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by Passant Rabie on (#5YNV3)
Orbital Assembly Corporation announced plans to develop a space business park, complete with artificial gravity, that’s designed to accommodate 28 guests in five modules built around a rotating gravity ring.Read more...
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by James Whitbrook on (#5YNV4)
The Book of Boba Fett might be well and truly in the landspeeder’s rear-view mirror now, as the galaxy far, far away turns its eyes towards the impending arrival of Obi-Wan Kenobi. But Boba Fett has proven before that you can’t keep a good bounty hunter turned crime lord down, and now he’s already staked a claim on…Read more...
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by Kyle Barr on (#5YNRV)
The Biden administration is looking to snuff out menthol cigarette sales altogether, leaving the only available cigarette flavors available to purchase to be tobacco and…yeah, just tobacco.Read more...
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by Cheryl Eddy on (#5YNRW)
Almost exactly a year ago, HBO Max series Made for Love ended its first season with a hell of a twist. Finally, it’s time to see what Hazel’s life is looking like after making the choice to help save her ailing father by reuniting with her toxic husband—a billionaire tech guru who implanted a chip in her brain…Read more...
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by Lucas Ropek on (#5YNRX)
Don’t get any ideas, Elon.
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by Lauren Leffer on (#5YNRY)
In the Sunshine State, a major incentive for homeowners to install solar panels will stay in place, thanks to a wildly unexpected veto from Florida’s Republican Governor, Ron DeSantis. The veto is the final outcome of a legislative journey that started with what unmistakably smells like a $10,000 political payoff by…Read more...
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by Florence Ion on (#5YNPE)
Being an Android user can be fun when you get to try out new apps, launchers, and even the next version of the operating system before they’re ready for showtime. But what’s not fun is taking advantage of that perk and realizing that what you’re playing with is nothing.
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#5YNPF)
Realizing that quiet strolls on the beach, intimate picnics at the park, and hikes in the solitude of nature just aren’t the same without the loud hum of a drone’s electric motors hovering nearby capturing the moment, Snap has revealed Pixy: a tiny semi-intelligent autonomous drone with cameras to capture all those…Read more...
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by Isaac Schultz on (#5YNPG)
A team of paleontologists has discovered fossils of three impressive new ichthyosaurs—ancient marine reptiles—in rocks located 9,000 feet above sea level.Read more...
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by Sabina Graves on (#5YNPH)
Check out io9's exclusive clip from Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red just in time for its home media release. Domee Shi’s funny and heartfelt coming-of-age film captures not only the relatable angst of being in a teen in the early 2000s, but also crafts a transformative tale of magical realism.Read more...
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by Angely Mercado on (#5YNMC)
Enjoy the teeming oceans… for now.
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#5YNMD)
The touchscreens used on smartphones, tablets, and wearables are leaps and bounds better than similar technologies from a few decades ago, but there’s still lots of room for improvement, as researchers have demonstrated by leveraging a bump-covered screen protector to dramatically reduce a modern touchscreen’s latency.Read more...
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by Ed Cara on (#5YNME)
There’s no shortage of viruses, bacteria, and critters that take advantage of humans’ love for sex. If your knowledge of STIs still comes mostly from primary school sex ed, it’s time for a refresher, because some of these germs—and how we fight them—have evolved over time.Read more...
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by James Whitbrook on (#5YNHJ)
Star Trek: Picard’s second season had a lot to wrap up coming into its last two episodes. As the threat of the Borg Queen and Q’s own 2024 shenanigans merged into an unholy matrimony between the Borg and Dr. Soong, team La Sirena had to deal with a whole chunk of mess this week—and paid some big prices to maybe change…Read more...
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by Passant Rabie on (#5YNHK)
Some bad days can be made even worse with the unannounced arrival of a pop-up ad that triggers some unpleasant emotions. In order to help mitigate those ads, Google is adding new options on its “sensitive categories” list for user ad controls. The new options will now help users avoid seeing ads on weight loss,…Read more...
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by Kyle Barr on (#5YNHM)
Moderna is asking federal regulators for an emergency authorization of its mRNA covid-19 vaccine for those between 6 months and 5 years old. No vaccine has yet been approved for very young children in the U.S., which is a population of approximately 18 million people.
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by Kevin Hurler on (#5YNHN)
NASA Earth Observatory has been working overtime since its inception in 1999 to bring us stellar coverage of our planet. The Observatory publishes images taken by different satellites or by astronauts aboard the International Space Station depicting Earth’s geography, environment, and geology. You can see ice sheets…Read more...
