It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s an unidentified aerial phenomenon. A newly published report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that it’s received a total of 510 UFO reports over the last 17 years, and the majority of those reports, more than 350, have been filed since March 2021.

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A Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon TV Series Leaps Into Existence
Get a glimpse of the timeline shenanigans coming to The Flash’s final season. There’s a bevy of new production photos from The Walking Dead: Dead City. The composer of the Joker sequel has begun, uh, composing, John Carpenter denies a rumor, and much more await in today’s Morning Spoilers.

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CES 2023 Round Up Part 2
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Automakers Have Ground Massachusetts Right-to-Repair Law to a Halt
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Sennheiser’s TV Clear Set Will Take Your TV Watching Experience to a Whole New, Expensive Level
Sennheiser recently released the TV Clear Set, which is essentially a pair of earbuds that wirelessly connect to your TV for a custom, private listening experience. While the concept is fairly simple, not too dissimilar from using AirPods with an Apple TV, their $400 price tag might leave you a little confused.…
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The Asus ZenBook 17 Fold OLED is Promising, But Not Ready
I would describe the Asus Zenbook 17 Fold as the ideal ambassador for the folding laptop. It’s far from perfect, nor does its Taiwanese PC maker expect to sell it in droves, given its astronomical $3500 price tag. But after a month with it, the Zenbook 17 has convinced me on what many only a couple of years ago…
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Your First 2023 Resolution Should Be to Fix Your Work From Home Setup
With 2023 upon us, you have to ask yourself, should you spend another year hunched over your dining room table while working from home? The correct answer is no, no you shouldn’t. Instead of committing to sudden life-changing resolutions, taking smaller steps to make your everyday spaces just a bit more comfortable…
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An Interview With the Guy Who Has All Your Data
Chad Engelgau is the CEO of Acxiom, a data broker that operates one of the world’s biggest repositories of consumer information. The company claims to have granular details on more than 2.5 billion people across 62 different countries. The chances that Acxiom knows a whole lot about you, reader, are good.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once Is Letterboxd's Highest-Rated Film of 2022
Letterboxd, the review social media aggregator site used by film enthusiasts, celebrated Everything Everywhere All at Once becoming the platform’s highest rated film, and the film’s writer-directors joined the party.
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My Dad the Bounty Hunter Boasts the Coolest 'Bring Your Kids to Work Day' Ever
Two kids—one voiced by Stranger Things breakout Priah Ferguson—have always believed their dad was just an average dude. So it comes as a huge shock when they learn he’s actually, well... My Dad the Bounty Hunter. In other words, he’s an intergalactic badass, and space adventures galore await the lucky siblings in this…
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Paizo Announces a New Gaming License Amid Dungeons & Dragons' OGL Controversy
Tabletop roleplaying game company Paizo has released a statement following the delayed announcement of Wizards of the Coast’s Open Gaming License 2.0. The company, whose staff includes several former Wizards of the Coast executives, developers, and lawyers, has announced that it will be pursuing the creation of a new…
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Ryan Reynolds Talks Balancing Both Deadpool and Wolverine in Deadpool 3
It feels like a billion years away, but Deadpool 3 is getting on track for its November 8, 2024 release. Hugh Jackman is preparing physically to play Wolverine again, he and Ryan Reynolds are riffing on social media, and the delicate balance of having two giant comic book superstars with radically different tones…
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Google Tells Supreme Court Upending Section 230 Would Break ‘Central Building Block’ of the Internet
In little more than a month’s time, the Alphabet-owned tech giant Google will soon be the main face of the entire tech industry defending how the internet currently exists, good and ill. The Supreme Court is gearing up to hear arguments that could completely redefine whether companies are liable for everything that…
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6 Batshit Claims SBF Made in His First Substack Newsletter
Some people, like disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, really just don’t know when to stop talking. Despite facing eight counts of U.S. criminal charges and living under house arrest, SBF, as he’s often called, decided it was a good time to launch a Substack newsletter.

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The Batman Director Matt Reeves on the Problem With Bat-Sequels
We’re a long way from seeing Matt Reeves’ second installment of his Batman trilogy, but the director is already thinking about how to avoid a problem that’s plagued Bat-sequel movies for years: they always seem to focus on the villains instead of Batman himself.

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5-Minute Walking Breaks Could Help Chronic Sitters Stay Healthy
The results of a small new trial may offer a salve to people worried about the health effects of sitting all day at work. The study found that taking walking breaks as short as five minutes every half-hour can stabilize blood sugar and blood pressure levels compared to prolonged sitting. People also reported feeling…
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Elon Breaks Guinness World Record for Losing Most Personal Wealth
The Guinness World Records announced Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has broken the world record for the person to lose the largest amount of personal wealth in history. The billionaire has reportedly lost a total of $182 billion since November 2021. Some of the loss was attributed to the $44 billion deal reached to …
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U.S. Army Is Still Gung Ho on Microsoft's Combat Goggles Despite Funding Setback
Congress, in all its wisdom, declined to give the Army an additional $400 million in its 2023 budget that the army planned to use to buy an additional 6,900 AR combat goggles developed in partnership with Microsoft.
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Wizards of the Coast Cancels OGL Announcement After Online Ire
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast has apparently cancelled an announcement about its updated Open Gaming License for a second time this week. Inside sources at Wizards of the Coast tell io9 that the company is scrambling to formulate a response to backlash against the new OGL that has occurred over the…
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DARPA Wants to Find a Drug That Makes You Impervious to Cold
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for a new way to get nice and cozy: The agency is funding research into drugs that could protect people from extreme cold. Should these efforts bear fruit, the drugs could have a variety of uses, from treating hypothermia patients to helping people…
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