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There’s no stopping those yellow and blue overall-wearing Minions from wreaking havoc at Universal Studios Resorts, as long as their hold on the children doesn’t meet its match.
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Montana Bans TikTok
Montana’s governor signed a bill into law banning TikTok from his state Wednesday.
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The Ever-Growing List of Jedi That Survived Order 66
Order 66 is one of Star Wars’ most defining moments—even before we knew its name and the intricacies of its machinations, we have known since the very beginning of the saga that there were once thousands of Jedi Knights, only for them to be systemically eradicated by the Empire. But even as Star Wars has detailed this…
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This Earth-Size Planet May Be Entirely Covered in Volcanoes
On this world, the floor is lava and there’s no couch to jump to: Astronomers have described a planet that might be completely covered in active volcanoes.
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Not Even Space Force Can Properly Explain What It Does
Ever since its inception in 2019, the U.S. Space Force has struggled to establish its identity. Now, a leading official at the youngest military branch is looking to rewrite its mission statement, hoping that will help clear any confusion over exactly what it does.
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Paleontologists Perplexed by Swimming Predator With 'Screwdriver' Teeth
The ancient seas of the Late Cretaceous period would’ve been scary places to swim. Between 66 million and 100 million years ago, the world’s waterways were chock-full of real-life sea monsters. Not least of which were the sometimes bus-sized, possibly venomous, predatory lizards known as mosasaurs.

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Miles and Gwen Have a High-Flying Reunion in This Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Clip
If there’s one thing we know about Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, it’s that it will contain a multitude of Spider-people, as well as some creepy new antagonists. But even in a universe teeming with heroes and villains, individual characters will still make a big impact on the story—especially Miles Morales and…
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10 Signs That the AI 'Revolution' Is Spinning Out of Control
Well folks, the AI “revolution” is upon us, and it already seems to be getting out slightly out of hand. Big corporations, spurred by the specter of easy profits, have begun to roll out new tools and products that use artificial intelligence to enhance user experience. Search engines, Hollywood, and media industries…
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The Blackening's Final Trailer Proves It's a Razor-Sharp Crowd-Pleaser
The first trailer for The Blackening delightfully demonstrated that the latest from Tim Story (Ride Along, Barbershop) would have great fun skewering the horror trope that Black characters always die first. The latest trailer makes that even more clear by mixing enthusiastic audience reactions in with the jokes and…
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Get Ready for Another Summer of Invasive Lanternflies | Extreme Earth
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Why Is Halle Bailey This Generation's Ariel? | io9 Interview
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What You Need to Know About Ax-2—the Second Private Mission to the ISS
The second private crew to the International Space Station (ISS) is getting ready to strap into a SpaceX Dragon capsule, venturing to low Earth orbit as part of Axiom Space’s follow-up mission to the orbiting lab.

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Here Are Your 2023 Eisner Awards Nominees
The Eisner Awards, one of the most prestigious comic awards currently awarded in the United States, has announced its 2023 nominees. Much like last year, Image and DC publishing once again netted the most nominations, but this year Image has more nods: 20 (plus six shared) and DC with 11 (plus five shared). While the …
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Scale Plans for Massive Animal Traps Discovered in Saudi Arabia and Jordan
Ancient people living in what is today Saudi Arabia and Jordan carved to-scale plans for large animal traps, called kites, into rock. The scientists who analyzed the discoveries say the ability to transpose an aerial-view plan of this size to an actual structure points to a milestone in human intelligence and…
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Scientists Are Closer to Understanding How Epstein-Barr Infection Can Cause Multiple Sclerosis
New research may provide clues to an enduring mystery about multiple sclerosis and the common germ thought to be its leading cause, the Epstein-Barr virus. Scientists in Sweden have found that some patients with multiple sclerosis produce antibodies against the virus that seem to also mistakenly target a protein found…
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Uber Riders Can Now Hail a Ride Without the App
Uber announced on Wednesday that it is introducing an array of features including another option for riders who aren’t able to hail a car from the app. The new service will allow riders to call 1-833-USE-UBER to order a car to come pick them up, rather than rely on the app alone.
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Twitter Employees Got a Saudi Dissident Kidnapped, Lawsuit Says
An explosive new lawsuit alleges Twitter acted as a member of a “Saudi criminal enterprise” when a handful of its former employees sent names and other data to the Saudi Arabian government revealing the identities of political dissidents. Saudi agents allegedly used that data to kidnap and torture at least one…
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Ahsoka's Natasha Liu Bordizzo Teases Sabine's Surprising New Weapon
Of the many surprises our looks at Ahsoka gave us at Star Wars Celebration last month—from startling Clone Wars returns, to our first proper look at Grand Admiral Thrawn—one didn’t actually make it into footage released outside of the convention. But that was enough for one actress on the show to sigh in relief she…
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Wild Shuttlecock-Inspired Heat Shield Could Make Reusable Satellites a Reality
Retired satellites typically burn up in Earth’s atmosphere, never again seeing the light of day. However, a Welsh design firm named Space Forge is developing a foldable heat shield in the ongoing effort make satellites reusable, and the company wants to test the concept in orbit later this year.
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Capping Emissions Could Create 35,000 Jobs in Texas (If Lawmakers Would Only Listen)
Texas could add tens of thousands of jobs if the state seriously commits itself to driving down its methane emissions, finds a report from the Texas Climate Jobs Project released Wednesday. But state leadership has thus far refused funding from the federal government for anti-methane measures.
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The Creator Trailer Deftly Teases a Blend of AI Terrors and Human Emotion
Sci-fi thriller The Creator was one of the most intriguing, most unexpected buzz-makers at this year’s CinemaCon—and now the world can see why, since the trailer for the latest from Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 2014's Godzilla) has just been released.

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A pair of prominent Republican senators co-opted yesterday’s hearing on NASA’s 2024 budget request by accusing the space agency of siding with Biden-friendly initiatives pertaining to climate change and diversity.

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Earth Now on Track to Reach 1.5 Degrees of Warming by 2027
The world is set to reach new record temperatures within just a few years, as global temperatures are expected to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organization announced today. And the incoming El Niño isn’t helping matters.
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Fast X Can't Even Be Saved by Jason Momoa's Incredible New Villain
With the release of Fast X, we think it’s finally official: the Fast and Furious franchise ended with the death of Paul Walker. Walker’s untimely passing gave 2015's Furious 7 a resonance that took the series to a new level, really solidifying the notion that family, not action, is what makes this mega blockbuster car…
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Remote CEO Elon Musk Slams People Who Work From Home: ‘The Laptop Class Is Living in La La Land’
Elon Musk, who heads Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter and to date has no clones we know of, slammed remote work in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday. Musk said the practice was “morally wrong,” despite the fact that he’s hardly the best example of an office-going parishioner.
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70% of Trump Voters Think AI Threatens Humanity, Poll Finds
Americans’ concern over AI’s influence on humanity is growing, with an large majority saying that the technology’s rapid growth will negatively impact the future, a new poll finds. The survey, conducted by Reuters and Ipsos and released Wednesday, revealed that of those contacted, 70% of people who voted for Donald…
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Amazon Goes After Apple's AirPods With a $50 Set of Wireless Earbuds
Although Amazon’s first pair of wireless earbuds weren’t exactly a home run, 2021's follow-up delivered great sound, solid ANC, and a highly competitive $120 starting price. Two years later, the Echo Buds have gotten a complete redesign, and instead of targeting the AirPods Pro, Amazon now seems to be going after…
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Fablecraft Wants to Lower the Barrier for Virtual Tabletop Gaming
Fablecraft is a new RPG that will be entirely digital, created within the Steam-native Riftweaver app, and it’s currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, to great success. The co-founders of Fablecraft are David Hohusen (creator of Two Dots) and Andrew Habers, and io9 had a chance to get a hands on look at a beta version…
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All the Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Projects Impacted by the Writers Strike (So Far)
After the American Motion Picture and Television Producers union failed to offer acceptable counters and terms to the Writers Guild of America, the WGA called a strike on May 2. Struck companies include Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and Apple, and will likely affect dozens of productions across the next few months.

