We Get Movie and Show Titles That Aren't Just Character Names Again?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Did The Rise of Skywalker [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over just which Skywalker is rising, who a Skywalker is, and why they’re rising break some brains over at Lucasfilm? Almost every bit of Star Wars on the small screen we’ve gotten since (and planned for the big one) is a character title, named for an individual or the…
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10 Classic Sci-Fi Performances Snubbed by the Oscars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Oscar nominations will be announced later this month, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are all but guaranteed to be in the Best Actress race. Last year, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] swept three of the four acting categories. That suggests sci-fi and fantasy films, whose stars don’t always…
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CES 2024: All the News From Las Vegas
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Now that CES 2024 is done and gone. I think it’s safe to say that there was a lot of news out of Las Vegas this year. Thankfully, we’ve got all the important announcements listed below.
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Wegovy, Ozempic Seem to Be Less Dangerous Than Feared, FDA Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A popular class of weight loss and diabetes drugs looks to be safer than feared, at least so far. This week, the Food and Drug Administration announced it hasn’t found compelling evidence that Wegovy, Ozempic, and other GLP-1 drugs can cause suicidal thoughts or behaviors—a concern that first emerged last year. The…
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Annie Potts Is Finally a Full-Fledged Ghostbuster in New Frozen Empire Images
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Though we had mixed feelings about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], we suddenly have a new reason to be excited about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Along with a return to the New York City setting of the original films, it looks like one of the most-beloved original characters, Annie Potts’ Janine Melnitz, is finally…
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'No Evidence' of Elon Musk Drug Use at SpaceX, NASA Claims
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the face of drug use allegations that could jeopardize million dollar contracts, NASA has come to Elon Musk’s defense, as the space agency waits on a SpaceX lunar lander for its Artemis missions.
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Star Trek Is Quite Different in the World of For All Mankind
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a certain way, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] For All Mankind can be looked at as an unofficial precursor to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Both shows imagine an alternate reality where events in the past made it so technology and space travel continued to develop throughout our lifetimes. But while Star Trek starts in the future, on…
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Asus Cuts a Bare Few Millimeters Off Its Already Ultra-Thin ROG Zephyrus Laptops
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just how light can a light gaming laptop get? The Asus Republic of Gamers brand has marked the four-year anniversary of its first [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]by going back to the drawing board, all to shave off bare fractions of the total pounds and centimeters of its lightweight laptop brand. At this rate, the Zephyrus…
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Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked 2024 Will Hopefully Reveal the Galaxy S24's New AI Chatbot
Now that the dopamine of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has worn off, we need something else to carry us through the first month of the new year. Fortunately, we have Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked to look forward to, where the company will reveal what’s new with its next series of flagship smartphones. The Galaxy S24 and its device brethren…
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7 Things We Liked, and 3 We Didn't, About Marvel's Echo
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For the first time in its history, Marvel Studios went full binge [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]s, Echo. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] dropped simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu earlier this week, so by now, hopefully, you’ve had a chance to watch it.
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How to Watch NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Plane Roll Out of the Hangar
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s freshly painted X-59 aircraft will be rolled out of its hangar on Friday, January 12, in the lead-up to its first takeoff. The experimental plane, built by Lockheed Martin, is designed to develop a quieter type of supersonic flight.
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Varjo’s XR4 Shows There’s Still Room For High-End VR After the Apple Vision Pro
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There are some things about VR that remain as true today as they have for nearly the past decade, despite how much some companies want to rebrand the whole shebang. Varjo’s latest VR/AR headset, the $3,990 XR4, wants to prove that solid displays, controls, and comfort remain the cornerstone of the VR space.
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Here Are the Best, Coolest, and Weirdest Gadgets at CES 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was certainly interesting this year; while we did anticipate AI being inserted into everything from TVs to cars, there were some genuine surprises from the show floor here in Las Vegas. Despite going to what felt like a million press conferences and keynotes, the Gizmodo team did manage to find loads of cool,…
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Netflix Witcher's First Big Casting Post-Cavill Is Laurence Fishburne
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Netflix just confirmed that Laurence Fishburne has been cast to star in The Witcher season four. The Matrix and John Wick franchise star joins as Regis, a character introduced in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] novel [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] He’s described by Netflix’s announcment as “a world-wise Barber-surgeon with a mysterious past…
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HP's Portable Photobooth Is A Must-Have for Parties
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]HP has finally given us what we’ve wanted for so long. A photo booth that is 1) portable and 2) doesn’t make you spend a fortune trying to get good shots. The HP Sprocket Photobooth unveiled at CES 2024 could be the next cool thing if its quality-related promises are kept.
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Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair
[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...] continues to gain steam as another big tech company shows its support for letting people fix their own broken devices.
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It's Officially Morbin' Time at Hot Toys
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meet Dr. Michael Morbius, the 1/6 scale [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] figure that captures the vampiric essence of star [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Look at him, he looks prime for a 30 Seconds to Mars music video for a biochemist whose rare genetic disorder leads him to heal himself using vampire bat blood!
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Nvidia’s AI NPCs Fear Me, the Dreaded Ramen Bounty Hunter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The AI knows me as Kai, a bounty hunter in some vague cyberpunk city known as Kairos. Oh, but I am much more than that. I strolled into a ramen shop owned by the dull, affable Jin and patronized by the dull, professional Nova, and I weaved a yarn. I am not only a bounty hunter. I am a wizard bounty hunter and a member…
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The Last of Us Season 2 Casts Another Major Video Game Character
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Edge of Tomorrow 2 might finally happen, thanks to Tom Cruise’s major new Warner Bros. deal. David Gordon Green will no longer direct The Exorcist: Deceiver. Plus, Netflix returns to Eternia in a new trailer for He-Man: Revolution, and new footage from Godzilla x Kong. Spoilers now!
