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Federal prosecutors and the courts in New York are sounding the horn, proclaiming run-of-the-mill financial crimes also apply to digital tokens as much as fiat currency. On Tuesday, a judge finally sentenced former Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi to two years in prison for insider trading. Prosecutors said Wahi…Read more...

io9 named Andor one of our top series of 2022, and we certainly weren’t alone in singing its praises. Among its many awards and nominations to date, Andor has just picked up a prestigious Peabody Award, a prize the organization’s website specifies as “honoring excellent in storytelling that reflects the social issues…Read more...

Scientists in Australia have just begun an ambitious public health campaign, but not for humans. As part of a new field trial, koalas in the wild are being temporarily captured and then vaccinated against chlamydia, which can be dangerous and even life-threatening for them. The hope is that the vaccine can help…Read more...

Like any satellite in Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope is sinking, and it’s been doing so for the past 33 years. A proposed solution from two space startups offers an intriguing strategy for safely boosting Hubble’s orbit, allowing NASA to extend the lifespan of its storied observatory.

Evil Dead Rise—writer-director Lee Cronin’s continuation of Sam Raimi’s cult-beloved Evil Dead series—managed to win over audiences and critics despite its lack of Bruce Campbell antics. If you haven’t yet made it to the theater, good news: you can now scare yourself silly on-demand by streaming it on Vudu.Read more...

There are thousands of abandoned and unplugged oil wells throughout shallow waters, wetlands, and offshore along the Gulf of Mexico that pose environmental risks, according to new research.Read more...

Critical Role has announced that Candela Obscura, a horror tabletop roleplaying game actual play series, will premiere May 25. A group of actors will be improvising stories and characters in the new monthly drama, which follows an esoteric order of investigators in the fictional town of Newfaire in a near-universe…Read more...

A Royal Caribbean cruise ship passenger was arrested last week for allegedly hiding a camera in a bathroom and recording more than 150 people, including minors. According to the criminal complaint, the camera was hidden in a wall above the bathroom door that was under construction and was found by a fellow passenger…Read more...

Despite scientists’ best efforts, there’s still no way to inject ads directly into your veins, so Google is going for the next best thing. Reports from angry emailers across the web show Google cramming even more ads into one place where you can’t look away: your Gmail inbox.Read more...

It took nearly 15 years for NASA’s New Horizons mission to reach the point where it is at today, around 50 times farther from the Sun than is Earth. From its unique observational perch, the spacecraft has been studying the frozen depths of the solar system to help piece together the origin story of the planets…Read more...

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is taking the final steps in its long exit from China, making it the last of the major US social networks to exit the region amid increased domestic competition and untenable geopolitical compromises. The company announced late Monday it would lay off 716 employees in its Global Business…Read more...

As fans prepare for the June 30 arrival of Indiana Jones and Dial of Destiny, Lucasfilm is making that adventure as fun as possible. First up, the original film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, will return to theaters for two days on June 4 and 7. Then, that film as well as the others will be getting their first-ever…Read more...

In a world of all-consuming tipflation, it feels like we can never get away from hearing the dreaded “The iPad is just going to ask you a quick question” before being presented with what can feel like a Sophie’s choice of tipping options. Unfortunately, it would appear that the self-checkout line is no longer a…Read more...

Just because a fuel source may emit less CO2 when it’s used doesn’t mean that there aren’t adverse impacts along its entire life cycle. Air pollution from the production of fossil fuels is responsible for $77 billion in health damages across the U.S. and causes tens of thousands of adverse health impacts each year, a…Read more...

The Muppets are back! But this time, it’s not the usual Muppets starring in a new Disney+ series. Instead, The Muppets Mayhem focuses on the members of the Electric Mayhem band—the house band on The Muppet Show, made up of beloved side characters Dr. Teeth, Floyd, Zoot, Lips, Janice, and Animal.Read more...

