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Before and especially after he showed up in the movies, Marvel’s comics gave Black Panther grand stories about his efforts to protect Wakanda and the larger universe from big threats. Being Wakanda’s king has meant he’s constantly had to shoulder the nation’s burdens on his back, but his upcoming solo series strips…
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Studio MAPPA Wows with Attack on Titan and Hell's Paradise Trailers
Animation studio MAPPA has kept itself pretty busy ever since it opened in 2011, and 2022 was an especially big year for it. Along with working on the second part of the final season of Attack on Titan, the company also released Chainsaw Man, Dance Dance Danseur, and brought Jujutsu Kaisen 0stateside. 2023 looks to…
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Sony Enlists Ant-Man & the Wasp Scribes to Adapt Gnomes Short Film
Marvel writers Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari have been hit up by Sony to pen the screenplay for the company’s next big horror film, Gnomes.

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Netflix's Pinocchio Movie Takes Home the Gold at PGA and Annie Awards
It’s awards season, and for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, the stop-motion movie got away with multiple awards spread across two events. On Saturday night, the Producers Guild of America and the animation-focused Annie Awards both had their respective ceremonies, and del Toro and Mark Gustafson’s acclaimed film came…
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Watch Live as SpaceX Launches a New Crew to the ISS
Four astronauts—two from NASA and the others from Russia and the United Arab Emirates—are set to blast off and begin their six-month mission on the International Space Station. You can watch the launch live right here.
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Ninja Turtles' Casey Jones Almost Had His Own Solo Film
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been around for decades, and through all the various interpretations, April O’Neil and Casey Jones have been their first (if not only) human allies. Between the two of them, it’s April who tends to get the spotlight the most, and Casey tends to show up later in the story. But…
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The Mandalorian Will Go On as Long as It Needs To, Says Jon Favreau
Ever since Disney+ hit the streets in 2019, The Mandalorianhas been one of the key reasons to have a subscription to the service. Folks love themselves some Pedro Pascal, particularly when he’s protecting a young child like Grogu. And if it seems like their adventures could go on forever, good news, Jon Favreau…
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DC's Dead Boy Detectives Show Jumps Ship to Netflix
The merger of Warner Bros. and Discovery didn’t just lead to several cancellations, it also put several shows in limbo. Because WB Discovery still remains focused on recouping money, the corporation is attempting to license out its stuff to other distributors, and that includes in-progress series like Batman: Caped…
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The Umbrella Academy Adds Nick Offerman to Its Final Season Cast
When Netflix’s The Umbrella Academyreturns for its fourth and final season, it won’t just have a new timeline, it’ll also bring some new blood to the cast.
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6 Times Hollywood Was Right About Getting 'Too Close' to AI
It’s no question that artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing, creating a buzz in the tech world and to all those who use it. But, as AI becomes a larger part of everyday life, from automated responses on Bing’s search engine to a human-like companion, it is questionable if this is all a good idea.
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Here Are Some of the Most Hacked States in America
Every year, the FBI publishes a report on the state of cybercrime in the U.S., based on statistics collected from the previous year. The organization that does the collecting, the bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, compiles information on a state-by-state basis, detailing where hacking incidents…
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8 Reasons Why Octopuses Are the Smartest, Pettiest Animals
Consider the octopus. With eight arms, elliptical pupils, color- and texture-changing skin, and a scary beak, it is a creature that seems conjured from the most Boschian of realities.
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10 Pieces of Fashion You Can Wear to Confuse Facial Recognition
I hate to break it to you, but a world where your every move can be tracked using facial recognition has gone from science fiction to an everyday reality. Facial recognition is common at airports, concerts, and stores, its in our schools, and you might even have to use it to file your taxes. Some people are willing to…
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It's Official: More Ads Are Coming to Apple TV+
You can look forward to more ads on Apple TV+ in the near future.
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A Software Bug Caused Two Alaska Airlines Flights to Suffer Tailstrikes on the Same Morning
In aviation, a “tail strike” is an unfortunate incident in which a plane’s tail literally strikes the runway, the ground, or another stationary object. Typically, such episodes will occur during take off or landing and, typically, they’re not considered dangerous. However, that’s not always the case, and they have…
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Phil Tippett Inspired This Week's Poker Face—and Here Are All the Awesome Creations
Have you been keeping up with the best superhero show on television? We’re talking, of course, about Poker Face, the episodic detective show created by Rian Johnson and starring Natasha Lyonne. Lyonne plays Charlie, a woman with a secret ability to detect a lie, which Johnson himself admitted that, yes, i…
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Ant-man’s Director on *That* End Credits Scene
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A Guide to the Messy, Divided Rights to The Lord of the Rings
Without one ring to rule them all, the rights for creators to tell stories in Middle-earth have long been a confusing mess—a mess that has only gotten more confusing when Embracer Group announced it had acquired a chunk of Lord of the Rings’ rights. Not sure who exactly can do what? Here’s our guide.

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Vast Acquires Rocket Engine Firm to Speed Development of Space Station With Artificial Gravity
In Vast’s quest to build a space station complete with artificial gravity, the private space company has acquired startup Launcher in order to take a step toward making its plans a reality. Despite the news of the acquisition, both companies remain tightlipped on Vast’s plans for the space station.

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Everything We Know About OpenAI's ChatGPT
If you haven’t heard of ChatGPT, the uncanny new chatbot from artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, here is a quick primer on everything you need to know about the controversial new program.
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Cinema is in its awards season, and with that comes special screening engagements for nominated films like RRR. Horror films Scream VI and Cocaine Bear are carving out fun with interactive pop-ups as they hit theaters. At the theme parks, Super Nintendo World officially announces it is coming to Epic Universe; Disney…
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The Pros and Cons of Repairing Your Own Gadgets
When something goes wrong with one of your gadgets, you’re faced with a choice: Fix it yourself, or call in some professional help. With your options for these routes constantly changing (both Apple and Samsung have launched self-repair kits in recent years), we wanted to give you an up-to-date look at what you’ve got…
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Live Nation Puts Fixing Ticket Sales on Performers and Lawmakers
Live Nation Entertainment, the company that’s owned Ticketmaster since 2010, knows it’s hard out there for music fans. Really, it does. That’s why the company, which faced massive public pushback earlier this year in the aftermath of a Taylor Swift ticket sale meltdown, has proposed a (kind of) solution.

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How To Print Anything From Your Phone or Tablet, No Laptop Required
We’re still not living in a fully paperless world, and all kinds of documents still need to be printed now and again: Application forms, quiz sheets, training materials, wedding speeches, and more all need to be in physical form for one reason or another. However, you don’t necessarily need to have a laptop or desktop…
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Terran Orbital Scores $2.4 Billion Deal to Develop 300 Satellites for Rivada
Satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital has been awarded a hefty contract by Rivada Space Networks to build 288 low Earth orbit satellites, and 12 spare satellites, for its communications constellation.
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The Best Apps and Tools For Enhancing Your Windows Taskbar
The taskbar is at the center of everything you do on Microsoft’s operating system—launching and closing apps, switching between windows, personalizing the desktop—and has been around in some form since Windows 1.0. You’re definitely familiar with it. What you might not be familiar with is that you can actually…
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Star Trek: Picard's Season 3 Premiere Is Streaming on YouTube For Free
Even if you’ve not watched the first two seasons of Star Trek: Picard (which is not entirely necessary, for better or worse), the third season’s promise of a big The Next Generation reunion has Trek fans talking—and if you’ve not started it yet, Paramount’s giving you a tease for free.
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U.S. Man's Death Suggests Deadly Tick Virus Is Spreading to New Regions
A rare but sometimes fatal tickborne infection may be expanding its range in the U.S., local and federal health officials warn in a report this week. They say that a case of Heartland virus led to a man’s death in 2021. The infection is thought to have been caught in either Virginia or Maryland—a region of the…
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How To Actually Choose a New Smartphone
If you’re in the market for a new smartphone, you’ve certainly got plenty of options to pick from—but it’s not necessarily all that easy to spot the differences between the dozens of glass-and-metal-and-plastic slabs that are out there. At the same time, certain specs and features that were once crucial are now less…
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Watch Out, Elon: China Could Launch 13,000 Satellites to Disrupt Starlink
In an effort to stifle Elon Musk’s Starlink, researchers in China are planning to launch their own fleet. The proposed megaconstellation has no set launch date, but is expected to consist of 12,992 satellites equipped with technologies to conduct surveillance on Starlink, among other capabilities.

