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A Tesla in “self-driving” mode slammed into an unoccupied police car during the early morning hours of Thursday, according to the Fullerton Police Department. No one was injured in the crash, but bodycam footage shows a police officer sprinting out of the way to avoid getting hit.
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Star Wars Is at Its Most Interesting When It Trusts Us to Not Trust It
The third episode of The Acolyte is pretty incredible for a lot of reasons. It’s an episode that, in content, invites us to consider new perspectives on some of the saga’s most fundamental spiritual ideas, and delivers a meaty slice of back story for its protagonists and antagonists alike. But it also does something…
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Wells Fargo Employees Fired for Faking Being at Their Desk
Over a dozen Wells Fargo employees were fired last month for trying to fool their bosses into thinking they were working when they were not, as first reported by Bloomberg Thursday. It seems they were unsuccessful. A regulatory filing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) says the bank investigated…
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NASA's Voyager Has Made a Full Recovery After Glitch Nearly Ended the
Voyager fans, rejoice! The 46-year-old spacecraft is once again probing interstellar space for cosmic wonders following a seven month-long hiatus.
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Elon Musk Wants You to Have a Baby
We all know that Elon Musk likes procreation. He has 11 kids, after all. The tech billionaire currently has twins with an executive at Neuralink, two children with his on-again-off-again girlfriend Grimes, and a gaggle of children with his ex-wife, Justine Wilson. The billionaire was also accused of asking a former…
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MSI Claw Review: Pawing At the Door of Better, Cheaper Gaming Handheld
The MSI Claw A1M didn’t need to do much to be a contender in the still nascent gaming handheld PC space. If MSI had crafted the budget option, the lower-end device with fewer bells and whistles than its competitors, it would be a solid buy. Unfortunately for everyone involved, MSI made one of the more expensive…
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DC's Blue Beetle Adventures May Continue in Animation
Ángel Manuel Soto’s Blue Beetle ushered in the new era at DC Studios under James Gunn and Peter Safran, and while critics (including io9) enjoyed it, the tale of budding superhero Jaime Reyes (played by Cobra Kai’s Xolo Maridueña) didn’t really catch on with audiences (it hit theaters during the Hollywood strikes)…
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The 15 House of the Dragon Characters You Need to Remember Ahead of Se
June 16 heralds the arrival of House of the Dragon’s second season on HBO and Max, bringing its large cast of morally complex characters, many with confusingly similar silver-blonde tresses, back to screens. io9 already assembled a list of House of the Dragon’s 15 most shocking moments (so far); to go with that, here…
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YouTube Tests New Kind of Unskippable Ad
YouTube appears to be stepping up its long war on ad blockers this week. The creator of SponsorBlock, a crowdsourced ad blocker, posted a tweet on Wednesday claiming YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad injection. This would inject ads directly into a video’s stream, and render many ad blockers useless.
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You Can Now Watch I Saw the TV Glow in the Glow of Your Own TV
If you missed out on seeing writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s neon-infused nightmare I Saw the TV Glow in theaters, you can now watch one of the year’s most unique and haunting horror films at home—which may even enhance its enchanted-by-the-boob-tube effects.
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Apple’s AI Cloud System Makes Big Privacy Promises, but Can It Keep Th
Apple’s new Apple Intelligence system is designed to infuse generative AI into the core of iOS. The system offers users a host of new services, including text and image generation as well as organizational and scheduling features. Yet while the system provides impressive new capabilities, it also brings complications.…
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Russell T. Davies Isn't Worried About Doctor Who's Low Ratings
Despite lofty expectations, the all-new, budget-enhanced Doctor Who has been—to be kind—a bit of a ratings bust. Speaking at a recent BAFTA Q&A, showrunner Russell T. Davies admitted as much, with the caveat the Fifteenth Doctor era has proven to be enormously successful with younger audiences.
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U.S. Military Ran Hundreds of Anti-China Twitter Accounts Spreading An
The Pentagon was behind hundreds of Twitter accounts spreading anti-vaccine propaganda as a way to undermine China during the height of the covid-19 pandemic, according to an explosive report from Reuters Friday. U.S. government officials confirmed to Reuters the existence of the campaign, which started under former…
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Accidentally Draws Gigantic Penis on Mars
Things can get lonely on Mars. NASA’s four-wheeled robot has been roaming the Red Planet for more than three years, trekking across the harsh terrain on its own after losing its pal Ingenuity. But perhaps the Martian rover has found a way to connect with us from 140 million miles away. Because let’s face it, we all…
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Donald Trump Rambles About AI 'Clean Fakes' While Trying to Call Biden
Convicted felon Donald Trump staged another rally in Racine, Wisconsin on Tuesday, where he played all his classic hits, from xenophobia to fake news. But it was Trump’s attempt to smear President Joe Biden as senile that really went off the rails. Trump rambled for several minutes about artificial intelligence and…
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