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Zach Barack is already used to making history. The first openly trans actor to appear in an MCU project, his brief moment in the spotlight as a classmate of Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Far From Home now gives way to another breakthrough moment as the voice of Barney in Netflix’s Dead End: Paranormal Park.

Amid the tax-write-off/cancelation disaster happening at HBO, we’ve got updates for the second season of James Gunn’s Peacemaker and the Supergirl movie... and it’s not all good news. Plus, a breakdown of how the Andor series will play out, a tease from Tales of the Walking Dead, and more. Spoilers, ahoy!Read more...

The climate crisis has created a huge sex imbalance for Florida’s sea turtles. More frequent and hotter heat waves baking the sand on the state’s beaches means that seemingly every new hatchling is female, turtle researchers told Reuters.

The National Archives and U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Peter Navarro, one of former president Donald Trump’s advisors, over emails he failed to hand over from his private email account, according to new reports from the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Curiously, the…Read more...

There’s no other movie right now that has elicited multiple re-watches like Jordan Peele’s Nope. It’s the kind of film where you leave the theater with a lingering buzz about what you just saw, questions about some of the reveals, and curiosity for anything you might have missed—the meaning of the shoe, for instance,…Read more...

When Riverdale began, it was a simple story about Archie, a high school sophomore, banging his music teacher and everyone else trying to find out who killed Cheryl’s twin brother Jason. Little did we know what madness would follow, or how delightful it would be. In honor of the end of the show’s utterly bananas sixth…Read more...

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I have been called many things for this list. A monster. A war criminal. Emotionally stunted. Cursed. A few of those things may be true, but the fact remains that I would eat a Fidough in a second after it had been fried up like a funnel cake and dusted in powdered sugar. I do not regret my decision, but I do regret…Read more...

Software updates can be messy, so it’s not surprising to hear recent rumors that Apple will spread out the launch of iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 rather than launch them all out of the gate at once. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who heard it from people who “asked not to be identified because the deliberations are…Read more...

Last year, IT firm Cloudflare launched an email routing service, giving users the ability to set up a large number of addresses connected to the same inbox. Email routing can be a powerful privacy tool, as it allows you to hide your actual email address behind a network of temporary or “burnable” addresses. …Read more...

Russia just launched a mysterious satellite that could be spying on an even more mysterious U.S. military satellite, with the Russian spacecraft predicted to make a close approach to its presumed target this coming Thursday.

The first season of Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight ended on quite the cliffhanger. Not only did we meet a new persona for our good friend Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac), but we didn’t learn how the character would fit into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Surely we’d find out if there was a season two.

Fans aren’t going to see Batgirl—but we are getting *checks notes* Joker 2.Read more...

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The bones of a mammoth and calf recently uncovered in New Mexico show signs of butchering, an exciting find that could help refine estimates of when humans first populated the Americas.Read more...

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles always caught a bit of a rap from old-school TMNT fans for its focus on hijinks rather than particularly serious adventures for the most part. Let this opening sequence from the show’s new movie prove, however, that’s not always the case.

At least one big bitcoin mining operation in Texas that was not actually mining much bitcoin during this season’s record-breaking heat netted millions of dollars in profits—more than they would have if they just kept on mining without any shutdowns. It’s thanks to power purchase agreements signed with the local grid,…Read more...

Few times in history has the line between film as a business versus an art form been as clear as the story of Batgirl. Earlier this week, Warner Bros. decided to completely cancel the near $100 million movie, despite its being near completion, due to complex tax considerations as well as a reported new release strategyRead more...

The 21st century equivalent of the souped-up hot rod, a modded PC packed to the gills with glowing LEDs and other over-the-top adornments can be a unique way to show off your wild personality, or now even your Zen-like temperament, with a new PC case featuring a tank on top you can turn into a fully-functional and …Read more...

Alex Jones, controversial radio host and conspiracy theory peddler, has finally walked back on his previous claims that the Sandy Hook shooting was fake, testifying in court that the shooting was, in fact, real after meeting the parents of the children that were killed.

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law—Marvel Studios’ next Disney+ series—has shifted its weekly release date to Thursdays in light of the streamer’s heavily packed schedule, which also includes September’s new Star Wars series Andor. Tatiana Maslany stars as Jennifer Walters, Bruce Banner’s cousin, who comes into Hulk powers of…Read more...

We knew July was sweltering, but this air temperature map based on NASA satellite data really puts it in perspective. The darkest areas represent temperatures around or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius)—heat that can easily turn deadly for vulnerable people.Read more...

The enduring appeal of Lego comes not from the complexity of the sets, nor the adorable minifigure versions of pop culture icons, but from the build process itself, and turning a box of seemingly random pieces into a completed model. It’s a satisfying experience, and another one that robots might steal from you one dayRead more...

Apparently, even Tinder has problems with long-term relationships and commitment. After dropping lackluster financial results that erased a fifth of its market value on Wednesday, Match Group, the flame app’s parent company, announced that it was parting ways with its CEO after less than a year. It also said it would…Read more...

Years after Spelljammer: Confirmed became a meme, we’re getting an in-depth look at what Dungeons & Dragons has in store for the revitalized science-fantasy setting. At a recent press event, Chris Perkins (D&D’s principal story designer) and Greg Tito (D&D’s senior comms manager) introduced the updated setting and…Read more...

