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Based on director Domee Shi’s upbringing in Canada during the early aughts, Pixar’s Turning Red encapsulates the era right before teens fully lived on the internet. It’s quite the nostalgia punch back to middle school with flip phones, sneaky note passing, and boy bands. But what’s most remarkable, aside from finally…Read more...

As fun as operating heavy machinery looks, complex machines like excavators require a trained and skilled operator to get a job done quickly and safely. But as the pool of trained operators continues to retire and diminish, the future of construction might be machinery upgraded with robotic smarts so they’re as easy…Read more...

Chris Pratt shares from behind the scenes of Jurassic World: Dominion. Picard teases the return of an old foe. The Boys begins to prepare for its return. Plus, a new trailer for the next Gundam movie, and another look at A24's next horror film, Ti West’s X. Spoilers go!

As dominant as Gmail is when it comes to email services and clients, it’s by no means perfect—and there are plenty of third-party apps and add-ons that build on the foundations of Gmail to give you an enhanced experience.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency ATMs that allow people to buy and sell crypto are illegal in the UK, according to a letter made public on Friday by Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority. That means anyone currently operating a Bitcoin ATM is doing so illegally and will have to stop, according to the government …Read more...

Russian state media and the Russian embassies around the world have spent the past day on Twitter and Instagram harassing a pregnant Ukrainian woman who appeared in photos published around the world after she was injured in an attack by the Russian military on Wednesday. The woman was in a maternity ward when it was…Read more...

It turns out I’m a simple man—I can be much more excited by the prospect of seeing Obi-Wan Kenobi atop a weird, hairless, snouted quadruped than I can glimpses of Inquisitors, Skywalkers, and the heavy mechanical wheeze of Darth Vader.

The U.S. military has long dumped troves of its leftover equipment into the eager hands of federal, state, and local police agencies—one of the many factors enabling the alarmingly high levels of police militarization throughout the country. Now departments are so flush with gear that they’re shipping it to an actual…Read more...

For no reason at all, this week seems like a good one to talk about labor. Here’s a selection of games that feature strikes, organized workforces, and labor disputes. They run the mechanical gamut from LARPs to cards to dice, and some of them are even free. These games often dive into history and take inspiration from…Read more...

If you want to fly to Ukraine to join the war effort against Russia, a tech executive says that he will front the cash to make it happen.

Part of the appeal of riding a roller coaster simulator over the real thing is that you can experience track designs that are physically impossible in the real world. ROCO, a new coaster simulator, takes that idea one step further by letting riders draw their own track designs and then ride them, complete with motions…Read more...

Film producer and distributor GKIDS has bulked out its already significant animated offerings with four early films by acclaimed filmmaker Makoto Shinkai. Shinkai has helmed award-winning films like Your Name (2016) and Weathering With You (2020), both of which firmly established him as an outstanding international…Read more...

Samsung can’t seem to launch a flagship without making a little bit of a mess along the way. The company recently came under fire for throttling the performance of apps on its Galaxy S22 series of smartphones through its Game Optimization Service, or GOS. But curiously, the apps that the GOS didn’t throttle were some…Read more...

The former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl is now experiencing a power outage amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, prompting concerns of “nuclear discharge.” Experts say the hazard risk is low and that pending power issues at functioning reactors are the real concern.

United Airlines, once the aviation industry’s leading figure in vaccine requirements, has given up on its goal of a completely vaccinated workforce.Read more...

About 80% of this week’s Star Trek: Discovery was perhaps one of the most thoughtful and engaging episodes the series has ever done—perhaps even one of its most wonderfully Star Trek-y tales. The other 20% saw the dread inevitability that next week is a big bang season finale and decided it really needed to undermine…Read more...

Razer wants mobile streamers to sound as good as they look with a new wireless lapel mic that’s a lot less intrusive than wearing a big set of headphones with a mic jutting into your face. The company released the Razer Seiren BT today, retailing for $100.Read more...

