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    Default Captain America and Red Guardian to Meet... in an Unrelated Netflix Gh

    In Black Widow, the Red Guardian talks about wanting to show down with Captain America. Well, he’s going to get his chance... sorta. Both David Harbour (Red Guardian in Black Widow) and Anthony Mackie (Captain America in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) are set to co-star in a new Netflix movie that has nothing to…
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    This Butterfly May Have Been the First Insect Driven Extinct by U.S. Urbanization
    Scientists say they’ve confirmed a decades-old suspicion about the loss of the Xerces blue butterfly in the U.S by the 1940s. Based on genetic analysis of a 93-year-old specimen and others, they say the Xerces blue really was a distinct species of butterfly, rather than a sub-group of another existing species, as some…
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    A Super-Pressure Balloon Will Keep This Telescope in the Air for Weeks
    A unique telescope is set to launch from New Zealand in April 2022, designed to survey the gravitational lensing that occurs when galactic clusters collide. The instrument, called SuperBIT, will be suspended by a stadium-sized helium balloon in Earth’s stratosphere.
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    The CW's Batwoman Is Bringing DC Hero Renee Montoya Into the Fold
    The CW’s Batwoman is bringing a familiar DC character into its third season, and she’ll be played by a familiar face, too. Victoria Cartagena, who played former Gotham City cop Renee Montoya on Fox’s Gotham, is now joining the Batwoman cast as... Renee Montoya.
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    This Synth Demo Will Make You Experience Feelings You've Never Had Before
    Musical product demos aren’t known for producing masterpieces. Typically, they feature a fine technical musician running through a few unnotable bars of a song while they emphasize a specific feature of the gear. Then there’s Realitone’s demo for its Realivox Ladies software which features a segment of sound that…
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    Cyberpunk 2077's Retrofuturistic World Is Worth Exploring Beneath the Flaws
    When Cyberpunk 2077came out last December, all eyes were on what I like to call “the little game that couldn’t.” CD Projekt Red’s long-anticipated dive into the cyberpunk genre was laden with bugs, glitches, and reports of horrible work conditions for the development team. Six months later, enough patches have come…
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    The New iPad Mini Might Be Able to Replace Your Laptop
    A fresh new look isn’t the only change we’re expecting to see with the iPad mini this fall. According to a 9to5Mac report, the smallest iPad will be getting an A15 processor, USB-C, and a magnetic Smart Connector. This would be a significant boost in its processing power, but also means you could possibly use the…
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    6 Photos Show Siberia’s Raging Wildfire Season
    Wildfires raging across usually-frozen land, temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius), smoke blanketing cities—it’s close to apocalyptic right now in Siberia as one of the world’s most northern regions struggles through another intense fire season.
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    The CW's 4400 First Look Teases an Intriguing Connection
    In USA’s The 4400, which premiered in 2004, thousands of people from throughout various points in recent history—who were all thought to be abducted—suddenly returned as a group in the present day, with no real recollection of what had happened to them. Initially, there was little rhyme or reason to the 4400's mission…
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    Ebola-Like Pig Illness Pops Up in Germany, Doesn't Pose a Threat to Humans
    Health officials in Germany have reaffirmed that the virus behind African swine fever isn’t likely to endanger humans, even if they eat meat from infected animals. However, the reassurance comes in the wake of the virus recently being found on several pig farms within the country, a troubling development, since ASF…
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    Venmo to Stop Snitching
    Venmo is discontinuing its longtime policy of telling every stranger on the fucking planet who new users are sending money to and why for no reason whatsoever, according to Bloomberg.
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    Biden Assembles the Final Member of His Big Tech Nightmare Squad
    President Joe Biden has selected attorney and frequent critic of Google parent company Alphabet to lead the United States Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, the White House announced Tuesday. If approved, Kanter would join the Biden administration’s robust legal team that’s poised to combat Silicon Valley’s…
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    G.I. Joe's Real-Life Connection Between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow
    In the mythology of G.I. Joe, the link between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow is dense and complex. The two fought together, trained together, and became as close as brothers—only to eventually turn into bitter rivals. That relationship carries over not just into the new movie, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, but its…
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    Use This Tool to Check If Your Phone's Been Hacked by the NSO Group's Spyware
    If you’ve been watching the news this week you may have heard something about the NSO Group, an Israeli spyware firm that currently stands accused of helping bad actors to hack journalists, politicians, and human rights activists throughout the world.
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    Verizon Finally Embraces RCS, Now the Lone Holdout Is Apple
    Starting next year, Verizon will make Android Messages the default texting app on all its Android devices.