AI chatbot systems are so vast and complicated that even the companies who make them can’t predict their behavior. That’s led to a whack-a-mole effort to stop chatbots from spitting out content that’s harmful, illegal, or just unsettling, which they often do. Current solutions involve an army of low-paid workers …Read more...

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When the Switch debuted back in 2017, it immediately became apparent that Nintendo had no interest in competing with the graphics capabilities of Sony and Microsoft’s latest hardware. That didn’t stop the Switch from becoming a huge success, but it is starting to feel a bit long in the tooth compared to the likes of…Read more...

Some European airlines are shifting their customer service support away from Twitter, telling passengers they will no longer be able to contact the support team through the app. Customers could previously contact the airline directly in the case of a problem or question related to their upcoming or canceled flight,…Read more...

Although it started life as a media consumption device, Apple continues to reposition its iPad as a genuine productivity platform by bringing two of the companies most powerful software tools: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, to iPadOS later this month.Read more...

A federal judge slapped down a discrimination lawsuit against Twitter filed by former employees who said owner Elon Musk specifically targeted women for his mass layoffs.Read more...

No, don’t expect to see Jyn Erso in Andor season 2. Vincent D’Onofrio teases the differences between Born Again and Netflix’s Daredevil. Gamera: Rebirth offers a hint at Zigra as one of his foes. Plus, another new look at Boots Riley’s I’m a Virgo. Spoilers get!

The rapid proliferation of ChatGPT-style chatbots over the past year has led a decent chunk of salesmen, doctors, journalists, and other keyboard warriors to nervously fret over their future job security. One group of workers that probably don’t need to worry about chatbots anytime soon, however, are bartenders.

Released in 1983—following titles like Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot, The Shining, The Stand, The Dead Zone, Firestarter, Cujo, and that same year’s Christine—Pet Sematary only helped burnish Stephen King’s reputation as America’s most terrifying author, and the book’s capacity for causing nightmares only increased with Mary…Read more...

Through the recent history of digitized movies and TV shows, there have been two main options: Watch for free and put up with a few adverts, or pay your money and get to enjoy whatever you’re watching without adverts. As streaming services have become more popular, so has the first of those options, but the second one…Read more...

Twelve misfit celebrities are about to venture out to another planet, as they live, work, and compete against each other in a simulated Martian environment for a new reality show.Read more...

AI chatbots have come for journalism, and now they are coming for our burgers. Wendy’s is reportedly gearing up to unveil a chatbot-powered drive-thru experience next month, with help from a partnership with Google.

Your browser of choice is your window to the web and the software you’re probably going to be spending most of your desktop screen time inside—so it’s important to make sure both that you’re using a web browser that suits your needs, and that you’re making the most of all the various features offered by said browser.

A combination of solar power, microwaves, and distilled water has managed to lift Momentus Space’s Vigoride-5 spacecraft thousands of feet above its original orbit, in what is a critical milestone for the California-based startup.Read more...

Summer is almost upon us and theme parks are currently experiencing crowds like it’s already begun. If you’re park-hopping, there’s a bounty of new entertainment offerings popping up like Guardians of the Galaxy’s Mantis at Disney California Adventure and goodness for foodies (if you can nab a reservation) at …Read more...

In the world of pop culture art, few artists are as precise and detailed as Ashton Gallagher. His works are so gorgeous, so evocative, so effortlessly excellent, his paintings are regularly mistaken for photos. But they’re certainly not photos. Gallagher puts painstaking time into creating his paintings, and not only…Read more...

It was the summer of 2018. A movie starring Jason Statham and a giant shark hit theaters and those who saw it generally enjoyed it. That film, The Meg, went on to gross over $500 million worldwide, if you can believe it, and work soon began on a sequel. That sequel is coming to theaters in August and now has its first…Read more...

Facebook and Instagram could soon be news-free for our neighbors to the north. Meta has once again said it would rather scrap news links on its platforms in Canada than comply with pending legislation.

