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Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure, it's believed that both planets likely began with similar amounts of water. Today, however, Venus is a hellish world with intense heat and crushing...Read more...

The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the Swiss Army Knife" of whatever category they're a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuff, file stuff, in some cases download...Read more...

This past weekend, Lucasfilm dropped Tales of the Empire, the second entry in its animated anthology series exploring the dual stories of characters in the galaxy far, far away. But what worked and what didn't in getting to explore the stories of Morgan Elsbeth and Barriss Offee during the time of the Empire? Click...Read more...

Microsoft deployed a generative AI model on Thursday for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret information, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft announced the AI offering at the 2024 SCSP AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The GPT-4-based model was created to be entirely divorced...Read more...

As part of a special screening of Furiosa at IMAX Headquarters in Los Angeles, George Miller chatted with press about the highly anticipated prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. The film, long in development hell during multiple WB regime changes, will finally open on May 24-and it's worth the wait.Read more...

On Tuesday, TikTok fired back against the U.S. government over a law that could put an end to the social video platform.

Tesla has less than two months to respond to inquires from U.S. auto safety regulators about its December recall of more than 2 million electric vehicles.Read more...

The U.S. military has been using drones to shoot down enemy drones in the Middle East, according to a new report from Forbes, which cites the U.S. Army. And while it's been public knowledge that lasers have been deployed on U.S. ships and used in tests overseas during the past decade, this appears to be the first...Read more...

We've long anticipated this new OLED iPad Pro, growing almost bored with the wait, and yet the new tablet announcement was weighty enough that it still managed to leave us winded. Sure, the updated iPad Air with M2 and a 13-inch variation would be par for the course for Apple's standard refreshes, but the iPad Pro now...Read more...

Living creatures don't live forever but ideas can. They may shift, change, or get misinterpreted along the way, but ideas remain long after the people who had them are gone. That's a central theme in the new film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, especially when it comes to the franchise's most important character,...Read more...

A physics professor with a pretty great life-cool Chicago brownstone, cool wife, cool teenage son-is nonetheless bothered by a voice in his head that wonders what his life might have been, if he'd only he'd made different choices along the way. It's something everyone has thought about, but in Dark Matter, that what...Read more...

You officially know everything there is to know about the Pixel 8a-and this time, it's not based on rumors! Google revealed the details behind its next mid-tier smartphone, the $500 Pixel 8a. It features plenty of bells and whistles you've seen before, including the Tensor G3 CPU and Google's very own camera...Read more...

If you like affordable, stylish smartphones, you'll like what the Google Pixel 8a is all about. Once again, Google's mid-year mid-range offering is a revised reprise of the previous fall flagship. It comes in a batch of new colors, with most of the same camera and performance features, and it remains one of the...Read more...

A team of scientists seems to have discovered a previously hidden genetic cause of Alzheimer's. In a new study Monday, the researchers found strong evidence that people carrying two copies of a genetic variation already tied to Alzheimer's risk are practically destined to develop the neurodegenerative disorder as they...Read more...

The wait is finally over. Apple just announced two brand-new iPad Pros-an 11-inch and a 13-inch model-at its Let Loose event today, confirming our months-long speculation about them. The event also revealed two new 11 and 13-inch iPad Air models.

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Sperm whales' clicking communiques include context and combination structures that make their messaging more akin to language than previously known, according to a team of researchers at MIT.Read more...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said social media dominated the narrative around Israel's war in Gaza on Friday, sitting for an interview with Senator Mitt Romney at the McCain Institute's 2024 Sedona Forum. Blinken's statement on social media, which did not reference TikTok by name, was in response to Romney...Read more...

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once academy award-winner, Star Trek star, and action queen of our hearts Michelle Yeoh is coming to the world of Blade Runner.

Dogs have been humanity's stalwart companions for tens of thousands of years. Unfortunately, not every dog is as genetically healthy as they deserve to be, thanks largely to our meddling. Over the past few centuries, human-guided breeding has split dogs into hundreds of distinct breeds, based on specifically desired...Read more...

The mysterious AI chatbot, gpt2-chatbot," returned to the major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org, on Monday night roughly a week after it abruptly disappeared. But now, there are two: im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot" and im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot." These models exhibited the same GPT-4 level capabilities,...Read more...

Light famously cannot escape the event horizon of a black hole, leaving astrophysicists to theorize and speculate what it's like beyond the limits of human perception. Now, NASA researchers take that theorization a step further, in the form of an animation that takes you (the viewer) into the black hole.Read more...

It's not all that much longer before we get to return to George Miller's madcap vision of the post-apocalypse in his long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa. But while we wait, at least some people have managed to witness her already: and found a film that, while perhaps not as revelatory as Fury Road before...Read more...

NASA plays nicely with privately owned SpaceX, but is that something to be concerned about? In an interview with NPR, NASA director Bill Nelson assuages any fears of an unsupervised Elon Musk running a space agency by reminding us that SpaceX is actually run by its president Gwynne Shotwell. Nelson trusts Shotwell to...Read more...

Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie is definitely not bitter about how things went down with the JetBlue Airways merger that was halted by the Justice Department before eventually being abandoned.Read more...

The Nintendo Switch 2 is real. Realer than real. It is so real that only the most precious select insiders, accessory-makers, and publishers have been able to see it or, in some cases, merely touch it. But Nintendo Japan's big boss has finally offered us the measliest of official morsels. The Nintendo Switch sequel...Read more...

GOP operative Brad Parscale is credited with using technology-specifically social media-to help get a certain former reality TV star elected President. Now, Parscale is back and he wants to use tech again to disrupt America's political game. This time, the tech he's excited about is artificial intelligence.Read more...

