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Marvel's Moon Knight Series Has 2 New Directors
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Meteorites From the Beginning of the Solar System May Have Carried Water Quite Recently
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Bumble Reactivates Political Filter That Women Used to Catfish and Report Capitol Rioters
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HBO Has Tapped a Russian Indie Director for The Last of Us's Pilot
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FAA Authorizes First Commercial Smart Drone Flights
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Facebook Bans Creation of New Events Near Federal and State Houses Leading Up to Inauguration
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The iPhone 13 Might Sport an In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor, Which Sure Would Be Useful Right Now
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Trump Administration Clears Way for Mining Company to Take Over Sacred Indigenous Land
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After more than 15 years of protest by tribal organizations, local communities, and environmental groups across the country from Arizona to Washington, DC, an extended battle over a valuable parcel of land in central Arizona entered a new phase. On Friday, the Forest Service released the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Iranian Spying Campaign Sent Holiday Greetings Riddled with Malware
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What did you ask for over the holidays? Surely not an infestation of foreign spies in your phone or laptop, but that’s the present you would’ve received had you been foolish enough to click on some very dodgy texts and emails swirling around the internet late last year.
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Amazon Warehouse Employees in Alabama Will Vote to Unionize
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amazon workers might make a breakthrough at a company that’s done everything it can to trample organized labor. Nearly 6,000 employees at a Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center will soon be able to vote on whether to unionize; mail-in ballots are to be submitted by March 29, and the National Labor Relations Board…
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Apple Reportedly Planning to Redesign the iMac at Long Last
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Report: Google About to Face Its Third State Antitrust Suit, This Time Over Play Store
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Apple Is Reportedly Cracking Down on App Sideloading on M1 Macs
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After Failing to Tweet Through It, WhatsApp Delays Privacy Policy Updates
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The Stand-Out Laptops of CES 2021
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It was definitely strange not being able to hold, type on, or touch the brand new laptop screens at CES as we would have in pre-covid times. There’s only so much you can tell about a product you only see or read about online, so that tangibility is an absolute necessity to figuring out what a laptop is all about.…
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The Sex Toy Industry Fought for Normalcy at the All Digital CES 2021
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Apple, the Company That Basically Invented Podcasts, Has Reportedly Decided to Give This Whole Podcast Thing a Try
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Google Fires Another Top Researcher on Its AI Ethics Team
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Remastered Nyan Cat Gif Sold for the Equivalent of $587,000 in a Crypto Art Auction
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Apple Wants Valve To Hand Over A Bunch Of Steam Info For Its Fight With Epic
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Here's What's Next for Perseverance Rover's Journey on Mars
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Comcast Graciously Drops Data Caps, but Only for Northeast Customers, Until 2022
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Vitamin D Supplements Don't Seem to Help People Sick With Covid-19
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The 60-Year Evolution of Psycho's Norman Bates
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Ransomware Gang Says It's Selling Data from Cyberattack That California DMV Warned About
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A ransomware gang called “Cuba” claims to be selling off data on the dark web belonging to Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS), a Seattle-based financial services and data management firm that suffered a bad ransomware attack in early February.
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The Texas Think Tank Giving Cover for This Week’s Republican Wind Power Lies
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Google Fires Another Top Researcher on Its AI Ethics Team
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Remastered Nyan Cat Gif Sold for the Equivalent of $587,000 in a Crypto Art Auction
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Comcast Graciously Drops Data Caps, but Only for Northeast Customers, Until 2022
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Ransomware Gang Says It's Selling Data from Cyberattack That California DMV Warned About
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A ransomware gang called “Cuba” claims to be selling off data on the dark web belonging to Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS), a Seattle-based financial services and data management firm that suffered a bad ransomware attack in early February.
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The Texas Think Tank Giving Cover for This Week’s Republican Wind Power Lies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Almost exactly a month before [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a panel convened in Austin to host a discussion about the superiority of the Texan electric grid. Called “Keep the Lights and Ventilators On: The Future of Texas’ Grid Reliability,” the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was part of an annual conference held by the Texas Public Policy…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], in order to target American companies for data theft.
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Uber Is Spinning Out Postmates' Robotics Division Into Its Own Company
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Smoke 100 Cigarettes Right Now If You Want a Vaccine in North Carolina (Kidding, Please Don't)
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Have you smoked 100 cigarettes in your life? Can you take up, and kick, a pack-a-day habit in the next two weeks? Are you capable of looking a health professional square in the eye and lying? I do not condone these things, but if any of the above applies to you, and you are a North Carolina resident, you may be…
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Japanese Billionaire Who Bought Tickets on SpaceX's Starship Announces 8 Seats Are Up for Grabs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Yusaku Maezawa, the billionaire Japanese fashion CEO who [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the first seats on its Starship spacecraft for a trip round the Moon in 2023, recently teased a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] regarding the journey. Mystery solved: Maezawa proclaimed on Tuesday he is offering anyone interested a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Cuttlefish Are Able to Wait for a Reward
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Perhaps the most unsung members of the cephalopods, a group that counts octopuses, squid, and nautiluses among their ranks, the cuttlefishes is left with a lot to prove. Recently, a crew of six common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) did just that, focusing their sinusoidal pupils and collective 48 arms and 12 tentacles…
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'Frustrated' Facebook Oversight Board May Seek to Examine Its Algorithm (or 'Whatever')
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Facebook’s so-called “Supreme Court” is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] planning to seek the company’s permission to review the underlying machine-learning models that determine which posts are given the most prominence in each Facebook user’s feed.

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The Long History of Godzilla's Cinematic Looks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] isn’t just a monster movie icon, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades he’s been stomping around the box office, Godzilla’s gone through more appearances than most cinematic legends ever could. From his earliest days to his upcoming [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Warner’s W…
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The User Reviews for Puma's Gaming Shoes Are Peak Internet Trolling
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last year, Puma entered the gaming apparel world with its $100 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which are basically fancy socks with a bit of added tread. But now the user reviews are in, and reader, they are priceless.