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Amazon Taking Heat for Inhumane Donkey Products Sold by Third-Party Vendors
Amazon is facing a stampede of protest over third-party vendors being allowed to sell donkey-based products. A few Donkey-based items, remedies, and snacks easily found on the digital marketplace are products of an international, inhumane slaughter of donkeys, and one California-based equine nonprofit wants Amazon to…
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These AI-Generated Images of Climate Change Make Me Uncomfortable
It’s getting harder to avoid AI-generated images and text—and harder to spot them in the first place—and that’s true even on Shutterstock, one of the world’s leading providers of stock photography. Last month, Shutterstock rolled out a tool for paying users that allows them to generate AI images based on their…
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Teacher Charged After Crypto Mining Operation Discovered in School Crawl Space
A Massachusetts teacher is facing charges after authorities say he carried out an elaborate cryptocurrency mining operation out of the school where he worked. Nadeam Nahas, 39, was teaching at Cohasset High School when a town facilities inspector visited the school and found an unusual electrical setup in one room.
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish's Directors on Not Taking Life for Granted
The Shrek universe proves it still has stories to tell with Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The sequel to the Antonio Banderas-led spin-off gives the DreamWorks franchise a soft reimagining that makes us excited for more.

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Spring Has Sprung Way Early in Parts of the U.S.
February 2023 has been especially warm, causing early spring-like conditions throughout the U.S.

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The Spider-Man of India Is Back With His Own Comic
Pavitr Prabhakar is one of the most iconic alternate Spider-heroes in Marvel’s long history of Spider-People—and his name is going to be on the lips of a lot more fans when he takes a starring role in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. But io9 can exclusively reveal that this summer, Pavitr is getting his own comic…
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East Palestine Train Derailment Killed at Least 43,000 Animals
People in East Palestine, Ohio are still struggling with uncertainty and fear for their health and community in the aftermath of the disastrous derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals on February 6. This week, the extreme impacts of that spill on local wildlife became clearer.

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The Creators of That 3D-Printed Airless Basketball Can Now Make Custom Helmets That Perfectly Fit Your Head
The biggest lie humanity has ever been told is that one size fits all. Every single one of us is different and unique, especially when it comes to the shape and size of our bodies. Bauer, a company that specializes in hockey gear, is finally taking that into account with a new partnership that will allow it produce…
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
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The best phone of 2023 might look very different to different people. Some of us are power users, and look for huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there’s the folks who want something simple and cheap that will…
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Mandalorian Creator Jon Favreau Points Fans to YouTube to Catch Up Before Season 3
The mega-hit Star Wars Disney+ series The Mandalorian returns next week and some fans might be a little confused when it does. Season two ended with Grogu leaving the Mandalorian to go train with Luke Skywalker. Season three will begin with Grogu already back by the Mandalorian’s side. And while the connective tissue…
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Officials Begin Feral Cow Slaughter in New Mexico
Federal officials from the U.S. Forest Service on Friday climbed into helicopters with high-powered rifles and set their sights on cows. A planned “lethal removal” of about 150 un-owned cattle roaming New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness in Gila National Forest was set to begin Thursday and run through Sunday, February 26.

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How the War on Terror Set the Stage for Today's Moderation Wars
This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could upend the way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the internet. Both Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh ask the court to reconsider how the law interprets Section 230, a regulation that protects companies from legal liability for…
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Zuckerberg Introduces Meta’s Answer to ChatGPT, LLaMA
Move over OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s Prometheus—there’s yet another large language model-powered artificial intelligence in town. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, introduced its own AI today, called LLaMA. The animal-esque acronym predictably stands for Large Language Model Meta AI.

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Ant-Man 3 Writer Talks Its Ending, Avenger Murder, and the Puzzle of Avengers: Kang Dynasty
Right now, if you want to know about Kang’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the person to talk to is Jeff Loveness. Loveness, best known for his work on Rick & Morty, not only wrote Marvel’s current hit Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, he’s also writing Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, the fifth Avengers film…
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Inaugural Launch of ULA's Vulcan Centaur Rocket Pushed to May
United Launch Alliance is hoping that the Force will be with them on May 4, a date the company is hoping to launch its Vulcan heavy-lift rocket for the very first time.
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But She's Got a New Hat
Late last year, the Pokémon Company shocked the world with the announcement that Satoshi—better known in the west as Ash Ketchum—would be bowing out as the enduring star of the long-running Pokémon anime. The company has started rolling out details about the anime’s new heroes... and by revealing that Pokémon could…
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'This Is Harassment': Alex Jones Says the DOJ Wants to Seize His $2,000 Cat
The hits keep on coming for Alex Jones, the disgraced radio host who peddled lies and conspiracy theories on his show Infowars following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Now having declared bankruptcy following his repeated trials for his misinformation about the mass shooting, Jones is sounding the alarm…
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How the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Post-Credits Scene Was Created
No matter what you may have thought of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, you have to admit the first end-credit scene, in particular, was awesome. It beautifully put into motion not just the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but tied up a few loose ends that had been set up in the film itself. When both of…
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Uh-Oh: Feds Say Google 'Systematically Destroyed' Evidence for Years by Auto-Deleting Employee Chats
Google’s reliance on commonly used messaging systems that automatically delete conversations after a day has landed the company in hot water with the Department of Justice.
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Peter Jackson Is 'In the Loop' On Those New Lord of the Rings Movie Plans
Last night when more Lord of the Rings movies were announced, everyone was deeply interested in what they could possibly be planning. After the beloved trilogy of films in the early 2000s and the less-than-beloved Hobbit trilogy, what more can be done? (Well, there’s War of the Rohirrim, but still!)

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Stephanie Hsu spoke to Jimmy Fallon about her role as Jobu Tupaki in the breakout A24 film Everything Everywhere All At Once, directed by the Daniels (Swiss Army Man). She reveals that she had to get over some nerves when it came down to embodying Jobu—someone who’s so over the top and wild, a foil to the grounded and…
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Western Cities Vote to Keep U.S. Nuclear Dream Alive (For Now)
A group of cities in the Western U.S. have voted to move ahead with a new nuclear project that could help revolutionize how clean power is generated in this country—despite sharply rising costs for the project.

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Astra Investigation Uncovers Cause of Failed Rocket Launch
Last summer, Astra’s Rocket 3.3 came crashing down after failing to reach orbit and deliver a pair of shoe-box sized satellites. Following a six-month investigation, the California-based startup identified the culprit: fuel injector blockage that resulted in combustion chamber burn-through.
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Why Banning TikTok Won’t Protect Our Privacy
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Dave Filoni on Ahsoka and His Star Wars Transition From Animation Into Live Action
For years, Dave Filoni was the Star Wars animation guy. He worked side by side with George Lucas on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. That was followed by the first new Star Wars project released by Disney, Star Wars Rebels. He’s also produced both Star Wars Resistance and Star Wars: The Bad Batch. But with the birth of…
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Elon Musk's Plans to Test Neuralink in Humans Reportedly Squashed by FDA
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant company, is facing a new roadblock on its extremely ambitious avowed quest to cure blindness and paralysis. The Food and Drug Administration has shot down Neuralink’s application to proceed to human trials with its device, according to a Thursday report from Reuters, attributed to…
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The Mandalorian's Grogu Is Getting Into Shenanigans in Google Search
“Hey, Grogu, put that down,” I said to my screen, myself the only person in the room. On Thursday, Google provided a little Easter egg for all those anticipating the drop of The Mandalorian’s third season.
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The New Alien Movie Just Cast Its Second Lead
Fire up the pulse rifles and get your acid spit ready. The new Alien movie from director Fede Alvarez just added its second lead, meaning we’re getting that much closer to seeing Xenomorphs on the big screen again. Previously, Cailee Spaeny joined the project, and now Isabela Merced, seen in the recent Hulu hit …
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FTC Set to Fine BetterHelp $7.8 Million for Sending Facebook Your Mental Health Data
The Federal Trade Commission is poised to ban the mental health app BetterHelp from sharing medical information with Facebook, Snapchat, and other online advertisers. A proposed order issued Thursday includes a $7.8 million fine and limits the ways BetterHelp can share mental health data going forward. It’s part of a…
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13 Important Google Maps Settings You Probably Don't Know About
Google Maps continues to get new features and updates more often than you’d think, and if you haven’t been paying attention, you might have missed a number of changes that can make getting around a lot easier.

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2022's Emissions Tell the Story of a Hot, Violent Year
The world emitted more carbon dioxide last year compared to any other year on record, according to data released Thursday from the International Energy Agency. And while the growth of emissions was slower last year than it had been in past years—thanks to an explosion of renewable energy around the world during the …
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A Journalist Uncovers an Alien Conspiracy (Maybe?) in Sci-Fi Thriller Monolith
Lily Sullivan is about to see her horror profile rise exponentially—she stars in Evil Dead Rise, which releases in April—but today, io9 has the exclusive teaser premiere of another genre film she’ll soon appear in: Monolith, an Australian sci-fi thriller screening in the SXSW Film Festival’s “Midnighters” program.

