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Some cute little plants in Antarctica are flourishing in warmer temperatures—an ominous sign for rest of the continent and the world. A study published Monday in Current Biology finds that the continent’s only flowering plants have been growing rapidly in the past decade, thanks to warmer temperatures.Read more...

A young astronomer follows her mother’s dying wish and leaves her rural home—hoping her unique connection to the stars will help find a cure for a mysterious new illness that’s begun to spread. A Wilderness of Stars, the latest novel from Shea Ernshaw (The Wicked Deep), charts this perilous journey, and io9 is excited…Read more...

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A security camera in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, captured some unsettling footage last week: a huge flock of yellow-throated blackbirds crashing out of the sky. Plenty of the birds got back up, but many others appeared to die in the event, which is just the latest in a longstanding pattern of bird die-offs.Read more...

Uncharted is one of those video game franchises that wows you to no end. As adventurer Nathan Drake, the player traverses the globe exploring all different environments, most of which become the settings for some of the most epic, jaw-dropping action set pieces imaginable. And you’re in the middle of the action, as…Read more...

A series of cyberattacks struck the websites of Ukrainian banks and defense agencies on Tuesday. It’s not at all clear who is responsible, though the attacks come as a diplomatic crisis involving Russia and the U.S. continues to roil the region.Read more...

The so-called “Freedom Convoy” has bitten off a lot more than it can chew. As the protests have spiraled out across the country, the Canadian government has announced a major expansion of anti-money laundering monitoring and terrorist financing laws in response to the news it raised millions in crowdfunding.Read more...

Cad Bane has been a busy Star Wars supporting character of late. After showing up a handful of times in The Clone Wars, the Duros Bounty Hunter returned to menace two very different clones, first kidnapping Omega in The Bad Batch and then harassing Boba in The Book of Boba Fett. His next mission is infiltrating your…Read more...

Ticks won’t be able to conceal their fiendish tricks much longer. In new research this week, researchers claim to have genetically modified tick embryos in the lab using CRISPR—an apparent first in the field. The achievement should one day allow us to better understand these bugs, especially those responsible for Lyme…Read more...

Jared Isaacman, mission commander for the first all-private trek to Earth orbit, can’t get enough of space. The billionaire space tourist has purchased three new flights with SpaceX, including one that could launch later this year.Read more...

Netflix is breathing life into an underwater video game franchise fans long thought had drowned. The streamer just secured the rights to Bioshock, the Take-Two Interactive game set in a decrepit, underwater city called Rapture.Read more...

Forget the debate about whether you should put your smartphone in a case. The Laptop Strap wants to replace supposedly bulky laptop bags and backpacks with what is essentially a camera strap for naked, unprotected computers.Read more...

A powerful eruption last week from Mount Etna on Sicily, Italy created a volcanic storm so powerful it lit up the sky with a dramatic lightning.

Like Nintendo, Sony has a long history of experimenting with weird products. Sometimes those experiments are flops, but other times they result in genuinely clever, useful, and innovative products. The new Sony LinkBuds fall into that latter category. They won’t completely replace your favorite pair of headphones,…Read more...

Gotham City belonged to Matt Reeves. In 2017, news broke that the director of Cloverfield and War for the Planet of the Apes was going to make the next Batman movie. Only he wasn’t going to be beholden to any previous iteration. Reeves had his own ideas for Batman and his cast of equally famous villains. And so the…Read more...

Microsoft is bringing a handful of usability upgrades to Windows 11 while pushing what is arguably the single most anticipated feature into a public beta.

Elon Musk donated roughly $5.7 billion in shares of Tesla to an unnamed charity late last year, according to new filings with the SEC and a report from the Wall Street Journal. But one big question remains: Who got the money?

The San Francisco Police Department has used DNA obtained for a woman’s rape kit to later arrest her over a property crime, according to a horrifying announcement from San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Monday. And Boudin suggests this might not be the only case of this happening.Read more...

Projectors were once the exclusive choice of home theater enthusiasts happy to plunk down tens of thousands of dollars for a 100-inch screen. But projectors have since dropped in price significantly, thanks in part to companies like Epson whose new 4K laser projector uses cheaper high-def components in a clever way to…Read more...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s wacky but chilling public persecution of a journalist he accused of “hacking” a state education website has thankfully been put to an end. Despite all the ruckus, apparently Parson still does not know what hacking actually means.Read more...

The awkward tech couple accused of trying to launder billions of dollars in stolen Bitcoin has been temporarily split up. Jailed since their early February arrest, the husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, remains behind bars, while his wife, 31-year-old Heather Morgan, has been granted bail by a Washington D.C. judge, the…Read more...

After years of waiting and wondering, this weekend Amazon finally gave us a look at what it’s been working on in Middle-earth. The first teaser for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is here, and it’s filled with familiar faces, dire portents, and a few hints at what we can expect from the show—here’s all the…Read more...

If you’re excited about Prime Video’s lavish Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series, chances are you’re also excited by Warner Bros.’ The War of the Rohirrim anime movie, announced last summer. Unfortunately, you’ll be waiting quite a while for the horse-lords of Middle-earth to come trotting onto movie…Read more...

When it’s looking like a Wonder Twins movie might actually become a reality, it’s OK to question reality. But yes, you are alive, you are reading this, and Warner Bros. has hired someone to write and direct a movie based on DC’s Wonder Twins.Read more...

The brutal American Southwest megadrought responsible for conjuring up these horrific images of dried-up lakes and reservoirs is officially one of the worst prolonged droughts in recorded human history, one built largely on the backs of human-induced climate change.Read more...

