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I want to thank whatever stars aligned that surfaced this video of the Windows 95 launch event in my algorithm. While clips from the presentation have floated around online for decades, the full 90-minute keynote has been harder to track down. Uploaded this week by the angels over at the Blue OS Museum YouTube account…Read more...

Here’s some more casting news for the highly anticipated Amazon series based on the 2005 novel Anansi Boys from author Neil Gaiman: Whoopi Goldberg has been announced to play the book’s main antagonist, the God of Birds.Read more...

A collaboration of hundreds of scientists have precisely measured the mass of the W boson, an elementary particle responsible for the weak nuclear force. The researchers found, to their surprise, that the boson is more massive than predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics, the working theory that describes…Read more...

Groups associated with the Russian and Belarusian governments are employing a bevy of shady cyber tactics to target Ukrainians on Facebook, according to a new report from the social network’s parent company Meta. The company notes that in just the past few days, it’s seen an uptick in attacks targeting public figures,…Read more...

Way back in 2018, what feels like roughly six decades ago, a German company revealed an over-engineered rechargeable self-filling water gun that fired single blasts of water instead of long streams. The new SpyraLX does the same thing, but replaces batteries and an electric motor with a manually-operated mechanism for…Read more...

Paleontologists have long speculated that the horns and frill of Triceratops, in addition to providing a formidable defense against predators, were also used to fight members of the same species. Scientists say they’ve found the most compelling evidence yet in favor of this intriguing possibility.

As many people continue to condemn Disney’s lack of action regarding Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Lucasfilm has quietly announced that transgender British actress Talisa Garcia has been cast in the Disney+ series Willow. Deadline reports that Garcia will play a cisgender woman with only a few speaking lines, and…Read more...

At one point near the climax of this week’s Star Trek: Picard, a character exasperatedly says “Fine, why not? Burrow into his psyche, what could go wrong!? Tons, obviously.” And honestly? If that’s not the mood of this entire episode of television, I don’t know what it is.

A fire that broke out at the Costa Sur power plant in Puerto Rico late Wednesday forced an island-wide outage, the biggest blackout this year so far due to an ailing electric grid. Power may not be restored to some parts of the island until Friday, according to Puerto Rico’s electricity grid operator.

If you slept on the first season of Netflix’s Russian Doll, you missed a wonderfully dark and occasionally poignant comedy about a woman named Nadia who discovers she’s stuck in a time loop where she keeps dying but then returning to the night of her birthday party. I highly recommend you give the Natasha…Read more...

Bad news for everyone who loved watching Bill Nye the Science Guy during middle school science class: your fave is problematic. This week, Coca-Cola, one of the world’s biggest plastic polluters, teamed up with TV’s favorite scientist for a campaign to create a “world without waste,” a joke of a corporate greenwashing…Read more...

The Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era environmental regulation that will hurt the ability of Indigenous tribes and states to block projects that could pollute waterways. The ruling was passed Wednesday with a vote of 5-4.

Chris Rock wasn’t the only person who got slapped at this year’s Academy Awards. The entire animation industry got a slap in the face when the three presenters of the Best Animated Feature award dismissed the medium as kiddie fare, saying, “So many kids watch these movies over and over… and over and over and over and…Read more...

Drugs known for helping men with erectile dysfunction may come with a higher risk of vision problems than currently thought. In new research out Thursday, scientists have documented an association between three serious eye disorders and drugs including Viagra and Cialis; the findings might prompt the need for added…Read more...

New archaeological and geological evidence points to an ancient earthquake that devastated populations along a 620-mile-long stretch of the South American coastline some 3,800 years ago. But the evidence also suggests that the affected communities found ways to cope.

Silicon Valley’s Patagonia-wearing elites aren’t the only ones interested in autonomous vehicles.Read more...

As you may have noticed, Spotify wants to manage all of your podcasts as well as your music. If you’ve never tried out Spotify as a podcast player—or you’ve just dipped into the functionality without really taking a full look at what’s on offer—here’s how to use the mobile and desktop apps to manage your podcasts.