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No One's Having a Good Time on Star Trek: Picard, and That's Great
Star Trek: Picard season three has so far been, even with the promise of greater stakes to come, something of a relaxing, almost idealistic venture. It’s been about our heroes being the heroes we want them to be, getting things done consequences be damned, about the discovery of legacy, and so on. This week however…
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Dallas Morning News Reporter Says She Was Fired for Calling the Mayor ‘Bruh’ on Twitter
A reporter says she was fired by her paper after calling the mayor of Dallas “bruh” on Twitter, a comment the news outlet claimed violated its social media policy.
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Hellboy's Next Movie Reboot The Crooked Man Finds Its Star
Millennium Media’s upcoming adaptation of Mike Mignola’s Hellboyhas found its Big Red. Jack Kesy (The Strain) will star in The Crooked Man.
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Texas Is Trying to Scrub Abortion From Its Internet
Last week, Texas introduced a bill that would make it illegal for internet service providers to let users access information about how to get abortion pills. The bill, called the Women and Child Safety Act, would also criminalize creating, editing, or hosting a website that helps people seek abortions.
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Alarmed by Satellite Constellations, Astronomers Petition the UN for Help
Astronomers looking up at the night skies have started to feel the effects of the growing number of satellites swarming Earth orbit, and they want to do something about it before it’s too late. An international group of astronomy organizations have banded together to petition the United Nations, asking it to form a…
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'Halt This Plan': Senators Tell Meta Not to Open Horizon Worlds to Teens
After reports revealed that Meta was planning on opening Horizon Worlds to teens, two democratic senators are now encouraging the company to reconsider. Meta’s virtual reality video game platform is currently 18+, but internal documents previously indicated that Meta was planning on enticing kids to join in on the…
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Biden's First Veto Will Be Over 'Woke Capitalism'
President Joe Biden is expected to issue the first veto of his term to defend the right for retirement plan managers to direct client investments based on environmental and social considerations. The anticipated action follows the advancement of a Republican-backed resolution through the House and Senate this week…
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Apple Blocked a ChatGPT Email App From the App Store
Apple waded into the debate over generative artificial intelligence this week when it blocked a ChatGPT-powered email app over concerns the app would not properly filter content for young audiences. The blocked app update, which the developer claims is unfair, points to the power Apple could wield to set AI moderation…
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Doctor Apple Wants to Scan Your Entire Body Now
Apple is already big on biometric data for letting users unlock their phones, but a new patent shows the Cupertino company is looking ahead to the day when it can scan a user’s face, neck, chest, arms, legs—AKA your full silhouette—to let you access a device, or else allow your phone to tell you if you should be…
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Florida health officials say a man recently died from a brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri—an infection likely caught from rinsing his sinuses with tap water. These infections are incredibly rare but almost always lethal, and they have been previously linked to nasal rinsing, such as through the use of neti…
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Could NASA's Electric Airplane Make Aviation More Sustainable?
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Spaceflight Shakeup: Leading Rocket Company ULA Is Reportedly Up for Sale
Ars Technica spaceflight reporter Eric Berger writes that prominent launch provider ULA is up for sale and that investment firm Morgan Stanley and consulting firm Bain & Company are overseeing the transaction. As to ULA’s potential suitor, we can only speculate.

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Indian Temple Uses Robot Elephant to Curb Animal Cruelty
A robotic elephant was donated to an Indian temple to replace having a wild creature living in captivity. PETA India donated the elephant named Irinjadappilly Raman, to the Sree Krishna Temple in Kerala to “help conduct ceremonies at the temple in a safe and cruelty-free manner,” the animal rights organization said in…
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Robots Using Hansel-and-Gretel Strategy Could Map Martian Caves
Researchers from the University of Arizona have developed a possible new way of scouting for real estate on other planets: tiny robots that drop digital breadcrumbs while exploring Martian caves. It’s a method ripped straight from folklore.
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The Haunted Mansion's First Trailer Invites You Inside
We’d seen a little Haunted Mansion footage at the D23 Expo last year, but it didn’t prepare us for the movie’s first actual trailer. If you’re a diehard Disney fan, you’ll probably recognize dozens of nods (if not outright replications) of spooks and scares from the beloved ride, but even if you’re not, Haunted Mansion…
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Paizo Takes a Stand Against AI-Generated Art
As the fight over licensing rights in the tabletop industry begins to die down, Paizo has turned its attention to another issue of contention: AI-generated art. Talking broadly about both generated text and images, Paizo has stated on its blog that it will not employ the use of such tools because of the “ethical and…
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These 'Headphones' Are Actually For Clearing Out Excess Earwax
Struggling to keep your wireless earbuds clean? You can buy cleaning kits for AirPods that come with purpose-built tools for getting rid of earwax, or you can deal with the problem at the source with a device that looks like an over-sized pair of headphones, but is actually a washing machine for your ears.
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A Goofy Movie's Powerline Headlines WonderCon 2023 Funko and Loungefly Exclusives
Convention season is gaining momentum, and for WonderCon 2023 Funko and Loungefly have the goods for the spring fandom fling.
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‘Dance, Bing, Dance’: Microsoft Lets Users Choose the Tone of Chatbot's 'Personality'
Microsoft’s Bing AI now has three different modes to play around with, though even the most “Creative” version of the company’s Prometheus AI remains a severely limited version of the ChatGPT model.
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Now Baby Yoda Can Help You Keep Your AirPods Safe
One of the best features of Apple’s wireless earbuds—their sleek and compact charging case that’s one of the smallest on the market—unfortunately also makes the AirPods and AirPods Pro easy to lose. And while Apple provides several electronic ways to find a lost pair of buds, an easier solution might just be to make…
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Gotham Knights Taps Killer of Batman's Parents for 'Who Killed Batman' Mystery
Netflix teases its new Chupacabra movie. Scream 6 dives into making the deadliest Ghostface yet. Amazon wants to take a crack at Day of the Triffids. Plus, what’s to come in the season finale of The Winchesters. Spoilers now!

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SpaceX Launches NASA's Crew-6 Mission on Second Attempt
Following a last-minute scrub early Monday morning, SpaceX successfully launched four astronauts on a one-day trek to the International Space Station.
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Why North Dakota Could Sue Minnesota Over Clean Energy
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Talkspace Allegedly Ignores Your Therapy Needs and Charges for Sessions You Aren't Getting
If you walk into a brick and mortar therapist’s office, a receptionist will tell you if there’s no availability. It’s probably a safe assumption they won’t charge you for the therapy sessions they aren’t giving you, either. Allegedly, neither of those things are true on Talkspace, a popular mental health app that…
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Scientists Say They've Created a Better, Possibly Safer Sunscreen
Scientists in China say they’ve begun to develop what could be the first of a new and improved generation of sunscreens. In mice, their experimental polymer appeared to provide greater protection against ultraviolet radiation than commercial products. It also wasn’t absorbed through the skin and seemed to be non-toxic…
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14 Internet-Adjacent Slang Words Newly Added to Dictionary.com
Every so often, dictionaries spruce up their database of lexicography in order to get with the times. Dictionary.com is no different, and announced this week the new additions to the website’s catalog of words.

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Ultra-Rare Insect Found in an Arkansas Walmart Parking Lot
A rare species, once common but thought to be extinct in the eastern U.S. for decades, has been rediscovered loitering at a Walmart.
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We Found 28,000 Apps Sending TikTok Data. Banning the App Won't Help.
Joe Biden gave federal agencies 30 days to remove TikTok from government devices earlier this week. Until now, most politicians intent on punishing TikTok have focused solely on banning the app itself, but, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters, federal agencies must also “prohibit internet traffic from reaching the…
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Polling the Internet: What Will the Government Blame Havana Syndrome on Next?
Havana syndrome, the bizarre malaise that has impacted over a thousand U.S. foreign service members all over the world, is still a total mystery. Indeed, even as the government has attempted to explain away some of the weirdness, it’s pretty obvious we still have no fucking idea what this thing is.
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Netflix's Agent Elvis Reveals Its Full Cast and a Hip-Swiveling Full Trailer
We already knew Matthew McConaughey had been cast to voice the title character on Agent Elvis, and thanks to this new trailer for the Netflix series—the first adult animated project from Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse studio Sony Pictures Animation—we’ve got an even better idea of what to expect from this mash-up…
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Elon Musk presented Tesla’s much-hyped “Master Plan 3" on Wednesday, in the company’s first “investor day” livestream. But, instead of revealing a new Tesla model, specifying the date of the repeatedly delayed cybertruck launch, introducing a more affordable electric car (as previously promised), or announcing some…
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Balancing Fan Expectations in The Mandalorian
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' Directors Take Comedy Seriously
Directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley knew they had a huge task in front of them when they started working on the Dungeons & Dragonsscript that had been floating around Hollywood for a few years (the Honor Among Thieves subtitle wouldn’t come until later in the process). In a new interview with Variety,…
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Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser, Year One: Things We Liked and Things That Can Improve
A year ago saw the opening of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, an attraction at Walt Disney World aiming to bring interactive experiences to a new level with its three-day vacation in “space.” A blend of LARPing, immersive theater, and Disney Cruise, Galactic Starcruiser takes Star Wars fans and their families on…
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SpaceX Rival Rocket Lab Targeting Multi-Continent Launches Later This Month
Rocket Lab is riding the wave from last year’s success, gearing up for rapid back-to-back launches from sites in New Zealand and the United States. One of the planned launches will initiate a new partnership with U.S. space tech company Capella Space.
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OpenAI Says It Won't Steal Data From Those Who Use Its New API to Train ChatGPT
OpenAI, the makers of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, has practically become the tech world’s go-to for implementing AI. On Wednesday the company announce it’s making it easier for developers to jam large language models down the pipe of every app and site who wants it. But more than that, it wants to let any company that ends…
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The Daniels' Kaiju-Infused Jennifer Coolidge Shoot Is a Fantastic Love Letter to Tokusatsu
The Daniels might be tearing up awards season right now as the incredible Everything Everywhere All at Once racks up accolades, but their latest work is just as eclectic and delightful: taking queer icon Jennifer Coolidge and transforming her into a high camp Power Rangers villainess to die for.