A surgery-performing robot developed by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and medical technology company Virtual Incision is ready to be tested aboard the International Space Station with a $100,000 grant awarded to the university from NASA.

More than a dozen rights groups and education organizations wrote a letter urgently calling on the Department of Education to take a stance on controversial student monitoring software, which they say violates students’ privacy and threatens to undermine hard-fought civil rights gains.

The Predator franchise has seen its share of ups and downs. Like any good horror/science fiction property from the ‘80s, however, it manages to keep coming back in various new attempts. Where the past few films have seen the franchise more fully embrace the action side of things, Prey finds its footing by returning to …Read more...

OnePlus has something to prove. The company is the Android underdog, but now that it’s under the umbrella of a bigger brother—its parent company, Oppo—it needs to act like it belongs in the number three spot. The OnePlus 10 Pro was an impressive flagship release, though it worried us that OnePlus launched only one…Read more...

Warner Bros. has finally made a statement about the permanent cancellation of two multi-million dollar projects, Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt. Essentially, according to Deadline, the decision comes from a desire to re-energize the DC Extended Universe, and some of the character reveals and plot points in Batgirl…Read more...

The Sonic the Hedgehog video games are more or less about one thing: blasting through a level with as much speed as possible. So as lovely as this Sonic-themed keyboard from Higround is, it seems almost antithetical to the spirit of the games, at least if you don’t have all your key positions perfectly memorized.Read more...

A team of scientists say they’ve found a way to better preserve and even partially restore the function of cells throughout a pig’s body an hour after death. The technology, described in a paper published in Nature, is still far off from being tested with humans, but it could possibly help increase the supply of…Read more...

It’s been a messy season for airline travel, with thousands of flights getting canceled or delayed this year. In response to all the chaos, a new proposed bill could soon force airlines to give customers a full refund for their canceled or delayed flights.Read more...

The open source blockchain network Solana has been considered the golden child of the crypto scene thanks to claims of its fast and cheap transaction infrastructure. Now some of those same crypto bros are paying the price for jumping onto the DeFi darling.Read more...

Blumhouse’s new Exorcist trilogy expands its cast. The Alien TV series could start filming next year. The Spirit Halloween movie isn’t the only Halloween movie about killer decorations coming out. Plus, what’s coming on the Tales of the Walking Dead premiere. Spoilers get!

Flash floods are some of the deadliest weather events in the U.S., and they’re becoming more common under climate change. Already in 2022, an estimated 67 Americans have perished in flood waters, and around 100 people drown in floods each year in the U.S. While you may not be able to prepare for every emergency, there…Read more...

The PACT Act, which allocates health care funds for U.S. veterans suffering from exposure to toxic burn pits and Agent Orange, passed the U.S. Senate on Tuesday in a vote of 86-11 and is now heading the President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. Who are these politicians who voted against veterans getting the…Read more...

With House of the Dragon coming to HBO in just a few short weeks, the company has finally upgraded its parent show to the technical big leagues. As of August 1, HBO Max has upgraded all eight (yes, eight, unfortunately) seasons of Game of Thrones in 4K Ultra HD, HDR 10, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos, the best…Read more...

And on this day the Stranger Things writers began to run up that hill of writing the final season of Netflix and the Duffer Brothers’ hit series. They presented a whiteboard so maybe they’re just getting their stretches in before the trek. The logo is looking pretty good at least.Read more...

Pieces of debris found on Australian farmland are suspected of originating from a SpaceX mission that launched nearly two years ago. It seems likely that the parts belong to SpaceX, but the private space company has yet to own up to the fallen remnants.

The Webb Space Telescope team has unveiled the latest image from the observatory, and it’s a gorgeous portrait of the Cartwheel Galaxy, a dazzling object 500 million light-years away that formed from the high-speed collision of two galaxies.

You’re never going to see that new Batgirl movie. According to reports, Warner Bros. has decided to cancel the nearly finished project and not release it either in theaters or on HBO Max, which was the original plan.Read more...

It turns out that breaking an encryption algorithm meant to withstand the most powerful cyberattacks imaginable might not be as tough as we’d been led to believe. In a paper published over the weekend, researchers demonstrated that a PC with a single-core processor (weaker than a decent laptop) could break a …Read more...

Robinhood, the self-proclaimed ‘Democratized Finance’ app accused of misleading and ripping off retail investors will have to cough up another $30 million to appease regulators. That raises the company’s overall regulatory penalty and settlement tab well above $100 million.Read more...

You remember the job the 10-year-old you thought would be the best work ever, like professional video game tester (reality later proved it wasn’t such a perfect dream) or how about professional candy taste tester? Yeah, well now that you think about it, eating candy all day sounds like a really terrible idea… oh,…Read more...

In the 35 years since the release of Predator, Hollywood has continually struggled to make a good sequel. Sure, the second one is okay and the ideas behind some of the others—like going to other planets and crossing over with Alien—are good, but overall, it’s rarely, if ever, panned out. So if audiences are skeptical…Read more...

Winamp died! And then it came back! Then it died again! And now it’s back once again, as the first release candidate of the re-resurrected Winamp 5.9 has been made available for download to a new generation who years ago transitioned away from MP3 files to streaming services.