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See the World's Unsold Clothing in a Huge Desert Pileup
The world’s fast-fashion addiction is wrecking the planet. It’s also contributing to an enormous and growing pile of clothing that is sitting in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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New 3D Scans Show the Titanic in All Its Sunken Glory
The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sunk to the bottom of the Northern Atlantic Ocean in April 1912, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew. Now, researchers have gotten an unprecedented look at the entire ship on the seafloor, by creating a digital scan of the wreck from hundreds of…
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The First Captain America: New World Order Set Pictures Tease Costumes and Villains
New reports tease the future of Alita: Battle Angel 2 and Deadpool 3. Even more Transformers: Rise of the Beasts footage hint at maximal mayhem. Plus, what’s to come on Fear the Walking Dead. Spoilers now!
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The Beats Studio Buds + Are Apple's Best Wireless Headphones Bargain
Two years ago, the Apple-owned Beats brand delivered an affordable alternative to the AirPods Pro that swapped the stem design for a smaller earbud that many users found more comfortable. It also boasted support for Android devices at a price point that was $100 cheaper. The new Beats Studio Buds + are an answer to…
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Bumblebees Are Working Even Harder Than We Thought
Bumblebees are fuzzy, rotund, and indisputably adorable. They’re also secretly swole. The insects can cart around loads up to 80% of their body weight during foraging flights, and new research demonstrates that doing so probably isn’t easy.
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The New Mission Impossible 7 Trailer Is Action-Packed to the Max
Even before Top Gun: Maverick became the blockbuster it turned out to be, Paramount Pictures went all in on Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1. Every screen playing Maverick also had the trailer for Mission attached to it, meaning audiences have been waiting almost a year to see what Ethan Hunt is up to these…
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The Next Big Holiday Fad Could Be These Digital Pets That Appear to Float in Mid-Air
If you’re a parent of an impressionable child: be forewarned. Like the Hatchimals of holidays past, Spin Master’s new Bitzee digital pets could be another must-have but impossible-to-find holiday gift later this year. Their hook? They use a unique, hologram-like display technology that kids can actually reach out and …
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Unistellar's New Smart Telescope Turns Anyone Into a Backyard Astrophotographer
Unistellar’s automated eQuinox 2 is the latest addition to the growing family of smart telescopes, making it possible for backyard astronomers to easily capture clear views of space, even in severely light-polluted conditions. The cost may pose a barrier, as does the absence of an eyepiece, but on balance this…
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Stability AI’s StableStudio Wants to Be the One-Stop-Shop for ‘Open Source’ AI
Despite the expanding cost of Artificial Intelligence and increasingly business-minded implementation of AI, Stability AI has continued to hitch its car on the “open source” train, for better or worse. Now the company is expanding its offerings with a platform that’s supposed to host all its generative AI models.
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Astronomers Really Thought These Discoveries Could Be Aliens
As the famous X-Files poster declares, “I want to believe.” This wanting, however, often leads us astray. When confronted with shocking and inexplicable celestial phenomena, we tend to see intelligent design. This jumping to conclusions is a sin for which we can be forgiven—we have an insatiable need to know if…
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Marvel Studios Alum Chiwetel Ejiofor Joins Tom Hardy in Venom 3
In another multiverse switcheroo, Chiwetel Ejiofor has been cast in Sony Pictures’ upcoming Venom sequel, which totally won’t be confusing at all as the Doctor Strange actor hops from the MCU to the live-action Spider-Man Universe.
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A Major Spider-Man Comic Leak Is Driving Shock and Suspicion
These days, comics leaks are inevitable—whether it’s a controlled media release ahead of time or the sheer logistics of getting books in retailers’ and readers’ hands, it’s rare that the headline-grabbing twists of a big-two comic make their way to release unrevealed. But an unprecedentedly early leak of a shock from…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Tuesday and responded to lawmakers grilling him over the potential unintended consequences of generative artificial intelligence. Altman surprised some lawmakers Tuesday by encouraging them to quickly enact new AI laws and regulations that could set the…
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ChatGPT Creator Tells Congress He Wants an AI Regulatory Agency
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made his Congressional debut before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee today. He rolled out the charm offensive to try and convince lawmakers to pursue light-handed legislation that gives artificial intelligence—company’s product ChatGPT first among them—a wide runway to rapidly advance. Altman’s…
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Disney+ Drops Major Streaming Dates for Loki, Echo, and Indiana Jones
Release dates of multiple in-production TV series are in flux due to the ongoing WGA strike, but Disney+ has just announced some major titles to mark in your calendar. Loki’s much anticipated second season kicks off October 6, while Hawkeye spinoff Echo will drop its entire season November 29.
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Suck It, Death Cap: Scientists Find Potential Antidote to World's Deadliest Mushroom
A team of scientists may have just found an antidote to one of the most infamous natural poisons in the world: the death cap mushroom. In a new study, they detail experiments showing that a common medical dye can counteract the fungi’s deadly effects in mice. Given its already approved uses, the team believes that the…
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The Gaming Shelf Wakes Citizen Sleeper
As convention season starts up again, people across the country are preparing for the major American game shows: Gen Con, all flavors of Pax, and even smaller cons like Big Bad Con and Gamehole Con are open to registration. Sure everyone is distracted by galaxies far, far away and the edge of Hyrule’s map, but board…
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DOJ Offers $10 Million Reward for Info on Alleged Russian Ransomware Hacker
A Russian national has been charged for his alleged role in the cyberattacks against law enforcement, government agencies, hospitals, and schools. The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed two indictments on Tuesday against Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, who is known online as Wazawaka, claiming he demanded a total of $400…
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Bird Buddy Is Introducing Camera-Equipped Smart Hummingbird Feeder, Bird Bath
Reaching for binoculars and a copy of Kaufman’s field guide is now an antiquated way to keep tabs on what birds have visited your backyard. The Bird Buddy uses AI and a camera to identify and deliver close-up shots of birds right to your smartphone, and the company is now expanding its offerings with a smart…
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Rainn Wilson Would Love to Play ____ in Live Action | io9 Interview
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Former NASA Human Spaceflight Chief Kathy Lueders Might Be What SpaceX Needs Right Now
Following her retirement from NASA, Kathy Lueders may be joining the dark side of the spaceflight industry. SpaceX reportedly hired the former head of NASA’s human spaceflight office in a move that could grant the company more capability— and credibility—ahead of its attempt to land astronauts on the Moon.
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Fast Xjust out came out over the weekend, and it’s already off to an impressive start.
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College Graduates Support Writers Strike, Boo David Zaslav at Boston Ceremony
As the Writers Strike enters its third week, support has grown more and more over time. Actors have publicly joined in on the picketing efforts as they may be on the verge of striking themselves, and people online and in real life are showing solidarity in various ways. And as it turns out, even college students are…
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Jujutsu Kaisen's New Season 2 Trailer is a Supernatural Showdown
Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisenhas often been a fun read thanks to its cast. It isn’t new for a series to have all of its characters be enjoyable, but the fun of shonen stories in particular is they allow the creators to just have a bunch of weirdos use their equally weird powers. The anime adaptation from MAPPA…
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Nick Fury Returns to the Spy Trade in Secret Invasion Promo
With a full month to go before Secret Invasion, it’s about that time for Marvel to start stepping up its promo game. Disney’s put out a new commercial for the upcoming miniseries that offers a deeper look at the espionage at play by the Skrulls and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Unlike the last couple of alien…
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The John Wick Franchise Has Killed Its Way to $1 Billion
Since 2014, the John Wickfranchise has been lauded for delivering the action movies goods on a consistent basis. With each installment, the series has built up a reliable fanbase for itself, both due to the merits of each film, and its larger ability to take advantage of the star power of leading man Keanu Reeves.…
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Meet the Dinosaurs of Prehistoric Planet Season 2
Behold the newest snarling, scurrying, foraging, and feasting dinosaurs and other extinct creatures of Prehistoric Planet.
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Powerpuff Girls Reboot, Other CW Spinoffs Are Officially Dead
The CW is a network that’s often taken some strange swings, and whose shows like Riverdale or The Winchesterscause no small amount of confusion when they first get announced. When it was revealed in 2020 that the network was aiming towards a live-action reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, one of Cartoon Network’s most…
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These Are the Best Apps to Help You Move
As summer approaches and leases start to end, moving season begins. You can use your phone to get some much needed distraction while you navigate the hectic task, sure, but it can also help make it less stressful. If you’re planning to shift your entire life from one place to another in the near future, then these are…
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What Could ChatGPT Do to Wall Street?
Artificial Intelligence-powered tools, such as ChatGPT, have the potential to revolutionize the efficiency, effectiveness and speed of the work humans do. And this is true in financial markets as much as in sectors like health care, manufacturing and pretty much every other aspect of our lives.
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Watch Live: Axiom Space Launches Its Second Private Mission to the ISS
Axiom Space is gearing up for the launch of its second private crew to the International Space Station (ISS). The four astronauts will spend a little over a week conducting experiments within the orbital lab.
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What Is a Luddite, and Why Does It Matter? A Tech Expert Explains.
The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and garments out of cotton and wool. But as the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum, steam-powered mills threatened the livelihood of…
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Star Wars: Visions' Rodrigo Blaas on Making an Artistic Sith Story
Earlier in the month, Disney released a second volume of its animated anthology series, Star Wars Visions. Where Volume One focused on the sci-fi franchise through the lens of various Japanese studios, this new batch looked to ones all over the globe, and is all the better for it. Nearly all of the episodes are…
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Disney's Got a Finished Aliens vs. Predator Anime It May Never Release
Even though Disney’s had access to the Alien and Predator franchises since it purchased 20th Century Fox in 2019, the corporation has only recently started to put the two licenses at work. Last year saw the release of the pretty excellent Prey, while a new Alien movie (from Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez) and TV…
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Critical Role Gets Its Legend of Zelda On in Upcoming One-Shot
In between doing their main campaign and the occasional new thing, the Critical Role crew has done TTRPG one-shots themed around specific video games. Usually timed to come out around a title’s launch window, past one-shots have included the likes of Elden Ring, Elder Scrolls Online, and Doom Eternal.

