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Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organised by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade. Most of these will involve small robotic spacecraft, but NASA’s ambitious Artemis program, aims to return humans to the…Read more...

Taylor Swift is apparently as fluent in finance as she is in songwriting. In the fallout of the FTX collapse, Swift, who was offered $100 million to promote the crypto exchange, dodged a bullet by asking about unregistered securities according to a lawyer waging lawsuits against other celebrity spokespeople.

Parker Posey wants to make a return to Scream, somehow. James Gunn teases another familiar comics face will be in Superman: Legacy. Plus, The Mandalorian drops new posters to hype today’s season finale. Spoilers now!Read more...

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Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an 1,800-year-old winery at the Villa of the Quintilii outside of Rome. By the team’s measure, the winery was designed as much for the spectacle of wine-making as the practice itself.

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Samsung finally enabled temperature tracking on a smartwatch launched nearly nine months ago. The Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro now offer detailed menstrual tracking by measuring your core body temperature. Samsung says the new feature is rolling out “progressively” to the Samsung Health app in the U.S.,…Read more...

AMC has announced that it will be starting production on a third, currently unnamed full-length television series in its “Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe,” ahead of the airing of the second seasons of the two current series: Interview With the Vampire and Mayfair Witches. This third series will focus on the Talamasca,…Read more...

After some 25 years, Netflix is officially retiring its DVD rental service. The company announced the move in a tweet Tuesday, explaining that its final discs will ship on Sept. 29th:Read more...

There are so many incredible crowdfunding campaigns going on, I really can’t stand it. Games are so good, y’all. I’ve also got some new games, supplements and additions, and indie designers who are taking it upon themselves to break apart systems and find new, incredible, and transformative ways to play games. (Every …Read more...

Reddit execs have noticed that everyone is getting rich off of AI but them. The company announced on Tuesday that it will start charging businesses for using its application programming interface (API) which allows users to download and process data from person-to-person conversations. as it plans to go public on…Read more...

As Twitter under Elon Musk’s rule continues to take shape, the platform has decided it apparently doesn’t need trans people to feel safe on its app. Twitter has reportedly removed a stipulation against misgendering and deadnaming from its policy on hateful conduct.

Two cosmonauts are getting ready to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday night for some orbital maintenance work.Read more...

Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is returning to the big screen next year, but according to Deadpool himself, it won’t be the character fans know and love.Read more...

This may very well be the year of the foldable smartphone, or at least the year of more foldable choices. According to CNBC, Google plans to launch its first foldable smartphone before the next Pixel 8 flagship release. We could see the Pixel Fold, which previously seemed to have been canceled and vaguely revived, as…Read more...

Amazon Prime Video announced a new Dialogue Boost feature on Tuesday that will allow viewers to turn up the volume for character dialogue in some movies and TV shows. The feature was originally pitched as a way to assist hard-of-hearing viewers by increasing the actors’ voices and toning down the background noise, but…Read more...

Sure, we knew Katharyn Hahn would be returning to play her breakout character in the upcoming WandaVision spin-off Agatha: Coven of Chaos. We knew who had joined her for the show, including Patti LuPone, Aubrey Plaza, and Heartstopper’s Joe Locke. But until today, we didn’t know about its plot or characters, and it’s…Read more...

Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News have reached a settlement in the companies’ two-year-long defamation dispute. The agreement was announced by the case’s presiding judge in court on Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple reports—coming just hours after jury selection was completed. The decision by both parties to…Read more...

Stem cell research is expanding beyond earthly confines. Scientists from Cedars-Sinai in California have partnered with the private company Axiom Space to help them produce stem cells aboard the International Space Station—an apparent first that will test whether these cells can be manufactured more efficiently in a…Read more...

Instagram has caved to years of creator demands. The social platform will now let users include links to multiple external sites directly in their in-app profiles, as reported by multiple outlets and confirmed by Gizmodo.

Renfield might be the first movie where Nicolas Cage plays Dracula, but it’s not the first movie where he’s played a vampire. Kind of. Maybe? That indistinct honor goes to 1988’s Vampire’s Kiss, an exceedingly strange movie where Cage becomes a vampire... sort of. He does have to buy a pair of fake Halloween fangs to…Read more...

There are many advantages to using electric motors in tools, including high-levels of torque, lightweight designs, and relatively quiet operation. But if you miss the deafening roar of a gas-powered engine, it turns out you can upgrade a battery-powered drill with a tiny V8 engine and make it sound like you’re…Read more...

In its continued quest to capture the attention of families across America, media juggernaut Disney developed its namesake television channel, with the network’s first broadcast going live on April 18, 1983—exactly 40 years ago, today. Four decades later, it’s impossible to understate just how much of an impact the…Read more...

Microsoft has a lot riding on AI, so much that it’s reportedly developing its own superpowered chip designed specifically for training and running its sophisticated chatbot systems. This chip, code-named “Athena,” would need Olympus-sized power to channel all of Microsoft’s ambitions in the AI arena.

Europe’s navigation satellites are in desperate need of a ride to space, so much so that the European government is seeking to forge deals with U.S. companies to provide much-needed orbital access.Read more...

Created by Alice Birch and starring Rachel Weisz (twice), Prime Video’s Dead Ringers evolves David Cronenberg’s 1988 squirm-inducing classic about twins whose obsession with each other becomes their downfall. Ahead of the six-episode series’ release on April 21, io9 spoke with two of Dead Ringers’ key co-stars, whose…Read more...

