Anthony Ramos, star of Lin-Manuel Miranda’ movie adaptation of Miranda’s musical In the Heights, has been cast in a very important, yet very secret role in the Ironheart TV series. What’s more interesting is that whoever he’s playing, he’s supposed to have a very important role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe going…
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Amazon’s New York Union Drive Might Be Coming at Just the Right Time
Workers looking to mobilize at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse and elsewhere are in good company. That’s according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll which found 77% of registered voters said they support employee rights to collective bargaining. That support, unlike just about everything else nowadays,…
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The Obi-Wan Kenobi Release Date Has Been Officially Confirmed
Today, one show ends and another begins. On the day the most recent Star Wars show, The Book of Boba Fett, finished its first season, Disney just announced that Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi will be its next show. It’ll debut on May 25, the evening before Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, CA.
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10 Questions We Have After The Book of Boba Fett Season Finale
The Book of Boba Fett has come to a close. Well, chapter one at least. Today brought the seventh and final episode of The Book of Boba Fett season one, meaning there’ll be no new Star Wars content on TV for at least a few months. The show also left behind lots of burning questions—though most of those don’t have much to do with the…
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Ebola Can Linger in the Brains of Survivors Even After Antibody Treatment, Study Suggests
New research in animals seems to confirm the frightening resilience of the Ebola virus. The study found that the virus could routinely persist in the brains of monkeys following treatment with monoclonal antibodies, even sometimes resurfacing weeks later to cause acute illness and death. The findings, the authors say,…
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The Celebs We’ve Lost To NFTs
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Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again
Approximately 95 percent of the nerd news sites you may frequent will begin their articles announcing the return of Futurama with “Good news, everybody!” based on Professor Farnsworth’s iconic catchphrase on the show. So I hope you all with appreciate my restraint when I merely tell you that yes, Futurama has emerged…
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Texas Got Double the Earthquakes in 2021
Everything is bigger in Texas—including, increasingly, its earthquakes.
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Microsoft Swears Call of Duty Won't Be Exclusive to Xbox
You can finally relax, PlayStation fans: Call of Duty isn’t going anywhere—at least not anytime soon. In an attempt to convince regulators to approve its $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition, Microsoft promised today to bring upcoming Call of Duty releases and other Activision/Blizzard games to the PS5 and …
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The New Firestarter Trailer Looks Like a Supervillain Origin Story
Step aside, Eleven from Stranger Things. There’s a new girl with powers so dangerous the government would very much like to capture her and use her as a weapon. And really, she was technically here first: it’s Charlie from Stephen King’s classic novel Firestarter, which has a new adaptation coming very soon, and just…
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The Environmental Movement Isn’t Ready for Transphobia
Jael Holzman got the message when she was busy planning a work trip—emailing sources, booking a rental car, reaching out to contacts. When one contact heard she was headed out to Nevada, to visit the camp at Thacker Pass at a proposed lithium mine site, they asked, was she going alone?
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The U.S. Army Has a New Dystopian Plan to Deal With Climate Catastrophe
The U.S. Army has a shiny new net-zero plan that might just make people forget how much of a heinous global polluter it is.

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Oscar Winner Russell Crowe Is Joining Sony's Spider-Verse
Russell Crowe has already fathered a Superman. He’ll soon hang out with Thor. And now it seems he might eventually share a screen with a web-slinger. Crowe has reportedly been cast in Kraven the Hunter, a film based on the popular Spider-Man villain that’ll star Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the lead role and be directed by…
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Texas AG Launches Investigation Into GoFundMe's Removal of 'Freedom Convoy' Campaign
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton said he’s launching an investigation into GoFundMe following the company’s decision to take down a fundraising effort for an anti-vaccine mandate protest in Canada. Paxton’s Civil Investigative Demand, which comes on the heels of mounting Republican outrage over GoFundMe, will probe…
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DC Comics' Newest Crisis Won't Reboot the DC Universe, Thank God
Every time the DC Comics universe has gone into Crisis mode, the ramifications have been huge. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis—all of them managed to rejigger its continuity in some way. So it’s genuinely refreshing to find out that Dark Crisis, DC’s next big comic event,…
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Mazda Owners Near Seattle Find Their Radios Are Permanently Stuck on NPR
If you could only listen to one radio station for the rest of all time, what would you choose? It’s a moot question for some Mazda owners in Washington state’s Puget Sound region, whose onboard infotainment systems are stuck in a reboot loop that keeps the dial stuck on one specific radio station.

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Two Simple Movements Can Reduce Dizziness When Standing Up, Study Finds
Researchers in Canada say they’ve come up with two simple physical techniques to help prevent a common cause of dizziness and fainting. In a small trial, they found that these maneuvers, which involve nothing more than moving your lower limbs, could effectively reduce the symptoms of initial orthostatic hypotension, a…
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Lawmakers Warn Clearview AI Could End Public Anonymity if Feds Don't Ditch It
Democratic lawmakers are ratcheting up efforts to limit the federal government’s work with notorious surveillance firm Clearview AI. In a series of letters addressed to the Departments of Justice, Defense, Homeland Security, and the Interior on Wednesday, the lawmakers called on the agencies to end their use of the…
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Alex Garland's Mysterious New Film Men Debuts Its Equally Mysterious Trailer
If you’ve seen the excellent Ex Machinaand Annihilation, you know that any movie coming from writer/director Alex Garland is likely going to be worth watching. While this first trailer for his upcoming film Men doesn’t look like a science fiction story like his previous work, watch it and tell me you don’t believe…
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A Closer Look at Everything Samsung Announced at Galaxy Unpacked
Samsung has a slew of new devices dropping this month, and we got a sneak peek at its three new flagship phones and three tablets ahead of its Galaxy Unpacked event.

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