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    Black Widow’s Yelena: Kevin Feige Teases Her Infinity War Fate and More
    It’s not every day the president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, just comes out and shares his company’s secrets. But that happened Monday night during a Black Widow watch party that took place on Twitter. Feige stayed online throughout and told anecdotes, gave shoutouts, and answered fan questions about the film—q…
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    Jeff Bezos: So Long, and Thanks for Making Me Rich
    Amazon employees and customers should be thrilled to know that the world’s richest man appreciates you for funding his little 10-minute rocket skydive (“space” travel) today. In a post-flight briefing this cowboy hat-wearing motherfucker actually said the quiet part out loud:

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    Oh, Absolutely Not, Malignant Trailer
    You know what James Wan is very good at? Scaring the bejesus out of you. And with Malignant, he’s back in seemingly very fine form.

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    Despite Spread of Infectious Delta Variant, Amazon to Stop Testing Warehouse Workers
    The coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. must be over because otherwise, Amazon’s decision to end free testing for warehouse workers might seem rather reckless.

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    Jeff Bezos: 'We Need to Move All Polluting Industry Into Space'
    Noted cowboy cosplay enthusiast Jeff Bezos visited the edge of space on Tuesday.

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    Default Here’s Our First Look at the Biden Bot in Disney's Hall of Presidents

    Florida might be at the epicenter of a shocking spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations, but that isn’t stopping the state’s iconic Walt Disney World theme park from chugging along with business as usual. That also means that the company’s been gearing up to debut the latest addition to its Hall of Presidents: an…
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    Blood Red Sky Pits a Vampire Against Hijackers and Almost Lives Up to That Killer Concept
    Blood Red Sky begins with a frame story—an aircraft makes a wobbly landing in Scotland as troops gather below—before introducing us to a mother and son preparing to travel from Germany to New York. She’s obviously gravely ill and hopes that a specialist in America can cure her. However, as anyone who’s seen the trailer
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    Louis Vuitton's Hideous $3,000 Speaker Looks Like a UFO
    Sometimes, you see an expensive gadget and think, “Oh shiz, that’s really expensive, but given the design, feature set, innovation, and build quality, it’s probably worth it.” This is absolutely never the case when luxury brands decide they want in on the tech game. There are dozens of examples of why luxury brands…
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    Star Trek's Alex Kurtzman on Why We Haven't Heard About the Section 31 Show for a While
    A Section 31 Star Trek show with Michelle Yeoh’s breakout Discovery character Emperor Philipa Georgiou has been rumbling about as a project almost since the earliest days of ViacomCBS’s heady plans for more Star Trek on screen than ever before. But as that plan unfolded, Section 31 somewhat appropriately slunk into…
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    Rebooted Hubble Telescope Wastes No Time, Captures Cool New Pics of Misfit Galaxies
    It was looking grim there for a while, but Hubble is back in business after a computer glitch kept the space telescope offline for over a month. With no time to waste, the 31-year-old observatory is already back at work, capturing vivid new images of oddball galaxies.