Local police and federal law enforcement believe the shooter who rampaged through a crowded Texas mall leaving at least nine people dead over the weekend regularly viewed and posted far right-wing extremist content on social media and espoused sympathy for Neo-Nazis.Read more...

Forty years ago, Han Solo said it best. “Boba Fett? Boba Fett? Where?” After the character’s unexpected return in The Mandalorian season two, he got a full backstory in The Book of Boba Fett. But now it’s been well over a year and even after a full season of The Mandalorian, the first famous Mandalorian is still…Read more...

Meta’s President of Global Affairs and top corporate punching bag Nick Clegg decided to abruptly bail on a hearing in Canada’s House of Commons after lawmakers changed the event’s title to be critical of the social media company. Rather than face a clearly antagonistic audience eager to grill Clegg on his employer’s…Read more...

It’s time to say goodbye to inactive Twitter accounts, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday, in yet another apparent attempt to bring users back to the platform. The number of active Twitter accounts has been steadily decreasing since Musk took over the platform and made a number of unpopular changes including …Read more...

For nearly five months, teams behind NASA’s Lunar Flashlight mission have been trying to get the briefcase-sized satellite to fire up its thrusters and get on the right orbital track around the Moon. There’s now some hope with one of the thrusters showing some improvement as work continues on the remaining three.Read more...

Chinese police arrested a man Sunday in what could be one of the first precedent-setting cases of a person using ultra-popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to allegedly spread misinformation. That, or it could be a new means for state actors to discredit real news by proclaiming it’s all a lie manufactured by generative AI.Read more...

ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot, is powered by machine learning systems, but those systems are guided by human workers, many of whom aren’t paid particularly well. A new report from NBC News shows that OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, has been paying droves of U.S. contractors to assist it with the necessary…Read more...

Private crewed space flights were so hot in 2021 and 2022, but the current year has been very quiet in this regard. That’s now about to change, as Axiom Space and Virgin Galactic prepare for their respective space-based missions, both scheduled for late May.

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Microsoft is treating Windows 11 more and more like a billboard bus, finding ways to stick advertisements for its services along every surface and armpit of its operating system. In addition to ads in the Start menu, the latest test build for Windows 11 includes notices for a Microsoft 365 trial and more in the…Read more...

Steam tells me I have been playing Respawn’s new Star Wars game, Fallen Order sequel Jedi Survivor, for nearly 20 hours now. I have barely gotten into it in that time—and not because Survivor is a vastly bigger game than its predecessor, though it is indeed that. It’s because I cannot stop dressing up, and taking…Read more...

Twitter is on the receiving end of both criticism and controversy for not properly moderating images of the Allen, Texas massacre that have surfaced online. Gruesome images showing the victim’s bodies covered in blood have been posted on Twitter, without a disclaimer warning viewers of disturbing content.Read more...

Giant party speakers are the easiest way to bring the tunes to wherever your guests are hanging out, but once everyone has gone home, you’re probably not going to drag it around to listen to NPR every morning. They’re usually only rolled out for specific occasions, but Sony’s latest party speaker is useful for more…Read more...

Everyone’s favorite clones of famous historical figures have just about thawed out after 20 years on ice and they are... incredibly horny. That’s one of the major takeaways from the latest trailer for Clone High, a modern reboot of the Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Bill Lawrence-created series that originally ran from…Read more...

Even if you’re not an anxious flyer, booking a plane trip can sometimes feel like rolling the dice. Will you make the tight-turnaround connecting flight? Will your carry on fit in the overhead bin? Will you end up stuck, waiting in the terminal or worse—on the tarmac? And honestly, the odds aren’t great. So far in…Read more...

Researchers have identified a gene that is associated with taller noses in humans and found it likely comes from Neanderthals, an extinct hominin group intimately related to our own species.Read more...

We’ve heard about the benefits of reflective electronic paper displays time and again, so why aren’t there E Ink monitors for those who spend all their time on a computer reading, writing, or crunching numbers? The answer is that there are E Ink computer displays, but they come with a lot of trade-offs. Philips’ new …Read more...