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Everything We Know About the iPhone 15
The conveyor belts haven’t even finished delivering components to the right hands, and we’re already talking about what to expect from Apple’s iPhone 15. Rumors started circulating right after the launch of the iPhone 14/14 Pro, and they’ve only gotten louder and more persistent in recent months.

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These On-Ear Headphones Can Double as Speakers, But Still Aren't Worth It
Launched in mid-2022, the V-Moda S80 on-ear headphones didn’t gain much traction. Initially priced at $400, in just less than a year, their price has been slashed down to $170, and rightfully so. For $400, the S-80s lacked a number of features you’d normally take for granted at that price point, like ANC. We’re not…
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We here at io9 have been fans of Everything Everywhere All at Once since we heard the first rumblings of a second film from the Daniels in 2017. I mean, how do you top Daniel Radcliffe as a magical farting corpse in Swiss Army Man? The answer is, of course, a multiversal romp through diasporic trauma with kung fu…
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Nothing Phone (2) Will Be Much Stronger, but Still Weaker Than Most Other Flagships
A Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip could power the Nothing Phone (2). A recent post from a Qualcomm executive let it slip that, seemingly, the next Nothing flagship device would run on the company’s 2022 chip instead of the one shipping with 2023's current flagships. That would leave the phone much stronger than the Nothing…
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Florida Startup Moves Closer to Building Data Centers on the Moon
Unprecedented access to space is leading to all sorts of cool new ideas, including the prospect of storing data on the lunar surface. Cloud computing startup Lonestar Data Holdings announced the results of its latest funding round, taking it one step closer to this very goal.
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Second Norfolk Southern Train Derailment in Ohio Prompts Federal Probe
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board on Monday were scheduled to begin assessing a railway incident that occurred over the weekend. A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed near Springfield, Ohio on Saturday, March 4, around 5 p.m. ET. Of the train’s 212 cars, 28 went off the tracks, Kraig…
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The Hunger Games | The Last of Us Episode 8 Review
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The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Changed the DNA of Local Dogs
New research shines a light on how the Chernobyl disaster changed the DNA of the dogs that remained in the area. Scientists collected samples from hundreds of free-roaming canines in the exclusion zone and found that they were genetically distinct from dogs elsewhere in the world. The scientists are still exploring…
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Protesters and Police Clash at Explosive Protest at Atlanta's 'Cop City'
Last night, a conflict broke out at Atlanta’s yet-to-be-built Atlanta Public Safety Training Center—nicknamed “Cop City”—which saw police and protestors clash, while the latter reportedly threw rocks, fireworks, and Molotov cocktails.

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Another Bright Comet Is Heading to Earth
An incoming comet recently spotted by telescopes in China and South Africa could be as bright as a planet in the night sky next year, according to astronomers who studied the object.
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In 1979, An Entire Science Class Went 'Berserk' After Being Hypnotized
On October 25, 1979, students at a Miami military academy experienced a frightening outbreak of sudden mass hysteria that began in a science class and spread throughout the school. A newspaper article published the next day used a single-word headline to mull the cause: “DEMONS?” Demons? Probably not.
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Marc Guggenheim Is Sad James Gunn Doesn't Care About the Arrowverse
Marc Guggenheim has been involved in the DC television universe for about 10 years. He’s worked on Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Batwoman, and Legends of Tomorrow, and was a big part of Crisis on Infinite Earths, the five-hour crossover between a lot of the properties. And now that DC seems to be moving on without him,…
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Sen. Mark Warner Says His New TikTok Ban Is Just Good Business
For years, American politicians have worked to ban TikTok over privacy and national security concerns. But the leaky ad businesses of other tech companies, including American ones, could expose data to the Chinese Communist Party in the exact same ways, and the U.S. government’s technical evidence to demonstrate why…
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The Mandalorian Is Finally Giving Everyone Under the Helmet Proper Credit
The Mandalorian made a huge change for its third season and maybe you didn’t even realize it. It happens during the credits where all the familiar, famous names are given prominent placement over the super cool concept art. Pedro Pascal, Katee Sackhoff, yup we know them. Emily Swallow and Carl Weathers, sure. Then two…
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These Lonely Animals Were the Last of Their Kind
Extinction is an age-old song, one played so many times in Earth’s history that we regularly discover new species that died out in the ancient past. But only in the last century have humans generally been aware of the final member of a species, typically because the creature is held in captivity.

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Twitter's Links and Pics Are Boinked [Update: It’s 'Fixed']
For a period of time on Monday, Twitter was, once again, not working very well. The site has faced an increasing number of technical snafus since Elon Musk took over the platform in October 2022, and began gutting the company’s staff in multiple rounds of layoffs.

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The Russo Brothers Leap From Marvel to Spy Games With Prime Video's Citadel
Avengers: Endgame directors the Russo Brothers are delving into the spy genre with Prime Video’s star-studded new series Citadel, and the first trailer is here.
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YouTube Music's Contractors Are Actually Employees, According to a Federal Labor Official
Google parent Alphabet should officially be considered the “joint employer” of a crew of scrappy YouTube Music contract workers, according to a new ruling from a National Labor Relation Board official. That means the Austin, Texas-based group of around 60 workers currently vying to organize with the Alphabet Worker…
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Apple Reportedly Planning New M3-Powered iMac, Larger MacBook Airs For Release This Year
Good news for all those iMac fans pounding the table for another all-in-one device from Apple. One oft-cited Apple analyst said we may see another iMac drop later this year, coming much sooner than previously anticipated and potentially boasting an M3 chip.
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Researchers Create Plastic Straws from Potato Starch
As the war on plastic straws rages on, researchers in Korea have created a bioplastic alternative that is made out of potato starch and citric acid. In a paper paper published in ACS Omega, the team says that these new straws are stronger than plastic and more durable than paper.
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How The Flash Changed Shazam 2 and Why It Doesn't Follow the First End Credits Scene
For the past few years, as fans have watched the drama unfold at DC Films, David F. Sandberg has had a front-row seat. His latest film, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, is a follow-up to his 2019 hit, meaning it was put into production by the previous regime. The film was then delayed due to covid, had its release date …
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Hazards of Gas Stoves Were Flagged by the Industry—and Hidden—50 Years Ago
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Watch Live as Japan Re-Attempts First Launch of H3 Rocket
Japan’s highly anticipated H3 rocket sputtered on the launch pad during its first launch attempt, but its space agency is now ready to perform a do-over on Monday. You can catch the action live right here.
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It’s only been a couple of months since Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury was off our screens, but one of the best anime of 2022 is already ready to come back for more—and real soon.

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Forget Collars—There's a Kinder Way to Track Polar Bears in the Arctic
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Rockets Present a Potential New Threat to the Ozone Layer
The rapidly rising number of space launches could pose a new threat to Earth’s critical ozone layer, according to a growing body of scientific research.

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Tesla Cuts Model S and Model X Prices Again, but the EVs Are Still Expensive
How much does a Tesla cost? The question seems straightforward, but Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company has been adjusting its prices so much this year, it’s a little hard to keep up.

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Joker 2 Set Pictures Tease Some Clownish Copycats
John Wick faces down the High Table in a new clip from Chapter 4. Candice Patton confirms she has finished filming The Flash. Plus, what’s coming on Superman & Lois, and a new look at Shadow and Bone season 2. To me, my spoilers!

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Bing AI’s Secret Celebrity Chat Mode Lets Out Misogynistic Frustrations as Andrew Tate
Microsoft secretly rolled out a new feature into its Bing AI preview that lets users emulate certain famous people. It does a, let’s just say, “interesting” job at emulating some celebrities’ speech patterns. We also took a look at what it’s allowed to say on behalf of some extremely controversial or hateful figures.
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Nothing's Next Wireless Earbuds, The Ear (2), Will Debut on March 22
There’s good reason to be excited for Nothing’s next product announcement, because it’s a sequel to the company’s very first product, the Ear (1) wireless earbuds, which delivered impressive performance at a price point that was originally just $99 (they’re now $150). The Nothing Ear (2) wireless earbuds will…
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This Week's Toy News Brings Big Boy Season to a Smaller Scale
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular look at some of the coolest new toys around the internet. This week Star Wars fever returns thanks to The Mandalorian and Return of the Jedi’s 40th anniversary, Hasbro’s Transformers go giant-sized, and Super7's latest Simpsons toys offer a spook. Check it out!
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This Week in Spaceflight: 3D-Printed Rocket Attempts First Flight, New NASA Artemis Insights, and More
Relativity Space is poised to make history on Wednesday with the launch of Terran-1—a rocket primarily constructed from 3D-printed parts. Japan is also set for an inaugural launch, with the delayed H3 rocket now set for a do-over launch.

