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Food and Drug Administration officials reported this week that lab tests have found genetic material from strains of H5N1 avian influenza in samples of store-bought pasteurized milk. Officials say these samples do not appear to contain live virus and that the commercial milk supply should still be safe. But the...Read more...

The Department of Transportation announced a final rule mandating that airlines automatically give cash refunds to passengers and inform passengers of their right to a refund on Wednesday. The policy change highlights the Biden Administration's continued hardline support of consumer rights in the skies. The USDOT...Read more...

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person's political orientation by simply looking at that person's blank, expressionless face.

Many of us watch The Office more often than we care to admit. We've spent so much time with the series that, over the years, the characters and the actors who portray themhave almost become family. So when a video like this comes online, it's more than just delightful. It's cathartic.Read more...

Trump Media & Technology Group is doubling down on claims that its stock is being illegally traded - this time bringing its concerns to congressional leaders.

DARPA announced successful tests of its new autonomous vehicles on Wednesday, all part of the agency's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program. And while the tests sound impressive, we found ourselves transfixed by one little visual detail: The tank's glowing green eyes.Read more...

If you've read Blake Crouch's 2016 novel Dark Matter-and a lot of people have, considering it's a best-seller-you're probably wondering how the upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation will handle the high-concept gimmick that propels the story: a box, designed by a genius that's one version of the main character, that allows...Read more...

It took 40 years, but recently one of my toy dreams came true. After writing this article about toys that you always wanted, but could never have, I was contacted to see if I'd be interested in receiving and writing about a brand new set of Voltron toys to celebrate the franchise's 40th anniversary. The answer wasn't...Read more...

I didn't realize that Microsoft had pushed out the update that brought advertising to the Windows 11 Start menu until I started to read the news. I've had recommendations turned off this entire time. It turns out the same option hides the curated" Microsoft Store apps currently populating on systems running the KB5036...Read more...

The concept of tolerance has weighed heavily upon Disney+ seriesX-Men 97. And now as the world and what is left of mutantkind looks upon the ruins of Genosha, the series is ready to grit its teeth and show some fangs, giving us righteously bitter examination of just where the morals of that tolerance-the morals cast...Read more...

For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo'oalewa has invoked speculation over how it came to orbit the Sun in total synchrony with Earth as though it shares some special relationship with our planet. A new study of the oddball may have pinpointed where it came from: a young impact crater on the far side of...Read more...

Edit Kermit the Frog singing Rainbow Connection" over almost anything and people are going to get emotional. But when you put it over a documentary about the man who created Kermit, with footage of them both together, then it's a surefire shot to the tear ducts.Read more...

Before you leave the Vault and head to the Wasteland, you'd better pack the essentials. Water, weapons, Pip-Boy, and of course a vinyl copy of the original soundtrack to Fallout.

SpaceX, the world leader in rocket launches, is increasingly coming under scrutiny for its workplace practices. A recent safety review performed by Reuters highlights an upsetting trend at the aerospace company. For the second year in a row, injury rates at SpaceX far exceed the industry average. This is according to...Read more...

President Joe Biden signed the TikTok bill into law on Wednesday morning, officially starting the 270-day clock for TikTok's owner, China-based Bytedance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in American app stores.Read more...

Fallout's delightful fun first season dropped all eight episodes on Prime Video at once, meaning if you started watching it when it arrived, you've no doubt reached the end-and are longingly pining for season two's arrival. Since that is at least a year away, and probably longer, here are 10 movies to watch now that...Read more...

It's a classic Elon Musk move. Tesla released some pretty grim first-quarter numbers on Tuesday, showing that net income dropped more than 50% from last year. During the earnings call, however, Musk floated his new" vision for the electric car company. Tesla is now focused on building an AI-powered fleet of...Read more...

The chronology of any comic book storyline or character-woven throughout decades of creative teams, retcons, and realignments to the narrative-is always a complicated affair. But there are few mainstream adaptations with a more convoluted mess of timelines and canons than Fox's X-Men movies. Now, nearly two and a half...Read more...

Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world's first combination pig kidney and heart pump transplant. The recipient is a 54-year-old woman named Lisa Pisano who was diagnosed with terminal kidney disease and heart failure.Read more...

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It's just about halfway to Halloween and Home Depot is ready to start rolling out spooky season decor to celebrate. The store's most viral release-Skelly, the 12-foot skeleton-is consistently hard to find as the holiday gets closer, so with that in mind the popular must-have will be released early as part of this drop.Read more...

Tired of the so-called AI PCs already? Buckle up because we, or perhaps the artificial intelligence, haven't even begun to peak. More power-efficient ARM-based CPUs don't get nearly as much limelight as the x86 type. Still, chipmaker Qualcomm is trying to turn your eyes toward its latest Snapdragon chips by promising...Read more...

NASA is a proud boomer that loves posting a good photo album. The space agency released 100 of its best 2023 photos on flickr, which go through the exciting highlights of the previous year.

If you have really basic questions about your new AirPods, this guide will help you with everything from connecting them to cleaning them. It also includes some tips for improving sound and customizing controls-that will make the most out of your new Apple earbuds.

