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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

Around 420 million years or so ago, shifting land masses pushed the pre-historic Iapetus Ocean under the mountains of Appalachia, trapping all of its salty brine underneath. Although it's only the barest fraction today, in the 19th century, the West Virginia salt industry produced 3.2 million bushels at its height, or...Read more...

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The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Amazon Wednesday, alleging the company duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in Amazon Prime," and used so-called dark patterns to sabotage attempts to cancel those subscriptions.Read more...

Sonic 3 will start filming this summer. Zach Cregger's sci-fi horror Companion recruits an Obi-Wan Kenobi star. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds prepares for its day in court. Plus, two words: Mega. Ape. Spoilers, away!

As humanity looks to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, we might need a team of robots to redirect incoming sunlight to shadowed regions that would otherwise never see the light of day.Read more...

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders launched an investigation into what he calls dangerous and illegal conditions" running rampant in Amazon's warehouse facilities. In a fiery letter addressed to CEO Andy Jassy Tuesday, Sanders accused Amazon of putting profits over people and creating a corporate culture that treats...Read more...

Twitter owner Elon Musk is still making big decisions on the social media platform, even if he's no longer CEO. Overnight, Musk decreed that the words cis" and cisgender," denoting the alignment of a person's birth sex and their gender identity, were now considered slurs on Twitter and that users who engaged in...Read more...

Roblox, the build-your-own gaming platform that's wildly popular among kids, is making a push to grow its audience beyond the bounds of childhood. The company will now allow content intended for people aged 17 or older, as announced in a Tuesday press release.

What's the first thing you think of when you think of Disney? No, not Mickey Mouse, though he's probably second. It's a castle. Maybe you see a physical castle like the ones at Disneyland or Walt Disney World, or maybe it's one in the studio logo seen before most of its films. But either way, Disney and castles are...Read more...

Investigators are currently racing against time in order to find the Titan, a small commercial submarine that went missing in the North Atlantic on Sunday with five people aboard. Now, new reporting reveals that the company behind the ill-fated underwater tour previously fired an employee after he expressed concern...Read more...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a great movie, plain and simple. That it's filled with so many Easter eggs and callbacks only adds to the incredible story and characters that inhabit the film. Some of those were revealed in promotional materials, but others were expertly kept secret so fans could experience...Read more...

In November of 2019, less than a month before the covid-19 pandemic took off and spread to nations all over the world, several scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China fell seriously ill from an unknown virus. One of the researchers was Ben Hu, a scientist who had received significant funding...Read more...

This year's San Diego Comic-Con was just dealt a major blow, as it seems Marvel Studios will not be presenting its upcoming slate in Hall H this year.Read more...

Steve Rogers will really find out if he could do this all daaaaaay" in Rogers: The Musical, the previously announced special one-act show coming to Disney California Adventure. Its limited run will be June 30-August 31.Read more...

For a long while, Netflix has decided the popularity of its most-watched TV series and movies should be determined by how many hours the streaming service's customers watched it. So, for instance, if you rewatched a season of Stranger Things, you'd be boosting its ratings just even though you'd already seen it. Now...Read more...

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Incarcerated people in Ohio have an easier time getting their hands on the book that founded Nazism than computer coding literature due to a series of bizarre, unequally enforced policies restricting access to certain reading materials. Nonprofits and authors speaking with The Marshall Project say the state's...Read more...

Dan Stevens has joined the cast of Solar Opposites, replacing the embattled Justin Roiland-and the Hulu series, which has announced an August return, already has the voice-change plotline worked out. Check out the first clip from season four below to hear for yourself!Read more...

Although Picard's third and final season was touted explicitly as the last hurrah of not just Patrick Stewart's iconic tenure as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, but the whole of the Next Generation cast, ever since it ended-hell, even before that-Stewart and his colleagues have repeatedly expressed a desire for a little more...Read more...

A frantic search is underway for a submersible that disappeared while on a $250,000-per-person dive carrying five tourists to view the historic Titanic shipwreck on Sunday. The 21-foot submarine, named the Titan, which was operated with a video game controller, carried the CEO of the company in charge and four...Read more...

WhatsApp introduced a new automatic call-silencing feature intent on targeting potential spam calls this week. The feature, plainly dubbed silence unknown callers" in the WhatsApp settings menu, is bringing another layer of protection to calls and messages from unknown numbers to combat an increase in unwanted calls.Read more...

A probe is familiarizing itself with the closest planet to the Sun, gearing up to explore Mercury's heavily cratered surface. The BepiColombo mission recently captured stunning new images of Mercury during a close flyby, which resulted in the naming of an impact crater after a pioneering Jamaican artist.Read more...

Anyone who keeps up with The Mandalorian can surely agree that season three had as many highs as it did lows. And those lows could be pretty low. But the highs? Well, they could also be pretty high, and by far one of the best moments of the season was when Grogu took the body of his old friend IG-12 for a joyride. It...Read more...

With artificial intelligence hype leaving venture capitalist firms foaming at the mouth, ready to buy into any new company that sticks an A" and I" in its name, we sure as hell need a new way of defining what constitutes an AI. The Turing Test fails to define real intelligence in today's world of large language...Read more...

Although satnavs and smartphones with GPS have made work easier for pizza delivery drivers, Domino's wants to make sure they're earning their minimum wage with a new app feature allowing pizzas to be ordered from almost anywhere customers can get a GPS signal, and no longer just specific addresses.Read more...

We all know and love when Harrison Ford is a curmudgeon, especially when he cuts an interview short or gives a curt, hilarious answer to a question. But he's also an incredible actor, and after decades spent portraying some of the most beloved characters in cinema history, you have to think part of him is playing...Read more...

AI proved just how talented it can be at ripping off major artists after a computer-generated song based on The Weeknd and Drake went viral in April. Now, the Recording Academy-the body that votes on and manages the annual Grammy Awards-is setting new rules for AI's role in the coveted accolade.

It is hot as hell in Texas at the moment, and the sky-high temperatures are straining the state's grid. Excessive heat warnings and heat advisories are in effect for most of the state today, according to the National Weather Service.

A 3-alarm fire in lower Manhattan killed four people and left two others in critical condition in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Lithium-ion e-bike batteries are to blame, according to the New York City Fire Department. The blaze, which began in an e-bike shop on the first floor of a multi-story, mixed-use...Read more...

Michael Shannon reprises his role as the Superman villain General Zod in the recently released swan song of the DCEU, The Flash. He has previously admitted he was confused by Zod's return to the silver screen given that Superman murdered the shit out of him in Man of Steel. Now he says, quite pointedly, that big...Read more...

About 40 light-years from Earth, a set of seven Earth-sized planets are orbiting a star called TRAPPIST-1. Now, scientists studying the system with the Webb Space Telescope have found one of them, TRAPPIST-1 c, either lacks an atmosphere or has a very thin one, indicating that habitable planets may be fewer and...Read more...