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ODIN Space has passed a major milestone by powering up a super-sensitive experimental in-space sensor. Once fully developed, a dispersed network of these sensors could be capable of tracking hypervelocity objects no larger than a grain of sand.Read more...

It's never too early to start learning about spooky Christmas horror movies. Margot Robbie discusses the chances of a Barbie sequel. Plus, behind the scenes footage from Venom 3, and what's coming on this week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Spoilers, away!

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Although far more convenient to carry around than a set of over-ear headphones, wireless earbuds can often become uncomfortable when crammed into your ears for hours. With its new OpenFit wireless earbuds, Shokz is promising all day comfort via an open-ear design that ensures you can also hear everything going on...Read more...

The Vatican is getting in on the AI craze. The Holy See has released a handbook on the ethics of artificial intelligence as defined by the Pope.Read more...

On June 18, Bebe Rexha was performing a hometown show at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in Manhattan. During the performance, an audience member threw an iPhone at the pop singer-songwriter, which hit her just over the right eye. The impact immediately ended the show, and Rexha required three stitches in the aftermath,...Read more...

As the battle between Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to notch regular updates, anyone who hasn't been following from the beginning might be a bit confused. Why is this Republican presidential hopeful openly fighting with his state's biggest taxpayer? Let's take a look.Read more...

Ever since the ill-fated crypto exchange FTX went bankrupt last year, evidence has been building of rampant criminal activity on the part of the firm's top executives. A new report on the company's finances published Monday does nothing to dispel that notion, revealing instead new allegations about how the failed...Read more...

HBO has always made amazing documentaries, whether for broadcast TV or its streaming service, Max. So there's every reason to be excited about Superpowered: The DC Story even before I tell you that Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Leslie Iwerks and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Mark Catalena co-directed the three-part...Read more...

Twitter: it's a bad place. But even among all the awfulness you can find little gems of goodness and light-gems like the first episode of Silo, which Apple TV+ has released there for free.

Since the game's debut in May, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has seen players craft some incredibly clever and complex machinery. The latest example, though, seems to push the game's crafting capabilities to a whole new level with the creation of what we think is Hyrule's first-remote control airplane.Read more...

Marvel, Lucasfilm, Sony, Netflix, and more may have decided to skip this year's San Diego Comic-Con, but for you future attendees who were hoping to see the latest MCU trailers and whatnot, there is a consolation prize: a toilet, courtesy of the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park.

New strategies to save boats from the orca uprising are in the works. Portuguese officials plan to test devices that could deter so-called killer whales from taking down ships with sound, according to a report from Lusa News Agency, Portugal's largest news outlet. Trial runs of the tech could begin over the next few...Read more...

On Sunday, four researchers donned black jumpsuits and entered into a red world where they will spend a year living and working in a simulated Martian environment.Read more...

A gust of wind from the great white north has pushed Canadian wildfire smoke down into the Midwest. Cities around the Great Lakes region are now shrouded in smoke. Skylines are pretty hazy, and air quality has plummeted.Read more...

Apple has joined WhatsApp, Signal, and other messaging companies, by raising concerns that end-to-end encryption would be threatened if the United Kingdom passes the Online Safety Bill." The bill moved to Parliament for review, and if passed, it would give the Office of Communications (Ofcom) the technology and...Read more...

James Gunn has found his Superman and Lois Lane. Actors David Corenswet (Pearl) and Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) have been cast as the two leads of Superman: Legacy, which will be released July 11, 2025.Read more...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Pompeii have uncovered a gorgeous still-life fresco depicting a platter covered in food and wine, including one foot item that looks suspiciously like a pizza.Read more...

If you love Barbie, this movie is for you," the main trailer for Barbie tells us in glorious neon-pink font. If you hate Barbie, this movie is for you," it slyly adds. We are primed for Greta Gerwig's surreal smash of the summer to give us a loving, but knowing look at all the iconic doll represents-but it seems...Read more...

AI hype has officially reached Metaverse" levels of incomprehensibility. Large language models are a wormhole sucking in any and all tech companies looking to promote long-existing products, and now e-bike maker Urtopia is one of the first companies trying to force chatbots on users who are simply trying to travel...Read more...

Vaccines for a common but sometimes dangerous virus are well on the way to reaching the public. This month, outside experts assembled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave their blessing to two vaccines developed against the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. The vaccines, approved for older adults,...Read more...

When news broke that a future Star Wars movie would bring back Rey in a story about a new Jedi Order, one question immediately came to mind: is this Star Wars Episode X? We still don't know if it is or isn't, but a new quote from Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy hints that the movie could be its very own episode...Read more...

The time of year is finally herewhen thousands of nerds descend upon Southern California for San Diego Comic-Con. Last year's Comic-Con was a return to form after several heavily impacted covid years but, with the Writers Guild striking and Screen Actors Guild threatening to, major Hollywood brands are being...Read more...

We've been sucking the earth dry, and it's starting to change how our planet works. A study published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, explains that we've extracted so much damn water out of the ground, it has changed the planet's tilt and has contributed to sea level rise.Read more...

It feels like the closer we get to this year's San Diego Comic-Con, the more we're mostly hearing about how big studios are pulling away from the premiere event in the pop culture calendar. But now we know at least one stalwart is using the exodus to stake an even bigger claim at the con.Read more...

Twenty-seven years after the first Game Boy title was released, and over 1,000 different pocket monsters later, Pokemon is, somehow, still incredibly popular the world over, and Samsung is once again capitalizing on the franchise's rabid fandom by wrapping its wireless earbuds in three new Poke-themed charging cases.Read more...

