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There are three things certain in life: death, taxes, and dumb Elon Musk tweets. The last of those are of particular concern to The Securities and Exchanges Commission.

Reports of monkeypox are multiplying around the world and the United States. Worldwide, there have been over 10,000 cases reported of the viral illness, including more than 1,400 in the U.S. alone. And so far, mass vaccination efforts in early hot spots like New York City have been stymied by website crashes and low…Read more...

As our country continues grappling with its ongoing mental health pandemic, a new National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number—988—is launching July 16 to support those struggling with suicidal ideation.

From the visionary director of Your Name (2016) and Weathering With You (2019), the new trailer for Suzume offers a look into the surreal and emotionally devastating work of Makoto Shinkai. The trailer is a breathtaking piece of art, and in between the animation and complex voice acting, Suzume is already garnering…Read more...

The Webb telescope team has released new images of the planet Jupiter and some of its moons, a portent of what’s to come for the nascent, $10 billion space observatory.

The drought in the American West is becoming more desperate by the day, and many Californians are under water restrictions. But plenty of celebrities are continuing to use all the water they want, according to an investigation from CBS News Los Angeles.Read more...

Since Season 1, many fans have suspected that Noah Schnapp’s character on Stranger Things, Will Byers, was gay. As the young actor stepped aside in interviews to allow for audience interpretation, after Season 4's much more obvious nods to Will’s sexuality, Schnapp finally feels comfortable discussing Will’s…Read more...

You would think the online retail monolith that is Amazon would be more over the moon with its recent $12 billion Prime Day sales numbers, but instead executives are reportedly casting their eyes at their feet, scuffing the ground and wondering if having their own product range is even worth it.Read more...

The western and southwestern U.S. is wilting under the biggest drought in 1,200 years—a megadrought. As of writing this, most of the country is experiencing drier-than-normal conditions, but things remain particularly severe from Texas to Washington state.

Facebook is testing a new feature where users can create and manage as many as five different, linked profiles on the site. One will need to stay under the user’s real name and identity (to the extent that Facebook requests verification). However, the other four could be listed under a fake name, nickname, or…Read more...

On Friday, the Russian government announced the dismissal of Dmitry Rogozin from Roscosmos, appointing Yury Borisov, Russia’s deputy prime minister, to the agency’s top role. The decree is effective immediately, according to a brief communique by the Kremlin.Read more...

Rhett Reese talks about Disney’s approach to Deadpool 3. Chucky sets its sights on a spooky season return. Jamie Lee Curtis teases something’s coming for Halloween Ends. Plus, what to expect from Riverdale’s season finale, and a look at the return of The Handmaid’s Tale. To me, my spoilers!

After bringing NBC sitcoms like Seinfeld and Friends into the brick-built universe (or the BBU, as no one but myself refers to it), Lego has finally revealed its official take on The Office, which recreates the Dunder Mifflin offices—along with all of the show’s major characters and countless Easter eggs and…Read more...

The miniaturization of consumer tech marches on, as projectors become the latest devices you can use wherever you roam. XGIMI’s Halo+ is a rechargeable 1080P option that promises to replace ghost stories around the campfire with horror movies, but as simple as it is to quickly set up and use, you won’t want to camp…Read more...

Celsius, the crypto trading platform that halted all withdrawals a month ago and filed for bankruptcy yesterday, has a $1.2 billion sized hole in its balance sheet, according to a bankruptcy filing and new report from the Financial Times. What does that mean for users? You’re probably not getting all your money back,…Read more...

I have been on a journey with Carl Pei my whole career, and the release of the Nothing Phone (1) feels like absolute deja vu. Everything about the Nothing Phone (1) and the hype surrounding its launch seems like a page straight out of OnePlus’s original playbook. Which makes sense, since OnePlus is a company that Pei…Read more...

In a special video released by Netflix, actor Joseph Quinn discussed playing Eddie Munson and broke down his journey on Stranger Things season four. The actor revealed that even he didn’t know the fate of the fan-favorite hero when he took on the role, which leads us to believe that perhaps plans for Eddie were in flux…Read more...

There’s plenty of Primes to celebrate with Prime Day this week—perhaps even a Primal or two—but we should never forget the greatest among them all that inspired such a celebration, even more than a multibillion dollar retailer ever could. The one, the only Optimus Prime: or he would be, if there weren’t so damn many…Read more...

“Excessive chip inventory” are three words I wasn’t expecting to write anytime soon, and yet the world’s largest contract chip supplier is predicting that seemingly unlikely scenario. TSMC said in an earnings call on Thursday that while its net income hit record levels (up 76.4% year-on-year), softening demand in PCs,…Read more...

OpenSea has found itself stuck in the doldrums of the ongoing crypto winter, and seeing that it doesn’t have enough food for the entire crew, it’s made the hard choice to throw a good few shipmates overboard.Read more...

Disney’s live-action Lilo and Stitch movie has found its director in Dean Fleischer Camp, as reported by Deadline. The feature is set to follow upcoming releases based on Walt Disney Animation classics like Pinocchio, which recently debuted its trailer starring Tom Hanks. It is unconfirmed if it will be released…Read more...

NASA is getting ready to launch a SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station, with liftoff scheduled for 8:44 p.m. ET on Thursday. You can catch the action live right here.Read more...

Microsoft is once again shifting the Windows update release schedule. Not long after committing to a once-a-year feature update, the company is now considering releasing a single significant update every three years with up to four smaller feature drops sprinkled in between, according to a Windows Central report.

