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Earth's orbit can be a chaotic place, with defunct spacecraft darting aimlessly across the dark skies. In order to tackle the growing issue of space debris, Airbus created a new device designed to keep satellites from tumbling around after they're no longer of use.Read more...

Uber is testing out its own version of TaskRabbit called Uber Tasks in select markets, as first reported by Bloomberg Monday. The service will let users hire people to complete household tasks, expanding beyond ride-sharing and food delivery currently supported on the platform.Read more...

After much teasing earlier this year, Netflix and Dwarf Studios' stop motion series set in the world of Pokemon is finally ready to open its doors to the world-and it looks so adorable you might just want to reach through your screen and hug every Pokemon you can see.Read more...

The mobile class divide between the iPhone blue bubble and the Android green bubble might need regulators to settle things in the future, but Nothing has another solution coming soon.Read more...

Less than two years after it launched, Donald Trump's social media site, Truth Social, might be headed for the internet graveyard. New federal filings show that Truth, like a lot of Trump businesses, has lost massive amounts of money ($73 million, in this case) and is drifting, inevitably, toward insolvency. The...Read more...

Remember when you saw the epic, awesome trailer for The Creator and thought Oh, that's cool, I'd like to see that" but then didn't? Well, now you can change that because The Creator is finally available at home.Read more...

A recent deep field image from the Webb Space Telescope, showcasing a region of space known as Pandora's Cluster, or Abell 2744, features two galaxies. These galaxies are remarkable for their distance from Earth, being the second and fourth most distant galaxies ever observed, according to a team of researchers that...Read more...

It's still kind of wild to us that last year brought a new Predator movie, and a good one at that. After decades of the franchise flopping around unable to figure out what it wanted to be, director Dan Trachtenberg stepped up to the plate with Prey, a standalone prequel that gave us the kind of emotion and thrills the...Read more...

TikTok's cultural dominance just gained another weapon, and it's an awfully convenient one: a new feature that will easily allow users to add songs they hear on TikTok to a streaming service likeAmazon Music, Apple Music, and Spotify. Add to Music App" is available in the U.S. and the UK starting today, with plans...Read more...

Bitcoin wallets older than 2016 could have a vulnerability that puts over $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency at risk, according to a report in the Washington Post.

It doesn't have to be the case that a monster movie has great action and truly turgid human drama between the setpieces, but that's largely been the case for Legendary's Godzilla reboot, the Monsterverse." Sometimes the action being so fun can tip the odds against some truly stupid human beings-see King of the...Read more...

The day has arrived to gather your party and venture forth to Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures, Hasbro's free, 24-hour ad-supported channel celebrating the wildly popular tabletop roleplaying game. Launching today on Amazon Freevee and Plex (with more to come), the channel will debut three original series this week-and...Read more...

It's a bummer being a kid whose parents get called to work on Christmas Eve-but that trouble is amplified about a billion when Dad is Batman. Damian Wayne is familiar with the burdens of being part of a superhero family, but as the trailer for Prime Video's Merry Little Batman shows, he's also capable of stepping up...Read more...

Zelle, a payments app owned by seven of America's largest banks, began reimbursing victims of imposter scams on the platform, according to an emailed statement from the company. Early Warning Services, the network operator of Zelle, says it will process refunds for scams dating back to June, which is a change of...Read more...

I struggle to look at any other Samsung smartphone now that I've been living with its foldable. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 has effectively changed how I use Android. Most of the time, I'll only bother with my Google Pixel 7 if someone is calling the number linked to that phone. Otherwise, you'll see me primarily on...Read more...

The world of Android looks different than when I started focusing on this platform over ten years ago. Gone are the days of Google focusing on its developer-centric devices, allowing other manufacturers to compete for the top spot. If you look around the U.S. market, Android seems to have developed a homogeny akin to...Read more...

Before we get into this, you should know that this is my first time reviewing an iPhone. I've long established myself as the Android girl," because I started my smartphone journey with that mobile platform and eventually grew to prefer it over my initial experience with the iPhone. The last time I wielded one of...Read more...

Scarlett Johansson sure seemed shaken when asked about those rumors of her return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Read more...

Radio emissions detected about 24,855 miles (40,000 kilometers) above a dark region on the Sun have aurora-like qualities, according to a team of astronomers that studied the emissions.

NASA is pulling back from its Mars Sample Return program (MSR) in order to develop a revised way of bringing the Martian rocks back to Earth after its original plan was deemed unrealistic.Read more...

Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, recently rolled out a few updates for Meta's Threads and the biggest standout is that you finally have a way to delete your Threads profile separately from your Instagram account.

In one of those rare cases where the rumor mills are actually accurate, director Taika Waititi confirmed that if Marvel Studios decides to make a fifth Thor movie, he won't be involved. I wouldn't know if that's [a Thor 5 happening] accurate," Waititi said to Business Insider. I know that I won't be involved."Read more...

The SETI Institute, a leading non-profit in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has received a transformative $200 million gift from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a long-time supporter who passed away last year.

Godzilla looms large in a tense new clip from Minus One. Meet Chris Pratt's Garfield, who sounds an awful lot like Chris Pratt's Mario, among other Chris Pratts. A Voyager icon reconfirms their return for Star Trek Prodigy. Plus, Doctor Whoadds another mystery guest star. Spoilers, away!