CBS has called an emergency meeting and decided that now is indeed the time to declare an Among Us animated series is in the works.

Here's a spark of joy for your Tuesday: a new Futurama trailer for the new season we still can't quite believe we're getting! As you can see, Futurama's long-awaited return will take on massive disruptions in the flow of time, the pandemic, cryptocurrency, AI home assistants, manscaping, and the perils of having a...Read more...

SpaceX's launch facility in South Texas saw some fiery action last night as the upper stage of the company's upcoming Starship prototype let out its first engine roar during a static fire test.Read more...

Zoom isn't the same as it used to be. Without a wide-ranging pandemic keeping everybody at home, and with more companies demanding their workers slog to the office, the video conference company is trying to angle its software to increasingly hybridized workplaces. Now, the company is adding features to ensure...Read more...

Well, that didn't last long. Less than nine months after its initial release, TikTok is calling it quits on its BeRealcompetitor TikTok Now. The apparent reprioritization at TikTok comes as BeReal, once the hottest app on the market, continues to struggle with declining users. At the same time, the app is adding...Read more...

Think Chucky E. Cheese meets Child's Play. Those are the vibes blasting through the first trailer for Five Nights at Freddy's, Blumhouse's big screen adaptation of the popular video game franchise. It opens in theaters, and on Peacock, October 27.

Today is the day. Paramount+ featuring Showtime has officially been unleashed to the masses, and it will cost you $11.99 per month.

A janitor accidentally destroyed more than two decades of research when he turned off a freezer containing invaluable cell cultures that had the potential to be groundbreaking," according to a new lawsuit filed by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York.Read more...

Mosquito season is in full swing across the U.S., and this year's annual boom of summertime blood suckers comes with some additional bad news. For the first time since 2003, malaria is spreading in the states. Both Florida and Texas have confirmed locally acquired cases of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness.

On its face, the motivation of the invading Skrulls seems quite clear in Secret Invasion: Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) promised to find the aliens a new planet to live on. After 30 years, Fury had still failed to keep his promise. As a result, some of the Skrulls decided to take the Earth for themselves-and only...Read more...

Microsoft's head is already in the clouds for artificial intelligence, but in order to sell even more people on its AI services the company is reportedly working toward allowing the entire Windows 11 operating system to be streamed from the cloud for its user-end consumers.Read more...

Maintaining a comfortable body temperature is a perpetual challenge for runners who want to stay warm at the start of an early morning run, but not overheat as their body warms up, requiring them to stop to strip off layers. The new Nike Aerogami Jacket is designed for that conundrum, meant to both warm and cool an...Read more...

As Reddit users protested the company's sweeping changes to its application programming interface (API), big wigs at Google noticed that the online blackout caused collateral damage to Google Search.

Meet the kids of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Doctor Who set pictures reunite the Doctor with an old friend. Plus, get a look at this week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. To me, my Spoilers!

AI-generated text has the potential to sap the very lifeblood of the internet's ad-dominated ecosystem. Just how much is the main question, but a new report says it's a growing issue that major ad companies like Google have yet to fully grapple with.Read more...

There are several challengers to the GoPro throne hoping to unseat the gold standard of action cameras through unique designs and features. A new one enters the arena today: The Insta360 GO 3, whose incredibly tiny camera can be separated and used all on its own, while still wirelessly streaming live video previews to...Read more...

Everything is in place to begin dumping treated radioactive wastewater from Japan's destroyed Fukushima Daiichi power plant into the ocean, according to the plant's operator. The plan to do so has been in the works for years, as irradiated water has accumulated in the aftermath of 2011's earthquake, tsunami, and...Read more...

Meta has unveiled a suite of new safety tools intended to give parents more oversight of their teen's activity on Messenger and Instagram DMs. Starting today, parents and guardians can view how much time their teen spends on Messenger, receive updates on changes to their contact lists and privacy settings, and receive...Read more...

Prepare to be hosted by Ken if you manage to nab a booking of the Barbie Dreamhouse in Malibu, CA through Airbnb. Even though Ryan Gosling is presumably not part of the deal,Ken's version of the Barbie Dreamhousedoes include an exclusive stay with your own skates and surfboard-all the better to live your best ...Read more...

By the end of the week, we may have a new Superman and Lois Lane. That's what the Hollywood Reporter is saying in a detailed update on the casting for James Gunn's 2025 film, Superman Legacy.Read more...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' response to Disney's lawsuit against the governor and his Reedy Creek Oversight Board-the area in Florida that contains Disney World-is to claim immunity from litigation. As reported by Deadline, DeSantis filed a motion against Disney's claim in his effort to strip to the company of control...Read more...

A surprising remake of one of the best zombie films ofall time (which you may or may not have heard of) is coming to theaters next month-and its trailer has finally arrived.Read more...

The internet convinced Disney Parks to make Rogers: The Musical a reality-and its limited run starts this week at Disney California Adventure, just in time for Fourth of July weekend. If you're traveling to Las Vegas, AREA15 lights up immersive fantasy realms with Secret Garden, complete with Meow Wolf's Omega Mart...Read more...

Fast fashion giant Shein paid for influencers to take a tour of part of its Chinese manufacturing operation several weeks ago, and the lucky Instagram and TikTok stars filled social media with videos from their recent trip last Tuesday. The videos showed off clean, pleasant factories, smiling workers, and a stalwart...Read more...