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Bottled Water Contains 100 Times More Plastic Particles Than Previousl
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In the Face of Doom, Lunar Lander's Instruments Spring to Life
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tragically, Astrobotic’s lander will not be able to pull off a soft landing on the lunar surface. However, Peregrine continues on its trajectory to the Moon, and as a small consolation, its onboard payloads have successfully powered on.
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A Star Wars Composer Walks Us Through Creating Music for a Galaxy Far, Far Away
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Taking over the mantle from John Williams can be an intimidating task for anyone stepping into the role of composer within the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. After all, Star Wars wouldn’t be Star Wars without its iconic themes. But for Ryan Shore, who’s recently composed for a number of legacy franchises including [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it…
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eBay Sent Critics a Bloody Pig Mask. Now It’s Paying a $3 Million Fine
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]eBay agreed to pay out a $3 million fine—the maximum criminal penalty—over a twisted scandal that saw [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Massachusetts who published a newsletter that criticized the company. The harassment campaign included online threats, sending employees to surveil the couple’s…
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Ultimate Spider-Man's Relaunch Heralds a New Age of Heroes
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] line launched 24 years ago, it wanted to bring Marvel’s heroes back to their roots, a modern world for modern titans to shape. In the last two and a half decades it lived, thrived, [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...]—but only now is Marvel taking the reigns on what [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] should be, in…
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Vintage Voyager Data Reveals Plasma Jets in Jupiter’s Magnetosphere
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There are jets in Jupiter’s magnetosheath, according to Voyager 2 mission data from 1979. The 45-year-old information is now revealing the dynamics of the plasma stream.
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Destroy All Neighbors Is a Diabolical Good Time
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There are plenty of cult horror movies that have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as a theme, with an emphasis on heavy metal; think [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare. But far fewer pay glory to progressive rock, a genre stuffed with complicated riffs and tempo changes that’s more polarizing than most. Destroy All…
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Rainbow-Colored Bird Escapes Zoo in Most Obvious Way Possible
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The U.K.’s Colchester Zoo is trying to bring home the least sneaky animal escapee possible: a rainbow lorikeet. The brightly colored bird made its daring getaway last weekend by simply hitching a ride onto a visitor as they were about to leave its enclosure.
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Chrome Users Now Worth 30% Less Money Thanks to Google's Cookie Killing, Ad Firm Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]One week ago today, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], amounting to just 1% of the 3 billion people who use the internet’s most popular browser. By the end of the year, Google will block these cookies entirely and replace them with a new tracking system that’s a bit more private called “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Google Assistant Is About to Lose a Ton of Features
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google Assistant is about to lose 17 different features that the company says are “underutilized.” The changes come as the tech giant is in the midst of firing large amounts of staff, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], according to CNBC.
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Kathleen Kennedy Masterpieces, Ranked
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’ll never understand how certain pockets of the internet [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Since Kennedy became the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in 2012, she’s been instrumental in bringing one of the most famous franchises in the world back to prominence [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Under Kennedy we finally got to see what…
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Landmark Research Reveals the Origins of Multiple Sclerosis
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]DNA from ancient humans is providing some vital clues about the emergence of multiple sclerosis and other devastating neurodegenerative conditions. In a series of new research papers out this week, scientists detail evidence that many genetic variants linked to MS first began to spread globally about 5,000 years ago,…
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Would Peter Capaldi Return to Doctor Who?
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NASA Finally Cracks Open the Asteroid Sample Container
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After months of fidgeting with a canister that contained rocky samples from an ancient asteroid, NASA engineers have finally removed two stubborn fasteners that appeared to be [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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This Vertical Turntable Ships With a Pair of Speakers
Turntables seem to be making a comeback, at least at CES: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] took a modern, Gen Z-friendly route with its recently released [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that connects via Bluetooth, and Fuse Audio displayed several gorgeous vertical record players at CES 2024. The star of the category at CES was Fuse Audio’s upcoming vertical…
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The First Trailer for Abigail Is All Killer, Ballerina Included
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]While we’ve long known [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was working on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—the rest was just rumors. Now, we’ve got a title and a trailer that, frankly, appears to give an awful lot away about its vampire kidnapping plot.
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Webb Telescope Finds What May Be a Glowing Aurora on a Failed Star
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Webb Space Telescope has spotted something weird: a brown dwarf with what appear to be aurorae, what we Earthlings sometimes call the Northern Lights. What makes the observation particularly surprising is that the brown dwarf doesn’t have a nearby star that could cause such an aurora.
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This 'Self-Eating' Rocket Consumes Its Own Body for Fuel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A new rocket is designed for its own destruction, eating itself as it makes its way through Earth’s atmosphere to power its journey.
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This Doctor Who Short Sends a Classic Companion to the Time War's Front Lines
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The announcement trailers for new entries in [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...] just keep getting more and more involved. At first, it was just a cute way to bring back [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...] or a short skit, but now they’ve gotten so big the latest gives us a whole new look at the final days of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Who Should Be the Villain of the Mandalorian Movie?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The announcement of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] this week raises a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] about just why this is the next chapter of the titular heroes’ tale. But one of the most interesting is when it’s coming. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] saw Din undo the machinations of his greatest foil on The Mandalorian, and the…
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Oldest Fossilized Skin Discovered, Clocks in at 300 Million Years Old
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Researchers believe they’ve found the oldest known fossilized skin, hidden away in a limestone cave system in Oklahoma. The skin sample dates to the early Permian Period, between 289 million years ago and 286 million years ago.