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Mortal Kombat II's Next Kast Addition is Tati Gabrielle as Jade
NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat franchise has a wide assortment of fan favorite characters that fans have gotten to know and love over various installments. The recent 2021 reboot movie was largely filled with classics like Sonya Blade, Scorpion, and Liu Kang, along with some fresh blood like (Lewis Tan’s Cole Young) or…
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The Laws That Took Down Mobsters Are Being Turned Against Big Oil
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How to Switch to Using Passkeys With Your Google Accounts
The future is passkeys, not passwords: Google accounts are the latest to make the switch, following similar moves by Apple and Microsoft over the last couple of years (with other smaller names also making the switch). It means more convenience and more security for your account, and no need to have to remember dozens…
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Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Is Trying to Save the Internet. It Wants Your Feedback, Please.
In 2022, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey left the company. One of his new projects, Bluesky, is a social media app that looks exactly like Twitter. The difference? Bluesky promises an unprecedented level of control over your scrolling experience. The goal, essentially, is to undo all of Dorsey’s self-described…
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7 Times Elon Musk Said ‘Do as I Say, Not as I Do’ About Remote Work
Twitter CEO Elon Musk slammed people who work from home in an interview this week and declared the practice was “morally wrong,” despite the fact that, as head of three companies, it is virtually impossible for him to be in three offices at once. He’s the quintessential remote CEO. Although Musk’s comments dominated…
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How Montana's TikTokers Are Fighting Back Against the State's Ban
TikTokers in Montana are going to war against a new law banning the app across the state. They’re banding together and joining lawsuits against the state, accusing their elected officials of suppressing their speech and upending their livelihoods.

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So many of us love the Fast & Furious franchise precisely because it is equal parts earnest and absolutely batshit. I’ve collected some tabletop role playing games (and one board game!) that are perfect for playing out life on the fringes of society, with nothing but a car and your family to hold you together.
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How Do You Make New Little Mermaid Songs? | io9 Interview
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Judge Rejects NIMBY Bid to Shut Down Offshore Wind in New England
Renewable energy scored a big win this week in Massachusetts. A federal judge in the state’s district court rejected a lawsuit brought by an alleged group of Nantucket residents, which sought to stop the first major U.S. offshore wind project from moving forward.

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10 Unhinged Lore Details Star Wars Dropped to Make Galactic Starcruiser Happen
Disney is calling time on Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, the absurdly expensive, lavishly immersive hotel experience meant to put you in the galaxy far, far away for fun, pleasure, and potentially ratting out Chewbacca. But Galactic Starcruiser went beyond Disney World—in Star Wars’ era of “everything’s canon” storyt…
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The World's Lakes Are Shrinking
The world’s largest lakes are rapidly shrinking, endangering a critical freshwater source for people around the world. In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers looked at satellite imagery to see that more than half of the world’s largest reservoirs and lakes have lost water.

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Scientists Built a Giant Human Scent Buffet to Learn How Mosquitoes Find Us
Researchers created a giant sniffing arena for mosquitoes, all in hopes of understanding why they’re so drawn to us. Among other things, they found that human body odor was more alluring to the insects than the mere presence of carbon dioxide, a chemical that we exhale.
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Huge Shipment of Explosive Chemicals Disappears In Mojave Desert, Investigation Underway
California officials are investigating the disappearance of 30 tons (61,000 pounds) of ammonium nitrate from a railcar crossing the Midwest. Ammonium nitrate, which is used as fertilizer, can also be used to create explosives and was a key component in the homemade bomb used in the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal…
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Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself
In the fall of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and hundreds of Western journalists obtained access to a collection of internal Facebook documents. The trove of research reports, proposals, presentations, and employee conversations would form the foundation for dozens of news stories describing Facebook’s own…
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Tears of the Kingdom's Zelda Performer on Becoming a Video-Game Icon
The release of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildin 2017 brought with it several new additions to Nintendo’s long-running franchise. Not only did it mark the debut of open-world and crafting elements that most of the games industry had been using for years, it also brought in voice actors for the English cast.…
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Howard Ashman Documentary Saved by Internet, Will Stay on Disney+
After an internet uproar, Howard—the 2018 documentary chronicling the indelible legacy of lyricist Howard Ashman, the queer icon who gave The Little Mermaid a voice—will stay on Disney+. Deadline shared the update that that the title was no longer on a list of films being removed from the streamer.
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Greg Abbott Signs Law Making EV Owners Pay for Their Gas-Free Cars
Driving an electric vehicle in Texas is soon to become more expensive. Governor Greg Abbott signed a law (SB 505) on May 13 instituting new fees for registering and owning EVs in the state. Under the bill, electric car owners will have to pay $400 upon registering their vehicle. Then, every subsequent year, EV…
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Look Out Bluesky, Instagram’s Twitter Clone Could Launch in June
Instagram is bringing more competition to Twitter with its new text app that may become available as soon as the end of June. Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has been quietly testing the app with celebrities and influencers for several months.
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Huesera: The Bone Woman Cracks Open the Horrors of Motherhood
When we first meet Valeria (Natalia Solián), we see her as a young wife literally praying to become a mother. But her joy in discovering she’ll be having a child with husband Raúl (Alfonso Dosal) is curiously guarded—and supernatural forces soon begin to hasten the splintering of her domestic facade.
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What Independence Day 2 With Will Smith Was Supposed to Be About
When Independence Day was released in 1996, it was a spectacle on a whole new level for the sci-fi genre. A blockbuster to measure other blockbusters against. But despite its huge success, it took 20 years for a sequel to come out. And when it did, it was terrible.
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NASA Picks Blue Origin to Build Second Moon Lander for Artemis Missions
Jeff Bezos’s dream has finally come true, as his aerospace company Blue Origin has been chosen by NASA to build a human landing system for Artemis 5 and subsequent missions to the lunar surface.
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Google Clarifies That It Will Not Delete Old Accounts with YouTube Videos
Earlier this week, Google announced it would purge all YouTube accounts that have gone two years without a login. However, after some well-deserved pushback from the Internet, the company has sneakily updated its blog post to reveal that it will only be deleting empty accounts, not accounts with videos.

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Twitter Sends Microsoft Mean Letter Because Elon Is Mad
Twitter accused Microsoft of inappropriately harvesting the social media company’s data to build apps, according to a Friday report in the New York Times. The news comes exactly one month after Microsoft dropped Twitter from its advertising platform, which prompted an angry Tweet from world’s saltiest billionaire Elon…
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Lawsuit Claims Apple Users Are Charged More for Delivery on DoorDash
If you’ve spent more time comparing your DoorDash bill on your iPhone to your friend’s Android device than actually eating your delivery food, you might be on to something—at least according to a recent lawsuit. According to an amended complaint filed May 5 in Maryland federal court, Apple users get the raw end of the…
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The Weirdest Thing Taylor Lautner Was Asked to Sign | io9 Interview
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Let's Talk About the Fast X End Credits Scene
The Fast and Furious franchise isn’t known for sneaking surprises into the credits of its movies, but when it does, they pack a punch. The best example is in Fast Five when an after-credits scene revealed that Michelle Rodriguez’s character Letty had, somehow, returned from the grave. And now, it happens again with Fast X
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Watch Godzilla, Evangelion, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider Become the Ultimate Giant Robot
One of the more delightful things—aside from the movies themselves—to come out of Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno’s “Shin” tokusatsu movies is the Shin Japan Heroes project, a merch collab that mashes up Evangelion, Ultraman, Godzilla, and Kamen Rider. Now, it’s gotten even weirder, and more delightful.

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World leaders are addressing their concerns about AI at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima on Friday, suggesting that “guardrails” should be put in place to monitor the evolving technology. The summit, which will tackle other issues including the Ukraine War, China relations, and clean energy, is bringing the AI discussion to…
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OpenAI Founder's Worldcoin Reportedly Perpetuates Black Market for Iris Data
Crypto has broken new ground yet again, not in the exchange of digital currencies meant to upset the global economic paradigm, but by facilitating the black market trade of people’s biometric data. Specifically, fraudsters desperate to glom onto a crypto project headed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are reportedly buying…
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AI Chatbots Won't Save Hollywood From the Writers' Strike
One of the less-than-gracious responses to the ongoing WGA strike is that writers could simply be replaced by scripts created by artificial intelligence (AI). There are many problems with this idea, one of which is the obvious: could a program like ChatGPT actually generate a decent sci-fi fantasy script?
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Apple Warns Employees to Stay Away From ChatGPT While It Builds Its Own AI
Apple has warned employees to steer clear of OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT as the company worries that the AI could leak confidential company information while its engineers are rushing to develop an in-house large language model.