What happens when you stick your finger in the closing trunk-or, in this case, the frunk"-of a Tesla Cybertruck? It's a question that way too many Cybertruck owners are asking themselves these days. And a new video posted to YouTube appears to show the most grotesque answer to date.

Update: May 7, 7:10 a.m. ET: In an emailed statement, ULA says it is now targeting a launch of Starliner for no earlier than Friday, May 10, saying the team needs additional time to complete a full assessment." The launch was scrubbed due to an observation on a liquid oxygen self-regulating solenoid relief valve on...Read more...

Late Sunday evening, I logged onto Fortnite to enjoy all the newly added Star Wars content, solo-queuing up for a No Build quads match right away. As I waited for the battle bus to pick me up, I could hear one of my teammates loudly playing Canadian actor-turned-rapper Aubrey Drake" Graham's song, The Heart Part 6,"...Read more...

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It's been over a decade since we last caught up with Vin Diesel's sci-fi antihero Richard B. Riddick-Diesel's been spending most of his time voicing Marvel's Groot and doing Fast & Furious movies-but it's time to dig those goggles out of storage. The fourth film in the series, titled Riddick: Furya, is officially on...Read more...

To celebrate Star Wars Day this past weekend, Lucasfilm treated us all to one more major look at The Acolyte, the next live-action Disney+ series for the galaxy far, far away-one that in equal measure surprises us with a bunch of new tidbits about this new murder mystery among the rise of the dark side, and potently...Read more...

In the latest disturbing twist to the Boeing saga, the company admitted to falsifying records related to the inspection of its 787 Dreamliner plane. The company publicly disclosed this after news broke of yet another federal investigation into the company.Read more...

Would you let Elon Musk tinker with your brain? That's a question we all might be facing in the future if his brain-computer interface company Neuralink succeeds. But anyone who's ready to raise their hands for brain surgery might want to hear what one of the Neuralink co-founders recently said during an interview...Read more...

It's hard to believe it's been almost a year since OceanGate's Titan submersible disappeared. Surely, that happened at least three years ago, right? After several days of searching, experts determined that the sub most likely imploded, killing everyone on board. Debris and possible human remains were eventually...Read more...

During CCXP Mexico City, director Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) shared with Collider that he's aiming to bring more practical movie-making magic to his coming-of-age Star Wars space adventure Skeleton Crew. That toolkit will include the stop-motion talents of visual effects legend Phil Tippett.Read more...

I was pretty excited about my Rabbit R1 review unit and planned on checking it out for a whole week. My plans included using it outside around the city, inside of the house as an all-day companion, and playing around on it with my friends. Sadly, I quickly ran out of things to do on it. It barely offers anything worth...Read more...

Restrictive abortion laws have caused a small but real climb in fatal violence committed against women, new research out Monday suggests. The study found that so-called TRAP laws were associated with an increased rate of murders among young girls and women committed by their intimate partners. The continued rise in...Read more...

Bernard Hill, who sadly passed away this past weekend, is a part of some of the greatest moments in the Lord of the Rings movies. As Theoden, his lines are endlessly quotable, often memeable, and he is given some of the best work in the trilogy tied to its legendary battles like Helm's Deep and the charge of the...Read more...

Kendrick Lamar fans have renamed Aubrey Drake" Graham's famed mansion in the Bridle Path region of Ontario to 2024 Kendrick's House" on Google Maps, as the rappers enter their fourth consecutive week of lyrical combat. DJ Akademiks, a live streamer closely following the rap beef, first noticed the Google Maps change...Read more...

War for the Planet of the Apes takes Caesar's apocalyptic story from the previous two films and gives it a focused, heartbreaking finish. We see both humans and apes struggle to survive in this ever-changing world as each suffers greatly, facing new adversaries they seemingly can't defeat. It's a poignant, sad, but...Read more...

Seeing a famous face appear considerably younger than their actual years in a brand-new movie can be startling-Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinydid all right by Harrison Ford, but even Jeff Bridges shudders at his appearance in Tron: Legacy. But 93-year-old Star Trek legend William Shatner is willing to take his...Read more...

The gendered feud over the temperature setting in the office or at home might be overblown, new government-led research suggests. The study found little difference between how men and women self-reported the chilliness of their surroundings. There was also no major distinction between the sexes in the temperatures...Read more...

The Star Wars Universe gets turned upside down in Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a fun what-if style series. When ordinary nerf-herder Sig Greebling (Gaten Matarazzo) unearths a powerful artifact from a hidden Jedi temple, the galaxy as we know completely changes.Read more...

Apple Watch wearers seem to want a smartwatch that isn't the Apple Watch. At least, that's the impression I got while wearing the WiThings Scanwatch Light out in the world. I was getting constant compliments from friends and passersby, mainly from those who lean femme and were card-carrying iOS users. Can you use...Read more...

Have you seen a photo of MyPillow CEO and big-time Trump backer Mike Lindell looking spaced out, with dark circles under his eyes? It's gone viral on social media, racking up millions of views. But it's not real. The photo might look oddly realistic, but it's been altered significantly.Read more...

SpaceX is preparing to launch a private crew of astronauts on a five day journey through Earth orbit, and they will be the first to try on the company's latest spacesuit design during a first-of-its-kind spacewalk.Read more...

James Gunn's Superman-and with it, the full unleashing of James Gunn's DC Studios era-isn't out until next summer, but we have our first look at David Corenswet pulling on those famous red boots and getting into character. This comes courtesy of Warner Bros. and James Gunn's Instagram, which simply warns us: Get...Read more...

The Biden administration is looking for proposals from companies that can establish and operate an institution that will develop digital twins" of semiconductors, with the opportunity to receive up to $285 million in funding.Read more...