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The company behind the viral Dude With Sign meme is suing an Oregon chocolate company, alleging copyright infringement. FJerry LLC, also behind the popular @fuckjerry Instagram account, claims the copyright for the specific Dude holding the particular Sign, accusing JEM Organics of using the Dude’s face for posts, and…Read more...

John Wick answers the door to his home, lights and sirens clearly visible outside. Wick isn’t bothered, half-covered behind the door, a gun clutched in his hand, held at the small of his back. A cop stands a respectful distance away from the door, turns his head, looks past Wick and sees bodies–not a body, multiple…Read more...

If you’re missing Star Wars Celebration 2023, which is taking place in London this year, there’s still a ton of Lucasfilm merch drops from lots of different brands to get excited about, celebrating Return of the Jedi’s 40th anniversary, The Mandalorian, May the 4th, and more.Read more...

A space advocacy organization is rallying the scientific community in an effort to revive NASA’s VERITAS mission to Venus, which has been delayed indefinitely due to staff and budgeting issues at the space agency.Read more...

It was 1992 and the FBI had a major problem on its hands.Read more...

Star Wars fans will cosplay anything from the galaxy far, far away, especially at Star Wars Celebration, where you’re going to be among an audience that will get any obscure reference. But just one day into the 2023 con, one look dominates all: Andor’s prison getup.

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About 340 years ago, a brilliant light appeared in Earth’s night sky—a distant star had died in an enormous explosion. That light, which we now know is from the supernova Cassiopeia A, has just been captured in never-before-seen detail by the Webb Space Telescope.

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For an ultra low-budget movie about a monster in a lake terrorizing a small town, 1979's Bog is quirky enough to make it notable and charmingly bad enough to make it thoroughly entertaining. Its highlights include a script stuffed with howlers and a fish-man costume that looks like a middle-school art project.

With the first E Ink devices having debuted almost two decades ago, it’s been a long road transitioning the technology from black and white to color. But yesterday, E Ink revealed some tantalizing details on its latest color electronic paper panels, Spectra 6, with color reproduction that looks almost as good as what…Read more...

A Washington woman with acute tuberculosis remains free despite having an arrest warrant filed against her. She was diagnosed over a year ago and has continued to refuse treatment or to isolate herself from others while contagious. Local health officials are expected to once again obtain a court order on Friday.Read more...

At Star Wars Celebration, James Mangold, the soon-to-be-Star Wars and current director of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, could have stopped at just showing fans the latest trailer for the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones adventure, but he wanted to do more. So after the trailer, he also showed six minutes of…Read more...

Maggie Rogers announced she’s going “old school” ahead of her upcoming tour by bringing ticket sales back to the in-person box office. Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. today, and Rogers told her fans on her site to “buy an in-person ticket like it’s 1965” while expressing her frustration over recent price gouging and…Read more...

Like a voodoo doll that’s been poked and prodded by an overly-enthusiastic amateur magician, Elon Musk’s Twitter has started to come apart at the seams. Now it’s an open question if Musk’s well-known vindictiveness has broken another aspect of the site as Substack writers say their attempts to promote their work on…Read more...

‘What goes up must come down’ is a fundamental truth of physics, and also seemingly of cryptocurrencies. Sometimes though, the coins get a little help on the roller coaster ride. On Thursday evening, after hyping the blockchain bucks, Twitter pulled the rug out from under Dogecoin.

The first season of Andor turned out to be one of the best shows (both sci-fi and generally speaking) of last year. Thanks to some pretty great performances and writing, the show wasn’t so much the Rogue One prequel it was initially pitched as and more a look at what rebellion and government systems look like, and how…Read more...

After signing up to YouTube as a new, 13-year-old user, Sky News found that YouTube flooded the feed with Andrew Tate videos, despite the professional misogynist being banned from the platform. The report highlights criticisms that YouTube is algorithmically pushing young boys to become fans of the toxic influencer…Read more...

A new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 featurette really nails home that this is a send-off. Five Nights at Freddy’s and the Minecraft movie get premiere dates. Quicksand does not make a good marriage counselor in a new horror flick. Plus, we have more proof the Rick and Michonne TWD series is really happening. Get to…Read more...

We’ve never known much about what to expect from Star Wars: The Acolyte, the Disney+ series from Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), other than it’s set at the end of the High Republic era around 100 years before The Phantom Menace, will explore the Dark Side, and has a ridiculously talented cast. At Star Wars Celebration…Read more...

Famines, sea level rise, extreme weather, more pandemics—by this point, you’ve probably heard about the most disturbing consequences of climate change. What you might not have heard is that it could also hurt Major League Baseball. That’s right, America’s favorite pastime is imperiled by its other favorite hobby:…Read more...

We’ve known about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew for the past year, which has been called an “Amblin-style” series about a group of space-adventuring kids (plus Jude Law) from Spider-Man director Jon Watts (and a few more friends, including Oscar-winning duo the Daniels). At today’s Star Wars Celebration, we learned even…Read more...

At Star Wars Celebration 2023, Disney unveiled the first official look at Star Wars: Ahsoka. The series picks up after Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson)’s live action appearances on The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett, and once again features Dave Filoni as a driving creative force for the series. Take a look at the…Read more...

Star Wars has kicked off Star Wars Celebration 2023 with the official announcement for the highly anticipated next live-action film. Rumors about the film circulated when Lucasfilm announced the panel lineup that included “live-action” filmmakers. Now, we finally know what they were talking about. After a hiatus from…Read more...

