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Netflix just can’t seem to decide on the best way to keep users using the platform. The streaming service is reportedly cutting monthly subscription costs in over three dozen countries across the world, with some discounts being as much as half of the current monthly subscription.

Star Trek: Picard’s final season is currently airing on Paramount+, but the former crew of the Enterprise-D has plenty of new problems to deal with. The biggest by far, however, was just revealed in today’s episode, “Disengage,” and it’s a twist that will force Jean-Luc to grapple with his past—which is exactly what…Read more...

The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance is facing intense scrutiny as of late, and the pressure doesn’t seem to be letting up. Through the exchange’s U.S.-based “partner” Binance.US, the crypto company has been looking to Pac-Man up failed exchange Voyager Digital assets after striking a deal back in December last…Read more...

When ABL Space System’s RS1 rocket exploded shortly after liftoff from the Pacific Spaceport Complex—Alaska on January 10, the resulting black mushroom cloud was visible from at least about 25 miles away. In a phone call with Gizmodo, one Kodiak Island resident, who requested anonymity for employment reasons,…Read more...

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Kiefer Sutherland goes up against Big Tech in a new look at Rabbit Hole. Shrinking’s Lukita Maxwell has joined Chris Weitz’s new horror movie. The Red Death comes for Iris in a new look at The Flash’s final season. Plus, the Gotham Kidz unite in a new clip from Gotham Knights. Spoilers now!

Apple is reportedly close to creating a noninvasive glucose test for diabetics through a new sensor on its Apple Watch. The technology has been in the works since 2010, when then-Apple CEO and founder Steve Jobs bought out RareLight, a small startup that crafted ideas for noninvasive blood glucose monitoring.Read more...

You wouldn’t have seen any mention of it on your social media feeds or even a press release, but TikTok’s parent company, the China-based ByteDance, has been quietly rolling out a newer app called Lemon8 in the U.S. and UK. This app bills itself as a place to “discover beautiful, authentic, and diverse content.” All…Read more...

In the age we live in, what’s one to do if they suddenly end up next to a giant Chinese spy balloon? Why, take a selfie, of course!Read more...

A major change in how foods are labeled in the U.S. is about to arrive. The Food and Drug Administration has proposed stricter limits on what can be advertised as a “healthy” food—limits that are set to exclude many products that met the previous criteria. But what is this new criteria, and how could the labeling…Read more...

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” President John Kennedy said famously in a 1962 speech. A bold goal, and a goal that required NASA to develop a rocket capable of the task.Read more...

The future of online expression, as it’s currently understood, could come down to five hours of oral arguments held in the Supreme Court’s chambers this week. Justices heard from lawyers both attacking and defending Big Tech’s strongest legal shield: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.Read more...

The makers of the world’s most popular Android app are providing false or misleading information in the “privacy nutrition labels” in Google’s Play Store, according to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project.Read more...

Writer-director Kyra Elise Gardner knows a thing or two about horror; her dad is special-effects whiz Tony Gardner, whose many credits include multiple films in the Child’s Play series as well as the current Chucky TV series. With stage blood in her real blood, Gardner seems like the perfect person to make a…Read more...

In April, Star Wars Celebration will return to London, England for the first time in seven years. It’s going to be a big event, with news on the next Star Wars film more than likely, and plenty of footage from upcoming projects like Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew, and who knows what else. These are things every single Star Wars…Read more...

We all know about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the newly rebooted DC Universe, and even Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. But maybe, just maybe, one day we’ll get the Tobacco Verse. If that happens, it would all start here, with the release of the absurdist French superhero comedy Smoking Causes Coughing.Read more...

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The year was 2002 and popular boyband NSYNC was on its last tour for the album Celebrity before going on an indefinite, heartbreaking hiatus. Meanwhile, the band’s most forgettable member Lance Bass was set to embark on a much more memorable journey to space—a journey that never happened.Read more...

For 3,500 years, a curious medical case has been buried beneath the floor of a Bronze Age building in Israel. Now, a team of archaeologists has studied the remains of two wealthy brothers entombed there, finding that both likely struggled with chronic infectious disease in childhood. The two skeletons showed signs of…Read more...

No one stays dead in comic books, and no universe does either, apparently. Because a mere eight years after writer Jonathan Hickman destroyed it (and the rest of Marvel’s multiverse) in the Secret Wars saga, he’s set to bring it back in Ultimate Invasion, a new miniseries coming this summer that will also bring back…Read more...

Artifact, the self-described “personalized news feed powered by artificial intelligence,” is now live and ready for use by the public. The app was previously introduced last month and seeks to aggregate news stories from top outlets using artificial intelligence.

A new astronaut crew is getting ready to cohabitate in low Earth orbit while conducting dozens of science experiments and research during a six-month period on board the International Space Station.Read more...

The newest gear for DC Studios’ upcoming release Shazam: Fury of the Gods is beginning to hit stores—including the exclusive DC Shop online as well as Hot Topic and other retailers—with fandom fashion, Funko figures, and more!Read more...

Hundreds of stone artifacts and 54,000-year-old human teeth have been found in a rock shelter in the south of France, pushing back evidence for Homo sapiens wielding the bow and arrow in Europe by 10,000 years.Read more...

An organization supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign used location data to send misleading ads to people who attended campaign events for Nikki Haley’s nascent presidential run.Read more...

The ever-growing list of random electronic devices that can play Doom—which already includes pregnancy tests, Christmas tree ornaments, and even farming equipment—grows slightly longer with James Brown’s functional Lego computers now being able to actually play the classic first-person shooter using motion controls…Read more...