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TMNT: Mutant Mayhem's First Trailer Packs a Stylish Punch
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have had a healthy life recently thanks to the comics and recent shows, but one area where they’ve been absent as of late is film. It’s been long enough since those live-action movies that a new cinematic crack at the franchise is more than welcome, and Paramount is ready to try again…
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Detect the Counterfeit Coins?
Welcome to the first Gizmodo Monday Puzzle, a new series in which I will pose thought-provoking challenges at the beginning of every week to jumpstart your brain. I am a lifelong puzzle lover, sometime puzzle creator, and new Gizmodo puzzle writer. Many of the teasers posted here will be difficult—but they will be…
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Would You Trust ChatGPT at Your Job?
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly used at work to enhance productivity, improve decision making and reduce costs, including automating administrative tasks and monitoring security.

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China Accuses the U.S. of Suppressing Chinese Tech Companies
China accused the U.S. of stealing its technological autonomy in a press conference on Monday, Reuters reported. Spokesperson Mao Ning claimed that by imposing various TikTok bans, “the U.S. is trying to deprive it of developmental rights and perpetuate its own hegemony,” the outlet wrote.
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The Last of Us' Penultimate Episode Will Leave You Shocked
The first season of The Last of Us is nearing its end and it’s time to bring the pain. Episode eight, “When We Are in Need,” just aired and it brought the story back to Joel and Ellie after episode six’s stabbing and episode seven’s detour into flashback. Can Ellie save Joel? How would that happen? Neither answer is…
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Creed III Hits Hard with $100 Million Box Office Start
Movie-wise, the month of March is pretty packed with big blockbusters, and it all starts with Creed III. The directorial debut of Michael B. Jordan that also features Jonathan Majors and Tessa Thompson has been the talk of the town ahead of release, and its opening weekend is already a knockout.

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20th Century Studios Comes to Comics with New Marvel Imprint
Last year, the news broke that Marvel was releasing a new comic book for the Planet of the Apesfranchise ahead of its eventual return to theaters in 2024. That future film will be released under the 20th Century Studios banner, and it appears the production company will continue to live on in the comics space beyond…
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Free Guy is Getting a Sequel, But Ryan Reynolds Doesn't Think It's Needed
Back in 2021 following a pandemic-forced delay, the video game movie Free Guyreleased in theaters. In it, Ryan Reynolds played an NPC in a fictional who became aware of his existence and helped a player fight back against his game’s developer. Joined by Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi, and Lil Rel Howrey, it was generally…
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Open Channel: Let's Talk About How Great Clancy Brown Is
Just before the weekend started, news broke that beloved character actor Clancy Brown would be joining The Penguin, WB’s TV spinoff of the now one-year-old The Batman. Brown’s been a part of the DC universe for years, having most famously voiced Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe that still partially defines the…
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Russia's Technological Advantage Has Been No Match for Ukraine's Ingenuity
In less than a year, Ukraine’s military has emerged as a modern, effective fighting force in large part due to an abundance of technology provided by the United States and its NATO allies.
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Too Many Studies on Teen Social Media Use Only Look at White Kids
Most research on teen social media use has been conducted on white teens and college students. As a result, it is unclear to what extent overlooked populations such as racial and ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities and other vulnerable adolescent populations may be using social media in different ways.
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Apple makes sleek, fast, easy-to-use products. They’re cross compatible, which makes moving from your iPhone to your Macbook simple and easy, whether you’re copying text or going from podcasts on your phone to Youtube on your computer. Apple also makes your life more annoying, more expensive, and less secure in a…
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Welcome to the Kings League, Gerard Piqué’s New Soccer ‘Circus’ Going Viral on Twitch
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Behold, Your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the Mutant Mayhem Movie
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been a fixture in the movie landscape for decades. Even as the titular heroes have been dominating TV in recent years thanks to Rise of the TMNTand the CG series, we’ve known for awhile that Seth Rogen was working on bringing them back to the silver screen. And now that moment is…
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man Adds Two More to Its Supernatural Cast
After breaking the news earlier in the week that Jack Kesy was the new Hellboy for the upcoming film reboot The Crooked Man, Millennium Media has confirmed the addition of two more actors to the cast. Co-starring in the film alongside Kesy will be Jefferson White and Adeline Rudolph.

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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Finally Comes to Peacock Next Week
Just as 2022 was winding down, Puss in Boots: The Last Wishcame rolling into theaters as an unexpected hit. The well-liked and Oscar nominated spinoff of DreamWorks’ Shrek franchise has been gradually gaining a strong, passionate audience in the months post-release, and grossed nearly $450 million worldwide. If…
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Others Join Robert Eggers' Nosferatu Remake
Since late last year, Robert Eggers has been gradually adding stars to the incoming remake of Nosferatuthat he’ll be writing and directing. Bill Skarsgård and Lily Rose-Depp were the first to join his film, followed by Nicholas Hoult and more recently Willem Dafoe, who previously worked with Eggers on last year’s The…
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Cyberpunk, Demon Slayer, and More Win Big at 2023 Anime Awards
On Saturday, Crunchyroll held its 2023 Anime Awards ceremony. The event honored the best anime shows, films, and performances of 2022 and for the coveted Anime of the Year award, Studio Trigger’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunnerstook home the gold.

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I Read the Biden Administration's New Cyber Policy So You Don't Have To
Since taking office, Joe Biden has made it known that he’s going to take cybercrime seriously. It’s not the case that Biden is the world’s most tech-savvy octonarian, rather, he’s simply responding to security challenges that have developed on his watch—most notably a string of increasingly destructive cyberattacks…
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Henry Kissinger, the Man Who Nearly Started WWIII, Is Making Bonkers Predictions About How ChatGPT Will Upend Reality
Nothing quite screams “foremost authority on generative article intelligence” like a 99 year-old-German man who nearly ushered in a global nuclear war over a game of geopolitical chicken.

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500-Mile-Long Power Line Hits a Roadblock: Ice Age Fossils
A proposal to build a nearly 500-mile-long stretch of transmission line in Nevada has been further delayed due to the discovery of possible fossil deposits in its path.
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This is truly wild. In our year 2023, we’re finally hitting robotics at theme parks with the knowledge of how to get back up if knocked down, which is totally a good idea. Totally.
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TikTok Whistleblower Tells Congress Data Protections Don't Stop Chinese Access
A former TikTok employee turned whistleblower has reportedly met with multiple U.S. senators expressing concerns TikTok’s plan to secure U.S. user data won’t go far enough to stop possible Chinese espionage. The whistleblower told The Washington Post in an interview that the company’s policy plan, dubbed Project Texas…
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HBO Max Is Reportedly Changing Its Name—Again
Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly dropping HBO from the name of its HBO Max streaming service as execs speculate that the branding is responsible for lackluster subscriptions. The possibility of a name change comes as HBO Max is merging with Discovery+ this spring.
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Marco Rubio Reminds You to Adjust Your Clock on Sunday With Renewed Push for Permanent Daylight Saving Time
Alongside Daylight Saving Time (DST) comes the yearly discussion in Congress of whether to eliminate it altogether. We lose that extra hour of sleep as the clocks spring forward on Sunday.
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NASA Will Soon Reveal Who's Flying to the Moon for the Artemis 2 Mission
We are soon going to learn the identities of the four astronauts who will strap into the Orion spacecraft and travel farther into space than any crew before.
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Behold, the Mario Movie's Very Real Boots
It’s a big day for Mario Mario. It’s literally his day—March 10, a.k.a. Mar10—his new movie just got a cool trailer, and Nintendo has decided that the best way to celebrate that is to steal his shoes and put them in the plumber’s ancestral home of New York. Of course, io9 was there to take a look!
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What Is an Xvid File and How Do I Play or Convert One?
Most file formats, extensions, and codecs are easy enough to recognize, but one of the lesser-known ones that you might come across is Xvid (which in terms of capitalization can be styled in a number of ways). It’s essentially a way of compressing video, and it’s been around since 2001—and here we’re going to explain…
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Judge Says SBF's Proposed Bail Conditions Are Too Cushy
A federal judge doesn’t think proposed changes to Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions will be enough to address the disgraced FTX founder’s messy online behavior while awaiting trial, according to a Friday Reuters report.

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Everything We Know About James Cameron's Avatar Sequels

• Avatar, written and directed by James Cameron, was released in 2009 and became the highest-grossing film ever—which it still is to this day.