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Triangle-Wheeled Bike Gives New Meaning to 'Tricycle'
The basic design for pedal-powered bicycles hasn’t changed much in over 150 years. We’ve improved their performance and the materials they’re made from, but a frame with two round wheels is a recipe that’s worked for decades. Some disagree, however, and continue to try to reinvent the wheel: literally.

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Secret Invasion Reveals a Tense New Teaser Trailer
I know we’re all hyped up for the summer blockbusters, but seeing Winona Ryder in the iconic triangle cut bangs that made her Beetlejuice character a goth ideal for young girls everywhere fills me with a lot of joy. Peek in for more nerdy news, including a surprise announcement about the revival of The Librarians via…
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You Can Finally Pre-Order Analogue’s Super-Powered TurboGrafx-16 Clone
Although the Game Boy-inspired Analogue Pocket is probably the company’s most recognizable creation, Analogue has been creating updated versions of classic consoles for years, including the NES, SNES, and the Sega Genesis. Its next console, the Analogue Duo, perfectly resurrects NEC’s TurboGrafx-16, and while it was …
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7 'Extinct’ Species That Eventually Reappeared
Sometimes, we give up on a species too soon. Just because it’s been a few decades or even centuries since a creature showed its face, doesn’t always mean it’s truly extinct. These so-called Lazarus species—named for a man resurrected by Jesus in the Gospel of John—often evade our notice because of their small size or…
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New York City Schools Lift Ban on ChatGPT, Say Initial Fear 'Overlooked the Potential’ of AI
After making a big statement about how ChatGPT could negatively impact student learning, New York City public schools are taking a step back and stating the AI chatbot isn’t so bad.
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Who Invented Kissing? Ancient Mesopotamian Texts May Be Oldest Record of Smooches
Couples in Mesopotamia could have been the first ones smooching as we know it. New research analyzing written records from the area reveals that people in the Cradle of Civilization could have participated in the oldest recorded acts of kissing.

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Image Comics’ description of Tenement—“Dario Argento’s Inferno meets Rosemary’s Baby in a claustrophobic tale of terror”—should be enough to hook horror fans, even before they hear the bona fides behind this upcoming release: it’s the latest from Eisner-winning team Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls,…
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Celebrate AAPI Month With Games Created by Global Designers
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the U.S., and in honor of the incredible work done by Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander designers, I pulled together a list of games for you to check out. These games are created by designers who live across the globe and are not limited by…
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Private Space Venture Now Targeting 2026 for Unprecedented Mars Landing
A commercial landing on Mars will have to wait a little longer as two private space companies updated their plan to touchdown on the Red Planet, delaying it by two years for reasons not made explicitly clear.
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Batman's Modern Look From The Flash Comes to Life
“You wanna get nuts? Let’s get nuts.” Now, is that a quote from Tim Burton’s 1989 film Batman? Is it a quote from this summer’s The Flash? Or is it you, when you drop $300 on a Batman toy? The answer, in fact, is “All of the above.”
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Killer Whales Attacked a Sailing Boat Near Spain and Researchers Are Mystified
Orcas are attacking and capsizing boats off the coast of Spain in what researchers are saying may be learned behavior. The local maritime rescue service said on Thursday that several killer whales had damaged a sailing boat, adding to dozens of reported orca attacks off the coasts of Spain and Portugal this year.
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The Nothing Phone (2) Has a Bigger Battery and a July Release Window
Nothing is a brand that relies heavily on the word of mouth hype train. It worked very well for the company’s Phone (1), a mid-range Android device that wasn’t officially available in the U.S., but did have cool exterior LEDs. Now, Nothing CEO Carl Pei has come out and offered a small glimpse of when we could expect…
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90% of Species in an Area Slated for Deep-Sea Mining Might Be Unknown to Science
Deep beneath the sparkling surface of the Pacific Ocean, in the vast expanse between Mexico and Hawaii, lies an area known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). At the floor of this marine region, between 12,000 and 18,000 feet below sea level, is a wide and mucky abyssal plain dotted by seamounts, that covers about…
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The Best Retro Game Consoles, Handhelds, Controllers, and More
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Many modern video games offer narrative experiences that rival Hollywood blockbusters, but today’s games can also demand a lot of time and attention to play through. Sometimes you just want to dive right into the action, and the 8-bit and 16-bit retro games of yesteryear are perfect for that. Especially with all the…
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The Best Tablets, E-Readers, and E-Notes of 2023
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Tablets continue gaining ground in the market, even as laptop computers slim down enough to fit in paper envelopes. They’re useful as both highly portable productivity tools and as entertainment devices—whether you’re a gamer, binge watcher, or an avid reader. Sometimes, you just don’t need a whole keyboard attached…
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
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The smartphone audience is so wide that it’s difficult to settle on just one best phone of 2023. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there are the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best…
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Watch Live as ULA Attempts First Engine Static Fire Test of Vulcan Centaur Rocket [Updated]
After recovering from an explosion at the launch facility last month, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is getting ready to fire up its heavy-lift rocket for a flight readiness test before it can fly for the first time.
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From Disney+ to Max, Here Are the Best Streaming Services
There was a time when you could hop onto Netflix and feel like you had pretty much any movie or show at your fingertips. Those years are long gone. Now consumers have a growing number of streaming providers all clamoring for attention, splitting up the media catalog against dozens of services and making finding the…
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Long Story Short: YouTube Stories Are Shutting Down
As YouTube continues to pour its energy into its TikTok clone YouTube Shorts, it’s leaving its Snapchat copycat in the dust. YouTube is officially shutting down its stories feature in just a few weeks.

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Mortal Kombat II Snags Netflix Star Adeline Rudolph for Fan-Favorite Kitana
Mortal Kombat II is still on track to start production this summer, and Warner Bros. has been gradually revealing new castmates for the upcoming film. The sequel to the 2021 reboot flick appears to have more fan-favorite characters from the games this time around, with Karl Urban and Tati Gabrielle on hand to play…
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Back From the Dead? Sydney, Microsoft's Psychotic Chatbot, Could Return
Earlier this year, Microsoft unleashed an AI chatbot. The company named the AI Bing, after its search engine, but buried deep in its architecture was a robot with a whole other personality: an early version of the AI that called itself Sydney. In the first days of Bing’s release, Sydney reared its unhinged digital…
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MoviePass Is Back, and Now It's Nationwide
MoviePass announced it’s ready for the limelight, again. The resurrected company that was most-known for its epic-scale blowout and collapse just a few years ago is once again back and ready to cause trouble with a subscription service promising cheaper movies, though this time it’s promising to act far more tame than…
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Washington Delays Requirements for Heat Pumps in New Buildings
Washington state building code officials voted Wednesday to delay the first statewide mandate for electric heat pumps in new buildings, dealing a significant blow to restrictions on natural gas.
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Shaq Served Court Papers In FTX Lawsuit During NBA Playoff Game
Shaquille O’Neal was served court papers in the class-action FTX case during his live coverage of the Miami Heat versus the Boston Celtics game on Tuesday. Process servers reportedly tried to track down O’Neal for four months, going as far as following him to his homes in Georgia, Texas, and Florida.
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Is the New Transformers Movie Actually Good?
After years of being brutalized by godawful Transformers movies, audiences are seemingly not yet ready for the idea of a good one. That much was evident back in 2018 when Paramount released Bumblebee, a lean, mean, heartfelt version of a Transformers movie that exceeded critical expectations, but underwhelmed at the…
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Virgin Galactic Reaches 'Space' for the First Time in 2 Years
Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane pulled off its first suborbital flight in nearly two years, potentially paving the way for the company to resume commercial trips to the edge of space.
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Co-founder of Twitter and head of Block Jack Dorsey doesn’t have a great track record promoting people into positions of power recently. His good friend Elon Musk has taken his blue bird app down a rabbit hole where it might never escape. Now, the former Twitter exec is actively promoting major anti-vaxxer, …
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An AI Chatbot Is Coming to TikTok for Some Reason
AI feels like it’s taking over the world, and now it’s coming to one of the most popular social media platforms. TikTok is reportedly adding an AI chatbot to its app.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark Is Perfect In Its Simplicity
A man is hired to find a thing. That’s basically the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark, a film that’s widely considered to be one of the best action-adventure films of all time, not to mention one of director Steven Spielberg’s best movies. It’s also the kick-off to a franchise called Indiana Jones with actor Harrison…
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A Massive Gravitational Wave Observatory Is Returning to Action
After a prolonged absence from the gravitational-wave-detection scene, the massive LIGO project is back up and running.
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The First Reactions to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Are Thwippin' Fantastic
After what feels like an eternity (ok, it’s been five years—but a lot has happened since 2018!), the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is nearly here—and the first reactions to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse make it sound like the wait was well worth it.