The most recent trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, focused more on the story, action, and characters and less on the outfits worn by Starfleet officers decades before Kirk and his crew boarded the Enterprise. But an iconic Canadian fashion designer helped contribute to the show’s new uniforms, and soon…Read more...

Idris Elba talks about playing Knuckles for Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Locke & Key’s third season will be its last. Get your first look at Lestat and Louis in AMC’s Interview With the Vampire. Plus, a cheeky Moon Knight easter egg can net you an intriguing free comic. Spoilers, away!

There are many reasons even big-budget movie and TV productions have switched to using digital cameras—the most obvious being that shooting on film is expensive. It’s why amateur filmmakers rarely opt for the 35mm cameras that dominated Hollywood for years, but Yuta Ikeya found a way to make them more affordable by …Read more...

Google’s latest mobile search feature is aimed at window shoppers and friends who browse each other’s closets. The new multisearch ability in Lens lets you perform a visual search with a bit of textual aid to help steer the search engine. It’s not perfect every time, but it can help determine where your friend got her…Read more...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is still planning to create a digital currency, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The news comes after Facebook was said to have abandoned its cryptocurrency plans this past February—a project originally called Libra when it was first announced in June of 2019,…Read more...

Google recently booted over a dozen apps from its Play Store—among them Muslim prayer apps with 10 million-plus downloads, a barcode scanner, and a clock—after researchers discovered secret data-harvesting code hidden within them. Creepier still, the clandestine code was engineered by a company linked to a Virginia…Read more...

It’s not every day that you wake up knowing you’re going to get exciting news about the future of your favorite franchise, but that’s exactly what’s going to happen on May 26, 2022. Lucasfilm just announced that on that day, which just so happens to be the first day of Star Wars Celebration, a panel will open the…Read more...

It’s impossible to watch Grindhouse the same way today as we did 15 years ago because of two names: Rose McGowan and Harvey Weinstein. In 2017, McGowan, who stars in both halves of the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double feature, accused Weinstein, one of the film’s executive producers, of raping her in 1997, 10…Read more...

Some of the U.S. drinking water supply contains unsafe levels of uranium, new research out this month shows. The study analyzed data from the Environmental Protection Agency on drinking water systems across the country and found that uranium was frequently detected during compliance testing, and that a small…Read more...

Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is on the way, and we get more excited with each trailer that drops for a glimpse at what’s coming in Marvel Studios’ highly anticipated reunion with the director. To celebrate ticket release day, Raimi chatted with Fandango to tease what to expect in his first…Read more...

Yesterday’s shock news that Star Trek: Picard’s third and final season will reunite Patrick Stewart with Gates McFadden, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, and returning Picard guest stars Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, and Brent Spiner had the heads of Next Generation fans spinning. But after the initial excitement wore…Read more...

Ti West’s current hit X follows the cast and crew of a late-1970s porn film whose dreams of home-video glory are gruesomely waylaid while filming in rural Texas. The movie pays homage to horror notables, including The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but it’s also part of a subgenre that’s basically “film shoot gone…Read more...

Pinterest is enforcing a new climate misinformation policy to combat any type of content that denies the existence or impact of climate change, or spreads false information about natural disasters or extreme weather events.Read more...

A team of scientists in Japan captured video of squid camouflaging with their surroundings, much like octopuses and cuttlefish do. While squid in the wild are known to change color, the scientists set up an experiment to confirm this camouflage ability in a laboratory.Read more...

Emojis are continuing their incursion into every online space. You can react to Facebook posts, you can react to Instagram messages, and pretty soon, you’ll be able to react to content in Google Docs.

U.S. officials have revealed a previously undisclosed law enforcement operation against “Sandworm,” the powerful Russian hacking team known for its dexterous and destructive capabilities.Read more...