Finally, a robot to tell you which jacket you should wear to the function. Google DeepMind, the search giant's AI-centric brain trust, just announced a new weather forecasting model that beats traditional systems more than 90% of the time. Named GraphCast, the machine learning model promises 10-day predictions that...Read more...

YouTube released new policy updates on Tuesday to combat AI-generated content that resembles the voice and style of music artists. Earlier this year, Heart on My Sleeve," a song that sounds like a track made by Drake and The Weeknd, created with generative AI, garnered over 600,000 plays and was even considered for a ...Read more...

If you can get your hands on a telescope, there are few sights more spectacular than the magnificent ringed planet - Saturn.

Celebrate Life Day and all the upcoming winter holidays with this selection of Star Wars-inspired gifts.Read more...

A year ago, James Cameron was everywhere ahead of Avatar: The Way of Water. Then came the Titanic 25th anniversary re-release, followed by Cameron's name inevitably popping up alongside the growing cultural interest in AI. Avatar 3's not due until next year, but don't you dare think Cameron will be out of sight for...Read more...

He's a man for all seasons, that Art the Clown-and while Terrifier 3, the follow-up to surprise sensation Terrifier 2, has claimed October 2024 as its release date, its first marketing push is all about Christmas. And while we've seen a lot of scary Santas in the past, Art's version is exceptionally ghoulish.

Google pays Apple 36% of its search advertising revenue from Safari, according to new details brought to light in Google's search antitrust trial on Monday as reported by Bloomberg. The mere utterance of the number, which Google and Apple have tried to keep sealed, caused Google's main litigator John Schmidtlein to...Read more...

New research seems to show the potential of a CRISPR-based gene therapy meant to neuter certain forms of cardiovascular disease. In the world's first human trial of the therapy, people given the highest doses experienced significant and long-lasting reductions in their low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). The...Read more...

Lockheed Martin is at the early stages of developing a nuclear propulsion system to power a spacecraft through the depths of the cosmos.Read more...

Another round of layoffs is underway at Amazon, and for the second time, it's happening at the company's video games division.Read more...

Safety is a major selling point in a society that profits from fear-mongering, so I'm scratching my head about the canceled plans for Android's version of satellite connectivity.

The Heeler home from Bluey has been brought to life at family creative center CAMP in Los Angeles, CA, where you and the little ones in your life can step inside of an episode of the hit series as seen on Disney+.

The Marvels is here, and with it, a bunch of updates on just what is going on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Earth, to space, and beyond. But while much of the team-up movie's big beats are neatly wrapped up by its brisk end, there are plenty of questions we have left over...Read more...

Tesla will charge customers of its new Cybertruck a hefty penalty for reselling their vehicle within the first year of ownership, according to a recently added section of the vehicle's order agreement.Read more...

As weird, bad, and awkward as The Star Wars Holiday Special is to watch, apparently, it was just as terrible to film. That's evident from an exclusive excerpt io9 has acquired from the new book A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened by Steve Kozak.

With all the streaming news about price increases and content jumping around, here's something both cool and unusual: Fox's ad-supported free SVOD service, Tubi, is teaming up with screenwriting resource the Black List to select five genre scripts for development, production, and distribution.Read more...

It'd be hard to top last week's Rick and Morty-the cleverly gruesome That's Amorte," still season seven's high point so far-but Unmortricken" accomplishes an important task: addressing the show's ever-looming canon by blowing it apart and changing it forever.Read more...

Ads for fake versions of Google's generative AI tool, Bard, are showing up on Facebook to steal social media accounts of U.S. small businesses, according to a lawsuit from Google filed Monday.

OpenAI rode a hype-fueled rocket to business leadership over the last year. CEO Sam Altman managed to put a consumer-friendly wrapper on a years-old technology and capture the world's attention. And now, for better or worse, OpenAI is better positioned than anyone to build the tools that will save or destroy the...Read more...

Doctor Who's new 14th Doctor-with that old face-has already gone on his first adventures in the pages of the show's official magazine. But he'll be making his televised debut a little earlier than anticipated... and bringing some old foes with him.Read more...

I can't help but feel bad for the Legion Go. Lenovo's first take on the handheld console market is a strong one. It's got a much bigger screen than the original Steam Deck. It has a better battery than the original Steam Deck. Thanks to its pop-out controllers, it's more innovative than the Steam Deck or the Asus ROG...Read more...

For the next two weeks, NASA will not be sending commands to its fleet of Martian rovers, orbiters, and spacecraft until the Sun moves out of the way.Read more...

There is a significant likelihood" that the Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall will erupt in the coming days," according to the country's meteorological office. The volcanic activity is primarily occurring in the island's southwest, northeast of the fishing town of Grindavik.Read more...

Although the season of Hollywood strikes came to an end when SAG-AFTRA closed its picket lines last week having secured a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, it's not over yet-ahead of the union membership vote on the potential three-year contract, SAG-AFTRA has released a summary of the deal to read online.

If you have an old Gmail account lying around that you haven't used in a while, make sure to use it before December 1, or Google will permanently delete it. By in a while,' Google means two years. That's the criteria they have set for the amount of time that should have passed for them to consider an account inactive.

A new international trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom gives us new footage. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon expands its cast for season 2. Plus, what's to come on Rick and Morty and Fear the Walking Dead's final episodes. Spoilers, away!