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The Supreme Court Just Gutted the Clean Water Act
The Supreme Court has ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency in a decision that significantly narrows the Clean Water Act’s protections. The majority, 5-4 opinion was authored by Justice Samuel Alito and supported by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney…
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You Can Buy a Tetris-Playing Chicken McNugget at McDonald's in China
The toys that McDonald’s serves up with its Happy Meals are often the best reason to visit the fast food joint, but instead of targeting kids, McDonald’s in China is going after nuggs fans with a penchant for retro gaming. On sale now at locations across the country is a super-sized, Tetris-playing Chicken McNugget…
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Ketamine Might Be on Par With the Gold Standard for Treatment-Resistant Depression, Study Finds
New research this week is the latest to find that ketamine can help people with difficult-to-treat depression. The study has found that people with treatment-resistant depression responded as well to ketamine therapy as those who were given electroconvulsive therapy, a commonly used intervention for these cases.
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Trump Trolls DeSantis and Musk With a Hitler Deepfake
Former President Donald Trump released a clip of a fake Twitter spaces event Wednesday where he used what appeared to be the deepfaked voices of Elon Musk, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, a coughing Dick Cheney, Satan, and, yes, Adolf Hitler, to mock Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The bizarre two-minute clip, which was…
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Simple Kit Turns Your Original N64 Controller Into a Bluetooth Gamepad
The Nintendo 64 was the first to introduce console gamers to analog control sticks, but over 25 years after its debut, many of those original controllers aren’t doing so well (we blame Mario Party). With 8BitDo’s new N64 Mod Kit, you can now give them a welcome and very easy upgrade, including a hall effect joystick…
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The New Barbie Trailer Gets Even Weirder Than You Were Expecting
Have you been wondering what the heck the Barbie movie is about? Sure, we all love the trailers and images but what’s the actual story? Well, in a brand new trailer, we find out... and it has to do with Barbie’s feet. At least, it starts there.
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House of the Dragon's Paddy Considine Gets Personal About King Viserys
In season one of HBO’s Game of Thronesprequel House of the Dragon, Paddy Considine played King Viserys, the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms—a character whose physical decline became more horrific as the series progressed. The actor has revealed he drew on deeply personal experiences to portray Viserys’ agonizing journey.
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Georgia GOP Chair Pushes Flat-Earth Conspiracy, Says Globes Brainwash Us
Kandiss Taylor, a GOP district chair in Georgia, claimed the Earth is flat on her podcast, Jesus, Guns, & Babies, alongside fellow flat-Earther David ‘Flat Earth Dave’ Weiss and Matt Long. She becomes the latest GOP member to jump on the flat Earth bandwagon, tacking this ideology onto her previous conspiracy theory…
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World's First 110-Inch, 16K TV Has Over 132 Million Pixels
Streaming services and TV makers are still slowly inching towards an 8K future, but China’s BOE thinks consumers deserve better than having to subject their eyes to screens with a mere 33 million pixels. The company recently debuted a 16K TV featuring over 132 million pixels, each too small for the human eye to…
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Jim Butcher's Cinder Spires Fantasy Series Returns With The Olympian Affair
Best-selling author Jim Butcher’s most famous series is the Dresden Files, but here’s a treat for fans beyond that ongoing contemporary fantasy: The Olympian Affair, the second entry in his Cinder Spires steampunk series, is arriving in November—eight years after it began with The Aeronaut’s Windlass.

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Girl by Moonlight Is a Magical Girl Role-Playing Game About Hopeful Transformation
When Girl by Moonlight landed in my inbox, I knew it was something special. A tabletop role-playing game using the Blades in the Dark system based on the Magical Girl genre in the year of Barbie2023? I was so ready. The game takes inspiration from classic shojo manga and shows like Sailor Moon, Revolutionary Girl…
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Company Behind Billions of Robocalls Is Being Sued by Nearly Every State
Robocalls are a nuisance to everyone with a cell phone, and the national Do Not Call Registry is apparently no help. Justice may be served, however, as 49 attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against a company they accuse of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls to people on the Do Not Call Registry.
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Peep Another Sneak Peek at Blue Beetle in Full Anime-Inspired Action
We’re heading into blockbuster season. The writers’ strike for a fair deal reaches the tail end of its first month. The PlayStation reveal gave us some juicy details yesterday. This morning, we’ve got new casting, a few productions underway, and a couple episode trailers. Spoilers, strap in! It’s going to be a bumpy…
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Laser Experiment Could Expose Particles Responsible for Dark Matter
Long tubes, strong magnets, and bright lasers. Is that all it takes to entice the shyest particles in the universe to reveal themselves?
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Bert Kreischer’s Secret Twitter Handle Was Ridiculous | Gizmodo Quiz
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It turns out Apple’s next big iOS update may turn the phone into something of a competitor for Google’s Pixel Tablet. The next iOS update, which is expected to debut at WWDC in June, could transform the iPhone lock screen, letting it act more like a smart home display to show users the weather, notifications, calendar…
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Elon Musk Turns Ron DeSantis’ Presidential Run Announcement Into a Twitter ‘DeSaster’
Twitter owner Elon Musk’s quest to turn his platform into a media powerhouse failed miserably on Wednesday after a planned talk with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Twitter Spaces to announce his presidential run was overcome by embarrassing technical glitches.
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ChatGPT Is Working Again After Global Outage
ChatGPT is back up and running after a major outage Thursday morning. The large language model-powered chatbot is usually accessed through OpenAI’s website, but starting before 7:23 A.M. ET and up until 8:27 A.M. ET that site was down. Prior to the total outage, related increased reports of problems seem to have…
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15 Memes That Trolled Russia Too Hard
The news from the war in Ukraine tends to focus on physical battles, but there’s another front in the conflict that gets less attention: the tubes of the internet. Russia’s overall strategy involves a vast disinformation campaign, but over the last year, an army of shitposters has started fighting back. It’s a loosely…
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Sony Is Returning to Portable Gaming With a Streaming Handheld That's Just a PS5 Controller With a Screen
E3 may dead, but that doesn’t mean that summer game announcements have joined it. During Sony’s PlayStation Showcase livestream earlier today, the company confirmed rumors that it was working on a new handheld, but instead of being a follow-up to 2011's PlayStation Vita, the device will be more in line with devices…
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Watch Kevin Feige and Jon Favreau Discuss the Legacy of Iron Man
Fifteen years ago this month, movie history was changed forever. And we don’t say that lightly. On May 2, 2008, when Marvel Studios released Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr., not only was a brand new mega-franchise born, a new era of cinematic storytelling came with it: the shared universe.
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Virgin Galactic Is One Test Flight Away From Resuming Its Space Tourism Venture
Following a two-year hiatus, billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism venture is getting ready to offer suborbital flights for space tourists in late June, pending one last test flight on Thursday.
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See Mexico's Popocatépetl Volcano Erupt and Spew Ash
After a week of rumbling eruptions, Popocatépetl volcano is finally slowing down. The central Mexican volcano has been showing signs of activity, releasing smoke and a lot more since May 15. But the eruptions are finally stopping, and the volcano is emitting less ash this week, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador…
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Deborah Chow, the director of the Disney+ show, Obi-Wan Kenobi, went on the Crew Call podcast to chat about the challenges that came alongside working on the limited series. She had just finished Mandalorian and Kenobi had gone through “numerous iterations” and passed through multiple hands before landing in her lap.
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Wake Up Besties, the Barbie and Ken Mugshot Meme Is Everywhere
After an eagle-eyed Twitter user (@kojironanjo) realized that the Barbie trailer was ripe for meme-ification, Twitter fandom did what fandom does best, and immediately took the joke to the extreme. Reaching all corners of the world, fandoms immediately drew their favorite pairings using the Barbie mugshot screenshots…
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Relentless Melt is H.P. Lovecraft Meets Agatha Christie
Giving us gothic vibes in early 1900s Boston, Relentless Melt follows Artie Quick, a crossdressing young woman who disguises herself as a man in order to further her education, and her friend Theodore, an up-and-coming high society magician, as they investigate claims of abductions on the Boston Common. As Artie works…
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‘Are We Waiting for S**t to Hit The Fan?’: Former Google Safety Lead Warns of AI Chatbots Writing News
In a few short months, the idea of convincing news articles written entirely by computers have evolved from perceived absurdity into a reality that’s already confusing some readers. Now, writers, editors, and policymakers are scrambling to develop standards to maintain trust in a world where AI-generated text will…
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Outsmart a Mouse?
I adore Rube Goldberg machines as much as the next puzzle-fanatic, but I never had the pleasure of playing the Goldberg-inspired board game Mouse Trap. As I understand it, the gameplay didn’t matter much. The joy was in building a contraption that, with the crank of a gear, set off a chain reaction in which a marble…
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Blade Runner Show Possibly Delayed a Full Year as Companies Refuse to Pay Writers
You can now add the upcoming Blade Runner 2099 TV show to the list of shows impacted by the Writers Strike.