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    Default German Man Fined After Nazi-Era Tank Discovered in Garage

    An 84-year-old man in Germany has been hit with heavy fines after a Nazi-era tank and other weapons from World War II were discovered in his garage, according to a report from Germany’s DPA news agency. The tank and assorted weapons were uncovered after a tipster told authorities there might be art stolen during World…
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    Citizen Launches a $20 Service You Can Call to Call the Cops
    Citizen, the self-proclaimed crime-fighting app, has launched a new premium service that, for $20 a month, lets you do something you can already do for free.
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    How Did Palpatine Survive After Return of the Jedi?
    The dead speak! On the official Star Wars website in fact! In a new blog post on the site today, Lucasfilm Story Group member Emily Shkoukani explained “The Contingency”—the canon name for exactly how Emperor Palpatine died, came back to life, and returned to power in Star Wars. A plan that was, according to the site,…
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    Google Is Finally Killing Off a Decade-Old Version of Android
    Whether you’re running it for a nostalgic feel or you’ve held on to a device for too long, it’s time to say goodbye to the decade-old Android Gingerbread. Google is officially laying it to rest.

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    Brotherhood of the Wolf Is Still the Greatest French Historical Epic Martial Arts Monster Movie Ever Made
    Martial arts movies that double as historical epics are supposed to be set in Asia. They’re not supposed to take place in the opulent, luxurious, ostentatious mansions of the bewigged aristocracy of 1760s France. Yet 2001’s Brotherhood of the Wolf has the audacity to take these wildly incohesive elements, along with…
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    Zoe Saldana Is Making a Space Opera Anime for Crunchyroll
    Zoe Saldana has starred in some of the biggest, most successful films in history. Next up, she’ll try to make more history by teaming up with the hugely successful anime brand Crunchyroll to create a franchise of her own.
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    Someone, Please Explain the Metaverse to Jim Cramer
    If you follow tech news, you may have been wondering to yourself—what the hell is a metaverse? That’s fair. But if you are wondering what the metaverse is, please, do not go to Jim Cramer for answers.
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    Frontier Airlines Attendants Put on Paid Leave After Duct-Taping Violent Passenger to Seat


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    Biologists Have Been Vastly Underestimating Giraffes’ Social Skills
    Giraffes are way more socially competent than we give them credit for, a team of scientists from the University of Bristol say. They’re calling for an updated understanding of the incredibly tall artiodactyls.

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    Lazor Wulf Tried to Warn Everyone About the Moon
    Henry Bonsu’s Lazor Wulf, an off-kilter animated series about a talking wolf armed with a laser gun, was one of Adult Swim’s most refreshing shows. It switched up the usual late-night cartoon bloc by spotlighting a bevy of Black talent and creativity. Though the show met its untimely end earlier this year after just…
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    The ISS Backflipped Out of Control After Russian Module Misfired, New Details Reveal
    A NASA flight director has provided new details about last week’s scary incident in orbit, in which a freshly docked Russian module inadvertently fired its thrusters, causing the International Space Station to roll backwards.
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    Nicholas Hoult Will Star as Dracula's Henchman in Universal Monster Comedy Renfield
    He’s played J.R.R. Tolkien, the X-Men’s Beast, and a romantic zombie—plus, we all witnessed him in Mad Max: Fury Road. Now Nicholas Hoult is adding another notch to his already impressive genre resume, signing on to star as the title character in Chris McKay’s Dracula-adjacent Universal monster movie Renfield.
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    Billions of Dollars Later, the U.S. Government Remains as Hackable as Ever
    The United States is at no risk of being confused for a country with serious cybersecurity defenses.

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    Hospitalizations Rare Among Vaccinated and More Survivable When They Happen, Study Finds
    Recent preliminary research from India may offer some more good news for people who have gotten covid-19 vaccines, even in the face of the more virulent Delta variant. The study found that fully vaccinated people who ended up hospitalized—itself a rare risk among the vaccinated—still had a lower chance of becoming…
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    Realme's MagSafe Alternative for Android Is Here
    Last fall, Apple reimagined its classic MagSafe magnetic charging tech in the form of a slim puck for charging the iPhone 12. Now Realme is bringing wireless magnetic recharging to the Android ecosystem for the first time with its new MagDart chargers.

