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The Vatican is once again trying to make climate action a key issue for Catholics, as it launches a program called the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, named after the Pope’s 2015 letter that framed protecting the environmental as a spiritual mandate. The new website calls on Catholics to eat less meat, take public…Read more...

Is Trickbot finally dead? Like dead-dead?Read more...

As the independent TTRPG scene has exploded over the recent years, so has the creativity that comes along with an ever-expanding and innovative customer base. While wandering the afterlife (or wandering around as an undead creature) are well-trod storytelling tropes, game designers across the globe have taken folklore…Read more...

Wouldn’t it be nice to walk into a Genius Bar and back out again on the same day with your problem solved? Apple is apparently working toward that reality for its iPhone users.

Sometimes the only thing better than watching your favorite movie is watching someone talk about it. That might sound counterintuitive, but no matter how many times you’ve seen The Empire Strikes Back, RoboCop, Aliens, Flash Gordon, or The Last Starfighter, you’ve definitely seen the people involved talk about it…Read more...

The upcoming season of Outlander will mark the beginning of a new era for the fan-favorite Starz show with the announcement that a new prequel series is in the works. Get ready for a new realm of time-travel romance; as Variety reports, the yet to be titled series is in development and assembling a writer’s room.Read more...

A feeding program for manatees is intensifying in Florida as conservation groups seek to save the marine mammals in the face of a devastating loss in local seagrass, the animals’ favorite food.Read more...

Two things became pretty clear on Etsy’s latest earning call: the platform is making more money than ever, and sellers are going to start seeing a lot less of it.Read more...

Russia has announced it’s taking action to partially block access to Facebook within the country, accusing the U.S. social media firm of “censoring” state media. The restrictions, announced on Friday, came as the sun set on the second day of Russia’s Ukraine invasion.Read more...

Were I to look really closely at my hands, I’m sure I could find a lingering scar or two from a childhood spent painstakingly transforming robots into vehicles and back again—a process fraught with occasional pinched fingers. To my generation, Transformers toys were a challenge on par with those metal ring puzzles,…Read more...

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s 20th movie, Dark Glasses—his first feature in 10 years—will be arriving on Shudder this fall. While we wait (and feverishly hope it’s a return to form after 2012's regrettable Dracula 3D), we’re looking back at 10 films that have defined his career so far.Read more...

Adding working lights is a fun way to take a Lego creation to the next level, and the company even includes light-up features on some of its sets, including a glowing Christmas tree. But this clever hack makes integrating lighting into a build impossibly easy thanks to the same technology that makes wireless charging…Read more...

HTC says it’s pretty sure a new car-based virtual reality experience it’s working on won’t leave you and your car smothered in vomit.Read more...

BJ McDonnell has the IMDB page of your dreams, with credits on Scrubs, War of the Worlds, Hatchet, Halloween, CSI, Heroes, MacGruber, Star Trek Into Darkness, Avengers: Age of Ultron, This Is the End, Ant-Man, American Horror Story, Shazam, Malignant, and many many more. Over the past two decades, he’s diligently…Read more...

Another beloved toy line has been tapped for a film adaptation, and this time nobody quite knows how to feel about it. The live action rights to Beyblade, the dueling spinning tops toys from Japan that became a smash hit in the early 2000s, has been purchased by Paramount pictures, and Jerry Bruckheimer is expected to…Read more...

Bitcoin proponents have long argued that miners moving to the U.S. can help lower the network’s carbon emissions. But a new paper out Friday finds that global shifts in the location of bitcoin miners driven by a crackdown in China last year have actually made bitcoin even dirtier. Thanks in part to fossil-fueled…Read more...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reportedly gearing up to lift recommendations for mask-wearing. The exact revisions to the guidance are still unclear, but the Associated Press reports that most Americans will no longer be asked to wear masks indoors. The changes are the latest sign that the U.S. and…Read more...

