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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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A McDonald's Exec Is Worried Elon's Tweets Are 'Perpetuating Racism'
The Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer for McDonald’s reportedly told other advertising heavyweights that Elon Musk’s relentless shitposting in the name of free speech “is perpetuating racism.” The Mickey D’s exec is also concerned about the general chaos the Twitter CEO has caused and the threat he poses …
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My New Smart Bird Feeder Showed Me That Birds Are Absolutely Brutal
It’s been one of those weeks where I’ve been quietly toiling away in the lab, getting new gadgets set up for upcoming reviews. One of the latest pieces of kit to come across my desk is the Bird Buddy, a smart bird feeder that dynamically snaps the birds feasting at your outdoor buffet for you, and can even help you…
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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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Star Trek: Picard Finally Got What It Wants—But at What Cost?
Star Trek: Picard’s third season has felt like such a departure from its first two at times that it has felt almost standalone, the rare character beats and plot points that have mattered to its nostalgic tale of changelings and family mattering little more than a footnote. But this week saw the series try to relate…
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Pet Dog Dies of Bird Flu After 'Chewing on a Wild Goose'
As a highly pathogenic variant of avian influenza continues to cause mass outbreaks and mortality in wild and domestic birds worldwide, another unfortunate animal casualty has emerged. A pet dog died of bird flu in Ontario, Canada this month, the country’s public health and food inspection authorities confirmed in a…
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These Are the Best Free Roku Channels To Watch Now
Roku’s streaming boxes and dongles represent some of the easiest, most convenient, most user-friendly ways of getting dozens of smart streaming apps up on your big screen TV. The company even makes affordable Roku television sets that come built-in with access to a host of free channels with thousands of hours of…
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Magnus Carlsen's Mouse Slip Cost Him His Last Match as World Champion
Magnus Carlsen lost his final match as world champion with a slip of the mouse during Thursday night’s game against his longtime rival, Hikaru Nakamura. Carlsen made it to the Armageddon round, to face off against Nakamura after their previous two games ended in draws. Carlsen has defended his title as world champion…
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The Best Laptops In 2023
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The best tablets are more capable than ever, to the point where some people might not even need a laptop anymore. Tablets are more convenient, and we acknowledge that you don’t need an attached keyboard for every task. But for all the tablet market offers in convenience, laptops outdo them in power and potential. As…
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The Best Tablets, E-Readers, and E-Notes of 2023
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Tablets continue gaining ground in the market, even as laptop computers slim down enough to fit in paper envelopes. They’re useful as both highly portable productivity tools and as entertainment devices—whether you’re a gamer, binge watcher, or an avid reader. Sometimes, you just don’t need a whole keyboard attached…
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
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The smartphone audience is so wide that it’s difficult to settle on just one best phone of 2023. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there’s the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best…
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Did a Harvard Environmental Law Professor Lobby for an Oil Company?
If an environmental law professor at a prominent university—who makes more than $350,000 a year advising a major oil and gas company—helps that company set up meetings with the federal government, is that lobbying? This is the question surrounding Harvard law professor Jody Freeman, who has come under increasing…
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A Find My iPhone Error Is Sending Hordes of Strangers to a Single Texas House
If you lose your iPhone in the greater Houston area, don’t show up at Scott Schuster’s house expecting to get it back. The resident of the city’s Richmond suburb says he doesn’t have it: not your phone, not anybody else’s. But that fact hasn’t stopped Apple Maps from directing a large number of grumpy strangers to his…
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Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy Against Card Skimming Devices
Amazon has banned the incredibly versatile Flipper Zero pen-testing tool on its platform, labeling it as a prohibited card-skimming device.
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The Mandalorian’s Relationship With Droids Is Completely Messed Up
Are the droids of Star Wars people? From the moment Wuher glowered at C-3PO and R2-D2 and snarled “we don’t serve their kind,” the galaxy far, far away has danced around the powder keg of its android heroes and villains as a fully fledged sentient species. But the more The Mandalorian has engaged with the idea, the…
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The Dude With Sign Instagram Account Is Suing a Chocolate Company
The company behind the viral Dude With Sign meme is suing an Oregon chocolate company, alleging copyright infringement. FJerry LLC, also behind the popular @fuckjerry Instagram account, claims the copyright for the specific Dude holding the particular Sign, accusing JEM Organics of using the Dude’s face for posts, and…
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John Wick Is Fantastic Because It Has Restraint
John Wick answers the door to his home, lights and sirens clearly visible outside. Wick isn’t bothered, half-covered behind the door, a gun clutched in his hand, held at the small of his back. A cop stands a respectful distance away from the door, turns his head, looks past Wick and sees bodies–not a body, multiple…
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Star Wars Celebration and May the 4th Merch You Can Find Near You
If you’re missing Star Wars Celebration 2023, which is taking place in London this year, there’s still a ton of Lucasfilm merch drops from lots of different brands to get excited about, celebrating Return of the Jedi’s 40th anniversary, The Mandalorian, May the 4th, and more.
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Scientists Are Desperate to Save a Venus Mission on NASA's Chopping Block
A space advocacy organization is rallying the scientific community in an effort to revive NASA’s VERITAS mission to Venus, which has been delayed indefinitely due to staff and budgeting issues at the space agency.
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Andor's Most Uncomfortable Costume Is Star Wars Celebration's Hottest Cosplay
Star Wars fans will cosplay anything from the galaxy far, far away, especially at Star Wars Celebration, where you’re going to be among an audience that will get any obscure reference. But just one day into the 2023 con, one look dominates all: Andor’s prison getup.

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Are the Politics of The Power Timeless/Modern/Contemporary? | io9 Interview
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See How Different This Supernova Looks to Webb Versus Hubble
About 340 years ago, a brilliant light appeared in Earth’s night sky—a distant star had died in an enormous explosion. That light, which we now know is from the supernova Cassiopeia A, has just been captured in never-before-seen detail by the Webb Space Telescope.

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Bog Is the Rubber-Suit Monster Movie You Never Knew You Needed
For an ultra low-budget movie about a monster in a lake terrorizing a small town, 1979's Bog is quirky enough to make it notable and charmingly bad enough to make it thoroughly entertaining. Its highlights include a script stuffed with howlers and a fish-man costume that looks like a middle-school art project.

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DC Release Dates: When to See DCEU Movies and HBO Max Shows
The DC Extended Universe is finally giving Marvel a run for its money—something that’s bound to increase now that James Gunn is running the show. The DCEU’s myriad projects stretch far beyond superhero mainstays Batman, Superman, and the Justice League, promising to include new and interesting takes on DC Comics’…
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E Ink's New Color E-Paper Looks Almost as Good as LCD Screens
With the first E Ink devices having debuted almost two decades ago, it’s been a long road transitioning the technology from black and white to color. But yesterday, E Ink revealed some tantalizing details on its latest color electronic paper panels, Spectra 6, with color reproduction that looks almost as good as what…
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Tuberculosis-Infected Woman Still Going Out in Public Despite Arrest Warrant
A Washington woman with acute tuberculosis remains free despite having an arrest warrant filed against her. She was diagnosed over a year ago and has continued to refuse treatment or to isolate herself from others while contagious. Local health officials are expected to once again obtain a court order on Friday.
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We've Seen 6 Minutes of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
At Star Wars Celebration, James Mangold, the soon-to-be-Star Wars and current director of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, could have stopped at just showing fans the latest trailer for the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones adventure, but he wanted to do more. So after the trailer, he also showed six minutes of…
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Star Wars Release Dates: Where and When to See Upcoming Star Wars Movies and Disney+ Shows
Bill Murray said it in 1978 and we’re still saying it today: “Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars! Give me those Star Wars! Don’t let them end...” Star Wars is everywhere these days, with multiple movies and TV shows in the works from Disney and Lucasfilm. This article will give you the most up to date Star Wars release…
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Maggie Rogers Swipes at Ticketmaster With IRL-Only Ticket Pre-Sale
Maggie Rogers announced she’s going “old school” ahead of her upcoming tour by bringing ticket sales back to the in-person box office. Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. today, and Rogers told her fans on her site to “buy an in-person ticket like it’s 1965” while expressing her frustration over recent price gouging and…
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Substack Is Totally Borked on Twitter
Like a voodoo doll that’s been poked and prodded by an overly-enthusiastic amateur magician, Elon Musk’s Twitter has started to come apart at the seams. Now it’s an open question if Musk’s well-known vindictiveness has broken another aspect of the site as Substack writers say their attempts to promote their work on…
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Doge's Twitter Reign Ends, Triggering Memecoin Slump
‘What goes up must come down’ is a fundamental truth of physics, and also seemingly of cryptocurrencies. Sometimes though, the coins get a little help on the roller coaster ride. On Thursday evening, after hyping the blockchain bucks, Twitter pulled the rug out from under Dogecoin.

