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Doctor Who has a long fabled history of actors—from Julian Glover to Carey Mulligan—showing up in the series before they went on to explode into international stardom, and Doctor Who as a veritable who’s who (sorry) of famous stars before they really started shining is a concept as old as the show itself. But now, 15…Read more...

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If you’re in the market to buy a soundbar, you might want to save your cash for what Sonos has coming up.

At least three major U.S. airlines are preparing to welcome back unruly customers who were placed on no-fly lists for refusing to wear masks. The rapid reversal comes just days after a district judge struck down a federal mask mandate.Read more...

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a lucky cosmic event on April 2: Mars’ distinctly potato-shaped moon Phobos eclipsing the Sun. This new video comes fresh off the heels of NASA’s InSight lander capturing a wistful Martian sunrise.

With each season, Young Justice has incorporated more and more of the DC Comics universe into its broader story to help give the idea of a living, breathing world. Through its arc-based storytelling, the current season of Phantoms has widened the scope of the comics history it’s pulling in, such as the Legion of Super…Read more...

SpaceX is preparing to launch NASA’s Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station, where the astronauts will spend the next six months running a diverse selection of scientific experiments in the microgravity environment.Read more...

Since the moment Natalie Portman first held Mjolnir on stage at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, audiences everywhere have anxiously awaited the moment we’d finally see her as the Mighty Thor. The moment happened earlier this week with the release of Thor: Love and Thunder’s first trailer and it was everything we wanted and…Read more...

Notorious big tech executives Sheryl Sandberg and Bobby Kotick once had a big tech power couple relationship in the late 2010s. A new report shows that, like the wonder twins, with their powers combined, the Meta COO and Activision Blizzard CEO would let no British tabloid leave either of them with a black eye, as…Read more...

Features like being able to check its charge level right in iOS and charging that automatically starts when the battery’s attached to an iPhone made the Apple MagSafe Battery Pack our top choice last year, but we did lament its slower charging speeds when unplugged: a limitation that Apple has improved with a recent…Read more...

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has taken quite the stand trying to get back at Disney for speaking out against the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill—something that only happened after members of the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies put pressure on the company through protests which received an outpouring of support…Read more...

Reality TV star and now eco-conscious troll Heidi Montag had her followers furious after she promoted “single-use jeans.” As in denim that you only wear once and then throw out instead of washing.

Are you watching anything on Netflix these days? The streaming giant’s numbers haven’t been looking so good in recent weeks, and they’re bad enough that Netflix has sent out a letter to shareholders with a warning to expect the worse.

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than one month after its launch, CNN+ has died in what may turn out to be one of the biggest digital media bungles in recent years.Read more...

A team of researchers studying 22.5-million-year-old spider fossils from Aix-en-Provence were taken aback when the petrified pests glowed under a fluorescent microscope. The fluorescence was likely due to the circumstances of the fossilization, the group said.

Russian diplomats on social media, Twitter in particular, are routinely spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine, opening up another can of worms for social media companies that already struggle to curb the politically disingenuous and outright harmful activities of government officials.Read more...

After five films, Jurassic World: Dominion is finally making good on the potential terror of the first Jurassic Park film. In the first film, and all the others frankly, the ultimate danger was that, after killing the people on the island, the dinosaurs would then escape the island and run havoc through all of…Read more...

Ah, another day, another overly optimistic tech deadline. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a certified veteran in this arena, has promised the public fully-autonomous Teslas are just around the corner dating back to 2014 but has so far had to eat his lunch. Rather than ease up on those lofty expectations, the troll king of TwitterRead more...

Teenage Engineering has once again demonstrated why companies like Panic, creators of the Playdate handheld, regularly enlist the company’s help to design products for them. The TX-6 is TE’s new handheld, battery-powered mixer, and it is a thing of beauty. It’s so pretty, in fact, that it’s a shame how only a very…Read more...

If your Instagram experience is anything like mine, you might’ve noticed that things are feeling rather stale lately; every day seems to bring a new deluge of aggregated makeup tutorials from YouTube, Reels of lifehacks ripped from TikTok, and vlogs from Instagram accounts that are wholly unrelated to the anonymous…Read more...

There’s certain rules about time travel that Star Trek’s heroes try to follow, either to avoid completely imploding the timeline or because, well, someone above them in the Federation will get very huffy about it. This week, Picard’s heroes realize that in order to save the day, they’re going to have to do what they…Read more...

A popular dieting trend, intermittent fasting, may not offer much over traditional dieting for losing weight, according to a new randomized trial published this week. The study found that people living in China who were told to fast while dieting did lose weight over a year’s time, but not significantly more than…Read more...

Apparently, actions have consequences.

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San Francisco-based Planet Labs has announced plans to deploy a global constellation consisting of 32 Earth-observing satellites. Called Pelican, the fleet will monitor such things as political conflicts, natural disasters, and the ongoing effects of climate change.

At the first D&D Direct livestream, Wizards of the Coast revealed what’s in store for Dungeons & Dragons with a series of new reveals—including major new additions to Fifth Edition in the form of the return of not one, but two classic campaign settings in all new releases: Starjammer and Dragonlance.Read more...

A rare piece of computing history is for sale on eBay, and it can be yours for the low, low price of $30,000. We’ve all heard of the Commodore 64—the best-selling computer model of all time—but had things gone differently, we’d also be looking back fondly on the Commodore 65.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has the backing of several big name banks in order to get enough scratch together to make a play for Twitter.Read more...