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by Rob Bricken on (#5YNEX)
As cool as it will be to give the two characters another fight, there’s always been one problem with putting Darth Vader in Disney+’s upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series. In A New Hope, during their duel, Vader says, “When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master”—a clear reference to Anakin’s days as…Read more...
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by Mack DeGeurin on (#5YNEY)
While Russia’s war in Ukraine hasn’t led to the massive, countrywide blackout level events many experts feared, new research suggests a less obvious cyberwar is playing out just below the surface, with hacking attacks appearing to occur in tandem with physical military strikes.Read more...
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by Jody Serrano on (#5YNEZ)
Following a deadly incident in an Illinois warehouse and internal pressure, Amazon has decided to allow employees in all its operations facilities worldwide to keep their personal cell phones with them permanently while at work.Read more...
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by Ed Cara on (#5YNF0)
The once nearly vanquished disease measles is making a worrying comeback. This week, the World Health Organization and UNICEF reported that global cases of the viral illness have so far jumped almost 80% in 2022 compared to last year. Without immediate action, the conditions are “ripe” this year for a large-scale…Read more...
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by Germain Lussier on (#5YNC5)
For almost three hours at CinemaCon Wednesday night, Universal Studios and Focus Features just unleashed the Kraken If, by “Kraken,” we meant was “film footage.” Trailer after trailer, star after star, all touting the films the studios have coming to theaters in the next year or so. There were around 20 films in total…Read more...
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by Kevin Hurler on (#5YNC6)
During a flight on April 19, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter snapped a photo of the wrecked backshell and parachute that helped land the Perseverance rover back in February 2021.Read more...
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by Kyle Barr on (#5YNC7)
A nonbinding agreement fronted by the U.S. is looking to set goals and boundaries for the future of a free internet. And though the declaration is more of a nonbinding agreement that is loose on specifics, it’s also noteworthy who isn’t on the pledge, namely China and Russia.Read more...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#5YN95)
Don’t toss your hard drives, SSDs, and RAIDs just yet, but a company with an expertise in making precision jewel-based industrial tools has partnered with researchers from Japan’s Saga University to create a diamond wafer that’s both pure enough and large enough to be used in quantum computing applications, including…Read more...
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by Isaac Schultz on (#5YN96)
A team of astronomers looking at a distant star system found 30 exocomets that look remarkably like the comets around our own local star. Down the line, more data from these comets could provide clues as to how water arrived on Earth.Read more...
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by James Whitbrook and Gordon Jackson on (#5YN97)
Doctor Who’s Sylvester McCoy heads to Rob Zombie’s Munsters. Elisabeth Moss hypes up the next season of The Handmaid’s Tale. The Flash faces some ghosts from the past in a preview for next week’s episode. Plus, a teeny new tease for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Spoilers get!
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by Matt Novak on (#5YN2K)
The U.S. has wasted millions of covid-19 vaccine doses since the pandemic began, with many more ready to be tossed in the garbage in the coming weeks and months as they expire, according to a damning new report from ABC News. Roughly 50,000 Americans are still getting their first dose each day.Read more...
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by Phillip Tracy on (#5YN0J)
Dell’s newest edition to its popular XPS laptop family, the XPS 13 Plus, has arrived. Announced at CES in January, the XPS 13 Plus shares DNA with the standard model but was built from the ground up with a more streamlined chassis featuring a haptic touchpad, a capacitive function row, and an edge-to-edge keyboard.
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by Lauren Leffer on (#5YMNY)
Parts of California are officially in a water emergency, according to a declaration from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. On Tuesday, the board of the Metropolitan Water District released a statement announcing “that a Water Shortage Emergency Condition exists in the [State Water Project]…Read more...
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by Sabina Graves on (#5YMM1)
With six months to go before “This Is Halloween” starts playing everywhere, I went to Coachella in Indio, CA to watch Nightmare Before Christmas’ Danny Elfman—the legendary composer of such scores as Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and most of Tim Burton’s catalog—perform. If there was ever a year that I was going to attend…Read more...
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by James Whitbrook on (#5YMJP)
As Star Wars becomes increasingly invested in fleshing out the time between the fall of the Jedi in Revenge of the Sith and the time of A New Hope, one of its most frequent fascinations has been the long, dark arm of the Emperor and Darth Vader: the agents of the Imperial Inquisitorius. Before we meet them again in …Read more...