When he’s not been busy trying to wrangle a definitive new ending for Neon Genesis Evangelion this past decade, legendary director Hideaki Anno has been off living his nerd dreams, helping bring to life cinematic takes on Godzilla, Ultraman, and now even Kamen Rider next year. So he’s naturally taking the next step:…Read more...

If you were one of the many deep-bellied Americans gorging on chips and Guacamole while taking in strange Super Bowl crypto ads over the weekend, you may soon have to dish out some more cash before going in for seconds. On Saturday, just one day prior to the Super Bowl, the Mexican government confirmed the U.S. had…Read more...

Apple will likely release refreshed iPhone and iPad models at its rumored event next month, and now newly unearthed paperwork suggests they could be joined by Macs.

Ivan Reitman, director of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, and producer of the 2016 Ghostbusters and last year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife films, passed away this past Saturday. He was 75.

A fresh look at the available evidence suggests a Chinese booster will smash into the Moon in early March—and not a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage as was previously believed. Experts say it’s an “honest mistake” and a sign that better processes are needed to track our junk in space.

Ken Watanabe has joined Gareth Edward’s next sci-fi adventure. Walking Dead anthology series Tales of the Walking Dead adds a former Cowboy Bebop star. Plus, Rob Zombie just keeps on teasing The Munsters, and AMC gives us a tiny taste of its Interview with a Vampire. Spoilers, away!

If Sunday’s Super Bowl ads are any indication, crypto has truly arrived in mainstream culture. And if you didn’t catch the game, you can watch the ads here, featuring Larry David, LeBron James, and a QR code that crashed Coinbase’s website within minutes.Read more...

Are you ready to go there, and back again? Amazon certainly hopes so.

Last month we got our first true taste of Moon Knight, giving us a look at Oscar Isaac’s duelling personalities as he discovers his potential as the moonlit titular hero. Now, our latest look at the series gives us a taste of the bloody work Marc Spector will be doing as the will of Khonshu.

Now that Spider-Man: No Way Home has properly set up the dominoes, with some help from WandaVision and Loki, it’s time for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to knock them all down. As is the case with just about every year, Marvel released a new trailer during the Super Bowl, and it confirms what was teased…Read more...

Uncharted hits theaters this week, after many a delay and about a decade in development. Since it’s naturally a big blockbuster, and one based on a pretty popular franchise, that means it’s time for the requisite Fortnite crossover. Who’s ready for some character skins?Read more...

Earlier this week, everyone was surprised (to say the least) about the umpteenth revival of Futurama courtesy of Hulu, and even more so when the news broke that John DiMaggio may not come back as Bender. The reaction to this, and the possibility that he’d be replaced by another actor when the show returned in 2023,…Read more...

Like his father Stephen King before him, Joe Hill is slowly seeing his various works being adapted for TV and screen. After the success of Locke & Key for Netflix and the short-lived NOS4A2 at AMC, Hill’s fourth novel The Fireman is coming to television.

Though we still don’t know too much about Nope, the next horror film from writer-director Jordan Peele (writer-director of Get Out and Us; co-writer of Candyman) we do know that we’re dying to see it—and a new trailer makes us even more eager to experience its terrors.

Based on the incredible amount of South Korean romance dramas Netflix recommends to my poor soul, I can guarantee you that I’m a sucker for a good love story. However, I’m not a fan of getting scammed, and come as a messenger bearing a humble warning: Online love and money will almost certainly result in an unhappy…Read more...

In the era of the Great Resignation and a tighter labor market, it’s common sense to have companies review and increase the benefits they offer their workers, especially when that company is the most valuable one in the world.Read more...

As corners of the Marvel universe are often wont to do, a new team of superbeings is being announced for their own team book set to release in a couple of months. This time, it’s the fan-favorite Thunderbolts, though it’s not exactly the original setup of B and C-tier Marvel baddies and antiheroes trying to redeem…Read more...

If you’re a fan of shonen anime, chances are you’ve heard of Jujutsu Kaisen. Based on the manga of the same name by Gege Akutakmi, the series sees teenager Yuji Itadori learn to become a Jujutsu sorcerer to fight Curse spirits after swallowing the finger of a powerful Curse named Sukuna. It premiered in October 2020…Read more...

With Moon Knight getting ever closer to release, Marvel Studios is slowly beginning to peel back the cape on Oscar Isaac’s lunar superhero. While fans went absolutely giddy at seeing the updated version of Marc Spector’s comics costume, they were more curious about if the character would wind up donning his most…Read more...

The news of one of the biggest money laundering schemes in history captivated the world on Tuesday, not so much because of the crime—which involved $4.5 billion in bitcoin and is, yeah, a big deal—but rather because of the couple accused of carrying it out. They are the weirdo Bonnie and Clyde of the crypto world, and…Read more...

For at least a decade, a shadowy hacker group has been targeting people throughout India, sometimes using its digital powers to plant fabricated evidence of criminal activity on their devices. That phony evidence has, in turn, often provided a pretext for the victims’ arrest.Read more...

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In case attempting to buy a graphics card at or near retail prices hasn’t been demoralizing enough, Best Buy is here to kick us while we’re down. The retailer is exploiting the ongoing supply shortage and our resulting desperation to force customers into paying another $200 for a shot at buying a graphics card.

In late 19th century Spain, at the end of the Third Carlist War, a bomb levels an orphanage and everyone perishes—except one girl (Haizea Carneros), who’s pulled from the wreckage by a mysterious woman (Itziar Ituño). As vampire movie All the Moons explains, what happens next is a miracle wrapped in a nightmare.Read more...

The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will invest about $5 billion into a nationwide electric vehicle charging network, in hopes of making electric vehicle charging “accessible to all Americans” to encourage more people to trade gas-guzzling cars for electric.