The idea behind Pixar’s Lightyear is simultaneously genius and confusing. For starters, we all know Buzz Lightyear as one of the main characters in the popular Toy Story franchise. Buzz is a space toy, voiced by Tim Allen, that a boy named Andy is gifted for his birthday. But why did Andy want a Buzz Lightyear toy?…Read more...

Sure, Star Wars brings a lot of people back these days, and sometimes, it can be a little much. But we’re going to make an exception for Mike Chen’s new novel Brotherhood, an Obi-Wan and Anakin team-up set in the early days of the Clone Wars, when it lets us revisit Dex’s Diner and its beloved four-armed proprietor.

Are you ready to rumble? The Florida government has challenged corporate heavyweight Disney. The state is attempting to strip away the company’s self-governing status, which was implemented in 1967, and allows Disney to operate Walt Disney World within the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The District basically…Read more...

May the 4th is just a few weeks away and just like the Death Star targeting a defenseless planet, there’s nothing you can do to protect your budget against the onslaught of Star Wars merchandise enroute, including a new addition to Lego’s pricey Ultimate Collector Series line.Read more...

The Steam Deck, Valve’s portable handheld console, is often compared to the Nintendo Switch due to its familiar form factor. However, another similarity we shouldn’t overlook is that both consoles can connect to a dock for charging and playing on a larger screen.

4/20 is generally a celebration of everybody’s favorite green. Unfortunately, It’s also Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

Amazon’s blue Prime logos could soon appear in stores all over the internet, even if you’re not on Amazon.com. In an effort to expand the reach of its prized Prime subscription service, Amazon will allow merchants to pay to add the Prime checkout experience to their own online stores, enabling them to offer the…Read more...

Robert Eggers is losing hope for his Nosferatu movie to ever get made. Anson Mount talks Pike’s future on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Plus, get a look at today’s episode of Picard, and Chucky’s ready for round two on Syfy. To me, my spoilers!

The bottom of the sea can be a lonely place, and not just for the weird and creepy creatures that call it home. So if you’re already wealthy enough to afford a personal submarine, why descend to the murky depths alone when U-Boat Worx will build you an even more elaborate private sub with enough seating for nine…Read more...

One might not associate “public media” with “carrying water for the oil and gas industry,” but it’s 2022, and anything can happen. On Wednesday, Houston Public Radio, which encompasses the city’s NPR affiliate as well as its public broadcasting network, unveiled a series it produced with oil giant Chevron on the…Read more...

Amazon failed to stop a historic first of its kind unionization effort at a Staten Island fulfillment center despite documents showing it was considering spending up to $100,000 per month on anti-union consultants to kill it.Read more...

Are you ready to ditch Earth for the cold blackness of space? Look no further, because there’s a space vacation on tap for you. We’ve considered all possible factors—price, safety, photo opportunities, prestige, and thrill level—to help you determine which of the many space tourist offerings are appropriate for your…Read more...

The day is here. Beginning today, April 21, 2022, adults 21 years old and over are able to legally purchase recreational marijuana in New Jersey. The state’s weed enthusiasts have been anticipating this date for years, and their joy is likely to be only slightly tempered by the fact that the launch date inexplicably …Read more...

Mid-range smartphones are having a moment. Every major brand that considers itself a worthy player in today’s smartphone wars has to have an affordable equivalent to its flashy flagship. For Google, it’s the Pixel 5a—soon to be Pixel 6a, if rumors are true. For Apple, the iPhone SE nets you the same silicon as the…Read more...

Alienware tapped AMD for the first time in more than a decade when it launched the m15 Ryzen Edition R5 last year, and now the company is doubling down on Team Red by releasing a new fleet of PCs powered by Ryzen chips.

Elon Musk’s “mass” transportation venture, known as The Boring Company, has been valued at $5.675 billion, according to a press release from the company. Yes, that’s billion with a “B.” And who says the Silicon Valley hype machine is dead?

The return of Miles Morales is going to be just a little bit longer. Sony just announced that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will now be released June 2, 2023, moved back eight months from its most recent October 7 release date. Which sucks. But, we now know when the second part is coming too. Spider-Man: Across…Read more...

When Google first rolled out its Accelerated Mobile Page (or AMP) protocol back in 2015, the search company promised that the tech would bring faster surfing to handheld gadgets everywhere. That may be the case, but what has also become clear in the years since is that AMP has become less about speed and more about …Read more...

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Asus announced a pair of Zenbook laptops today, and one, in particular, has my attention. Revealed alongside the Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED, the Zenbook S 13 OLED (UM5302) is an ultra-sleek clamshell laptop with AMD CPUs and an OLED display. That’s all well and good, but what really holds my gaze is the Zenbook S 13's…Read more...

The few psychos eagerly awaiting Meta’s grand metaverse vision may have to wait up to a decade longer, the company said during an event Wednesday. In the meantime, Meta’s hoping a fresh catalog of improved VR games can function as a type of gateway drug to get users accustomed to their days jacked into a VR headset.

One of the draws of playing a franchise’s licensed tabletop role-playing game is the ability to role play as your favorite character. This is, unfortunately, also one of the big pressure points I commonly see in adapted games. The game becomes dedicated to the ability to play these characters, built up to serve the…Read more...