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A group of security researchers have, once again, proven that Tesla vehicles’ high-tech software and systems are easily exploited. At Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own 2023 hacking competition this week, cybersecurity firm Synacktiv successfully cracked both Tesla’s infotainment and Gateway networks in a Model 3 car, as…Read more...

After undergoing a procedure aimed at restoring her hearing after 12 years of silence, college student Chloe (Chucky’s Lachlan Watson) heads to her family’s Cape Cod cottage to recuperate. It’s lonely—but as The Unheard explores, she finds she’s not alone, seemingly in both natural and supernatural ways.Read more...

Months after Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster went up in flames, the company released a report pinpointing the cause of the rocket anomaly that halted its operations.Read more...

Star Trek: Picard’s third and final season is shaping up to be a fitting, nostalgic farewell to its titular hero so far—but is the journey of boldly going ever over when there are both the vast reaches of the final frontier and the capitalist mechanism of the mega-franchise to consider? Not really, but hey, at least…Read more...

Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk once played the Mr. Money Bags role to Silicon Valley’s newest darling OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT and DALLE-2. The nonprofit has become the center of the tech world’s new obsession with AI, but a new report claims that back in 2018 Musk proposed he take over the nonprofit research…Read more...

British satellite company OneWeb is gearing up for the launch of its final batch of internet satellites, completing a constellation in low Earth orbit despite some hiccups along the way.Read more...

If you were already stressed about increased air pollution and more frequent heat waves, well, you can add another disturbing health impact of climate change to your list: the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, which is thriving in warming U.S. waters.Read more...

National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has officially stated that employers cannot offer non-disparagement agreements in severance packages and that any previous non-disparagement agreements are void. In other words, the NLRB has made it official that after you move on from your place of…Read more...

There’s a long-standing tradition in the arts, whether it’s literature, film, music, or all pop culture in general: every once in a while, someone comes along and proclaims a genre irrevocably dead. The jury’s been out on cyberpunk for decades.Read more...

Former President Donald Trump appeared to suggest there could be “death and destruction” if he is indicted in the Stormy Daniels investigation. Trump, who called the investigation a “witch hunt” in a video posted to his Truth Social platform earlier this week, is once again trying to ramp up his supporters.

A controversy in the world of shark science has come to a close. A group of scientists who published a record of what would be the first-ever goblin shark found in the Mediterranean Sea have retracted their work. The retraction, submitted March 20, follows Gizmodo’s earlier reporting on the saga.

Like a marshmallow roasted by a God, the plot thickens for the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Actors Kumail Nanjiani and Patton Oswalt have joined the cast of what’s being referred to as Ghostbusters: Firehouse, along with Gossip Girl’s Emily Alyn Lind and comedian James Acaster.Read more...

A fiery coalition of more than two dozen TikTok content creators gathered outside the steps of the nation’s capitol Wednesday to fiercely oppose growing lawmaker calls for a nationwide ban. Every one of those protesters had their expenses covered by TikTok.Read more...

Balancing both old-school leitmotifs and modern musical themes, the score for Star Trek: Picard is getting a brilliant vinyl release. We have an exclusive interview with the composers and a comment from showrunner Terry Matalas on the music of the show.Read more...

Sal Khan, the founder of the nonprofit education organization Khan Academy, said that in the early days of popular language model GPT-4’s development, the system was spitting out inaccurate math. Khan and his team had an early look at the next-gen AI system as it was being developed and were trying to find…Read more...

Utah passed a pair of laws on Thursday laying out groundbreaking rules for children and social media. The laws require social media companies to verify users’ ages, obtain parental consent before kids can use apps like Instagram or TikTok, and ban anyone under 18 from using social media between 10:30 PM and 6:30 AM.Read more...

It’s a sad day for fans of pop culture collectibles as Funko has let go of almost half of the 40 or so employees working for Mondo, the Austin, Texas-based collectible company famous for its alternative movie posters, collectible toys, vinyl music releases, and more.Read more...