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Amazon Rolls Back Icon That Was a Little Too, Uh, Below the Nose
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amazon has quietly edited its app icon, possibly because users noticed that it resembled a smiling, err, uh... we’ll go with Charlie Chaplin, but we don’t really mean Charlie Chaplin.

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The 10 Best Deals of March 2, 2021
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Researchers Create Tiny, Cicada-Like Drones to Invade Small Spaces
When we think of drones, we imagine massive, quadrotor machines that buzz around like manic seagulls. But what if your drown was small enough to accidentally swallow?
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Software Workers at Glitch Get a Historic Union Contract
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Glitch, the software company behind Trello and Stack Overflow, now has a collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The news is extraordinary, not just because they claim to be the first software workers to have secured a collective bargaining agreement, but because the lead-up…
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Crank up the Savings With $20 off Marshall's Acton Bluetooth Speaker
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Mesh Is Microsoft’s Vision for Sending Your Hologram Back to the Office
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Today at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the tech giant revealed a bold glimpse at the future of digital collaboration with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a new mixed reality experience set to shape how people work and socialize online.

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Raya’s Kelly Marie Tran and Adele Lim Talk Heroes and Much Needed Representation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is a film [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from most [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it didn’t even have to be fully formed for writers and actors to jump at the chance to be part of it.
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Leaked Big Oil Docs Hint at Support for a Carbon Tax, but the Money Trail Tells a Different Story
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The #resistance is growing. The American Petroleum Institute, which is the nation’s largest lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, is planning to endorse levying a price on carbon pollution, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by the Wall Street Journal.
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Roku Makes a Big Investment in Better Ad Targeting
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Monday, Roku [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a new “strategic alliance” with the market research giant Nielsen, that sees the connected TV giant swallow Nielsen’s Advanced Video Advertising business—and take on two major pieces of ad-targeting tech in the process.
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A Tesla-Stan Showed Me What They Thought Was An Amazing Autopilot Save But Boy Is It Not
You may remember last week when I wrote [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from a Tesla driving via its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] semi-autonomous [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] system; this week, I have another one, but this one is a little different because it was brought to my attention by a Tesla-stan who was very sure this would…
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NOAA Acknowledges the New Reality of Hurricane Season
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’re one step closer to officially moving up hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that it would formally start issuing its hurricane season tropical weather outlooks on May 15 this year, bumping it up from the traditional start of hurricane season on June 1. The move comes after a recent…
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What's the Best Camera for Home Security?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There are plenty of uses for a camera system in your home. First and most importantly, they’re powerful tools for home security. That’s especially useful in the work from home era when we’re cooped up inside all day. If anything suspicious is happening, you’ll want to know right away. But home cameras can also be used…
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An AI Was Taught to Play the World's Hardest Video Game and Still Couldn't Set a New Record
What’s the hardest video game you’ve ever played? If it wasn’t QWOP then let me tell you right know that you don’t know how truly difficult a game can be. The deceptively simple running game is so challenging to master that even an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] still only mustered a top 10 score instead of…
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Now That WandaVision's Said the Scarlet Witch's Name, Here's What It Means
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the final moments of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the name that’s been on everyone’s mind ever since Wanda Maximoff first showed up in Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s post-credits sequence was spoken.
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Merck Will Help Johnson & Johnson Make Its New Covid-19 Vaccine With Biden Push
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Johnson & Johnson is getting some help to make their [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. On Tuesday, the White House confirmed that pharmaceutical company Merck has agreed to step in and produce some of J&J’s vaccines, in order to address a potential shortfall in supply. The single dose vaccine was authorized for…
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Cloud Gaming's Missing Piece Is 5G
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When my brother and I were kids, our family took a lot of road trips. We loved the end destinations, but getting there was a major drag. We had Game Boy Colors and other handhelds, but we had already played the games we owned way too many times. Consoles and desktop PCs aren’t exactly portable, so we often got bored…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The streaming video business is booming, and while that makes it easier to access tons of content, for some companies like Sony, it makes it less attractive to manage digital storefronts, so at the end of August, Sony is disabling the ability to buy on-demand videos in the PlayStation Store.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Thursday, Samsung [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] plans to launch an upgraded version of its Galaxy SmartTag smart trackers, the aptly named SmartTag+, globally on April 16 with a U.S. rollout expected sometime “in the coming weeks.”
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Emails Show Amazon Pressured USPS to Install Mailbox at Alabama Warehouse Ahead of Union Vote
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amazon reportedly pressured the United States Postal Service to expedite the installation of a mailbox outside of its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse ahead of a high-profile union vote, a move union supporters argue is a blatant tactic to intimidate employees.
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Biden Orders DOJ to Come Up With a Way of Regulating Untraceable Gun Kits
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Joe Biden’s administration made its first move on gun control on Thursday, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the Department of Justice to develop rules regarding so-called “ghost guns” and attachments that turn high-powered pistols into rifles, as well as write model legislation to keep volatile individuals away from…
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MacBook and iPad Production Reportedly Hit by Component Shortage
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]MacBook and iPad production have reportedly been impacted by an electronics component shortage.

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The Best Office Chairs Under $300, According To Our Readers
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Pinterest Makes Moves to Be the Least Hellacious Hellhole Online
You might not think of Pinterest as being as creator-driven as some of its contemporaries, but that’s an image the company clearly wants to change. This week, the company rolled out [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of new creator-focused features in the moderation space, with a focus on playing nice.
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Scientists Finally Figured Out a Way to Make Natural Cyan-Blue Food Coloring
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Using pigments found in red cabbage, an international team of scientists has created a natural blue food colorant that could eventually replace synthetic versions.

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Leak of a Reported 500 Million Profiles Actually Very Boring, LinkedIn Assures Users
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to the digital underworld, the world’s largest professional network seems to have suffered a similar fate. It would appear that, like Facebook, approximately 500 million scraped LinkedIn profiles are now being sold on…
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11 Apple Watch Apps You Need to Install ASAP
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’ve finally splurged on a brand new Apple Watch (or been the lucky recipient of a very nice gift), you’re probably wondering: Now what? The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] comes with plenty of great built-in features, but you should hit the watch’s App Store to find third-party options that can make the device even more useful.

