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Two supernovae 22 million light-years away ejected dust into their region of the universe, Webb Space Telescope observations reveal, indicating that violent stellar deaths could give rise to new star systems.Read more...

Yup, that happened at the end of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Director James Mangold and the team took Indy to a place fans probably never dreamed we'd see him. And while there's been plenty of debate and discussion about the hows and whys, really only one person can definitely speak about them: Mangold...Read more...

The climate crisis has changed weather patterns, and this could increase crop failure in multiple agricultural regions around the world, a new study says. In a report published in Nature Communications this week, researchers in the U.S. and Germany outline how food-producing regions of the world will see significantly...Read more...

On Monday, the world reached a new milestone. July 3, 2023, was Earth's hottest day on record. Averaged across the whole planet, and all 24 hours, the composite surface temperature was 17.01 Celsius (~62.62 Fahrenheit), according to the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute, which compiles and assesses data...Read more...

A group of astronomers comprising the Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) just found a large group of ancient stars circling the galaxy's center in surprisingly orderly fashion.

We're back! It's Secret Invasion, episode three: Betrayed," and I have three guesses for who is going to be betrayed, and they're probably all right. This episode, like every episode in Secret Invasion, is directed by Ali Selim. No individual writers are credited with this episode, but the staff writers are Beto ...Read more...

Dear users of aging hardware, even Firefox is ready to stop supporting your out-of-date tech. On Tuesday, the Mozilla-owned browser released its latest update, claiming it was the last one that users of aging Mac and Windows users will see outside of an extended-release schedule that's set to end by September next...Read more...

When a film's biggest stunt is not even its most exciting, you know you're in for a good time and that's exactly what happens with Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. It's a film that not only sends the Mission franchise in an exciting new direction, it grounds things with a story that feels timely and...Read more...

A US federal judge handed the censorship-obsessed wing of the Republican party a major win on Tuesday by blocking Biden officials from contacting social media firms to suggest content moderation takedown requests. The preliminary injunction, delivered by way of a 155 page-ruling on Independence Day, marks the most...Read more...

Although we've only just got access to the first half of Henry Cavill's swansong as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's Witcher adaptation, we've known for a good while yet the actor was on his way out of the Continent for good. But Netflix is, bizarrely, using that fact to lure viewers back-while feeling like it's negging...Read more...

Although it can't compare to the performance of flagship devices from Apple or Samsung, our biggest complaint with the user-repairable Fairphone 4 was that it's not available in the United States. That's about to change, but those who've been patiently waiting two years for the Fairphone 4 to come to the US might be ...Read more...

ChatGPT can be used for a wonderfully broad variety of applications-with mixed results, of course. Less than a week after introducing its integration with Bing, ChatGPT pulled the plug on the collaboration as users discovered they could use it to bypass paywalled websites.

8BitDo's wireless-ification of classic video game controllers continues with a new wire-free version of a gamepad that is still divisive amongst retro gaming fans. Unlike other recent recreations, 8BitDo went to great lengths to ensure its NEOGEO CD Wireless Controller still included a joystick relying on...Read more...

A New Jersey judge is being investigated over inappropriate" videos he posted on his TikTok account, according to a complaint filed by the Supreme Court advisory committee on Friday. Superior Court Judge Gary Wilcox reportedly filmed and posted more than 40 TikTok videos under the alias Sal Tortorella between April...Read more...

Planetary protection is, more than ever, a major responsibility for humankind. Ensuring that no alien matter is carried back to Earth by spacecraft returning from an interplanetary mission is not the whole issue, however, as planetary protection also involves making sure that the planets and other celestial bodies...Read more...

Meta's Twitter clone, called Threads, is a hair away from release, and already the discussion rages on whether Mark Zuckerberg's latest attempt to copy what already exists will do what few bird app imitators have yet to accomplish. From what we know so far, Threads will be a relatively pared-down version of Twitter to...Read more...

Gal Gadot talks playing Disney's latest evil Queen for Snow White. Walking Dead's Rick and Michonne spinoff gets an incredibly unsurprising title. Plus, what's coming on the really real (for real this time) last episodes of Attack on Titan. Spoilers, away!

Like that one restaurant that manages to thrive in a strip mall that died years ago, Barnes & Noble's Nook line clearly has enough devoted fans for the company to continue to release updated e-readers, including the new GlowLight 4 Plus which finally brings audiobook support to E Ink-based Nook devices.Read more...

ChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic integrity, while administrators urge us to embrace the benefits" of this new frontier." It's a classic example of what my colleague Punya Mishra calls the doom-hype cycle" around new technologies. Likewise, media...Read more...

After your July 4 re-watch of Independence Day, your next move should be to stream 1996's other patriotically themed release: Uncle Sam, a movie so up-front about its intentions as a satirical horror comedy that its poster, a ghoulish parody of a military-recruiting ad, has the tag line I Want You... Dead."

The lore that's already been built up around Barbie has taught us that star Margot Robbie was instrumental from the very beginning in bringing the fashionableMattel doll to the big screen. But apparently, co-star Ryan Gosling-who plays Ken-took a bit more convincing to join the project.Read more...

Tensions continue to simmer between Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos, who on Saturday broke the world record for most concurrent live viewers on Twitch with his annual boxing event, and Twitch. After slamming the platform on Saturday for outages during La Velada del Ano III, which drew in 3.4 million viewers, the streamer...Read more...

Now open at Disney California Adventure's Hyperion Theater at the Disneyland Resort is Rogers: The Musical. Perhaps one of the last things Twitter fandom made happen, the abridged musical history of Steve Rogers' Captain America takes the corny parody seen in Disney+'s Hawkeye and expands it into a theme park-perfect...Read more...

