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The video game to television series pipeline has been working overtime in the last few years, thanks to hits like Arcane and Castlevania, along with oddities like Halo. We know there are plenty more shows and films on the horizon, and between the Big Three console publishers, Sony’s trying harder than most to make…Read more...

Apple is planning to raise its minimum wage for hourly workers in the U.S. to $22 per hour, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The raise is relatively modest for many cities, given that some Apple employees can make as little as $17 per hour in expensive urban areas like New York and San Francisco…Read more...

As we’ve already discussed today, J.J. Abrams is a busy man. Between producing the next Star Trek and Mission: Impossible movies, along with whatever he’s got going on for Warner Bros., the man’s got quite a few projects he’s attached to serve as an executive producer on. Lest you think he would slow down, he’s now…Read more...

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President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida further solidified their plans to send a Japanese astronaut to the upcoming lunar space station, while also affirming the possibility of having a Japanese astronaut walk on the Moon during future Artemis missions.

NFTs were supposed to be a wonderful thing: helping artists maintain control over their own work. I’m not against that at all. But as interest in NFTs has seemingly boomed and busted in the recent years, so too has whatever integrity the world of NFTs had. Forgery and counterfeit pieces are running amok, and artists…Read more...

Jack’s officially calling it quits at Twitter…again.

With each new season, Dropout’s Dimension 20 series takes viewers on a new adventure, played through either Dungeons & Dragons or another tabletop RPG. After going to space with the recently concluded Starstruck Odyssey, the popular webseries is pivoting to vampires for season 13.

The gunman in Uvalde, Texas sent three messages on Facebook describing his plans before he killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school yesterday.Read more...

The United Nations Postal Administration recently issued six new stamps and three souvenir sheets in celebration of human achievements on Mars.

Wireless headphones have had a slower adoption rate amongst gamers for a few reasons, including audio lag and battery life. SteelSeries’ new Arctis Nova Pro Wireless addresses some of those pain points, and adds a few other useful features too, including a boom mic that can be completely retracted into the headphones…Read more...

Bad Robot, the production company where director and producer J.J. Abrams serves as co-CEO, is under scrutiny at Warner Bros. Discovery, according to sources who spoke to the Hollywood Reporter. The issue at hand appears to be a lack of return on Bad Robot’s $250 million deal with Warner Bros., which was signed back…Read more...

As convenient as it is to buy online, shopping for clothes online is always a risk. There are no virtual changing rooms (unless you use a janky AR app), clothes never fit to size, and photos only reveal so much about the color, texture, and quality of a garment. Amazon, seemingly recognizing the limitations of its own…Read more...

Digital mental health providers are now facing another challenge: CVS says it will no longer fill prescriptions from telehealth companies Cerebral and Done Health.

Beyond Meat has brought on Kim Kardashian as its first chief taste consultant, the company revealed yesterday.

Prehistoric Planet is a new five-part series on Apple TV+ that shows the life and times of Cretaceous-era dinosaurs and pterosaurs as never before. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat from 66 million years ago, and recreates the flora and fauna of the time in breathtaking detail, using the most up-to-date…Read more...

Forty-five years ago today, a movie debuted in theaters that would literally change the world. That movie, of course, was called Star Wars and it would impact not just popular culture, but politics, science, and so much more over the next few months, years, and decades.Read more...

There’s a new kid on the livestreaming block, and their name is TikTok. But in an increasingly crowded field of streaming stock, time will tell which one will walk the walk, talk the talk, and not balk... Yes, I did get paid to write that terrible rhyme.Read more...

A group of more than 500 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals is calling on Meta to rein in medical misinformation on Facebook and Instagram. They’re specifically concerned covid-19 and content that negatively affects children and teenagers’ mental health.Read more...

The tomatoes of the future could help boost your levels of the sunshine vitamin. Researchers in the UK say they’ve developed genetically edited tomatoes that can produce high levels of vitamin D with just an hour of ultraviolet light exposure. These edited tomatoes would ideally help provide a rich and plant-based…Read more...

Even if you don’t recognize Maggie Phillips by name, chances are you’ve heard her work. If you’ve watched Moonlight, Legion, The Umbrella Academy, or even Our Flag Means Death, and you remember thinking, damn, that’s a hell of a song choice, you might have Phillips to thank for that truly epic needle drop.

Although not a name that immediately comes to mind when people talk about consumer-friendly robots, in a video released today, Dyson revealed the company is actually putting a considerable amount of resources into developing robots that can do more around the house than just suck up dirt.Read more...

In a last-ditch effort to avoid a Massachusetts lawsuit, Exxon claimed being sued violated its First Amendment right to free speech. On Tuesday, that motion to dismiss the suit was thrown out in the state’s Supreme Judicial Court. The lawsuit, which accuses Exxon of lying for decades about the climate impacts of…Read more...

Government officials are set to testify at a hearing regarding the ongoing shortage in baby formula, which was made worse through a failure to act sooner on part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA issued a background memo ahead of Wednesday’s hearing that detailed the events leading up to the…Read more...