DC and Warner Bros. executives held an “emergency impromptu meeting to discuss Ezra Miller’s future with the studio,” according to a new report from Rolling Stone. This meeting came after Miller’s recent arrest in Hawaii for disorderly conduct and harassment after they yelled at karaoke singers, lunged at a man…Read more...

This week’s IPCC report laid out in no uncertain terms how little time we have left to get our act together to prevent disastrous global warming. Hidden inside the dense report is a challenge for, of all industries, fossil fuel producers: Step up your game on methane.

Having thoroughly disrupted taxis, street congestion, and the basic rights of workers, Uber’s now setting its sights on the travel industry. The company announced on Tuesday that it plans to roll out a pilot giving users the option to book trains, planes, and bus rides inside its app on top of its traditional…Read more...

While it’s not officially a comic, per se, CRC Payne and Starbite’s Batman: Wayne Family Adventures is currently my favorite DC Comics series. Hell, the publisher’s first WebToon is my favorite Batman anything of the past decade or so. Now, DC will finally follow up the hit series by releasing three new series to the…Read more...

This Friday, a SpaceX rocket will attempt to blast off from Kennedy Space Center with four civilians on board. It’s the first wholly private mission to the ISS, in what’s poised to be a precedent-setting mission. Here’s what you need to know ahead of this historic launch.

We have nine mainline Star Wars movies to watch whenever we want to at this point, and even more beyond that—but there is still something weirdly captivating about the power of a good Star Wars trailer. We remember moments like The Force Awakens’ “Chewie, we’re home,” or the infamous Phantom Menace teaser. So perhaps…Read more...

“We just hacked Travis Scott,” a Twitter account under the name of Los Pelaos announced in Spanish on Tuesday at 3:37 a.m.

Since it first launched in 2016, Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Black Hammer has circled back in on its story of golden-age-pastiche superheroes to flesh out the weirdness of its comic book world. But after dozens of spinoffs alongside the main series at Dark Horse, Lemire is leaping into a new format along with a…Read more...

In “Summon the Suit”—this week’s episode of Marvel’s latest Disney+ series, Moon Knight, directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead—we jump right into the aftermath of the action from episode one and find Steven (Oscar Isaac) and Marc (also Isaac) beginning to understand each other’s importance... if Khonshu…Read more...

A critical multi-day test of NASA’s Space Launch System was called off on Monday due to an issue with a cryogenic propellant pressure vent valve. The space agency seeks to resume the wet dress rehearsal in the near future, saying there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the gigantic rocket.

As much as you might want to spend every hour of the day gaming, at some point your body will succumb to sleep. You can either doze off in a gaming chair and suffer the sore consequences the next day, physically walk to a bed like a sucker, or upgrade your sweet setup with a motorized bed that automatically raises and…Read more...

President Biden’s pricey remote office has hit yet another roadblock. Recent factory disruptions and other issues have forced air industry behemoth Boeing to delay the release of its next Air Force One jet, known by some as The Flying White House, until at least two years after its original 2024 release date according…Read more...

Twitter announced Tuesday that it would ban content featuring prisoners of war from government and state-affiliated media organizations amid the online information war between Russia and Ukraine playing out on its platform. The company said it social network would no longer amplify or recommend government accounts…Read more...

Scientists are preparing to unleash an extraordinarily powerful X-ray beam that will help reveal how the universe works at the tiniest scales. The beam is made possible thanks to an upgrade to the 2-mile-long particle accelerator in Menlo Park, California, which will energize electrons to 99.9999999% the speed of…Read more...

If you’ve chosen Android over iOS, one of the reasons behind your decision may well have been the extra configuration and customization options you get with Google’s mobile operating system—and if you’ve got the right apps installed, those options extend all the way to the status bar up at the top of the screen.

Intel will suspend all business operations in Russia in response to the country’s continued war on Ukraine, according to a statement from the company late Tuesday. The tech giant has roughly 1,200 employees in Russia.

Hydra, a longtime dark web cesspool of money laundering and drug sales, has been shut down by police.Read more...