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How To Drop a Pin in Google Maps
Google Maps is full of pins—it uses one for its app icon too—directing you towards shops, bars, restaurants, and other places of note. You can also use your own pins for your own purposes, and you’ve got a few options when it comes to dropping pins in Google Maps in both the mobile and desktop interfaces.

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Tennessee Republican Is 'Really, Really Sorry' He Commented on Gay Model’s Ass Pic
Republican Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee Randy McNally has come under fire this week for liking social media posts of LGBTQ models and creators. Now, McNally is apologizing, not for Republicans’ increasing attacks on queer people, but for how he may have embarrassed his friends and family along the way.

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Iceland's President Offers Socks to the Disabled Ex-Twitter Employee Mocked by Elon Musk
Haraldur Thorleifsson has had a long week. On Monday, the Icelander tweeted at Elon Musk asking if he still had a job at Twitter, since he had been locked out of his work laptop and hadn’t been able to get in touch with Twitter human resources. On Tuesday, Musk tweeted that no, Thorleifsson did not still have a job,…
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15 Things ChatGPT Can and Can't Do
Is it a tool or a toy? A genius or a dumbass? A technological breakthrough or a flash in the pan? You’ve heard of ChatGPT, the weirdly well-spoken chatbot spawned by OpenAI. The algorithmic program has made headlines for its ability to ape human speech and automate previously time-consuming editorial tasks, but…
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Okay, Ninja Vs. Shark Movie, You Have My Attention
Ninja Vs. Shark. It’s a movie. A real movie, one coming to theaters in Japan next month. It even has a real trailer, which is without question the most ludicrously violent, and violently silly, movie trailer I have ever seen. Here is that trailer.

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Scientists Call for a Global Treaty to Address Space Junk
What goes up must come down, and that includes all of the satellites, rocket stages, and junk that humans have launched into space. A group of scientists is sounding the alarm about how that growing cloud of debris orbiting Earth may cause us trouble in the future, and are championing a global approach to governing…
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Some Ancient 'Human' Tools May Be the Work of Monkeys
Researchers studying macaques in one of Thailand’s national parks made a surprising discovery: While cracking nuts, the monkeys make stone flakes that look an awful lot like the flakes that scientists have attributed to ancient human. The finding means that some of the material held up as the earliest evidence of…
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Happy Mario Day! Get Ready to Kiss The Wii U/3DS eShops Goodbye.
Today might be a day of celebration for fans of heroic plumbers, as Nintendo commemorates another Mario Day (March 10, or Mar10), but it will also be a sad reminder for some gamers that in just a couple of weeks, both the Wii U and 3DS/2DS eShops will be officially closing down.
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The Oscars, Ranked
Fans across the globe have been patiently waiting for this week. The week to celebrate all that is great in film and television. Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between, it’s Oscar week.
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35 Nerdy Oscar-Nominated Movies That Didn’t Win Best Picture
Everyone suspects Everything Everywhere All at Oncewill be taking home the Oscar for Best Picture this Sunday at the 95th Academy Awards. However, I wouldn’t be too sure. Only a few genre movies have ever managed the achievement; it’s much more common for Hollywood to congratulate itself for recognizing them with a…
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Scientists Name Newly Discovered Roach After Pokémon
Here’s a pocket monster that you probably wouldn’t want to catch. Scientists say they’ve confirmed the existence of a previously unknown cockroach species found in Singapore—a species they then decided to name after an otherworldly Pokémon that more than bears a passing resemblance to it. The real-life Pokémon is…
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Meta Isn’t Paying Influencers for Reels Any More
Facebook and Instagram influencers are losing access to a big moneymaking program that was previously paying out thousands of dollars per vid. It was an effort to get more Instagram users interested in watching the social network’s short-form video format Reels.
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Gundam: The Witch From Mercury First Season 2 Trailer Teases More Mechs, More Problems
The latest entry in the vast Gundam franchise, The Witch From Mercury, was one of our favourite anime of 2022—and now it’s back and looking better than ever, even as things get much more dangerous for its heroes Suletta and Miorine.

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House Republicans Just Passed a Tech Censorship Bill That's Pure Nonsense
House Republicans this week rammed through an ill-constructed, self-aggrandizing “anti-censorship” bill supposedly aimed at preventing federal agents from pressuring tech companies to stifle conservatives. The bill, inspired in part by Republican outrage over Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and…
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The film adaptation of Cixin Liu’s Hugo Award-winning, Nebula Award-nominated, best-selling science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem may be stuck in a peculiar development hell, although fans can hopefully console themselves with Netflix’s TV version coming later this year. But for those who want to see Liu’s work…
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For Every Person on Earth, There Are 21,000 Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean
An analysis of global plastic data over the past four decades, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found that there’s now an estimated 170 trillion plastic particles—more than 2.2 million tons—floating in the world’s oceans. That number saw a sharp increase in the past 15 years, dovetailing, the researchers found, with…
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19 States That Have Passed Permanent Daylight Saving Time and Why They Haven’t Implemented It
Come Sunday, March 12, at 2:00 a.m. EST, Daylight Saving Time will begin. We’ll lose an hour because the 20th-century federal government decided we should. Then on November 5th we’ll gain an hour, and be plunged into darkness. For over half a century, we’ve accepted that this cycle is normal.
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The Best Free AI Art Generators, Ranked
You now can’t go anywhere without finding some company shouting from the rooftops about generative AI. While the folks at Snapchat and Discord are busy slapping OpenAI’s ChatGPT into their systems, companies like Shutterstock and Adobe think more people would be interested in using a AI image generator when grabbing a…
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Move Over, 'Cocaine Bear,' There's a New Coked-Out Animal in Town
Sometimes the movies are loosely based on true events. Sometimes reality seems to mimic fictional film. In the story of Amiry the serval, both are true at once.

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The Spacecraft Circus on the ISS Continues
Russia’s Soyuz MS-24 crew capsule could launch to the International Space Station sooner than planned to replace a potentially unsafe spacecraft slated to return three astronauts back to Earth, Russian media reported. Upsettingly, the potentially unsafe spacecraft is MS-23, a replacement craft sent to the ISS to…
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This AI Brought 11 of My Worst 'Seinfeld' Nightmares to Life
Artificial intelligence is (rightfully) lampooned for all sorts of reasons, but credit where credit is due: neural networks really know how to make some freakishly beautiful art.
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How Fungi Could Cause the Next Pandemic
Fungi are some of the strangest living things on Earth. Some are single-celled organisms like bacteria, other are multicellular beings akin to plants and animals. Some can even shapeshift between these forms of life. However they look, they’re an integral part of the environment: Many fungi act as nature’s recyclers,…
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What to Know About the Much-Hyped New Superconductor Discovery
For over a century, scientists have sought a holy grail of materials: a room-temperature superconductor, a material that can carry electrical charges without resistance, which would revolutionize the energy landscape as we know it.

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Fireballs Are Useless Against Lego Super Mario's New Baddie: Dry Bowser
With the final trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie debuting yesterday, and the film hitting theaters on April 5, many Lego fans expected the company to reveal some movie tie-in sets today—the most hallowed day in the Mushroom Kingdom calendar. Instead, for Mar10 day, Lego has revealed another expansion to its…
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HP Printers Are Doing the DRM Thing Again
HP is receiving backlash after users reported that their non-brand ink cartridges stopped working following recent firmware updates.
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Beetlejuice 2 May Actually Happen, and With Wednesday's Jenna Ortega
We’ve heard a lot of things about a sequel to Tim Burton’s beloved 1988 movie Beetlejuice, with most of it being some variation of “not happening.” Even Burton himself said he doubted the film would ever get made nack in 2019, and former scriptwriter Seth Grahame-Smith said he was finished with the project in 2021.…
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How a Small Business in Arizona Is Helping Decarbonize Concrete
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New Rumors Tease the Avatar: The Last Airbender Movies Versions of Aang and Friends
Andy Samberg’s Indiana Jones parody Digman! becomes a Brooklyn 99 reunion. Plus, check out creepy trailers for The Tank and The Resurrection of Charles Manson, as well as a new trailer for Yellowjackets’s second season. Spoilers get!

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Meta Wants to Grab Wandering Twitter Users With a New Decentralized App
While Twitter deals with daily chaos and mounting debt, its biggest competitors are thinking they can do tweet storms even better than the ol’ blue bird. On Friday, Meta confirmed that it was working on a new stand-alone app for sharing Twitter-like messages.
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Vinyl Outsold CDs for the First Time Since 1987
Gone are the days of shimmery plastic CDs and chunky jewel cases, the past is making a comeback in a back way. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has revealed in its annual revenue report that vinyl sales have outpaced CD sales for the first time since 1987.

