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Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past …Read more...

Back in August, Google shared some details about the Pixel 6, but so far has kept pretty quiet about its price tag. New rumors suggest the Pixel 6 might not be quite as expensive as some have feared.Read more...

Late Wednesday night, Facebook quietly pubbed two slide decks detailing its internal research on Instagram’s effects on its teen user’s mental health. The two decks (which you can see for yourself here and here) formed the backbone of a recent investigation by The Wall Street Journal that detailed some of the…Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration is satisfied with the corrective actions taken by Virgin Galactic following an incident on July 11 in which the company’s spaceplane flew outside of mandated airspace.

When we last saw Netflix’s “Mexican Lord of the Rings,” the titular Maya (voiced by Zoe Saldana) was trying to transcend her patriarchal culture to become a warrior, only to discover her life has been claimed by the God of War, Lord Mictlan (Alfred Molina). But if she’s going to escape her fate, as well as fight what…Read more...

The world’s top human rights legal body just offered a crucial show of support for Steven Donziger, the attorney who won a landmark multibillion-dollar case against an oil giant over pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. The ruling came on the eve of his sentencing in a criminal trial.

Health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are pleading with pregnant people to get vaccinated against covid-19. In a new urgent health advisory out this week, the CDC says that only around a third of these individuals have gotten fully vaccinated. Research has shown that the vaccines do not…Read more...

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart are looking to buy another law in Massachusetts by replicating Prop 22, the disastrous, virtually irrevocable California ballot measure that deprived their workers of employee status. Now, leading rideshare labor researchers from the UC Berkeley Labor Center have predicted how bad…Read more...

Congratulations to Shin Kamen Rider for having the best costume in a superhero movie, but then again, that’s mostly because it’s just the original Kamen Rider suit.

For a few years now, Super Impulse has been miniaturizing nostalgia with tiny replicas of classic arcade cabinets and squeezing popular retro games into credit card-sized consoles. For its next trick, it’s focusing more on authenticity (relatively speaking) with a pair of retro gaming experiences that look and play…Read more...

Paramount+’s animated Star Trek: Lower Decks has already done a fantastic job of really diving into the internal conflict and privileges of the typical Starfleet bridge crew and the tough lives our lower deckers live. But just as much of this season has been about building on the bonds between our four heroes, this…Read more...

Siri is not known for being the smartest digital assistant on the block, but at the least, it could do basic functions like checking your voicemails. However, with the public release of iOS 15, it seems that Siri has forgotten how to do some basic tasks—to the detriment of those who may rely on Siri as an…Read more...

James Gunn teases a little more of a gun show from Peacemaker. The Kindred adaptation adds more to its cast. Plus, what’s next on What We Do In The Shadows and Y: The Last Man, and Riverdale... something is happening on Riverdale. To me, my spoilers!

It’s really simple. If you were a fan of the original Venom, you are probably going to enjoy Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Everything that worked about the first Sony/Marvel movie—the offbeat humor, the sultry special effects, the intense characters—is all back in full force in the sequel. However, for the most part, …Read more...

Everyone knows that one person who’s way too excited to nerd out about their home theater system. The Sonos Beam 2 is not for that person.Read more...

A new report finds that some of the country’s most powerful utilities raked in millions of dollars in taxpayer bailout funds last year—while continuing to shut off service for households across the U.S. during the pandemic.Read more...

When your aging laptop or desktop computer is slowing to a crawl to get through day-to-day tasks, you don’t necessarily have to recycle it or hand it off to someone else. Your old machine can be turned into a media streaming device in its retirement, taking it easy as it serves up videos, music, photos, and more to…Read more...

I’ve been dreaming of a modular smartphone since I first laid eyes on Google’s Project Ara. The concept made so much sense to me, a person who has built PCs before and isn’t afraid to attack a wire (as long as it isn’t live, of course). But despite the relative user-friendliness behind the idea of swappable modules,…Read more...

Australia reported 2,417 new covid-19 cases on Thursday, the highest number of new cases in the country for any single day of the entire pandemic. The majority of cases were in the country’s second largest state of Victoria, which accounted for 1,438 new cases, despite being in a hard lockdown since August 5.

As the world slowly attempts to drag itself toward a sense of normalcy as the covid-19 pandemic continues, events and businesses looking to bring the public back have already had to try and balance waning federal restrictions with private rules regarding masks, vaccination status, and more. Now one of the biggest…Read more...

Got plans for late October? Then forget about them, because the house from Wes Craven’s original meta-horror film Scream—you know, the house from which the call comes from inside—will be up to rent as an Airbnb. Amazingly, it will only cost guests a frankly ridiculous $5 a night. The catch, of course, is that there…Read more...

Elon Musk is apparently hankering for those halcyon days when America had a President who really got him. You know, the kind of pro-business bigwig who isn’t afraid to tell the AFL-CIO to screw off? To be sure, this is not an apt description of our current POTUS, with whom Musk seems to be slightly out of step.Read more...

Though most movie theaters are back to full function, the safer option for entertainment remains streaming, and fans who choose to stay home and take advantage are constantly rewarded with tons of new content. At the start of each month, most streamers—Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and HBO Max—do a little shuffle,…Read more...

If a vehicle can go fast, you better believe people are going to race it. Boats, planes, motorcycles; there are racing leagues for almost every type of vehicle imaginable. Next year, electric scooters are getting in on the action now that the eSkootr Championship has finalized what every racer will be riding.Read more...

Although Robotech was a heavily edited (even-more-heavily rewritten) mishmash of three unrelated anime series, it’s hard to overstate the importance it had in America. For many, it was their first taste in anime and a key part of creating today’s massive fandom. It was the first time ‘80s kids got to see a serialized…Read more...

