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One of the largest timber companies in the world is claiming to “contribute to climate change solutions,” despite the fact that it’s planning to increase lumber production over the next couple of years. As the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, logging giant Weyerhaeuser has made a pivot in recent years to…Read more...

The next Superman movie, Superman: Legacy, is heading to theaters in just over two years and today, its writer and director announced he’s full steam ahead. James Gunn, the co-president of DC Films, is that person and he took to social media on Tuesday to reveal that he’s diving “fully into early pre-production” on…Read more...

“Never give up, never surrender!” The quotable motto from 1999 cult-beloved sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest truly encapsulates the journey of the Galaxy Quest television series, as Variety reports Paramount+ now has the long-awaited project in “early development.”Read more...

As companies like Uber transition the world onto the gig economy, and AI promises to eliminate the need for large swaths of the workforce, the great state of Iowa is taking a stand, declaring once and for all that child labor is good, actually.Read more...

Mammals have a pretty basic blueprint. Among other things, we give birth to live young, we’re warm-blooded, and, perhaps most obviously, we all have hair. (Yes, even dolphins.) But in the churn of natural selection, some mammals ended up with appendages that look like they should be found on a reptile, bird, or…Read more...

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Alaska Airlines is flying forward into the future. Or, trying to do something like that at least. The company announced a suite of changes, soon to be coming to airport lobbies, in a Tuesday press release.Read more...

The flying punching bag that is Southwest Airlines once again had to temporarily cancel flights due to computer issues. Mid-morning on Tuesday ET, Southwest said it halted operations at some airports due to “intermittent technology issues.” The company wrote on Twitter that it was working to get things operational…Read more...

On Monday, a pesky valve is all that came between SpaceX and the maiden flight of its Starship megarocket. The company is now targeting Thursday morning for a mission that CEO Elon Musk predicts has a 50/50 chance of succeeding.

Israeli digital surveillance for hire giant NSO Group reportedly deployed at least three new attacks last year targeting human rights workers and other members of civil society spread out around the world using Apple devices. All of those “zero-click” exploits, according to new research from The Citizen Lab, could…Read more...

Rule 34 rears its head once again. There are thousands upon thousands of explicit porn being sold for cheap on Amazon’s Kindle. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that both Apple and Google have notified Amazon about its failure to keep porn off of the Kindle store and app. Both companies told Reuters that their app stores…Read more...

A retired NASA spacecraft is about to meet its fiery demise, burning up in Earth’s atmosphere after its expected free-fall from orbit later this week.Read more...

Vex’ahlia and Vax’ildan, two of the adventuring party of Vox Machina, are coming to life in a nearly eight-inch tall statue—well, the top half of them, anyway. A collaboration between Dark Horse Direct and Critical Role, this joint bust features character designs based on the comic book series Vox Machina Origins.…Read more...

Prehistoric Planet showcases dinosaurs as the itchy, curious, clumsy, and vocal animals they were in life. Apple TV+ today released the teaser trailer for the scientific dinosaur show’s second season, which is set to debut on May 22.

Whatever you expect from Mrs. Davis, the new show coming to Peacock on April 20, you’re probably mistaken. The series description will tell you it’s about a nun, played by Glow’s Betty Gilpin, who sets out to take down an artificial intelligence called Mrs. Davis, which has become a pseudo-replacement for God in a…Read more...

Meta’s WhatsApp is threatening to leave the UK if the government passes the Online Safety Bill, saying it will essentially eliminate its encryption methods. Alongside its rival company Signal and five other apps, the company said that, by passing the bill, users will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption,…Read more...

The Yeohnaissance continues! Fresh off her Academy Award win for Everything Everywhere All at Once, the incomparable Michelle Yeoh will return to the Star Trek universe to play Philippa Georgiou once again. But instead of the Section 31 TV series that has been in the works since 2019 or so, Yeoh will now star in Star…Read more...

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Tax day is April 18th—today. We shouldn’t have to be here, but here we are. Sure, you can labor through the labyrinthine official tax forms and send those to the U.S. government yourself. But as is the case every year in the U.S., the best options for less stress when filing taxes online for free are also the same…Read more...

Let this be a lesson in wiping your hardware before sending it out to a refurbisher: Researchers from the security firm ESET have found that less then half of secondhand enterprise routers in their sample were wiped of internal data, which poses a risk both for the companies that sold these routers and their customers.

Teams at an underwater facility in Houston, Texas, are making preparations to train astronauts who are preparing for future missions to the Moon. This facility is being modified to recreate the harsh lunar environment by submerging future moonwalkers in a pool that’s 40 feet deep.Read more...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he was working on a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a company he co-founded in 2015, called “TruthGPT.” According to Musk, his chatbot will be a “maximum truth-seeking AI” that will try to understand the nature of the universe.Read more...

James Gunn offers an interesting assessment of the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. The Mortal Kombat sequel is officially on the way. Give your ears a sneak peek—er, you know what we mean—of one of The Little Mermaid live-action remake’s most famous tunes. And, of course, horror horror horror. Keep the lights on and…Read more...

In 2024, Google will block third-party cookies in Chrome, the world’s most widely used internet browser. That will kill off one of the main ways companies track you online, and the ad tech industry is freaking out about it. Google has developed a suite of tools to replace cookies, which it collectively calls “Privacy…Read more...

Portrait photographers can spend hours perfecting a single headshot in Adobe’s apps—everything from erasing skin imperfections to making the subject look much younger than they really are. Some of those advanced photo-retouching techniques just got a lot easier, as today Adobe announced several AI-powered Lightroom…Read more...