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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross May Be Doing TMNT: Mutant Mayhem's Music
Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles: Mutant Mayhemis set to hit theaters in a few months, and everything about it revealed so far looks and sounds like a good time. The movie has a lot of talent behind it: beyond Seth Rogen serving as an executive producer and voicing classic villain Bebop, the cast is…
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HBO Exec Talks Writers Strike, Game of Thrones' TV Future
After Game of Thrones wrapped in 2019, it wasn’t really a question about if HBO was considering the fantasy series for spinoff potential. Out of the many candidates there were at the time, the first salvo of this enterprise was last year’s House of the Dragon, but it won’t be the last. Ahead and after that show’s…
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Bleach's Endgame Reaches the Halfway Point in July
Late last year, the anime adaptation of Bleachreturned after being off the air for over a decade. With the new subtitle of Thousand-Year Blood War, the series aimed to adapt the final arc of Tite Kubo’s beloved supernatural manga, and many would say that it was more than worth the wait. After taking the first half of…
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What Is an AI 'Black Box'?
For some people, the term “black box” brings to mind the recording devices in airplanes that are valuable for postmortem analyses if the unthinkable happens. For others it evokes small, minimally outfitted theaters. But black box is also an important term in the world of artificial intelligence.

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Netflix Quietly Gives The Witcher (and Liam Hemsworth) Another Season
The last several months have been tumultuous for Netflix’s The Witcher. After its third season hits next month, Henry Cavill’s time as Geralt of Rivia will come to a close as Hunger Games’ Liam Hemsworth steps into the role for the foreseeable future. But even with the actor change, Netflix still wants the show to…
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AI Is Changing How Americans Find Jobs and Get Promoted
Advancements in human capital management systems, more strategic and data-driven human resource and talent management practices, and increased attention to bias are all factors that are changing how people are hired, developed, promoted and fired.

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Is Generative AI Bad for the Environment?
Generative AI is the hot new technology behind chatbots and image generators. But how hot is it making the planet?

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Alan Wake II's Co-Lead Gave the Sequel Its Horror Edge, Says Remedy
Earlier in the week, Sony’s PlayStation showcase featured a variety of video games that are meant to release in the coming months (if not years). Among the big triple-A games featured was Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake II, which aims to go all in on survival horror in a deeper way than the original 2010 game. And…
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The Flash Almost Adapted Blackest Night with Titans and Stargirl
The CW’s version of The Flash hung up its boots earlier this week after a nine-season run. During its time on the air, the show—and the Arrowverse at large—tackled several comic book storylines like Crisis on Infinite Earthsand Worlds Finest. And naturally, the creative talent behind the show had other big stories…
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Jan. 6th Convict Wants $370M From Parler for Banning Him
Troy Smocks was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison and banned from the now-dormant social network Parler after he made violent threats on the app in the wake of the January 6th riots. Now Smocks is suing Parler for $370 million, accusing the company of violating a controversial Texas law which bars social media…
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12 Companies Racing to Create AI Deepfake Detectors
When an AI-generated image of an explosion occurring outside the Pentagon proliferated on social media earlier this week, it provided a brief preview of a digital information disaster AI researchers have warned against for years. The image was clearly fabricated, but that didn’t stop several prominent accounts like…
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Here's the Full List of TV Shows Removed from Disney+ & Hulu
Earlier in the month, Disney revealed that it would be pulling a Warner Bros. Discovery and removing various media from its many streaming services like Disney+ and Hulu. Though the 2018 documentary on The Little Mermaid animator Howard Ashman was saved from deletion, those other shows and movies—at least 105 titles…
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Lionsgate Confirms It's Got John Wick 5 in the Chamber
John Wick: Chapter 4released in theaters a few months ago and only recently hit streaming for those who wanted to see it in their own home. Though the movie gives a fairly conclusive end to the story of Keanu Reeves’ unflappable and enduring assassin, it appears that final chapter wasn’t quite so final as you’d think.

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Program Spits out Cracked Windows XP Keys, if You’re Real Keen to Return to 2001
Imagine it’s 2001. You turn on your old Dell shoebox computer and boot up your newly-installed Windows XP copy to hear that choppy “bummm” sound and see the classic rolling hills of the stock desktop wallpaper. Well, if you’re really interested in returning to the ancient operating system more than 20 years after its…
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The RG Nano Is a Game Boy Clone the Size of a Pack of Gum
As companies like Asus, Logitech, and Sony continue to push the limits of handheld gaming devices (seriously, Sony, an eight-inch screen?), companies like Anbernic are making them smaller and smaller. Its latest, the RG Nano, looks to be smaller than a pack of playing cards, but still capable of playing thousands of…
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Updated 5/26/2023, 7:17 P.M. ET: The Writers Guild of America-West posted a tweet endorsing President Obama’s statements in support of the union and strike effort on Friday afternoon, following initial publication of this article.
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The Writers' Strike's Star Trek Picket Showed Solidarity Across Generations
Last Friday, May 19, a group of WGA writers were able to pull off an incredible act of solidarity across generations. In front of Paramount offices, a Star Trek-themed picket convened, spread by word of mouth and utilizing invitation only channels. Over the course of the four-hour picket block, actors, crewmembers,…
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Space Marine's Hero Is Going From Tabletop to Video Game to Tabletop
Lieutenant Titus has had a long strange journey, even for a massive, alien-stomping genetically enhanced religious zealot. He’s gone from being the star of the surprisingly-solid Space Marine video game over a decade a go, to emerging from obscurity and across the rubicon Primaris for its surprise upcoming sequel. And…
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Mark Hamill Is Fine With Star Wars Recasting Luke Skywalker
Even dead, Luke Skywalker keeps finding his way back into Star Wars. It happened first in 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when the deceased Jedi Master returned as a Force Ghost. In 2020, it happened again, this time as a younger, de-aged, CGI version on The Mandalorian. Finally, in 2022, Skywalker returned a…
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DeSantis Signs Bill to Protect SpaceX, Blue Origin from Potential Lawsuits Over Crew Safety
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that essentially provides legal protection to private space companies in the event of injury or fatality to a crew member during their flights.
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Is a Free Lighthouse the Answer to All Your Problems?
Calling all aspiring old crones and stoic Willem Dafoe lookalikes: Now is your chance to become keeper of the lighthouse. ‘What lighthouse?,’ you might ask. Why, any of the 10 lighthouses that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is granting to the public and other entities in 2023.

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OpenAI's Sam Altman Promises His Company Won't Leave the EU, Actually
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose company has become one of the most lucrative ventures for the rollout of artificial intelligence, has also worked to become one of the new figureheads for AI regulation. It’s a hard line to walk, and while he managed to make a number of U.S. congresspeople smile and nod along, he hasn’t…
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Everything to Remember Before Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
One week. That’s all that’s left before audiences can jump back into the Spider-Verse and go across it. It’s been five years but on June 2, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse finally opens, and audiences will get to see the return of Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker, and dozens of other Spider-people in the…
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California’s Impressive Winter Snowpack Means Dangerous Rushing Rivers This Summer
A series of consecutive snowstorms dropped a lot of snow all over California’s mountains this winter. And now all of that snow is finally melting and filling up the state’s rivers. It’s making them larger, faster, colder, and extremely dangerous to swim in.

