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The FCC Is Forcing Internet Providers to Publish 'Nutrition Labels' Breaking Down Prices
Internet service providers will soon have to publish “nutrition labels” that prominently display the actual costs of their services, breaking down hidden fees, data caps, speed promises, and information about when discounts expire, the Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday. The labels will make it far…
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Reebok's DC Shoes Kick off the Fight Between Good and Evil
DC Universe and Reebok have partnered up to create a limited series of shoes based on some iconic supers—Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are all represented, as well as some truly villainous baddies—Lex Luthor, the Joker, and Harley Quinn. The shoes are genuinely very cute, and we’ve got a ton of images for you to…
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Forget the Metaverse, Zuck Says WhatsApp Could Be the Real Money Machine
Mark Zuckerberg wants his staff to know he hasn’t forgotten how to make money.
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Latest MoMA Exhibit Is an AI-Generated Swirling Hallucination of Other Museum Art
As it often happens with AI-generated art, there’s confusion surrounding whether attribution should be handed to the person who generated the AI’s prompt, the AI itself, the AI’s creators, or the artwork the machine learning model “borrowed” from. In the case of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition on display…
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Just 42% of Religious Americans Pray for the Environment
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special May Include a Major MCU Reveal
Monster High will return. Get a glimpse of what’s coming on the finales of Chucky and Stargirl, and what’s next on Kung Fu and The Winchesters. Plus, more details about the return of Rick and Morty. To me, my spoilers!

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The 140 Funniest Tweets of All Time
Twitter employees left the company in droves Thursday, choosing to take a severance rather than stick around for whatever Elon Musk has in store. And that mass exodus left many Twitter users to assume the site will eventually just stop working. In that apocalyptic spirit, Twitter users were remembering all the things…
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Missing Employees, a Billion-Dollar Loan, and Emoji Payments: The 9 Most Batshit Revelations From FTX's Bankruptcy Filing
Once upon a time, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was a jewel of the web3 world. Now, in the span of a week, its reputation has transformed from shooting star to sinking ship. After admitting to mismanaging large amounts of customer money, the exchange’s founder and CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (also known by his initials…
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Watch This Horror Short in the Darkest Room Possible
In Bangladesh, two sisters hurry home one afternoon. At first, nothing seems unusual as they bicker in typical sibling fashion (“Come quick, or you’re dead!”) and go about their routine. But as writer-director Nuhash Humayun’s horror short Moshari continues, it becomes clear that something is wrong in their world. …
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Hollywood Is Trying to Remake Escape From New York Again
You are not experiencing post-apocalyptic déjà vu. Hollywood is, yet again, attempting to remake John Carpenter’s landmark 1981 film, Escape From New York. This time, from the filmmaking team behind Ready or Not and Scream, Radio Silence.
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Make Way for the Baby as Grogu and Mando Take Over Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
It was only a matter of time before more current Star Wars universe characters found their way to Galaxy’s Edge at Disney Parks. Starting this week, The Mandalorian heroes Din Djarin and Grogu will be appearing in Batuu’s Black Spire Outpost at Disneyland.
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Yale, Harvard, and Berkeley Law Schools Ditch U.S. News and World Report's 'Profoundly Flawed' Rankings
A trio of the nation’s premier law schools are bucking a longstanding ranking trend and opting out of the U.S. New and World Report’s top colleges list. Dean’s from the schools expressed exhaustion with the list’s incentive structures and said the company’s ranking methodology is mostly to blame.
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SpaceX Awarded $1.15 Billion Contract to Build NASA's Second Lunar Lander
NASA recently added a new Moon landing to its Artemis plans and it needs a specialized human landing system to carry it out. To virtually no one’s surprise, NASA chose SpaceX to develop this second lunar lander.

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Have We Forgotten Why Wookiees Ponder Their Orbs on Life Day?
What was once a Star Wars joke is a fully armed and operational merchandising event. Today is Life Day, which means that from its theme parks to its stores, Disney will find a way to sell you as many Wookiee-affiliated pieces of merchandise as possible: especially those pale blue orbs. But what were they even for?…
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Meta Employees Were Reportedly Fired for Selling Account Information to Hackers
Meta reportedly fired more than a dozen security guards and other workers in the last year after internal investigations revealed they had been selling users’ information and login details to hackers. Some of those who received disciplinary actions were contractors who acquired information from users that were locked…
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A Satellite That Launched Aboard SLS Is Already in Trouble
The launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission sent the Orion capsule on a journey to the Moon, in addition to 10 cubesats included as secondary payloads. The Space Launch System’s upper stage successfully deployed the tiny satellites yesterday, but one of them appears to be malfunctioning.

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U.S. Indicts Two Russians for Allegedly Profiting Off Copyrighted Books Through Z-Library
The age of Z-Library is over, at least as we know it. Two people allegedly behind the online ebook repository are facing federal indictment, and as much as it might spell the end for one of the web’s longest-running ebook archives, it really doesn’t do much to cut down on either supply or demand for published…
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Rick and Morty's Back! 10 Things to Remember About Season 6 So Far
Rick and Morty’s sixth season premiered in early September, but it’s been on hiatus since October 9. Thankfully, the much-loved series returns on November 20 to finish out the season, once again reminding us how lucky we are to live in a time where the gaps between new Rick and Morty installments are much shorter than…
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Dems Debut Bill Updating Tech Accessibility Requirements for Streaming, AI, and Video Conferencing
In the wake of the midterm elections, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have introduced a bill crafted to ensure emerging technologies keep pace with the needs of people with disabilities. The effort is receiving widespread praise from groups such as the Blinded Veterans Association and Communications Service…
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Google Maps' AR Live View Feature Will Now Point Out Shops, Coffee, and ATMs
To accompany a new holiday season that’s bound to have more in-person shopping than we’ve been used to as of late, Google is pushing out an update to its Maps app that lets you use AR to explore which stores and amenities happen to be in your line of sight. Its part of the Live View feature, which previously mostly …
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This is super embarrassing and I probably shouldn’t admit it, but last night I had a dream about Indiana Jones 5. I dreamed I was watching the new trailer and when I woke up, I was so sure that I saw the future, I actually checked my phone to see if Disney and Lucasfilm had released it. They hadn’t but hours later, I…
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D'oh! Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year Caused Wordle Players a Lot of Frustration
Cambridge Dictionary has revealed its word of the year. Ready for it? It’s “Homer,” stemming from frustrations from the widely popular game, Wordle. The company said the word was searched in their dictionary over 75,000 times this year, with more than 65,000 of the searches taking place on May 5, the day it was the…
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Sony's Spider-Man Universe Webslings Its Way Onto TV
Oh, did you think the MCU had a monopoly on Marvel TV series? Sony Pictures, license holders of the Spider-Man (But Technically Spider-Man-Less) Cinematic Universe, has announced that the Webslinger’s extended cast of characters will extend itself to television as rumored back in 2020, beginning with Silk: Spider…
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Democrats' Trust and Favorability in Twitter Plummets Following Musk Take Over
The numbers are in and Disruptor in Chief Elon Musk is definitely having an impact on Twitter, but probably not the type he’d hoped for.
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A Measles Outbreak in Ohio Has Hospitalized Seven Kids So Far
An outbreak of measles in Ohio has spread through at least 7 daycares and a school in the area. Officials are now investigating 18 suspected cases of the fast-spreading but vaccine-preventable viral illness, all among unvaccinated children. Several of the children have been hospitalized.
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Interview With the Vampire Knows It's Telling a Slanted Truth
Almost as soon as we began our interview, Interview With the Vampirestar Assad Zaman leaned forward and asked, “Oh, what’s happening? What’s the fandom saying?” On the video chat with me were two actors from AMC’s Anne Rice adaptation: Zaman (who plays Rashid/Armand) and Eric Bogosian (Daniel Molloy). I had just…
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Intel Says Their Deepfake Detector Has 96% Accuracy
Deepfake technology—where someone’s likeness is digitally placed over someone else’s—has some very spooky implications. Intel says that its new deepfake detection tech, called FakeCatcher, is able to clock a deepfake video 96% of the time.