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You Up? SpaceX Sends First Text Message From Starlink Satellites
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]SpaceX used its Starlink satellites to send and receive a text message from low Earth orbit in an effort to expand its connectivity beyond the reach of traditional cell tower signals.
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Updates From Madame Web, The Last of Us, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Jason Momoa hypes up the chance he might play DC’s Lobo. Get a new look at Lionsgate’s creepy killer teddy bear movie Imaginary. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters showrunner Chris Black has high hopes the show will return for season 2. Plus, Netflix teases a new German sci-fi series. Spoilers get!
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These Failed Missions to the Moon Remind Us That Space Is Hard
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For millennia, our species looked at the Moon as a place that would forever be beyond our reach, but 20th-century technologies finally made our natural satellite accessible to probes, landers, and even human explorers. Despite these achievements, however, the Moon has furiously resisted our overtures, whether it be…
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Halo Season 2's New Trailer Brings the Fall of Reach to Life, and Death
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Few fans of the first season of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] would call it an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Microsoft’s legendary sci-fi video game series. But the series is picking itself up [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by taking on an iconic moment from the series’ battle for the fate of humanity: the infamous Fall of Reach.
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The R1 Is An Adorable AI-Powered Device That Brings All Your Phone Apps In One Place
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Jesse Lyu, founder and CEO of Rabbit, was bothered by how we have to open a different app each time we wish to get something done on our phones. So, he came up with a device that will manage all your apps for you. Think of it like a voice assistant but fairly more advanced.
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Auracast Enables Bluetooth Broadcasting That Could Save Your Sanity
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It would be nice to tune into the world without taking off my headphones. That’s the premise behind Auracast, a new broadcasting feature coming to Bluetooth. Not only can the headphones and earbuds you use now tap into the capability, but so can hearing aids. I got to try out the technology at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and I can…
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The Barbie Movie Begets Barbie Movie Dolls
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the year that [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...] movie is a major awards contender—with a script the director co-wrote, starring and produced by Margot Robbie, and an incredible ensemble of female talent—women in film are still a majorly marginalized group. Mattel, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], has come out with a new…
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Elon Musk's Robot Optimus Folded a Shirt But the Internet is Unclear o
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Silicon Valley is racing to create the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], with many tech companies [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] consumers that they’ll soon have their very own, live-in robo-helper to do the dishes, sweep the floor, and generally take care of all the annoying housework that you don’t want to do. However, the…
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Our Flag Means Death Might Still Set Sail Beyond Max
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The news that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was a devastating way to kick off the new year, and it galvanized [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to launch [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to try and save [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. In a new interview, HBO and Max boss [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] said that while the show won’t…
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Godzilla Minus One's Director Is Having the Fashionable Time of His Life This Awards Season
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Let’s give it up for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], whose red carpet appearances have featured [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in fashionably iconic ways. Yamazaki has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to showcase his chonky [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] action figure, who’s currently having his own awards season adventures.
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She-Hulk Season 2 Seems Unlikely, According to Tatiana Maslany
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AI Algorithms Can Be Converted Into 'Sleeper Cell' Backdoors, Research Shows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]While AI tools offer new capabilities for web users and companies, they also have the potential to make certain forms of cybercrime and malicious activity [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and powerful. Case in point: Last week, new research was published that shows large language models can actually be converted into malicious…
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The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Don’t ring the funeral bells just yet, but the self-checkout kiosk horror show could be nearing its end. So far, the grand experiment in robot cashiers is an abject failure. Stores across the country are reversing course on the machines, and consensus is growing among analysts and insiders that self-checkout has been…
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Chad Stahelski Is Here to Keep John Wick's Future Going
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Things were looking a little dicey for Keanu Reeves’ John Wick at the end of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but fear not: the John Wick extended universe still has stories to tell, thanks to John Wick director [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s deal with Lionsgate to be the architect of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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See a Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Octopus and Its Adorable Alien Children
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A team of scientists working off the coast of Costa Rica have identified four previously unknown deep-sea octopus species in the vicinity of hydrothermal springs on the ocean floor. They also discovered two octopus nurseries affiliated with the springs, both of which belong to the newly christened dorado octopus. The…
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There's Been a Staggering Increase in People Killed by Fungi Every Year, Study Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The global burden and death toll of fungi has substantially climbed over the past decade, new research finds. The study estimates that fungal infections help kill nearly 4 million people annually—almost double the amount estimated by similar research in 2012. Co-infections like HIV and tuberculosis, a lack of speedy…
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Elon Threatens to 'Build Products Outside of Tesla' Unless He Gets More Control of the Company
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk threatened to abandon some of Tesla’s most important work on Monday in an ongoing battle over how much he gets paid. The billionaire tweeted that he’s “uncomfortable” working on AI and robotics projects at the company unless he gains more control of its stock. Musk, who owns about a 13% share in the company,…
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Here's All the Genre Shows Snubbed at the Emmys Last Night
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Well, the nominations were certainly promising, at least. This year’s Emmy Awards—finally handed out last night after a strike-related delay—had the potential to recognize fandom favorites like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Andor, and Hulu movie [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. In the end, sci-fi, horror, and fantasy didn’t exactly score big—but…
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Amazing Portable PlayStation 5 Hack Proves Sony Could Make a Real Vita Sequel
Do you want a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? How about one that’s so thin it could easily slide into your backpack’s laptop sleeve? That’s what one DIYer managed to do with his base PS5, again showing up Sony, which still lags behind in the burgeoning, ultra-mobile handheld console market.