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Critical Role's First Non-D&D Campaign Makes the Production the Point
Last night was the premiere of Critical Role’s first episode of Candela Obscura–their latest Actual Play (AP) campaign. “The Cold Embrace” was led by Matt Mercer, Critical Role’s reliable (and exceptional) Game Master. The actors include Ashley Johnson as Auggie James, Anjali Bhimani as Charlotte Eaves, Laura Bailey…
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NASA's Mega Moon Rocket Is $6 Billion Over Budget, Claims Scathing New Report
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket cost the space agency $6 billion more than its original budget and is six years behind schedule, a shocking report recently revealed. The massive rocket is designed to return humans to the Moon, but could end up jeopardizing the space agency’s lunar program as funds run low.
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Twitter’s Former PR Firm Is Giving Twitter Some Bad PR
Twitter’s former public relations firm filed a lawsuit against the company on Friday, accusing it of unpaid bills since Elon Musk took over the company in October of last year. The PR firm and Twitter severed ties on November 16, three weeks after Musk acquired the company, but the firm says Twitter still owes…
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Watch Out for Travel Delays on These 10 Airlines
Heading into Memorial Day weekend, preparedness for travel is essential, with the Transportation Security Administration telling ABC7 it expects to screen 10 million travelers between Friday and Monday.
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Take a Delightful Hell Ride With Animated Short Mr. Pete & the Iron Horse
It’s a simple tale: a lowly underling does more and more to please his demanding boss, until everyone and everything cracks under the pressure. But animated short Mr. Pete & the Iron Horse elevates its story with near-perfect execution, pairing vibrant, kinetic artwork with a tone that pinballs between elation and…
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Creating Melissa McCarthy’s Performance of an Iconic Disney Villain | io9 Interview
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This 65-Inch OLED Screen Folds Away Into a Coffee Table, but That's Not Why It Matters
There are two things that make this prototype 65-inch OLED TV from TLC stand out. It can fold away into a coffee table where half the screen remains visible under glass, but that’s questionably useful. What’s more interesting is that this is the first 8K, 65-inch TV to be manufactured using inkjet printing techniques…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home and Avengers: Endgame's Final Battles Get Epic New Lego Sets
When you think of epic Marvel movie set pieces, it’s hard to top Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: No Way Home. The former brought almost every character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe together in a last-ditch attempt to defeat Thanos, and the latter saw three Spider-Men from different dimensions clash with four…
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Habitable Worlds May Lurk in the Sooty In-Betweens of Star Systems
A team of astronomers has proposed peering into the inconspicuous region between host stars and their soot lines to find habitable worlds beyond our solar system.
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40 Great Things About Return of the Jedi
Forty years ago this week, Star Wars ended. Well, it ended for a bit—as theatergoers sat down for the climactic battle in Return of the Jedi. Star Wars might have continued beyond it for many of those 40 years, but still, here’s 40 little things we love about the swansong of the original trilogy (in no particular…
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Don't Chug Poppers, FDA Warns
The Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stay away from recreational nitrate products, commonly known as poppers. The drugs are intended to be inhaled, but according to the FDA, people are getting seriously hurt or even dying from ingesting poppers that look like energy-shot products.
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Why Japan’s Private Lunar Lander Crashed on Moon
Japanese company ispace finally knows what caused its beloved lunar lander to crash on the surface of the Moon. The unlikely culprit behind the lander’s free-fall appears to have been a large cliff, which caused Hakuto-R to miscalculate its distance to the surface.
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Father’s Day is June 18! Time to start searching for the totally-not-last-minute perfect pop culture gift for the space daddy in your life.
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Why Forecasters Are Predicting a 'Near-Normal' Atlantic Hurricane Season This Year
The Atlantic hurricane season is just over the horizon, and we can expect a near-normal year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this Thursday.
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The Key to Picard Season 3 Was Bringing Back Talent Behind the Camera
Terry Matalas and Dave Blass didn’t just want an on-screen reunion of the Star Trek: The Next Generation on their new Picard show—they wanted the behind the scenes crew back as well. In a new interview with IndieWire, Matalas and Blass describe how they got set builders, concept designers, and “about a dozen” other…
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All the Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Projects Impacted by the Writers Strike (So Far)
After the American Motion Picture and Television Producers union failed to offer acceptable counters and terms to the Writers Guild of America, the WGA called a strike on May 2. Struck companies include Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and Apple, and will likely affect dozens of productions across the next few months.

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Uber Bullies Minnesota Governor Into Vetoing Driver Minimum Pay Law
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has vetoed a bill that would’ve set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers in the state. His decision—the first veto of his gubernatorial tenure—came after Uber threatened to cease operations across most of Minnesota, if the legislation became law.

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NASA Safety Panel Questions Boeing Starliner’s Readiness for Crewed Demo
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel dropped a bombshell yesterday by urging the space agency to set up an independent review of Boeing’s Starliner program—a mere 57 days before NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are scheduled to ride aboard the spacecraft on a vital demonstration mission to…
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Updates From Transformers, Riverdale, Project Hail Mary, and More
I cannot believe that Morning Spoilers is how I find out that Dylan O’Brien is coming back to the big screen, but here I am, a fool for this silly actor who I think is neat (He’s going to be in Caddo Lake, FYI). Also, I want to point out that Silo, legitimately one of the best sci fi shows airing right now, has been…
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Asiana Airlines Passenger Arrested for Opening Plane Door Mid-Flight
A South Korean passenger on an Asiana Airlines flight A321 was arrested on Friday after opening the emergency exit while the aircraft was landing. The airplane took off from Jeju Island and was landing in Daegu, South Korea when the passenger, who has not yet been publicly identified, opened the door while the plane…
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Watch Ukraine's 'Kamikaze Drones' Slam Into Trucks, Tanks, Other Drones
Ukraine’s information war against Russia during its current counter offensive now includes dramatized video of dive bombing drones.
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The sheer amount of Spidey variants should tell you enough about how stacked the new Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse merch collections are.

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RWBY x Justice League's Meghan Fitzmartin on the Fun of Multiverses
DC Comics heroes are no stranger to big crossovers that often see them hopping into other timelines or even other universes. Over the decades, marquee characters like Batman and Wonder Woman have wound up crossing paths with the likes of the Avengers, Ninja Turtles, and Epic Games’ Fortnite. The most recent of the…
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Arizona Drought Pushes Phoenix to Hit Pause on Construction Projects
Arizona officials may not be able to approve new construction in some of the fastest-growing parts of the Phoenix metropolitan area that rely on groundwater in response to dwindling supply. the Associated Press reported.

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Activision Blizzard Fires World of Warcraft Game Designer for Making Fun of Corporate Greed
Activision Blizzard leaders didn’t appreciate jokes that poked fun at greedy corporate execs via a conniving, scampering, and loot-obsessed character in World of Warcraft, so much so they fired the game designer who wrote the little goblin’s voice lines.

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10 Killer Robert Englund Horror Roles Beyond Nightmare on Elm Street
With Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Storyout this week, there’s no better time to celebrate the horror icon by revisiting some of his best performances. While fans will immediately think of a certain razor-fingered dream stalker, as the documentary reminds us, there’s quite a bit more to Englund’s…
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Private Ax-2 Astronauts Reflect on Seeing Earth From Space for the First Time
Following their brief stint on board the International Space Station (ISS), Axiom Space’s Mission 2 (Ax-2) crew is back on Earth with an altered view of the planet that we call home.
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The Flash Filmmakers Talk the Long, Controversial Road to Release
The year is 2014. Warner Bros. makes a superhero-sized splash and announces not just that Justice League, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman movies are coming, but that a Flash movie is coming and the Flash will be played by Ezra Miller.
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Scientists Successfully Transmit Space-Based Solar Power to Earth for the First Time
The California Institute of Technology has big news for space-based power. Researchers at the university have reportedly beamed solar power from space to Earth without a single wire—and they say it’s a first.
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Webb Takes Portrait of Star-Studded Barred Galaxy
The Webb Space Telescope is on a tear, imaging regions of star formation across the cosmos. Its latest target? The barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068—a bedazzled conglomeration of gas and stars 17 million light-years from Earth.
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Woman Who Refused TB Treatment Finally Arrested, Faces at Least 45 Days in Jail
A Washington woman who refused to treat her tuberculosis for at least two years has finally been taken into custody, local health officials reported this week. The woman repeatedly ignored court orders to seek treatment and stay away from others, even visiting a casino earlier this year. She is now being detained in a…
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Apple Finally Retiring Original 12-Inch MacBook By End of June
Say goodbye to the original 12-inch MacBook. Ride on home now, you beautiful yet flawed darling. According to an internal memo seen by MacRumors, which regularly reports on Apple products becoming obsolete, the 12-inch MacBook will be put to rest after a storied near-eight year career on June 30.
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Jedi Survivor Players, You're Not Using the Best Lightsaber Stance
Sometimes it’s not fair to tell people they’re playing a video game wrong—in fact, it’s more often than not unfair to tell people they’re playing a video game wrong. But Star Wars fans, I beg of you, as you gallivant through the galaxy in Jedi Survivor, use something other than the single lightsaber.

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Don't Store Your Money on Venmo, U.S. Govt Agency Warns
Venmo, Cash App, and PayPal users are being warned not to store money on the apps long-term, the watchdog Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said on Thursday, following Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank’s failure when customers tried to withdraw money en masse. CFPB is worried about…
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The Boogeyman's Sophie Thatcher Reveals What Draws Her to Dark Characters | io9 Interview
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Sweeping Mosaic Map of Mars Released to Celebrate Anniversary of Orbiter Launch
Arresting views of Mars taken from high above the planet’s surface by the Mars Express orbiter have been stitched into a mosaic image of the planet’s surface.
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Ice Age North Americans Were Freshwater Fishers, New Evidence Suggests
Archaeologists working in central Alaska have found over 1,000 fish specimens that potentially indicate the early presence of subsistence farming among Ice Age North Americans.
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The Tom Holland Wink You May Have Missed in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Watching Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, there was a scene where I jumped out of my seat. Actually, if we’re being honest, there were several moments where that happened, but one in particular was so random, so unexpected, so subtly connected to the Spider-Man universe, and so in tune with my personal interests,…
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Twitter Loses Its Second Trust and Safety Head Under Elon Musk's Reign
Twitter’s head of trust and safety, former diehard Elon Musk fan Ella Irwin, publicly resigned from her position Thursday just hours after her boss publicly rebuked his own content moderation team. Irwin’s staff had taken action against a transphobic film by Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. A.J. Brown, Twitter’s head of…
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What's The Point of Expanding Album Covers with AI?
The beauty of a good album cover is that it can perfectly encapsulate the mood of a dozen or so songs in a single image or illustration—and that’s a difficult feat when you only have a square-sized canvas to work with. In order to depict the world that an album takes place in, musicians and their designated team of…
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A new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie means new TMNT merch—and thanks to the gorgeous animated stylings of Mutant Mayhem, Playmates’ accompanying toys look as slick and as stylish as their movie counterparts. As this fresh take on the turtle brothers gets ready for the spotlight, we’ve got a look at some of the…
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$165 Airplane Face Rest Promises a More Comfortable Flight
The best way to spend $165 to sleep better on a flight is to put that money towards a seat upgrade, but if you’re a frequent flier, those extra fees can quickly add up. Another solution is the TruRest, a foldaway contraption that promises to support your body in a forward leaning position, letting you supposedly sleep…
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Mutant Monsters Are Here, and Only The Rock Gods of Jackson, Tennessee Can Save Us
As disciples of the riff know, it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll—a quest made even more difficult when annoyances like high school and monsters get in the way. A new Dark Horse release, The Rock Gods of Jackson, Tennessee, brings this adventure to life, and io9 has a fun preview to share today.