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    The New Cinderella Trailer Gives Us Big Knight's Tale Vibes
    Maybe it’s just us, but when we see people in period clothing singing catchy modern pop songs, we’re instantly transported back to 2001. That was when a young actor named Heath Ledger (along with Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk, and others) gave us A Knight’s Tale, a fun medieval adventure film filled with modern music. What…
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    Ground Temperatures Reach a Blistering 127 Degrees in Turkey
    Wildfires are raging out of control amid blistering heat in Turkey and Greece. New data shows that ground temperatures in parts of Greece and Turkey reached more than 127 degrees Fahrenheit (53 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday.
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    Curiosity Rover Sees a Weird Martian Rock Formation
    Not to be outdone by the young upstart Perseverance, NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent recent days imaging interesting rocks at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars, near which the rover landed in August 2012. One of those features is an arch, similar to some of the towering geology present on parts of Earth—but this arch…
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    China’s Propaganda Ministries Dislike the Algorithmic Feed, Possibly Even More Than You Do
    China’s state propaganda institutions are urging companies like ByteDance, the owner of music app TikTok/Douyin, and Tencent Holdings, owner of messaging app WeChat and numerous streaming platforms, to limit the role of algorithms in content promotion, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.
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    FandangoNOW and Vudu Merging Into One Streaming Mega-Platform
    Movie ticketing company Fandango announced on Tuesday that it plans to combine its two streaming services into one mega-platform—a new version of Vudu that’s set to become the official movie and TV store for Roku.

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    Default Doing Marvel Zombies Was a 'No-Brainer' Says What If Head Writer AC Br

    Marvel’s What Ifseries on Disney+is set to dig into the countless stories unfolding all throughout the MCU’s freshly minted multiverse, many of which bear striking similarities to chunks of the cinematic canon established in previous films. But some of the series’ specific universes will delve into realities that…
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    NYC Becomes First U.S. City to Create Vaccine Mandate for Gyms, Indoor Dining, and Entertainment
    New York City is about to become much less hospitable to those intentionally not vaccinated against covid-19. This morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to institute a sweeping mandate that would require people to be at least partially vaccinated in order to partake in gyms, indoor dining, and other public…
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    Japan Is Naming and Shaming Citizens Who Don't Comply With Covid-19 Protocols
    As any public official will tell you, it can be tricky to get citizens to comply with certain public health mandates—like wearing masks, social distancing, or getting a damn vaccine. So some health authorities have started taking a different tactic—publicly naming and shaming the folks that refuse to comply, in the…
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    Florida’s Red Tide Is Driving Hundreds of Sharks Into Canals
    Sharks looking to escape danger are putting Florida residents in harm’s way.
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    Exxon Invaded My Roku
    One Saturday night in June, I turned on my TV and fired up Roku, my streaming platform. I was ready for a night in, bopping between Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, and the myriad other channels available on the platform in search of the perfect binge watch.
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    Default Your Battery-Hungry Game Boy Pocket Will Never Run Out of Power With T

    Over 30 years after its debut, there are hundreds of ways to modify and upgrade the Nintendo Game Boy, as well as the subsequent versions of the handheld console, to improve everything from the screen to the quality of the built-in speakers. But one hacker, finally fed up with stressing over battery life, has upgraded…
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    Are Lightsabers Theoretically Possible?
    I’ve never been a Star Wars fan. I’ve seen only one of the movies, The Phantom Menace, and I was eight years old at the time. And yet even I, as a child, owned and played with one of those little lightsaber toys, as have millions of children before and after me (not to mention the millions of children yet-unborn, who…
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    Spider-Man: No Way Home's Doctor Strange Connection Just Got a Lot Clearer
    James Gunn is talking about all his future projects. The Orville season three is ever closer to reality. Supergirl is gearing up for what should be a very emotional goodbye. Plus updates from Rick and Morty, Midnight Mass, and more. Spoilers are magical today!

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    Default Dark Shadows and Beyond Pays Tribute to the Man Who Played TV's Most B

    Biographies and documentaries about actors tend to focus on scandalous stuff—their tumultuous family life, tragedies, addiction problems...whatever personal turmoil helped (or hindered) them as they built their career. Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story has none of that. Instead, it offers a thoroughly…
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    X-Rays Reveal Censored Messages Between Marie Antoinette and Her 'Tender Friend'
    A team of conservation scientists recently went through 230-year-old correspondence between Marie Antoinette and her close friend (and rumored lover) Axel von Fersen, a Swedish count, and were able to reveal redacted portions of eight letters exchanged between the two.

