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A new, very official-looking report has just dropped for the upcoming Star Wars movie starring Daisy Ridley but io9 has learned it's mostly inaccurate.Read more...

A debris field" was found in the area where authorities were searching for the missing Titanic submersible four days after the vessel disappeared, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday. In a race against the clock, the search and rescue mission, which started Sunday, has come to a close, Rear Admiral John Mauger...Read more...

Gaming chairs are close enough in design to office chairs to make it feel like you're doing important work, even if you're just spending hours terrorizing families of five in The Sims. But if you've managed to shrug off the societal guilt of gaming and only care about being comfortable, Japan's Bauhutte has created...Read more...

The Titan submersible vessel, which has gone missing with five people on board, was partially constructed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.Read more...

Elko, Nevada, is playing host to a real life horror movie scenario. The town is experiencing a substantial invasion of Mormon crickets. Thankfully, the imposing insects are not directly harmful to people.Read more...

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A slew of users of the online prediction marketplace Polymarket are betting tens of thousands of dollars on whether the missing Titanic tourist submersible, named the Titan, will be found by midnight ET on June 23, at which point it is likely the five passengers onboard will have run out of oxygen.Read more...

Microsoft's $68.7 billion bid to acquire video game maker Activision Blizzard has arrived in court. An evidentiary hearing that pits both tech giants against the Federal Trade Commission began at 8:30 A.M. Pacific (11:30 A.M. Eastern) on Thursday morning. Big money and an industry-wide restructuring are at stake over...Read more...

I'll never forget where I was at roughly 3:00 am on May 22, 2008. While most people were sleeping, myself and a few friends poured out of the midnight showing of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. And we each felt like we'd been punched in the gut.Read more...

Since the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein were first detected in 2015, astrophysicists have been pondering the gravitational wave background-the cumulative undulations of these spacetime ripples as they cross the cosmos.Read more...

Device makers have struggled to incorporate temperature sensors into smartphones and smartwatches to turn them into medically accurate body thermometers, but researchers at the University of Washington claim they've come up with a way to turn an off-the-shelf smartphone into exactly that-with nothing but a new app. T...Read more...

Sea lions and dolphins that swim off California's central coast are dying. Toxic algae blooms off the state's coast are believed to be stranding and even killing the marine animals at alarming rates, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

When Samuel L. Jackson appeared in Captain Marvel, the actor was digitally recreated to look like an age-appropriate version of himself for the 1990s-set film. But underneath that was the modern actor's performance, not mere computer graphics. So Jackson is no hypocrite when he swears he won't allow himself to be...Read more...

There simply comes a time when a Star Trek show demands a courtroom episode. Whether it's internal Starfleet politics, or the chance to advocate Federation ideals to an alien society, Star Trek loves an opportunity to make its subtexts so text it can practically beat a book of them over your head. And so it's no...Read more...

Eager to get out of the shadow of its money-throwing green rival, Twitch on Thursday unveiled Hype Chat, a new way for its large and mid-sized streamers to earn money from viewers by allowing them to pay between $1 and $500 to pin messages to the live chat.Read more...

It's not quite a cage match, but Australia's online safety commissioner is ready to rumble down under with Elon Musk. Julia Inman Grant, a former regional Twitter exec herself and now an Australian government official, has issued a legal warning to the Musk-owned site, that could lead to a fine of up to 700,000...Read more...

Launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is being prepped for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years, with repairs underway to fix the damage caused by the inaugural flight of the space agency's lunar program.Read more...

Students in kindergarten through high school are getting free access to Figma and FigmaJam, a cloud-based design tool. The release of the program follows a nationwide beta test in select high schools across 50 districts from urban areas like Portland to smaller rural districts in Texas.Read more...

Demons usually mean bad news, for obvious reasons: their mere presence tends to bring death and chaos, damnation sounds awfully boring, and being possessed is just messy. However, not every demon is a total villain. In fact, there are a few we wouldn't mind hanging out with, despite the consequences.Read more...

Humans could be contributing tothe spread of a cat-loving, mind-altering parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, new research this week suggests. The study found that domesticated and wild cats were more likely to carry the parasite in areas densely packed with humans.Read more...

It's been a long road for Kamen Rider fans waiting for Shin Kamen Rider to become easier to watch outside of Japan-especially if you missed out on the handful of days it screened theatrically in the U.S.. But good news: for the specific venn diagram of people who love Tokusatsu superheros and shocking amounts of camp...Read more...

A French robot capable of diving 20,000 feet deep has been deployed in the search for the Titanic tourist sub that's been missing with five passengers aboard since Sunday. The salvage system is supposed to arrive sometime Wednesday evening, though there's still no hint that rescuers have pinpointed the exact location...Read more...

The apps are coming for Apple's not-VR/AR headset. Even though the Vision Pro headset won't see release until 2024, Apple is hoping to have a wide suite of 3rd party apps available at launch, potentially some that could entice more customers to drop $3,500 on a its so-called spatial computer."

Pom Klementieff discusses her villainous new Mission: Impossible character. The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin has a small part to play in Dune 2. Plus, what's to come on the series finale of Gotham Knights. Spoilers now!

When Boston Dynamics finally started selling Spot, it's four-legged robot, it came with one stipulation: users couldn't use it to harm people. But while the creators of the Thermonator aren't actively promoting it as a weapon, you don't want to be within 30 feet of a flamethrower strapped to the back of a robodog.Read more...

