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Colorado's Supreme Court this week had the opportunity to hand down a historic judgment on the constitutionality of reverse keyword search warrants," a powerful new surveillance technique that grants law enforcement the ability to identify potential criminal suspects based on broad, far-reaching internet search...Read more...

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Discord revealed Teen Safety Assist, a new safety initiative to promote a safer environment for younger users to hang out in. The initiative includes default enabled safety features for teenagers on the app, such as proactive filters and alerts.Read more...

Calling up an IT department for help can be a frustrating experience-the only thing more frustrating is getting scammed out of money. Microsoft, Amazon, and Indian law enforcement identified a potential fraud ring with a ton of tech confiscated during searches in the country.Read more...

Ever since the release of the original Uncharted: Drake's Fortune in 2007, PlayStation's first-party lineup has gradually evolved into flashy cinematic affairs. Like tentpole blockbusters or the HBO original series of old, you're meant to feel the effort that went into these productions, and many of them often have a...Read more...

Like more than half of adult Americans, I need a little noise to go to sleep. Some use a white noise machine or their TV, but my preference is podcasts playing on my phone. At least that was my preferred method until iOS 17 came along and messed things up.Read more...

New research might complicate our understanding of ketamine as a potential treatment for depression. The study found that people with depression who were either given saline or ketamine before undergoing anesthesia for a surgery experienced a similar improvement in their symptoms afterward. The findings suggest that...Read more...

Finally, we've reached the end credits scene from Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and get more context about why Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson) were poking around in 1893.

Much like the previous two Spider-games, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is all about the suits. Whether you play more as Peter Parker or Miles Morales, the farther you get in the game, the more suits you can unlock. The suits can change the way the entire game looks and feels, and often allow you to live out your wildest...Read more...

When it came to making the stars of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza come to life, Blumhouse and Universal brought out the big puppeteering guns from the Jim Henson Company.Read more...

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit Thursday morning against cryptocurrency companies Gemini Trust, Genesis Global Capital, and Digital Currency Group (DCG) for defrauding over 230,000 investors of over $1 billion.Read more...

In July 2022, the Webb Space Telescope detected an intense jet shooting across the equator of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. The jet is traveling at about 320 miles per hour (515 kilometers per hour) and is about 25 miles (40 km) in altitude, corresponding to Jupiter's lower stratosphere.Read more...

In a continued effort to make a dying platform profitable, Elon Musk unveiled two subscription tiers for X, formerly known as Twitter. At the same time, Musk continues his vendetta against news publishers by stripping The New York Times' official account of its gold verification checkmark, as first spotted by the...Read more...

It's no surprise that the climate crisis is fueling more intense weather, but new research shows how warming ocean temperatures are boosting tropical storms, causing hurricanes to become bigger and stronger at faster rates. A study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports found that hurricanes that form...Read more...

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is here, and with it, another entry into the great long history of adaptations of one of Spidey's greatest foes-turned-frenemies in Venom. But do Marvel's Spider-Man fans really care about examining this latest take on the iconic character, or are they... interested in a certain amount of inches...Read more...

Earlier this month, at New York Comic Con, Bryan Lee O'Malley and BenDavid Grabinski sat down with io9 and a roundtable of journalists to discuss the upcoming anime, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. Based off O'Malley's graphic novels and reinventing the story that people fell in love with over and over again, the two spoke...Read more...

Instagram users reported last week that their bios including the word Palestinian" and the Arabic phrase Alhamdulillah", which means praise be to God", were auto-translated to say Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."Read more...

Sony recently patented a PS5 controller that can also store and charge wireless earbuds.

All three contemporary showrunners behind the return of Doctor Who-Russell T. Davies, Steven Moffat, and Chris Chibnall-have apparently not been in a room together until recently since 2009. It's perhaps easy to see why, because the sheer amount of Doctor Who nerdery contained between the three of them is dangerous to...Read more...

Charlie Brooker created Black Mirror for Channel 4 in the U.K. before it was snapped up by Netflix for streaming. The first two seasons (plus one special) were extremely dark, and Brooker admitted during a chat at SXSW Sydney that the general lightening of tone once the show was produced by Netflix was a criticism"...Read more...

Jon Stewart is best known for pissing the right people off with his nuanced political takes on his Apple TV show The Problem with Jon Stewart, and it appears he's also pissed off his employer. Stewart's The Problem has officially been canceled, and the reason why may lie in his view on artificial intelligence, a...Read more...

Get another new look at Eli Roth's Thanksgiving. Hear a song from the Bollywood take on Archie Comics. A new featurette goes behind the scenes on the Hunger Games prequel. Plus, more footage from Poor Things, and when to expect the return of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Spoilers, away!Read more...

Slack says it is shutting down its SlackStatus account on X, which alerted users of incidents and outages on the platform, Thursday night. The office messaging platform will move its incident status alerts to its website.Read more...

iOS 17 is now with us, and it comes with a range of upgrades, tweaks, and improvements-including new ways to share your whereabouts with other people. Whether you're meeting friends in town or keeping an eye on the kids at school, you've now got more options for doing it on the iPhone.