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Andor's First Season 2 Footage Showed the True Birth of a Rebellion
The first season of Andorturned out to be one of the best shows (both sci-fi and generally speaking) of last year. Thanks to some pretty great performances and writing, the show wasn’t so much the Rogue One prequel it was initially pitched as and more a look at what rebellion and government systems look like, and how…
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Investigation Finds YouTube Served New Teen User Almost 30 Andrew Tate Videos in Less Than 2 Hours
After signing up to YouTube as a new, 13-year-old user, Sky News found that YouTube flooded the feed with Andrew Tate videos, despite the professional misogynist being banned from the platform. The report highlights criticisms that YouTube is algorithmically pushing young boys to become fans of the toxic influencer…
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More Guardians of the Galaxy News Than You Can Shake a Groot at
A new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 featurette really nails home that this is a send-off. Five Nights at Freddy’s and the Minecraft movie get premiere dates. Quicksand does not make a good marriage counselor in a new horror flick. Plus, we have more proof the Rick and Michonne TWD series is really happening. Get to…
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Star Wars: The Acolyte Reveals a First Look at Its Stellar Cast in Action
We’ve never known much about what to expect from Star Wars: The Acolyte, the Disney+ series from Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), other than it’s set at the end of the High Republic era around 100 years before The Phantom Menace, will explore the Dark Side, and has a ridiculously talented cast. At Star Wars Celebration…
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Climate Change Is Making Baseball Worse
Famines, sea level rise, extreme weather, more pandemics—by this point, you’ve probably heard about the most disturbing consequences of climate change. What you might not have heard is that it could also hurt Major League Baseball. That’s right, America’s favorite pastime is imperiled by its other favorite hobby:…
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Jon Watts' Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Shares a First Peek at Jude Law's Space Adventures
We’ve known about Star Wars: Skeleton Crewfor the past year, which has been called an “Amblin-style” series about a group of space-adventuring kids (plus Jude Law) from Spider-Man director Jon Watts (and a few more friends, including Oscar-winning duo the Daniels). At today’s Star Wars Celebration, we learned even…
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Star Wars: Ahsoka's First Trailer Gives the Former Jedi Her Due
At Star Wars Celebration 2023, Disney unveiled the first official look at Star Wars: Ahsoka. The series picks up after Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson)’s live action appearances on The Mandalorianand Book of Boba Fett, and once again features Dave Filoni as a driving creative force for the series. Take a look at the…
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Star Wars has kicked off Star Wars Celebration 2023 with the official announcement for the highly anticipated next live-action film. Rumors about the film circulated when Lucasfilm announced the panel lineup that included “live-action” filmmakers. Now, we finally know what they were talking about. After a hiatus from…
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Everything We Know About the Future of Doctor Who

• Doctor Who ended the eras of both Chris Chibnall as series showrunner and Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor in 2022 with “The Power of the Doctor,” bringing to a close a three-season, three-special run.

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Cha-Ching: Google Pay Bug Might Have Sent You Free Money
Sorry Venmo and CashApp heads, you’re missing out. Earlier this week, Google Pay users began reporting that they were receiving phantom payments in their accounts. The amounts ranged anywhere from a few bucks to over $1,000.

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Musk Is Having Second Thoughts About Labeling NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’
Twitter CEO Elon Musk is having second thoughts over sticking NPR with a “state-affiliated media” label this past Wednesday, a decision which opened a debate about press freedom and led NPR to stop tweeting in protest.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Whips Up an Incredible New Trailer
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is arriving in June—but so far, all fans of Harrison Ford’s rakish-at-any-age hero have gotten is one measly trailer. That changed today when the fifth entry in the beloved franchise got a fresh look at the film as part of Lucasfilm’s big panel at Star Wars Celebration Europe.

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Let's Recap Baby Yoda's Day Out With Dutchess Lizzo on The Mandalorian
The warmest and most welcome addition to the Star Wars universe made her debut on The Mandalorian’s“Guns for Hire” episode.
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Google is Finally Bringing Live Translate Captions to Chrome
After nearly two years, Chrome browsers may soon finally get a feature that has thus far been restricted to Google Pixel phones. On Thursday, Reddit user and Chrome Canary beta tester Leopeva64 posted several screenshots and GIFs on the r/chrome subreddit showing off an upcoming Live Translate caption feature coming…
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This WB100 Merch Is Full of Movie Magic
It’s a big year for Warner Bros. with all its centennial celebrations. Merch marking the WB100 features mash-ups with the Looney Tunes, DC characters, and cinematic classics like Casablanca. The collection also includes special edition items inspired by WB’s 100 years of storytelling—think replicas of iconic props like…
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U.S. Chemical Plants Would Have to Make Big Changes Under New EPA Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed new regulation that would make chemical plant owners and operators responsible for their toxic emissions. Facilities would have to measure and reduce hazardous compounds beyond just the property that a chemical plant sits on, a change that could…
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Ever wanted to feel as small as Mario did when confronted by his original, seven-foot tall gorilla nemesis? On Monday, the Strong National Museum of Play shared its new plans to create an enormous, 20-foot-tall Donkey Kong arcade cabinet. Even though it will be close to four times as big as the 1981 original, the…
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The Walking Dead: Dead City Will Quadruple-Down on Maggie-Negan Drama
We’re only a few months out from the first of the post-Walking Dead Walking Dead spin-offs: Dead City, in which Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) search the zombie-filled ruins of New York City looking for Maggie’s kidnapped son Hershel. Given how low The Walking Dead finale’s ratings were, your…
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Researchers Want You to Walk Around in VR by Acting Like You Really Have to Pee
Virtual reality headsets now come close enough to fooling your eyes into believing you’re someplace else, but the experience doesn’t translate as well to the rest of your body. Researchers from South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology want VR to be a whole body experience, and have created a way to…
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Upper Stage of NASA's Artemis 2 Megarocket Is Ready for Tests
NASA’s Artemis 2 is feeling realer by the minute. The next upper stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket is now ready for tests at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in advance of the upcoming mission.
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Bid Star Trek: Picard a Supersized Farewell by Watching the Finale in Imax
The end of Star Trek: Picard is nearly here, and Paramount+ is giving the series a big send-off. Oversized, even: the remaining two episodes of the show’s third and final season (this week’s “Vox” and the series finale) will be shared in a special Imax live presentation. Even better, fans will get to see the finale…
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Everything We Spotted in The Marvels' Totally Cosmic Trailer
This morning we got our first look at The Marvels, and our first inkling of just how Kamala Khan, Monica Rambeau, and Carol Danvers will be thrust together. But this first trailer also gives us some very intriguing hints about the current state of the MCU’s cosmic side—at least, a little closer to home than what we’ll…
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'Better Drugs, Better Health': A Human Genome Pioneer Talks About the Future of Genetics
Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project officially wrapped up. It was a feat of collaborative science that took 13 years—from 1990 to 2003—and involved researchers from around the globe.

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'Thirsty' AI: Training ChatGPT Required Enough Water to Fill a Nuclear Reactor's Cooling Tower, Study Finds
Popular large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are energy intensive, requiring massive server farms to provide enough data to train the powerful programs. Cooling those same data centers also makes the AI chatbots incredibly thirsty. New research suggests training for GPT-3 alone consumed…
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How Prime Video's Dead Ringers Tells a New Kind of Horror Story
David Cronenberg’s 1988 film Dead Ringersset a new standard for twisted twin tales—but Prime Video’s new series adaptation, with Rachel Weisz playing sister versions of Drs. Elliot and Beverly Mantle, the brothers Jeremy Irons played in the movie, carves out its own disturbing place in the genre. Ahead of its…
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Pentagon Classified Documents Leak Linked to Discord
After a batch of classified documents were leaked from the Pentagon, it appears open-source intelligence analysts have pinned the leak down to an unlikely place: Discord. The documents were apparently used by patrons of the messaging platform, which is frequently used by avid video game players, in order to settle a…
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Can Star Wars Really Make Things Right with Finn?
Star Wars Celebration 2023is over, and for the first time in years, we have a solid idea of what the franchise’s cinematic future will be.
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Binance Searches for Alleged Source Code Leaker
The world’s largest crypto exchange is on the hunt for a user it says publicly posted the keys to its crypto kingdom. In court documents first filed April 7, Binance asked the court to grant a subpoena against GitHub, trying to find any information about a user whom the company said had leaked excerpts of the Binance…
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New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S. Constitution, but rather on a tome revered by space enthusiasts everywhere: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot.
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China Will Smash a Spacecraft Into This Near-Earth Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test
China has selected a small, near-Earth asteroid as the target for an upcoming mission that will help it prepare against future threats of incoming space rocks.
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Netflix's Mulligan Shows That Rebuilding Earth Takes Some Work
So many sci-fi stories about alien invasions tend to end with the heroes establishing a safe haven of some kind after the aliens have been defeated or they’ve reunited with their loved ones. But they don’t really get into how you go about rebuilding things after aliens came and messed everything up, which is the…
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Instagram Founders' News App Artifact Adds 'Reputation Scores' and Comments
Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram’s co-founders, has added comments and discussion on articles, marking the first public social components of the new app.

