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What’s this? Some good news on the climate beat? In just one week, there were two encouraging triumphs for renewable energy in the U.S.: California’s grid briefly operated on nearly 100% renewable energy in early April, while wind power was the second-largest energy source nationwide on March 29.Read more...

Amazon just can’t seem to catch a break, at least in its efforts to keep employees in line.

Star Wars’ Hayden Christensen is obviously sworn to secrecy about how his character will factor into next month’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, but he is at liberty to discuss the research he did to prepare for his return to the galaxy far, far away. “I went back and rewatched all the films,” the actor told Entertainment Weekly…Read more...

These days, no one makes movies like Robert Eggers. From The Witch, to The Lighthouse, and now with The Northman, the filmmaker starts his process almost like you would a school project. Libraries and experts and research, research, research until he has the pieces he needs to make a fantastic, historical genre film…Read more...

Both Uber and Lyft announced Tuesday they were nixing their mask requirements for both drivers and passengers.Read more...

Many Puerto Ricans feel increasingly unwelcome on their own island as wealthy mainland Americans, social media influencers, and “crypto colonizers” flock to the tropical colony. Their response: Hold a massive beach party protest to remind newcomers that the beaches are for everyone.Read more...

What should be a simple process of updating your PC to Windows 11 is becoming a minefield planted with nasty malware.

A team of mechanical engineers at MIT recently developed an “Oreometer” to test the optimal way of separating the two halves of an Oreo cookie, so that the wafers and the creme filling inside remained unbroken.

Cybersecurity experts representing 30 NATO members are fighting a digital war this week to defend a fictional island country in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Though “Berylia” is fake, experts involved hope the lessons learned from the staged attack will better prepare them for the possibility of a Russian attack as war…Read more...

A new report covering the next 10 years of American planetary science and astrobiology concludes that a Uranus Orbiter and Probe should be “the highest priority large mission.” This decadal survey from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is intended to shape funding and research efforts…Read more...

There’s a misunderstanding in many entertainment industries that because your company produces something cool, you must love to do it. Well, “misunderstanding” might be a stretch, because a lot of folks who work in high-visibility, high-demand industries like video games, publishing, and filmmaking actually do love…Read more...

John Wick’s Derek Kolstad is turning Streets of Rage into a movie. Alex Garland teases the folk vibes of his new horror movie, Men. Lucy Liu and Tom Ellis are bringing Exploding Kittens to life at Netflix. Plus, what’s coming on Charmed, and more Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness teases. Spoilers, away!

Has another calorie-laden holiday left you with a mountain of candy and very little willpower to resist it? Eating chocolate bunnies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is less appealing when they’re upgraded with edible electronics and an Arduino that makes the bunny scream in terror as you bite off its body parts.Read more...

Now that we’ve gone through 2022's flagship smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy S22 and OnePlus 10 Pro, we can turn our attention to the new mid-rangers coming through the pipeline.

Amazon Echo smart speakers are versatile, capable little gadgets that keep getting better over time—but they don’t, by design, have displays attached to them (you’ll have to buy an Echo Show for that). That means their only way to display visual updates is through an LED ring that can flash different colors. Here’s…Read more...

His career already includes ventures into Stargate, Conan the Barbarian, Game of Thrones, DC Comics, Dune, and The Fast and Furious—and now Jason Momoa is adding another major franchise to his already impressive resume: Minecraft.Read more...

Step aside Transformers, Pacific Rim, and Iron-Man—Mecha Elmo, Mecha Cookie Monster, and Mecha Abby are here to save the day with their incredible powers in Mecha Builders. Who knew the problems of Sesame Street could be solved by Muppets in super suits?Read more...

Spyware manufactured by the NSO Group has been used to hack droves of high-profile European politicians and activists, The New Yorker reports. Devices associated with the British Foreign Office and the office of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are allegedly among the targeted, as well as the phones of dozens of…Read more...

Today, The Batman arrives on HBO Max, so fans of the film and those waiting for it to hit streaming can enjoy Matt Reeves’ take on the Caped Crusader. That three-hour run time will be way more palatable with the magic of a pause button, especially compared to sitting smack in the middle of a packed IMAX screening…Read more...

First there was “Florida Man,” now there’s Florida Judge.

After teasing the feature late last month, Instagram announced on Monday that anyone—verified influencer or otherwise—can tag brands and products in their posts.Read more...

While the first teaser trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder might not have pleased everybody, there was definitely one thing that might be worth getting excited about—or should I say one person who’s going to get mighty? I should, because Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster returns, Mjolnir in hand, as the Mighty Thor both in…Read more...

Dogecoiners unite! Movie theater chain AMC has welcomed some more cryptocurrencies as payment options for online and mobile purchases. In a tweet on April 15, AMC CEO Adam Aron announced that moviegoers can now pay for movie tickets and concessions using Dogecoin and Shiba Inu.Read more...

Doctor Who’s had a bit of event exhaustion lately, thanks to a schedule more dictated by the chaos of the past two years than of its own particular volition. Between Flux and the special episodes closing out Jodie Whittaker’s time as the Doctor, we’ve been taught to expect big things, exciting things, because this is…Read more...

Employees at Tesla’s Shanghai factory are reportedly being forced to live at work following a three-week shutdown due to a recent outbreak of Covid-19 cases in China. The company will hand out sleeping bags and mattresses to its employees, who will be made to sleep on the floor while operating in a so-called…Read more...

