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As private space companies have ramped up production and launches in the past several years, they've also been unwittingly putting a target on their back. U.S. government agencies are warning the private space sector that they are in the crosshairs of foreign intelligence agencies.Read more...

Following back-to-back annual losses, SpaceX has reportedly turned a profit during the first quarter of the year despite an increase in costs as the company continues to spend on its unproven Starship rocket, which has not flown.Read more...

A brand new Star Wars show comes to Disney+ next week but, unlike many of its predecessors, it's more of a sequel than an original. Star Wars: Ahsoka debuts on August 22 and though it promises to tell a brand new story, wholly accessible to any Star Wars fan that wants to watch, Ahsoka and her place in the universe is...Read more...

The new era of DC Studios is kicked off with Blue Beetle, originally part of the old regime, it now starts off James Gunn and Peter Safran's new slate of heroes in a big way.Read more...

A US federal judge in California has dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit brought against YouTube and its parent company Google by non-white YouTube content creators who alleged the platform's recommendation algorithms unfairly throttled and even removed their content. The judge, according to Reuters, said the ...Read more...

The Georgia Department of Agriculture announced earlier this week that a beekeeper in Savannah found an unusual insect later identified by University of Georgia officials as a yellow-legged hornet.Read more...

The iPhone 15 is just a month away, and the rumor mill is spinning in high gear before its expected announcement date. The latest news to come down the pipeline of whispers claims Apple's latest iteration of its smartphone will support charging wired up to 35 watts, faster than the current model. Now, it's no 1.21...Read more...

In a move right from the playbook of little guys who taunt jacked up dudes a bar, Politico reports that Ron DeSantis has said that he's ready to move on" from his lawsuit with Disney... but, buddy, that's not up to you any more, especially not in a legal battle you started.Read more...

Amazon is offering influencers a measly $25 per video to promote products listed on its new shopping feed, Inspire. The company is capping the payout at $12,500, saying influencers can submit a maximum of 500 videos to reach that price.Read more...

If you're a Star Wars fan who was always groggy watching the latest episodes of The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Book of Boba Fett, and Andor, you're in luck. Lucasfilm just announced that all episodes of Ahsoka will debut on Disney+ at 6 p.m. PST, 9 p.m. EST Tuesdays, beginning this Tuesday August 22 with the...Read more...

Atlantic tropical storms are more likely to kill minorities and those in other vulnerable communities, according to a new study published in Science Advances.Read more...

Of all the intriguing tales in the new Return of the Jedi anniversary anthology From a Certain Point of View, one revolving around Attack of the Clones' premiere gourmet establishment proprietor Dexter Jettster was arguably the most intriguing to many when it was announced. What was Dexter up to during the original...Read more...

Wildfires in Maui have devastated the communities in Hawaii over the last week, but a new book listed on Amazon about the natural disaster has raised eyebrows from reviewers.Read more...

Get a look at Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal in Amazon's new sci-fi thriller Foe. Archer heads to England in new details about the last season. Plus, Netflix gives us one last look at Disenchanted's own finale, and when to expect a return to Adventure Time in Fionna and Cake. Spoilers now!

Threads is desperately trying to stay relevant by announcing a small update on Thursday to include a repost tab feature to the app. The newest tweaks come as the number of daily active users decreased by 80% since the app launched in July.Read more...

Meta's language-centric LlaMA AI will soon find itself in the company of a nerdier, coding wiz brother. The company's next AI release will reportedly be a big coding machine meant to compete against the proprietary software from the likes of OpenAI and Google. The model could see a release as soon as next week.Read more...

If the spectacular failure of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX exchange wasn't evidence enough, the crypto bubble has officially popped. Now, Bitcoin, one of the most widely used cryptocurrencies, has fallen to a two-month low.Read more...

Star Wars fans have been waiting over five years for this. When Star Wars Rebels ended in March 2018, creator Dave Filoni teased a story where Ahsoka Tano and Sabine Wren would team up and go to find their friend, Jedi Ezra Bridger. Well, it took a while, and it's not the way we expected, but the story will finally...Read more...

One of the most prominent pirated book repositories used for training AI, Books3, has been kicked out from the online nest it had been roosting in for nearly three years. Rights-holders have been at war with online pirates for decades, but artificial intelligence is like oil seeping into copyright law's water. The two...Read more...

A budget laptop has to walk a very fine line. Cut too many features, and it's going to offer disappointing performance and be annoying to use, no matter how low the price. Get too ambitious, and feature creep will drive the price up so much that it's not a budget laptop at all anymore.Read more...

In a previously recorded appearance on Josh Horowitz's podcast Happy Sad Confused promoting Gran Tourismo, the film's star David Harbour discussed the Stranger Things finale and joining James Gunn's Creature Commandos for DC Studios. Both projects are currently being paused as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue as...Read more...

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When Ahsoka begins next week, we're getting even further insight into a Star Wars galaxy at a crossroads moment in time-arguably the first major crisis of a nascent New Republic, and a galaxy still picking itself up after the fall of the Galactic Empire. But what do we actually know has happened in the run-up to the...Read more...

The Moon is so hot right now, metaphorically speaking. Several US government agencies, private space ventures, and foreign governments like China are plotting for mankind's return to the lunar surface over the next decade. Unlike the days of Apollo, the modern-day race to the Moon involves establishing a sustainable...Read more...

io9 first caught director and co-writer Laura Moss' debut birth/rebirth at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2023-read our review here-and its grisly yet deeply emotional exploration of motherhood has stuck with us for months. With the film about to hit theaters, we were excited to speak to Moss all about it.

