After losing his gigs aboard Adult Swim blockbuster Rick and Morty—which he co-created, and on which he voiced both title characters—as well as Hulu’s Solar Opposites, among other projects, Justin Roiland has seen the domestic violence charges against him dismissed.
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Lab-Grown Chicken Closer to Your Plate With FDA Green-Light
Manmade meat is marching ever-closer to your dinner plate. A second company has received a critical safety green light from the Food and Drug Administration, and can now move forward with next steps towards selling its lab-grown chicken substitute to U.S. consumers.

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Samsung's Galaxy S23 is One of the Best Small Android Phones You Can Buy Right Now
Okay, so the 6.1-inch screen on the Samsung Galaxy S23 isn’t exactly tiny compared to the 4.7-inch display on the Apple iPhone SE, or the displays on mid-range Android devices like the 5.9-inch Asus Zenfone 9. Not to mention the 3-inch Unihertz Jelly Phone 2. But the Galaxy S23 is one of the smallest Android flagships…
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iPhones Will Soon Have Voice Isolation in Calls
iPhone users who still use their phone as an actual—you know—phone will soon have the ability to filter out background noise to make those calls clearer, with the coming advent of iOS 16.4 and new implementations for Voice Isolation.
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The Crows Have Always Been the Best Part of Shadow and Bone
If you’ve discovered Shadow and Bonethanks to Netflix, you might be thinking to yourself, “Maybe I’ll pick up the books, this seems like a fun series!” And while you wouldn’t be wrong, you also wouldn’t be starting in the best place.
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Hipstamatic Is Back in the Hopes You Hate Instagram
Iphone users have access to what’s being pegged by some an “anti-Instagram app.” Hipstamatic relaunched its social network for iPhone users on Wednesday, offering a place to simply share photos without all the filters, short-form videos, and clawing for followers.
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Webb Telescope Spots a Planet With 'Gritty' Clouds Just 40 Light-Years Away
The Webb Space Telescope just turned its infrared gaze at an exoplanet and found dense clouds swirling in the atmosphere of this quirky world.

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Photo Cropping Bug Exposes Unedited Images in Windows 11 and Google Pixels
If you’ve been using a Windows 11 cropping tool, you’re going to want to watch out for a recently discovered bug that analysts say poses a serious privacy problem.

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Recent Fireballs Over California Were Pieces of Discarded ISS Antenna
Over the weekend, footage of bright, flashing streaks of light that blazed across the sky over Sacramento, California, went viral, with most people wondering whether it was a meteor or a UFO. As it turns out, it was neither. Instead, the mysterious objects ended up being some fallen space junk that was once attached…
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This Week's Mandalorian Used Its Nostlagia for Good, at Least
At this point it is impossible to separate the story of Din Djarin and Grogu from the wider universe of Star Wars’ galaxy far, far away. In a similar manner to how the unlikely duo met, The Mandalorian has picked up iconic characters from across Star Wars film and TV to become part of its story. But for once, its…
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Would You Eat This 3D Printed Cheesecake?
Scientists are taking 3D printing to a new level, this time with food. Engineers at Columbia University announced in a newly released study that they have successfully created an edible and possibly delicious cheesecake by using cartridges of food paste and powder in the printer.

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Listing Jobs but Not Hiring: Indeed Cuts 15% of Staff
Lots of tech company workers have found themselves unemployed recently. And with the likes of Amazon and Meta confirming new rounds of layoffs just this month—even more former employees of big tech are likely to be job hunting soon.

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Twitter Users Are Complaining About Vanishing Tweets
Twitter users are seeing tweets seemingly vanish before their eyes as the social media platform struggles with yet another setback. Complaints around disappearing tweets aren’t entirely new, but whether Twitter has the engineering staff to quickly solve this most recent issue is yet to be seen.
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These Toy Mash-Up Photos Are Freaking Rad
What happens when the aliens from Aliens attack a T-Rex? Or a Predator sets its eyes on some Ewoks? What if Ant-Man climbed to the top of the Empire State Building or E.T. got a lightsaber? All those scenarios and more are being brought to life by artist Chuck Eiler, aka Killcutter, who loves to take collectible…
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See How a Wild, Wet Winter Has Transformed California
California is drenched.

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Go Behind the Scenes of Fantasy Classic Dragonslayer in This Special Edition Sneak Peek
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'Oumuamua’s Bizarre Acceleration May Have Been Caused by Hydrogen, Not Alien Technology
In October 2017, astronomers detected an interstellar object traveling through our solar system for the first time. Theories abounded as to the nature of the oblong object, named ‘Oumuamua, which accelerated as it made its transit. Now, a team of researchers suggests a straightforward explanation: The interstellar…
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Apple Music Users Are Complaining That They're Seeing Other People's Playlists
As cool as you might think your Apple Music or Spotify playlist title is, you probably don’t want any random user finding out that your hiking playlist is exclusively made up of the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. Unfortunately, some Apple Music users on Reddit have reported a very strange bug where their playlists are…
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The Mandalorian Struggles to Find the Way, Despite Its Best Cameo to Date
This week’s episode of The Mandalorian left us conflicted. On the one hand, it did everything we say we want the show to do: our heroes go off on an epic adventure while also expanding the mythology of the franchise. But with all that happening now, at this point in the third season—and coming after an episode that …
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Major Storm Hits California, Leaving Over 100,000 Without Power
Communities across California are in the dark today and cleaning up debris after another atmospheric river hit the state, bringing strong winds and heavy rain.
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The Jedi Make a Chilling Discovery in This Star Wars: The High Republic Preview
Star Wars’ next chapter of The High Republic’s flashback phase II is about to be upon us, as the situation between the ancient Jedi Order and the Path of the Open Hand—a mysterious group that believes the Force is not for anyone to use, especially Jedi—gets worse. So it’s probably a sign of things to come that the…
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Writers Guild of America Considers Letting AI Write Hollywood Scripts
As Chat-GPT learns more about how to take over the human race, the Writer’s Guild of America is certainly not standing in its way. The labor union, which represents film and television writers, has recently proposed allowing AI like Chat-GPT to write scripts as long as humans get credit for their contributions.

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