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Why Did Wizards of the Coast Try to Cancel the OGL?
Ben Riggs is a D&D historian and author of the book Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons.
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Cop City Protestors Reportedly Arrested and Charged With Terrorism for Having Muddy Shoes
Police charged twenty-three additional people with domestic terrorism felonies in Atlanta, Georgia this week, after arresting dozens in alleged association with ongoing protests against the construction of a planned police training facility. The reasoning for these new, hefty charges: dirty shoes, according to a…
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8 Music Videos That Show How Fast Deepfakes Are Evolving
The sudden explosion of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other large language models has led to renewed attention on artificial intelligence that’s capable of mimicking speech, especially for well-known figures. It has left some spectators fearful of a rise in deepfake-fueled misinformation, copyright chaos, or possibly even the…
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The Last of Us Will Get a Behind-the-Scenes Special After the Finale
The climactic season one finale of The Last of Us, where we’ll find out the this current arc’s fates for Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) is nearly upon us. But it’s not quite the end before we have to wait for season two.
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Bob Iger Talks Marvel Sequelitis and Star Wars' Movie Future
During the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Bob Iger participated in a Q&A and was asked about his notable acquisitions during his previous term as Disney’s CEO. On the current slate of Marvel and Star Wars projects, Iger discussed that the franchises future are always on his mind, “I think a…
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Return of the Jedi's Anniversary Anthology Collection Will Tell Tales of Wicket, Sarlaccs, Palpatine, and More
Like A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back’s 40th anniversaries before it, Return of the Jedi is celebrating its landmark year in style with its own From a Certain Point of View collection—and the authors include some familiar Star Wars faces, some new ones, and perhaps of most interest to us, a co-founder of io9!

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Pedro Pascal Had a Great Time Getting His Eyes Gouged Out in Game of Thrones
Turns out getting your head popped like a grape professionally is relaxing, actually. On Hot Ones Pedro Pascal broke down the one of the most iconic but traumatizing for the audience scenes in Game of Thrones, Oberyn Martell’s death at the hands of Gregor Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) during the The Viper vs. The…
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Get Tested for Hepatitis B at Least Once, CDC Says in New Advice
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now advising people to get screened for hepatitis B at least once in their lives. Though the infection can be managed with antivirals and prevented with a highly effective childhood vaccine, many Americans today are still living with chronic hepatitis B, which can…
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Microsoft Edge Can Use VSR to Upscale 720p and Below YouTube Videos
It’s a controversial take, but sometimes I think Microsoft Edge is my favorite browser. I like the PDF viewer and Edge’s built-in “read-aloud” capability. And coming soon, Edge will be able to upscale low-resolution YouTube videos, like scrapes of old episodes of MTV’s Real World.

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When John Wick: Chapter 4 comes out on March 23, you might want to savor it. Stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski says he and star Keanu Reeves are “done for the moment” bringing the trigger-happy misadventures of the assassin to movie theaters.

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This Retro Gaming Handheld Feels Like a Game Boy For Adults
If the Valve Steam Deck, the Nintendo Switch, and the many devices from Ayaneo are pushing the limits of handheld gaming, the Anbernic RG35XX retreats to a more comfortable and familiar time. Looking about as close to the original Game Boy as a device can get before Nintendo’s lawyers step in, the handheld focuses on…
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Tropical Cyclone Freddy Has Lasted More Than a Month, Potentially Setting New Record
Almost 200 people are dead and tens of thousands affected in Southern Africa after a tropical cyclone, which at 34 days could be the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record, hit a second time in the course of a few weeks, following a first landfall in February. It’s officially the most energetic storm on record.

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This is Probably the Pixel 8 Pro, and I Don't Like It
Since the date for Google I/O 2023 was announced last week, the rumor mill has been churning out leak after supposed leak with anticipation over what the company will tease at the developer conference. We have already seen a purported leak of the Pixel 7a. And now, we’re looking at what are claimed to be renders of…
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Watch Live: SpaceX Attempts to Launch NASA's Latest ISS Cargo Mission
NASA and SpaceX are gearing up to launch a cargo capsule carrying research and supplies for the crew on board the International Space Station (ISS). You can watch the rocket liftoff live right here.
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Newest Webb Image Is a Stunning View of a Star’s Penultimate Stage
The Webb Space Telescope has produced a stupendous view of a Wolf-Rayet star, an extraordinarily bright object in the sky that (you may want to sit down) will soon die.
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Here Are the Top Internet Scams According to the FBI
Online fraud scams are becoming more prevalent with each passing year as Americans lose billions of dollars, which in many cases, can’t be regained. A new FBI crime report (IC3) shows the increase in ransomware attacks and spam calls, texts, and emails continues to skyrocket, resulting in more than $10 billion lost in…
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Let Netflix's Chupa Introduce Your New Adorable Critter Obsession
Netflix’s new film Chupa has a bit of an E.T. the Extra-Terrestrialring to it: a kid discovers a fantastical creature, bonds with it, then enlists his friends to help protect it from sinister grown-ups. But Chupa has some distinctive qualities, too—not only is it set in Mexico, but the titular monster is freaking …
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Ohio Sues Norfolk Southern Over Toxic East Palestine Train Derailment
Ohio has filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern demanding that the company clean up and pay for the damage caused by the early February derailment in East Palestine, the state attorney general announced today.
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OpenAI Levels Up With Newly Released GPT-4
OpenAI, the folks behind the ludicrously popular ChatGPT and DALL-E, has near-single handedly strangled the entire tech world in the grip of AI. Now the company has a new version of its AI language generator that, at least on paper, seems purpose built to upend multiple industries even beyond the tech space.
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High-Speed Photo of Electrical Storm Shows How Lightning Rods Work
A high-speed photo of lightning rods at work during an electrical storm in São José dos Campos, Brazil, is helping scientists understand how the devices compete to attract strikes and keep buildings safe from damage.
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The Best Tablets, E-Readers, and E-Notes of 2023
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Although laptop computers are now slim enough to fit in paper envelopes, it’s tablets that continue to gain ground in the market. They’re useful as both highly portable productivity tools and as entertainment devices—whether you’re a gamer, binge watcher, or an avid reader. But over 13 years after the original iPad…
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Yes, Reddit Is Down
Reddit users started complaining about major outages at around 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The complaints first started rolling in at about 2:45 p.m. with only 11 people reporting outages, but by 3:30 p.m., that number rose to more than 49,000.
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YouTube TV's Multiview Lets You Watch Four Sports Games at Once
I’m not a sports fan, but I know the necessity of keeping up with more than one game at a time, particularly during playoffs. I have seen friends juggle a smartphone, a TV screen, and a tablet in pursuit of tuning into multiple streams at once. They’ll be relieved to hear YouTube TV is making this easier with a new …
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See the Captivating Winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards
The best wildlife photography can make the familiar appear strange, but it can also make the secret lives of animals feel quite comparable to our own.
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An 'Expendable' Faces Major Danger in Mickey7 Sequel Antimatter Blues
If you somehow haven’t heard of Mickey7 yet, you will soon: Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel will be a 2024 Bong Joon-ho movie (retitled Mickey17) starring Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. Ashton’s sequel, Antimatter Blues, arrives in stores today, and io9 has the first chapter…
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Uncontrolled Chinese Rocket Segment Disintegrates Over Texas
The Long March 2D second stage is believed to have reentered over an unpopulated part of Texas on March 7 and so far there are no reports of injuries or damage to property. Sadly, as more rockets are sent to space and as rules around these matters remain vague, it’s the new normal we have to deal with.
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Pennywise Lurks Around Every Corner in This Terrifying New It-Themed Escape Room
Turns out you don’t have to travel to Derry, Maine, to feel the wrath of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Las Vegas is now home to “Escape IT,” a new It-themed escape room from Warner Bros. Discovery Global Themed Entertainment and Egan Escape Productions. How scary can it be? Pictures suggest VERY VERY SCARY.

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A Ransomware Gang Claims It Hacked Amazon's Ring
The ransomware gang known as ALPHV has claimed a successful attack on Amazon-owned home security company Ring. A cybercriminal group known for its despicable tactics, the gang is now threatening to publish the company’s sensitive data if its financial demands are not met. Ring is denying the gang’s claims.
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A Common Dry-Cleaning Chemical Might Be Causing Parkinson's, Scientists Say
In a paper out this week, scientists argue that a common industrial chemical is contributing to Parkinson’s disease. The chemical is called trichloroethylene, or TCE. And while some states have recently banned its use, TCE remains widely present throughout the U.S.
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Russian Jet Caused U.S. Drone to Crash Into the Black Sea, Military Says
A Russian Su-27 aircraft struck part of an unmanned, U.S. drone over the Black Sea, causing the MQ-9 aircraft to crash into the water, the U.S. military claimed in a statement published Tuesday afternoon.