Scientists have shown that the expression of (mostly protein-coding) genes in white blood cells changes rapidly when astronauts reach the International Space Station. This may explain why astronauts appear more susceptible to infectious diseases while in space.

The expiration date of Betelgeuse, a massive dying star about 642 light-years from Earth, is a hot topic in astronomy because of the star's superlative size and its life cycle stage.Read more...

What would you give to see two of the world's richest men throwing poorly aimed haymakers at each other? Better give that one some serious thought because The Verge is now reporting that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk may get into a fight.Read more...

First things first: Prime Video's I'm a Virgo is essential viewing. It's some of the best that's come out of television this year. Sorry to Bother You filmmaker Boots Riley and Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwaico-creator Tze Chun are among the talents behind this giant-sized, modern mythical coming-of-age tale.Read more...

Elim Garak, occasional tailor, occasional intelligence operative, perpetual lover of drama, is one of Deep Space Nine's greatest characters. The wily Cardassian weaved his way through chaotic life aboard the titular space station while barely giving us a glimpse into his life, or what he was thinking, at the best of...Read more...

Satine Kryze seemingly changed Star Wars forever when she was introduced in Clone Wars as the face of a Mandalore unlike anything fans and stories had imagined in the decades since Boba Fett first appeared in Empire Strikes Back. But in her wake, as Star Wars has pushed deeper into Mandalorian storytelling, it's like...Read more...

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It's never really a great day to be endangered, but for U.S. species, today is a better one than most. The Biden Administration issued a set of three policies on Wednesday that strengthen the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA). These proposed rules reverse a number of Trump-era changes that effectively gutted wildlife...Read more...

The lab-grown future of food starts now as two California companies-Upside Foods and Eat Just-have received final approvals from the United States Department of Agriculture to begin hocking lab-grown chicken.

The Starlink V2 Minis, a smaller version of SpaceX's next-generation internet satellites-which have yet to launch-have turned on and are actively transmitting data back down to Earth.Read more...

Since 2016 and its botched debut of Negan at the end of season six, ratings for The Walking Dead-once the most popular series on TV-steadily dropped into the toilet. That, along with the end of Fear the Walking Dead announced less than two months after the flagship series' poorly received finale, led many to think...Read more...

Space manufacturing startup Orbital Composites and space energy company Virtus Solis have announced a collaboration to bring space-based solar power even closer to reality. The two have announced a megawatt-scale space-based solar power station that can collect energy from the Sun and beam it down to Earth.

The towering success of 1975's Jaws inspired a fleet of rip-offs, and one of the less terrible ones-1977's Orca-is suddenly feeling very contemporary, what with all the headlines about killer whales gathering en masse and menacing yachts. While Orca emphasizes aquatic drama over science, the mood it captures still...Read more...

We're seemingly in the age of adaptations, as studios race to lock in franchises and takes on established IP. And though there's an increasing demand to see these projects reflect the world we live in, we've also seen racist culture wars stoked around blind casting. In a world where we cannot escape that, Pedro Pascal...Read more...

A good night's sleep might start with a happy ending, recent research suggests. The study found that people reported better sleep on nights when they had sex and experienced an orgasm.Read more...

Secret Invasion, Marvel's newest Disney+ series, takes notes from spy thrillers, focusing on Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury as he struggles to maintain world peace amid an alien invasion. Much of the backstory for the events in the series comes from 2019's Captain Marvel, starring Jackson alongside Brie Larson as Carol...Read more...

Amazon has released the dates for its 2023 Prime Day event, welcoming Prime members to take advantage of its mass sales and inviting them to save big on popular brands. The event will kick off on July 11 at 3 a.m. EST and will continue through July 12.Read more...

In arid southeastern California, just across the border from Nevada, sits the only large-scale rare-earth element mine in the Western Hemisphere. Here at Mountain Pass, rocks are dug out of a 600-foot pit in the ground, crushed, and liquified into a concentrated soup of metals that are essential for the magnets inside...Read more...

Indiana Jones is one of the most beloved franchises in the world, so anytime a new sequel comes out, expectations are enormous. Unfortunately, when expectations are that high, the result is usually disappointment, as seen with 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Now, with Indy's latest adventure ...Read more...

AT&T partnered with Microsoft and OpenAI to develop Ask AT&T, a ChatGPT-like tool that will contribute to coding software. The tool is meant to help AT&T's own employees, including coders and software developers to become more productive in the workplace.Read more...

Federal investigators from five different agencies have formed a new task force to try and catch criminals using cryptocurrencies and the Dark Web to carry out illegal activity. The new Avengers-style crossover team includes agents from the Department of Homeland Security, federal prosecutors, the IRS' Criminal...Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is looking to limit the disruptions caused by rocket launches from Florida's space coast, significantly reducing the amount of airspace closed off during liftoffs.

If you hopped on Disney+ this morning to see what Nick Fury and his frenemies were up to in Marvel's Secret Invasion, you might have noticed something a little off about the series' opening title sequence. It looks strange to your mind's eye, and for good reason: it's one of the first major shows to use AI-generated...Read more...

The most popular side-scrolling video game of all time is once again returning to a two-dimensional world. Today Nintendo gave us a first look at Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which carries forward a lot of gameplay mechanics from previous Mario side-scrollers (yay, Yoshi!) while introducing some interesting new ones....Read more...

After a union drive at an Apple Store in the World Trade Center failed, a National Labor Relations Board judge ordered the tech corporation to leave its employees alone after Apple illegally interrogated some of the unionizing workers. NLRB attorneys allege