Strange New Worlds has made a name for itself over the course of its first season, and now the first half of its sophomore, in taking the vibes of the original Star Trek—and sometimes literal episodes—and translating them to a modern television show, and the expectations that come with them. But what happens when the…
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Twitter Hits Meta With Lawsuit Threat Over Stolen 'Trade Secrets'
Meta successfully triggered a response from Twitter on Wednesday amid the rollout of its new rival app, Threads. Elon Musk’s longtime attorney Alex Spiro sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, threatening to file a lawsuit against the company for engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of…
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Missions: Impossible, Ranked
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is consider yet another ranking of Mission: Impossible films.
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Here’s the Deal With Las Vegas’ Huge Psychedelic Orb
A giant shape-shifting orb has invaded the Las Vegas metropolitan area. If you’ve seen pictures, you’d be forgiven for being alarmed because it sorta resembles something that might land on Earth during an alien invasion. A pulsating ball that likes to change its color and appearance, the orb sometimes looks vaguely…
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Webb Space Telescope Discovers Farthest Active Supermassive Black Hole Known
Astronomers imaging the cosmos with the Webb Space Telescope have found the most distant active supermassive black hole yet. The black hole was “seen” as it was around 570 million years after the Big Bang.
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SAG-AFTRA Is Making Preparations to Strike
SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents “actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists, and other media professionals,” according to its site, has begun sending out surveys and communications…
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We're So Ready for Barbie's New Billie Eilish Music to Wreck Us
The Barbie movie has achieved what was once thought impossible: getting us even more hyped for its release, as pop star Billie Eilish has announced her latest single “What Was I Made For?”—written for the Greta Gerwig film.
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An Angry Birds Cafe Is Opening in New York in a Desperate Attempt to Recapture the Game's Glory Days
It wasn’t the hardware that made the iPhone a hit, or even iOS, it was the potential unlocked by the introduction of the App Store, and one of the earliest must-have apps for Apple’s smartphone was a game about slingshotting enraged fowl that, almost 14 years later, will be the branding focus of a new cafe coming to…
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What We Do in the Shadows Season 5 Promises Even More Vampiric Hijinks
The first thing you notice on the What We Do in the Shadows set is that they really built a whole ass haunted house. Shadows is made alongside a busy street in a Toronto suburb. The outer facade of the house—the steps, topiaries, and stained glass windows—face traffic, and cars slowed down as a group of media…
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OceanGate Suspends All Operations in the Aftermath of Titan Implosion
OceanGate, the owner of the Titan submersible, is suspending “all exploration and commercial operations” following the fatal implosion of its vessel, which killed all five crew members on board. The suspension comes only weeks after the Titan deployed to the Titanic wreckage site, located about 12,500 feet below the…
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