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    Boats, Ranked
    Boats: They are vessels of ancient Solomon Islanders who charted a now-fantastical journey 2,000 miles into the unknown. They contain drunk people while idling with the engine running on the East River as the toilet floods the lower deck, penetrating nauseated passengers’ nostrils with sewage, an event which I can…
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    Blue Origin Employees Claim Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Is Sexist, Toxic, and Lax About Flight Safety
    A scathing essay written by nearly two dozen current and former Blue Origin employees paints a grim picture of work conditions at the company and how the burgeoning space race among billionaires is compromising flight safety.

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    In This Year's Snifter of Death, Breakfast Is Saved by a Man of Oats
    For the past several years, we’ve been delighted to share a preview of Mark Russell and Peter Snejbjerg’s “Monster Serials,” their ongoing tale of the Marquis du Cocoa and other copyright-infringement-free icons of breakfast cereal. Last year, the Marquis and his wife hosted the ousted king of the Leprechauns. The…
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    The ABCs of Big Oil: The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Century-Long Quest to Invade Elementary Schools
    Research shows that kids under the age of 7 can’t recognize that advertisements are trying to sell them something. One analysis found that even middle school kids can’t distinguish between news stories and advertorials.
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    The FCC Is Still Trying to Stop Spam Calls and SIM Swap Scams
    We’ve all been spammed by robocalls and faced the threat of SIM swap attacks for years, and now the FCC is finally planning to do something about it.
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    Toss a Coin at These Witcher Toys, Until They Go Away
    McFarlane Toys has been releasing The Witcher action figures for a little while now, but they’ve all been based on The Witcher III: Wild Hunt video game. It was a smash hit, but let’s be honest with ourselves—all we’ve really been waiting for are toys based on Netflix’s wonderful live-action adaptation of The Witcher,…
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    Oil Starts Flowing Through Line 3 on Friday, But Water Protectors Will Keep Fighting It
    Oil will begin flowing through the controversial Line 3 pipeline on Friday, after years of legal challenges and resistance that saw more than 900 arrests since construction began in November.
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    South Korean ISP Is Suing Netflix Because Too Many People Are Watching Squid Game
    There’s at least one player who’s not particularly happy about the success of the Netflix hit Squid Game—and that’s SK Broadband, a South Korean internet provider. According to Reuters, the ISP is suing Netflix to pay up for using so much bandwidth and the maintenance costs due to traffic surges stemming from the…
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    Merck and Ridgeback Say Their Covid-19 Pill Cuts Chance of Hospitalization and Death by Half
    A pill that can effectively prevent the worst outcomes of covid-19 may finally be on the way.
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    Encanto's Most Magical Character Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
    In Disney’s upcoming animated feature Encantofrom co-directors Byron Howard and Jared Bush—almost every member of the Madrigal family is blessed with a unique ability that comes from the powerful connection to the magic that their family tree as a whole has always had. So growing up without powers is hard for Mirabel…
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    YouTube TV and NBCUniversal Have Agreed to Make Nice—for Now
    After a drawn-out public showdown over a contract dispute that could have resulted in 14 NBC Universal channels being yanked from YouTube TV, the two services announced in a Thursday night statement that they’ve worked out a short-term fix.