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No, Rey's Star Wars Movie Hasn't Been Delayed
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Propellant Dump Gone Wrong Caused Recent Starship Explosion, Musk Says
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk recently revealed that the explosion of the Starship’s upper stage this past November during its second test flight was caused by a propellant dump gone wrong. Despite this setback, the incident will not impact the megarocket’s upcoming scheduled flight in February, according to the SpaceX CEO.
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Magic: The Gathering's Next Set Whips Up a Magical Murder Mystery
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Peregrine Lander Headed for Fiery Earth Reentry After Failing to Reach the Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Peregrine lunar lander is coming back home to die. Astrobotic’s shiny gold spacecraft is on a trajectory towards Earth, where it is expected to burn up in the planet’s atmosphere to conclude its tragic demise.
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These Were the Best, Cutest, Most Obscene Bots of CES 2024
No, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or turning you into a battery any time soon, and the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], at least not from what we saw at CES 2024. There were certainly advancements, and if what we saw at this year’s biggest tech showcase is any indication, bipedal legs are long gone, and balls…
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Apple Ditches Blood Oxygen Feature on Its Watches to Escape Import Ban
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Adam Sandler Gets Marriage Advice From an Ancient Space Spider in Spaceman's New Trailer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Adam Sandler’s next movie for Netflix takes him to space for what at first seems like, as far as space movies go, a down-to-earth exploration of the pressures long-term extraplanetary missions can put on even the most intrepid explorers. Then the Paul Dano spider shows up, and things only get more intense from there.
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Neve Campbell Has No Idea What's Happening With Scream Right Now
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]James Gunn teases the team of his Creature Commandos DC movie. Mortal Kombat 2 teases the arrival of another big villain. Matt Smith tells us just when to expect House of the Dragon season 2. Plus, Jon Bernthal teases what he wants out of the return of the Punisher. To me, my spoilers!
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Here's Your First Look at the Freshly Painted X-59, NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Plane
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Commercial faster-than-sound travel over land doesn’t happen anymore—but in the U.S., it could soon, with the debut of a new experimental plane developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin. The X-59 aircraft is designed to test out sonic boom-less supersonic flight, producing only sonic ‘thumps’ as it speeds through the…
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How To Use Your Android Phone or iPhone as a Webcam
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Smartphones can take on the roles of many other gadgets—cameras, calculators, e-readers, dictaphones, and all the rest—and they can also do double duty as webcams. In fact, this functionality is now built into both Android and iOS, so it’s easier than ever to use a phone as a webcam when it’s connected to your…
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You'll Soon Have to Pay $20 a Month to Access Microsoft Copilot's Cool
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]My colleague Maxwell Zeff once [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Microsoft Copilot as “if Clippy went to get his MBA.” Microsoft just announced a new premium subscription to its Copilot AI, which can be analogous to Clippy getting a PhD.
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BoxLunch Celebrates Cartoon Network's 2000s Era With New Merch
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The Worst Times Starfleet Got Its Ass Handed to It
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Not every conflict goes the way of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—Pyrrhic victories, momentary defeats, escapes from scrapes that leave them bloody-nosed. But every once in a while we get to see, over the years, moments where the technological and strategic might of Starfleet [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: highlighting just how dire the…
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16 Awesome-Sounding Genre Films Coming to Sundance 2024
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Trend of the Week: Tech Gets Horny at CES
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10 Essential Giallo Movies to Watch on Shudder to Understand True Horror
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A Robot George Carlin Standup Special is the Dumbest AI Stunt of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Someday we’ll move past the point where you can spend half an hour pumping out an AI video and generate headlines. Sadly, we’re not there yet. The latest piece of refuse from the AI hype machine comes in the form of an unauthorized, “AI-generated” George Carlin comedy special—one that practically no one, not even…
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: You Don’t Have to Play Chess to Be the Queen
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position eight queens on an eight-by-eight board such that no two queens attack each other. The eight queens puzzle requires a…
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Robert Downey Jr. Wishes His MCU Work Got More Real Recognition
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Fear Street's Next Movie is Going to Prom
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Godzilla Minus One Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger in the US
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Noah Hawley's Alien Show Plans to Keep Things Simple
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For the last few years now, all we’ve really known of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] upcoming Alien show is exactly that, and that it’ll be more about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the horror franchise. As a prequel, it’s got its work cut out for it, since it has to explain things, an issue the series has previously run into before with Promet…
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Daredevil's New Show May Reunite Its Original Trio
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The upcoming [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] series may have been fully reborn on a casting level. Along with leading man Charlie Cox, both [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] may be set to reprise their respective roles as his friends/coworkers, Karen Page and Foggy Nelson.
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Quantum Leap's Ready to Jump Back to Your TV
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a full month since NBC’s pretty solid [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] went on a midseason break to account for the holidays. But it won’t be too long a wait before the show returns: per [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the remaining episodes of season two will begin airing on Tuesday, January 30.