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Goodbye, Asteroid Bennu, It's Been Real
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Yesterday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passed by the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the last time, ending its two-and-a-half-year relationship with the space rock. But OSIRIS-REx is still lingering in the asteroid’s vicinity, as if hesitant to embark on its roughly 200-million-mile return to Earth. That trip will begin in early…
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Bolsonaro Oversaw a Connecticut-Sized Chunk of Deforestation in the Amazon Last Year
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last year was a bad one around the world—but especially, it seems, in the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon rocketed up 17% last year, due in large part to increased logging, agriculture, mining, and wildfires, new data published Wednesday shows.
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There's Now a Tiny Washing Machine to Clean Your Wax-Encrusted Earbuds
If you’re ashamed to take your earbuds out of your ears in public because of what might be caked inside them and yet too disgusted to clean them at home, you better believe there’s a Kickstarter product to solve that. Imagine a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that cleans earbuds instead of clothing.…
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Spider-Man Movies Will Stream on Netflix First Thanks to New Sony Deal
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For the past few months, every studio has been figuring out how to balance theatrical movies with growing streaming services. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] strategy, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and Paramount yet [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now Sony has its own strategy and it’s got the biggest name recognition possible: Netflix.
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The 10 Best Deals of April 8, 2021
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Brazil's President Mocks Claims He's 'Genocidal' While Doing Nothing About Covid-19 Killing 4,000 People a Day
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Covid-19 is ravaging Brazil, but the country’s sweaty, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] president, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], refuses to do jack shit about it.

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New Beginnings: The Sobering Journey To Restore My Game Boy Micro
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We all have our coping mechanisms. Last summer, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, mine was reliving my childhood by purchasing old models from Nintendo’s long-retired Game Boy lineup. While I’m not a particularly nostalgic person—hell, I didn’t even grow up with half the consoles I’ve collected over the…
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This $47,500 Watch Contains a Tiny Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Lunaphiles, rejoice! [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a luxury watchmaker that traces its origins back to the creator of the first ship’s clock, has released a unique watch that shows the phases of the moon in a unique way. The trick? They almost magically rotate a marble-sized moon right inside the movement, something that only a few…
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General Grievous' Clone Wars Debut Remains a Masterclass—But Not for the Reason You Think
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Genndy Tartakovsky’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is remembered—deified even—for its action. It is all killer, no filler: the dialogue is spartan, its themes layered but simple. This is Star Wars and you are here for tight, explosive, bombastic action unlike anything the franchise had dared to dream of before,…
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Early Humans Were Walking Around With Ape-Like Brains, Study Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Humans can be distinguished from other apes in many ways, such as our general hairlessness, our upright bipedalism, and, of course, our powerful brains. But it turns out that our cognitive ability didn’t evolve as early as previously thought, according to new research by an international team of researchers.

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Someone Found a Way to Make Video Calls Even Worse With a Realistic Robot Eye Webcam
For anyone who doesn’t think a year spent trying to work and socialize through video calls could get any worse, behold the Eyecam: an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] designed to look like a human eyeball that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the room. Maybe telephone calls and email weren’t so bad after all?
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Spotify Will Use Your Voice To Pummel You With Ads
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For just under a year now, we’ve been seeing Spotify make [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...] in order to establish a foothold in the ad-targeting space. Now, the company’s embarking on a new dataset for this purpose: your voice.
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Voyagers' Riff on Lord of the Flies in Space Is All Too Familiar
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Voyagers, the new sci-fi film from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (Divergent), begins with an interesting twist on a tried and true premise: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Disease, climate change, and more have doomed humanity unless it can find a new home. Which, luckily, it does. The problem is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Lenovo's Legion Phone Duel 2 Has 2 Fans, 2 Batteries, and One of the Weirdest Camera Bumps Available Today
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]While I can’t confirm it, I suspect someone in Lenovo’s phone department is a big fan of Vin Diesel movies. Why? Well, it seems like Lenovo has just released a gaming phone inspired by 2 Fast 2 Furious.
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Methane Has Never Risen This Fast in the Atmosphere
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s more methane in the atmosphere than any other time since record keeping began—and levels really spiked last year, despite the fact that we were all inside for most of the time.
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Well Here’s Something You Don’t See Every Day
We’re used to seeing stark images of rovers all alone on the Red Planet, but Perseverance brought a friend. NASA has just released a stunning photo showing two vehicles—the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter—in a single shot.
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The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sequel Has a Trio of New Directors
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Told Us What He Would Do If Someone Said There Were Knives in His Pillows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Many weird and wild things are coming out of Mike Lindell’s 48-hour bananathon livestream today—Ted Nugent, a crank call from a “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...],” another crank call from “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]”—and somehow, I, too, was there. After a press request this morning to MyPillow, which has ignored my emails on two previous occasions, my…
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Sasquatch Director Joshua Rofé on Chasing After Murder Mysteries and Monsters
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Filmmaker Joshua Rofé’s previous project, Lorena, offered an in-depth look at a true-crime story that grabbed headlines worldwide. His latest, Sasquatch, investigates a far more enigmatic case, though—as the title suggests—it does revolve around an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] who’s both [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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Blaze It: More Than 90% of Americans Support Legal Weed in New Poll
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On the eve of the coolest holiday of the year, here’s some relevant news: A recent poll suggests that more than 90% of Americans support cannabis legalization in one shape or another. The results come in the wake of several more states having legalized the drug in 2021, as well as a renewed push by some politicians to…
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Louisiana Representative Boldly Offers to Make His State a ‘Sanctuary’ for Fossil Fuels
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A brave Louisiana legislator has a plan to protect poor, helpless fossil fuels by offering up his state as a safe space where they can be dug up, refined, and burned free from judgment (and government regulation).
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop 4 Is Nearly Perfect
[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...] was a special machine due to Microsoft’s decision to put an AMD processor in it for the first time. But the company has outdone itself with the smart improvements it’s made to the Surface Laptop 4, which has a more compelling price and better battery life, all while keeping key features and design…
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A Not-So-Brief History of The Flash Movie, Which Is Now Filming
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See New Footage of Ingenuity’s Remarkable Rise and Successful Landing
Ten vertical feet and 40 seconds. Those are the two numbers that signify a horizon-bending shift in human ambition on Mars and beyond. With Ingenuity’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] early Monday morning, the proof-of-concept for future craft like it has been a resounding success.