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Webb Telescope Sees Two of the Most Ancient Galaxies Yet
In late June, the Webb Space Telescope trained its eye on two of the farthest galaxies seen to date. The galaxies existed several hundred million years after the Big Bang, making them some of the earliest light sources to emerge in the universe.
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New NASA Satellite Will Keep Tabs on Nearly All of Earth's Water
We live on a blue planet. More than 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by water, and a soon-to-launch satellite is set to shed light on all that liquid like never before. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission is a joint project between NASA and France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), plus…
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Sonic Prime Sends the Hedgehog Into His Own Multiverse of Madness
If there was a pop culture trend that Sonic the Hedgehog could unleash a homing attack and hop a ride on, the Sega mascot could do a lot worse than speeding through a multiverse. And that’s exactly what he’ll be doing in the upcoming Sonic Prime animated series, which is looking remarkable in its newest trailer, and…
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What's Next for the Orion Spacecraft as It Cruises Toward the Moon
NASA’s Space Launch System blasted off on Wednesday, sending the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a 25-day journey to the Moon and back. Orion should reach its destination early next week, at which time it’ll perform some intricate orbital acrobatics and set a number of spacefaring records in the process.
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Industrial Meat and Dairy Is Destroying the Planet
The world’s largest meat and dairy companies are responsible for more than 10% of all global methane emissions from livestock, with some singular companies emitting as much or more methane than many individual countries, including Russia, Germany, and Australia, a new report finds. The report, released this week from…
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Fire and Water Have a Meet-Cute in Pixar's Elemental
After exploring teen angst in Turning Red, Pixar is back with a romantic comedy: Elemental, which is directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur) and will hopefully make us cry in a good way. The first teaser is here, revealing an incredible world imagined with designs and energy we can’t wait to see more of.
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End of an Era: Facebook Takes Sexuality, Religion, Address, and Politics Off of Your Profile
Facebook quietly announced it will remove several categories of information from user profiles, including religious views, political views, addresses and the “Interested in” field, which indicates sexual preference. The change goes into effect on December 1.

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The Dengue Virus Has Been Found in Arizona
A dangerous viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes has seemingly landed in Arizona. Earlier this week, health officials reported that a Maricopa County resident recently contracted dengue, while routine surveillance has found traces of the dengue virus in at least one nearby mosquito population. These discoveries…
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Gamera, Friend to All Children, Is Finally Back
Gamera is one of the most beloved Kaiju around, but his cinematic legacy isn’t as particularly deep as titans like Godzilla. But, at long last, he’s about to shell-spin his way to a swanky new reboot at Netflix.

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Amazon Offers 'Voluntary Severance' to Employees Who Resign Amid Ongoing Layoffs
Amazon sent a letter to some of its employees this week offering a buyout program if they voluntarily resigned. The proposal is a “voluntary severance” that would provide employees with three months’ pay if they selected to leave the company amidst mass layoffs at the company.
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House Committees Slam ID.me for 'Baseless' Unemployment Fraud Claims
ID.me, the controversial biometric identification verification company whose facial match technology provoked a major privacy backlash at the IRS earlier this year, may have misled the public and lawmakers when its CEO claimed the U.S. lost $400 billion to fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims. Its biometric…
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Junk Fees and Slow Speeds: Study of 22,000 Internet Bills Shows How Comcast, AT&T, and Others Hide the Cost of Broadband
If there’s one thing Americans seem to agree on, it’s that they don’t like their internet service providers. They have a lot of good reasons to be frustrated, according to a survey of US broadband service from Consumer Reports released Thursday.
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Supersized Switch With 12.5-Inch Screen Stretches the Definition of Portable Gaming
We don’t know what the next version of the Switch will be, but as handheld consoles continue to grow in size, it’s a safe bet that Nintendo will move beyond the OLED Switch’s seven-inch screen. Hardware hacker Pavlo Khmel decided not to wait for Nintendo to embiggen the Switch and took things into their own hands with…
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SpaceX Workers Say They Were Illegally Fired for Open Letter Criticizing Elon
Former SpaceX employees say they were fired in June for writing and circulating an open letter criticizing the behavior of the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, as well as the content he posts on Twitter. The eight ex-employees have filed unfair labor practices charges with the National Labor Relations Board. They claim…
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Just how bad do you have to be for a 40-year veteran of corporate undoings to call you one of the most faulty, most compromised entities he’s ever seen? John J. Ray III was tapped to handle the chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of FTX’s multiple major corporate entities. In his latest bankruptcy filing released…
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Your First Look at the Final Episode of The Walking Dead Is Here
Idina Menzel sings in a new look at Disenchanted. Go behind the scenes of David Harbour’s holiday horror movie Violent Night. Plus, the return of Escape From New York is on the cards, and learn what’s coming on the penultimate episode of Stargirl. To me, my spoilers!

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People Are Still Using the Dumbest Passwords Available
If you were thinking that most people would have learned by now not to use “password” as the password for their sensitive systems, then you would be giving too much credit to the general scrolling public.
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The Next Era of Human Space Exploration Just Thundered to Life
During the early hours of Wednesday morning, James Rice waited anxiously at Kennedy Space Center’s Banana Creek viewing platform in Florida as NASA’s Moon rocket geared up for its inaugural liftoff. “Today I saw a piece of history,” Rice, associate director at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space…
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What Does Mastodon Mean for ‘Climate Twitter’?
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El Salvador Plans to Buy More Bitcoin Every Day Despite Losing Millions Already
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, announced late Wednesday that his government plans to buy one Bitcoin every day starting on Thursday. And while Bukele hasn’t said when the purchases will stop, it’s likely to further the financial disaster his country’s cryptocurrency experiment has already wrought, based…
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Andor's Cool Imperial Cruiser Has a Long Star Wars History
Andor’s relationship to the Easter-egg-ification of Star Wars has been much less about familiar faces showing up and more about the layers and secrets it puts in the background of its world, rooting its grounded story of resistance in a Star Wars background radiation-soaked world. Its latest “Easter egg” is barely…
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Darren Aronofsky on Going to Extremes With Chris Hemsworth for Limitless
We already know Chris Hemsworth can convincingly play a god on the big screen—but the Marvel star also has some superhuman qualities in real life, too. In Limitless With Chris Hemsworth, a new Disney+ series created by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), we see Hemsworth engage in extreme challenges designed to help the…
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Author Greg Bear has passed away, reports his wife Astrid. The 71-year-old novelist underwent surgery earlier in the month, and following the successful process, doctors discovered he’d had a stroke from clots that had been building in his body since surgery he had in 2014. He remained unconscious until November 18,…
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Open Channel: What Have Been Your Favorite Walking Dead Moments?
After 11 years, 176 episodes, and some lawsuits, the original Walking Deadseries is coming to an end tonight. What was originally a simple adaptation of the popular Image comic from Charlie Adlard, Tony Moore, and Robert Kirkman has grown into a pop culture juggernaut with six spinoffs (at time of writing), an…
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How a 'Playboy' Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG
In her new book, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History, Samantha Cole traces the twisting history of the “Lena Centerfold,” an image from Playboy that became an international standard for training computers to recognize images. The image, taken in 1972, persisted for decades…
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The Walking Dead is Shambling to TTRPGs and Actual Play
The Walking Deadshow has been around for over a decade, and in that time has grown to a media franchise that nearly eclipses the comics that the TV series is based on. Beyond Telltale’s critically acclaimed video game saga, there’ve been multiple board and card games, a theme park ride, and novels that have expanded…
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Meet Mads Mikkelsen's NASA Nazi for Indiana Jones 5
The first real information rollout for Indiana Jones 5 has begun ahead of the untitled film’s June 2023 release. What’s intended to be the for real sendoff for Harrison Ford’s treasure hunter has some new faces showing up, including Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen. It didn’t take long for folks to suspect that …
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Who the Hell Was Whedon's Justice League For?
There’ve been so many superhero movies that have come out since 1998 that nearly every one of them has someone go to their defense. Think of whatever’s considered the worst MCU movie, or the worst movie in the X-Men or Spider-Manfranchises, and you can probably name someone who would tell you that those entries are…
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Chris Hemsworth's Taking an Acting Break, and Maybe a Permanent Thor Break
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has managed to catapult several actors to stardom, and Chris Hemsworth is one of its best poster boys. Previously best known for playing Kirk’s dad in the opening minutes of Star Trek’s 2009 reboot, the first Thormovie from 2011 supercharged his career like a bolt of lightning, to the…
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Fired SpaceX Employees Made a List of Elon Musk's 25 Worst Tweets
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s tweets are once again being used in as evidence in a case filed with federal regulators. This time, the parties citing his tweets are former SpaceX employees, who are claiming that the company fired them in retaliation for circulating an open letter criticizing Musk’s behavior and his tweets.
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10 Holiday Tech Gifts With Hidden Privacy Problems
Tech companies are making a list and checking it twice, and if you’re not careful with your holiday gift giving, your friends and family will be on it.

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14 Meme Templates to Use on Twitter While You Still Have the Chance
As Twitter under Elon Musk keeps orbiting the edge of a black hole that could bring about the social media platform’s inevitable demise, we can still have a little bit of fun.