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Sony's El Muerto Movie Should Exist This Weekend
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Universal's Doing Its Monsters the Right Way
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just before the weekend, Universal finally pulled back the curtain on its cryptic horror movie from filmmaking duo [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The resulting film is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which sees [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Dan Stevens headline a team of kidnappers who snatch up a kid to hold her for ransom. The twist? The titular Abigail, played by…
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The Mandalorian's Cinematic Prospects May Not Just Be One-Offs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier in the week, Disney surprisingly revealed [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] will be headlining two films. Along with Dave Filoni’s New Republic-era movie still potentially called [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the Mandalorian will star in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which sees father and son go on a big-screen adventure.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bride of Frankenstein Movie is Aliiiiiiive! With a Stacked Cast
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Elon Musk Drug Rumors, Apple Pays Some iPhone Users $92, and More Tech News
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All the Shocking Star Wars News of the Week, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Lucasfilm decided to drop a bomb this week with the shocking reveal of a remixed movie slate: now headlined by a Mandalorian movie, the first Star Wars film to enter production since The Rise of Skywalker. But that wasn’t all in the galaxy far far away: Ahsoka’s back! Luke and Padmé finally met, sort of! There’s all…
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Peregrine Moon Mission Runs Into Disaster, and More Top Science News o
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Failure in space dominated our headlines this week, with Astrobotic’s uncrewed lunar lander mission Peregrine-1 experiencing critical issues shortly after leaving Earth. Back on the ground, though, NASA finally—after months of trying—succeeded in opening the container filled with samples plucked from the asteroid…
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CES 2024's Best Booths Were Secretive, Massive, and Totally Strange
CES is no stranger to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but this year’s convention might take the cake (in one case, quite literally). The Consumer Technology Association, the group that runs the event every year, was hoping to have 130,000 attendees strolling around Vegas in search of the latest and greatest the…
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Footprints of Lost Cities Found in the Amazon Rainforest
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Laser technology is continuing to prove its worth in the Amazon: A team of archaeologists in Ecuador just used the tech to discover thousands of earthen mounds hidden under the forest’s canopy.
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Congress: Maybe We Shouldn't Let AI Destroy the News Media
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Disney, Star Wars, Fox, Marvel, and Pixar Releases Debuting at Epcot's International Festival of the Arts
[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...] kicks off this weekend at Epcot, celebrating the rich fabric of Disney storytelling through the arts. The annual festival, a fan favorite, runs January 12 to February 19 at the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It features live Broadway music, art activations, creative curated…
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China's Gravity-1 Rocket Dazzles in Landmark Sea Launch
Shandong-based Orienspace pulled off its first-ever launch, breaking the record for the largest payload capacity on a commercial rocket for China’s growing space industry.
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Hey Star Wars, Can We Get Movie and Show Titles That Aren't Just Character Names Again?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Did The Rise of Skywalker [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over just which Skywalker is rising, who a Skywalker is, and why they’re rising break some brains over at Lucasfilm? Almost every bit of Star Wars on the small screen we’ve gotten since (and planned for the big one) is a character title, named for an individual or the…
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10 Classic Sci-Fi Performances Snubbed by the Oscars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Oscar nominations will be announced later this month, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are all but guaranteed to be in the Best Actress race. Last year, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] swept three of the four acting categories. That suggests sci-fi and fantasy films, whose stars don’t always…
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Greg Nicotero is Bringing Horror Novel Swan Song to TV Life
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Longtime horror alum [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], of The Walking Dead and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] fame, has found his next project to tackle: a TV adaptation of Robert McCammon’s Swan Song.
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Boulders Covered in Weird Dust Found on the Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Scientists scrutinizing the fine dust covering the Moon have identified a handful of boulders on the lunar surface that they believe may be covered with uniquely magnetized dust.
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Deep Sea ROV Encounters Unknown Octopus Species and More Science News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meet the dorado octopus, a newly described deep sea cephalopod with some seriously alien features. A remotely operated vehicle took incredible images of this species and its habitat, including just-hatched babies and a field brooding females. Click through for our top science stories from this week.
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Andor's Verada Sethu Will Be Doctor Who's Next Companion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] just beginning his tenure on Doctor Who, his newest companion Ruby Sunday ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) won’t be along for his full ride. Per [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Gibson will be on the show after a single season, after which she’ll be succeeded by Verada Sethu, last seen as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over on Andor.
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Wait, Madame Web Is a Period Piece?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ever since Sony revealed it was working on a solo movie for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], folks have had questions. Why her? How is this going to connect to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is swinging around now?
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Tron: Ares is Finally Wheeling Into Production
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Now that we’re a few weeks into 2024 and the Hollywood strikes are in the rearview, the upcoming [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has just started filming.
