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The messy Marvel Cinematic Multiverse is about to come under some new management... or rather, new managers are about to be revealed in the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Because as this newest teaser for the film has revealed, the erstwhile Sorcerer Supreme is about to be hauled in front of the …Read more...

Ren Hutchings’ debut novel, Under Fortunate Stars, is a time-twisting homage to classic space opera and science fiction, taking well-beloved tropes and twisting them on their head. It’s a paradoxical puzzle-box of a novel that reveals its secrets in bits and pieces, spread out over four different points of view that…Read more...

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The Google Play Data Safety section has started to roll out in the Play Store. The new area of the Play Store will show you the kind of data an Android app is accessing and whether it’s sharing it with third parties. It’ll also help you determine an app’s security practices and whether it’s safe enough for your kid…Read more...

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Members of NASA’s Crew-4 mission are preparing to launch to the ISS for a four-and-a-half-month stay on board the orbiting laboratory. The launch is currently slated for no earlier than 3:52 a.m. EDT on Wednesday April 27, and you can catch the action live right here.Read more...

Asus’ newest portable monitor looks as if someone accidentally sat on it and squished it down into an awkwardly wide shape. It’s called the Asus ProArt Display PA147CDV, and it has a 14-inch panel in a 32:9 aspect ratio, giving it a similar appearance to the second screen on the laptop maker’s Zenbook Pro Duo laptops.

It’s fitting that one of the first large-scale tabletop role-playing games built to be played exclusively within a digital environment is described as “cyber-noir.” Chrome is an original TTRPG based off Mothership’s D100-based Panic Engine, coded and created entirely within its native online application, Role. With…Read more...

Tricky Tucker is at it again, telling viewers about how the big tech boogeyman is silencing the right for not expressing approved “narratives.” Except in this case, he’s laying praise at Elon Musk for his acquisition of Twitter despite the fact that his return to Twitter after a month-long ban wasn’t because Twitter’s…Read more...

We’ve had e-readers and e-note devices featuring color electronic paper screens for a few years now, but E Ink is finally addressing some of the biggest drawbacks of the technology with Kaleido 3, announced earlier this month, and E Ink Gallery 3, announced yesterday. In particular, we’re looking at boosts both to …Read more...

In a late Friday news dump this month, the Biden administration announced that it would restart oil and gas drilling on federal lands, offering leases for sale to fossil fuel producers later this year. The new leases would open some 144,000 acres of federal land, scattered across nine states, to oil and gas drilling.…Read more...

Just a week after revealing its heartbeat-silencing Sport True Wireless earbuds, Sennheiser yesterday revealed an update to its flagship Momentum True Wireless 2 earbuds from 2020, debuting a new version that introduces an easier way for users to tune the sound to their own personal preference, among other…Read more...

CinemaCon, a three-day event in Las Vegas, is one of those trade conventions that inevitably turns into a pop culture press event, as big studios take the opportunity to get on center stage and share their plans for the next few years. And boy howdy, did Sony ever take advantage of the moment. According to our own man…Read more...

In a blog post on Monday, Reddit expanded its Community Funds pilot with a $1 million budget, guaranteeing that we’ll see more ideas generated in subreddits brought from the social network to the wider world in the near future.Read more...

Already available in models with up to 2TB of capacity and options featuring a built-in fingerprint reader to further protect and encrypt the data inside, Samsung is expanding its T7 SSD line with the new T7 Shield, a portable SSD which includes extra protection against a world that’s often hostile to electronics.Read more...

Could Batgirl head to theaters after all? Blumhouse teases its next horror movie with a very creepy doll. Kaley Cuoco hints at some surprise guests coming to Harley Quinn’s third season. Plus, Riverdale does The Mist, because of course it does. Spoilers now!Read more...

When it’s time to upgrade your phone, you can substantially cut down on the cost of a new handset by either trading in or selling your old one. Before you part ways with your older smartphone, though, you need to run through some quick and simple checks to make sure you’re taking all of your data with you and not…Read more...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey fully endorsed Elon Musk’s planned purchase of the social media company in a hostile takeover on Monday. Musk and Twitter’s board reached a deal that will see the billionaire SpaceX founder pay $44 billion to take the company private. And while Dorsey is no longer the CEO and ultimately…Read more...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won’t be in theaters until next summer but you can now read about its first 15 minutes. Producers and writers Phil Lord and Chris Miller showed up to CinemaCon 2022 in Las Vegas this week to give theater owners a little taste of what’s in store for Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, Miguel…Read more...

Former President Donald Trump says he’s not interested in rejoining “boring” Twitter even if he’s offered his account back under Elon Musk’s new vision for the company. Instead, Trump claims he’s focused on sticking it out on his already flailing social media upstart Truth Social.

Coachella 2022 was my first-ever music festival and in the weeks leading up to it, I kept asking myself: will it be the music version of Comic-Con? This year’s lineup included acts like composer Danny Elfman with a live orchestra and rock band, Marvel Studios’ Eros aka superstar Harry Styles, Bond theme song Oscar…Read more...

Whether you loved The Batman or hated it or thought it had some charms but was way, way too obsessed with itself, there’s one thing I hope we can all agree on, and it’s this: The Batman would have been a lot of fun if original 1966 Batman TV series star Adam West had played the role of Bruce Wayne instead of Robert…Read more...

The Instagram account belonging to the popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) was hacked on Monday. According to BAYC itself, the hacker used the access to launch a phishing scheme that stole millions of dollars in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from the account’s followers.Read more...

The results of a small study this week may offer some hope to people struggling with prolonged symptoms following a case of covid-19. The study found that long covid patients taking part in a rehabilitation program in Ireland, conducted online, experienced noticeable improvements in how their fatigue affected their…Read more...