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A Broken Twitter Means Broken Disaster Response
As Twitter goes through an upheaval and rumors of its potential demise—or likely malfunction—spread, millions of people are starting to imagine a world without Twitter. While many folks may think the platform has nothing to do with them, there are countless systems that have drastically changed in the 16 years since…
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How a #MeToo Facebook Post Is Testing the Limits of SCOTUS’ 60-Year-Old Defamation Decision
Defamation, an umbrella term encompassing both libel and slander, is a legal doctrine that allows a plaintiff to recover damages if the defendant makes a false statement about them to others, harming their reputation and esteem in the community. However, different rules apply when the statements involve public figures…
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Cloud Gaming Services, Ranked
Cloud gaming is here, and it’s taking off. Everything from your streaming box to your Chromebook can play AAA games from the cloud, so long as you have the internet speed to handle it. But not all the cloud-gaming services offer the same thing—or even the same gaming libraries.
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Disenchanted's Sparkle Is Uneven, But Its Heroines Nearly Save the Day
Disenchanted, the direct-to-Disney+ sequel for the best Disney live-action fairy tale film, is held together by the magic that is Amy Adams. The story, unfortunately, lacks enough of its own magic to feel completely satisfying.
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Does Mali Elfman Believe in Ghosts? | Next Exit
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Crack a Smile for the Toy News of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest in toy news. This week, Lego gives you a much smaller Eiffel Tower than the five-foot monster it recently revealed, Nerf’s armory grows ever weirder, and a new Gandalf figure comes to us at the turn of the tide. Check it out!

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Taylor Swift: Antitrust Hero
Taylor Swift’s legion of rabid fans might just be able to accomplish something decades of legal scholars, millions in political lobbying, and the Biden administration couldn’t: implement meaningful antitrust reform.
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Shadowbans Are the New Law of the Land
Things are really going off the rails at Twitter, as Elon Musk pushes forward in a hostile takeover that seems liable to ensure he’s eventually the only one left at the social media platform. In the latest set of deeply confusing declarations from the multi-CEO and “Chief Twit,” Musk reinstated Twitter accounts for…
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Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years and 3 Months in Prison for Theranos Fraud
Elizabeth Holmes, the Stanford dropout, startup founder, and Theranos CEO who lied over and over about her blood testing startup, can expect time behind bars in the near future. Holmes was sentenced to 11.25 years in prison and 3 years of supervised release in San Jose federal court on Friday. The sentence came down…
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Declassified documents confirm former President Donald Trump illegally posted a satellite image of a failed rocket launch in Iran on Twitter in 2019. The image showed a rocket that exploded on a launch pad after country officials unsuccessfully tried to launch a satellite. Trump reportedly published the image to…
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Japan Will Send an Astronaut to the Upcoming Lunar Space Station
NASA signed an arrangement with the Japanese government that extends Japan’s presence on the International Space Station (ISS) until 2030, in addition to contributing components for a future lunar outpost.
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Meet The Peripheral's Mysterious New Character Ahead of Her Debut
Fans of Prime Video’s The Peripheral will have noticed that for all the discussion of “the Met”—the police force that acts as a balance to the corrupt elite class and the mysterious (also corrupt) Research Institute that control futuristic London—we have yet to really meet them. That’s about to change with today’s…
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Bank of America Downgrades Coinbase Amid FTX Train Wreck, Citing 'Contagion Risk'
Things continue to look bad for the blockchain. Bank of America (BofA) analysts have downgraded Coinbase’s stock, citing the “fallout from the FTX collapse.” The bank moved Coinbase shares to “neutral” from “buy,” in a Friday note to the bank’s investment clients, according to multiple financial outlets. BofA also…
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Millie Gibson Is Doctor Who's New Companion
Surprise! If you were still waiting on all the news for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary, in time-twisting form the BBC is already teasing us with news for what’s to come beyond it—like a new face joining team TARDIS.

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Get to Know the Silver Surfer's New Ally in This Ghost Light Preview
Norrin Radd has a long, long history in the realm of the Marvel Cosmic—but a new chapter in his tale isn’t just going to bring the Silver Surfer down to earth, but introduce a major new hero to the Marvel Comics universe.
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How to Use Live Captions to Add Subtitles to Any Device's Audio and Video
Captions on services such as Netflix or YouTube are essential for those with hearing issues—and they’re a handy option for everyone when we’re in loud environments or have to watch videos in silence. Now our phones and laptops have grown smart enough to start captioning both audio and video streams automatically.

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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Was the First Marvel Studios Project Created for Disney+
Only the mind of director James Gunn could have light-bulbed the idea to create a new Marvel Studios holiday tradition with his Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
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Indiana Jones 5 Takes Indy to the End of His Journey
If you thought Indiana Jones marrying Marion Ravenwood and living with their son Mutt was the end, think again. The team behind Indiana Jones 5 didn’t see that as a proper send-off for the iconic cinema star, and that became the focus of the new movie, out June 30, 2023.

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Hydropower Plant Will Go Offline Thanks to Punishing Drought
As the world faces an unfolding energy crisis and an ongoing climate crisis, a hydropower plant in Spain is going dark because of low water levels at the reservoir that powers it. The country has spent months in a major drought.

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LightSail 2 Has Burned Up in Earth's Atmosphere After 3.5 Years in Space
After three-and-a-half years of sailing above Earth, the LightSail 2 spacecraft has burnt its shiny metallic wings as it reentered Earth’s atmosphere in a fiery blaze.
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FDA Approves First-of-Its-Kind Drug to Delay Type 1 Diabetes
With type 1 diabetes, the body attacks itself. A person’s own immune system destroys the pancreas over time, leaving the critical organ unable to produce insulin and regulate blood sugar. Almost 1.9 million people, including about 244,000 children, live with the life-altering illness. It is a disease with no cure or…
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The Legacy of Pixar's Wall-E, Now a Member of the Criterion Collection
It’s hard to even imagine. A world ravaged by climate change. People totally consumed by technology. Mega corporations in control of everything. Robots performing menial tasks. Wait, did we say “hard” to imagine? We meant we’re literally living it. The “it” being Wall-E, Pixar’s 2008 Oscar-winning masterpiece…
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FBI, Air Force Agents Mysteriously Raid House of Guy Who Runs Area 51 Blog
Earlier this month, agents from both the FBI and the U.S. Air Force raided multiple homes belonging to a man who runs a little-known blog about Area 51. That man, Joerg Arnu, said the swarm of federal agents in riot gear busted into his primary residence, handcuffed him, then marched him outside to wait in the…
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Senate Democrats Call for New Probe Into Allegations RealPage's Algorithm Suggests Inflated Rental Prices to Landlords
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar along with other Senate Democrats are calling for an investigation into the real estate monopoly guided by RealPage, a software used by some landlords to set monthly rent prices for apartments.

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Jaw of Extinct Lion Found Along Drought-Stricken Mississippi River
Ongoing drought along the Mississippi River has revealed several previously sunken treasures, a list that now includes a jaw fragment from an ancient lion species that went extinct thousands of years ago.

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DC Comics Finally Moves From Dusk to 'Dawn'
They say it’s always darkest before the dawn, and that’s certainly true of DC Comics. Having spent most of 2022 on the tie-in event Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths—which I won’t insult you by trying to summarize, but suffice it to say things were very bleak for all of the publisher’s superheroes—2023 will be the “Dawn…
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Elon's ‘Hardcore Twitter’ Plan Backfires With Resignations
Twitter employees are abandoning Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner and self-described ‘chief twit,’ in droves after his messy first few weeks at the blue bird app.
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Orion's 16 Cameras Are Doing More Than Just Snapping Pretty Pictures of Earth
The Artemis era has officially begun following the successful launch of NASA’s Space Launch System, which delivered the Orion capsule to space. As the spacecraft begins its first uncrewed trip to the Moon and back, NASA’s on-board cameras will document the entire journey.

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The FCC Is Forcing Internet Providers to Publish 'Nutrition Labels' Breaking Down Prices
Internet service providers will soon have to publish “nutrition labels” that prominently display the actual costs of their services, breaking down hidden fees, data caps, speed promises, and information about when discounts expire, the Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday. The labels will make it far…
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DC Universe and Reebok have partnered up to create a limited series of shoes based on some iconic supers—Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are all represented, as well as some truly villainous baddies—Lex Luthor, the Joker, and Harley Quinn. The shoes are genuinely very cute, and we’ve got a ton of images for you to…
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Forget the Metaverse, Zuck Says WhatsApp Could Be the Real Money Machine
Mark Zuckerberg wants his staff to know he hasn’t forgotten how to make money.
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Latest MoMA Exhibit Is an AI-Generated Swirling Hallucination of Other Museum Art
As it often happens with AI-generated art, there’s confusion surrounding whether attribution should be handed to the person who generated the AI’s prompt, the AI itself, the AI’s creators, or the artwork the machine learning model “borrowed” from. In the case of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition on display…
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Just 42% of Religious Americans Pray for the Environment
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special May Include a Major MCU Reveal
Monster High will return. Get a glimpse of what’s coming on the finales of Chucky and Stargirl, and what’s next on Kung Fu and The Winchesters. Plus, more details about the return of Rick and Morty. To me, my spoilers!