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Why Godzilla Has Returned, Cuter Than Ever
Godzilla is used to towering over cities and lording his size and strength as the King of the Monsters—but his latest show is a little different. It’s smaller, it’s certainly cuter, and it’s the return of Chibi Godzilla in a new way: the adorably adult-oriented Chibi Godzilla Raids Again, making its U.S. debut today.

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Former Twitter Executives Are Suing Elon's Twitter Over Legal Fees
Twitter’s ex-CEO Parag Agrawal is suing Elon Musk’s Twitter for the enormous amount of legal fees Agrawal argues he had to pay out of his own pocket. Agrawal is joined by the company’s former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde and former Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal in seeking repayment.

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See Dramatic Changes to Waterways After Heavy Rains
After a series of dry months, England is rainy once more.

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Sul Sul: Study Mixes ChatGPT With 'The Sims' to Delightful Effect
At long last, researchers from Stanford University and Google teamed up to answer one of the most pressing questions about AI: Can we make ChatGPT play The Sims? The answer, thank god, is yes (sort of). In a new study, computer scientists whipped up a pixel-art game to test whether you can separate AIs will simulate…
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Now You Can Pay Thousands of Dollars to Look Like Minecraft Steve
Your favorite retro games will never look as good as you remember unless you play them on an old tube TV whose analog technology helped to smooth out the pixelated graphics of the 8 and 16-bit gaming eras. Or, you can just embrace the pixelation, which is what fashion label Loewe has done with its new clothing line…
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Stay Warm Like a Polar Bear With Sunlight-Capturing Fabric
Bundling up in a puffy Canada Goose jacket isn’t just a fashion statement; the coats are filled with goose down that helps trap and retain body heat when temperatures plummet. But engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have drawn inspiration from another animal that calls Canada home, and have now …
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Rahul Kohli Is Now a Warhammer Video Game Star, Already Painting Miniatures of Himself
Rahul Kohli has made his love of Warhammer well known, from his own model-making journey to championing Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 series even before Amazon actually went and announced the damn thing. Now, he’s getting his own taste of the 41st millennium’s grimdark future... and he’s already making his own way…
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Talk to Me's Spooky New Trailer Reveals the Perils of Going Viral
Step aside, Thing—there’s a new disembodied hand on the scene and it’s far scarier-looking than anything Wednesday could cook up. io9 reviewed new horror movie Talk to Me (calling it “almost perfect”) at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and now there’s a trailer so everyone can feast their eyes upon this summer A24…
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Judge Orders Elizabeth Holmes to Trade Mansion for Prison as She Appeals
After being convicted of wire fraud for her dealings with her failed blood startup Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes was hoping to remain free on bail while she appeals the decision. Unfortunately for her, a federal judge has denied her that luxury.

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Netflix Is Turning Stranger Things Into a Saturday Morning Cartoon
Ivanna Sakhno teases her mysterious Ahsoka dark sider. Evil Dead Rise promises a bloody good time in new footage. Will Poulter discusses Adam Warlock’s moral compass in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Plus, get a look at what’s coming on Gotham Knights. To me, my spoilers!

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The Human Genome Project Turns 20: Here's How It Altered the World
On April 14 2003, scientists announced the end to one of the most remarkable achievements in history: the first (nearly) complete sequencing of a human genome. It was the culmination of a decade-plus endeavor that involved thousands of scientists across the globe. Many people hoped the accomplishment would change the…
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Twitter Is Dead: It's All 'X Corp' Now
Twitter has been subsumed by billionaire Elon Musk in more ways than one. Now, however, the company itself is officially no longer its own entity, having been officially gobbled up by Musk’s X Corp. It stands as the blue bird app owner’s first official move to reinvent Twitter into a twisted version of its former…
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The Marvels' First Trailer Sticks Carol, Monica, and Kamala Into a Superhero Switcheroo
Back when Captain Marvel was first introduced to audiences in 2019 through her solo film and Avengers: Endgame, it seemed like the character was intended to be a big cosmic player going forward. While Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers has shown up a handful of times in other Marvel properties, Carol hasn’t yet gotten to the…
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Elon Musk Is Using Wikipedia to Determine Which Media Outlets are ‘Government Funded’
Twitter CEO Elon Musk apparently trusts Wikipedia more than any expert or audited report and uses it to make crucial decisions about press freedom.
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FTX's Cybersecurity Was Hilariously Bad


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Director Peter Sohn on How Pixar's Elemental Creates Its Own Cultures
Recently io9 visited Pixar for a preview of its upcoming release Elemental, where we got a behind-the-scenes look at how the studio that brought us films like Up, Wall-E, and Turning Red was gearing up to transport audiences to a new world.
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Is Twitter Circles Broken?
If you’re a regular Twitter Circles user, you should probably stop posting things you wouldn’t want seen by the wider public. Numerous tweeters are reporting that their supposedly private Twitter Circle posts are accessible to the whole Twittersphere, letting their more private thoughts or pics loose on the wider…
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Pentagon Leaks Show Russian Hacktivists Claim to Have Targeted a Canadian Pipeline
A leaked intelligence briefing that emerged over the weekend seems to reveal a hacking episode carried out by a pro-Russian hacktivist group against a major Canadian gas pipeline.
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Google is No Longer Supporting These Five-Year-Old Devices
Google does not plan to update third-party smart displays in the future. If you own any of the Lenovo, JBL, or LG-made smart displays that have come out over the past five years, it’s time to consider alternatives for your Google smart home. Another reason to be wary of being a Google early adopter.

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Biden Wants to Create a Press Briefing Room for Influencers
How do you do fellow kids? In an effort to reach younger voters ahead of the 2024 election, President Joe Biden is looking to use social media influencers to tout his accomplishments through an exclusive briefing room.

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Study Finds Shockingly Fast Sea Level Rise Around U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coast
Sea level rise is transforming the U.S. coastline across the country, but researchers have noticed that the rate of sea level rise has increased faster in the last decade around the Gulf and Southeastern coasts.
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What's the Deal with The Mandalorian Season 3?
The third season of The Mandalorianhas felt a little odd, hasn’t it? Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau’s space western slice of the Star Wars franchise felt like a breath of fresh air back in 2019, and the second season the following year helped show that the series’ breakout success wasn’t a fluke. By comparison, season…
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Strep Throat Is Surging, Alongside an Antibiotic Shortage
Covid-related precautions helped minimize the spread plenty of other communicable diseases. But now, those bugs are back, along with some new challenges. The CDC reports that strep A infections (a.k.a strep throat), caused by a bacterium known as A Streptococcus, have surged from covid lows to above pre-pandemic…
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10 Horror Movies About Horrifying Pregnancies
The pregnant protagonist in peril is a go-to horror character at this point. With Prime Video’s upcoming Dead Ringers series putting maternity under a particularly harrowing microscope, we’re looking back at 10 movies that explore the very worst things you can (hopefully not) expect while you’re expecting.

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Absolutely Everything Announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023
There was plenty to celebrate at Star Wars Celebration Europe, which wrapped up today in London. The Lucasfilm lovefest wowed fans with all sorts of news, including when the franchise will finally return to movie theaters—and who’ll be directing the new movies. Plus, there were new trailers for Ahsoka, Visions, …
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Clever Elephant Starts Peeling Her Bananas After Seeing Humans Do It
Elephant see, elephant do, it seems. In a new paper this week, researchers describe an Asian elephant that has learned how to peel a banana before eating it. The pachyderm, named Pang Pha, likely adopted the trick from watching humans but appears to only peel certain bananas.
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In San Francisco, tech “disruption” is often framed as good. It’s the goal of “move fast, break things” start-ups and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs: innovation, paradigm shifts, etc.... But, so far, it’s in the original sense of the word that self-driving taxi companies Cruise and Waymo are disrupting San Francisco’s…
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Disney's Peter Pan & Wendy Shares a Fanciful New Trailer
Just because Disney is releasing Peter Pan & Wendy straight to Disney+, it doesn’t want you to think any less of what it’s describing as an “epic movie event.” A new trailer suggests this latest release from David Lowery—the director of the noted visual feast The Green Knight—will indeed be cramming as much epic as it…
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Apple Shipped 40% Fewer Macs in the Start of 2023
None of the big PC makers have managed to crawl out of the muck of 2022 declines, and new data shows that Apple’s been among the hardest hit. According to an industry report, Apple has significantly scaled back shipments of its MacBooks and other computers in the first few months of 2023, pointing to a significant…
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The Strangest Amber Fossils Ever Discovered
Amber fossils are like a time capsule, preserving the three-dimensional structure of animals, plants, and other prehistoric items of interest. Every once in a while, however, paleontologists stumble upon some particularly bizarre specimens and scenes.