Yes, the iPhone 13 recently underwent a minty green refresh, but now is not the time to buy Apple’s current smartphone if you’re hoping to get the best hardware. Apple’s developer conference is just around the corner, and more rumors about what’s on the horizon have sprouted up. If you can hold out another six months…Read more...

Research this month points to a mental health benefit from regularly exercising. The review found that people who reported being physically active were noticeably less likely to later be diagnosed with depression. This association was most apparent in people who appeared to meet the recommended amount of exercise a…Read more...

The most wonderful time of the year (Halloween, obviously!) is just six months away—so there’s no better time to stream some horror on your service of choice. Here’s our curated selection to get that countdown to spooky season going on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, and Shudder.Read more...

Members of the first all-private ISS astronaut team returned from their stay in low Earth orbit on Monday, parachuting down into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.Read more...

Over the past few days, stories have been written (including on this website) about how Alex Kurtzman, the director of the new series The Man Who Fell to Earth, really feels about working on 2017's The Mummy in the wake of a new Bingeworthy podcast interviewing the director. Not a huge surprise, but he feels... not…Read more...

In this week’s episode of Republican politicians past and present behaving badly, America’s most recent single-term ex-president Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $10,000 per day in fines after failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general as part of a civil investigation into…Read more...

Researchers studying seismic wave data from NASA’s InSight Lander have reported the planet’s largest ‘marsquakes’ yet, at magnitudes of 4.2 and 4.1. According to a NASA release, the larger quake was five times as energetic as the previous record-holder, a magnitude 3.7 event detected in 2019.Read more...

After 993 days, Steven Donziger is finally free.Read more...

Elon Musk is already CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, founder of The Boring Company, and the world’s richest person. Today he adds another title to his prodigious bio: Owner of Twitter.Read more...

A man allegedly threatened to bomb the headquarters of the Merriam-Webster dictionary and gun down employees over the reference book’s definitions of “woman,” “girl,” and “female,” which he believed were “part of the Left’s efforts to corrupt and degrade the English language.”Read more...

Spelljammer: Adventures in Space: confirmed! But not until August 2022. Luckily psychedelic space-fantasy is everywhere and there’s more than enough to keep you entertained until then. I’ll admit it... this is mostly games. I have a niche, what can I say? Grab your dice, remotes, ebook readers, and headphones—here’s…Read more...

Not much more than a month ago, a rumor swirled around the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ show that the titular Jedi’s oldest foe, Darth Maul, had originally been planned to be a part of the series. It was an odd rumor, given everything we’d already heard about the show and because, well, the Kenobi/Maul storyline…Read more...

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is opening its first physical retail store next month in an effort to familiarize consumers with virtual reality and the “metaverse.” The “Meta Store” opens on May 9 in Burlingame, California, a city on the San Francisco peninsula near Meta’s reality Labs division.

Phone addicts, rejoice! Your days of waiting for spotty airplane Wi-Fi to load your Instagram feed may soon be coming to an end as airlines look for new ways to connect their passengers to high-speed internet.Read more...

Power Rangers has spent the best part of three decades encouraging kids to definitely not try the cool things they were seeing play out as the Spandex-clad superteam faced off against Rita Repulsa and her minions at home. That backflipping, explosion-framed action was brought to life by a dedicated team of stunt…Read more...

The global effort to protect Earth from dangerous asteroids is set to become stronger, as China has announced its intentions to test an asteroid redirect system as early as 2025.

Someone needs to remind Google employees to check their pockets before they leave a restaurant.Read more...

Two wildfires in New Mexico combined and have burned 54,004 acres of land since they first merged, according to an update by New Mexico Fire Information. The fires—separately known as Calf Canyon fire and Hermits Peak fire—first combined on April 19, 2022. The blaze is located near Gallinas Canyon, south of…Read more...

Researchers in China have described yet another freaky sex habit of spiders (as if there weren’t enough already): Some male spiders launch themselves at great speed off their cannibalistic female partners, to avoid being eaten after copulating. The way they make their egress is similar to the mechanism at play in…Read more...

Total Film has revealed three new photos from the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series, set to launch on May 27th, coinciding with the beginning of Star Wars Celebration next month. Much of what we can see in these photos has already been revealed in the previous trailers and photo releases, so there’s not a lot to infer from…Read more...

As we await the release of M2-powered Macs, Apple is reportedly pushing ahead with M3 chip development.

Any moment now, a deal between between Twitter’s 11-member board and Elon Musk could be announced. The news of how real this deal could be comes from an unspecified number of anonymous sources in a report by Reuters and two unnamed sources in a report out from The New York Times. Or maybe this all could still be a…Read more...

David Cronenberg’s next movie gets a release date, as does the latest adaptation of Salem’s Lot. Team Archie gets ready to face some trauma in new pictures from the latest Riverdale. Plus, The Flash sets itself up for the rest of season 8, and a new look at everything going to hell on Halo. To me, my spoilers!

At this point, Wordle needs no introduction, after taking the internet by storm and then getting picked up for a seven-figure sum by the New York Times. We’re big fans of Wordle, a game that’s both super-simple and super-addictive, but there’s a big world of puzzlers out there that go beyond the familiar 5x6 grid of…Read more...

Fans of billionaire Elon Musk seem to think he’s the smartest person in the world. But Musk made a comment on Twitter over the weekend that could be his dumbest yet. Admittedly, there’s a lot of competition when you remember this is the guy who predicted in March of 2020 that the pandemic would be over by April 2020.Read more...

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 brought in more of the franchise’s lore that Sega has been building on over the years; not just in the form of the Blue Blur’s friends Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessy) and Knuckles (Idris Elba), but the Master Emerald that serves as the driving force behind several Sonic games. With a third film and…Read more...