Austin Butler, who got his first big break in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is circling the key role of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Dune: Part Two. This announcement comes after a report earlier this week touting Florence Pugh’s potential casting as Princess Irulan.Read more...

Employees of Pixar have sent a scathing letter to their parent company Disney, accusing it of censoring virtually all LGBTQIA+ content from Pixar’s films. The letter comes one day after Disney CEO Bob Chapek claimed the company’s leaders were opposed to Florida’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, in which schools will be…Read more...

Dylan O’Brien, who got his break as fan-favorite character Stiles Stilinski in MTV’s Teen Wolf, has announced that he will not be returning to Paramount+’ film “revival” of the series.

Unless you regularly follow theme park news, there’s a chance you may not realize that right now, at this very moment, a Nintendo-themed park exists. That’s partially because it’s part of Universal Studios Japan and international travel hasn’t exactly been easy for most of us in the past few years. But next year, fans…Read more...

New research is the latest to suggest that moderate drinking can negatively impact health. The study found a link between regular alcohol consumption—as little as one to two drinks a day—and decreased brain volume in middle-aged and older people. The brain shrinkage was greater the more someone drank, the study found.Read more...

Last week’s Star Trek: Picard season two premiere barreled along into a new tone, a new feel, and a level of confidence in what it wants from its titular hero in a way the first season rarely failed to muster. That confidence continues thoroughly in its second episode, which just asks the most Star Trek of all…Read more...

Rear Window is an odd choice for a board game, considering the main character of the film mostly sits in front of his balcony and takes pictures of his neighbors, but you know what, we’ll go with it. The setup may be strange, but considering the paranoia and suspense at the core of the film, design studio Prospero HallRead more...

Joro spiders have inhabited parts of the U.S. southeast for the past nine years, but new research suggests these impressive arachnids will soon establish a presence along most of the eastern seaboard. Perhaps surprisingly, scientists aren’t too concerned, as these spiders are actually kinda awesome.

I never thought I’d see the day. No, this isn’t about Apple giving us an actually useful selection of ports (see Mac Studio), or Google releasing iOS-friendly emoji reactions, but rather, Microsoft is finally adding tabs to the File Explorer.

Toddlers learn most of their life skills by watching what the adults in their lives do, and if mom or dad are aspiring professional gamers or successful Twitch streamers, VTech can now help put their kid on the path towards gaming super-stardom with a new pint-sized gaming chair that comes complete with a keyboard and…Read more...

Grimes accidentally spilled the beans that she and Elon Musk have a second child.Read more...

We’ve seen the trailer. We’ve broken it down. We’ve heard from star Ewan McGregor about his return to the Star Wars galaxy. Now it’s time to hear from McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series’ co-star Hayden Christensen, who will be putting on Darth Vader’s helmet again to menace his former Jedi master—and what he reveals…Read more...

You can turn your nose up at the thought of sticking a big button to the back of your smartphone, but PopSockets have probably saved millions of devices from falling to their doom, and the company’s latest innovation means PopSockets users don’t have to worry about a dead battery either.Read more...

Unlike Lego Vidiyo which was not long for this world, the company’s other interactive building line is thriving with reveals pf a bunch of new additions to its Lego Super Mario collection today. Perhaps most importantly, a Princess Peach figure featuring animated expressions like Mario and Luigi is on its way.Read more...

Kraven the Hunter might have found a very peculiar villain. The CW’s Gotham Knights show has found an unlikely Robin to cast. Annie Wersching teases her arrival as the Borg Queen on Star Trek: Picard. Plus, teases for She-Hulk, and Shawn Levy talks ending Stranger Things. Spoilers now!

When it rains updates in Android land, it pours. Google’s latest Android feature drop comes with a bundle of new messaging abilities that should help make you feel less of the Green Bubble struggle. Additional features are also en route to a few Android-adjacent platforms, including Google TV and Android Auto.

YouTube has stopped content creators in Russia from being able to make money with most ads that appear on their videos. But there’s one important caveat: YouTube creators in Russia can still theoretically make money when anyone outside of Russia watches ads on their videos.