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The 140 Funniest Tweets of All Time
Twitter employees left the company in droves Thursday, choosing to take a severance rather than stick around for whatever Elon Musk has in store. And that mass exodus left many Twitter users to assume the site will eventually just stop working. In that apocalyptic spirit, Twitter users were remembering all the things…
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Missing Employees, a Billion-Dollar Loan, and Emoji Payments: The 9 Most Batshit Revelations From FTX's Bankruptcy Filing
Once upon a time, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was a jewel of the web3 world. Now, in the span of a week, its reputation has gone from shooting star to sinking ship. After admitting to mismanaging large amounts of customer money, the exchange’s founder and CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (also known by his initials “SBF”)…
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Watch This Horror Short in the Darkest Room Possible
In Bangladesh, two sisters hurry home one afternoon. At first, nothing seems unusual as they bicker in typical sibling fashion (“Come quick, or you’re dead!”) and go about their routine. But as writer-director Nuhash Humayun’s horror short Moshari continues, it becomes clear that something is wrong in their world. …
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Hollywood Is Trying to Remake Escape From New York Again
You are not experiencing post-apocalyptic déjà vu. Hollywood is, yet again, attempting to remake John Carpenter’s landmark 1981 film, Escape From New York. This time, from the filmmaking team behind Ready or Not and Scream, Radio Silence.
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Make Way for the Baby as Grogu and Mando Take Over Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
It was only a matter of time before more current Star Wars universe characters found their way to Galaxy’s Edge at Disney Parks. Starting this week, The Mandalorian heroes Din Djarin and Grogu will be appearing in Batuu’s Black Spire Outpost at Disneyland.
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Tampax, one of the world’s foremost tampon brands, apparently wanted to join in on the seemingly endless conversation on Twitter about how the platform is going to die at the hands of its new overlord owner, Elon Musk. However, what was probably intended as a snarky joke has ended up being the newest addition to the…
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The Walking Dead Has Finally Died
Friends, zombies, countrymen, lend me your ears! I have come to bury The Walking Dead, not to praise it. I haven’t come to trash-talk it either, actually. But it feels important to note that the zombified version of TWD that has been shambling around our TV screens for years has had its skull crushed and its brains…
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10 Antivax Lies to Watch Out for This Holiday
For many people, family gatherings at the holidays mean suffering through painful conversations with antivax relatives. While there may be little sense in trying to change anyone’s mind, here are some common antivax talking points about the covid-19 vaccines to be aware of.
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FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried's Parents Reportedly Bought Millions of Dollars Worth of Bahamas Property
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO and founder of FTX, has been having a rough couple of weeks. With his reputation on the line amidst the collapse of the massive cryptocurrency exchange, a new report indicates that FTX and Bankman-Fried’s own parents purchased a collective 19 properties in the Bahamas over the past…
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Bliss Out to This View of NASA's SLS Launching in Super-Slow Motion
NASA has released a stunning slow motion video showing its new Space Launch System rocket blasting off from Kennedy Space Center last week.

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Behind the Choice of the New Black Panther
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Elon Musk Delays $8 Blue Check Twitter Verification Again, This Time Indefinitely
Another day, another bit of news broadcast from Elon Musk’s Twitter account. The social platform’s owner and CEO posted that, once again, he would be delaying the final rollout of his paid verification system on the site.

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More Details About Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Mysterious Indiana Jones 5 Character
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania teases Kang’s arrival. Filming has wrapped on Star Trek: Discovery season 5. New M3GAN footage turns up the pressure. Plus, what’s coming on Chainsaw Man this week, and a new look at The Walking Dead: Dead City. Spoilers, away!

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Hundreds of Arizona Households Set to Be Without Water by End of Year
More than 500 households in the rural Arizona desert are set to be without running water starting January, 1 2023, as first reported by NBC News. The homes, located in Rio Verde Foothills—an affluent, unincorporated community in the state’s Maricopa County, were built without complying to Arizona’s usual 100-year…
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Meta's 'Cicero' AI Trounced Humans at Diplomacy Without Revealing Its True Identity
Ever since IBM’s Deep Blue artificial intelligence system defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game in 1997, humanity has watched, haplessly, year after year as our code based underlings vanquish us in ever more complicated games. There’s a catch though. While AI bots increasingly excel at trumping…
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The Xbox 360 Controller is Back, and Now it Natively Works With Modern Consoles
You never forget your first game console, but like the bond between a newborn and parent, the bond between a gamer and their first controller is even stronger, forging muscle memories that will last a lifetime. And if your first console happened to be the Xbox 360, you might be thrilled to learn that Hyperkin is…
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Why Do We Love the Music We Love?
If you’ve ever made a playlist—for yourself or someone else—you’ve done the delicate dance of music curation. By what logic did you order the songs? What nearly made it on, but got left out, and why?

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An iCloud Feature Is Enabling a $65 Million Scam, New Research Says
As you read this, there’s an army of bots pretending to be Apple users surfing the web and looking at ads, according to new research shared exclusively with Gizmodo. The ad fraud scheme is weaponizing a privacy feature called Private Relay, coopting a vast swath of traffic to show ads to robots and costing…
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Bitcoin Price Slides to Two-Year Low as Fears Persist Over FTX Contagion
The price of Bitcoin slid to just $15,680 on Tuesday morning, the lowest level in over two years for the cryptocurrency. And most people expect the price to continue to fall substantially as traders worry the fallout from the implosion of FTX, once the second largest crypto platform in the world, could have more…
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Avatar: The Way of Water's Latest Trailer Is Pure James Cameron
In James Cameron’s career to this point, he’s made exactly three sequels. One, Piranha II, was his first film. It gets a pass. The other two, Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, are inarguably two of the best sequels ever made. That’s why, with only a few short weeks to Cameron’s next film—another sequel—you’d be…
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Supreme Court to Take on Jack Daniel's Dispute Against Parody Dog Toy Maker
Whiskey conglomerate Jack Daniel’s Property, Inc has filed a dispute against the dog toy maker VIP Products LLC for making a toy parody of its signature whiskey bottle. The company has even successfully pushed the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their dispute, which they agreed to on Monday.
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Here's the (Mostly) Blue People You'll Have to Distinguish Between in Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: The Way of Wateris almost here and it’s gonna be big. Big action, big effects, big running time. At over three hours long, James Cameron’s latest mega sequel picks up years after the events of the first Avatar. Jake and Neytiri (Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana) are married, have kids, and have to face a whole…
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Two of America's Largest Rail Unions Are Split on Tentative Agreement
Amidst ongoing tension between the nation’s railroad workers and the Department of Labor, a strike may be looming at the end of the tunnel. In a split decision, two rail unions have made two polar opposite agreements over White House-brokered bargaining agreements.
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Texas Just Had Its Biggest Earthquake in Decades, and Fracking Is a Prime Suspect
The Railroad Commission Texas, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, is investigating a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that rocked communities in West Texas last Wednesday, The Texas Tribune reports. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a drilling technique common in the area that is known to cause earthquakes.

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Blade Finds New Blood With Lovecraft Country Director Yann Demange
Disney and Marvel Studios’ Mahershala Ali-led Blade feature film has found a new director in Yann Demange, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Demange previously worked on the fan-favorite supernatural horror television darling Lovecraft Country for HBO and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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Japan’s tiny lunar lander never got to touch down on the Moon, as it failed to communicate with ground controllers shortly after launching aboard NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The spacecraft was one of 10 cubesats that participated in the Artemis 1 launch, which endured several delays that may have affected…
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How to Set Screen Time Limits on Your Phone or Laptop To Keep Yourself Focused
As our devices continue to get more and more distracting, they are also adding more and more tools to try to manage this distraction—so that, you know, you can actually get some work done or actually communicate in real life with other people in the same room as you. Besides all the third-party options, there are now…
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Golden State Warriors Face Class Acton Lawsuit Over Partnership With Doomed FTX
The Golden State Warriors are the latest business to find themselves on the receiving end of class action lawsuits alleging them of misleading FTX customers about the safety and reliability of the flailing cryptocurrency platform. The suit, first reported by Reuters, comes on the heels of another class action suit…
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Sam Bankman-Fried Deepfake Video Attempts to Scam the Scammed
A deepfake video posted to Twitter over the weekend shows the face and approximate voice of disgraced FTX founder and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried—offering assurance in the form of a crypto giveaway (i.e. a phishing scam).
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COP27 Was a Historic Compromise, and Not Nearly Enough
Another UN climate change conference has come and gone, as thousands of international delegates ended two weeks of intense negotiations on Sunday morning in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt. Despite the historic conclusions in the final text from COP27, the conference once again failed to commit the world to taking some of the…
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Pick Up and Play at Your Next Game Night With These 10 Accessible TTRPGs
From Elle Dwight, the co-founder and CEO of social gaming platform Role, comes this list of accessible tabletop roleplaying games that are easy to introduce to your family and friends over the holidays or even the weekend. With easy to adjust roles and intuitive character creation, you’re bound to find a game to suit…
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Beyond Meat’s Pennsylvania Plant Reportedly Had Mold and Bacteria Problems
If you had to read Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle in high school, then you would know just how notorious the meat packing industry was back in the early 20th century. Unfortunately few paid a similar amount of attention to the plight of immigrant communities who worked in early meat packing plants. But as…
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Quecto, Ronna: Meet the Newest Metric Prefixes
You know kilo, centi, and milli, but how about ronto? Four new metric prefixes got the official stamp of approval last week at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures held at Versailles, the extravagant palace outside of Paris. The scientists who gathered there agreed on the need for new prefixes to…
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Choosing Marvel's New Black Panther and Who Awaits in the Ancestral Plane
Going into Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Marvel wasn’t specifically saying who was going to become the Black Panther in the wake of T’Challa’s death—but a glance at the poster or commercials made it fairly clear. So the who, maybe, wasn’t a mystery. But the why and how? Much more so.
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T. Rex Pulled From Auction After Skeleton Raised Questions
Auction house Christie’s has pulled a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen from an upcoming roster after a paleontologist expressed concerns that some parts of the dinosaur might belong to another T. rex specimen.