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Discord Walks Back iOS Block on NSFW Content
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Discord has walked back an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to ban NSFW servers completely from its iPhone and iPad apps.

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Sony Changes Its Mind, PS Store Will Remain Open On PS3 and Vita
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]About a month ago, Sony said it planned to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on some of its older systems later this summer. But today, Sony decided to reverse course and will now continue to support the PS Store on the PS3 and PS Vita for the foreseeable future.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Accidentally Trolled Its Fans Hard
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last Friday, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] announced a brand-new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] series! Then, uh, it kind of changed its mind.

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The Future of Western Water Restrictions Is Here
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The West is dry and getting drier. Federal officials [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that a major source of water for the Southwest could face some of its first official water restrictions later this year if water levels keep dropping.
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9 Totally Nightmarish Imaginary Friends
[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 released in May of 1991, meaning it’s now been shorthand for “imaginary friend out of control” for three decades. While not all imaginary friends in movies and TV are evil, a fair number of them (including these nine, who range from pesky to psychotic) do take advantage of their positions to make…
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CBP Releases Video From Predator Drone Deployed Over George Floyd Protests
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Shortly after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd last year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] over the city in an effort to surveil the ongoing protests against police brutality occurring there. The drone, which took off from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and flew in a…
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In a Scientific First, Astronomers Capture a Complete View of Venus’s Orbital Dust Ring
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A band of dust that follows Venus along its entire orbital path has finally been viewed in full, thanks to a series of fortuitous maneuvers involving NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.

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My Pillow Goblin Sues Dominion for $1.6 Billion, Swears His Pillows Aren't Filled With Knives
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Americans had prepared today (and also last week) for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to unleash his nebulous avant-garde invention, Frank: a social media platform [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a cross between YouTube and Twitter with elements of newspapers and television, except with free speech. We’ll have to wait a little longer to see the…
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For Those Who Hate Smartwatches, Fitbit Has a Fancy New Fitness Tracker
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Fitbit Luxe, the company’s newest and most expensive band, can best be described as: fitness tracker, but make it fashion.
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Xbox Games Will Be Playable On PC and iOS Starting Tomorrow—If You Score an Invite
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Xbox [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] its cloud gaming platform is nearly ready for Edge, Google Chrome, and Safari browsers. Starting tomorrow, the company will send out a limited number of invites to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to take part in the beta.

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Marvel's Secret Invasion Is Being Invaded by Oscar Winner Olivia Colman
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Mortal Kombat's Stars Believe the Film's Diversity Gives It Added Resonance
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Otters have joined the ever-growing list of animals known to be susceptible to the coronavirus behind covid-19. Over the weekend, officials at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta reported that several of their otters became sick with respiratory symptoms and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Thankfully, all are expected to…
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Facebook VP Says There Aren't Any Plans to Release a Quest Pro or Quest 3 in 2021
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Despite dropping hints that Facebook could be working on a new more powerful VR headset, Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth made it clear recently that the company doesn’t have any plans to release a Quest Pro or Quest 3 headset anytime this year.
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Why Schools Should Be the Center of a Green New Deal
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In Love, Death, and Robots Season 2, Poop Droids Are the Future
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Netflix’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Love, Death, and Robots returns next month with tales of post-apocalypses, children in haunted houses, and flying techno-whales. But it’s the AI pooper-scooper in this new trailer for the show that has me the most intrigued.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Reportedly Trying to Gobble Up This Small Texas Community
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Marvel's Falcon Becomes Captain America in This VFX Video Breaking Down His Transformation
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Peacock Sentences Space Convicts Series Intergalactic to U.S. Custody
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Ibuprofen Doesn't Worsen Covid-19, Large New Study Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New research out Friday should relieve anyone worried about having taken over-the-counter painkillers like ibuprofen before becoming sick with covid-19. The large study found no evidence that recent prior use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) led to more serious illness or death among hospitalized…
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YouTube Found the Pettiest Loophole in Its Battle Against Roku
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just a week after Roku yanked YouTube TV from its app store thanks to an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with Google, it looks like YouTube found a clever (if not extremely petty) workaround. On Friday, YouTube [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] it would just cram YouTube TV access into the main YouTube app, which is still available.
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Melinda Gates Reportedly Warned Bill Not to Pal Around With Infamous Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has strenuously denied that all those times he hung out with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—you know, the guy with the private jet and island compound who died in prison in 2019 before he could testify about who else was involved in his child sex abuse ring—was about anything…
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This Week's Toys Definitely Didn't See This Coming
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and snazziest merchandise on the internet. This week, Star Wars: The Bad Batch descends on the world of Lego, while Star Trek beams itself back up to action figures, and... no one can withstand beach balls of this magnitude!? Check it out!