Today is not only the 10th anniversary of the release of Disney’s John Carter, it’s probably the 10th anniversary of the death of its sequel. Everyone involved with John Carter, which was based on a legendary series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, saw it as the start of a franchise. Even the film itself, which…Read more...

Key members of an influential congressional committee asked the Justice Department to investigate Amazon for alleged obstruction Wednesday after the company allegedly went to great lengths to stall the committee’s recent antitrust probe. Lawmakers said the tech giant engaged in “potentially criminal conduct.”Read more...

Much of the modus operandi of Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight in The Batman is about the theatricality of his fearsome image. “They think I’m hiding in the shadows, but I am the shadows,” Bruce monologues at one point. But it’s far from the Bat himself who provides the film’s most fearsome theatricality: it’s his ride.Read more...

Unless you’re willing to only handle your touchscreen devices or camera lenses while wearing gloves, fingerprint smudges are inevitable. But if you still refuse to live a life with grease-covered gadgets, the WaterBear looks like a smarter alternative to a microfiber cleaning cloth because it sticks right to your gear…Read more...

In recent years, Star Wars has had lots of fun telling tales of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s time on Tatooine between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. But never like this. The first trailer for the Disney+ limited series Obi-Wan Kenobi was just released and it looks like Kenobi’s old apprentice, Darth Vader, hired a legion of…Read more...

British biotech firm Oxitec announced this week that it has received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in parts of Florida and in California, following the completion of a pilot program last year. The modified male insects are designed to…Read more...

Facebook announced Wednesday that it is rolling out new anti-misinformation features aimed at reducing the amplification of potentially harmful content spreading within Facebook Groups.Read more...

Kickstarter has been used as a crowdfunding platform for tabletop role-playing games almost since its inception. In 2012, only three years after Kickstarter first launched, Jamie Chambers successfully ran a crowdfunding campaign in support of a new edition of the classic science fiction RPG, Metamorphosis.Read more...

A hidden impact crater in northwestern Greenland dates back some 58 million years, making it far older than previous estimates. The challenge now will be to find further evidence of what was surely a massively disruptive global-scale event.Read more...

Apps take up a ton of space. And although companies are making smartphones and tablets with more storage than ever before, the apps that fill them remain chock full of unnecessary bloat. Enter App Archiving for Android, announced today by Google.

The rise of Oswald Cobblepot is set to expand the world of Warner Bros.’ The Batman on HBO Max. With the film grossing $134 million at the North American box office and $124 million internationally, this announcement comes after director Matt Reeves revealed that plans for a Gotham Central show have “evolved” into …Read more...

Financial giant BlackRock, which has fashioned itself as a leader in a global transition to cleaner energy, seems more than willing to shrug off its climate commitments and keep investing in dirty fuels behind closed doors, according to an email released this week.Read more...

Heavy rain in Australia has caused flooding so dangerous and disruptive that Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared a national emergency this week. The flooding began in late February and has continued into March across the east coast states of New South Wales and Queensland. The disaster has killed 22 people so far,…Read more...

If you miss the days when Fox was running the X-Men movies, then I have exceedingly bad news for you. Had the franchise not been in such jeopardy, and The New Mutants delayed for so long, you could have seen Mad Men and Baby Driver star Jon Hamm wearing what is arguably the most preposterous cape in the entirety of…Read more...

Ever since it was announced, we knew Star Trek: Strange New Worlds would not only bring us back to Discovery’s take on the pre-Captain Kirk Enterprise crew, but push contemporary Star Trek back to a more adventurous, episodic style of storytelling. Now, we have a glimpse at just how—and also how it plans to bring back…Read more...

Now that The Book of Boba Fett/The Mandalorian season 2.5 is behind us, it’s time to look to the future—specifically, Obi-Wan Kenobi, thanks to this very first teaser trailer for the Disney+ show. The Star Wars TV series will not only star Ewan McGregor in the title role, but it will also see the Jedi knight come up…Read more...