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Will Ryan Coogler Finish the Black Panther Trilogy?
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Elon Musk Welcomes Ye's Return to Twitter
Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, is back on Twitter after owner Elon Musk reinstated his account on Sunday. Musk restored Ye’s Twitter account two weeks after it was locked for his antisemitic posts that went against Twitter’s hate speech policies.
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Get a Look Inside Star Wars: The High Republic Phase 2's First Adult Novel, Convergence
The second phase of Lucasfilm’s High Republic era is making some big moves—mostly ones backwards, as we leap away from the dramatic climax of the transmedia campaign’s first phase to a time hundreds of years before it. And now, io9 has your look inside one of the next big steps of that sophomore chapter.

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Neuralink Co-Founder Unveils Rival Company That Won't Require Patients to Drill Holes in Their Skull
Elon Musk’s displayed willingness to quickly burn bridges with anyone who opposes him at his assortment of companies might be biting him in the ass. In the most recent case, Neuralink’s former president, who parted ways with the company last year, now has his own rival brain company with $160 million in total funding.…
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Next Exit Is About Being Vulnerable While Facing Death
Mali Elfman’s Next Exit is a dark comedy that is deeply concerned with investigating life, death, and the veil in between—all things io9 discussed, along with the possibilities of ghosts, in a video interview with the writer-director.
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Space Rock Strike on Webb Telescope Was Just Bad Luck, NASA Team Says
In late May, the Webb Space Telescope’s tranquil commissioning process was interrupted by an uncommonly large micrometeoroid strike on one of the $10 billion observatory’s mirrors. Now, a NASA-led analysis of the event indicates the impact was a statistical anomaly and the telescope will be less susceptible to space…
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Indiana Jones 5 Will Begin With Flashback Magic
When Indiana Jones 5 is in theaters next year, star Harrison Ford will be celebrating his 81st birthday. Not your typical age for the star of a big action-adventure film, and certainly not an age you’d expect to see a person running and jumping around like they’re 40. In Indiana Jones 5 though, the filmmakers found a…
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Orion Completes First Lunar Flyby and Captures Stark Image of the Moon
The Artemis 1 mission continues to unfold as planned, with the uncrewed Orion capsule successfully performing a critical course correction maneuver Monday morning. NASA’s capsule came to within 80 miles of the lunar surface during the flyby, in what will be Orion’s closest approach.

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Qatar Claims the 2022 FIFA World Cup Is Carbon Neutral. It’s Not.
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I Have No Idea What's Happening in the First Gridman/Dynazenon Crossover Movie Trailer, But I Love It
What are two great tastes that go great together? Well, firstly, the team-up between anime icons Studio Trigger and Tsuburaya, the Tokustatsu company behind Ultraman: Gridman. The second? Taking two excellent anime collaborations between those companies and mashing them into one big movie.

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Anna Sacks has an entire TikTok account dedicated to being a “trash walker.” She walks around Manhattan, looking for items that were left out on the curb, and salvages them: Her finds have gone viral for exposing obscene amounts of waste, including bags and bags of unopened chocolates outside of a major pharmacy…
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International Time Keepers Scrap The Leap Second
The final countdown has begun for leap seconds. A global group of scientists and government officials voted (almost unanimously) Friday to axe the small time adjustment method, in a change scheduled to take place by 2035.

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Apple Says Your iPhone's Usage Data is Anonymous, but New Tests Say That's Not True
A new test of how Apple gathers usage data from iPhones has found that the company collects personally identifiable information while explicitly promising not to.

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Meta Is on the Prowl for 'Suspicious Adults' Messaging Teenagers
Meta says it is taking additional steps to help protect the youth on its platforms. Now, anyone under the age of 16 years old can enroll in new privacy settings that are meant to limit who can see their Facebook profile. Likewise, Meta says it’s also testing the removal of the messaging button on teen’s Instagram…
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A Soil Fungus That Causes Lung Infections Is Spreading Across the U.S.
An illness-causing fungus known as histoplasma is in the soil of nearly all U.S. states, a new study suggests. The researchers behind the work say doctors may be relying on outdated risk maps and therefore missing diagnoses of the infections, which can sometimes be deadly.

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Marvel's Thunderbolts Movie Might Have Found Its Villain
Nicholas Hoult teases a Maximum Cage performance for Renfield’s Dracula. Disney+’s Percy Jackson finds itself some more gods. Daredevil: Born Again could feature another street-level hero. Plus, what’s coming on the next Rick and Morty. Spoilers now!

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Amazon Plans to Close Up Shop on Wickr’s User-Centric Encrypted Messaging App
A little more than a year ago, Amazon, specifically Amazon Web Services, flashed its stacks of cash as it announced it was buying up the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Wickr. AWS users could suddenly use Wickr’s services, and some reporters speculated Amazon could have been trying to make a move in the…
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Rings of Power's Answer to Lord of the Rings' Special Features Appendices Is Here
Lord of the Rings: Rings of Powermay have wrapped up its first spectacular season, but there’s still a lot more to explore in Middle-earth. Amazon has just released an X-Ray version of its sweeping epic fantasy series—basically a behind-the-scenes overlay that will pop up on screen to give you an inside look at some…
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Elon Musk Explains Why He's Never Letting Alex Jones Back on Twitter
Elon Musk was asked Sunday whether he’s going to let conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back on Twitter. And it’s a reasonable question, considering all the other fringe people Musk has welcomed back on the bird app recently. But Musk had a very personal response, indicating that Alex Jones will never be allowed to return…
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Ahsoka Tano Fans Will Find Columbia's New Star Wars: The Clone Wars Winter Wear Hard to Resist
Star Wars fans have been dressing up as their favorite Star Wars characters all the way back to 1977 when A New Hope debuted, but today it’s a lot easier to be a cosplayer, even if you’re not hanging out in a warm theater or convention center, thanks to Columbia’s latest themed winter wear.
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The Moon is a cold, dead, and desolate place, as these new images, captured by NASA’s Orion, attest.

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11 Thanksgiving Lessons Bob's Burgers Taught Us
“Uh-oh, somebody’s getting excited about Thanksgiving!” As Bob’s Burgers fans well know, Thanksgiving is Bob’s favorite holiday. Given the care and creativity that goes into the long-running Fox series’ Thanksgiving-themed episodes, it’s safe to say the show’s writers are fond of it too—if only for all the, ah, meaty…
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You Can Run Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii and Turn it Into the Ultimate Gaming and Productivity Machine
With over 100 million units sold since its debut in 2006, there’s no denying the popularity of the Wii, but two Nintendo consoles later, people are still finding clever ways to expand the capabilities of the console. This hack focuses more on productivity than gaming, however, by turning the Wii into a Mac.
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Is it Strange That Idiocracy Kinda Became a Documentary?
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How to Set Up Your Smart Home for the Holidays
I don’t know about you, but I’m both ready for holiday cheer this year and am feeling a little too worn out by *gestures broadly at everything* to spend much time setting it up myself. Much of what I’ve figured out to relieve the strain involves gadgets I already have around the house, but during my search, I…
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Former Paralympic Athlete Selected as World's First Disabled Astronaut
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected a new class of astronauts that includes the first “parastronaut,” in what is the agency’s attempt to make spaceflight more accessible.
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I Tried to Sleep in a Casket and All I Got Was This Story
A couple of weeks ago G/O Media had a casket delivered to the office. We received a crimson red burial fixture from Titan Casket because my colleague, Kevin Hurler, has made Taylor Swift a facet of his personality that can be mined for news, and this casket (in a different colorway) was featured in her Anti-Hero music…
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Here's How Tech Is Shaping the 2022 FIFA World Cup
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is the first of many things: the first World Cup held in the Winter, the first held in Gulf Arab state, and the first to use a whole suit of new tracking technologies vying to modernize soccer’s traditionalist culture. Like most incremental changes in sports, not all fans are onboard.
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Nanny Weaves a Powerful Folk-Horror Tale
Senegalese immigrant Aisha (Us’ Anna Diop) arrives in New York City willing to work hard to achieve her dreams—chief among them making enough money to reunite with her beloved son, who she had to leave behind. But as we see in Nikyatu Jusu’s gorgeous yet chilling Nanny, unexpected malevolence awaits in both…
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Lyft Says It Will Start Recycling E-Bike and Scooter Batteries
Lyft plans to start recycling its e-bike and scooter batters through a newly announced partnership with Redwood Materials, as first reported by The Verge. Lyft owns 12 different municipal bike share programs—like New York City’s Citi Bike and San Francisco’s Bay Wheels—in addition to its scooter program in four…
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Amazon Reportedly Plans to Burn $1 Billion on Over a Dozen Theatrical Movies Every Year
Amazon must be feeling its cash burning a hole in its voluminous pockets even as the tech downturn has pummeled $1 trillion from its stock value. And even though the company is potentially kicking thousands of employees to the curb over the next few months, the tech and e-commerce giant wants to see its name up in…
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Armand Is the Reason to Re-Watch Interview With the Vampire's First Season
When Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) gets whisked off to a Dubai apartment in the middle of the pandemic, we already know something’s up. It’s only the first episode of Interview With the Vampire, but if you are a Vampire Chronicles fan, there’s something strange about this characterization.

