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Space is practically infinite, but it’s been unreasonably restrictive when it comes to inclusivity. NASA announced the release of its first-ever equity action plan to try to resolve the diversity and accessibility issues that have plagued the space agency for decades.Read more...

Sometimes things that make stereotypes ugly need to be made powerful. In Everything Everywhere All at Once, the Daniels (directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Shneirt) have proven that they don’t care about stereotypes, and they may have you questioning why something as ubiquitous as a fanny pack became a source of…Read more...

I recently visited the site of a soon-to-open superconducting particle accelerator, where researchers will probe things like the mechanisms behind photosynthesis and the efficiency of batteries using some of the most powerful X-rays in the world. Being there felt a bit like seeing the future. Here’s a look at what’s…Read more...

As easy as it is to flip the Nintendo Switch from a handheld gaming system to a full-blown gaming console, the dock Nintendo bundles with it for connecting it to a TV is big, bulky, and incredibly immobile. A better alternative when traveling with the Switch is something like the Genki Covert Dock, which looks like a…Read more...

The upcoming DC Universe film Blue Beetle has added Susan Sarandon as main antagonist Victoria Kord, the Wrap reports. Previously Sharon Stone was in talks to join the film in the same role; Kord is a new character created for the movie.Read more...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is a place of surreal contradictions: Delicate flowers, blooming only once or twice a decade, suddenly cover a bone-dry landscape. Huge dunes of discarded clothing appear alongside undulating sand.

Whenever a revival or legacy sequel to a popular piece of media springs up, one of the first real questions is which veteran actors will return. These days, actors going back to the iconic roles that helped make them famous is practically a job unto itself, if not the point of these revivals from the jump. Either in…Read more...

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WhatsApp is getting new features that will let users grow their circle of friends or grow to hate their circle of friends. Dealer’s choice, really.

Following his $43 billion offer to buy Twitter, Elon Musk shared his perspective on the future of the social network on Thursday during a live TED event.Read more...

A team of researchers poring over archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope found an ancient object they believe may explain how quasars—supermassive black holes surrounded by jet-spewing discs of matter—emerge from dusty “starburst” galaxies.

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There are few perfect things in this world, so it’s worth celebrating them when we find them. Case in point: this unbelievably outstanding video from Gazelle Automations, which imagines if the classic animation studio Filmation had managed to get its hands on the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew.

We’ve all watched Night of the Lepus for Easter a million times. (“We” = horror fans who are really into seasonally themed viewing.) Killer rabbits are nightmare-inducing, but we’re shifting our attentions to a different symbol of the holiday for 2022: KILLER EGGS. Maybe don’t read this list while you’re eating…Read more...

Amazon’s bringing its Just Walk Out cashier-free payment system to parts of the Houston Astros stadium. When the service launches this year, Minute Maid Park’s (formerly Enron Field) 41,000-capacity stadium will stand out as one of the biggest testing grounds yet for Amazon’s quickly growing payment service. It will…Read more...

Peloton is cutting the price of its fitness hardware and increasing subscription fees, a drastic shift meant to correct the company’s downward spiral.Read more...

Nicolas Cage. Jeff Goldblum. Christopher Walken. There’s a short list of actors in Hollywood who, no matter what they’re in, you love to watch it because they’re just so... out there. Among those has to be John Malkovich and we’ve got a brand new clip of Malkovich proving exactly that.Read more...

A federal judge dropped the price of a jury’s $137 million penalty on electric car giant Tesla to just $15 million over a widespread pattern of racist mistreatment of a Black worker at its northern California plant.Read more...

As wars and floods and storms and billionaires and an ongoing pandemic continue to make the 2020s the perfect stress incubator, finding ways to relax and rest your brain is critical. Enter Lego’s newest reveal, which perfectly merges two relaxing hobbies: gardening and playing with building toys.Read more...

Not everyone loves Jurassic World, but everyone loves Jurassic Park, and that’s why almost everyone is at least a little excited for Jurassic World Dominion. For the first time since the original, stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum will appear on screen together and they’ll do it alongside Jurassic World …Read more...

Transistors, specifically those made from silicon, are the cornerstone of modern electronics. From toasters to televisions, transistors appear in nearly everything with a circuit. They are also only getting smaller, which is a problem, especially when it comes to energy consumption, heat, and, ironically, total device…Read more...

The past few episodes of Star Trek: Picard have been a bit chaotic, but in a largely fun way—a little dash of the absurd to make the strange ideas it was hastily setting up in the background go down smoothly, so you could have a bit of a chuckle when that setup came crashing down in similarly absurd fashion. This…Read more...

Satellite images captured by NASA’s Landsat 8 show how Fukushima, Japan has transformed since a tsunami devastated the region in 2011, setting off a nuclear disaster that is still being cleaned up. Today, vast areas of solar panels can be seen covering the land around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

The Witcher’s third season has entered production, and considering where we last left season 2 when everyone and their uncle wanted their hands on the power of young Ciri, it stands to reason we’re going to get a few fresh faces when we return to the Continent—several of them quite familiar.

Do you love the world’s online free encyclopedia, but only do commerce in ether? Soon, you may no longer be able to demonstrate your Wiki appreciation monetarily.Read more...

