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A popular class of weight loss drugs may offer more lasting success than assumed, new data from Epic Research suggests. The study of medical records found that a slight majority of people who took GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide either maintained or improved their weight loss in the year after they stopped using the...Read more...

The Sundance Film Festival is fond of programming Satan-themed documentaries, including 2019's Hail Satan?, about the Satanic Temple, and 2023's Satan Wants You, about the Satanic Panic phenomenon of the 1980s. This year, Realm of Satan continues the tradition, though it's hardly a traditional doc.Read more...

Meta no longer allows teenagers to receive direct messages from anyone they're not following on Instagram, or friends with on Facebook, according to a company blog post on Thursday. The policy update aims to create a safer environment for minors on the platform, one week after Meta's internal documents revealed that...Read more...

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan's vampire movie is close to finding a home. Robert McCamon's post-apocalyptic novelSwan Song is being turned into a TV series. Dune Part 2 gets the mandatory floating heads poster. Plus, what's to come as La Brea enters the endgame. Spoilers now!

Big tech's big dreams of a corporate metaverse filled with virtual reality workplaces aren't quite dead yet, at least according to Microsoft. The Redmond, Washington tech giant finally unveiled its 3D Mesh integration for Microsoft Teams, offering a new wave of generic-looking, legless avatars for making work meetings...Read more...

Meet the animal kingdom's newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod-a member of the family Cirolanidae-and is only the second species of its genus described from the Western North Atlantic.

In the summer of 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma was boarding a flight to Spain at London's Gatwick Airport when he sent a message to his friend on Snapchat: On my way to blow up the plane (I'm a member of the Taliban)." As you might expect, the message was a joke. Unfortunately, the kid happened to be using the...Read more...

Christopher Nolan is currently having the biggest year of an already incredible career and he's about to rewind it back in time. Apparently, he asked Warner Bros. if it would re-release his troubled 2020 film Tenet in theaters as a way to build hype for Dune: Part Two, and it agreed.Read more...

It's already been established that a pocket of toxic Star Wars fandom is rooting for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's movie exploring the New Jedi Order to fail. But the star of the first Star Wars feature to be directed by a woman-Rey Skywalker herself, Daisy Ridley-is here to remind fans to keep culture wars out of Star Wars.Read more...

Oscar winner Halle Berry may have at one time played Catwoman, but this week she got Batgirl'd. In a move reminiscent of what Warner Bros. did to the DC film a few years back, Netflix has decided to pull the plug on Berry's upcoming sci-fi film The Mothership before the film was finished.Read more...

The labyrinthine mire that is Twitch's streamer revenue-sharing system is getting both a little more streamlined and more convoluted in equal measure.Read more...

No, you're not seeing double. The Sun just flung out two massive flares of radiation from opposite hemispheres at nearly the same exact moment, a sign that our host star is fast approaching a period of peak activity.Read more...

The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in the UK is trying a new plan to contain its growing group of foul-mouthed African grey parrots. The zoo will introduce the expletive-loving birds to a larger flock in hopes that the other parrots will pass along their good manners. But there is a chance that the experiment will only...Read more...

In the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000's future, there is only one thing: war. In the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000 fandom right now, there are only two: not enough hardback novels, and too many reseller bots gobbling them up.

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The new era of spaceflight is all about reaching orbit in the fastest and cheapest way possible, and reusable rockets have defined the future of the industry. That's why so many companies are trying to get in on the action, including a Chinese startup that recently pulled off the first flight test of a reusable first...Read more...

Yesterday the Academy announced the nominees for the 2024 Oscars, and Barbie did very well for itself. Best Adapted Screenplay! Two original song nods! Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor and America Ferrera for Best Supporting Actress! A Best Picture nomination! But alas, this has proven to not in fact be enough...Read more...

Ring, Amazon's home surveillance company, will stop letting police departments request video footage directly from users in its app, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. However, that doesn't change the massive amount of footage the company, itself, shares with law enforcement. Ring has historically shared...Read more...

Ryan Reynolds celebrated the conclusion of filming Deadpool 3 in the most Deadpool way imaginable. With a picture of his genitals. They were behind a costume, of course-but still, it's clearly a photo of Deadpool's junk.Read more...

Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behavior are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data and a 50-year-old prediction about gravity's import on subatomic particles, a team of physicists has teased out a...Read more...

New Yorkers will finally be able to grow their own thanks to new ordinances set for a vote by the state's Cannabis Control Board. If the proposed regulations are finalized, state residents will be allowed to cultivate up to 12 cannabis plants and keep 5 pounds of self-produced cannabis flower in their shoebox...Read more...

Nintendo confirmed on its support page that April 8 is when it's going to shut down online services for two of its older consoles: the 3DS and Wii U. The Mario company says March 27 is when the eShop for both will be discontinued while March 11 is the last date to transfer any money you might have in those eShops...Read more...

The awkward aliens of Solar Opposites have already had a blast ripping into Earth's embrace of Christmas and Halloween, and their next holiday target-er, special, now has a trailer to share. An Earth Shatteringly Romantic Solar Valentine's Day Opposites Special is its official title, and romance is in its crosshairs.

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A relatively new cancer treatment known as CAR T cell therapy is perhaps more dangerous than we knew. The Food and Drug Administration found evidence that the treatment can potentially raise the risk of secondary cancers and is telling makers of these products to add a boxed warning detailing the risk to their...Read more...