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Rian Johnson Wouldn't Mind If His Return to Star Wars Was For a TV Show
Rian Johnson has a lot on his plate right now, from the launch of Knives Out sequel Glass Onion to his Peacock mystery series Poker Face. So much so, it’s the reason we’ve not heard a peep out of his plans for a previously announced trilogy of Star Wars movies other than that he’d really like to keep doing them. But…
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U.S. Navy Forced to Pay Software Company for Piracy
The U.S. Navy was found guilty of piracy and is ordered to pay a software company $154,400 for a lawsuit filed back in 2016. The company, Bitmanagement Software GmbH, filed a complaint against the Navy, accusing the military branch of copyright infringement.
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Bolsonaro Denies Brazil Election Results on the Basis of a Software 'Malfunction'
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—noted mass murderer, according to his own country’s Senate—filed a complaint on Tuesday contesting the results of the run-off election he lost more than three weeks ago. In it, Bolsonaro’s lawyer Marcelo de Bessa claims that a “software bug” on 59% of the voting machines used across…
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Authorities in Western U.S. Agree to Rip-Up Grass Lawns for Water Conservation
A group of agencies that provide water to millions of customers in the western U.S. has agreed torip-up grass lawns in public spaces across multiple states as part of an effort to reduce water usage as the Colorado River continues to suffer from a major drought.

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Mercedes-Benz Wants You to Pay to Drive Faster
If you gotta go fast, Mercedes-Benz says you gotta cough up some more dough. The German car manufacturer has unveiled a new feature called “Acceleration Increase,” which will increase your car’s ability to accelerate (get it?) but it’ll cost you $1,200 annually.

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Even the Andor Post-Credits Scene Was Perfectly Andor
As the final credits rolled on what has been some of the best Star Wars of all time, you almost didn’t want to see Andor do anything that might be considered derivative of modern blockbuster entertainment. No big cameos, no huge surprises, just good old-fashioned storytelling. But then something popped up at the end…
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Google's Accidentally Refunding Some Customers for Stadia Pro
Google started issuing refunds for games and in-game purchases earlier this month, and it’s been messy—look at some of the comments in this 9to5Google article. Over on Reddit, some folks have noticed receiving refunds from Google for Stadia Pro, even after the company said it wouldn’t issue them.

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Violent Night's David Harbour Talks Making Santa His Own
Imagine Die Hard except John McClane is Santa Claus and Nakatomi Plaza is a New England mansion. You’ve just described Violent Night, a hugely entertaining R-rated holiday action film that hits theaters on December 2. In it, Stranger Things star David Harbour plays Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick, who is feeling pretty dejected…
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A cat’s attempt to score a free airplane ride was foiled at the last minute by TSA agents earlier this month. The fur-raising tale was publicized Tuesday on social media by the agency, complete with X-ray scans and photos of the cat stowing away in a piece of luggage belonging to its owner’s roommate. Thankfully, the…
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Doctor Who Celebrates Its 59th Anniversary With Hype for Its 60th
Fifty-nine years ago today, families across the UK sat down to tune into “An Unearthly Child,” the beginning of an adventure across space and time decades in the making for Doctor Who. We’ve come a long way since then, and gained double the Davids Tennant since we last celebrated, and the BBC really wants you to…
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Twitch is, Vaguely, Working to Fix its Child Predator and Groomer Problem
Twitch has been hounded for months after a September report showed just how many sexual predators were stalking the streaming platform’s halls, targeting children that were not supposed to be there in the first place. Now the company says it’s developed systems to combat child sexual abuse material, though it’s not…
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New York Becomes First State to Temporarily Ban Some Crypto Mining
In a historic regulatory step, New York has become the first U.S. state to bar certain types of cryptocurrency mining. Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill on Tuesday that triggers an immediate moratorium on energy-intensive “proof-of-work” crypto mining powered by fossil fuels. For two years, no new permits for such…
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Andor's First Season Finale Made Star Wars Better
Andor’s season one finale, “Rix Road,” capped off a journey taken by many, not just one, in a perfect hour of television. Diego Luna solidified Cassian as one of the most important characters in the canon—retroactively at that—and the Lucasfilm series, led by Tony Gilroy, proved it’s simply operating on a level that’s…
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Hackers Could Cause Next Deepwater Horizon-Level Disaster
The network of offshore oil and gas facilities in the U.S. is at serious and increasing risk of a potentially devastating cyberattack, a government watchdog says. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report last week finding that if a cyberattack successfully hits the nation’s offshore…
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‘A Brave New World of Software Piracy:’ Lawsuit Takes Aim at Scrapping Methods Underpinning Modern Artificial Intelligence
Anyone following the tech industry knows lawsuits at this point are a dime a dozen, however, a new entry filed this month against Microsoft owned Github challenges the fundamental foundational principles underpinning some of the most important artificial intelligence advancements in the past three decades.
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NASA Unexpectedly Lost Contact With Orion Last Night
NASA experienced a data connection glitch between the Orion spacecraft and ground control for nearly an hour early this morning, in a surprising disruption to the craft’s otherwise fair-weather journey around the Moon.

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First of Its Kind Gene Therapy Treatment Approved for Hemophilia
A novel medication for hemophilia B has just been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The treatment is a form of gene therapy, intended to replace a dysfunctional gene that leaves people unable to control their bleeding. It’s expected to cost $3.5 million per patient.
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The White House Is Ready to Shell Out $13 Billion to Modernize U.S. Power Grid
The White House and the Department of Energy (DOE) are soliciting applications from utility companies, state governments, and tribal nations to create a stronger energy grid. The DOE has announced that it is ready to use $13 billion in funding for the much-needed energy upgrade.

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You Cannot Resist the Lure of the New Lego Spacebaby Minifigure
Don’t bother putting Lego’s new minifigure collection on your holiday wish list because it’s not slated to hit stores until January 1, but Lego does make up for that unfortunate timing with an excellent roundup of weird and wonderful new figures, including an irresistible Spacebaby.
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See the Coolest Images So Far From Orion's Historic Mission to the Moon
We’re into the eighth day of the 25-day Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, and the incoming imagery has been as spectacular and intriguing as expected.

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Another Artemis 1 Satellite Is Experiencing Problems
The inaugural launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) sent the Orion capsule on a historic mission to the Moon and back, but the rocket’s secondary payloads have been faltering.
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Is Holly Jolly Good Fun
Over the past few years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become so popular, the characters have almost become family. Fans know and love them so much, any chance to spend even one or two more minutes with them outside of their own films feels like a gift. And that’s why The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is…
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Judge Recommends Prison Camp for Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes
District Judge Edward Davila has proposed sentencing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to a federal prison camp in Texas, according to court filings. “The Court finds that family visitation enhances rehabilitation,” Davila wrote in the filing, according to Bloomberg, which summarized the terms of Holmes’ sentencing.
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It Turns Out the Walking Dead Was Me All Along
When io9 co-founders Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders hired me as a Senior Editor back in 2012, I never expected to still be at the site a decade later. I certainly never expected to recap The Walking Dead the entire time, and now that the show is over, I have no idea how to feel about it. But I’m pretty sure…
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Remains of a Spider Monkey Traded by Ancient Maya Elites Found in Mexico
Archaeologists working on the Plaza of Columns Complex site at Teotihuacán have made a surprising discovery in the ancient Maya capital: the remains of a 1,700-year-old spider monkey, which the archaeologists suspect was once a state gift between elites.
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HP Announces Layoffs as PC Demand Drops
A tidal wave of layoffs continues to plague tech companies worldwide, and HP Inc. is the next titan to fall on its sword. In reporting its Q4 and fiscal year results yesterday, the company also announced that it was reducing its workforce by up to 6,000 people by the end of their 2025 fiscal year.