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    There's a New 'World's Biggest Nerf Gun' That Can Blast Darts at Over 50 MPH
    In 2016, Mark Rober created what was easily the world’s largest dart blaster capable of launching foam projectiles at speeds of up to 40 MPH. Five years later, Michael Pick has come along to steal that record from Rober with a monstrously massive dart rifle powerful enough to tear soda cans to shreds.
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    This Saildrone Footage Inside a Category 4 Storm Will Make You Seasick
    There are few places I’d rather be less than the eye of a Category 4 storm in the middle of the ocean. But I have always been curious to know what it would be like, what with monster waves, squalls of rain, and whipping winds turning the ocean into a frothy mess.
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    Rick & Morty Anime Will Return Very Soon, in Spooktacular Fashion
    An interesting result in the long-running Friday the 13th lawsuit has emerged. Chris Columbus will no longer direct Five Nights at Freddy’s. Rob Zombie teases The Munsters’ haunted abode. Plus, Doom Patrol takes on Dada, and a new look at R.L. Stine’s Disney+ horror anthology. Spoilers get!

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    Flying Foam Case Promises to Protect Your Smartphone While Capturing Aerial Footage
    Many of us experience a moment of sheer terror when we accidentally drop our phones, even when it’s wrapped in a protective case. But the makers of the AER TYP want us to deliberately throw our smartphones like a football, and promise they’ll survive the flight, even in the event of a crash landing.

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    Why Are UK Gas Prices So High, and Could It Affect the U.S.?
    Europe’s energy market has descended into chaos. A gas shortage has sent prices spiraling to shocking highs with knock-on impacts on everything from electricity to meat production.
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    Show Me Your Nerd: Meet Tau's Puppet Pals
    When Tau Bennett was a child, he started as a puppet builder, making one monstrously hilarious Frankenstein after the next, he got to explore his imagination in a way many kids don’t get to. It shouldn’t have been much of a surprise when at the ripe age of 16, he got to learn from some of the top puppeteers in the…
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    The TCL 20 Pro 5G Is the Most Underappreciated Phone for the Money
    Try as it might, TCL is having a hard time expanding its presence outside of TVs, despite owning notable phone brands like Alcatel, Blackberry, and Palm. It’s tough to be a major player in a smartphone market dominated by Apple and Samsung. Even LG got out of the game. But TCL is still trying, and for the second year…
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    10 Absolutely Cursed Gadgets That Live in My Head Rent-Free
    Spooky Season is upon us! Growing up, I was terrified of scary movies. These days, the stuff of my nightmares is mundane by comparison, though no less disconcerting. Namely, those off-the-wall, bizarre products that seem to exist for no other reason than to leave you wondering, “Why is this a thing?”

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    Kino Lorber Launches Free Movie Streaming Service With Dozens of Cult Classics
    Film distributor Kino Lorber is launching a movie streaming service today called Kino Cult, with dozens of genre movies just in time for the spooky season. The service is completely free and supported by ads, with new titles promised each month.

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    Default Slack Is Down for Many People Worldwide

    It’s not just you. Slack has been down for many people worldwide since late Thursday afternoon and some people are still struggling to access the messaging service via mobile app or even just slack.com on early Friday morning.

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    Apple Watch Series 7 Might Start Shipping in Mid-October
    More than two weeks after Apple proudly unveiled its new Apple Watch Series 7, fans have still not gotten their hands on the device. This is because the company did not issue a specific release date, saying cryptically that the device would be “available later this fall.” That might be changing.
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    It Might Have Just Gotten Easier to Find the New USB-C 240W Charging Cables
    Although people got excited when the USB-C’s power output more than doubled from 100 watts to 240 watts earlier this year, there was still a mighty big problem at hand: How would consumers be able to tell these new USB-C cables apart from the old ones?
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    Default Amazingly Preserved Mummies in China Yield New Clues to Bronze Age Lif