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There’s no golden ticket needed for Warner Bros. The studio is finally going ahead with its origin story for Roald Dahl’s mysterious, marvelous confectionary king in Wonka, which is celebrating the beginning of production by casting what feels like half of England in the process.

Officials with the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are imploring the public to report sightings of a Steller’s sea eagle, which escaped from its enclosure this past Saturday. Multiple sightings have been reported, but the bird has so far managed to evade capture.

What If’s first season has given Marvel Studios an opportunity to reimagine many of its live-action, cinematic greatest hits as relatively fresh animated stories that mostly end up reminding you why you liked the originals. The series has worked best as a celebration of the studio’s box office successes from the past…Read more...

Google search is without a doubt the easiest way to find answers quickly, but it can also spur new questions. Sometimes those questions are sparked by a random autocomplete suggestion, but the company just announced changes to its search engine that will help you find answers to questions you didn’t ask.Read more...

I’m not a fan of most major social platforms. Reddit’s always been too militaristic about free speech for my taste; TikTok is full of stomach-churning viral trends, Twitter’s riddled with hate speech, and Facebook is, well, Facebook. So when I first heard about PlantLife—a plant-centric social platform that rolled…Read more...

New shows pop up on Disney+ all the time, but it’s rarer for something to show up with little in the way of fanfare, let alone a new Star Wars series. But while Galaxy of Sounds might not exactly be The Book of Boba Fett, it’s a lovely, weird little celebration of just how cool Star Wars sounds. And full of…Read more...

A Illinois man had the unfortunate distinction of becoming the first case of human rabies seen in the state in almost 70 years, health officials reported this week. Unfortunately, like most sick victims of rabies, the man did not survive. He had turned down preventive treatment a month earlier.Read more...

Everyone, please dramatically slow clap: YouTube says it will finally ban videos that lie about the effectiveness or nonexistent dangers of any vaccine—not just clips focused on covid-19 vaccines—and it has terminated the accounts of prominent antivaxxers like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense Fund and…Read more...

CNN shut down its Facebook page in Australia on Wednesday, after an Australian court ruled that media outlets are liable for defamatory user-generated comments. On the one hand: bye, Felicia. On the other, the ruling threatens to squash the lively social media discourse we all know and love. It could also stifle…Read more...

The ongoing eruption of a Canary Islands volcano is raising concerns about the release of toxic clouds now that lava is actively pouring into the sea.

Forging ahead with its bizarre plans to expand into the video game space, Netflix has reportedly acquired Night School Studio, an indie game developer that will mark the first acquisition of its kind for the streaming platform.

Remember the Exxon lobbyist who got caught on tape admitting that the company had poured money into “shadow groups” in order to fight against climate science? He’s officially out of a job. E&E News confirmed with Exxon on Tuesday that Keith McCoy, the lobbyist in question, was no longer at the company.Read more...

We may have only just gotten one Star Wars show, and another series on the way this week, but one fans have been waiting for ever since The Mandalorian season two came to a close is going to keep us waiting a little longer. Boba Fett is sneaking his way into the end of the year with his very own TV show.

Sony’s headphones and earbuds have long been some of the best you can buy, and its latest devices, the WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones and WF-1000XM4 wireless earbuds, offer incredible audio and industry-leading active noise cancellation—for a price. For those looking to spend a little less cash, Sony’s introducing…Read more...

Earlier this year, social media was briefly taken over by seemingly everyone using MyHeritage’s Deep Nostalgia feature to bring old photos to life. The company whose AI technology powers Deep Nostalgia, D-ID, is taking that technology one step further, turning still headshot photos into videos that move and say…Read more...

When we got our last look at Disney’s upcoming movie Encanto, we met the Madrigals, the magical house that gave the intergenerational Colombian family their unique superpowers, and Mirabel (Brooklyn 99's Stephanie Beatriz), the lone Madrigal member who never received a gift. It looked great, but somewhat…Read more...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will propose removing 22 animals and one plant from the endangered species list on Wednesday, declaring them extinct. The casualties—11 birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, one bat, and a flower—are victims of the climate crisis and habitat degradation. It’s a sign…Read more...

If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The sound symbolizes the limits of what whole generations had agreed was basically tolerable to get online.Read more...

Netflix bags a few more names for its Enola Holmes sequel. Aeon Flux is on its way back. Paradise Hills’ Alice Waddington is turning Matt Kindt’s Dept. H into a movie. Plus, what’s coming on Supergirl and La Brea. Spoilers, go!

Your next window unit air conditioner is in for some big changes over the next decade. The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule last week to largely phase out the chemicals in air conditioners that keep your room cool but damage the climate.Read more...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has threatened harsh retaliatory measures against YouTube after the video sharing service suspended two German-language accounts run by Russian state media, according to a report from Russia’s TASS news outlet. Russia went so far as to call the suspensions “information warfare.”

Amazon has a new robot—a sly little cyber-pet called “Astro” who is supposed to be a goofy domestic helper reminiscent of R2D2 but is, in reality, both a privacy nightmare and a dysfunctional mess.

No Time to Die, the 25th James Bond movie, almost feels like 25 movies in one. So much happens in its complex story—filled with so many sprawling, varied set pieces—that by the time you get to the end, the events of the beginning feel like they happened 18 months ago. Which, if you remember, they were supposed to.…Read more...

AirTags, Apple’s Bluetooth-powered item trackers, were designed with good intentions: They’re useful for attaching to important things like keys and luggage to help you find them if they get lost. However, said devices also apparently come with a small design flaw—one that could allow an unscrupulous individual to…Read more...