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It's been over two years since Apple released its all-in-one desktop after skipping the entire M2 generation of chips, leaving us wondering when the iMac would make its dramatic return. The iMac comes in seven fun colors, is powered by Apple's fancy new M3, and even promises to make gaming on a Mac a thing.

Are you watching For All Mankind? If not, you should be. Apple TV+'s phenomenal sci-fi drama just returned for season four, and io9 has an exclusive clip from its second episode which debuts Friday. But even if you're not watching the show, this clip, as simple as it may be, is an almost perfect example of why you...Read more...

Yesterday, the folks at Cambridge Dictionary named Hallucination" the word of the year and, Jesus, they really hit the nail on the head. Like, wow. Frankly, this could be the word of the decade, not merely just the last twelve months. By that I mean, the world has gotten so weird lately that I feel like I've been...Read more...

Climate-related disasters can trap people in their homes, leave them without power for extended periods, trigger mass evacuations, and many other disruptions to the safety and conveniences most of us are accustomed to. As these events become more frequent and more extreme, it's not just preppers who aim to keep a...Read more...

This is not your average coffee gear list. I grew up around coffee, working at my uncle's coffee shop starting at age 14. Since then, I've gathered roughly 10 years of experience working in specialty coffee shops. Coffee is a personal and professional obsession of mine, and I've become truly fascinated with some of...Read more...

The holidays are coming, and no matter your age, that can often mean sitting down after all your gifts are unwrapped, surrounding yourself with bags of plastic bricks, and building a new Lego set. To help you become the most popular gift giver of 2023, we've rounded up our favorite sets of the year-from fancy...Read more...

In Star Wars' current canon, we stand on the precipice of a return years in the making: at the end of Ahsoka's first season, Grand Admiral Thrawn had made his way back from a galaxy even further away to restore a remnant Empire to glory and imperil the New Republic. But what happened when Thrawn made a comeback the...Read more...

Doctor Who fans who don't live in the UK or Ireland have had to be exceptionally organized when keeping track of where to watch the long-running sci-fi series. But the BBC Studios show's classic era (up to and including the Seventh Doctor) finally has a free resource: Tubi, which just added over 600 episodes dating...Read more...

On September 7, 2022, the Zwicky Transient Facility detected a new transient object in deep space, about one billion light-years from Earth. The object was very bright, and now, a team of astronomers believes it's a star that's come back from the dead.Read more...

Apple may have found a solution to the iPhone 15's overheating problems by using a graphene heat sink in its newer models, according to a leak reported by 9to5Mac Thursday. The solution, if true, should keep the iPhone 16 cool, especially with early word that the next Apple flagship phone could be more expensive than...Read more...

With both the Writer's strike at an end and SAG-AFTRA's suspend as it heads to vote on its next contract, Hollywood is getting back into the swing of things: announcing things, way, way, way ahead of time for absolutely no rhyme or reason.Read more...

Russell T. Davies teases a more human Doctor for David Tennant's latest Doctor Who incarnation. Scarlett Johansson has an update on her Tower of Terror movie. Has The Last of Us found its Abby? Plus, what's coming on Quantum Leap. Spoilers, away!

You know about Qi charging, the open wireless charging standard that charges up your phone when you lay it on a special charge pad. But wait until you meet Qi2. It's faster at charging your phone, and its use of magnets will allow Android phones and iPhones to live in relative harmony, at least regarding accessories.

YouTube is licensing out the voices and styles of popular artists with its first set of AI music experiments, announced Google in a blog post Thursday. Dream Track will allow creators to make short, AI-generated songs, using the voices of artists like Charlie Puth, T-Pain, and John Legend.Read more...

Analogue has just relaunched the Pocket in some new, charming colors. It brought back the OG colors of the Game Boy Advance and Pocket to its new Classic Limited Edition consoles. These colors are blue, green, indigo, spice orange, pink, red, silver, and yellow.Read more...

Meta made a quiet policy update last year allowing advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to say the 2020 election was rigged. The company has made one thing clear: you can't use their ad systems to question the legitimacy of the American election system - unless you have a credit card, in which case they're happy to...Read more...

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It's a sad day for fans of Netflix' Shadow and Bone. The seriesadaptation of Leigh Bardugo's fantasy novels-which was developed by Arrival's Eric Heisserer and gobbled up by passionate viewers-will not return for a third season. This cancellation was just one of many announced by Netflix today.Read more...

Marvel Studios might have found its next leading man in a very familiar face: Pedro Pascal has reportedly joined Fantastic Four as Reed Richards.Read more...

For astronauts living aboard the International Space Station (ISS), space germs are bad news. The confined environment, plus a weakened immunity system, and more aggressive bacteria, means that catching a cold in space is way worse than on Earth. In order to help stop the spread of viruses in space, Boeing developed...Read more...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized its environmental assessment of SpaceX's new water deluge system, concluding that it's no more dangerous than a seasonal rain shower. With that assessment out of the way, and with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also satisfied with its own evaluation, the...Read more...

Good news, iPhone users. A year after introducing the feature to its walled garden, Apple has extended free access to Emergency SOS via satellite to the iPhone 14/14 Pro for another year. Now you get three years of Emergency SOS via satellite services instead of two.Read more...

OpenAI halted new signups for its premium service, ChatGPT Plus, as demand for its services exceeded capacity, according to CEO Sam Altman. The jump in demand comes days after the company's first-ever DevDay. This is the latest speedbump in the week since OpenAI's massive release of new features, following widespread...Read more...