Scott Pruitt is back, baby—and as unpopular as ever. Trump’s former EPA administrator, who was forced to resign after just a year and a half in power, announced on Friday that he intends to run for a special election for U.S. Senate in Oklahoma this year. Reportedly, no one—even his former colleagues—is very excited…Read more...

Intel is learning a tough lesson after partnering with Classroom Technologies to develop a face-reading AI that detects the emotions of students on Zoom calls.

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Earlier today, the much-anticipated Thor: Love and Thunder teaser trailer arrived and sent the whole comics-hungry internet into a tizzy. The trailer is a bit all over the place, but fingers crossed the movie itself will be something more than the sum of the teaser’s parts, which appear to be frantically stitched…Read more...

The fifth and final season of the Netflix animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is coming this summer and the show is pulling out all the stops to get fans of the dino franchise interested. Case in point, the first teaser includes an absolutely classic cameo from the original film. Not a character, a…Read more...

In typical American fashion, the government has decided that the best way to fix the recent computer chip shortage is to throw more money at it.

Sea urchin die-offs are being recorded by researchers and divers near the shores of multiple Caribbean islands. According to the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA), there aren’t any clues yet as to why the urchins are dying at such quick rates. The organization is especially concerned because other forms…Read more...

There’s lots of good reasons to consider third-party alternatives when replacing or augmenting the rechargeable battery that came with your digital camera. The most obvious is price, as it’s often much cheaper to ditch the name brand when replacing a dead battery. But Nitecore has introduced another reason to kick…Read more...

It’s been a bumpy road for the three latest additions to the handheld console scene, but after a batch of bad batteries pushed its release to 2022, the quirky Playdate is finally here. Mixing a modern and retro aesthetic, this handheld with a crank isn’t for every gamer, but it has a lot of potential. I’m excited to…Read more...

NASA, after three failed attempts to complete a wet dress rehearsal of its Space Launch System, has decided to return its gigantic rocket to the Vehicle Assembly Building. The move will likely mean further delays to the Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to the Moon.Read more...

Apple’s latest feature could soon be unions. The labor movement that’s been popping up at recognizable names in business has officially come to the tech giant: workers at Apple’s Grand Central retail store have begun the process of unionization, according to a story by The Washington Post.Read more...

If you’ve found that there has been a surplus of butts that needed to be kicked in your life (as well as a tragic dearth of nuts being eaten) since Ryan North and Erica Henderson’s Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comic series came to a close in 2019, fret no more. Let both butts and nuts beware, as Noreen Green and her pals…Read more...

It’s easy to imagine Alex Jones, the host of the rambling, right-wing hate channel InfoWars, turning as red as an inflamed pimple at the thought of having to pay for his lies. Now he’s likely growing purple holding his breath, trying to avoid paying out for consistently claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook school…Read more...

The Food and Drug Administration is looking into claims that Lucky Charms cereal is making people sick. However, cereal maker General Mills has said that it hasn’t found any clear link between its product and illness.Read more...

This morning, we got our first look at Thor: Love and Thunder in action, giving us glimpses of wild adventures, wilder gods, and something even more shocking: Natalie Portman will return to play Jane Foster in Thor: Love and Thunder, but not just that. She’ll be back as Thor herself.

Over the weekend Lego revealed its next collection of accessorized minifigures and it finally features the world’s favorite not-quite-puppets and not-quite-mops performers as the Muppets finally take the stud-covered stage.Read more...

After Thor: Ragnarok, fans obviously expected Thor: Love and Thunder to be wild. Just off-the-walls bonkers nonsense from the man who does that better than anyone: writer-director Taika Waititi. Now, the first trailer is here, and it delivers on that promise and more. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is, indeed, bringing…Read more...

Steph Curry stars in a peculiar get for Nope. Get a glimpse of what’s coming on Halo. Superman & Lois, Naomi, and more tease what’s next. Plus, Riverdale teases its continued descent into hysteria with a teaser for its upcoming time travel episode. Spoilers now!

In the fall of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and hundreds of Western journalists obtained access to a collection of internal Facebook documents. The trove of research reports, proposals, presentations, and employee conversations would form the foundation for dozens of news stories describing Facebook’s own…Read more...

We’ve come a long way since the early days of SMS: 160 characters per message and not a sticker in sight. The chat apps of today come packed with functionality and features, including read receipts, so that you know when your sent messages have been seen—and so your contacts know when you’ve seen their messages too.…Read more...

In the hours following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, employees at Facebook tasked with preventing “potential offline harm” found themselves under siege by a mob of a different sort. Reports of abusive content from users were flooding in. As one employee put it in an internal forum, many of the flagged posts…Read more...

It is a comforting thought that the insights of the past can ferry us through the trials of the present. We look to famous, beloved leaders for advice, whether it’s Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, or Walt Disney. We search for them on Google. What we find, however, is not a pile of pearls of wisdom but a heap of…Read more...

Elon Musk, self-proclaimed free speech “absolutist” and unabashed troll, may or may not own Twitter soon. Worth some $270 billion, the Tesla CEO already holds 9% of the company’s stock, and he’s offered $43 billion for the rest, though he said, “I’m not sure I will actually be able to acquire it.” Twitter’s board is…Read more...

Health officials in the city of Shanghai, China reported three new deaths from covid-19 on Monday, the first fatalities from the disease in nearly two years. The three people who died had not been vaccinated against covid-19, according to NPR. The last reported covid-19 death in the city was April 8, 2020.Read more...