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Studio Ghibli Teases Another Star Wars Collaboration
Last November, the nerd-o-sphere understandably freaked out when Studio Ghibli co-founder and all-time most beloved anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki released a single photo of the director with the above Grogu figurine. Star Wars fans (including us!) wondered if it meant the legendary anime studio would be making a…
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SpaceX's Starship Is So Close to Flying for the First Time
The SpaceX Starship rocket’s orbital test flight has been in the works for months, but it looks like it might finally be happening in a little over a week. No, we really mean it this time.
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Google Pixel 7a Leak Shows a 90Hz Refresh Rate, More Memory
It’ll be a while before Google reprises its flagship Pixel series. Until then, we have Pixel 7a leaks to tide us over. The latest hints from overseas include a look at the phone itself and hint as to what kind of specs might be inside it. Google’s next mid-range Pixel could have more memory than its predecessor and a…
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The last few years, the mutant race has been living it up (or trying to) on the island of Krakoa, and also on Mars/Arakko. But all things must come to an end, and in the summer, Marvel’s closing things out with the Fall of X. As is often the case with these types of events, that fall will be taking place across a…
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James Bond's Casting Director Thinks Young Actors Don't Have What It Takes
No Time to Diewasn’t that long ago in the grand scheme of things (even though its delays made you feel like it). With Daniel Craig’s time as James Bond now come to an end with that movie, the question has naturally shifted to “who’s next?”. Not unlike with the next Doctor, figuring out who’s going to play Bond next…
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The Pope's Exorcist's Julius Avery on Making a Man of the Cloth Into a Hero
Alongside Renfield, There’s a handful of films out this week, including The Pope’s Exorcist. Similar to Warner Bros. Conjuring series, the movie stars Russell Crowe as a fictional version of Father Gabriele Amorth, who served as the Vatican’s Chief Exorcist. And in this case, “fictional” means “a priest who also has a…
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Hell's Paradise's English Dub Starts Today, Here's Its Cast
A new season of the year means new anime to dig into. Among the newcomers for the spring season is Studio MAPPA’s adaptation of Hell’s Paradise: Jigokurakufrom Yuji Kaku, which started airing at the beginning of the month. Now with three episodes under its belt, the English dub for the show begins today (April 15),…
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The Latest News From Disney Parks, Universal Studios Resorts, and More Fan-tastical Destinations
Guardians of the Galaxy crash lands on the way to Coachella for an interactive installation that will feature music and merch from the Marvel Studios film, while Disney Parks reveals the opening date for Rogers: The Musical and announces a Pride night celebration.
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Mechanical Keyboard Swaps Out Keycaps for Tiny OLED Screens
I love a mechanical keyboard with an OLED on it—remember the SteelSeries Apex Pro? It was neat because of the customizable window in the corner of the keyboard. Now, imagine getting those same OLEDs for each key on your board. This would let you change your layout and label macros on the fly. And it’s exactly the…
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Did The Mandalorian Just Drop Star Wars' First F-Bomb?
The internet loves a good debate over perception, whether it’s the color of a dress or something else, and now we have one from The Mandalorian. And it’s a little bit naughty.
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Montana Just Passed the First State TikTok Ban
Montana made history on Friday by becoming the first state legislature to approve a wholesale TikTok ban affecting nearly all devices in the state. The first-of-its-kind ban, which goes far beyond previous state efforts banning the app on government devices, could set the precedent for a wave of TikTok bans in other…
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Emergency Rule Seriously Restricts Trans Health Care For Adults, Minors in Missouri
Gender-affirming healthcare is now much more difficult, nigh impossible, to access in Missouri, even for adults. Medical treatments, including hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries, though widely accepted as safe and critically important for many transgender people, are behind a bevy of new limitations in the…
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Everything You Need to Know About Star Wars' Imperial Shadow Council
This week’s episode of The Mandalorian set the stage for season three’s finale with big stakes and reveals not just for Din Djarin and his Mandalorian friends, but the whole galaxy—and in the process, revealed the ace up Moff Gideon’s sleeve. But what precedent has there been for the Remnant’s new leaders in Star Wars…
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
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The smartphone audience is so wide that it’s difficult to settle on just one best phone of 2023. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there’s the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best…
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NASA Wants an International Fleet of Spacecraft to Monitor Asteroid Flyby
Asteroid Apophis is scheduled for a brief rendezvous with Earth and NASA is hoping to get a good view of the close encounter in order to prepare for potentially hazardous visits by other rocky bodies.
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Watch Live as SpaceX Launches 51 Small Satellites After Delay
SpaceX has packed more than 50 payloads into a Falcon 9 rocket as the company prepares for its latest rideshare mission.
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The Best Tablets, E-Readers, and E-Notes of 2023
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Tablets continue gaining ground in the market, even as laptop computers slim down enough to fit in paper envelopes. They’re useful as both highly portable productivity tools and as entertainment devices—whether you’re a gamer, binge watcher, or an avid reader. Sometimes, you just don’t need a whole keyboard attached…
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Substack’s CEO Would Rather Not Think About the Racist Stuff. Okay?
Substack, best known as a subscription newsletter platform, just launched a copycat Twitter competitor called Substack Notes. Elon Musk wasn’t pleased and apparently took a number of steps to block Substack links on Twitter. Substack CEO Christ Best went on the Verge’s Decoder podcast to discuss his company’s rocky…
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Star Trek: Picard's Showrunner on How That Big Twist Wouldn't Affect a Legacy Spinoff
This week’s Star Trek: Picard set up big stakes for what will be the very last episode of the series—and you can’t have big stakes without some big threats and big blows for our heroes. But it turns out episode nine’s biggest blow may not matter so much in the grand scheme of things, if Picard showrunner Terry Matalas…
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What Is an Xvid File and How Do I Play or Convert One?
Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, and it’s been around since 2001. It’s been stylized in a number of ways over the years, so while most file formats,…
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How To Drop a Pin in Google Maps
Google Maps is so reliant on pins that it uses one for its app icon. These helpful virtual landmarks exist to direct you not only to your destination, but also towards shops, bars, restaurants, and other places of note. You can also place your own pins, though the amount of options you have in both the mobile and…
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These Are the Best Free Roku Channels To Watch Now
Roku’s streaming boxes and dongles have been going at it since 2008, and they still represent some of the easiest, most convenient, most user-friendly ways of getting dozens of smart streaming apps up on your big screen TV. There’s competition from the likes of Apple TV and Google TV, which have their own free channels
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The best tablets are more capable than ever, but sometimes, you just need a full computer. That’s why the laptop is still very much alive, versatile enough to serve needs from gaming to 3D modeling to simply having a convenient all-in-one experience. Some even come with their own graphics cards and are strong enough…
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Here Are 14 Characters Who Would Absolutely Pay for Twitter Blue
According to Elon Musk, legacy Twitter Verified checkmarks will disappear on 4/20. Nice one Elon, we’ll see if you actually follow through after previously saying that they’d disappear on April Fool’s Day. Plenty of celebrities have come out against Musk’s feverish bid to generate some inkling of revenue for Twitter,…
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Kids vs. Aliens Delivers a Kick-Ass Close Encounter
We’ve seen kids vs. aliens as a plot device many times over. But Kids vs. Aliens, a gleefully violent sci-fi comedy from director and co-writer Jason Eisener (Hobo With a Shotgun), just might be the ultimate execution of the idea. At just 75 minutes, there’s barely a second wasted as a pack of rowdy middle-schoolers…
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NASA Apparently Needs a Second Babysitter for the Ambitious Mars Sample Return
NASA is setting up an independent review board to oversee the Mars Sample Return mission plans, in an effort to make sure the mission will be completed on time and—crucially—under budget.
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OpenAI's Sam Altman Says There's No Chat GPT-5 to Worry About...Yet
Sam Altman has squashed rumors that OpenAI is already working on ChatGPT-5, just a month after the company’s release of its GPT-4. Currently, there is no GPT-5 in training, Altman said while speaking virtually at an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Elijah Wood Has Some Thoughts on Those New Lord of the Rings Movies
Earlier this year, Warner Bros. announced it would be making new Lord of the Rings movies and the collective response was, “Wait, what?” Director Peter Jackson already made six of those—and with an animated film on the way, as well as a TV show at a competing studio, it was hard to have any perspective on what these…
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See Fort Lauderdale Underwater Following This Week's Torrential Downpour
Historic rainfall over Fort Lauderdale sparked intense flooding that shut down schools and businesses this week. And the threat of flooding isn’t over just yet, an already waterlogged South Florida may see more rain this evening.
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Debut Launch of ULA's Vulcan Rocket Likely in Jeopardy After Dramatic Explosion at Test Stand
A highly-anticipated heavy-lift rocket was getting prepped for its inaugural flight when a spark triggered a fiery explosion at NASA’s Alabama launch facility, potentially threatening next month’s rocket debut.
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These School A/V Carts Have Killed at Least Three Kids and Are Being Recalled
The only thing more attractive to 5th graders than snow days are the days when the teacher wheels an A/V cart into the classroom. Even educational videos are a welcome reprieve from a teacher lecturing at the whiteboard, but according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a new recall means there’s now reason to…
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James Mangold's Star Wars Movie Has Infinite Potential
I can’t stop thinking about it. Since the minute it was officially announced that James Mangold would be writing and directing a film about the Dawn of the Jedi, I just keep dreaming about the possibilities. Sure, I’m curious about what Rey is doing with the New Jedi Order, though I wish we could’ve seen Luke try…
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The Smart Gun Arms Race Is Here With First Commercially Available Firearm
After decades of hype, biometrically enabled “smart” guns are officially on the market. Colorado-based Biofire Technologies this week said it released the first commercially available smart handgun which uses a fingerprint and facial recognition biometrics identity verification tool to unlock a 9mm handgun intended…
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2,807 Lego Pieces Later…We Have The Mighty Bowser™ | io9 Builds
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Your Weed Might Be a Lot Less Potent Than Advertised
A warning to those of you looking forward to celebrating 4/20 in style this year: Your weed might not be as potent as advertised. In a new study this week, scientists found that cannabis products bought from legal dispensaries in Colorado were often much lower in THC levels than their labels indicated.