The era of Kang is upon us, just as He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors as Kang) promised at the end of Loki season one if Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) didn’t agree to keep his sacred timeline intact.

Supreme Court justices whipped out their dictionaries and a deep bucket of metaphors Wednesday in a cumbersome attempt to understand whether or not social media companies can be held legally liable for promoting ISIS videos under anti-terrorism laws. Stolen jewelry, banks, imaginary burglars, and a young Osama bin…Read more...

Bixby Text Call is one of the more exciting parts of the Galaxy S23 series, allowing users to type messages that are converted to speech for phone calls. Unfortunately, it wasn’t live when I reviewed the Galaxy S23 Ultra. But Samsung now says a Bixby update will be available for Samsung Galaxy users this month, and …Read more...

A metal sphere, which many are calling Godzilla’s egg, washed up on the shore of Enshu beach in Hamamatsu, Japan. Authorities responded to the scene where a woman reported that she had stumbled upon the sphere while out for her morning walk.Read more...

In life, we can count on a few things. Death. Taxes. And Hollywood making innumerable, nearly indistinguishable exorcism movies. Every year it seems we get two or three of them and even when they’re good it’s hard to get excited because they always look the same. So it would make sense to see a title like “The Pope’s…Read more...

It’s a weird weather week nationwide. Amid widespread, below-average cold temperatures across the western and northern U.S., parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties are under a blizzard warning from Friday morning through Saturday afternoon—and it may be their first such warning in history. Southern California’s…Read more...

This week, gaming giant Activision revealed that a cybercriminal had managed to get inside of its network late last year. How did the hacker do that, exactly? Better take a guess. Is the answer...Read more...

Incredibly intelligent. Jaw-droppingly massive. Able to elude predators by burrowing for hours under the snow in freezing temperatures.Read more...

Lunar astronauts might have to get their overalls ready, because the Moon could be the next great frontier for agriculture. The European Space Agency and Norwegian lunar agriculture company Solsys Mining have teamed up on a project to study how lunar soil could be used to produce fertilizer.Read more...

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Ever wonder how else the forever-scheming Seymour Skinner of The Simpsons could have played out the famed “steamed hams” situation? Well, AI may have the answer, at least in the form of an incredibly awkward Twitch stream that plays out the main beats of the much-memed episode, but replaces everything else with the…Read more...

A trip to the scenic island country of Cape Verde off the coast of Africa has turned into a queasy nightmare for hundreds of tourists returning home. A multi-country outbreak of Shigella bacteria, a common but sometimes serious stomach bug, has been traced back to travel from the island since last fall. Over 200 cases…Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope has spotted six pinpricks of reddish-orange light that scientists say are actually galaxies as mature as the Milky Way—despite being billions of years younger.Read more...

Everything Everywhere All at Once may or may not win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, but it remains one of 2022's greatest movies. So chances are you wouldn’t mind owning one—or more!—of the movie’s most iconic props, especially if the money you spent on it was going to a great cause. Or, even more especially, if…Read more...

Amazon employees are petitioning CEO Andy Jassy to cancel his return-to-office mandate and calling out his about-face on remote work. In a petition to Jassy sent late Tuesday, Amazon workers decried that their trust in the company’s leaders had been “shattered.”Read more...

On October 26, 1984, Orion Pictures released The Terminator, a movie about genocidal AI-powered robots unleashed by a tech company. Unfortunately, the executives at Microsoft must have been doing something else that day. As part of an ongoing partnership with OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, Microsoft’s next plan is…Read more...

With a third season of The Mandalorian a week away, it might be a little wild for Star Wars to already be talking about the future beyond it. But always in motion, the future is, a wise little green goblin once said—and it’s going to be especially so when the series is joined by two more contemporaneous series.

After completing a static fire test of Starship earlier this month, SpaceX has nowhere else to go but up. A company official says it’s now in a position to perform the first orbital flight test of its much-anticipated megarocket, pending a launch license.Read more...

The Dutch safety watchdog decided on Wednesday that it had concluded its investigation into Tesla and wouldn’t issue a fine against the company for its vehicle’s security cameras. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) carried out an investigation over concerns Tesla vehicles could be violating privacy laws with its…Read more...

An Icelandic volcano sends molten rock into the air. An owl silently snares its prey. The glow from mountain climbers’ headlamps travels miles across the wilderness on a starlit night. Bald eagles spat for a perch amid Alaska’s salmon season.

Vitamin and supplement maker, The Bountiful Company (owned by Nestlé), has to pay a $600,000 fine to the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly misrepresenting numerous products online. According to the FTC, Bountiful—which makes Nature’s Bounty supplements along with other brands—engaged in “review hijacking” on…Read more...

April will mark the 40th anniversary of Casio releasing one of the most recognizable and enduring brands in digital watches: the G-Shock. And because everything old is new and cool again, to commemorate the occasion, the company will be releasing an updated version of the original DW-5000C G-Shock model with some …Read more...

Scream 6 co-director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin teases how the movie’s easter eggs tie into its murderous villain’s plot. Helen Mirren teases her fury of the gods in the new Shazam. Plus, meet Jack Crusher in a new clip from Star Trek: Picard. To me, my spoilers!

Uber is reportedly pursuing an unorthodox approach to performance reviews at the ride-share company. While Uber says it has no plans for broad layoffs, so to speak, it does have plans for upcoming performance reviews to include potential cuts to the company’s workforce.