A pair of spacecraft is undergoing final testing before a roughly 230 million mile journey to explore the Red Planet.Read more...

Yes, we're all recovering from some con or anotther, but don't let your guard down yet, dice warrior. Essen Speil awarded Dorfromantik: The Board Game (adapted from the video game of the same name) game of the year. We've also got Candela Obscura (from Critical Role) coming out in November, and even more games to look...Read more...

Everything you love about the films of Hayao Miyazaki is on full display in his new film, The Boy and the Heron. The way the legendary animator creates the most evocative, gorgeous, and goofy worlds, then turns them into something poignant and meaningful. Characters that defy imagination thrill and delight, but also...Read more...

Prime Video has gone ahead and renewed Gen V for a second season.Read more...

You may not know Onmyoji, but you've definitely seen its affect on popular culture. If you've ever played Pokemon, congrats! You've been introduced to the basics of Yin-Yang Mastery. Now, the popular Japanese novels by Baku Yumemakura are being turned into an anime for the very first time. Check out the trailer below.Read more...

Arianespace's latest Vega mission failed to deploy two of its payloads to orbit, likely due to a failure with the release mechanism with the rocket's upper stage.Read more...

All that metaverse tech - whatever that term means at this point - will get a big connectivity boost thanks to federal regulators.Read more...

Star Trek loves itself a cave episode. You can do a bunch of different stories in similar looking sets, you can restrict which members of the cast are the focus, you can thrust unlikely pairings together and force them to bounce off each other. Caves are good! Lower Decks not only agrees with this, but uses what is...Read more...

New research links the rare neurological condition Guillain-Barre syndrome to covid-19. The study tracked millions of people in Israel, finding that those with a recent history of covid-19 infection were noticeably more likely to develop Guillain-Barre than those without one. Conversely, covid-19 vaccination appeared...Read more...

A forensic accountant at Sam Bankman-Fried's trial tried piecing together where $9 billion of missing FTX customer funds went on Wednesday. Oh, yes," said the accountant when asked if FTX ever misused customer funds.Read more...

In recent updates on NASA's Artemis program, all four core stage engines have been installed onto the booster of the second Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, but a production issue has temporarily slowed work on the third.

Yesterday's under wraps talk between SAG-AFTRA leadership and Hollywood's elite actors has been revealed to be an offer to lend a hand to working class talent within the union from those in the limelight.Read more...

Nothing can travel faster than light, or 299,792,458 meters per second. But a certain group of particles acts as if it can, a team of physicists recently concluded, potentially paving the way for a powerful light source that could reveal new kinds of science.Read more...

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Don't buy those tickets for Deadpool 3 just yet. With the actor's strike still ongoing, it seems as if Merc with the Mouth may not make his original, May 3, 2024 release date.Read more...

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday in favor of restoring open internet protections for consumers and businesses, also referred to as net neutrality.Read more...

In June 2022, a radio telescope in Western Australia detected a fleeting radio signal from a galaxy over 10 billion light-years from Earth. Now, a team of astronomers that studied the blast have confirmed it's the most distant of its kind yet seen.Read more...

For years, Marc Andreessen has had so much money he's barely known what to do with himself. After striking it rich with the founding of Netscape during the 90s, he built himself into a mega-investor in a pantheon of Silicon Valley success stories, becoming a kingmaker in the upper echelons of tech. Now, after years...Read more...

Writer-director Matthew Vaughn is well known for turning giving franchises a good kick in the ass. He did that with a movie literally called Kick-Ass, but also by rebooting the X-Men franchise with First Class, and updating the spy franchise with Kingsman. In between, Vaughn has been attached to, or at least...Read more...

In a press conference last week, Greg Tito, senior communications manager for Wizards of the Coast, discussed the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons product The Deck of Many Things alongside lead designer Jason Tondro and game designer Makenzie De Armas.Read more...

Threads was a unicorn in the vacuum left behind by a Musk-infested Twitter turned X. But as the excitement for the sterile and lifeless platform inevitably waned for users, Meta's newest trick to give the illusion of Threads' growth is to just jam its posts into Facebook feeds.Read more...

Peacock streams new episodes of Chucky the day after they premiere on Syfy and USA-and any fans who've been lurking round those parts have probably noticed the streamer has an excellent library of horror movies. Here are 10 to get you started at the height of Halloween season.

After years of capturing the massive world of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft has recently turned its attention to its Jovian moons. During a close flyby of Jupiter's spookiest moon, Juno imaged the charred surface of a volcanic world caught in a haunting gravitational tug.

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Compared to a few of my coworkers, I've been a real Debbie Downer regarding foldables. Huddled for drinks or games with friends, I'd receive the usual oohs" and ahhs" every time I took out a new foldable I was reviewing. Then I would tell them the price. They'd grimace and say some variation of No way I'm spending...Read more...