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Spotify Axes Heardle—Its Music-based Wordle
The viral word game Wordle has spawned its fair share of clones, from Octordle to Absurdle to the movie-based Framed. Unfortunately, Heardle, the Spotify-owned, music-based version of the word guessing game, will be shutting down next month.

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Amazon's Plans for MGM Set Their Eyes on Robocop and Stargate
The streaming wars might be in a weird place right now, as all over the place the boom of Content has seemed to slow as studios rebalance their expectations for their platforms’ futures. But that’s not stopping Amazon from going full steam ahead on a swathe of reboots.

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Parler's New Owner Is Putting the Platform on Hiatus
Parler is apparently getting another lease on life, but first it has to die. The “free speech alternative” social network, popular among conservatives and the likes of Alex Jones, officially has a new owner. And that new owner has put the site on hiatus for an unspecified length of time.

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Wonder Man Set Photos Tease the Return of Another Familiar Marvel Face
Melissa Barrera is heading to her Scream 6 directors’ Universal Monsters movie. A new Deadite rises in clips from Evil Dead Rise.Plus, behind the scenes on The Little Mermaid, and wedding bells ring for Archie and Cheryl on Riverdale. Spoilers, away!

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Software Tweak Gives Curiosity Rover a Boost on Mars
A major software update to the Curiosity rover will allow the robot to drive faster on the Martian surface and reduce wear on its wheels, potentially boosting the mission’s lifespan.

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Conservative Group Launches Text Alert System for When Companies Go Woke
Nothing gets the conservatives riled up quite like companies promoting progressive values. As a result, a conservative nonprofit named Consumers’ Research is providing “Woke Alerts” to notify you when your favorite company goes too woke.

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Get an Exclusive Peek at Seanan McGuire's Next 2 October Daye Fantasy Releases
Seanan McGuire is one of the most prolific fantasy authors writing today, but there’s no drop in quality to go with all that quantity, as her astonishing array of literary awards and nominations can attest. Her Hugo-nominated October Daye urban fantasy series has been going strong for 14 years, and this year brings a…
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This week’s Twitter kerfuffle is all about public funding. Elon Musk decided to label National Public Radio’s account first as “government-influenced media,” which it previously applied to state-operated media outlets that shade into propaganda. Later, the label was changed to “government-funded media.”

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European Data Protection Board Launches ChatGPT Task Force
The EU’s European Data Protection Board, or EDPB, is launching a task force to monitor ChatGPT, a move that indicates that the bloc’s privacy regulators are getting serious about looking into the LLM’s potential privacy violations.
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Nine Weather Apps That Will Make You Forget Apple Killed Dark Sky
If you were among those who had problems with their Apple weather app last week, you’re not alone. Keeping an eye on the forecast for practical reasons (what to wear, outdoor plans) is important. And knowing the forecast is especially critical when wild weather hits, whether it’s dealing with flooding, hurricanes, or…
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Europe Successfully Launches JUICE on Its Historic Mission to Visit Jupiter's Icy Moons
A highly-anticipated mission to Jupiter and its intriguing moons is officially underway, with an Ariane-5 rocket successfully delivering the JUICE probe to space earlier today. The craft will now begin an eight-year journey through the solar system to reach icy worlds that may host some form of life.

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The Latest Push for Monetization at Twitter Is Here
Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced on Thursday that users will be able to offer subscriptions to their followers, piggybacking off the platform’s previous “Super Follow” function. The new money-making effort will allow users to offer subscription content to their followers for a small fee.
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What to Expect When SpaceX's Starship Megarocket Attempts Its First Orbital Flight Next Week
The time is quickly nearing for SpaceX to perform the first fully integrated orbital flight test of Starship. Here’s how the historic launch will unfold and what you can expect from Elon Musk’s revolutionary megarocket.
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Meet the Inspiring Women in STEM Behind the Scenes at Disney Parks
The happy experiences guests have at Disney Parks are the sum of the many moving parts that go into the creation of all the attractions—including new ride Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway and nighttime spectaculars like World of Color: One. io9 talked to a trio of Disney employees, all women in STEM, whose work…
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Melissa Barrera Is Reuniting With Her Scream Directors for a Mysterious Universal Monster Movie
Radio Silence—directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and producer Chad Villella—successfully rebooted one of horror’s biggest franchises with Scream and Scream VI. Now they’ve tapped the star of those films, Melissa Barrera, to join another movie reviving a beloved property from horror’s past, in the form…
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Everything You Need to Know About Monica Rambeau Before The Marvels
Debuting in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16, Monica Rambeau has had a hell of a superhero career. She was the first female Captain Marvel, even before Carol Danvers. She’s been on countless teams, including multiple versions of the Avengers. Her ability to become and project anything on the electromagnetic scale makes…
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Military Tech Execs Tell Congress an AI Pause Is 'Close to Impossible'
Military tech executives and experts speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday said growing calls for a “pause” on new artificial intelligence systems were misguided and seemed “close to impossible” to enact. The experts, who spoke on behalf of two military tech companies as well as storied defense…
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A New Fast X Trailer Has Death Star Pinball and Cannon Cars
Okay, we know. That’s not actually a Death Star in the latest trailer for Fast X. It’s a bomb that sort of looks like a Death Star. But as we watched it bounce around the streets of Rome, as Vin Diesel bats it around making his car into a pinball flapper, only to have it explode as Jason Momoa basks in the fallout, we…
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Matt Walsh's Twitter Hacker Says He Was Just 'Stirring Up Some Drama'
Turns out spewing conservative vitriol across your social media platforms can make you a few enemies. Right-wing personality Matt Walsh’s Twitter account was hacked, and the alleged culprit has now said that it was because he had nothing better to do.