Sorry Venmo and CashApp heads, you’re missing out. Earlier this week, Google Pay users began reporting that they were receiving phantom payments in their accounts. The amounts ranged anywhere from a few bucks to over $1,000.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is having second thoughts over sticking NPR with a “state-affiliated media” label this past Wednesday, a decision which opened a debate about press freedom and led NPR to stop tweeting in protest.Read more...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is arriving in June—but so far, all fans of Harrison Ford’s rakish-at-any-age hero have gotten is one measly trailer. That changed today when the fifth entry in the beloved franchise got a fresh look at the film as part of Lucasfilm’s big panel at Star Wars Celebration Europe.

The warmest and most welcome addition to the Star Wars universe made her debut on The Mandalorian’s “Guns for Hire” episode.Read more...

After nearly two years, Chrome browsers may soon finally get a feature that has thus far been restricted to Google Pixel phones. On Thursday, Reddit user and Chrome Canary beta tester Leopeva64 posted several screenshots and GIFs on the r/chrome subreddit showing off an upcoming Live Translate caption feature coming…Read more...

It’s a big year for Warner Bros. with all its centennial celebrations. Merch marking the WB100 features mash-ups with the Looney Tunes, DC characters, and cinematic classics like Casablanca. The collection also includes special edition items inspired by WB’s 100 years of storytelling—think replicas of iconic props like…Read more...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed new regulation that would make chemical plant owners and operators responsible for their toxic emissions. Facilities would have to measure and reduce hazardous compounds beyond just the property that a chemical plant sits on, a change that could…Read more...

Former Tesla employees are confessing to having shared, laughed at, played back in slow motion, and just generally had a great time watching the videos that were taken with customers’ in-vehicle cameras. Reuters reports that close to a dozen former employees have revealed that sharing drivers’ personal videos was one…Read more...

Guangzhou-based company CAS Space recently flew a small rocket-like prototype outside a Chinese coastal city before landing it upright on a sea-based platform. The successful test flight and landing could eventually change the game for the Chinese rocket industry.

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Last year, California’s waterways were disappearing. The West was gripped by a historic megadrought that left major reservoirs at historic lows, slashed hydropower, and messed with produce prices.

Axiom Space is getting ready to launch its second private mission to the International Space Station (ISS), applying valuable lessons learned from the company’s inaugural crew experience as it prepares for its own space station in low Earth orbit.Read more...

A tech company is under fire for seemingly posting a job listing asking for white candidates only with a note saying not to publish that information. Arthur Grand Technologies reportedly posted an ad on Indeed for a business analyst position with the note “Only Born US Citizens [White] who are local within 60 miles…Read more...

Books and short stories get snapped up for adaptations all the time; many, no matter how amazing the source material, never actually get made into movies or TV shows. These 10 sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles, however, are actively in the works—or at least have big names attached, so there’s definite reason to…Read more...

Next year, Google will get rid of third-party cookies, the tracking tool marketers and data hogs have used to follow you around the web since 1994. To replace the cookie, Google has an offering for the world. It’s called “Privacy Sandbox,” a set of proposed changes to Chrome and Android which—according to the…Read more...

We were big fans of the original Spyra One when it debuted in the Summer of 2018 with two features never before seen on water guns: it fired concentrated blasts of water—the equivalent of liquid bullets, and it could refill itself when inserted into a bucket of water. Its creators are back with the fourth iteration of…Read more...

The handheld console market is growing faster than Wario at an all-you-can-eat pasta buffet, but the major legacy console developers are unwilling to capitalize on it. Even the Nintendo Switch is getting a bit long in the tooth at this point, meaning we’re now seeing competition in the form of devices like the Steam…Read more...

The Lego Batman Movie was a critical and commercial hit, earning more than $300 million at the box office in 2017—and yet, a sequel will never happen. That’s because Lego ended its partnership with Warner Bros., which owns DC Comics and Batman, and signed with Universal instead. But director Chris McKay has revealed…Read more...

In 2017 everyone was talking about The Power. The sci-fi novel topped bestseller lists, was featured in book clubs and on morning talk shows, and Barack Obama named it one of the best books he read that year. In the book young women are able to control electrical currents and even emit electricity. The satirical novel…Read more...

If you’re on the line, stay on the line! That is: Stay on your iPhone call with emergency services if Apple’s crash detection feature unnecessarily calls for help on your behalf.

Archaeologists recovered ancient hair from a cave in Menorca, one of the Balearic Islands, and found it contained compounds that can cause hallucinations or altered states of consciousness in humans. In other words, the team found evidence of an ancient trip.Read more...

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Artificial Intelligence jobs are all the rage with the sudden popularity of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Even though there are concerns the robots will eventually take over existing jobs ranging from computer programmers and software engineers, advertising and journalism, paralegals, market research analysts, and…Read more...

Dune: Part One is inarguably beautiful to watch. Every shot is stunning, as if every frame of film could be its own art piece. It’s no wonder the movie won the Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Visual Effects Oscars at the 2022 Academy Awards. Now you can enjoy that splendor in a new form: Dune…Read more...

Star Wars Celebration Europe is finally here, meaning several days of news from a galaxy far, far away. But what should you expect? What’s definitely happening? When is it happening? We’ve got you covered: the newest Star Wars movies, streaming shows, books, toys, nostalgia, you name it.Read more...

New, gut-wrenching details have emerged in the death of tech executive Bob Lee, the creator of Cash App: Lee, 43, screamed for help after getting stabbed and approached people in a parked car for assistance. The people in the car drove away.Read more...