One of the Affordable Care Act’s most hardcore and hardheaded opponents has finally struck down one of the most consequential and beneficial aspects of the law. On Thursday, Texas District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that insurance companies are no longer forced to offer free cancer screenings, HIV screenings, diabetes…
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Severe Storms Coming to Central U.S.: 'Start Preparing'
What may be a series of severe storms is predicted to hit states all over the U.S. Midwest, Central Plains, and the South beginning Friday. This includes the risk of thunderstorms and even tornadoes extending through the next couple weeks.

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Star Trek Is Finally Making That Starfleet Academy TV Series
For years, Paramount has been trying to figure out a show centered around Star Trek’s Starfleet Academy—you know, the place where Starfleet educates its captains, science officers, engineers, etc. before sending them out on five-year missions to explore strange new worlds and whatnot. Well, now they’ve found the…
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April Fools' Day Is the Perfect Time to Watch These 10 Horror Parodies
April Fools’ Day can be a divisive holiday, but I’ll always love it for one reason: it inspired April Fool’s Day, the 1986 slasher flick that plays it straight until the twist at the end cleverly reminds you exactly what the holiday is all about.

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Twitter Details How Much Money API Access Will Cost Now
In a poorly thought out plan to make Twitter as profitable as possible, Twitter has officially unveiled three new tiers of API access: Free, Basic, and Enterprise. Twitter previously backed off from rescinding free access to the platform’s API after public backlash.

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The Power Shows That Political Satire Hasn't Lost its Spark
In The Power, the Prime Video adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s 2017 sci-fi novel of the same name, women begin to spontaneously emit electricity. Across the world, for seemingly no reason, young girls activate a latent organ–called a skein–in their bodies that allows them to generate and then direct electrical currents.…
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Bing Chat Is Already Polluted With Bad Ads
With the AI-arms race in full swing, it’s no surprise that tech giants like Microsoft are shifting their attention to monetization. As with so many struggles, the real question of who comes out winning will probably be determined by who manages to make the most profit. Enter: Bing Chat ads.

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Netflix Might Bring Its Games to TVs in Effort to Get People to Actually Play Them
Higher quality TV and movies? No. A standard of not cancelling shows after a single season? Nah. Mobile games on your TV? Yup. That appears to be Netflix’s plan after a developer found some hidden code while digging through the platform. The company’s actually been offering games on mobile since 2021, but given paltry…
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AI Ethics Group Says ChatGPT Violates FTC Rules, Calls for Investigation
A prominent AI ethics organization submitted a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission this week urging the agency to investigate ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and halt its development of future large language learning models. The complaint, filed by the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), alleged OpenAI’s recently…
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NASA's Massive Rocket Transporter Is Officially a Record-Breaking Big Boy
NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 was originally designed to carry Saturn V rockets during the Apollo program nearly 60 years ago. The aging giant recently got a much-needed upgrade for supporting the Artemis SLS megarocket, beating its twin vehicle for a world record.
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Working on Star Trek: Picard Together | LeVar and Mica Burton Interview
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Elon's Ego Can Rest Easy Knowing He Now Has the Most Followers on Twitter
Twitter CEO Elon Musk surpassed former President Barack Obama in followers on Thursday,making him the most followed person on the platform. At the time of writing, Musk has more than 133 million followers, according to SocialBlade which reported his count hovers at 40,000 more than Obama.
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Matt Damon Says He Did That Dumb Crypto.com Ad Because His Water Nonprofit Was 'Down'
Actor Matt Damon briefly became the face of cryptocurrencies with his “history is filled with almosts” commercial for the digital currencies exchange Crypto.com. Despite crypto’s ballooning prices in 2021, after the collapse of several major exchanges and lenders in 2022 the entire industry is feeling more like an…
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Scott Pilgrim Movie Cast Reunites to Voice Their Characters in Netflix Anime
Netflix has just announced the voice cast of Scott Pilgrim. The Anime,which will feature the return of all the major stars from the live-action Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World film, including Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Brie Larsen, and Chris Evans to reprise their movie roles, this time in voice form.
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Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future Tech
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Mike Flanagan Wants to Direct a Standalone Batman Villain Film
Clayface leers.Yesterday’s news included speculation that Mike Flanagan—you know, the one who did Midnight Mass? The Haunting of Hill House? Haunting of Bly Manor? Upcoming director of The Fall of the House of Usher? That Mike Flanagan—had pitched a movie about Bat-villain Clayface to James Gunn. The famed horror…
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Airplanes Face a Growing Risk of Being Hit by Uncontrolled Incoming Rockets
On May 11, 2020 a deadly threat flew from Los Angeles to New York City in under nine minutes. It was a 20-tonne Chinese Long March 5B rocket body passing around 60 miles overhead.

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1,000 Years of Tree Rings Show Just How Hardcore the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Was
In June and July 2021, an extreme heat wave swept across the historically temperate Pacific Northwest, killing hundreds of people and cooking over a billion sea creatures. Now, scientists have used information etched into tree rings to demonstrate that, yes, the heat wave was unlike anything the region had seen in a…
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All the Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Merch You Can Shake a Lightsaber At
It’s not every day you get to exclusively debut a brand new line of merchandise from a new Star Wars show—but today, the Force is with us. io9 is very excited to share products from Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, which debuts on Disney+ and Disney Jr. May 4.
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Newly Declassified Report Contradicts Officials, Suggests Havana Syndrome Might Be Caused by Directed Energy
Several weeks after the intelligence community very publicly disavowed claims that “Havana Syndrome”—the bizarre rash of neurological disorders plaguing U.S. foreign service officers—was the result of a directed energy weapon, a newly declassified report alleges that may very well be what it is.
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