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Spotify Is Bringing a Musical Element to BeReal
BeReal is jumping on the Spotify bandwagon by integrating the music streaming service as a feature on its platform. The app was released in 2020 and marketed itself as an authentic alternative to other social media platforms by prompting users at a random time to post about what they’re doing at that exact moment.
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NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission Is Already Facing a Serious Cash Crunch
NASA’s quest to return rocky samples from the surface of Mars to Earth in 2033 is already running up the bill, with the project needing a lot more money than what was allocated to the mission for 2023.
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The Makers of Stable Diffusion Now Have Their Own AI Language Model
It seems like everybody and their mother has a large language model these days. Stability AI, one of the companies that made a name for itself early in the AI rat race, was slower than its contemporaries to enter the realm of LLMs—until now, that is. On Wednesday, the company announced it was launching StableLM, a…
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Power Rangers: Once and Always Is a Silly, Sweet Mix of Schlock and Awe
We live in the age of reboots and re-sequels, an era where the childhoods of people over 30 are reborn and regurgitated on screens big and small—old favorites return! Mantles are inherited! Merchandise is sold! Some of these projects have a lofty intent of trying to find weight and meaning in their history. Power…
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NASA's Blueprint for Sustainably Exploring the Moon and Mars Passes First Review
As NASA inches closer to returning humans to the Moon and reaching Mars for the first time, the space agency has developed a comprehensive blueprint to establish a long-term human presence at both locations. In an important next step, the plan has passed its first internal review.
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Tech CEO Applauds an Employee Selling Off Their Pet Dog to Accommodate Return-to-Office Push
Meet the new hero of hustle culture: James Clarke, CEO of Clearlink, a Utah-based digital marketing company. This champion of capital had his grindset on lock in a video call with employees last week.

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Google's Expensive Pixel Tablet Dock Leaks on Amazon
Pixel news is leaking left and right as Google’s developer conference fast approaches. Yesterday, we learned about the Pixel Fold and its apparent arrival date. Today, the delayed Pixel Tablet’s charging dock popped up on Amazon, complete with pricing and release date info.
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Second Batch of SpaceX's Next-Gen 'Mini' Starlink Satellites Reach Orbit
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket delivered 21 Starlink V2 Minis to orbit on Wednesday, launching the company’s second batch of next-generation satellites shortly after the inaugural batch ran into some trouble.

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The Utah and Arkansas Social Media Bans Won’t Protect Us
This week, Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders signed into law a bill that requires parents or guardians to grant permission for their child to have a social media account. Last month, Utah passed a similar parental consent law that goes as far as requiring tech companies to give parents the passwords to their children’s…
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Watch Live: SpaceX Attempts First Starship Launch After Valve Mishap
A frozen valve forced a postponement on Monday, but Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is now ready for the do-over. It’s the most anticipated launch of the year, and we’ve got you covered for what will hopefully be the dramatic debut of Starship.

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Rocket Lab Will Attempt First Launch With a 3D-Printed Engine That’s Already Flown to Space
Reusability is the key to 21st century spaceflight, with many launch providers now working to make their rockets as recyclable as possible. California-based Rocket Lab is ready to take an important next step in this direction by fitting a previously flown 3D-printed engine onto its Electron rocket.

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Twilight May Bring Its Sparkly Vampires to TV
Okay, sure. The Hollywood Reporter has sources that say that Lionsgate, the studio that brought all four of author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels to life via five films, is now looking to make a Twilight TV series. According to those sources, it seems the show would retell the love triangle between Bella Swan,…
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Sea Urchin Murder Mystery Solved
A team of scientists say they’ve figured out the cause of a devastating sea urchin die-off that occurred last year along the waters of the Caribbean Islands and Florida. The algae-eating sea urchins were likely wiped out by microscopic organisms known as ciliates. While the mystery has been solved, it’s not clear…
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The Mandalorian Finale Was a Satisfying, Straightforward End to a Sloppy Season
The first two seasons of The Mandalorian ended with some kind of big Star Wars twist. In season one, Moff Gideon pulled out the Darksaber. In season two, Luke Skywalker arrived to help Grogu. And the expectation of something on that level for the season three finale seemed completely reasonable. Instead, fans were…
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Dimension 20 and Critical Role's Matthew Mercer Come Together for The Ravening War
Every season of Dropout’s Dimension 20offers to shake things up in some kind of way. It’s what’s what made the show so fun to watch over the years, and now that the most recent season—season 15, Neverafter—has wrapped up, it’s once again time to shift to another setting, with the added bonus of Critical Role’s …
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Meta has once again taken up the scythe and struck a wide swathe of staff from its field of developers. The first in what’s expected to be a total of 10,000 job cuts at the company is expected to impact teams for Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and in the company’s Reality Labs division working on its virtual reality…
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Giant Underground Pools of Water Are Batteries of the Future
In an energy-efficient future, homes may be heated and cooled by pumping from giant pools of water stored underground. A study published this month in Applied Energy looks at how underground aquifers could help significantly reduce reliance on fossil fuels and help store energy produced by renewables.

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New Zealand Children Will No Longer Compete to Kill Feral Cats
Children of New Zealand, lay down your arms and step away from the feral cats. The opportunity to fire on felines for a cash prize is no more.

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The Monsterverse Returns in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Two legendary adversaries return to do battle once more, unleashing Titan mayhem on Earth when a new threat arises in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
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The Venture Bros. Movie Reveals Its Wild Title and a First Look
Though an eighth season may not be in the cards, the world of Adult Swim’s cult-beloved animated series The Venture Bros. will continue—and give us some closure on season seven’s ending—with a movie coming later this year. At long last, we know the (baffling, but sorta perfect) title, and have a first clip that…
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NASA and Japan Team Up for Unprecedented Martian Moon Mission
JAXA is getting ready to visit Mars’s two moons, but Japan’s space agency is no longer going alone.
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Meta's AI Is Partially Trained on Breitbart and Russia Today, Study Finds
AI is sophisticated, but it’s not really intelligent. Today’s large language models used to power programs like ChatGPT, are amalgamations of scraped text found on the internet. So when Meta introduced its “state of the art” LLaMA AI back in February, eyes turned to some of the datasets used to train it, especially…
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Star Trek Strange New World's First Season 2 Trailer Is Full of Kirk and Klingons
Sad there’s not going to be more Star Trek for a little while after this week? Don’t worry: Paramount has got you covered for those post-Picard blues with our first look at the return of Strange New Worlds.

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Lego Is Adding Four New Sonic the Hedgehog Sets to its Sega Collection
Video games are a huge part of retro ‘80s nostalgia, which Lego has capitalized on with sets that recreate both classic gaming consoles, and classic retro games. The brickmaker has leaned heavily into Nintendo and Super Mario over the past few years, but it looks like it’s finally ready to give Sega its due with a new…
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10 Class-Action Settlements That Could You Get Free Money
You hear about class-action lawsuits all the time, like this one filed against Apple (based on a Gizmodo story), or this other one against Apple (or this one or this one). Part of the reason is they’re so lucrative for lawyers; a “class” is a group of people who have the same grievance against a company, which means…
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AI-Generated Song Featuring Drake and The Weeknd Removed From Streaming Platforms
The AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song was taken down from social media platforms including Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, SoundCloud, and others over the course of the last two days. The song calls into question existing copyright laws and whether they apply to songs created in the artist’s voice…
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Insidious: The Red Door's New Trailer Jumps Through the Wall
Insidious: The Red Door—the fifth in the horror series which began in 2010—has released a new trailer. This movie is the “final chapter” of the series that has followed the Lambert family across decades and various generations. Patrick Wilson, who has starred in four of the five films (including this one) makes his…
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Building Telescopes on the Moon Could Transform Astronomy—And It’s Becoming an Achievable Goal
Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organised by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade. Most of these will involve small robotic spacecraft, but NASA’s ambitious Artemis program, aims to return humans to the…
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Taylor Swift Absolutely Slayed in $100 Million FTX Deal
Taylor Swift is apparently as fluent in finance as she is in songwriting. In the fallout of the FTX collapse, Swift, who was offered $100 million to promote the crypto exchange, dodged a bullet by asking about unregistered securities according to a lawyer waging lawsuits against other celebrity spokespeople.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Begins Lifting the Lid on Gamora's Return
Parker Posey wants to make a return to Scream, somehow. James Gunn teases another familiar comics face will be in Superman: Legacy. Plus, The Mandalorian drops new posters to hype today’s season finale. Spoilers now!
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Sateliot Launches First 5G Satellite to Quash IoT Dead Zones
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Archaeologists Unearth a Fanciful Ancient Winery Near Rome
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an 1,800-year-old winery at the Villa of the Quintilii outside of Rome. By the team’s measure, the winery was designed as much for the spectacle of wine-making as the practice itself.