    Hundreds of naturally mummified human remains in the Tarim Basin, part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, have long perplexed archaeologists. The remains, which date from 2,000 BCE to around 200 CE, are confounding for their remarkable state of preservation, luxurious clothing, and their burial in boat coffins…
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    Intel's Next-Gen Alder Lake Processors Are Officially Here, and Now We Know All the Details
    Intel has officially announced details on its much-anticipated 12th-gen Alder Lake processors, including pricing and performance details for three new chips.
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    Mario's Charles Martinet Doesn't Plan on Stepping Down Until He's Good and Ready
    No matter who Nintendo and Universal announced as the voice of Mario for their upcoming animated movie based on the video game franchise, people were certain to have rather strong feelings if the role didn’t go to Charles Martinet, the actor who’s been lending his voice to the character for 30 years.
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    Facebook Has No Clue How to Solve Its Image Problem, Leaked Doc Shows
    Despite what the company’s stock prices might tell you, Facebook is a company with an image problem. At best, critics warily regard Facebook as a company that ruthlessly strips users for their data so it can curbstomp competitors in increasingly hostile ways. At worst, people call the company a threat to democracy…
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    Brazilian Senate Committee Recommends Bolsonaro Face Charges of Mass Murder, Genocide
    The Brazilian Senate committee that produced a draft report accusing fascist gut flora gravy-boat President Jair Bolsonaro of 11 crimes against humanity including mass homicide, genocide, and charlatanism crimes in his handling of the covid-19 pandemic has voted to recommend charges.
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    Wheel of Time’s New Trailer: Magic, Monsters, Moiraine, Oh My!
    A snazzy new trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fantasy epic The Wheel of Timeis here, and it gives us our best look yet at the magical world inhabited by forces both good—like Rosamund Pike’s Moiraine—and evil, led by the aptly named Dark One.
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    Adobe Created a Deepfake Tool That Can Turn Your Trigger-Happy Camera Habits Into Living Photos
    Every year Adobe uses its Max conference to share sneak peeks at the technologies created up by the company’s R&D departments that may one day find their way into apps like Photoshop and Premiere. For 2021 that includes Project In-Between which can turn a pair of similar photos into a short animation.
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    Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Big Oil Misinformation Hearing
    This is a special joint investigation from Earther and HEATED, a newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis. HEATED is a must-read news outlet for anyone who cares about the future of the planet. Subscribe here.

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    Masters of the Universe: Revelation Returns With a Powerful Trailer for Part 2
    It’s rare that trailers are as spoiler-filled as this new video for the second half of Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Kevin Smith’s “continuation” of the classic ‘80s He-Man cartoon. I assume it’s in hopes of winning back some of those grumbling fans who disliked the first half of the series. I hope it…
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    Here's One of the Creepiest Things You Could Catch While Fishing
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    Default A Non-Exhaustive List of World Leaders Too Cowardly to Show Up to UN C

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    Default Stranger Things' Season 4 Trailer Brings California Chaos to Eleven

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    Default A Man's Seizures Turned Out to Be Caused by Dead Tapeworms in His Brai

    Coming down with seizures would be a scary experience no matter what, but for one unfortunate man, that experience was compounded by the discovery that dead tapeworm cysts lodged in his brain for decades were the root cause. Thankfully, his seizures were treated successfully, and the man seems to have made a recovery…
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    Crypto-Fueled Plan to Buy the U.S. Constitution Ends With a Big Pool of Money and No Constitution
    After raising nearly $49 million in ether in just a few days, the ConstitutionDAO that galvanized blockchain idealists did not win a copy of the US Constitution at Sotheby’s. Last night, the document, one of 13 surviving first edition copies, hammered for $43.2 million (going to—sigh—hedge fund billionaire Ken…
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    Warhammer 40K’s Creators Needed to Renounce Real Monsters Long Ago
    Games Workshop has had a long time to reckon with just how explicit the “Grimdark” satire of its tabletop wargaming universe is. It portrays a fascist, zealous imperial regime as heroic—in a universe of demonic horrors and alien invasion—to players who might find themselves fond of such ideals in real life. But the…
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    A Quarter of U.S. Roads Could Be Regularly Flooded in 30 Years
    The U.S. recently passed a $1 trillion bipartisan spending bill aimed at improving and repairing the country’s decaying infrastructure, but a new report on flooding risks resulting from climate change warns even more investment might be needed.
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    Android May Soon Translate iMessage Reactions Into Emoji for Green Bubbles
    If you have an Android phone, you’re probably used to seeing a line from an iPhone-using friend or family member that they’ve “emphasized” your previous message. What does that even mean? In iMessage speak, that’s a double exclamation mark, or the ‼ emoji.
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