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These Bizarre New Musical Instruments Are Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen... or Heard
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For the past 26 years, the Guthman Competition at Georgia Tech’s Department of Music has introduced the world to strange and innovative instruments. The contest welcomes inventors from all over the world to build and explore the future of music, and together, they’ve produced some truly weird and exciting sound…
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Rey Movie Rumor Debunking, Crazy Kong Rides, and More of the Top Stories of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]2024 is barely a few weeks old and already the future of Star Wars is driving people mad with speculation and rumormongering. io9 got you the scoop of the week with what’s really up with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daisy Ridley’s Rey movie, but here’s the rest of our big hits you may have missed—James Whitbrook
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Self-Checkout on the Outs, Google Search Kind of Sucks, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tech is having a moment where everyone is wondering if it’s all that great. AI is the hot trend right now, but Big Tech [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]g that hasn’t really been shown to make your life easier. Don’t worry though, the Silicon Valley billionaires are planning their own [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but you’re not invited.…
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The Samsung Galaxy S24 Bets Big on AI, Apple Watch Ban Saga, and More
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Boeing's Latest Problem: A Cargo Plane's Exploding Engine
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Boeing, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, has been in the news a lot lately but not in a good way. Safety incidents involving the company’s planes keep cropping up and this week brought yet another example of that unfortunate trend. On Thursday, an Atlas Air 747 cargo plane [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Hazbin Hotel's Creator on the Inspirations Behind Her Cult-Beloved Series
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] made a dark darling out of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and its popularity inspired a legion of fans to raise a little hell so it could get picked up to series. It’s now a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] animated (and very adult) musical comedy, and io9 got a chance to talk with creator Vivienne Medrano…
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DeepMind Co-Founder: AI Is Fundamentally a "Labor Replacing Tool"
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OpenAI, Microsoft’s Partnership May Be Killed Off Before the Dawn of AGI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]OpenAI’s mission is to develop a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but it might never get there without the help of Microsoft. U.S. regulators are reportedly clamoring over who can investigate OpenAI and Microsoft’s relationship over antitrust concerns, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Friday. If the partnership is broken up,…
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Godzilla Minus One Director's Great Week Continues With Lucasfilm Visit
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If I ever happened to direct a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that also happened to become a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of international kaiju cinema along the way, I would personally be pretty content. But I’m very glad that Takashi Yamazaki, who did exactly that with Godzilla Minus One, is going beyond that and just…
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Alex Winter on His Character in Destroy All Neighbors
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Google Sheds Responsibility for AI Sites Dominating Search Results
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Samsung's Galaxy S24 Can Remove Its Own AI Watermarks Meant to Show an Image Is Fake
[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...] is all in on AI, so much so that the phone maker made a big deal about how its new AI watermark is meant to dissuade users from spreading AI-altered or purely faked images online. The problem is that the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] boasts so many AI capabilities that a simple Magic Eraser-like tool can remove that…
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Astrobotic Feared 'Catastrophic Situation' If It Didn't Destroy Peregrine Lunar Lander
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Astrobotic bid farewell to its Peregrine lunar lander on Thursday as the spacecraft plunged through Earth’s atmosphere, thereby preventing the failed mission from colliding into other spacecraft.
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Pedro Pascal Still Doesn't Know How Much Last of Us Season 2 Will Change From the Game
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Even before The Last of Us became one of HBO’s biggest hits in recent memory, fans of the source material [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: would a potential second season [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? It seems like an obvious question with an obvious answer... unless you know the story’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Once you…
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I Can't Help but Admire the Trash-Stealing Parrots of Australia
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome to the first installment of Gizmodo’s Animal Crime of the Week, a regular exploration of animals and their bad behavior (but hey, it’s only natural). And what better place to start than by highlighting an animal crime ring so notorious that it’s now being intensively studied by scientists? Meet the…
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The Rabbit R1 Seems Cool, But What The Hell Is It?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Since [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], we have seen this adorable little bright orange (Leuchtorange, to be exact) device everywhere. Despite all the hype, many are still confused about what it is, who it’s for, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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How to Survive a Horror Movie Prom in 10 Easy Steps
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After finding success with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], taking on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s 1992 YA release The Prom Queen. The book’s plot and setting evoke one of horror’s favorite traditions: turning high-school dances into bloodbaths.
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What Happens When the Funko Pops Are Decimated?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Once upon a time, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It was the summer of 2016 and I was hanging out with friends [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. A few drinks in, we’re joking around and my friend Mike said to me, in an odd, cheeky way I didn’t quite understand—almost like he didn’t want to mention it but the booze…
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Fate of Japan's History-Making ‘Lunar Sniper’ in Doubt After Power Malfunction
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Japan’s SLIM is on the Moon and sending data to Earth, in what is a monumental achievement for Japan—it’s now the fifth country to accomplish the feat. The successful soft landing notwithstanding, the situation looks grim; officials with Japanese space agency JAXA say the lander’s solar cell is not generating…
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This $300 Heated Jacket Left Me Shivering but Cleaned My Glasses Perfectly
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UC Irvine Students Hospitalized After Hackers Sent Disgusting Images to Their Discord Server
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Watch Live as Japan Faces '20 Minutes of Terror' in Its Quest for a Pinpoint Moon Landing
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Ryan Coogler's Top Secret New Movie Could Team Michael B. Jordan With Vampires
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Texas Is Considering a Controversial Land Swap Deal With SpaceX
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In April 2023, SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off for the first time, sending chunks of debris thousands of feet across the South Texas landscape and sparking a fire in a nearby state park. It was an environmental nightmare; the launchpad is surrounded by a wildlife habitat that’s home to endangered species.…
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A 'Cookie Pledge' Claims It'll Free You From All Those Annoying Cookie Popups
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Just How Bad Was Star Trek's Most Devastating Battle?
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Here Are All the Apps You Will and Won’t Get on the Vision Pro
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Ozempic, Wellbutrin, and Hundreds of Other Drugs Just Got More Expensive
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Another year, another round of inscrutable price increases for many prescription drugs. Over 700 medicines are seeing their list prices shoot up this January, according to an analysis by the organization 46brooklyn Research. The average price increase is slightly below the trend of recent years, but includes popular…
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Updates From Scream 7, Madame Web, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Christopher Landon next film after exiting Scream 7 is a werewolf horror. Get a look at Slimer’s return in Ghostbusters: The Frozen Empire. Schmigadoon is no more. Plus, Clone High returns for round two of its revival. To me, my spoilers!