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Good Night, Meat Prince
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Bryan Menegus is one of the most frustrating editors I’ve ever worked with, which is to say he had annoying feedback like ‘Do you have a source on this?’, ‘This paragraph is complete gibberish’, ‘Did you forget to end this sentence?’, or ‘This is just totally factually wrong’. He also changed the structure of…
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New Report Shows Phone Cracking Tech is Being Used to Target Journalists in Botswana
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The willingness of digital forensics firms to sell to pretty much any paying law enforcement agency, regardless of the country’s human rights record, has stirred up no minor amount of controversy. These tools, critics say, allow bad governments expansive, invasive powers, and may be used in the course of…
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Doctor Who’s Noel Clarke Faces New Harassment Allegations From Sci-Fi Set
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Two weeks before [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was set to receive a BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, the organization received multiple anonymous tips from women alleging to have been sexually harassed and assaulted by him in a variety of different ways in professional settings. Allegations have…
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Stop Pretending Apple and Amazon's Bluetooth Networks Can't Be Abused
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hot on the heels of Apple’s AirTags launch, Amazon [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that it’s expanding its Sidewalk network with Tile, smart lock company Level, and elder care smartwatch maker CareBand. The news is the biggest expansion of Amazon Sidewalk since it was announced last year, and offers a glimpse into how the company envisions…
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The Amazing Maurice Adds David Tennant to Its Star-Studded Cast
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The Beer of the Future Tastes Like Ass
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When I turned 21, I was living in New Mexico. My first legally purchased beer was Fat Tire, at the time only available west of the Mississippi. As someone raised in Massachusetts and in an era before the explosion of craft breweries, it was the peak of novelty at the time.
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When Will We Know Where the Chinese Rocket Will Crash?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An out-of-control Chinese rocket is scheduled to reenter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend, but no one is sure exactly when or where the debris will land. Here’s why we don’t yet know and, more importantly, when we can expect to find out.

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Foretold WandaVision's Plot in Song
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Ancient City of Angkor Was Jam-Packed With People
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Angkor, in what is now Cambodia, was one of the most populated cities in the world from the 9th to 15th centuries CE. That said, archaeologists have struggled with knowing just how many people actually lived there. A comprehensive new study may have finally answered the question, affirming the ancient city as a…
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Listen to the Incredible Sound of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Flying on Mars
A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover has managed to capture the sounds made by Ingenuity during the helicopter’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It marks the first time that a machine on another planet has captured the sounds made by another vehicle.
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch's Cast and Crew on Omega's Big Reveal
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Now Is the Perfect Time to Climb Aboard Horror Express
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last week, [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...] aired its second season finale, “Night of the Living Late Show,” featuring a character who’s obsessed with a nearly 50-year-old movie called Horror Express. It’s a real movie—and a really entertaining movie at that. If you’ve never seen it, now’s the perfect time.
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This Fabric Warms You on One Side and Cools on the Other
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The best way to ensure you’re always comfortable when you head outdoors is to layer your outfit so you can strip some clothing away when you’re hot, or add more when you’re cold. But what if one garment [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? That’s what scientists are promising with a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that heats on one side but…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk, richer than God and therefore a trusted source of investment advice for mortals, has pivoted now to offer some sober advice about the dangers of meme currencies. He provides previously unshared information: Doge’s only tangible value is hype, and HODLers mayreach price discovery and then realize they’ve…
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How I Hacked My Tamagotchi, Cheated Death, and Became a God
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I can’t explain why I adopted a virtual pet while also navigating the wild world of new parenthood, though maybe it has something to do with our species’ penchant for falling back on the familiar. The pandemic added to the chaos of life with a newborn, so I found myself drawn to anything nerdy and nostalgic from my…
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The Muppets Are Getting Their First Halloween Special on Disney+
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I’m not 100% sure why [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are so excited that we’re “halfway to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” that they created a hashtag for it [Editor’s Note: Excuse you, some of us are excited about the Best Holiday. - Jill P.], but I’m happy to hear that Kermit and the gang won’t just be premiering a new Disney+ special closer to the…
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Windows 10X Reportedly Won't Ship in 2021 as Microsoft Shifts Priorities
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Despite being announced back [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and having already suffered from multiple delays, a new report is claiming that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] won’t ship in 2021 and possibly may never see an official retail launch.

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]More news from Canada, nation of paradoxes, which printed the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on its currency and where a mayor’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] can rise after a world-famous crack scandal. This week’s mystery from the north: Justin Trudeau has been photographed masquerading as a Macbook user. Why, Canada?

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Doctor Who May See Another Classic Villain Return
[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 full steam ahead. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] team dives into the ‘80s for totally radical possessions. Plus Steven Moffat’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] adaptation gets a first look and The Flash is having more Speed Force drama. Spoilers coming at you fast!

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The iPad Pro Is as Powerful as It Can Be—Now What?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The new 12.9-inch M1 iPad Pro is an incredible device. It’s powerful. It’s fast. It’s future-proof. Its screen is ridiculous, and I mean that in the best possible way. It’s also overkill—for now.
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Help Wanted: Nuclear Weapons Courier, Serious Inquiries Only
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Have you ever wanted to guard nuclear weapons as they crisscross the United States? Well, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has a job opening for precisely that. And it’s a great reminder that U.S. roads carry some pretty interesting cargo, even if it’s all kept very hush-hush.

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India Reports 4,529 Covid-19 Deaths in Single Day, a Grim New Record
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]India recorded 4,529 new deaths from covid-19 on Wednesday, a grim new world record in a country that’s reeling from uncontrolled spread of the disease. India also reported [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] new coronavirus infections for the day.

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Eli Roth and Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum Will Explore the Stories Behind Real-Life Spooky Objects
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Horror movies are scary, but things get downright terrifying when [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] seem to have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a 14,000 square foot mansion filled with actual artifacts, all of which have their own creepy stories attached. Whether you choose to believe them…
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Here's Everything Announced at Google I/O
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google I/O is back, baby, and that means a metric crap-ton of updates for the Google ecosystem. Although it was virtual, the annual developers’ conference did not fail to be a spectacle that featured [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a bizarre cameo from Michael Peña, and AI bots pretending to be Pluto.

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Amazon Has Extended the Moratorium on Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Law enforcement officials are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from using Amazon’s facial recognition technology “until further notice,” the company said on Wednesday, a decision that effectively extends a yearlong moratorium that had been set to expire on June 1.
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Google Wants to Make the Next Pixel Camera More Inclusive
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Android is used on 3 billion smartphones worldwide, but most of the cameras on Android phones don’t accurately capture people of color. This is why Google announced it’s striving to develop a “more accurate and inclusive camera” for its next batch of smartphones.