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Amazon has finally unveiled the customer terminals for Project Kuiper, the company’s attempt to bring a satellite broadband connection to anyone who can’t otherwise access high speed internet. The terminals are essentially flat dishes that look incredibly similar to those from Project Kuiper’s main competitor,…
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The EPA Is Finally Going to Limit Forever Chemicals in America’s Drinking Water
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal that would limit the amount of forever chemicals allowed in the nation’s drinking water to the lowest levels that can be detected on tests. The move will address rising concerns about how widespread PFAS exposure contributes to health concerns like liver…
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Mrs. Davis' Full Trailer Reveals AI Nightmares and an Irreverent Quest for the Holy Grail
Peacock is sure feeling lonely now that Poker Face’s delightful first season is over, but Mrs. Davis will soon fill that “quirky dramedy hinging on a premise so out-there you can’t help but go with it” hole in the streamer’s heart. Behold the full trailer, which is full of nuns, AI weirdness, a holy quest, and... Bon…
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It Sure Seems Like Amazon Is Making a New Web Browser
Amazon is thinking about releasing a web browser, a boring-sounding project that could have massive implications. The company has sent a survey to users asking detailed questions, including which features would “convince you to download and try” a “new desktop/laptop browser from Amazon.”
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These Upcoming Rockets Have Us Stoked About the Future of Spaceflight
Humans have been launching rockets to space for nearly 80 years, yet it feels as though we’ve only hit the tip of the iceberg in terms of what’s possible. These upcoming rockets provide a promising glimpse of what we can expect during the next era of spaceflight.

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Magic: The Gathering Reveals Its First Lord of the Rings Cards
Middle-earth is about to join the multiversal planes of Magic: The Gathering. While the next set in Wizards of the Coast’s Universes Beyond crossover sub-theme is still a few months away, we’re already getting a look at some of the icons of Tolkien’s fantasy world coming to the set.

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Microsoft Scraps Entire Ethical AI Team Amid AI Boom
Microsoft is currently in the process of shoehorning text-generating artificial intelligence into every single product that it can. And starting this month, the company will be continuing on its AI rampage without a team dedicated to internally ensuring those AI features meet Microsoft’s ethical standards, according…
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Merle Dandridge on Filming the Finale of The Last of Us
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10 Laptops That Were Too Strange for This World
Laptop design has evolved beyond its clamshell origins in the past few years, with the introduction of dual screens, convertibles, and foldable displays, but its the laptops that failed along the way that gave us some of the most fascinating features. From Compaq and IBM in the ‘90s to Lenovo and Asus in more recent…
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Wifi 7 Isn't Out Yet, But You Can Already Buy This $700 Wifi 7 Router
Although it will probably disappoint Netgear fans who’ve grown fond of the very prominent wing antennas on the company’s other routers, Netgear’s new RS700 brings wifi 7 support to a more traditional tower design, even though the wifi 7 standard still hasn’t been completely finalized.
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A Museum Temporarily Swapped a Masterpiece With AI Art and Chaos Ensued
A Netherlands museum is facing criticism for selecting an AI-generated piece of art to temporarily take the place of the renowned Girl with a Pearl Earring painting. The artwork was created by Johannes Vermeer in 1665 and is usually located at the Mauritshuis Museum but is on loan at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until…
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Pokémon Isn't Just Losing Ash, It's Losing Team Rocket, Too
Ash Ketchum has been such an important part of the Pokémon franchise that the news of his retiring from the popular anime felt like a sucker punch. But if there’s been one constant in Ash’s journey (other than Pikachu, obviously), it’s Team Rocket: Jesse, James, and Meowth have been around since the start harassing…
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Shin Kamen Rider’s New Trailer Is as Gorgeous as It Is Mysterious
Hideaki Anno’s last few film projects, whether it was for the Neon Genesis Evangelion Rebuild movies or his collaborations with Shinji Higuchi on Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman, have had marketing campaigns defined by mystery. Shin Kamen Rider looks no different, as we’ve got no idea as to what to expect—other than…
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NASA's Latest Request for Cash Includes Big Plans for a Deorbiting ISS 'Space Tug'
NASA is staying focused on the Artemis lunar program, its Moon to Mars objectives, and maintaining a presence in low Earth orbit as part of the agency’s proposed budget for 2024. The space agency also has a new item on its annual wishlist: a space tug to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its…
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Instagram Is Scrapping Its NFT Features After Less Than a Year
Meta is moving on from non-fungible tokens (NFTs) after less than a year of experimenting with them on Facebook and Instagram. Users will stop having the ability to share, mint, or sell their NFTs on Meta’s platforms, though it’s unclear exactly when.
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Shadow and Bone's Patrick Gibson on Prince Nikolai's Debut
The newest season of Shadow and Bone drops tomorrow, and the audience is going to meet a whole slew of new characters from the books—many of them fan favorites. One character is Sturmhond, an infamous Ravkan privateer who is secretly prince Nikolai Lantsov of Ravka in disguise. Patrick Gibson, who plays Sturmhond/…
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Google Is About to Unleash AI for Gmail and Google Docs
Google announced it’s finally unleashing its generative AI tools Tuesday, bringing a set of features to Gmail and Google Docs that will automatically create drafts based on simple prompts. Google will also add new AI capabilities to its business products, including Google Cloud and a new API for developers
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This Mechanical Keyboard Transforms So You Can Use It Like a Controller
When the demands of sitting upright in a chair at a desk become too burdensome, the Grab Shell promises a more comfortable way to stay productive. It’s a mechanical wireless keyboard with a pair of wings that fold back so the whole thing can be held in two hands while still allowing full access to all of its keys.
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Zuckerberg Confirms Meta Is Cutting 10,000 Staff by Year's End
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company needs to run like a well oiled machine during this ongoing “Year of Efficiency.” Making sure that machine runs as “efficiently” as possible will require employees to expect the machine will chew them up and spit them out onto the curb.
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Swing Through for a New Look Into the Spider-Verse Sequel
Eternals’ Chloe Zhao is still writing a Dracula adaptation, which makes my heart happier than you can imagine. There’s another trailer for the spy-fi film Citadel, which remains as baffling as the Chloe Zhao doing a Dracula movie, but no less intriguing. And, for those of you who are into Blade Runner, the series may…
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Silicon Valley Bank's New CEO to Clients: 'We Are Conducting Business as Usual'
In the wake of the second largest bank failure in U.S. history, the failure in question, Silicon Valley Bank, has some comforting words amongst the turmoil. Clients of the bank received an email last night from SVB’s new CEO Tim Mayopoulos stating that everything is fine.
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Binance Stops Deposits and Withdrawals for UK Customers
On Monday, Binance said it would suspend withdrawals and deposits for anybody using UK currency. The news came after the world’s largest crypto exchange’s banking partner in the UK, Paysafe, said it was abandoning crypto, at least as far as Binance was concerned.
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Texas Republicans are at it again. Last week, Republican politicians in the state legislature introduced a package of bills intended to punish renewable energy and boost fossil fuels, despite the fact that Texas is currently one of the nation’s top generators of renewable power.
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Great Apes Caught Spinning Themselves Just to Get Dizzy
Researchers studied videos of great apes spinning and found that the animals are deliberately getting dizzy; the team believes that the behavior may have implications for humankind’s occasional exploration of altered states of mind.

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The Last of Us' First Season Went Out on a Ratings High Note
Sure, The Last of Us season one finale aired the same night as the Oscars, but that didn’t stop fans of the HBO Max PlayStation adaptation from devouring the latest chapter in Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey)’s adventures in post-apocalyptic survival—setting a new ratings mark while doing so.

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Sam Raimi Says Evil Dead's Ash Williams Could One Day Return
Evil Dead Riseis creeping out of the haunted basement and into theaters next month, but—much like the 2013 Evil Dead remake—it won’t star Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, instead pursuing a new continuation of the story. And while Campbell himself has said he’s done playing Ash, Evil Dead director Sam Raimi just…
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LG's OLED TV on an Easel Is More Than Its Artsy Gimmick
The LG OLED Objet Collection Posé TV was revealed at Salone dei Tessuti during 2022’s Milan Design Week. That alone should give you an idea of who its target audience is. This isn’t your regular screen. It’s not even your typical premium home theater display. It is a lifestyle TV that is intended to serve as an art…
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DC Comics' 2023 Pride Plans Are, Once Again, Incredibly Impressive
Last year, we were suitably impressed when DC Comics revealed its plans for how it was going to celebrate Pride Month (and how paltry Marvel’s offerings looked in comparison). Commendably, the publisher’s not resting on its laurels this June—it has special edition comics, an actual book, and much more in the works,…
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TikTok Overrode Its Algorithm to Boost the World Cup and Taylor Swift
A TikTok executive admits the company sometimes overrides the app’s algorithm at a South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) on Saturday. Major content included the World Cup and Taylor Swift’s entrance onto the platform, and Jeff Louisma, head of cyber and data defense for TikTok’s US Data Security division compared to…
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A 5,000-Mile-Wide Blob of Stinky Seaweed Is Headed Straight for Florida
A floating blob of seaweed 5,000 miles across, spanning nearly the whole width of the Atlantic Ocean, is headed for Florida’s Atlantic Coast. The sargassum algae, a brown, branching, stringy seaweed that can turn seawater mud-colored when present in large quantities, is likely to cause serious problems for the…
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