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Mark Zuckerberg’s recruiting some help to inch his metaverse vision closer to reality.Read more...

Excited to watch the debut of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power over at Prime Video today? Perhaps you might want to check out the platinum blond problems of the Targaryen family instead? Happily, you can do both, thanks to HBO Max releasing the first episode of the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the…Read more...

Each September brings the annual Mineral Cup, a fierce competition to determine Twitter’s favorite mineral. This year’s contest is well underway, with kaolinite narrowly beating schorl in the first matchup.Read more...

Alessandra Nivola talks about being Kraven’s villain. Get a look at the new Hellraiser. Jerry and Morty get slimed in new, mysterious Rick and Morty season 6 art. Plus, another look at Supernatural spinoff The Winchesters, and Vincent D’Onofrio keeps teasing his return to the Marvel universe. Spoilers get!

Humans are going back to the Moon and this time they’re seeking to stay. NASA’s Artemis program promotes a sustainable vision of people living on and around the lunar surface, prompting some truly innovative ideas about how we might make that happen.

President Joe Biden delivered an important speech in Philadelphia on Thursday night about the threat that Donald Trump and his followers pose to the future of American democracy. It was fiery and blunt by Biden standards. And there’s probably no better proof that Biden’s speech was desperately needed than the reaction…Read more...

On Friday, Russian cosmonauts will attempt a second go at a spacewalk to continue the installation of Europe’s Robotic Arm outside the International Space Station. The first attempt ended prematurely owing to a spacesuit battery glitch.

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Mobile Suit Gundam, like all huge franchises, can be a little intimidating to get into—especially since, chronologically speaking, the mecha anime series is about as wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey as you can get for something that doesn’t actually involve time travel.

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It’s been nearly 10 years since swiping left became the gesture of choice for millions of daters with the advent of Tinder. Since that app first came on the scene Sept. 12, 2012, it seems every single application has tried to suss out the best way for users to burn through potential dates at a pace that can set fire…Read more...

Somehow Pantheon is AMC Networks’ first traditionally animated series, a style that contrasts with its near-future tale of technological horrors—and how love just might be able to transcend them. Based on short stories by multiple Hugo-winning author and translator Ken Liu (“The Paper Menagerie,” The Dandelion Dynasty…Read more...

Neopets, the company that sells virtual pets to tweenagers (and also a weird amount of adults), suffered a pretty devastating data breach earlier this year, but a recent update seems to show it was far worse than we previously thought.Read more...

If you grew up in a time when book fairs were a thing, you almost certainly know Bunnicula. Every kid in the 1980s and 1990s had Bunnicula. Written and created by James and Deborah Howe, it follows a pet rabbit found in a movie theater playing Dracula which leads the family dog to believe it’s a “vampire bunny.” The …Read more...

Readers hoping to receive up-to-date reporting on today’s legal flash between Trump lawyers and the Department of Justice will have to wait.Read more...

A new study this week suggests that long-term exposure to blue light may not be so harmless, at least for fruit flies. Researchers found that chronic blue light exposure prematurely aged the flies and damaged their brains, likely due to certain metabolic changes. But it’s not known whether blue light could cause…Read more...

I’ll be honest here, smart lights are something I haven’t paid much mind to—for such a revolutionary piece of technology, I just thought they were a missed opportunity to make something fun to look at. Imagine my surprise when I saw today that Signify—the company behind Philips Hue—may have just achieved the full…Read more...

Last week’s bit of a reset for Star Trek: Lower Decks’ premise has primed our ensigns to re-learn some of the lessons they need to understand before they go off trying to be the big heroes of their lives on the Cerritos. This week, at least two of them get to start learning them... by taking pages out of each other’s…Read more...

Thanks to the internet, sometimes unnecessary planetary damage is gleefully filmed and proudly posted. On TikTok, the ever-growing social media behemoth that teens love, trends come and go quickly—but some of them can’t vanish soon enough. Here are a few of the worst bad-for-the-Earth fads that have swept through the…Read more...

There it is, in four different bands of the infrared spectrum: the gas giant HIP 65426b, the first exoplanet directly imaged by the Webb Space Telescope.Read more...

When a Marvel character cameos in another character’s movie, Marvel fans get excited. But when one of music’s biggest superstars does the same thing? The world gets excited. That’s what happens on this week’s episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law when Grammy-award winning rapper and icon Megan Thee Stallion makes a…Read more...

It’s understandable that a man so attached to social media would be a bit frazzled when one day it was all taken away. Alex Holder, the filmmaker who got incredible access to the 45th President and his family while filming a documentary leading up to the January 6th Capitol riots, says he saw firsthand how upsetting…Read more...

California’s largest single source of electricity has lived to see another day. In a surprisingly overwhelming vote, the California Senate early on Thursday morning moved to extend the life of Diablo Canyon, the state’s last remaining nuclear power plant and a major source of carbon-free electricity.Read more...

Fall is nearly upon us and book publishers seem especially excited for the new season, unleashing dozens of new releases for fans of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror tales. September brings monsters, time-travel, witches, sneaky royals, supernatural killers, hostile alien planets, mermaids, and so much more.