Clearview AI, the surveillance firm notoriously known for harvesting some 20 billion face scans off of public social media searches, said it may bring its technology to schools and other private businesses.Read more...

While much of the hype surrounding Jurassic World Dominion has been about the return of the original Jurassic Park trio, it’s not just relying on nostalgia. The film’s bringing some new faces to the franchise, too, including DeWanda Wise’s Kayla Watts. As a pilot who helps the group get from place to place, and…Read more...

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner has been cleared to depart the International Space Station, setting the stage for the final act in this important end-to-end demonstration of the system. You can watch all of the action live right here.Read more...

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The kids are not alright, and tech companies know it thanks to the data they’ve been lapping up like mosquitos in a blood bank. Programs that students were using to learn from home during the worst days of the pandemic were also tracking their data and analyzing their habits, which was used to build profiles that…Read more...

Once again, the Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be busier than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.

Ask about seeing Hayden Christensen in the Darth Vader suit on Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Deborah Chow can’t answer. “Unfortunately I can’t talk about [that] at this point,” she said. “I wish I could, but, you know, we’d get into spoilers with that.” But Chow, the showrunner and director of the upcoming Star Wars…Read more...

Within a handful of years, Amazon’s The Boys has become an antiheroic hit, offering up a much meaner and sharper take on the superhero genre that the distinguished competition often cannot. And in typical superhero fashion, there’s much more from The Boys coming down the line beyond the third season beginning next…Read more...

To avoid the hassle of scooping immediately after letting their dog outside for a potty break, and to ensure that future cleanups don’t miss any deposits, Caleb Olson created a smart system that not only tracks where their pup poops, but also uses a laser to guide them to every last pile.Read more...

So it turns out Jason Sudeikis is not going to be in Blue Beetle, but that’s the rumor mill, isn’t it? We’ve also got a wee interview featuring Hayden Christensen chatting about Darth Vader and a few more teasers from Jurassic World: Dominion. Forward, spoiler brigade!

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Logitech has made my job easy. When asked which non-gaming mouse to buy, I instinctively answer “Logitech MX.” There are alternatives, but none are as premium or boast as many useful features as the Master series. I’ve previously reviewed the MX Anywhere 3, and while I love its features, the compact design didn’t…Read more...

A project to develop diffractive solar sails has advanced to the third and final phase of NASA’s advanced concepts program. The team behind the project now has two years to further develop this unconventional means of space propulsion.Read more...

“I just wish I could save them all,” my virtual reality police officer avatar says as he gazes upon a young woman’s abandoned corpse lying beside a back-alley dumpster. My VR cop partner offers a limp gesture of condolence but doesn’t sugarcoat the reality: My decision got this woman killed.

A mass shooter killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday. And Republican politicians took to Twitter in the wake of this tragedy to express their condolences. But if you look closely, you’ll notice something odd. Many of the messages were identical, as though they’re all…Read more...

Disneyland Paris is celebrating 30 years in a big way, announcing the opening of its own Avengers Campus this summer. The Marvel Studios-themed land in France joins its West Coast counterpart on July 20, expanding the theme park cinematic universe. Check out the announcement below delivered by Iron Man, who’ll be…Read more...

NASA has shared the final self-portrait that will be taken by the InSight Mars lander, showing dust-caked solar panels that blend into the surrounding regolith. The InSight mission is expected to end this year, and the lander will need all of its remaining power to gather as much scientific data as possible.Read more...

Yes, that sub-hed sounds like gibberish to us too.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced Tuesday that Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, an Iraqi citizen living in Columbus, Ohio, was charged with participating in a conspiracy to murder former President George W. Bush.Read more...

For much of Star Wars’ existence, the various heroes we’ve watched and played have been good people trying to make the galaxy a better place in some way, or at the very least, find their own place in the universe. The larger conflicts have always put our heroes up against seemingly insurmountable odds, be it an…Read more...

University of Oregon researchers are teaming up with Google to conduct a study on digital wellbeing using the Google Health Studies tool Dr. Nicholas Allen said in a Google blog post today.

After 15 years, Google Street View has become the defacto destination for people trying to get a feel for where they’re going. If not for Street View, I would have spent countless days and nights wandering around foreign locales, wondering where my hotel was or which side to cross the street to enter the train station.

This unicorn may look cute—and he certainly is—but don’t let his whimsy fool you. Unico was created by Osamu Tezuka, the legendary “god of manga” and creator of Astro Boy, who gave this adorable unicorn an edge that captivated Japanese readers of the ‘70s—as well as author Samuel Sattin. Now Sattin, working with the…Read more...

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Californians may be headed towards mandatory water use restrictions. In a Monday meeting, Gov. Gavin Newsom warned many of the state’s big municipal water suppliers that, if their current local strategies don’t work to bring water demand down, he would introduce statewide orders.

You might think that you need to spend money to fill up your e-reader with great literature, but that’s not actually the case. If you know where to look, you can find a host of free e-books out there to add to your collection, and you’ll find plenty of them are better than the paid stuff, too. No matter what model of…Read more...