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This Simple USB Dongle Could Help the Average Person Type 600% Faster
It sounds like an ad you’d find in the back pages of Popular Science for a miracle gadget that couldn’t possibly deliver on its promises, but the CharaChorder X dongle can legitimately and dramatically improve a user’s typing speed—assuming they’re willing to put the work in to learn how to use it.
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Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Will Have a Lot of Riker
Chris McQuarrie talks about naming the next Mission: Impossible. A Cosmology of Monsters is being turned into a show. James Gunn drops the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special’s soundtrack. Plus, what’s coming on Doom Patrol season 4. Spoilers now!

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Workers Battle Police at China's Main iPhone Plant Amid Protests
Workers who staff Apple’s main China iPhone production factory have reportedly had enough of alleged broken promises and unpaid work. Dramatic videos capture the scene as thousands of workers stormed the iPhone factory campus overnight, breaking through barricades and security checkpoints. Reports say protesters were…
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Two years goes by fast when it comes to politics. While the country is, in many ways, still recovering from the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump made his official 2024 announcement last week, and speculation on who the GOP presidential candidate will be has kicked off in earnest. Looking ahead to 2024,…
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Why Does Shuri See ____ in the Ancestral Plane?
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All the Worst Twitter Policy Offenders Elon Musk Is Giving Free Rein To
Last month, Gizmodo considered who could be the worst people to get their Twitter accounts back under new CEO Elon Musk’s rule. Well, we guessed right with a few of those accounts already back on while other, completely unexpected accounts have also had their profiles reinstated.
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Elon Musk Tweets Defense of Cop Who Killed Unarmed Black Man in Ferguson, Missouri
Elon Musk tweeted a defense of the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown—an unarmed Black man in Ferguson, Missouri back in 2014—early Wednesday before deleting the incendiary post. Musk said the police officer was “exonerated” and that the narrative around the shooting was a “fiction.”

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This Is Your Brain With a Migraine
New research seems to offer the closest look yet at how migraines might affect the brain. Scientists at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles collected detailed MRI scans from patients suffering from migraines. Compared to those without migraine, they found that these patients had a higher number of…
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Civil Rights Groups Renew Calls for Advertisers to Drop Twitter After Elon Reinstates Trump
Earlier this month, dozens of civil rights groups advised top brands and marketing agencies to pause advertising on Twitter unless CEO Elon Musk offered serious assurances that he’d protect vulnerable users from a flood of harassment and hate speech. Now, those same groups are renewing their call for companies to cut…
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So You Want to Start Reading (or Writing) Fanfic
Buckle up babes, we’re all in tonight. In a ridiculous moment of hubris a few weeks ago, I posted on Twitter that I was debating between writing fanfic and doing work while on a plane home from a work trip. My editor saw it, and now, wouldn’t you know it, I’m doing a whole slideshow to introduce you to fanfiction,…
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Fill Your Black Friday List With Fandom Finds From Stranger Things, Marvel, DC, and More
With Thanksgiving nearly upon us, we’re off to the races with holiday shopping. It’s a good time to be a pop culture fan, because not only are we are feasting on dinner, we’re faced with a bounty of options to help flash our favorite fandoms.
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Watch Power Rangers' Touching Tribute to Jason David Frank
Power Rangers fans across the world are still in shock from the sudden passing of Mighty Morphin’ star Jason David Frank this past weekend at the age of 49, with tributes rolling in from across the worlds of Power Rangers and Super Sentai to honor the actor—including a touching new video from Hasbro.

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The Walking Dead Finale Originally Had a Different Ending
Did you hear? The Walking Dead, one of our generation’s defining television shows, ended this past weekend. Besides wrapping up as many core stories as it could, the big reveal was something our own Rob Bricken described as “all that anyone still watching the show wanted to see.” However, the ending you saw was not…
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Similar to what HBO Max did back in 2021, Netflix launched an ad-supported plan at the start of November. At a cheaper price, it’s the streamer’s way of bringing in more users to balance out its loss of subscribers from earlier in the year. That alone would be notable, given Netflix’s prior comments about bringing ads…
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Elon Says He’ll Make His Own Phone If Apple and Google Deplatform Twitter
Twitter’s new ruler Elon Musk makes so many pronouncements on the platform, it’s hard to keep track. This week alone, Musk polled Twitter users over whether he should provide “general amnesty” to suspended accounts and got into a public fight over whether the disgraced founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, owns a part of…
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This Weeks Toys Rip, Tear, Swindle, and... Comfort?
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toys around on the internet. This week: Star Trek’s 1/6 figure line goes to Deep Space Nine, the hottest anime of the season gets a hot new figure, and sit back and relax Pokémon style. Check it out!

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Movie: The Retro Review
So much has happened to the Star Wars franchise in the last 14 years that it can be difficult to remember that the new canon actually began with Dave Filoni’s Clone Warscartoon. It was retroactively added into Disney’s new Star Wars stories by virtue of being a pretty good show helmed by the guy who would eventually…
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Nina West on the Importance of Kindness and Embracing Being a Fantastical Fan
Being a multi-hyphenate performer is something Nina West knows well. Winning Miss Congeniality on Ru Paul’s Drag Race season 11, partnering with Dolly Parton on a kindness campaign, making music for kids, acting opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, becoming the LGBTQ face of Disney’s Pride…
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NASA Successfully Maneuvers Orion Into Its Target Orbit Around the Moon
The uncrewed Orion capsule has reached its ultimate destination, a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The spacecraft successfully executed a short trajectory correction burn earlier today.
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Transformers: Earthspark Twists the Franchise In a Great Way
The new Transformers animated series, Earthspark, is doing a lot of things that might make dyed-in-the-wool fans wary at first. It’s a family show, in that its primary focus is on its robotic heroes as they sit hand-in-hand with two young kids and their parents. It’s also not about Autobot/Decepticon conflict, in so…
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Brilliant Self-Stacking Lego Domino Machine Is Perpetually Mesmerizing
Although it’s a game that can trace its origins back over 700 years, most people know Dominoes as a fun chain reaction toy that’s actually only fun when it comes to knocking them down, not the stressful process of stacking them up. With that in mind, Grant Davis built a self-stacking and self-toppling domino machine…
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DROP's Gorgeous Lord of the Rings Keyboard Broke My Elvish-Loving Brain
When I first received my DROP x Lord of the Rings keyboard, it was one of those packages that you come home to after a trip: a delightful surprise, and one I had been looking forward to since I had first agreed to write a review of the new Lord of the Rings special edition. I debated between the Elvish and the Dwarvish
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Spacesuit Malfunction Forces Cancelation of ISS Spacewalk
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were unable to perform a scheduled maintenance task outside the ISS today due to a malfunctioning coolant system on a Russian-built Orlan spacesuit.

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'This is the Best Film I’ve Seen in My Life'
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Hubble Telescope Observes Surreal Galactic Collision
The James Webb Space Telescope has been getting all the attention these days, but Hubble, in space since 1990, continues to make stunning astronomical observations.

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8BitDo Turned the Classic NES Gamepad Into a Wireless Charger
The original Nintendo Entertainment System’s bundled controller is burned into the memories of millions of gamers for its unergonomic boxy corners that dug into your hands and made long gaming sessions a real test of endurance. It’s remembered fondly, but only missed for nostalgic reasons, so 8BitDO turned it into a…
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Chris Hemsworth Discusses What It Would Take For Him to Return as Thor
Chad Stahleski talks about the influences on John Wick 4. Get a new look at HBO’s The Last of Us. Plus, a look at what’s coming in Doom Patrol’s fourth season, and new pictures from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. Spoilers, now!

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Shipping Emissions Are Black Friday’s Dirty Secret
It may be tempting to load up on online shopping deals this Black Friday—but before you order a whole new wardrobe or electronics setup, take a moment to think about the trip all those packages may take. International shipping to bring all that stuff to your door is responsible for almost 3% of global greenhouse gas…
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The Onyx Boox Leaf 2 E-Reader is Like Having a Kindle and a Kobo All in One Device
When it comes to choosing an e-reader, for most users it comes down to which device has easy access to the books they actually want to read, and the answer is usually either the Amazon Kindle or the Rakuten Kobo. There’s now a third option, the Boox Leaf 2 from Onyx, that lets users buy books from the competition’s…
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7 Obscure Government Podcasts You Never Knew Existed
As a serial podcast listener, I can confirm what you all already know: Everyone has a podcast now. As we learned this year, that “everyone” includes the CIA, which hopes its show, The Langley Files, will make you forget some of the very bad things it’s done. (The title makes it sound a lot more interesting than it…
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At-Home Ketamine Treatments Could Be a Game-Changer—or a Big Problem
Around 2.8 million Americans suffer from treatment-resistant depression, and though research has shown that IV ketamine can significantly improve their quality of life, these ketamine treatments are expensive, and access to them is limited. Early in the covid-19 pandemic, the Drug Enforcement Agency loosened…
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What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
This article originally appeared in Protean Magazine, a leftist print magazine of critique, fiction, poetry, and art.
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Read a Story of Queer Love and Hope for the Future in the Apocalypse
Now for something a bit different to distract you this Thanksgiving. io9 has run short fiction before, from our collaborations with Lightspeed Magazine to excerpts from novels big and small. But here’s “Post-Nihilism,” an original tale of love and hope in a near-future world ravaged by climate disaster, from Gizmodo’s…
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More Spider-Man: No Way Home Funko Pops Are Swinging Your Way
It’s weird. While Funko Pops are ubiquitous—they’re about the closest thing to real-life Tribbles, in my opinion—the company doesn’t always make them easy to track down. While a few more Spider-Man: No Way Home Pops will be widely released next year, there’s a huge assortment of figures exclusively going to a variety…
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It was festive, it was gory, it was campy, and it left the door open in the likely event Chucky gets a season three. The Christmas-themed “Chucky Actually” wrapped up a satisfying season two for Don Mancini’s horror comedy, but if the show does return, it’ll be without several of the show’s core characters so far.