A record-breaking heat wave has descended over the U.S. West and is forecast to extend into Labor Day weekend. Officials in California are asking residents to reduce their electricity use in hopes of heading off blackouts, as the grid is likely to be strained by increased reliance on air conditioning amid the…Read more...

U.S. officials are on a tear with their belated bid for chipmaking dominance. After passing a $52 billion bill that aims to jumpstart American semiconductor manufacturing, officials are now restricting companies from exporting powerful GPUs to rivals like China and Russia.Read more...

Say what you want about She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, but every time it seems to have a big issue, it gets addressed immediately. A big question at the end of the first episode was quickly answered in the second—and in the third episode, titled “The People vs. Emil Blonsky,” it happens two more times. Jennifer Walters…Read more...

The European Space Agency’s giant mechanical arm just pulled off its first maneuver, quietly moving a suitcase-sized payload from one side of an orbiting science module to another.Read more...

In an excellent new feature interview with Spanish-language publication Life and Style, Tenoch Huerta admits that when Ryan Coogler offered him the part of Namor in Black Panther sequel Wakanda Forever, he didn’t know how to swim—a key skill for the ruler of Atlantis.Read more...

General Motors’ big bet on autonomous vehicles, like most human drivers, could stand to improve its left turns.Read more...

Many of us have had our fun with AI art generators—like DALL-E—over the last few months, but one artist in Colorado took it a step further and won the state fair’s fine art competition with a work generated with the help of an algorithm.

If former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey liked to sing, I imagine that Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” is what he started hollering in his car or on the beach when he saw that Twitter was yet again testing a feature he swore it would “probably” never implement.Read more...

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NASA has awarded five bonus missions to SpaceX for crewed flights to the International Space Station. The $1.4 billion contract extension runs through 2030, when the orbital lab is scheduled to be retired.Read more...

In David Mitchell’s 2004 book Cloud Atlas, (not the movie, mind you) sections of the story that take place in a dystopian future where characters refer to major industries as their biggest brand. Gas isn’t gas, its “Exon.” Similarly, films aren’t films, they’re “Disneys.” Though there’s no reference to online…Read more...

Even an evil fictitious organization like Star Wars’ Empire can’t just throw out a new kind of trooper for every appearance. Sometimes, the Emperor’s finest just have to make do with a new coat of paint as they go out to persecute rebels and what have you—and that seems like it’ll be the case in Andor, if some of…Read more...

Filming has wrapped on Scream 6. Get a look at Netflix’s latest Stephen King adaptation. Plus, a new clip from Cobra Kai, and the new Omen prequel finds itself a Game of Thrones star. To me, my spoilers!

Even as someone who writes about climate all the time, it’s still a shock to see satellite imagery of climate crises, to really get a grasp on how large human influence can be on our warming planet. Here’s how this summer of droughts, heatwaves, floods, and wildfires looked from space.

This week, the National History Museum in London is previewing its latest collection of the most dazzling and sobering wildlife photos submitted over the past year.Read more...

Two years after the smallest-yet-known reptile was discovered in Northern Madagascar, scientists probing the same region have discovered even more new cold-blooded friends: eight new species of minuscule geckos.Read more...

Donald Trump’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 got him banned from Twitter, which forced the former president to start his own social media company called Truth Social. And the U.S. Department of Justice must be incredibly thankful Trump still has a way to talk directly with the public, since the…Read more...

On July 12, NASA released the Webb telescope’s first images. Now, the space agency has translated the data from those images into sounds, allowing us to hear the cosmic wonders the telescope saw.

The $100 Kobo Nia is one of the cheapest ad-free e-readers for digitizing your reading library, but it lacks many features that can greatly improve your reading experience. For just $30 more, the new Kobo Clara 2E brings better screen lighting that’s easier on the eyes, plus two important upgrades that should put a…Read more...

The times of Rick and Morty scarcity are over. In fact, if creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon have their way, the Adult Swim blockbuster may live on virtually forever.Read more...

Would it be a George R.R. Martin adaptation if there weren’t multiple people vying for control? As the first Game of Thrones spinoff, House of the Dragon, enjoys some massive early season success, one of the show’s co-creators, executive producers and directors, Miguel Sapochnik, is leaving.Read more...

Fall is the best season, and I’m not here to discuss this any further. As winter (and seasonal affective disorder) lingers right around the corner, fall is also the best time to get your last bit of traveling in before the weather gets too cold to do anything except stay in bed.

Security researchers revealed they uncovered a massive hole in TikTok’s security that affected every single user who has downloaded the app on Android devices worldwide. But if there is any lingering hint that any users were impacted by this “high severity” security exploit, then TikTok isn’t telling.Read more...

It might get a little crowded on the Moon’s south pole as both NASA and China are aiming to land their prospective lunar missions at the same landing sites, hoping to snag some of the limited resources of that region.Read more...

In a perfect world, no one would need to decide whether they should watch HBO’s smash hit Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon or Prime Video’s lavish Lord of the Rings prequel, The Rings of Power. However, it is not a perfect world, and there’s no doubt in my mind that only one of these series is going to…Read more...

Japan, a country known for advancing some of the world’s most innovative and quirky tech, is preparing to launch an all out “war” against the humble floppy disk.Read more...