The World Health Organization is officially renaming the emerging viral disease known as monkeypox. On Monday, WHO announced that it will now use the term “mpox” instead, which is likely to be adopted widely by doctors, public health agencies, and others. The change was prompted by criticism from scientists that the…
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BlockFi Files for Bankruptcy Months After Accepting Helping Hand From FTX
Crypto lender BlockFi was once eager to hand practically anybody a sack of money containing gold-plated crypto coins, without even a bare credit check. Now they themselves would like some investor to lay out some cash without asking too many questions, especially not about their obvious connections and contagion from…
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Twitter Failed to Flag Christchurch Shooting Video Re-Uploads
Twitter removed newly posted videos on Sunday of the Christchurch mosque shootings only after the clips were flagged as harmful content by the New Zealand government.
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The Best Gifts for Musicians
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Buying a gift for a musician can be stressful, especially if you’re not a musician. But it doesn’t have to be!
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NASA's Orion Poised to Set Milestone Distance Record Today
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission continues to go well, with Orion entering into its target orbit around the Moon on Friday. We’re now into the latter half of the 25.5-day demo mission, and with it comes a watershed moment for the record books.

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Lego's Potential Dungeons & Dragons Sets Are Critical Hit or Miss
A touch less than two months ago, Lego’s Ideas division announced it would be holding a contest where fans could submit their own potential playsets based on the venerable role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons to celebrate its upcoming 50th anniversary. Now, the submissions have been winnowed down to five, and per…
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This Question-Answering Typewriter Is Like if We Had Siri in the '70s
Although they’re far from perfect in their modern incarnation, Maker Cameron Coward’s latest video shows us what smart assistants could have been like in the ‘70s, decades before voice recognition and even personal computers, when an electric typewriter would have been the only way to interact with them. We’re…
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Apple Pulls Lyrics From iPhone 14 Ad After Being Mistaken for Slur
Another day, another iPhone. As Apple continues to roll out their new iPhone 14, the company is also facing a little controversy following the release of an ad for the new tech. The ad now features an instrumental version of the track after the song’s lyrics were misheard as a racial slur.

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Elon Ignores Crypto Bros Who Took $600,000 Sculpture of Him to Tesla HQ
Despite tech magnate Elon Musk’s recent and constant drama with Twitter, his newest company, there can be no doubt that the man still has legions of adoring followers. One group of fanboys took their devotion to the next level this past Saturday, delivering a $600,000 sculpture of Musk to Tesla headquarters in Austin,…
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Chinese Spam Accounts Block Covid Protest News With Porn Links on Twitter
Over the weekend, you might not have seen the shocking footage coming out of several major Chinese cities, with thousands upon thousands of protesters taking to the streets chanting “stand up,” or “down with [Chinese president] Xi Jingping.” You may not have seen the rare display of cohesion from the protesters around…
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Gotham Knights Is Messy, But Brings Some Heart to Batman Games
At a time when superheroes are ridiculously omnipresent in popular culture, Batman is among the most prevalent of all. No matter the medium, stories starring or featuring DC’s flagship hero come out with such a frequency that it can sometimes be hard for particular stories to stand out. Even in the stories that focus…
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What if You Turned a Formula 1 Wheel Into a Onewheel Style Self-Balancing Skateboard?
The internet is full of talented engineers and designers building all kinds of weird and wonderful vehicles that, quite frankly, look absolutely terrifying to climb aboard. Like The Q’s self-balancing skateboard, reminiscent of the Onewheel, but built around a beefy Formula 1 wheel.
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The Best Video Game Gifts for the n00b in Your Life
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The holidays only mean one thing for a certain type of person: a bounty of new video games to play.
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Harrison Ford Escapes the Past in New Indiana Jones Production Images
Avatar: The Way of the Water officially gets a PG-13 rating, surprising no one. Tobin Bell is back as Jigsaw in some behind-the-scenes Saw X photos. And our first look at the new Transformers in the new ˆmovie—Optimus Primal, Rhinox, Airazor, and Cheetor—may have come from... a promotional coffee mug? Please buckle…
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Gifts for the Spaceflight Enthusiast in Your Life
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The new space race has everyone excited for more powerful rockets, treks to Mars, and everything in between. For your friends and family caught up in all this excitement, we have these excellent gift recommendations to share.

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Bahamas Attorney General Gets Defensive as FTX Users Wonder About Sam Bankman-Fried
The Attorney General of the Bahamas, L. Ryan Pinder, released a video statement on Sunday night about the investigation into crypto platform FTX, which was based in the Bahamas before it imploded earlier this month, taking billions of dollars with it. And at least one thing is clear: Pinder knows investors in FTX…
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Houston Issues Boil Water Notice and Cancels School on Monday
Houston, Texas issued a boil water notice on Sunday night for over 2.2 million people after a power outage occurred at three water treatment facilities on Sunday morning. Residents of Houston should boil all water used for drinking, bathing, or even just brushing teeth, for at least three minutes, according to a tweet…
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For Kevin Bacon, Joining the Guardians' Holiday Special Was the Easy Part
If there’s one thing you can count on the MCU to often provide, it’s often a callback. The recently released Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special offers maybe the greatest callback of the whole enterprise by bringing in Kevin Bacon as himself. You may recall that Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord is deeply enamored with the …
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Albert Pyun, B-Movie Film Director, Has Passed Away
Filmmaker Albert Pyun passed away on Saturday in Las Vegas at the age of 69, reports Variety. The news was confirmed by his wife and producer Cynthia Curnan on Facebook, and comes years after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and dementia.

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Open Channel: Pick a Marvel Hero to Headline a Future Holiday Special
Amongst the cinematic and television hits that made up the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s 2022 output, the megafranchise got into the holiday spirit with a pair of one-hour specials. The Guardians of the Galaxyheadlined the recently released Christmas special, while Werewolf by Night kicked things off with one for…
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Great, Now We're Getting a Horror Movie Where Bambi's Killing People
You may recall that earlier in the year, news broke of a horror movie based on Winnie the Pooh, of all things. With the character having re-entered the public domain after Disney let the rights lapse, Pooh: Blood & Honeytook the children’s character and made him a serial killer, at which point the internet freaked…
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Rian Johnson on Knives Out's Future Inspirations and Keeping the Franchise Fresh
When the original Knives Out released in 2019, it received such a strong, mostly positive reaction that it wasn’t a surprise when a follow up was eventually announced. Glass Onion, which recently began its one-week theatrical run before it goes to Netflix on December 23, is the first of two Knives Out sequels that…
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