Microsoft will now make its own chips to power Azure, Copilot, and ChatGPT, CEO Satya Nadella announced at the Microsoft Ignite conference Wednesday. The Maia 100 can be used to train AI models and will start rolling out into Azure data centers early next year, reducing the company's reliance on Nvidia GPUs.

The current Warner Bros. Discovery regime is making headlines with its take-backsies on the James Gunn-produced Looney Tunes feature Coyote vs. Acme, which was briefly shelved before thankfully getting shopped around instead. As the WB strips away its legacy in its 100th year, head honcho David Zaslav is out...Read more...

There are only a handful of trusted end-to-end encrypted email providers. Of those, Tuta (which has long been known as Tutanota" but recently rebranded ) is one of the more well-known. This week, the company found itself on the defensive after being labeled a front" for law enforcement and intelligence services. In...Read more...

The evolution of MoviePass continues, with today's announcement that the subscription movie theater service (which has quite the tumultuous past) will now offer a virtual card-hopefully making online ticket purchases easier, including at theaters offering increasingly popular premium formats like IMAX.

With so many things in flux at Marvel Studios, there's news that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has departed the director's chair of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. A move that leaves us speculating about the crossover film's future, if anything.

The gamma-ray burst, affectionately dubbed BOAT' (Brightest of All Time), has been found to emit gamma-rays with energies reaching up to 13 teraelectronvolts, as revealed by a collaboration of scientists who have studied these emissions.Read more...

The first trailer for Sony's Madame Web movie weaves a very peculiar tale out of an even more peculiar choice for the studio's next Spider-Man spinoff film. But part of that peculiarity is in the host of Marvel Comics characters the film wants to bring to the big screen-and we've got a quick rundown on who's who if...Read more...

Amazon just released a questionable-looking robot for patrolling businesses. Taking a page out of Wall-E's design, Amazon's new Astro for Business looks almost comical.

The world of fandom has not been the same since Loungefly took the pop culture product world by storm with its signature mini-backpacks.Read more...

What if Marvel had a holiday present for us all? Nine straight days of brand new stories set in an alternate reality to the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Well, that's not a hypothetical. It's actually happening.Read more...

Celebrate the lasting legacy of Harlan Ellison-the highly influential, sometimes spicy Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Award winner-with Greatest Hits, a short-story collection (including some that have been out of print) arriving next year. It's edited by J. Michael Straczynski and features a foreword by Neil Gaiman,...Read more...

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Update: Asus acknowledged its mistake and confessed that a typo like this on a $700 motherboard is enough to warrant replacement at no additional cost to the customer. It announced that anyone who finds the typo unacceptable can contact Asus support for guidance on how to go about the replacement process. Asus...Read more...

Here's some good news if Thanksgiving doesn't feel right without spending quality time with Charlie Brown: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, will stream free on Apple TV+ this weekend, following the streamer's tradition of making vintage Peanuts specials available to...Read more...

It seems like Amazon is currently developing its own operating system for its Fire TV devices and Smart TVs that run on Android. This was reported last week in Janko Roettgers' Lowpass newsletter and hasn't been corroborated with an official statement from Amazon yet.

The Webb Space Telescope has revealed a world quite alien compared to our own: WASP-107b, a Neptune-like gas giant that orbits a star some 211 light-years from Earth. Webb has now detected water vapor and sulfur dioxide in the planet's atmosphere, as well as sand-like silicate clouds.Read more...

Dwayne The Rock" Johnson confirms the live-action Moana is his next project. Cobra Kai brings back a familiar name for its final season. Plus, a new look at the anime adaptation of Go! Go! Loser Ranger!. To me, my spoilers!

NASA has produced thousands of images over its illustrious 65-year history, but some images have had a far greater impact than others. Among this vast portfolio, certain images stand out for having reshaped our understanding of space and our place within it, capturing moments that have both ignited the collective...Read more...

In the realm of home entertainment, one of the longest-running burning questions has always been When is James Cameron going to release all his movies in 4K?" For years, there hasn't been an answer-but finally, it's here.Read more...

Tesla reversed course on its initial claims to sue Cybertruck resellers if they flipped their car within the first year of purchase. The first Cybertrucks, which start shipping out on Nov. 30th, will no longer have the strict penalties tied to reselling that they once did.Read more...

Sony's plans to expand its live-action Spider-Man universe has already given us some bizarre oddities like Morbius, and it looks like we're not stopping any time soon. Our first look at the Madame Web movie is here, and it's not just bringing one of comics' most peculiar Spidey supports to the big screen, but a whole...Read more...

New research this week is the latest to show that microplastics have polluted just about everywhere on Earth. Scientists discovered plastic particles in cloud samples collected from atop a mountain in Eastern China. The team also found evidence from lab experiments that these microplastics could potentially affect...Read more...

New research this week suggests that humanity's war against insectkind has had some unintended consequences: declining sperm counts. The study, a review of the existing data, found a clear association between increased exposure to insecticides and lower sperm concentrations in adult men. The authors say that the...Read more...

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is bringing Godzilla to Apple TV+ this week, and sci-fi fans who show up for Kurt Russell and giant monsters will want to stick around after. The streamer is one of the very best around for original content, particularly of the genre variety. Here are 10 sci-fi (and horror) shows to check...Read more...

Even before Miles Morales got brought over to the main Marvel universe by way of Secret Wars to hang out with Peter Parker more easily, it was a given that the two Spider-Men would eventually team up on adventures. And while they've saved New York and the world several times in various comic events or certain other...Read more...

There's an important update on the James Gunn era of DC Studios films, with a new name stepping into the ring to script Warner Bros.'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.Read more...