Unexpected marine animals are thriving on the massive amounts of plastic waste that has accumulated at sea. In a new study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers describe how creatures that are normally found along coastlines, not the open ocean, have made their homes on floating trash in the…Read more...

One of the largest timber companies in the world is claiming to “contribute to climate change solutions,” despite the fact that it’s planning to increase lumber production over the next couple of years. As the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, logging giant Weyerhaeuser has made a pivot in recent years to…Read more...

The next Superman movie, Superman: Legacy, is heading to theaters in just over two years and today, its writer and director announced he’s full steam ahead. James Gunn, the co-president of DC Films, is that person and he took to social media on Tuesday to reveal that he’s diving “fully into early pre-production” on…Read more...

“Never give up, never surrender!” The quotable motto from 1999 cult-beloved sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest truly encapsulates the journey of the Galaxy Quest television series, as Variety reports Paramount+ now has the long-awaited project in “early development.”Read more...

As companies like Uber transition the world onto the gig economy, and AI promises to eliminate the need for large swaths of the workforce, the great state of Iowa is taking a stand, declaring once and for all that child labor is good, actually.Read more...

Mammals have a pretty basic blueprint. Among other things, we give birth to live young, we’re warm-blooded, and, perhaps most obviously, we all have hair. (Yes, even dolphins.) But in the churn of natural selection, some mammals ended up with appendages that look like they should be found on a reptile, bird, or…Read more...

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Alaska Airlines is flying forward into the future. Or, trying to do something like that at least. The company announced a suite of changes, soon to be coming to airport lobbies, in a Tuesday press release.Read more...

The flying punching bag that is Southwest Airlines once again had to temporarily cancel flights due to computer issues. Mid-morning on Tuesday ET, Southwest said it halted operations at some airports due to “intermittent technology issues.” The company wrote on Twitter that it was working to get things operational…Read more...

On Monday, a pesky valve is all that came between SpaceX and the maiden flight of its Starship megarocket. The company is now targeting Thursday morning for a mission that CEO Elon Musk predicts has a 50/50 chance of succeeding.

Israeli digital surveillance for hire giant NSO Group reportedly deployed at least three new attacks last year targeting human rights workers and other members of civil society spread out around the world using Apple devices. All of those “zero-click” exploits, according to new research from The Citizen Lab, could…Read more...

Rule 34 rears its head once again. There are thousands upon thousands of explicit porn being sold for cheap on Amazon’s Kindle. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that both Apple and Google have notified Amazon about its failure to keep porn off of the Kindle store and app. Both companies told Reuters that their app stores…Read more...

A retired NASA spacecraft is about to meet its fiery demise, burning up in Earth’s atmosphere after its expected free-fall from orbit later this week.Read more...

Vex’ahlia and Vax’ildan, two of the adventuring party of Vox Machina, are coming to life in a nearly eight-inch tall statue—well, the top half of them, anyway. A collaboration between Dark Horse Direct and Critical Role, this joint bust features character designs based on the comic book series Vox Machina Origins.…Read more...

Prehistoric Planet showcases dinosaurs as the itchy, curious, clumsy, and vocal animals they were in life. Apple TV+ today released the teaser trailer for the scientific dinosaur show’s second season, which is set to debut on May 22.

Whatever you expect from Mrs. Davis, the new show coming to Peacock on April 20, you’re probably mistaken. The series description will tell you it’s about a nun, played by Glow’s Betty Gilpin, who sets out to take down an artificial intelligence called Mrs. Davis, which has become a pseudo-replacement for God in a…Read more...

Meta’s WhatsApp is threatening to leave the UK if the government passes the Online Safety Bill, saying it will essentially eliminate its encryption methods. Alongside its rival company Signal and five other apps, the company said that, by passing the bill, users will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption,…Read more...

The Yeohnaissance continues! Fresh off her Academy Award win for Everything Everywhere All at Once, the incomparable Michelle Yeoh will return to the Star Trek universe to play Philippa Georgiou once again. But instead of the Section 31 TV series that has been in the works since 2019 or so, Yeoh will now star in Star…Read more...

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Tax day is April 18th—today. We shouldn’t have to be here, but here we are. Sure, you can labor through the labyrinthine official tax forms and send those to the U.S. government yourself. But as is the case every year in the U.S., the best options for less stress when filing taxes online for free are also the same…Read more...

Let this be a lesson in wiping your hardware before sending it out to a refurbisher: Researchers from the security firm ESET have found that less then half of secondhand enterprise routers in their sample were wiped of internal data, which poses a risk both for the companies that sold these routers and their customers.

Teams at an underwater facility in Houston, Texas, are making preparations to train astronauts who are preparing for future missions to the Moon. This facility is being modified to recreate the harsh lunar environment by submerging future moonwalkers in a pool that’s 40 feet deep.Read more...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he was working on a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a company he co-founded in 2015, called “TruthGPT.” According to Musk, his chatbot will be a “maximum truth-seeking AI” that will try to understand the nature of the universe.Read more...

James Gunn offers an interesting assessment of the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. The Mortal Kombat sequel is officially on the way. Give your ears a sneak peek—er, you know what we mean—of one of The Little Mermaid live-action remake’s most famous tunes. And, of course, horror horror horror. Keep the lights on and…Read more...