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The First Natural Gas Ban in the U.S. Just Got Shot Down
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Samsung Finally Enables the Temperature Sensor on the Galaxy Watch 5
Samsung finally enabled temperature tracking on a smartwatch launched nearly nine months ago. The Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro now offer detailed menstrual tracking by measuring your core body temperature. Samsung says the new feature is rolling out “progressively” to the Samsung Health app in the U.S.,…
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AMC Announces a Third Anne Rice Series in the Immortal Universe
AMC has announced that it will be starting production on a third, currently unnamed full-length television series in its “Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe,” ahead of the airing of the second seasons of the two current series: Interview With the Vampire and Mayfair Witches. This third series will focus on the Talamasca,…
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BREAK!! Into the Gaming Shelf With an Homage to Classic JRPGs
There are so many incredible crowdfunding campaigns going on, I really can’t stand it. Games are so good, y’all. I’ve also got some new games, supplements and additions, and indie designers who are taking it upon themselves to break apart systems and find new, incredible, and transformative ways to play games. (Every …
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After some 25 years, Netflix is officially retiring its DVD rental service. The company announced the move in a tweet Tuesday, explaining that its final discs will ship on Sept. 29th:
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Reddit Will Start Charging Big Companies for API Access
Reddit execs have noticed that everyone is getting rich off of AI but them. The company announced on Tuesday that it will start charging businesses for using its application programming interface (API) which allows users to download and process data from person-to-person conversations. as it plans to go public on…
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Musk's Twitter Decides Misgendering and Deadnaming Are OK, Actually
As Twitter under Elon Musk’s rule continues to take shape, the platform has decided it apparently doesn’t need trans people to feel safe on its app. Twitter has reportedly removed a stipulation against misgendering and deadnaming from its policy on hateful conduct.

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Watch Live as Russian Cosmonauts Relocate a Radiator Outside the ISS
Two cosmonauts are getting ready to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday night for some orbital maintenance work.
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Deadpool 3's Wolverine Is, Somehow, Completely New
Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is returning to the big screen next year, but according to Deadpool himself, it won’t be the character fans know and love.
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Google's Pixel Fold Will Make its Debut in Just Two Months
This may very well be the year of the foldable smartphone, or at least the year of more foldable choices. According to CNBC, Google plans to launch its first foldable smartphone before the next Pixel 8 flagship release. We could see the Pixel Fold, which previously seemed to have been canceled and vaguely revived, as…
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Amazon Prime Video Introduces AI-Boosted Dialogue to Select Original Content
Amazon Prime Video announced a new Dialogue Boost feature on Tuesday that will allow viewers to turn up the volume for character dialogue in some movies and TV shows. The feature was originally pitched as a way to assist hard-of-hearing viewers by increasing the actors’ voices and toning down the background noise, but…
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We Finally Know Something About Agatha: Coven of Chaos
Sure, we knew Katharyn Hahn would be returning to play her breakout character in the upcoming WandaVision spin-off Agatha: Coven of Chaos. We knew who had joined her for the show, including Patti LuPone, Aubrey Plaza, and Heartstopper’s Joe Locke. But until today, we didn’t know about its plot or characters, and it’s…
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Fox News and Dominion Settle Defamation Dispute for $787.5 Million
Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News have reached a settlement in the companies’ two-year-long defamation dispute. The agreement was announced by the case’s presiding judge in court on Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple reports—coming just hours after jury selection was completed. The decision by both parties to…
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Scientists Are About to Try to Create Stem Cells in Space
Stem cell research is expanding beyond earthly confines. Scientists from Cedars-Sinai in California have partnered with the private company Axiom Space to help them produce stem cells aboard the International Space Station—an apparent first that will test whether these cells can be manufactured more efficiently in a…
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Markiplier is making his way to the big screen.
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Avatar 2's Art and Costumes Stun in Immersive Experience for Earth Day
Yesterday was Earth Day, and what better way to celebrate the annual call for environmental protection than by remembering Avatar: The Way of Water? James Cameron’s massive 2022 sequel is both extremely environmentally minded and currently back in IMAX theaters for the weekend. And if you don’t have the money (or…
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Open Channel: What'd You Think of Evil Dead Rise?
Fans of Sam Raimi different parts of his filmography the like, but the Evil Dead series is often one of the most talked about. While the Ash vs. Evil DeadTVshow from 2015 and last year’s video game have helped keep the franchise alive in pop culture, alongside the series’ longtime fans, Fede Alvarez’s 2013 reboot…
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Disneyland's Fantasmic Performance Canceled After Mickey Set Maleficent On Fire
Disney hopes that those who attend Disneyland leave the theme parks with fun experiences and memories that stick with attendees for. And that’s... technically what happened last night at Disneyland Park, because the Maleficent dragon animatronic quite literally went up in flames. And the culprit was none other than…
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Alex Borstein’s Embarrassing Moment from Catwoman | io9 Interview
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Personalized AI-Written Spam May Soon Be Flooding Your Inbox
Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can’t-miss investments choke email inboxes. Improvements to spam filters only seem to inspire new techniques to break through the protections.

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20 Times People Lived in a Wes Anderson Movie on TikTok
Romanticizing your life on social media is nothing new, but some TikTokers are taking it to a new level of *~aesthetics*~. A recent trend has emerged on the video sharing platform that features users creating TikToks with a vibe ripped straight from a Wes Anderson movie. The shorts feature users going about their…
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12 of Twitter's Best Jokes and Memes About Elon Musk's Blue Check Apocalypse
Since the beginning of Elon Musk’s reign at Twitter, he’s threatened to remove the legacy verification—signified by a white check in a blue circle beside the account name—that predated his tenure. Musk even set April 1st as the date for the purge, which came and went without any changes, either because of ineptitude…
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The Wheel of Time Locks in Some More Actors for Season 2
It’s been a bit of a wait for season two of Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time. The adaptation of Robert Jordan’s (and later Brandon Sanderson) fantasy novel series ended its first season towards the tail end of 2021, and has had a gradual drip feed of information about its second season, mainly as it relates to casting.

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A Fortnite Movie Would Be Easy to Make Happen, Says Epic Games CCO
So many video games have been adapted by Hollywood lately that players have begun to consider what’s next. Much of the next wave of adaptations are based on extremely popular games, and you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that Epic Games’ Fortnitewould be getting a movie.

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La Borinqueña’s Collab With DC Comics on Hurricane Relief | io9 Interview
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National Treasure's TV Spinoff Won't Be Coming Back for Another Adventure
Late last year, Disney premiered National Treasure: Edge of History, a YA-oriented spinoff of the cult classic two-film series starring Nicholas Cage and Dianne Kruger. The series ended its first season back in early February, and as it turns out, that’ll be its only season.
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See a Newly Discovered 'Pristine' Deep-Sea Coral Reef in the Galápagos
There’s a new, ancient coral reef in town, and it’s magnificent. Scientists working to survey the deep ocean surrounding the Galápagos Islands discovered a never-before-observed reef complex, hundreds of meters below the sea surface. And, despite the current, sorry state of corals across the world’s marine…
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7 Bonkers Corporate Earth Day Campaigns
It’s Earth Day! Here at Earther, we’ve been absolutely inundated with press releases announcing that every corporation under the Sun is doing something ~*~special~*~ to mark the occasion. There’s no question that this holiday, which started from radical beginnings, has largely become the purview of greenwashing and PR…
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The Lilo & Stitch Remake Grabs Stitch's Original Actor & a New David
Throughout the month of April, Disney’s been gradually rolling out casting information for its incoming remake of Lilo & Stitch. We’ve got our Lilo in newcomer Maia Kealoha, a Nani in Sydney Elizabeth Agudong, and Billy Magnussen. All that’s missing is Stitch—or rather, he was missing before now.
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Life Beneath the Arctic Ice Is Chock-Full of Microplastics
Picture a raft of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and you’re probably imagining a pristine marriage of white and blue. But during summertime, below the surface, something much greener and goopier lurks. A type of algae, Melosira arctica, grows in large, dangling masses and curtains that cling to the underside of Arctic…
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Why Universities Should Return to Oral Exams in the AI and ChatGPT Era
Imagine the following scenario.
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Physicists Create the Fattest Schrödinger's Cat Ever
Picture a cat. I’m assuming you’re imagining a live one. It doesn’t matter. You’re wrong either way—but you’re also right.

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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and Nimona Lead Netflix Annecy Debuts
Headlining Netflix’s animation slate at Annecy International 2023 are Aardman’s next franchise installment Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, and the little movie that could, Nimona.
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Shin Kamen Rider Is Finally Coming to the U.S., for One Day Only
Good news! Shin Kamen Rider, Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno’s radical re-imagining of the legendary Japanese superhero series, is finally making its way to American shores. Bad news: you better be available for one day, because that’s all it’s getting.