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by Artem Golub, LeAnn Wallace, and Kyle Barr on (#5YMH6)
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by Sabina Graves on (#5YMH7)
After being left at the altar, Kite Man (Matt Oberg) embarks on a new adventure in Noonan’s, his own spin-off set in the world of DC Entertainment and WB Animation’s hit series Harley Quinn, which will be back for a third season this summer. HBO Max has ordered a 10-episode run for the spin-off.Read more...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#5YMFT)
Although the plastic building brick that made Lego one of the most successful toy companies of all time originated over 65 years ago, it would be a few years before Lego started churning out the building sets that inspired the models that many of us grew up with. But even back in 1972 you could see the humble…Read more...
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by Dell Cameron on (#5YMDJ)
Officers of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) engaged in surveillance of local Black leaders and organizations “without a public safety objective,” the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) found. The racist misuse of state authority was just one among a litany of other abuses that included “killing…Read more...
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by Germain Lussier on (#5YMDK)
These eyes have seen a sight I never thought I’d see: a trailer for Avatar 2. After over a decade of development and production, writer-director James Cameron finally debuted the teaser trailer for his long-awaited, highly anticipated sequel at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. And while you can’t see it just yet, you’ll see it…Read more...
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by Jody Serrano on (#5YMDM)
Elon Musk — the tech billionaire known for talking smack and trolling on Twitter — isn’t allowed to publish tweets about his deal to take over Twitter if he belittles the company or its representatives, according to a new filing on the transaction submitted by Twitter to the Securities and Exchange Commission on…Read more...
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by Germain Lussier on (#5YMB0)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a week away, and we’re happy to report it starts very strong. Marvel Studios screened 20 minutes from the film at CinemaCon 2022, and it drops you right back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with several exciting action scenes right from the start. We’ll describe them…Read more...
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by Florence Ion on (#5YMB1)
Comcast and Charter Communications (Spectrum, to many of you), two cable TV giants, have announced they’re forming a joint venture to create a “next-generation streaming platform” for branded streaming devices and Smart TVs. The goal for the two companies is to position themselves to better compete against Roku,…Read more...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#5YMB2)
Without adding any hardware that actually makes contact with the wearer’s face, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group have modified an off-the-shelf virtual reality headset so that it recreates the sensation of touch in and around a user’s mouth, finally fulfilling virtual reality’s…Read more...
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by Rob Bricken on (#5YMB3)
TV Line reports that actor Melissa McBride has exited the upcoming Walking Dead spin-off series that was going to be focused on her character Carol and TWD’s other fan-favorite series regular Daryl, played by Norman Reedus. Now, the show will focus exclusively on Daryl, which... uh... was likely the only possible…Read more...
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by Kevin Hurler on (#5YM8Y)
Bitcoin has officially been recognized as a legal currency in the Central African Republic Agence France-Presse reports, making it the second country in the world to officially adopt it as an official tender.Read more...
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by Ed Cara on (#5YM8Z)
America’s most prominent public health expert, Anthony Fauci, appears to no longer consider covid-19 a pandemic, at least stateside. In an interview with PBS NewsHour this week, Fauci declared the “pandemic phase” of covid-19 over in the U.S., citing currently low case, hospitalization, and death counts. Notably,…Read more...
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#5YM90)
Everyone from Amazon to Dyson sell devices for monitoring the air quality in a home, most of which alert users through their mobile devices when a problem is detected, but none of them approach the problem so dramatically as the Canairi air monitor. This...cute...device uses a bright yellow bird that appears to pass…Read more...
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by James Whitbrook on (#5YM91)
Star Wars animation is everywhere lately, from the climax of Clone Wars to the arrival of The Bad Batch, to things like Visions, Galaxy of Adventures, and Galactic Pals in between. But... there is another: Tales of the Jedi.
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by Andrew Liszewski on (#5YM92)
If you’re looking to take your amateur videos to the next level, upgrading to a capable camera and a high-quality lens is just the tip of the iceberg. A little camera movement goes a long way when it comes to making footage more compelling, and now Edelkrone has made its JibONE crane even smaller. With it, no matter…Read more...
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by Mack DeGeurin on (#5YM6D)
2022 is shaping up to be a rough year for content creators and sellers trying to make living through major tech platforms. Sellers on Amazon and Etsy are already facing increased fees and now new pay cuts may reportedly make their way to Twitch.
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by Passant Rabie on (#5YM6E)
Some Twitter users may already be running for the hills following Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform. A few major accounts have seen fluctuations in their follower count, with largely right-wing conservatives gaining followers while popular democratic figures such as former U.S. President Barack Obama…Read more...
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