Dawn Aerospace CEO Stefan Powell announced today that the company’s Mk-II Aurora spaceplane has received approval from the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand for rocket-powered flight. The company is now ready to test the vehicle’s rocket engines with flights beginning next month.

With all the fanfare around the Webb Space Telescope, it’s easy to forget about the tireless work of Hubble, its predecessor. The 30-year-old orbiting observatory has taken new images of Jupiter and Uranus that reveal recent changes in the atmospheres of the two worlds.Read more...

The phrase “good movie” and “Star Wars Holiday Special” are not regularly in the same sentence, but there’s a first time for everything. Here goes: A Disturbance in the Force, a new documentary about The Star Wars Holiday Special, is in fact a good movie.Read more...

There are several moments in the first two episodes of the new Apple TV+ series Extrapolations, which is intended to be a star-studded and terrifyingly realistic look into our potential climate future, that made me laugh out loud when I know I wasn’t supposed to.

Although the convenience of having your digital documents backed up to the cloud and available everywhere was once a pricey privilege, Google will now enable your digital hoarding for the price of a fancy cup of coffee: 2TB of storage for just $10/month, and even more, if you need. But there’s another way to take…Read more...

A subset of Missouri legislators care deeply about freedom. For instance: The God-given right to NOT accept a life-saving vaccination and still attend public school or go to work in a hospital. Also, the freedom to not be forcibly injected with a (non-existent) microchip device or a DNA-altering substance.

We’ve waited a long time for Boeing’s first crewed test flight to the International Space Station (ISS), and it now appears that we’re going to have to wait even longer. The next launch of the Starliner CST-100 spacecraft has been pushed back yet again as NASA assesses its readiness.Read more...

If you are aware Ahmed Best was the motion capture actor behind Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace, you also likely know that the actor suffered for portraying what was (and maybe still is) the most reviled character in Star Wars history. And if you know that, there’s also a decent chance that you were delighted by …Read more...

This story by the Center for Public Integrity was published in partnership with Grist and is part of a series on soil lead contamination.

Today in Japan, the final episode of the Pokémon anime to feature Satoshi, a.k.a. Ash Ketchum, aired—bringing to a close a legacy that has helped define the franchise for 25 years. But while we have a little while longer to see Ash’s adventure end in the English dub, we’ve already got a peek of what’s on the…Read more...

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A wolverine sighting was reported outside Portland, Oregon on Monday, marking the first sighting outside the Wallowa Mountains in over three decades. The animal was thought to have been eradicated from the area in 1936, making this sighting highly unusual.Read more...

It was weirdly warm in Washington D.C. and along much of the U.S. East Coast this winter. And, despite some brief bursts of colder temperatures, the unseasonable weather has had some some spillover effects. Spring sprung early, bringing on pollen and allergy season to parts of the country sooner than generally…Read more...

A familiar face returns for Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning. Get a look at the set of Joker 2. Zack Snyder still wants to make a sequel to Army of the Dead. Plus, more from the final season of Riverdale, and a glorious new look at Shin Kamen Rider. Spoilers, away!

Terra co-founder Do Kwon, the man who arguably started the crypto collapse last year who was definitely not on the lam, was finally arrested Thursday. Now there are multiple countries, including Montenegro, South Korea, and the U.S. who are calling dibs on the failed crypto founder, making him a far more desirable…Read more...

You have just returned home after a long day at work and are about to sit down for dinner when suddenly your phone starts buzzing. On the other end is a loved one, perhaps a parent, a child or a childhood friend, begging you to send them money immediately.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday. It was Chew’s first major introduction to the public, and it didn’t make for a smooth entry.

Everyone has their favorite pop culture vehicle, but for me, few are as cool as the DeLorean from Back to the Future Part II. Sure, the original one is awesome, and the Western flair of the third one is slick, but we’re talking the flying, Mr. Fusion-having, neon-lights-buzzing version that takes Marty, Doc, and…Read more...