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The 25 Greatest Moments From Andor's Incredible First Season
The first season of Andor is over, putting an end to one of, if not the best, stories in the Star Wars franchise. While we have a very long while to see where Cassian’s story will take us in season 2, let’s take a look back at some of the best moments from its stellar debut.

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'Gap' in App Store Rules Endangers Reproductive Data, Top Law Enforcement Chiefs Say
Attorneys general in nine states and the District of Columbia are urging Apple this week to introduce new App Store requirements designed to safeguard sensitive health data linked to reproductive care.

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NASA Will Let You Send Messages to an iPad On Board Orion
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission features a host of demonstration technologies, including Callisto—a collaboration between Lockheed Martin, Amazon, and Cisco. The Callisto team is making it possible for anyone to communicate with the system, in which messages will be shown on an iPad screen “for the world to see.”
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In Historical Fantasy, When Does History End and Fantasy Begin?
In its published format, The Hanged God trilogy is unapologetically epic fantasy, featuring Vikings, gods, giants, fire demons, and magical runes, but the story did not begin that way. At the beginning, I believed that I was setting out on an epic quest to write historical fiction, with an emphasis on the historical.
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Omega Recreated the Iconic James Bond Opening on This $7,600 Watch Using Only Mechanical Parts
James Bond has been saving the world on the big screen since 1962, and to help mark the 60th anniversary of the 007 films, Omega, Bond’s preferred timekeeper since 1995, is releasing a pair of Seamaster Diver 300M watches with a subtle tribute to Bond’s Hollywood appearances on the back.
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The Pop Culture We're Thankful for Getting Us Through 2022
Thanksgiving is here. A day to sit back, reflect, and think about all the good things in your life. Family, friends, your health—those are all worthy. But what about shows, movies, and comics?
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11 Thanksgiving Lessons Bob's Burgers Taught Us
“Uh-oh, somebody’s getting excited about Thanksgiving!” As Bob’s Burgers fans well know, Thanksgiving is Bob’s favorite holiday. Given the care and creativity that goes into the long-running Fox series’ Thanksgiving-themed episodes, it’s safe to say the show’s writers are fond of it too—if only for all the, ah, meaty…
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You Can Run Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii and Turn it Into the Ultimate Gaming and Productivity Machine
With over 100 million units sold since its debut in 2006, there’s no denying the popularity of the Wii, but two Nintendo consoles later, people are still finding clever ways to expand the capabilities of the console. This hack focuses more on productivity than gaming, however, by turning the Wii into a Mac.
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Is it Strange That Idiocracy Kinda Became a Documentary?
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How to Set Up Your Smart Home for the Holidays
I don’t know about you, but I’m both ready for holiday cheer this year and am feeling a little too worn out by *gestures broadly at everything* to spend much time setting it up myself. Much of what I’ve figured out to relieve the strain involves gadgets I already have around the house, but during my search, I…
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Former Paralympic Athlete Selected as World's First Disabled Astronaut
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected a new class of astronauts that includes the first “parastronaut,” in what is the agency’s attempt to make spaceflight more accessible.
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I Tried to Sleep in a Casket and All I Got Was This Story
A couple of weeks ago G/O Media had a casket delivered to the office. We received a crimson red burial fixture from Titan Casket because my colleague, Kevin Hurler, has made Taylor Swift a facet of his personality that can be mined for news, and this casket (in a different colorway) was featured in her Anti-Hero music…
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Here's How Tech Is Shaping the 2022 FIFA World Cup
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is the first of many things: the first World Cup held in the Winter, the first held in Gulf Arab state, and the first to use a whole suit of new tracking technologies vying to modernize soccer’s traditionalist culture. Like most incremental changes in sports, not all fans are onboard.
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Nanny Weaves a Powerful Folk-Horror Tale
Senegalese immigrant Aisha (Us’ Anna Diop) arrives in New York City willing to work hard to achieve her dreams—chief among them making enough money to reunite with her beloved son, who she had to leave behind. But as we see in Nikyatu Jusu’s gorgeous yet chilling Nanny, unexpected malevolence awaits in both…
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Lyft Says It Will Start Recycling E-Bike and Scooter Batteries
Lyft plans to start recycling its e-bike and scooter batters through a newly announced partnership with Redwood Materials, as first reported by The Verge. Lyft owns 12 different municipal bike share programs—like New York City’s Citi Bike and San Francisco’s Bay Wheels—in addition to its scooter program in four…
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Amazon Reportedly Plans to Burn $1 Billion on Over a Dozen Theatrical Movies Every Year
Amazon must be feeling its cash burning a hole in its voluminous pockets even as the tech downturn has pummeled $1 trillion from its stock value. And even though the company is potentially kicking thousands of employees to the curb over the next few months, the tech and e-commerce giant wants to see its name up in…
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Armand Is the Reason to Re-Watch Interview With the Vampire's First Season
When Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) gets whisked off to a Dubai apartment in the middle of the pandemic, we already know something’s up. It’s only the first episode of Interview With the Vampire, but if you are a Vampire Chronicles fan, there’s something strange about this characterization.

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Rian Johnson Wouldn't Mind If His Return to Star Wars Was For a TV Show
Rian Johnson has a lot on his plate right now, from the launch of Knives Out sequel Glass Onion to his Peacock mystery series Poker Face. So much so, it’s the reason we’ve not heard a peep out of his plans for a previously announced trilogy of Star Wars movies other than that he’d really like to keep doing them. But…
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U.S. Navy Forced to Pay Software Company for Piracy
The U.S. Navy was found guilty of piracy and is ordered to pay a software company $154,400 for a lawsuit filed back in 2016. The company, Bitmanagement Software GmbH, filed a complaint against the Navy, accusing the military branch of copyright infringement.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—noted mass murderer, according to his own country’s Senate—filed a complaint on Tuesday contesting the results of the run-off election he lost more than three weeks ago. In it, Bolsonaro’s lawyer Marcelo de Bessa claims that a “software bug” on 59% of the voting machines used across…
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Authorities in Western U.S. Agree to Rip-Up Grass Lawns for Water Conservation
A group of agencies that provide water to millions of customers in the western U.S. has agreed torip-up grass lawns in public spaces across multiple states as part of an effort to reduce water usage as the Colorado River continues to suffer from a major drought.

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Mercedes-Benz Wants You to Pay to Drive Faster
If you gotta go fast, Mercedes-Benz says you gotta cough up some more dough. The German car manufacturer has unveiled a new feature called “Acceleration Increase,” which will increase your car’s ability to accelerate (get it?) but it’ll cost you $1,200 annually.

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Even the Andor Post-Credits Scene Was Perfectly Andor
As the final credits rolled on what has been some of the best Star Wars of all time, you almost didn’t want to see Andor do anything that might be considered derivative of modern blockbuster entertainment. No big cameos, no huge surprises, just good old-fashioned storytelling. But then something popped up at the end…
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Google's Accidentally Refunding Some Customers for Stadia Pro
Google started issuing refunds for games and in-game purchases earlier this month, and it’s been messy—look at some of the comments in this 9to5Google article. Over on Reddit, some folks have noticed receiving refunds from Google for Stadia Pro, even after the company said it wouldn’t issue them.

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Violent Night's David Harbour Talks Making Santa His Own
Imagine Die Hard except John McClane is Santa Claus and Nakatomi Plaza is a New England mansion. You’ve just described Violent Night, a hugely entertaining R-rated holiday action film that hits theaters on December 2. In it, Stranger Things star David Harbour plays Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick, who is feeling pretty dejected…
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Doctor Who Celebrates Its 59th Anniversary With Hype for Its 60th
Fifty-nine years ago today, families across the UK sat down to tune into “An Unearthly Child,” the beginning of an adventure across space and time decades in the making for Doctor Who. We’ve come a long way since then, and gained double the Davids Tennant since we last celebrated, and the BBC really wants you to…
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Twitch is, Vaguely, Working to Fix its Child Predator and Groomer Problem
Twitch has been hounded for months after a September report showed just how many sexual predators were stalking the streaming platform’s halls, targeting children that were not supposed to be there in the first place. Now the company says it’s developed systems to combat child sexual abuse material, though it’s not…
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