The cast for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two has expanded yet again. Deadline reports the sci-fi sequel has added Souheila Yacoub, an actress of Tunisian descent, as Shishakli, a Fremen from the Sietch Tabr, the community that houses Paul (Timothée Chalamet) and Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) while they’re in…Read more...

Updated documents filed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission suggest SpaceX might actually use its Mechazilla launch tower and chopstick arms to catch a returning Starship booster rocket during the first orbital flight test of its upcoming giant rocket.Read more...

A common mutation in older men may make them more likely to suffer life-threatening heart problems. New research in both mice and men suggests that the loss of the Y chromosome in cells can trigger tissue scarring that can lead to organ failure. The findings may one day allow for better screening of heart and other…Read more...

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In some ways, Microsoft’s latest operating system is just like the ones that came before it: Applications, files and folders can quickly clutter up the local storage space, leaving you with a diminishing number of free gigabytes and a computer that’s sluggish and difficult to get around. When these issues get to be…Read more...

After negotiations that sparked hope in the hearts of Democratic lawmakers on finally reviving some of the President’s climate policy, coal-rich, Maserati-owning West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has brought up a new round of concerns. This time, it’s about the nation’s historic 9.1% inflation rate.Read more...

With The Walking Dead coming to an end in the next few months, it’s natural to wonder if it can sustain. We know about the spinoffs, the potential movie, all that stuff, but will audiences still show up and get excited for the popular zombie franchise? The answer could be yes, if half of it lives up to the teaser…Read more...

In the Blade movies, rich vampires—often dressed in fancy black suits and ties—use blood banks as a kind of front to siphon blood from the poor and desperate. Apparently, reality isn’t too far off from that bleak dystopia.Read more...

Amazon is talking from both sides of its mouth. In Europe, it’s offering concessions to antitrust regulators. In the United States, it’s funding shady lobbyists in hopes of killing antitrust legislation.

A team of astronomers recently detected a fast radio burst that persists about 1,000 times longer than the average burst and has a clear periodic pattern. The radio burst is an eclectic new addition to the running list of mysterious radio signals that emanate from various sources across the universe.

Video games aren’t just a lucrative industry for the companies making the games; now you can earn a good living playing them, too. Making a Twitch stream look as professional as possible is an easy way to attract viewers and sponsorships, which has typically meant investing in gear like Elgato’s Stream Deck. Razer has…Read more...

We briefly got to meet the red-pulsing Gundam and its mysterious pilot from The Witch From Mercury a few months ago, but now with the launch of a new prologue series ahead of the main show’s autumn launch, we have our first proper look at just what the next chapter in the Gundam saga will look like.

As the world shifts to renewable energy, our appetite for copper—a key component for renewable technologies—is rising rapidly. But we may not have the tools to meet the growing need.Read more...

Game of Thrones might have been one of the biggest shows to ever grace a television screen, but it was not without its issues. In addition to fans being disappointed at how the story ended, the show was rightfully criticized about its often unflattering portrayals of women and its lack of diversity, to name just two…Read more...

Mission controllers with the European Space Agency were forced to relocate a science satellite upon detecting a threatening piece of space junk, and they did so with very little time to spare—just 8 hours notice, which isn’t a lot of time when it comes to managing objects in space.Read more...

Ah, Uber. Love it or hate it, the ride-sharing company has revolutionized the way we travel so much so that the word “Uber” is the eponym most people use to refer to any ride they’ve hailed via smartphone, regardless of the actual brand. One thing about Uber, however, is that prices have gone up—point, blank, period.…Read more...

A massive, $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory is coming to Kansas. The Wednesday announcement followed about 45 minutes of closed door discussion between company and state stakeholders, where media were excluded, according to a report from the Topeka Capital-Journal.

French fries and ketchup are a perfect culinary pairing, but have you ever struggled to get enough of the condiment during a dip, given fries are nothing more than a potato stick? Apparently it’s a problem, and one that Heinz has endeavored to solve by way of spoon-shaped french fry.Read more...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake isn’t looking so great.Read more...

Fantasy, especially secondary world fantasy, is a genre about imagination, creating new worlds with different views of everything from culture to economics to the limits of physics, and in many respects, presuming no limitations at all. In that imagining (to paraphrase Max Gladstone), it implies a critique, a…Read more...

General Motors wants to end any Little Red Riding Hood situations for electric vehicle owners, hoping you’ll not have to stray too far from the well-trodden path when taking your EV long-distance.Read more...

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Alex Jones has a lot to say—just not on the topic of white supremacy. In a Connecticut court document filed Wednesday, Jones’ legal team motioned to limit expert testimony on white supremacy and far-right extremism as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Jones in response to his comments surrounding the Sandy Hook…Read more...

The invasion of Ukraine has taken a toll on Russia’s ongoing partnerships with the U.S. and Europe in space. Yesterday, the European Space Agency announced that it’s fully terminating its cooperation with its Russian counterpart on an upcoming mission to Mars, prompting Roscosmos to threaten access to Europe’s new…Read more...

Nintendo’s surprise collaboration with Illumination to bring about a new animated Super Mario movie a few years ago signalled a major sea change for a games publisher that has, for the most part, largely been reticent to bring its gaming icons to other media after an explosion of tie-ins in the ‘90s. Now, that might…Read more...

There’s good news for Sega fans stressing over potentially having to pay steep import fees to bring the recently announced Mega Drive Mini 2 Console to the US. Yesterday, the company revealed the mini console would be coming to North America too on the same day, but will be called the Sega Genesis Mini 2 here.Read more...