Automated emergency and essential service Twitter accounts have become the latest casualty in Elon Musk’s flailing effort to rid Twitter of bots and squeeze users to pay for previously free access to its application programming interface (API).Read more...

Modern smart scales can measure more than just a user’s weight; they also capture other useful health metrics, which is good motivation to use them frequently. But for those mornings when you would rather not know how you’re weighing in, Withings’ new Body Smart scale will still take those measurements, but hide them…Read more...

Last week, the U.S. government arrested a man accused of one the worst leaks of national security material in years.Read more...

Streaming services are in their struggle season. An increasingly crowded field of offerings seems to have heightened competition and left would-be customers ambivalent and overwhelmed by the many and often less-than-comprehensive options. As varying streaming services strain to maintain and/or attract subscribers, …Read more...

In the Anne Rice universe, Night Island is a special place for vampires: a haven of sorts, where all their needs are taken care of. AMC had previously announced a spinoff series featuring the supernatural spa town, but has now released a little more information—namely that Jonathan Ceniceroz, one of the writers for …Read more...

After spending years and hundreds of millions of dollars in building up an in-house suite of paywalled podcasts on its streaming service, Spotify is now re-evaluating that exclusivity and has revealed to employees that Gimlet Media podcasts will start being licensed to other platforms.

Speak No Evil—the tale of two families (one Danish, one Dutch) who meet on vacation and plan a weekend reunion, which one family rapidly comes to regret—is the kind of movie that aims to traumatize the viewer... and succeeds. Now the 2022 Danish horror standout is getting an American remake starring James McAvoy.Read more...

Scientists in Canada say they’ve developed a cheap and easy way to find out if Salmonella is lurking in food. Their method can apparently detect the bacteria within an hour’s time and with less set-up required than a typical at-home covid test. They believe that their test could be used by poultry processors and food…Read more...

On Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York alleged that the Chinese government used all sorts of techniques to harass and spy on Chinese dissidents living in the United States. This included a massive bot farm on Twitter, harassing dissidents on Zoom calls, and even physically setting…Read more...

There’s been plenty of conversation around using AI in writing and art, but researchers in China have evidently brought machine intelligence to spaceflight. An AI was allowed to control a satellite’s camera for a full day, during which time it took photos of different locations on Earth—and it chose targets for…Read more...

Pentagon pushback could imperil national plans for a sustainably powered future. Maps from the Department of Defense show that the U.S. military has serious concerns about planned offshore wind development, according to a Monday report from Bloomberg.

The horror of David Cronenberg’s 1988 Dead Ringers is still potent enough to get under your skin, but Prime Video’s six-episode Dead Ringers series starring Rachel Weisz as the Mantle twins—played by Jeremy Irons in the original film—offers a similarly potent yet significantly altered exploration of medical…Read more...

Bing could be taking over as the default search engine on Samsung devices thanks to its integration of ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence features. The shift would mark the first time in 12 years that Samsung has strayed away from Google, which has historically dominated the search engine market.Read more...

Decades after manufacturers have stopped producing a class of harmful chemicals once used in electrical equipment, traces of these chemicals have found in a deep sea trench.Read more...

Teens love their screens, and the Department of Defense is prepared to take advantage of that. The Georgia Army National Guard has big plans to boost its recruitment efforts through targeted ads on high schoolers’ cell phones, according to a federal contract document obtained and first reported on by the Intercept.

What’s the easiest way to get a kid to wear something? You make it cute. Fitbit’s next child-focused wearable is making the rounds in Rumorville. 9to5Google has photos that claim to be of the next Fitbit smartwatch meant for your kid, and while it’s bulbous compared to the rest of the fitness wearable lineup, it seems…Read more...

Imagine uprooting your entire life for a—well, not a dream job, but a decent enough job doing corporate graphic design... on Mars. Then suddenly you’re let go, and you’re stuck on a strange planet surrounded by even stranger people. That’s the premise for HBO Max’s adult animated series Fired on Mars, which has just…Read more...

Some of the world’s largest most influential nations have formed an alliance to create new supply chains for nuclear energy—the same weekend that another country announced it had completely weaned itself off the energy source.Read more...

Now that HBO has announced a pair of new shows set in the Game of Thrones Westerosiverse (for the lack of a better term), it’s high time for A Song of Ice and Fire’s George R.R. Martin to weigh in on the next televisual representations of the world he created. While he doesn’t have much to say about the spinoff…Read more...

Gary Bowser, a public face of the aftermarket console modding scene, unwittingly became one of Nintendo’s most hated antagonists. Now after more than a year in the proverbial federal dungeons, Bowser finally has his shot at freedom. Though even as Bowser looks to return home to Canada (and not some massive castle in…Read more...

Hikvision, a Chinese surveillance camera company restricted in parts of the US and the UK, knew its tech was used to monitor the country’s Uyghur Muslim minority despite previously denials of exactly that, according to a war crimes investigator hired by Hikvision itself. New leaked recordings give more credibility to…Read more...

There’s something under the bed... and in the dark, it comes out to play.Read more...

Japanese museum curator and astronomer Daichi Fujii spotted something irregular last September in several motion-sensing cameras he had set up: three brilliant green lights that streaked across the sky.

Remember when the first season of the excellent new Gundam show, The Witch From Mercury, ended and shocked everyone with a reminder that it is, indeed, a Mobile Suit Gundam show? Well, good news: its second season is not slowing down on reminding you of that fact in the most gutwrenching manner possible.

Elon’s gigantic Starship rocket is expected to dominate the news this week, but there will be other spaceflight happenings vying for our attention.