Apple's Neuromancer adaptation finds itself a new hacker. Al Pacino and Dan Stevens are teaming up for a new exorcist horror. Plus, more casting news from Wednesday season 2, what's coming on Chucky season 2, and a new clip from X-Men 97. Spoilers get!

Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA's Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to search for potential evidence of past life," according to the official mission objectives.

A new experimental mission by NASA is now flying in orbit, aiming to use photons from the Sun to propel its way to higher altitudes.Read more...

Have you seen that photo of a dog attempting to make sweet and passionate love to a robot dog? It's gone viral on sites like Reddit, Instagram, and X. But it's fake. Hopelessly, tragically fake.Read more...

Things have been rough for Spotify. There was anti-vaccine misinformation prominently featured on a Joe Rogan podcast on the app, which garnered quite a lot of criticism, and earlier this month, it also once again raised its prices. The famous music streaming app is also notorious for being anti-artist by severely...Read more...

A recent analysis from advocacy organization Consumer Reports is the latest to highlight the potential threat of pesticides in our produce. It suggests that around 20% of commonly sold fruits and vegetables in the U.S. could contain unsafe levels of pesticides. Given that concerning news, you might be wondering how to...Read more...

The first public beta of Android 15 for the platform's most faithful users rolled out this month. While the operating system version will arrive much later this year-typically right before October's Pixel launch event-it can be fun to try on new features as they're being built out.Read more...

The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18. The bill, which bans TikTok unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner, flew through Congress this week as part of a broader package to provide $90 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. President Joe Biden said in a statement...Read more...

It's not only food CEOs who need to worry about their bottom lines thanks to in-demand weight loss drugs like Ozempic. Big Tobacco and Alcohol have reason to fret, too.Read more...

Bioluminescence, the eerie, beautiful phenomena that allows living things to glow, is way more ancient than previously thought, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the ability in octocorals.

After a fourth-month wait, Netflix viewers turned up by the tens of millions to see how Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon saga finished, but the number didn't quite hit that of the first film.Read more...

At over 13 inches tall, Mondo's take on Bane as he appears in Batman: The Animated Series will lend plenty of charismatic villainy to your toy shelf. He comes with swappable facial expressions and hands, with options increased if you go for the deluxe version.Read more...

Non-compete clauses are a thing of the past thanks to a new ruling from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

We've all been there before. You unbox your shiny new PC, everything preinstalled, and you're so excited you're practically molting in your chair in anticipation for it to boot up. You're so engrossed that you forget there's a 10-ton gorilla lying in wait just around the corner. It's Windows 11, a mammoth operating...Read more...

Axon, the public safety contractor that popularized the Taser, has launched a new product that is less actively terrifying but still vaguely concerning: an AI-powered software program that lets cops automate their police reports.Read more...

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With Fallout's success and season-two renewal, it's been seeming ever more unlikely that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy would get a chance to revisit their previous sci-fi series, Westworld-cancelled by HBO after four seasons, despite talk about how season five had already been plotted out. Well, here's another nail in...Read more...

Elon Musk is currently battling government officials in Australia who are trying to force X to remove a video of a man being stabbed last week. An Australian court has ordered the video removed globally rather than just having it geo-blocked in Australia. And while Gizmodo has been extremely critical of Musk's poor...Read more...

It's not like you didn't already have a dozen Chromecasts floating around your house. What is one more? A new Google TV dongle, potentially packed with upgraded features, is on the horizon. Hopefully, this will be a significant update to the current four-year-old favorite. But the current pricepoint that's rumored...Read more...

The deodorant of the future might be possible thanks to viruses that hunt down stink-making bacteria. Scientists in Japan believe they've discovered a chemical weapon sourced from bacteriophages that can target a species of bacteria known for contributing to body odor emitted by our armpits.Read more...

House of the Dragon returns in June, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight-aka Dunk and Egg"-is moving full speed ahead. But despite the hunger for Game of Thrones projects, HBO is still being selective about its spin-offs. Among the shows left in the lurch: that Naomi Watts-starring prequel, the Jon...Read more...

Many of us have moved on from the Vision Pro less than three months after its buzzy launch, but Apple can not. The company slashed its 2024 sales expectations for the Vision Pro to nearly half what the market expected for this year, according to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Tuesday. As initial hype fades,...Read more...

The best trailers are the ones that tell you absolutely nothing and that's exactly what you get with the first trailer for Blink Twice. Directed by Zoe Kravitz and starring a who's who of awesome actors, it's some kind of murder mystery cult thing that's either supernatural or just weird rich white people stuff. It's...Read more...

The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on its back. Yes, the Thermonator, which was announced late last year, is finally available for purchase in the United States. Shockingly, the product can be yours for a mere...Read more...

Deadpool & Wolverine's new trailer yesterday didn't really give fresh details on what the film's going to be about, beyond the vague threat of multiversal shenanigans and Wade and Logan's team-up. But it did give us our first really good look at one of the several villains the movie is playing with-and one of the most...Read more...

Fallout's first season took the bold step of jumping a good chunk beyond the events of any game in the beloved post-apocalyptic RPG series so far, to tell its own story. But that didn't stop fans of one of the more beloved entries in the gaming franchise-the iconic Obsidian spinoff, Fallout: New Vegas-from freaking...Read more...