Everybody, at one time or another, has wanted something they can't have. Often it's something other people can buy, but you're not able get your hands on. As an adult, maybe it's a high-end car like a Ferrari. As a teenager, maybe it's the latest video game system. And, when you're a kid, it's usually a toy.Read more...

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidtis quietly building a kamikaze drone startup in the U.S. and Ukraine called White Stork," according to a report by Forbes Tuesday. The project is named after Ukraine's national bird and White Stork hopes to sell advanced AI drone technology to the country's ongoing war effort.Read more...

This year, at least some countries will have to say goodbye to the Netflix Basic subscription tier, the last cheap(ish) way to watch Netflix without ads. While the streaming giant had already severed the $12 Basic subscription tier for new or returning subscribers, anybody who chose to keep paying their monthly tithe...Read more...

Ian McShane discusses John Wick's latest spinoff and its place in the timeline. X-Men 97 reveals its new and returning cast. La Brea sets the stage for the beginning of its end. Plus, another new look at Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender. To me, my spoilers!

There is enough dust lingering in the bowels of my old, childhood desktop tower to make my roommate sneeze and cough while sitting on the couch 10 feet behind me. It's been a long time since I dared crack the shell on my ancient PC, a decade and a half since I first put it together. Few products of my childhood years...Read more...

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When NASA attempted to return to the Moon for the first time in 50 years on January 8, more was at risk than just $108 million worth of development and equipment. The agency earned the ire of the Native American Navajo people, who made a bid to stop the launch because of an unusual inclusion in the payload.Read more...

Ever wondered what a masked maniac in the vein of Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees does in his downtime-or what it might be like if Terrence Malick made a slasher movie? In a Violent Nature, which just debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and will stream on Shudder, sets out to answer both questions.Read more...

When your landmark film gets a surprise, history-making Oscar nomination, there's cause for celebration. And that's exactly what the team behind Godzilla Minus One did earlier today when the film was nominated for Best Visual Effects.Read more...

BMW has signed a first-of-its-kind deal to put humanoid" robots to work at one of its factories. The robots, which are designed to be more operationally flexible than traditional industrial robots, will supposedly assist the luxury car manufacturer with various parts of the manufacturing process.

Squid Game: The Challenge may have beencontroversial-but it was a huge hit for Netflix, and now there's good news for both the streamer and fans who'd much rather have the real deal than the reality competition spin-off: the smash hit South Korean thriller will finally return this year.Read more...

We are all the sledgehammer, Apple does like to tell its fans. We are all disruptors hurtling toward one great screen, breaking the iron-fisted hold that other tech firms want to impose on us. The hellscape dystopia world of Apple's famed 1984" commercial modeled after George Orwell's seminal dystopia 1984 never...Read more...

Apple has yet to confirm the existence of the Apple Car, but it appears this thing hit another snag on the way to its big reveal.Read more...

We might be getting a lot of new Star Wars this year, but when it comes to new Star Wars toys, Hasbro is playing things close to the vest so far for 2024. The toy company kicked off its first livestream from the galaxy far, far away today with a series of reveals that focused less on the new, and more on the familiar.

If you're ever on your lunch break in space, you might actually want to stay away from the salad. A team of scientists grew lettuce in a simulated microgravity environment on Earth and found that plants have a hard time protecting themselves against harmful bacteria in space.Read more...

Audiences at the time might have been fooled, but 25 year later, everyone knows The Blair Witch Project is a work of fiction. But even without that true story" gimmick going for it, the movie remains surprisingly potent, both taken on its own and when considered in the context of not just 1999's other horror...Read more...

I'm not saying that Samsung's foldables are less resistant to life's surprises than a standard smartphone, but the inside display is soft, and things can happen. And when they do, Samsung can help you fix the screen yourself-if you dare.

On Tuesday, Google announced a slew of new features in Chrome that continue web browsers' inevitable march into the world of artificial intelligence. They include an AI theme generator that customizes the look of your browser, a tool that will fill any field with AI-penned text, and a new smart" tab organizer that...Read more...

Today's Oscar nominations brought a fair amount of genre representation, thanks to movies like Barbie, Poor Things, and io9's top movie of 2023, Godzilla Minus One. Of course, the Academy traditionally favors dramas, so there were some notable snubs of standout sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and animated movies too.

Scientists say they've invented a piece of technology that will let us peer through an animal's eyes better than ever before. The tech uses a combination of novel hardware and software to produce images and videos that accurately represent the colors seen by animals, such as bees and birds. In new research this week,...Read more...

I hope the former record-holders aren't too cross: a team of researchers recently made the smallest, tightest knot yet known, landing themselves top spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

We may think of Star Wars as futuristic but never forget it's actually set a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Star Wars is the past and with a new series of art pieces, artist Daniel Arsham has reimagined some of the franchise's iconic pieces as ancient relics. Or, as he'd say, future relics."Read more...

Netflix has been exploring the idea of live-streaming shows for years, and like a chair shot to the back of the head, the company revealed Tuesday it struck a deal to live-stream WWE Raw for the next decade.Read more...

The International Space Station is so hot right now, with no less than two movies out featuring the orbital lab, namely I.S.S. and Constellation. Indeed, the ISS is an absolute icon and a fixture of popular culture. But beyond its well-known status as a pioneering space laboratory, it harbors a wealth of lesser-known...Read more...

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