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A Black Lady Sketch Show's Fairy Auntmother Reveals an Inevitable Truth
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Once people born in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] started [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on TikTok over literal children telling them their hairstyles were dated, it was only a matter of time before the internet coalesced around the term “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” as part of our larger conversation about the current generation of 25-to-35-year-olds.
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Fans of Andy Weir's The Martian Will Love Project Hail Mary
[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 third book by Andy Weir, finds the author going back to what made him famous in the first place. Weir rose to fame with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a book ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) about a man stranded on Mars who uses complicated, compelling science to get himself home. While Weir’s second book, Artemis, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Venmo Stops Payments for Palestinian Relief Funds, Citing 'Security Concerns'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We’re officially entering the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in a row of fighting between Israel and Palestine, which means we probably haven’t seen the last of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and countless injuries inflicted on Gaza residents thus far. If you’re looking for a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to the victims, then a quick word of advice: maybe…
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Anonymous Donors Keep the Climate Denial Machine Chugging
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s lots of talk from the GOP and fossil fuel companies these days about changing their tune and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] about climate change. But new research shows that not much has changed in the world of organized climate denial: It’s still massively funded by mostly anonymous donors shielding major…
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Before Going Underground, Hackers Behind the Colonial Attack Cleared $90 Million in Bitcoin
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New research into the ransomware gang who [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] shows just how much money they were able to extort during a fairly short crime spree: about $90 million in approximately seven months.
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RIP Charles Grodin, Star of The Great Muppet Caper, King Kong, and Midnight Run
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Charles Grodin, one of the great comedic actors of all time, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at the age of 86. When people hear Grodin’s name, the first movie they probably think of is Midnight Run. The 1988 Martin Brest action comedy is a classic of the genre and showcases Grodin’s smug, everyman persona beautifully.
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Researchers Find ‘Forbidden’ Quasicrystal in Wake of Nuclear Bomb Test
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s reasonable to think of nuclear bombs in terms of their destructive capabilities; splitting the atom means obliteration for anything in the blast radius. But, as a team of geologists and physicists recently figured out, it also means creation: specifically, the transfiguration of ordinary crystalline structures…
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The Most Terrifying Things TikTok Says Will Kill You
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Everything you’ve never heard of could kill you. It is statistically unlikely that you will die by space crystal or poltergeist, but how do you know that you won’t? TikTok has every single detail about catastrophes looming beyond the event horizon, threatening to wipe you off the face of the Earth unless you eat some…
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Former NASA Engineer Builds Mission Impossible-Style Obstacle Course to Protect His Nuts From Thieving Squirrels
One of the most popular YouTube videos of 2020 was from former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Mark Rober who [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, so a year later he’s trying again, and this time taking inspiration from movies like Mission Impossible and Ocean’s Eleven…
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Bill Gates Hoped Jeffrey Epstein Could Help Him Schmooze His Way to Nobel Peace Prize: Report
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates appears to have hopelessly lost control of his efforts to do damage control on his once-budding bromance with fellow billionaire and notorious serial child abuser Jeffrey Epstein.

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The Hunger Remake Rises From Its Sexy Vampire Grave
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The 1983 vampire movie [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] didn’t exactly win over critics when it was first released, but since then it’s become a cult film for its stylish looks, its bisexual lead character, and its influence on goth culture. These are presumably three of the reasons Warner Bros. has decided to reboot the movie, with the…
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Google's Project Starline Promises to Make Video Calls Frighteningly Realistic by Turning Everyone Into 3D Models
As much as video-calling technologies like Facetime and Zoom have helped the world stay connected over the past year, they’ve also demonstrated their severe limitations, as it’s hard to feel emotionally connected to someone through a low-quality video feed. Today, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that’s not quite ready…
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Samsung and Google Will Work Together to Make Android Smartwatches Good
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Well, folks, the rumors that Samsung is abandoning Tizen for Google’s Wear OS smartwatch platform turned out to be true. Sort of. At the Google I/O keynote today, Google [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] it’s partnering with Samsung to create a new unified platform that mashes together Wear OS and Tizen OS.

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Here Are All the Big New Features Coming in Android 12
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Android 12 is the next major update to Google’s ubiquitous mobile OS, and at Google I/O 2021 we got a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] headed our way later this fall including a focused push for increased privacy, revamped notifications, an updated design language, and more.

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The Arrowverse Brings Back Diggle, But Not in the Way You'd Think
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When we last saw [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (David Ramsey), he had regained his family, and come across a mighty mysterious but also mighty familiar box with some sort of glowing green object inside (cough, Green Lantern ring, cough). We’ve known Diggle would be returning to take a tour of the CW’s other DC shows—except now there…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s no secret that companies are [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] whenever you go online. Mozilla believes that people should have more control over their data. That’s why it’s launching Rally, a “privacy-first” data sharing platform designed to provide users with more agency over how their data is collected, used, and…
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Holy Merchandising, Batman, It's the Best Toys of the Week!
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round-up of the newest and greatest plastic-based news. This week: Loki brings its latest mystery to the toy shelf, McFarlane goes retro with the Bright Knight, and Donald Duck (and his nephews) get some adorably animated figures. Check it out!

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DC's Madame Xanadu Is Getting a TV Series From Angela Robinson
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We might not be getting a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] anytime soon, but at least we’ve got another card-wielding superhuman on the way: DC Comics’ Madame Xanadu. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] writer and executive producer Angela Robinson is heading to HBO Max with a new TV series based on the immortal clairvoyant, with J.J. Abrams serving as producer.

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Here's What's in the Six Antitrust Bills That Could Finally Break Up Big Tech
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of investigations and a 30-hour debating session on the House floor, the US House Judiciary Committee [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to pass a sweeping six-bill package collectively meant to reign in Big Tech’s massive market power.
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Pirate These PC Games and Get Free Bonus Malware Now!
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Someone is using cracked copies of top video game titles to install crypto-mining malware on PCs belonging to hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting victims—a ploy that’s netted the criminals a hefty $2 million so far.