The search for planets outside our Solar System - exoplanets - is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected and astronomers now estimate that on average there is at least one planet per star in our galaxy.

The first season of Apple TV+'s adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation required paying close attention to keep track of its dense plot and frequent time shifts. But those who stuck with its sci-fi saga were richly rewarded-and with season two on the way, there's no better time to catch up on season one.Read more...

There are 20 seconds in the 1996 blockbuster film Independence Day that get me every time. And it's not some big reveal. It's not some funny joke or hugely emotional beat. It's just a brief, 20-second blip where the film achieves a level of perfection that, I feel, it never reaches again, and this is coming from a...Read more...

Making art using artificial intelligence isn't new. It's as old as AI itself.Read more...

Elon Musk apparently took a break from training for his upcoming battle royale with Mark Zuckerberg to do a new, incredibly unpopular thing to Twitter this weekend. In a bout of inspired stupidity, Musk tweeted out a new edict Saturday: from now on, anybody who doesn't pay for Twitter will only be able to read a...Read more...

This weekend at Anime Expo, One Piece fans learned that the Japanese version of the upcoming live-action Netflix series will be dubbed by the anime's original Japanese voice actors. Today, there's even more One Piece dub news: the English dub of the anime will soon be arriving on Crunchyroll.Read more...

Comic book movie fans going to San Diego Comic-Con this year were just dealt another punch in the gut as filmmaker James Gunn revealed on his Instagram that he won't be attending the convention.Read more...

A cryptic, weirdly fantastic new anime is coming from WB Japan. Harley Quinn and the Joker take on another world, or possibly multiple worlds, in the teaser trailer for Suicide Squad ISEKAI. Do I know what's going on? No. But does it look exceptionally cool? Absolutely it does. Check out the short teaser below.Read more...

Game developers looking to distribute their playable creations via Valve'spopular Steam hub may have trouble if they're looking to use AI during the creative process. The game publisher and distributor says that Steam will no longer tolerate products that were generated using copyright-infringing AI content. Since...Read more...

Pornhub has officially pulled out of two more states, namely Mississippi and Virginia. As much as the latter state is for lovers," PornHub says it's protesting the states' recently-enacted age verification laws that create massive business and privacy issues for the porno site.Read more...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One promises to add even more perilous stunts to the Tom Cruise action franchise. But as part seven's release approaches, Paramount's paying tribute to a feature of the films that requires just its star and his very fleet feet. Who knew how much running Cruise did in these...Read more...

All signs point to this month's release of Barbie being a massive hit. It just seems to be the summer movie most people are talking about, and tracking on its opening weekend says it's likely to beat the new Christopher Nolan movie-even before any reviews have come out. If Barbie is actually as good as we all hope it...Read more...

After MagSafe came along in 2020, most of Anker's iPhone-specific portable chargers took advantage of the feature; magnetically adhering to the back of the device and charging it wirelessly. For the first time in a while, Anker has released an iPhone backup battery that connects directly to its Lightning port, but if...Read more...

After 63 days of agonizing silence, NASA's Martian chopper finally phoned home.Read more...

The next issue of Image Comics' Massive-Verse title No/One is out this week-and with it, a new installment of podcast Who Is No/One, which expands on its story. io9 has an exclusive clip to share from the true crime-style podcast, which stars Rachael Leigh Cook and Patton Oswalt as investigative journalists-and this...Read more...

Even for those who grew up in the days of cable-the ones who cut their teeth on brain-melting Sunny D or Kool Aid commercials-watching ads on streaming services is somehow more taxing and annoying than anything that came before Netflix first burst onto the scene. Part of the issue is that the same ads run constantly...Read more...

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After reports teasing a launch date of June for its Twitter rival, Instagram has let us down as we venture into July. However, there may be hope on the horizon as the competitor was briefly listed on the Apple and Google app stores over the weekend.

Blood-sucking ticks might be even clingier than we thought. Recent research has found that at least one tick species seems to use static electricity to help itself grapple onto potential hosts. The trick allows the tick to extend its reach by several body lengths, the authors say.Read more...

Humane, the hotly-hyped up consumer device startup-up helmed by former Apple executives finally has a name for its illusive AI-enabled wearable device. The pocket-sized product, which was spotted nestled in an executive's front pocket during a presentation earlier this year, is called the Humane Ai Pin. Whether or not...Read more...

Google updated its privacy policy over the weekend, explicitly saying the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they're nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.Read more...

Details can make a world of difference. When handled correctly, a tiny, well-thought-out detail can add a whole new level of enjoyment to a project. If ignored though, it can speak to a larger level of indifference. And this weekend, while rewatching Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, I noticed a perfect,...Read more...

French company Airseas, has promised to help cargo ships reduce their fuel consumption, and cut their greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 20%. And they're doing this with the Seawing-a 1,000 square meter kite that will fly 300 meters (984 feet) above the water's surface. So the global shipping industry is...Read more...

Sometimes you want your fantasy tales pierced with bloody drama and apocalyptic magic; other times, you're in the mood for something a bit sweeter. There's a reason cozy romantasy" is a popular genre, and Sangu Mandanna's debutThe Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches enchanted lots of its fans. The author...Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope has taken an image of the ringed planet Saturn, completing its photo album of our solar system's gas giants.Read more...

Scientists testing coffee against plain caffeine found that plain caffeine only partially reproduces the effects of drinking a cup of coffee, activating areas of the brain that make you feel more alert but not the areas of the brain that affect working memory and goal-directed behavior.

Ali Selim was tapped to direct Secret Invasion-Marvel's six-episode limited series on Disney+-precisely because of his work on spycraft historical fiction. But it seems like his focus on the grounded" world of Secret Invasion meant that he didn't think much about the superheroes flying around in the rest of the MCU.