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Pornhub Has a New Kink: Consent
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A Year After the Toxic Train Derailment, Is East Palestine Safe?
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Surreal Photos Show Exactly Where the Earth Shifted During Turkey’s Devastating 2023 Earthquake
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This HP Instant Photo Printer Really Improved My Room Decor
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Meet the Disney Imagineer Behind the VR Breakthough That Is the 'HoloTile'
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DC Is Already Preparing For Its Heroes' Public Domain Era
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The arrival of Steamboat Willie—and with it, the first steps of Mickey Mouse himself—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at the start of 2024 has been a milestone that, in just under three weeks, already seen a bevy of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and a look ahead to what other stalwarts of culture will join him next. At Warner Bros., just as…
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Disney World's Massive Arts Festival Knows Its Fandom Best
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Tech Billionaires Release Map of Utopian City They Want to Build in California
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The Indiana Jones Game's First Trailer Lets You Whip the Hell Outta Some Nazis
We’ve watched [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] stories over the years but we’ve very rarely been able to put on the fedora ourselves. That changes later this year with the release of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for Xbox.
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Woman Sues Panera Over Its Charged Lemonade, Saying She Suffered Heart Injury
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Panera Bread and its Charged Lemonade are once again headed to court. This week, a Rhode Island woman filed a lawsuit alleging that the highly caffeinated beverage caused her to develop long-term heart problems. The suit follows two wrongful death claims brought against the chain eatery last year by families of the…
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Thankfully, Game of Thrones' Creators Are in No Hurry to Return to Game of Thrones
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The DCEU Ends All Over Again When Aquaman 2 Heads Home This Month
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Mystery Object in Deep Space Is Confounding Astronomers
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an itsy-bitsy black hole, but they’re not sure which.
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All the Big Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Films We're Excited for in 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a modern movie landscape dominated by mega franchises, 2024 is looking mighty odd indeed. Yes, we’ve got films coming from DC, Marvel, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, and a few others, but almost all of them are slightly off-brand. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Lord of the Rings movies are animated. The biggest Marvel and…
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Philly's Measles Outbreak Is Getting Worse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An outbreak of measles in Philadelphia is growing larger. This week, health officials [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a newly discovered case of the highly contagious viral disease in the area—the ninth reported to date. Many of these cases, including the latest one, have been traced back to a single day care center, and most if not all…
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Star Trek: Voyager's Cast Is Still Split Over 'Tuvix,' Nearly 30 Years Later
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The White House: Taylor Swift AI Porn Is "Alarming"
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Handling the Undead Is the Most Somber Zombie Movie You'll Ever See
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Elon Musk's Brain Implant Company Neuralink Fined for 'Hazardous Materials' Violation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has been in more trouble with the federal government than previously known. A Reuters [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] published Friday says that the U.S. Department of Transportation recently fined Neuralink for violating rules governing the movement of hazardous materials. The DOT has since settled…
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James Cameron’s Aliens Is Getting Its Own Marvel What If...?
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Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Review: Almost Everything You Could Want in a Phone
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The ISS Is Getting a New Pair of Creepy Robot Arms
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) are about to make a new cyborg friend in the form of two short mechanical arms that will do their bidding in the cold, dark vacuum of low Earth orbit.
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The History of Thrawn's Secret Invasion Weapon in Star Wars' Expanded Universe
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Pornhub Has a New Kink: Consent
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Who Is Dean Phillips and Why Do All the Tech Bros Want Him to Be President?
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The Jig is Up: NSA Is Buying Your Browser History, Says U.S. Senator
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The National Security Agency (NSA) is purchasing Americans’ internet records, according to government documents made public on Friday. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, wrote [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] claiming the NSA goes through backchannel avenues to purchase your browsing records and location data, which government…
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A Rare but Deadly Fungal Infection Is Cropping Up in More States
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A dangerous fungal infection has seeded its spores farther across the United States than previously assumed. Research out this week details evidence that cases of blastomycosis are regularly showing up in Vermont, outside of the established areas of the U.S. where it’s thought to be endemic.
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Apple Big AI Push Starts With iOS 18, Analysts Say
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Timothée Chalamet Is Self-Conscious About His Sand Worm Riding in Dune 2
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The Moogai Puts a Monstrous Spin on Generational Trauma
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Bad Internet Connection Concealed Cruise’s Pedestrian-Dragging Incident
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Cruise, the self-driving car company whose [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], shared footage from the graphic incident with regulators using a bad internet connection, according to an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Cruise didn’t explicitly say that a pedestrian was dragged 20 feet, and hoped screen sharing a video would “speak for…
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Satellites Are Getting a Constellation of Traffic Cops
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earth’s orbit will be monitored by a watchful set of robotic eyes, the first commercial constellation of satellites with the ability to keep track of objects in space to avoid collisions between spacecraft.