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Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Adds a Key Member to Its Crew
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Six months have passed since [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] broke and now we finally have another piece of the puzzle. We already knew that Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins will be making Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, and that the film is aimed at a December 22, 2023 release. Now we know it’ll reportedly be written…
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The Cow Uprising Has Begun
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Perhaps weary of America’s gruesome mass-murder ritual, cows across the country have decided to do something else and go somewhere. We can’t know why or where because we can’t talk to them, but the thought process was probably [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] There’s somethin’ happenin’ somewhere. Baby, I just know that there is.…
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Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters May Be Needed for Some People Sooner Than Others
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Covid-19 booster vaccines could eventually be needed for everyone, though some faster than others—at least, those are the apparent expectations coming from the World Health Organization. On Thursday, Reuters reported on WHO internal documents laying out their scenarios for the near future of the pandemic, including…
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Read the Pentagon's Big Declassified UFO Report Right Here
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The truth is finally out here. On Friday, the Pentagon released its highly anticipated report summarizing previously classified information about the military’s research into UFOs—or as it prefers to call them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). What bombshell revelations does the report contain? Well, it’s only…
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DC Super-Pets, Ranked
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It is a good time to be a superheroic animal. DC’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] animated movie is on the way and has somehow nabbed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the voice of Krypto the Superdog, along with Kevin Hart as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], plus Keanu Reeves, Kate McKinnon, Diego Luna, and more. But these critters—and maybe…
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The 7 Weirdest Things About Venus, Hell Planet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been nearly 30 years since a NASA spacecraft went to Venus, a yellowish planet 67 million miles from the Sun and 141 million miles from us. Venus is often thought of as a sibling planet to Earth, both being rocky worlds close enough to the Sun to bask in its heat. And yet, at some point in their histories, the…
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Verizon Would Like to Sell You an Alexa-Powered Smart Display
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Verizon is looking to sell you a smart display, perhaps to finally launch its BlueJeans video conferencing service.

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Virgin Galactic Gets Official Clearance to Start Flying Paying Customers to Space
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An upgraded FAA operators license now allows Virgin Galactic to include paying customers on its space flights, in what is a major milestone for the company and also the nascent space tourism sector.

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Dune Gets Delayed Again, But Not as Long This Time
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On Star Wars: The Bad Batch, It's Bounty Hunter Battles and Big Revelations
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NASA Scientists Find More Subsurface Lakes on Mars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Researchers peering at layered deposits on Mars’ south pole found what appear to be dozens of subsurface lakes, though many of them are in areas where water would be frozen.

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Windows 11 Will Let You Sideload Android Apps, No Amazon Required
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When Microsoft introduced Windows 11 this week, it also made a fanfare of bringing Android apps to the OS through the Amazon Appstore. It’s an exciting feature both for Windows diehards looking for more ways to tinker and for casual users who might want the added utility of an Android app. But the initial [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]…
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Evil's Michael Emerson Shares What It's Like to Play a Guy More Sinister Than Satan
[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 back—streaming on Paramount+ instead of CBS in its second season—and its most memorable character, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for its trio of Catholic Church-sponsored [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. To learn more about what’s to come, we hopped on the phone with the actor who brings him to life:…
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California App Maker Turns Overseas Gig Workers Into Intelligence-Gathering Military Assets
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A San Francisco tech company paid millions by the U.S. military has turned an army of overseas cellphone users into a sweeping open-source intelligence network, gleaning data from cell towers and wifi hotspots in countries long engulfed by armed conflict with American forces and allies.

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Amazon's AWS Is Buying Encrypted Messaging Service Wickr
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Here are some terrifying images of the growing tick threat in North America, courtesy of NASA satellite data. The images accompany recent research showing that warmer climates over the past two decades have allowed Lyme disease-carrying deer ticks to survive and spread farther into Canada and parts of the Northern U.S.

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Warren Ellis Responds to Accusation Backlash: 'I'm at the Start of a Long Road' [Updated]
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Why Cities Should Ban Cars, According to Science
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New research shows we have to start [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and fast—if we want to avoid cities being overrun by gridlock.
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TSA Asks Travelers to Stop Attacking Officers, Restarts In-Flight Combat Training
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Following airlines [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] this week that domestic flights are devolving into psychological thrillers, the TSA has cautioned that checkpoint security personnel, too, are facing Americans’ inexplicable wrath. In a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] titled “TSA reminds passengers to remain calm and respectful at security…
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Schmigadoon Trailer Traps Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key in a Magical Musical
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“Bridgadoon, Schmigadoon.” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Cecily Strong and Key and Peele’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are stretching their vocal cords in new series Schmigadoon, about a couple who’s stuck in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] until they can find “true love.”

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last week, we got a glimpse at what the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] might look like. This week, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] leaked what it claims are renders for the flagship Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. But, looking at the design itself, perhaps Samsung is going a little too classic.
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Error Found in the NFT of Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Code
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Wednesday, Tim Berners-Lee sold off a copy of the source code of the world wide web (that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]) for a mind-boggling [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at Sotheby’s. Apparently, though, the lucky anonymous buyer should have gotten a bit of a discount. Not long after the sale, a security researcher uncovered some errors hiding in…
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Facebook Is Expanding Its Cloud Gaming Efforts with Wider Coverage and More Ubisoft
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last fall, Facebook [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and today, Facebook is updating its cloud gaming efforts with expanded coverage and a new injection of content from Ubisoft.

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The io9 Guide to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]He-Man was the most powerful man in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] during the ‘80s, a pioneer in kid’s cartoons that made the toy company Mattel $400 million in 1986 alone during the height of his popularity. But after that, he and the other Masters of the Universe fell from grace to near total obscurity, minus the…
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'I Suspect It Will Get a Lot Worse': Firestorm in British Columbia Helps Spark 710,000 Bolts of Lighting
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Pacific Northwest’s hell is just beginning. After being [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the fires arrived with a roar.

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Tucker Carlson Sure Did Pick a Great Time to Tussle With the NSA
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Whether Tucker Carlson is an actual [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or a fraud trying to rile up his viewers, Americans should remember: no matter how much you hate the smug, punchable face of said Fox News darling, the National Security Agency is not your friend and surveillance in our country is out of control.