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There's no better way to play video games than lying down. That can be hard to do when the TV is situated straight ahead. But with Samsung's new Freestyle Gen 2 projector, you can lay on your back and indulge in your favorite cozy game projected on the ceiling above.

When Draganfly launched as a small drone company in 1998, its co-founders did not predict hobbyist products like theirs would one day become, in the words of CEO Cameron Chell, bigger than the advent of the tank in World War I." Now, 25 years later, Draganfly's drones-which are credited by the Smithsonian as being...Read more...

Tal'dorei Campaign Setting Reborn is now available digitally on D&D Beyond. This is huge news, not just for Critical Role fans, but for any third-party publisher who writes with Dungeons & Dragons in mind. For years, D&D Beyond has had agreements with Wizards of the Coast to offer digital, interactive versions of...Read more...

The future is nigh, but San Francisco wants to push it off just a little farther. The Bay Area city is asking California regulators to push pause on the expansion of robotaxi services from Waymo and Cruise.Read more...

Microsoft started issuing invitations for a special event" on Thursday where it may introduce some new hardware and software, including upgrades to its Surface laptops and additional AI products. The event is scheduled to be held in New York City on Sept. 21, Microsoft announced in its email and will be the first...Read more...

When all is said and done, the biggest movies of 2023 are going to be based on a 60-year-old doll and a 40-year-old video game. Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have each, in their own unique ways, shown the best of what modern studio filmmaking can be. In an era when name brands and sequels continue to be the...Read more...

Talk about a killer campaign.Chucky (Brad Dourif) takes the stage for a run-more like a run for the lives of his next victims-to tease whats next in Chucky Season 3.Read more...

What if?" is always a fascinating question. It lets us explore our imaginations in scenarios we'll never actually see play out. Now though, you can see them play out in The Walking Dead universe and it's arguably the most intriguing thing to happen to the franchise in years.Read more...

Apple's promising several upgrades to its upcoming iPhone 15 to entice more people to upgrade, but behind the scenes, the company is reportedly expecting far fewer sales of its mainline smartphone this time around.Read more...

Archaeologists studying ancient human remains in a Spanish cave system posit that one individual's burial is the oldest Neolithic funerary site in Iberia by over 1,000 years.Read more...

A study from researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK suggests ChatGPT demonstrates liberal bias in some of its responses. Tech companies spent recent years desperately trying to prove their systems aren't part of some left-wing political conspiracy. If the study's findings are correct, ChatGPT's...Read more...

Microsoft is bringing an end to its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace starting July 29, 2024, the company announced on Thursday. The closure brings an end to Xbox 360's 18-year run of bringing video games and other content to players everywhere.Read more...

When Cosmic Fury-seemingly the last iteration of Power Rangers as fans have known it for the last 30 years as Hasbro looks to a new movie-and-TV take on the transforming teens-comes to Netflix last month, it's bringing a legend with it: the original Blue Ranger, Billy Cranston, is back in spandex.

Over the past year of using Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 4 out in public, people have told me that, while they think folding phones are cool, they seem like nothing more than an expensive party trick. I don't disagree. Life is fine with just one screen in your pocket and a smartphone that doesn't unfold into a tablet. No...Read more...

A few short weeks ago, the world was taken aback by claims of a room-temperature superconductor-a scientific finding that could redefine modern physics as we know it. Those claims turned out to be bunk, and a South Korean university is investigating a complaint made against the professor who published them in a paper.Read more...

Prey, Dan Trachtenberg's installment into the Predator franchise, is arriving on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on October 3. There will also be a collector's edition steelbook for the 4K edition, designed by Attila Szarca, exclusively available at Best Buy. Notably, Prey didn't make it to theatrical release, and was...Read more...

Tropical storm Hilary in the Pacific Ocean has strengthened to officially become a hurricane.Read more...

Razer has done an impressive job with its mechanical gaming keyboards. Since launching the DeathStalker V2 Pro in 2021, it's cut back on the physical bloat and opted for simpler designs so that the boards have become like blank canvasses. I'm still not on board with the decidedly masculine esport" aesthetic, but at...Read more...

OpenAI is facing a potential lawsuit from The New York Times for an intellectual property debate over alleged copyright violations, sources told NPR on Wednesday. The news outlet claims OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, is using the Times' content to train its chatbot.Read more...

The handheld console market is about to go full-circle. Leaked images of Lenovo's upcoming Legion Go gaming device show that the company has taken inspiration from Nintendo and Valve for its next product, with the silhouette and controls of the Steam Deck plus the snappable, swappable controllers of the Nintendo...Read more...

Something big, furious, and ready to fight is coming to Apple TV+, and with any luck, it'll be bringing like-minded friends along. The streamer has just lifted the lid on its 10-episode series continuing the story of Legendary's Monsterverse, revealing the title-Monarch: Legacy of Monsters-and some first images.Read more...

Two alleged stalking victims filed a class-action lawsuit against Tile and its parent company Life360 Monday accusing the companies of failing to implement useful safety features and of mounting advertising campaigns that encouraged stalking. They also accuse the company of tanking the case against their alleged...Read more...

One of the most maligned tropes of the social media age is the infamous apology video. Whether it be blackface, showing a dead body to children, posting racist tweets, a convention gone wrong, or texting minors, there have been plenty of apology videos posted in the last decade of YouTube's popularity.

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