A new U.S. Space Command memo says that a meteor that fell to Earth in 2014 came from interstellar space. That would make it the first known interstellar object in our solar system, preceding ‘Oumuamua, a cigar-shaped object that first appeared in 2017 and seemed to come from another star system. But some scientists…Read more...

Intel is making huge promises to make the company carbon neutral over the next decade or two, and yesterday the company broke down how it wants to get there.

Attention for the weak-hearted: You might want to give this first trailer for David Cronenberg’s new film a miss. While it’s technically safe for work, there are a lot of visually unpleasant things going on in there, not least of which is a guy... uh... keeping his mouth shut. Permanently.

As one of the internet’s most meme-friendly file formats, there’s an endless number of tools and websites that can turn short video clips into animated GIFs. When it comes to animating your own doodles and drawings, Arteater makes it as easy as printing a template, expressing yourself creatively, and then uploading a…Read more...

Early clinical data is showing promise for an experimental treatment tackling multiple sclerosis. The treatment, which targets a virus closely linked to MS called Epstein-Barr virus, was found to be safe and possibly effective at halting the progression of symptoms in some patients. But it will take much more data to…Read more...

Peacock’s Ted sequel expands its cast. Stranger Things’ fourth season is going to put Max in the spotlight. Shudder adds an intriguing new zombie movie to its slate. Plus, new looks at The Northman and Kung Fu’s return. To me, my spoilers!

The 9-mile trip from NASA’s astronaut crew quarters to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will never be the same, thanks to the introduction of these undeniably unusual transport vehicles.

Not even the best smartphone is a replacement for a full-blown console, but it can become a capable gaming machine with the right accessory. Now that there is a way to play big, AAA first-person shooters and story-driven RPGs with the help of cloud services like Amazon Luna and Microsoft Game Pass, it’s time to…Read more...

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Elon Musk, who recently bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, has made an offer to buy the company outright for $54.20 per share in cash in a hostile takeover of roughly $43 billion, according to a new report from Bloomberg News and documents filed with the SEC. Musk said in the SEC filing that if his offer isn’t accepted,…Read more...

Crypto investor Sina Estavi bought an NFT of Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet ever for $2.9 million in March of 2021. And after a year of constant hype for NFTs, most people would naturally assume Estavi might be able to turn a nice profit on his investment by now. But most people would be wrong.Read more...

If you’re already struggling with pain at the pump and rising prices of everything from ramen to rent, buckle up for some more unpleasant news. The fastest inflation increase in four decades means a year of pricier phones, laptops, and other gadgets as well.Read more...

Old Gods of Appalachia (often called Old Gods Pod or OGA by its fans) is a narrative fiction anthology podcast that shares a mythic Appalachian setting amongst its stories. And now, it’s getting a tabletop role-playing game, after years of development.

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An unknown crypto investor bet nearly half a million dollars on a slew of alt-coins this week that almost immediately jumped in value. The person in question was either really lucky or, as some on the web see it, a dirty, rotten cheater with insider knowledge.Read more...

Over the course of 12 long years, The Walking Dead TV series has had many highs and many more lows. Now, as the venerable zombie apocalypse show approaches its end, the 11th and final season has been as consistently strong as TWD has been in years. While it may seem odd—and, frankly, frustrating—for the show to…Read more...

Since nearly the dawn of the smartphone, it’s been an Android versus iOS world. Well, unless you remember BlackBerry. Regardless of the platform, switching between Apple and Google’s ecosystems hasn’t always been easy, though Apple did release a handy “Move to iOS” app in the Play Store in 2015 for Android users…Read more...

The 2020 hurricane season was one of the most extreme on record. Between May and November, there were 30 named storms (the most ever recorded), and 14 of those reached hurricane level (the second-most ever). Cumulatively, all these storms caused hundreds of deaths and more than an estimated $40 billion of damage. Now,…Read more...

My husband and I were at MoMA PS1 in 2021 when I saw her: Niki de Saint Phalle’s interpretation of Death. It was one of the small models of her gargantuan Tarot Garden installation that resides just outside Rome. Here was Death: a skull-faced woman, voluptuous and gold-skinned, riding a horse made of the midnight sky. …Read more...

Fans of Club Penguin were elated when the shuttered Disney game was resurrected as Club Penguin Rewritten—a fan-made recreation of the popular original. This week, though, their digital dreams were dashed once again when three people were reportedly arrested in connection with the site’s shuttering for allegedly…Read more...

After arriving at the International Space Station on Saturday, the four crew members of Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission have been busy at work onboard the floating low-Earth orbit laboratory.Read more...

You’re going to see a lot of reviews comparing Yellowstone and Outer Range, and it’s no surprise why. Amazon’s new series starring Josh Brolin has a lot of the same ingredients as Peacock’s Kevin Costner hit. But Outer Range has something Yellowstone doesn’t, yet: a serious inclination toward the paranormal.Read more...

Archaeologists say they have found the earliest-yet evidence of a Mesoamerican calendar in fragments of painted murals made in what is now Guatemala over 2,000 years ago.Read more...

The Cabin in the Woods is a miracle. A singular story packed with biblical stakes, dense mythology, surprises, excitement, and most importantly, little to no room for any type of follow-up, all in one 95-minute package. Released just 10 years ago today, it almost qualifies as a relic from a forgotten age which is one…Read more...