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How Loki's Mid-Credits Scene Revealed the Most Promising Part of the Show
[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...]’s become more familiar with the inner workings of the Time Variance Authority over the course of his [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the Asgardian’s conceptualization of reality’s been repeatedly torn asunder, in moments where [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] about the wider multiverse the MCU takes place in. Take, for…
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Juror Hit With 'Extreme' Fine After Googling Suspected White Supremacist Badge on ICE Officer's Uniform
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Word of warning: A simple Google search in defiance of a judge’s order can result in huge fines, one juror learned that the hard way recently when he tried to alert his fellow jurists that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer involved in an assault case may actually a white supremacist.
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TSR Games Distances Itself From Ernie G. Gygax Jr., the Owner of Another TSR Games
[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...] fans, TSR: The Game Wizards conjures up memories of gathering around the tabletop for a friendly gaming session. Now, the folks who are trying to revive the company have chosen to give up the name they worked so hard for—because of Gary Gygax’s son’s troubling comments about race, gender…
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Nobody Knows How Many People the Pacific Northwest Heat Has Killed
[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...] that’s blanketed the Pacific Northwest this week has quietly killed dozens across the region. Not everyone is affected equally, though. A disproportionate number of the elderly, the poor, and the alone have died of heat-related illnesses.
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macOS Monterey Might Make You Want to Actually Update Your Mac
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Of all Apple’s OSes, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is the one most people delay updating. How many of you, when you boot up your Mac, banish update reminders for days—sometimes weeks or even months—with a click of “remind me later” rather than wait to finish the task you sat down to accomplish? I would guess a large number. In the days…
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The Tomorrow War Explains Perfectly How Aliens Could Just Swoop in and Take Over
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Most of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] around [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]has focused on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a regular dude who becomes a time-traveling soldier to help Earth fight an ongoing war with aliens in the year 2051. But in this clip io9 is debuting today, thanks to a military scientist played by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s…
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Bipartisanship Is Climate Denial
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last week, NBC White House correspondent Geoff Bennett [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the banal observation that he couldn’t remember the last time he saw Democratic and Republican senators having a laugh in public. It was in the wake of the so-called Gang of 10 bipartisan group of senators showing up at the White House to pitch their…
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Google Is Adding Support for Digital Covid-19 Vax Cards Into Android
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With hot vax summer already in full swing, Google is now making it easier to keep your vax card handy by building support for digital vaccination cards into Android itself.
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New Expedition Will Inspect Deteriorating Wreck of the Titanic
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Looking a bit like a beached whale on the ocean floor, the Titanic has been a perpetual state of decay since it settled there on April 15, 1912. This week, a exploration company may launch an expedition to survey the wreck’s current state, the first of what would likely become an annual trip to the site.

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CDC Warns Doctors About a Mystery Bacterial Outbreak With No Clear Origin
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning doctors about a strange cluster of illness in three states caused by a rarely seen bacteria in the U.S., one that’s killed at least one person and hospitalized two others so far. The illness, called melioidosis, can be highly fatal but isn’t normally considered…
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The 10 Best iOS 15 Features to Try First
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Now that the iOS 15 public beta is here, anyone can try the next-gen version of the iPhone operating system before it’s fully baked. We’ve got a step-by-step guide on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], as well as a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of our thoughts on some of the biggest changes. As with all betas, not every single feature is currently…
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Watch a Police Officer Admit He's Playing a Taylor Swift Song to Keep Activist's Video Off YouTube
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Tuesday, a group of protesters showed up at the Alameda Courthouse in Oakland, California, for the pre-trial hearing for Jason Fletcher, a police officer who was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for shooting and killing Steven Taylor, a Black man, inside of a Walmart last year. Along with Taylor’s family, advocates for…
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The 'Final' Evangelion Movie Will Be Finally Available Outside of Japan Next Month
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A venture over a decade in the making, Hideaki Anno’s “rebuild” of his [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Neon Genesis Evangelion, as a four-part movie series came to an end [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...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Thrice Upon a Time finally released back in March. But international fans were left…
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17 Injured Following LAPD's Botched Attempt to Detonate Illegal Fireworks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In yet another grim reminder of how dangerous—and incompetent—California cops can be, seventeen Los Angeles locals, including several officers, were injured on Wednesday evening after an LAPD bomb squad truck exploded during a “routine detonation” of an illegal fireworks stash. As it turns out, the ten pounds of…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]From the hard boiled crime worlds of the Pete Fernandez series to the galaxy far, far away to chart [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Alex Segura might be better known to comics fans for his [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and now Oni—but his latest novel is combining both sides of his professional career, and now io9's…
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Doctor Who's Long-Lost Evil of the Daleks Has Been Animated
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Though the original film copies of some 97 episodes of Doctor Who were [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] when they were wiped from the BBC’s archives in order to save space, the broadcasting giant has been slowly, but surely restoring some, while bringing others back to life with new life as animated projects set to the…
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Exxon Lobbyist Issues Apology on LinkedIn as Company Goes Into Damage Control
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Wednesday, the UK’s Channel 4 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that showed Exxon lobbyists detailing how the company fights against climate action in Washington, DC, including the fact that they have joined groups pushing climate denial and lobbied against Joe Biden’s once-climate-focused…
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Astronomers Found an Ultra-Dense White Star the Size of Our Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Imagine a white-hot, dying star that contains more mass than our Sun packed into an orb just a little larger than our Moon. That’s ZTF J190132.9+145808.7, a record-setting white dwarf recently identified by astronomers.

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Updates From Thor: Love and Thunder, Dungeons & Dragons, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Jason Blum chats about the new Exorcist’s approach to the franchise’s canon. Amazon sets an incredibly vague 2021 release window for Wheel of Time. Get a glimpse at the first five minutes of Netflix’s Fear Street: 1994. Plus, HBO’s Last of Us adaptation casts an important small role. To me, my spoilers!

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