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Nintendo Duck Hunt Gun Was Used to Hold Up Convenience Store for $300
A South Carolina man allegedly robbed a convenience store using a fake 1980s Nintendo gun, getting away with $300 in cash. York County deputies reported that 25-year-old David Joseph Dalesandro entered the convenience store at about 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday wearing a mask, wig, and hoodie sweatshirt when police say he…
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Sci-Fantasy Martial Arts Novel The Combat Codes Gets a JRPG-Inspired Trailer
The first book in an “action-packed science fantasy series,” The Combat Codes takes place in a world where individual fighters take to rings to fight for their nation rather than risk all-out war. Alexander Darwin crafts a lone-wolf-and-cub mentor/mentee pair with Murray and Cego as he merges politics and intensely…
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Hayao Miyazaki's New Film Is Out Next Month, And You Won't See Any of It Before That
In a streamed video interview earlier today Toshio Suzuki, the co-founder and former president of Studio Ghibli who has been a producer on nearly every Ghibli film you can think of, revealed that there would be no additional images released for the newest Ghibli film, How Do You Live? The poster, included below, will…
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Boeing Calls Off Its First Crewed Starliner Flight Due to Major Safety Issues
Just when you thought the saga of Boeing’s Starliner program couldn’t get any worse, it just did. The first crewed test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner has been delayed indefinitely due to two serious issues with the crew vehicle meant to transport NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
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J. Michael Straczynski Is Returning to Marvel For a New Captain America Run
16 years ago, J. Michael Straczynski inadvertantly gave the Marvel Comics world one of the all time great Captain America moments in the pages of his Civil War-era run on Amazing Spider-Man. Now, it’s time for him to move: in a major return to the publisher, to put the spotlight on Steve Rogers for real in a brand new…
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Xbox's First Wireless Arcade Stick Arrives Just in Time For Street Fighter 6
They say a bad carpenter always blames their tools, but you can’t build a table with a knife and spoon. A lot of times, a good tool can enhance a user’s skills. That’s definitely the case with gaming, so 8BitDo has created an updated version of its Arcade Stick with a facelift and support for recent Xbox models.
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Video Game Voice Actors Say AI Has Put Their Jobs 'On the Chopping Block'
This article is part of our new women in gaming series Makers of Now.

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Meet Mayichi, the Twitch Streamer Unafraid to Fight for Her Place in a Male-Dominated World
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How a Journalist Is Using Twitch Streams of Impossible Games to Counter Sexist Jerks
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Mark Zuckerberg Mandates Meta Employees Return to the Office Three Days a Week
Meta announced it is requiring employees to come back to the office at least three days a week starting on September 5. The company clarified that employees working in remote positions are exempt from the hybrid work requirement.

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China Is Digging a Big Frickin' Hole 33,000 Feet Into the Earth
China has seemingly set off on a journey into the center of the earth. This week the country has begun digging what will eventually become the deepest hole in China’s history to test drilling technology and further understand the Earth’s underground structure, Bloomberg reported.
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Netflix Caves After Writer’s Union Opposes Executive Pay Bumps
As the Writers Guild of America continues to strike for fair wages and against the looming threat of AI, one of the largest streaming services—Netflix—might have just heard their battle cry against executives.

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IMDb Changes Rating System After Little Mermaid Review-Bombed | Future Tech
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We Might Already Know One of James Gunn's Superman: Legacy Candidates
Get a look at Good Omens season 2's new opening titles. It’s going to be a while before The Batman 2 starts filming. Plus, even more Transformers: Rise of the Beasts posters, and the CW teases what’s next on Riverdale, Superman & Lois, and more. Spoilers, away!

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Artifact’s AI Will Rewrite Clickbaity Headlines, Though Don’t You Dare Rework Mine
Tired of search engine optimization run amok? After allowing users to flag some articles as clickbait, the Artifact news app now says it wants users to mark clickbait headlines they come across so it can rewrite the title text using AI. Hell, if enough users also report the same headline, Artifact will then display…
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Soft Pastel Joy-Cons Are Here to Make You Forget All Your Drift-Induced Rage
If you’ve been a devoted Switch player long enough, you know that its Joy-Con controllers will eventually, and sometimes repeatedly, need replacing. The next time your Joy-Cons start to exhibit joystick drift, Nintendo hopes some soft new pastel color options for the Joy-Cons will help soften your frustrations.
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Hundreds of One-Dimensional Strands Found Lurking in Our Galaxy's Core
Behold, the stringy, rainbowesque melange of one-dimensional structures hidden in plain sight across the galactic center. Or should we say plane sight? The tendrils measure 5 to 150 light-years in length, and now a team of scientists has found filaments that stretch out parallel to the galactic plane surrounding the…
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Take a look at the address bar of the best internet browsers and you’ll notice a number of icons in there. You might not have given them a whole lot of thought, but they can tell you a lot about the website that you’re on and what you can do with it—and as Google Chrome is changing one of those icons soon, it’s a good…
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How To Use Stage Manager To Keep Your Mac and iPad Screens Organized
Stage Manager is new to the latest versions of iPadOS and macOS, bringing a windowed, desktop-style experience to your iPad and (in theory) a more intuitive and convenient way of multitasking on both iPads and Macs. If you’re yet to switch from your normal way of working to the Stage Manager experience, here’s what’s…
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Please Don’t Make These 7 Nasty ChatGPT-Generated Vegan Recipes
If the artificial intelligence hypebeasts are to be believed, ChatGPT-styled large language models are on the cusp of radically altering the global workforce, gutting entire industries, and, quite possibly, eliminating life on earth as we know it. Just don’t ask it to prepare you a basic meal or a palatable cocktail.
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Publisher Drops Author After TikTok Backlash and GoodReads Review Bombing
Angry readers flooded TikTok and the GoodReads page of an author’s forthcoming book with one-star reviews after the author attacked one particular reviewer for rating the novel four out of five stars. GoodReads seems to have paused reviews of the book in response, freezing the page as it was on Wednesday. The book’s…
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Boogeyman's Director Talks Working on Bigger Budget Horror
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Gaze Into the Robot Eyes of Transformers: Rise of the Beast's Optimus Heroes
What’s better than one Optimus, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts asks? Two Optimuses. Optimii? Anyway, what’s even better than that? When one of those Optimuses/Optimiiis in fact a giant transforming mechanical gorilla.

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Celebrate Spider-Verse by Putting Gwen Stacy on Your Wall
When Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse hits theaters tonight, one thing is very clear from the very first scene. This is not simply a Miles Morales movie. It’s a Gwen Stacy movie too. The film starts with Gwen, gives her more context, backstory, and a heck of a lot of very difficult to problems to deal with along…
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In ‘Agonizing’ Episode, NASA Lost Contact With Ingenuity Helicopter for Days
The Ingenuity helicopter paved new ground (air?) in April 2019, when it communicated data of its first flight—the first powered, controlled flight on another planet—to NASA scientists on Earth.
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Elon 'The Dogefather' Musk Accused of Insider Trading
Billionaire Elon Musk’s ever-present interest in the meme crypto Dogecoin keeps nipping at his heels. On Wednesday, the folks suing the multi-company exec for $258 billion over his efforts to inflate the price of Dogecoin now say Musk had prior knowledge of Doge’s ups and downs, and even had a “fiduciary relationship”…
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Is 2 Brilliant Movies Mashed Into One
Of all the Indiana Jones movies, I’ve seen Temple of Doom the most. Between a worn-out VHS copy and watching on TV, I’ve probably seen it 100 times. I know every wink, every expression, every inflection of every line reading. I love it unconditionally and figured, watching it again in the lead-up to Indy’s fifth and …
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'Trump Bucks' Scam Swindles Thousand of Dollars From Unsuspecting Investors
The online retailer ClickBank shut down sites boosting “Trump Bucks,” which promoted a fabricated currency that would allegedly earn subscribers thousands of dollars if Donald Trump is elected in the 2024 presidential election. An investigation conducted by NBC News revealed several Colorado-based companies had…
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