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Nintendo 'Switch 2' With an 8-inch LCD Display Could be Coming Later This Year
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Super7's Awesome Godzilla Minus One Figure Is Getting a Black and White Version, Too
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2024
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The smartphone audience is so wide that it’s difficult to settle on just one of the best phones of 2024. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Others want the very best camera. And then there are the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best small phone (they’re often the same…
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I Must Not Fear the Dune: Part Two Wormussy Popcorn Bucket
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The Fallout From the Taylor Swift AI Porn Could Be Huge
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Samsung Galaxy S24: Everything You Should Know Before You Pre-Order
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Taylor Swift AI Porn Is Driving Fans Ballistic
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A series of AI-generated images of Taylor Swift in suggestive and pornographic situations are causing an uproar on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Though some of the images have been taken down, others remain on the platform. Swift’s army of fans have embarked on a campaign to bury the images by flooding…
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World’s Largest Iceberg Has Officially Gone Rogue
What’s white, weighs roughly one trillion metric tons, and is now heading away from the Antarctic Peninsula? If you guessed iceberg A23a, you’re absolutely right, as this colossal chunk of snow and ice is finally leaving the cradle.
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Weirdest Chatbots on OpenAI’s GPT Store, Ranked
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Holy Crap, Dev Patel Made a Wild Looking Action Movie
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The Moon Is Shrinking and That’s Bad News for NASA’s Artemis Program
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George Carlin’s Family Takes This AI Bullsh*t to Court
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier in the month, a comedy special featuring an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] showed up on YouTube. The jokes weren’t that great and there were questions about using a dead person’s likeness without permission, and on Thursday, a lawsuit from the legendary comedian’s family made it clear that this isn’t a laughing…
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Samsung Has Made Repairing the Galaxy S24 Ultra a Breeze
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Thunderbolts Might Be Close to Finding a Steven Yeun Replacement
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Netflix wants to make a sequel to Leo already. Go behind the scenes on Ghosbusters: The Frozen Empire. Plus, Wolf Pack will howl no more at Paramount. Spoilers, away!
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7 Endangered U.S. Animals That Don't Get Enough Love
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A conservation group released a report in 2023finding that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Most in danger were small, not-so-exciting animals—snails, crayfish, mussels—that nevertheless make up key cornerstones of our ecosystems.
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Feds Launch Inquiry Into OpenAI and Microsoft’s Messy Relationship
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] into the billion-dollar AI deals of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Anthropic on Thursday. Throughout the inquiry, cloud providers must disclose details about the nature of their partnerships and investments with AI startups. Of particular interest is the…
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Alienware’s Gorgeous 32-Inch Curved QD-OLED Is Like a Massage for My Eyeballs
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An Ambitious Mission to Venus Is Set to Launch in 2031
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The EnVision mission to Venus was officially adopted by the European Space Agency on Thursday, which means the organization has committed to getting the spacecraft Venus-bound by the early 2030s.
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Here's Why You Shouldn't Mess With a Wild Iguana That Wants Your Cake
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome to another installment of Gizmodo’s Animal Crime of the Week. Last week, we admired the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. This week features a bitey, cake-stealing iguana that added injury to insult by giving its victim a nasty, rare infection.
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David Lynch's Dune Is Bringing Its Glorious Weirdness Back to Theaters
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Fortnite Is on Its Way Back to iPhones
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple is granting more access to its manicured walled garden to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Union (EU). In a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the company announced a heaping of forthcoming iOS, Safari, and the App Store changes, including support for apps from third-party app stores and the ability to set…
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These Pop Culture Portraits Are Perfectly Poised
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sometimes you just want [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] characters from TV and movies on your wall. And when that happens, artist Dakota Randall is there. In conjunction with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Randall has been creating beautiful, affordable, realistic-looking portraits for a few years now, inspired by dramas,…
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Kristen Stewart's Love Me Is Like Wall-E in Real Life
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Breaks a Blade and Will Never Fly Again
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After nearly three years of flying across the Martian terrain, the Ingenuity helicopter has finally ended its mission. NASA declared Thursday that Ingenuity had sustained damage to a blade during its most recent landing and would not make another flight.
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Oscar Nominee and Noted Star Wars Fan Lily Gladstone Just Joined a Very Cool Sci-Fi Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s not quite her dream sci-fi role, but until [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] breakout [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] come true, The Memory Police sounds like an excellent entry into the genre. The team behind this project is ridiculous; besides Gladstone as the lead, it includes director [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (The…
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iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Re
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Tom Holland's Gigantic Avengers Bonus Once Got Accidentally Sent to Tom Hollander
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The X-Men Are Trying to Solve Their Beast Problem in the Wildest Way
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re not familiar with them before asking, you might be surprised if an X-Men comic reader declares Hank McCoy—the fuzzball genius Beast—one of the most evil characters in the franchise. This is not a new twist, either, even in the wake of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] paving his mainstream…
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The Pixel 8 Pro Can Now Check If You Have a Fever
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Hell Yeah, We’re Getting a Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Stay calm, everybody stay calm. But it’s finally happening: The European Space Agency is committing itself to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a gravitational wave observatory that will study some of the universe’s most enigmatic phenomena.
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Netflix Co-CEO Calls Vision Pro 'Subscale' and Wonders if Anybody Would Actually Use It
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Sydney Sweeney's Immaculate Casts Her as a Nun Impregnated by... Satan?
[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...] theme is right there in the title—Immaculate—but the conception in question in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] than anything involving Mary, Joseph, and a manger. The film’s first trailer is here, and the plot appears as devilish as you’d imagine.
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Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox Staff One Day After $3 Trillion Valuation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft laid 1,900 employees in its gaming division, according to an internal memo seen by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Thursday, with a majority of the layoffs hitting its newly acquired Activision Blizzard employees. Some Xbox and ZeniMax employees were also affected, according to the memo. The layoffs come roughly three months…
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Florida EV Buyers Shocked To Learn Their Cars Eat Tires
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