I’ve long been skeptical of foldable phones. I’ve had to bite my tongue to stop myself going as far to call them an expensive gimmick. Then Google’s $1,800 Pixel Fold comes into my life, and suddenly I’m enamored by the thought of dual screens. Google’s entry into the foldables category is pitched as combining the…
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First Daryl Dixon Preview Sends Him on a Walking Dead Euro Trip
We’ve already had a small tease of the more-than-slightly anticipated Walking Dead spin-off so imaginatively titled Daryl Dixon, where the eponymous hero can be seen floating unconscious on a boat in what is presumably the Atlantic ocean on his way to France. Now, AMC has released a two-minute preview... and if you…
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Train Carrying Asphalt and Sulfur Derailed Into the Yellowstone River
A bridge that crosses over the Yellowstone River in Montana collapsed on Saturday morning, dropping parts of a freight train into the river below, authorities said.
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Bodega Delivery: Amazon Turns to Thousands of Small Shops to Speed Up Deliveries
You might see an Amazon package next time you visit the bodega, the florist, the coffee shop, or any one thousands of other small businesses that will deliver packages in 23 US states as part of an effort by the company to beef up its “Amazon Hub Delivery” program. The expansion is the latest attempt by Amazon to turn…
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Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence
A chapter of internet history has come to a close. One of the cybercriminals behind 2020's major Twitter hack was sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison on Friday. Joseph O’Connor (AKA “PlugwalkJoe”), a 24-year-old British citizen, previously pleaded guilty to seven charges associated with the digital attack.…
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Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals You Can Get Right Now
The annual Amazon Prime Day event runs from July 11-12, but many of the best deals are already available, if you’re an Amazon Prime member.

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The Flash Movie's Miserable Box Office Keeps Getting Worse
There’s very little the Flash can’t outrun, but it seems audience interest is one of those things. The Flashmovie, which opened to a significantly less-than-expected box office of $55 million, way down from Warner Bros.’ expected/optimistically hoped-for $75 million. But if that was the Flash stumbling, the hero has…
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False 911 Calls Skyrocket During Bonnaroo as the iPhone Mistakes Dancing for Car Crashes
There’s bound to be a few extra emergency calls when 80,000 people descend upon your city for a weekend music and arts festival, but according to authorities in Coffee County, Tennessee, the iPhone 14's automatic crash detection was responsible for a spike in false 911 calls at Bonnaroo as it mistook revelers’…
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Netflix Tests Killing Off Its 'Basic' Subscription
Netflix announced that Canadian users will no longer have access to its cheapest streaming subscription tier that doesn’t include ads. Netflix’s help page now notes Canadians looking to get Netflix or switch plans will no longer have access to the $9.99 Basic option. Their choices now are to accept ads into their…
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This May Be the Earliest Evidence of Hominin Cannibalism
In 1970, the renowned paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found an ancient, nondescript leg bone sitting on the ground in Ileret, Kenya. Now, 53 years on, a research team has found marks on the bone they believe could be evidence of “systematic cannibalism” in the hominin fossil record.
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57,000-Year-Old Cave Engravings Were the Work of Neanderthals, Researchers Say
It’s now consensus that Neanderthals were complex, social cousins of Homo sapiens that disappeared from the Earth around 40,000 years ago. But our lost relatives just became more complex, with the discovery of ancient cave engravings in France that appear to be their handiwork.

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Updates From Indiana Jones, Paddington 3, and More
Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, and Anna Kendrick are all set to join the new French sci-fi drama The Assessment. The cast and crew of Disney’s Haunted Mansion discuss the classic ride. Plus, John Hamm experiences the concept of Tea in a new Good Omens season 2 clip. Spoilers now!

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The Best Apps to Upgrade Your Summer Road Trip
If you’ve got a road trip planned this summer, you’ve no doubt got Apple Maps or Google Maps ready and waiting to get you from place to place, as well as a music, podcast, or audiobook app to provide audio accompaniment for the journey. However, there are plenty more apps out there that can make your traveling a whole…
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This Week's Toy News Is a Tale of Two Primes
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy and merch news across this internet. This week, Hasbro keeps on the Transformers train, with multiple Primes and a Primal for good measure. Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures gets a cutesy plush line, and be ready to embrace the new flesh: a new…
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Don't Replace News Editors With AI
Germany’s best-selling newspaper, Bild, is reportedly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to replace certain editorial roles, in an effort to cut costs.
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1973's 'Turkish Spider-Man' Film Now Has an HD Documentary
There’ve been a lot of adaptations of Marvel’s Spider-Man over the years, particularly in live-action. One that you might not know about released in 1973, and because it’s turning 50 years old in November, a new documentary is aiming to shed some light on the cult film.

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Twilight Zone's Movie Was a Wake-Up Call Hollywood Didn't Fully Answer
TV shows getting big to the point where they warrant a full-on movie doesn’t always happen. But when it does, it’s significant in some kind of way, even if it’s just the fact that the creators involved managed to pull it off in the first place. And in the case of the movie for CBS’ Twilight Zone, its significance is…
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Christopher McQuarrie on the Two-Part Challenges of Dead Reckoning
Splitting films into multiple parts is still a fairly recent phenomenon, and 2023 has multiple “Chapter One” movies playing in theaters. In addition to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the first movie in Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moonsaga is coming in December, Fast X was its own “Part One” back in May, and next month…
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Spy x Family's First Movie Will Ring in the Holiday Season
It’s always exciting when a new anime becomes the talk of the town, and one of last year’s hits in that regard was Spy x Family. The adaptation of Tetsuya Endo’s action series quickly became a fan favorite, and it’s returning later this year in the form of both season two and its first-ever movie.

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