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in a combative hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday. As expected, Congress ran Chew through the gauntlet, but the hearing included a number of stunning moments. Among them, one congresswoman pointed out a TikTok video of a gun threatening the committee’s…Read more...

We’ve all seen it on screens—there’s an unhealthy obsession in Hollywood with pitting two friends against each other for someone else’s love. The dreaded, cliched love triangle. There is an easy solution here. Polyamory! All these triangles need to throuple up with healthy, ethical expectations of each other and…Read more...

Framework, the makers behind the modular Framework Laptop 13, held a small event in San Francisco today. It’s the first time the company has had an in-person event to show off its wares, but that didn’t keep it from coming out strong. In addition to the new, gamer-centric Framework Laptop 16—which I couldn’t…Read more...

Much of Picard’s third season has examined the legacy and lineages of its heroes—with Jean-Luc discovering his son with Beverly Crusher, Raffi and Seven combatting their loneliness in different ways, and Riker still grappling with the loss of his own child. But its latest episode finds much more solace in the families…Read more...

If you cross your fingers, bow your head, and pray to the great Google gods above, you could be one of the first few to access Google Maps’ long-awaited “immersive view.” The 3D cities flyover feature has been quietly rolling out to users over the past week, though only some are reporting that they have access to it …Read more...

Everybody’s favorite streaming service—no, not ad-free Netflix—is gearing up to become the next great studio coming to a cinema near you. Sources familiar with Apple’s business plans have revealed to Bloomberg that the company is spending $1 billion on its foray into film.

It’s been 20 years since the world was first blessed with Tommy Wiseau’s debut film, The Room, and now he’s finally ready for the follow-up. The film is called Big Shark and it’s about, you guessed it, a big shark. Though you may not put that together from this first trailer since the majority of it is just a whole…Read more...

One of the biggest issues plaguing gamers is finding a projector for big screen gaming that not only performs as well as a TV, but also aesthetically matches their living room setup. It’s a struggle Xbox fans no longer have to contend with, though, as Viewsonic has introduced two new 4K projectors that include the “…Read more...

Apple AirTags can be useful for things like finding your keys or keeping tabs on luggage. But it’s also well-established that the small quarter-sized tracking devices, can be employed in some less-than-savory ways. People have sued over AirTags being used to enable stalking. Police have claimed the devices have even …Read more...

After two months of recaps and video reviews, I can’t believe HBO’s The Last of Us is over. For now, of course. Season two (and probably three) is on the way, but for now, fans are left to wallow in the horrific actions of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and their impact on Ellie (Bella Ramsey).Read more...

NASA engineers are struggling to get a lunar probe on the right track and have until the end of April to fix the spacecraft’s thrusters so that it is able to fly over the Moon’s South Pole.Read more...

Bastrop, Texas residents are pushing back against a permit that would allow Elon Musk’s infrastructure construction company, the Boring Co., to dump more than 140,000 gallons of treated wastewater a day into the nearby Colorado River.Read more...

New city, new look. With Scream VI’s shift away from Woodsboro, the ensemble—including Ghostface—got a makeover for the horror series’ latest entry. io9 caught up with Avery Plewes, the costume designer tasked with not only outfitting the current cast, but also incorporating past character looks—as well as dressing a…Read more...

Apple’s trying to figure out new ways for users to snap a quick selfie or use FaceID without digging in their pocket for their phone. A newly-revealed patent from Apple shares that the company is looking at a wearable device with a “protrusion” for a camera located above the watch face and positioned over the watch…Read more...

Real life is so horrifying it’s no surprise it regularly inspires horror fiction. Different from thrillers that dramatize documented events (like Zodiac or any of the various Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer projects), these 10 films pluck only certain elements from true crime and use them to enhance their own scripted…Read more...