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HBO Max's Titans Entered the DC Multiverse, Which Included Grant Morrison
Call it the sequel to the DC CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths, if you’d like. This week’s episode of HBO Max series Titans—titled “Dude, Where’s My Gar,” which both delights and enrages me—took Gar “Beast Boy” Logan (Ryan Potter) on a brief trip to the current DC multiverse, from live-action to animation to real life,…
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How to Make Dungeons & Dragons a $1 Billion Brand
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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We only just heard a leak that the Pixel Fold is slated to drop at Google I/O, and yet we’re already hearing more, including camera and screen specs. This new leak comes from Front Page Tech via 9to5Google and reveals what appear to be most of the specifications of Google’s upcoming foldable device. The good news is…
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Sea Level Rise Will Wash Away Sea Turtle Breeding Grounds
Climate change is coming for sea turtles and their critical breeding grounds throughout the Americas and Australia. In a new study in Scientific Reports, researchers report that rapid sea level rising is likely to swallow up beaches where sea turtles lay their eggs.

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TikTok's CEO Breaks Silence After Brutal Congressional Hearing
On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew give his first interview since sparring with House lawmakers in a testy hearing back in March. Chew is one of dozens of business leaders speaking at the TED2023 “Possibility” conference held in Vancouver, Canada. In a softball discussion that saw that the interviewer praising Chew…
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The Minds Behind Marvel's WandaVision and Star Wars: The Acolyte Are Developing a Vampire Show
Admit it: your first reaction was “Another damn vampire show?” (Your second was probably “Wait, Freeform is still around?”) But the talent behind Night’s Edge, an adaptation of Liz Kerin’s forthcoming Tor Nightfire novel, is intriguing enough to make this bloodsucking tale a potential winner, including Jac Schaeffer (…
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This Experimental Laptop Design Has a Foldable Wrist Rest
For those who find it impossible to sleep while crammed into an airplane seat, a long flight is a good chance to get some work done, although plopping a giant laptop onto a tiny seat tray can make that just as challenging as trying to get some shuteye. That’s where the still-just-a-design Mobile Office laptop seems…
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Cranberry Really Might Help Prevent UTIs for Many, Large Review Finds
Newly updated research suggests that cranberries really can help some people avoid urinary tract infections. The research, a review of existing clinical trial data, found enough evidence to support the use of cranberry-based products to prevent UTIs in women with recurrent infections, children, and people with a known…
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Lyft's New CEO Will Reportedly Cut 1,200 Jobs
On Friday, Lyft CEO David Risher announced in a memo that employee layoffs are coming next week, marking his first decision since taking over the company only five days ago. A source familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that roughly 1,200 people will be laid off, accounting for 13% of the company’s…
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14 Burning Questions We Have After Star Trek: Picard Season 3's Finale
Star Trek: Picard came to an end this week, wrapping a nostalgic season up in a tidy bow of spectacle and sentiment. And although, as Star Trek has told us before, all good things must come to an end, even now questions still linger about the future of these characters. Here’s the ones at the forefront of our mind…
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Batman Beyond Wasn’t Afraid to Show the Dangers of Sex Robots
A lot of people love the ‘90s Batman Beyond cartoon, set in a future where an elderly Bruce Wayne trains teen Terry McGillis to be the new Dark Knight of the future. I assume these people have forgotten about the episode “Terry’s Friend Dates a Robot,” a title that should indicate how much creativity and thought went…
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New Migraine Drug Can Even Tackle the Most Difficult Cases, Study Finds
A recently approved preventative migraine drug called atogepant (branded Qulipta) seems to help even the most difficult cases, preliminary research out this week has found. The study showed that patients who hadn’t responded to other treatments experienced noticeably fewer days with migraine while on atogepant than…
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Stack Overflow Joins Twitter and Reddit in Charging AI Companies for Training Data
Stack Overflow is joining in on the AI resistance in forcing companies behind the rapidly advancing tech to pay up. The go-to resource for programmers is joining Twitter and Reddit in forcing AI companies to pay for the data they use to train their technology.

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The Book of Boba Fett Episode Titles Are Still Hilariously Hidden on Disney+
Anyone who has watched a Star Wars show on Disney+ knows the service is careful about keeping viewers unspoiled. New episodes don’t have their titles displayed on the menu, leaving that surprise for audiences to discover. Then, a few days later, once most people have watched it, the title appears, as it will live on…
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Users Claim the Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Some Printers
Windows 10 seems to hate the idea of physical print, though it’s not like Microsoft’s OS is trying to save on paper. Users have reported that the latest automatic Windows 10 update has borked certain printer brands, while others claim the update has caused further issues with unresponsive desktop icons or issues with…
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Evil Dead Rise Puts Its Own (Deliciously Gory) Spin on the Cult-Beloved Series
It was risky for Evil Dead Rise, the latest entry in a series that set the standard for “cabin in the woods” horror, to choose a Los Angeles high-rise as its principle setting. But that risk pays off in writer-director Lee Cronin’s new film, which balances reverence for Sam Raimi’s classic with an entertaining…
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Cops Serve VPN Maker Search Warrant for Data It Doesn't Collect
The VPN provider Mullvad says that it was served with a search warrant by Swedish police demanding that the company turn over servers containing logs of user data. The only problem? Mullvad doesn’t collect such logs.

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Who Asked for This: Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Releases Medical ChatGPT Knockoff
Disgraced Pharma Bro turned crypto shill Martin Shkreli is pivoting to a new venture: medical AI. Shkreli says his new medical chatbot called “Dr. Gupta” can answer a wide range of medical questions and could one day become a “replacement for all health care information.”
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Parler’s New Owner Is in It for the Money, Not the Politics
Last week, the right-wing social network Parler was sold to a media conglomerate called Starboard. The company shut Parler down indefinitely to “undergo a strategic assessment.” It marks the end of a long and tumultuous saga for the conservative social media company—once seen as a refuge from mainstream apps like…
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Star Trek: Picard's Final Scene Came From 45 Minutes of Footage
Star Trek: Picard’s final episode is an hour of spectacle and gleeful Trek love, and it’s hard to imagine just how the series could’ve reasonably topped it. That is, until we learned there’s a 45-minute version of that last scene out there, apparently.

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Everything We Noticed During SpaceX Starship’s Explosive Debut Launch
The mission lasted for just four minutes, but the fiery debut of SpaceX’s Starship resulted in stunning visuals and an abundance of new questions.

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Not Even Jeopardy Contestants Know What the Metaverse Is
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only person who’s lost a lot of money on the metaverse. On Thursday, three additional public figures made the mistake of betting their cash on the concept. All of the contestants on the April 20, 2023 episode of Jeopardy failed to correctly answer the final prompt of the game, and all of them…
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Ben Wang stars as Jin Wang in American Born Chinese, the adaptation of the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang of the same name. The Disney+ original show takes some significant departures from the book, but the new trailer shows how it interprets the themes into a contemporary, and adventure-forward, adaptation, starting…
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Twitter Demands Advertisers Pay for a Blue Check or Spend $1,000 a Month
One day after Elon Musk followed through on his months-long threat to remove blue checks from Twitter accounts that were verified before his tenure, Twitter sent advertisers an email telling them they can’t advertise on the platform unless they subscribe to Twitter Blue. Accounts that already spend $1,000 or more a…
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Parler Could Get a Spin-Off by Disgruntled Former Employees
Disgruntled former Parler employees are pushing back against Starboard’s acquisition of the platform, saying they will create their own version of the far-right social media site that fulfills its original goals. Known for its role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, the platform is reportedly heading in a…
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How Your Washing Machine Can Help Reduce Microplastics
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All of Marvel Studios' Phase 4 Comes to Life in a Single Poster
Though Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently underway, many of us are still wrapping our heads around Phase 4. Starting in January 2021 and running through November 2022, Phase 4 included 18 total stories, which is almost as much as the entire 11-year MCU before it. Some of those were movies, some were…
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This Year’s Winter Storms Devastated Agricultural Workers
California couldn’t catch a break from consecutive storms this winter. Heavy precipitation caused widespread flooding, while strong winds felled trees and damaged roads, power lines, and homes. The weeks of severe weather also turned fields into a muddy mess and disrupted work for the state’s many agricultural workers.

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Doctor Who Gets Groovy in New Set Promo Pics
The end of the week is upon us, the time of rest is nigh, we approach the weekend and we greet it with open arms. Well. Open arms and a full list of movies, tv, and books to devour. We’ve got a lot of small updates from horror films including a Lord of the Flies adaptation, a queer time-loop romance, and a …
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Elon Musk Drops All Media Labels on Twitter, Even for State-Run Outlets
After making a huge deal about sticking labels on the likes of NPR and the BBC in the name of transparency, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided labeling media outlets’ Twitter accounts wasn’t so important, after all, even removing them from known propaganda outlets like Russia Today.
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Call Me 'DeepBrain': Google Smushes DeepMind and Brain AI Teams Together
Talk about a meeting of the minds. In another bid to add some NOx to its sputtering AI development, Google announced late Thursday that it plans to combine its two major AI teams, once kept separate, under one banner called Google DeepMind.
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