Building a modern gaming PC inside a tower dating back to 1999 sounds like the worst approach a gamer could take—unless that tower happens to be from the iconic Hot Wheels-themed PC released back in 1999 and emblazoned with flame graphics on the sides. How could you not bring this beast back from the dead if you were…Read more...

Neve Campbell discusses her potential Scream future. Scoob will return for a Halloween special on HBO Max. Tales of the Walking Dead adds even more big names to its anthology cast. Plus, what’s coming on Legacies and Ghosts. Spoilers get!

Would you pay $6,000 to pretend to be an inhabitant of the Star Wars universe for two days? Disney was sure enough people would answer “yes” to that question that it created Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, a two-day resort stay/immersive theme park experience at Disney World that purports to do just that. But when…Read more...

Wait, Lenovo makes wireless earbuds? I felt silly about this gap in my knowledge after spending years reviewing the company’s laptops. Curious about what the PC maker could achieve in the audio space, I jumped on the chance to test its Smart Wireless Earbuds, which—and here comes another revelation—aren’t the first…Read more...

Heat waves are dangerous—they can lead to heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and death for vulnerable people who may have a harder time staying cool. Now, new evidence points to heat waves significantly impacting mental health as well.Read more...

Virtual Private Networks or VPNs can protect the privacy of your browsing, cloaking your online activities and making it much harder for websites, internet providers, advertisers, and a hacker sitting behind you in a coffee shop to see what you’re doing. Generally speaking, VPNs are a Good Thing, and Google offers one…Read more...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has called on all citizens of Kyiv who own hobby drones to bring them in and help monitor the city as Russia invades, according to a new Facebook post by the military. Even if people don’t know how to fly their own drones very well they’re still being encouraged to bring them in so that…Read more...

In an online world where ads have become inseparable from social media, Tumblr—yes, it’s still around—is going against the grain. Its message: Say goodbye to the bizarre ads on Tumblr, if you want.Read more...

It’s probably safe to say Marvel has put out some reasonably good comics over the last 60 years. It’s probably also safe to say that it’s put out some of the greatest and most beloved comic stories of all time. We asked you, the readers, to give us your favorites, and here’s some of what you told us. Please note:…Read more...

Though Hasbro has yet to let the incredibly malleable world of Transformers really shine on the big screen, the opposite is the case on toy shelves. We’ve seen Transformers figures mash-up with Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Top Gun, and more. Now, the Robots in Disguise are teaming up with their most natural…Read more...

If you haven’t seen the trailer for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you’re missing out on probably the best damn teaser for an upcoming movie, truly. The mind-melting multiverse family dramedy from directing duo Daniels (Swiss Army Man) stars the legendary Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn, a Chinese immigrant thrust into a…Read more...

There’s a new Batman film in theaters next week, but in a shocking twist, it doesn’t show the death of his parents. That Bruce Wayne’s parents are killed in cold blood is, of course, a key component to the character, so it’s mentioned—but for the first time in a while, we don’t actually see it happen.Read more...

Semiconductor chips, the seemingly unremarkable component responsible for derailing global supply chains over the past two years, may play a pivotal role in the international community’s efforts to curtail Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Whether those tactics will actually work as intended remains far from certain.Read more...

Last week, Comixology launched a 4.0 update that radically overhauled the biggest digital storefront in comics—a new app that replaced the original bespoke mobile experience with a Kindle-esque format, and the loss of Comixology’s own website in exchange for a presence within its owner Amazon’s website. To say that…Read more...

In a press conference Thursday, NASA described the final steps in anticipation of the Artemis 1 uncrewed test flight, which set to occur this spring. The immediate focus is on a “wet dress rehearsal” of the Orion spacecraft that is scheduled for mid-March. Eventually, the Artemis program aims to put humans on the Moon…Read more...

Seemingly for the first time ever, doctors have gotten a detailed look at the brain of a person during their final moments of life. The findings were obtained from a hospital patient who suddenly died while having his brain monitored for seizures, and they may offer some support for the idea that people see their…Read more...

Cult-beloved ‘80s sitcom ALF, about a sarcastic alien who crash-lands on Earth and finds refuge in a middle-class suburb, is (finally) set to come back to screens in a big way.

A team of scientists has combined modern and ancient genomes to build a new “genealogy of everyone,” in an achievement that sets the groundwork for future studies into our evolution and global spread.Read more...

NBC reports that President Joe Biden has been presented with a “menu of options” for massive cyberattacks against Russia, an obvious retaliation for Putin’s illegal military campaign in Ukraine. However, the White House has since denounced the report, claiming that it does not “reflect what is actually being discussed…Read more...

IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic series has taken the titular heroes and their half-shells on some wild adventures, playing with established TMNT canon in some fascinating ways. Now, their current story is going to include a major shock to the system: the return of a controversial, major figure from the team’s…Read more...

The fossil fuel industry has a big methane problem—and we’re only just beginning to realize how serious it is. The International Energy Agency released a new analysis Wednesday finding that methane emissions from energy production are being severely undercounted and are up to 70% higher than official estimates…Read more...

As Texas makes significant moves toward preventing and criminalizing gender and life-affirming medical care for transgender children (flying in the face of major studies from the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association), many transgender people and…Read more...

A team of astronomers recently observed an askew black hole just 10,000 light-years from Earth. The black hole’s spin axis is out of alignment with the plane of debris orbiting it by at least 40 degrees, the most extreme misalignment of its kind yet seen by astronomers.Read more...

The Biden Administration received record-setting bids on its first offshore wind lease sale this week, a promising sign showing U.S. money makers are ready to invest heavily in the long hyped but underdelivered renewable energy source.Read more...

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 premiered in 2020 to middling reviews (including our own), and after some delays, Netflix has finally released a trailer for the second season of the anime. It does not, unfortunately, look that much more interesting than the lackluster season one.Read more...

Google traditionally reveals its flagship Pixel phones in October every year, and we don’t expect that to change in 2022. Although we’re still eight months out, one trusted leaker has already shown off legit-looking renders of the Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro.Read more...

One of Star Trek: Discovery’s biggest themes has always been the importance of togetherness in times of crisis—from Klingon wars to Mirror Universe incursions, from being flung into the future to the conflict with the Emerald Chain, it’s a topic the show has proselytized time and time again. It’s a lesson worth…Read more...

With a career spanning over 40 years that includes 14 studio albums, five Grammy awards, a TV show, and a movie, Weird Al may have only just revealed his greatest accomplishment to date: a new Weird Al-themed pinball table called Weird Al’s Museum of Natural Hilarity packed full of his musical parodies and endless…Read more...

The death of a dog can be devastating for families, but new evidence from Italy suggests surviving dogs can also be profoundly affected by the loss, resulting in an assortment of behavioral changes that scientists say are consistent with grieving.Read more...

Put the word “dinosaur” in front of anything and it automatically gets cooler. “Dinosaur” baseball. “Dinosaur” dinner. “Dinosaur” table. “Dinosaur” phone. See what we mean? The same goes for “Dinosaur” book, “dinosaur” war, and “dinosaur” movie—three of which are about to smash together like a T-Rex through a Jeep.Read more...

Bat meets Cat, Penguin, and Riddler without an origin story in what we know so far about The Batman, which was stipulated by design in order for Matt Reeves to sign onto the film. Robert Pattinson’s masked crusader is centered in his sophomore year of crime fighting and encountering figures that will begin to fill out…Read more...

At the dawn of the ‘90s, Star Wars’ “dark ages”—with the end of Marvel’s Star Wars comics, new toys on the decline, and the movies long over in the eyes of fans and perhaps even its creator—suddenly ended in a brilliant flash. Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire heralded a new, post-Return of the Jedi saga that would be…Read more...

Argentina is on fire. For weeks, firefighters have battled the flames that have burned some 800,000 hectares in total, with about 30,000 hectares burning each day, Al Jazeera reported.Read more...