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If you happen to live on the northern end of the U.S., and you’re not completely engulfed by ambient light pollution, you might be in for a once-in-a-lifetime celestial light show, though a lot of things have to happen to make the aurora borealis, often called the Northern Lights, appear overhead.Read more...

There will be more fire (yay, dragons!) and blood (those family feuds) when Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon arrives to dig into the history of House Targaryen. Based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire and Blood, the HBO Original drama will expand on Westeros’ past and the battle for the Iron Throne 200 years…Read more...

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It’s been over a decade since the last book in the A Song of Ice and Fire saga, Dance of Dragons, hit shelves. Game of Thrones has started and ended. House of the Dragon, the first of multiple planned spinoffs, is about to air. And in all that time, we’ve been waiting for The Winds of Winter to howl. And yet, here we…Read more...

The U.S. healthcare system is, to put it lightly, a complete trash fire. Compared to people living in other well-off countries, Americans are overall sicker and die at a younger age. Adding insult to injury, Americans also have to pay more for their health care, and a large part of that added cost comes from…Read more...

Whether your campus stay involves a college’s dormitory, trying your luck at a nearby frat house or sorority, or venturing out on your own in your first apartment, odds are you’re not going to have a lot of living space if your pursuit of higher learning takes you out of town.Read more...

In more vintage music news, Janet Jackson’s 1989 dance-pop song “Rhythm Nation” is making headlines today, but not because it’s an amazing song, but because the tune could apparently crash people’s hard drives with a weird frequency.

Yes, what you heard in the credits scene of She-Hulk is true. And it came from the mind of Kevin Feige.

They’re everywhere. In the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the soil we grow our food in—decades of industrial and commercial production and use have left basically no corner of our lives untouched by PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances), commonly called ‘forever chemicals.’ The two most important things to know…Read more...

Four months ago, Snap revealed Pixy, a personal drone that was supposed to join Spectacles as a pillar in capturing candid moments less invasively than a smartphone. It’s barely had time to get off the ground, but according to The Wall Street Journal, Snap has already halted development on future versions of the drone.Read more...

Rick and Morty season six is nearly here—so now feels like the perfect time to look back on season five and recall the most important life lessons conveyed by the Adult Swim hit’s previous installment, be they raunchy, sly, clever, thoughtful, or plainly obvious... sometimes all at the same time.

More than 650 members of the Alphabet Workers Union, the recently-established minority union made up mostly of Google engineering folks, demanded in a letter to company execs that their company change its broad policies in the wake of the end of Roe v. Wade.Read more...

The last known thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus, or Tasmanian tiger) died in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. Now, a genetic engineering company that last year announced plans to put thousands of woolly mammoths back on the Siberian steppe has added the lost marsupial wolf to its de-extinction docket.Read more...

Three years ago this week, Marvel announced that it was making a series based on the popular character She-Hulk. The wait has been long, but now that show is finally here. Episode one of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is finally on Disney+; it introduces Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), a Los Angeles lawyer on the rise…Read more...

Are you still watching? Well, obviously you are. Viewership on streaming platforms has surpassed cable last month, marking a significant shift in how people consume television content across the U.S.Read more...

The world of Middle-earth and its adaptive iterations has had a long history of strange and peculiar owners, even before Peter Jackson’s iconic movie trilogies came along and made that even more complicated. Now, a huge sea-change in the rights to Tolkien’s work has made things even more complex... thanks to a video…Read more...

At first glance, the story looks like something your aunt might post on her Facebook from her local newspaper. “Midland County judge ‘pardons’ jaywalking puppy,” the headline reads, with a photo of a startled-looking Pomeranian behind a microphone, seemingly on a witness stand. The post details how a Texas judge found…Read more...

The world is currently mourning the unclear future of one of the great streaming services—HBO Max—amidst its ongoing merger with Discovery+. This week, HBO Max is reportedly removing 36 titles from the streaming service, including 20 of its own productions, which is the largest dump in recent history.

Another day, another round of the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery boss finding some way to make HBO Max subscribers unhappy. This time, beloved animated series Infinity Train, OK K.O.!—Let’s Be Heroes, Summer Camp Island, and much more.

“Would that it were so simple,” the young, aspiring western actor Hobie Doyle mouths in the Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar! He struggles endlessly to portray a style of high-society speech far away from his roots as a simple good ol’ boy. Hail, Caesar! is currently watchable on Netflix, though recent reports show…Read more...

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Looking for a satisfying building toy that’s not about stacking colored bricks? GraviTrax instead lets users create sprawling marble runs that send metal balls racing across elevated tracks and through obstacles like inverted loops. This fall, GraviTrax is finally getting electronic elements, allowing for more…Read more...

Madame Web pictures throw in a mandatory Spider-Man reference. Rick & Morty teases “Wormageddon.” The Hellraiser reboot gets an obvious rating. Plus, new footage from Vampire Academy and Peacock’s climate disaster Last Light. Spoilers, away!

We all have those celebrities or notable figures we’d like to sit down with for a conversation. It would be nice, for instance, to be able to ask a talented musician about their creative process. Or, to find out directly from the source what actually happened in a defining cultural moment. (Petition to Let This…Read more...

On Thursday Motorola announced the Edge, its latest affordable Android phone. Not to be outdone by Google and Samsung’s mid-range devices, the phone boasts flagship-like features at a retail price of $500. But it still may be too much for too little.Read more...

Not a month ago, 53 House lawmakers voted, for the first time this century, to send a comprehensive federal privacy bill to the floor. It was a laudable achievement, but it’s been frozen in place ever since. Now, with fewer than 100 days until the midterm elections, any hope of getting national privacy reform done…Read more...

There’s more disheartening news out of the Discovery and Warner Bros. merger as the latest casualty of cuts have fallen on DC’s animated series Young Justice. According to TV Line, season five will not be moving forward.Read more...

Tech accessory company Drop has released its newest collaboration, this time creating keyboards featuring two famed Lord of the Rings languages, Dwarvish and Elvish. If you’re looking to type in Quenya or in Khuzdul you’ll still have to download a font or two, but if you’re interested in the aesthetics, Drop has you…Read more...

It appears Dave Franco really wants us to know he loves playing characters with musical aspirations (see: The Afterparty). This time around he’s gotten himself on a Jamie Foxx track released for their Netflix vampire film Day Shift, with a new music video arriving today.Read more...

When a wildfire, flood, or storm strikes a community, the damage is far-reaching: Homes and infrastructure may be destroyed, people are forced to evacuate, and pets are sometimes lost or left behind.Read more...

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Reddit, the centralized online forum, has been coasting along well-traveled roads for a long time. The jalopy’s been maintained well, but it’s never been given a true fresh coat of paint. Now, the company behind the social ranking site has plans to let certain users open up the old girl’s hood to add some aftermarket…Read more...

Anime has been influencing Western art since its inception—and although anime music videos are swiftly disappearing, music videos inspired by anime are not. In between nostalgia, streaming, and accessibility, anime is making moves into music videos in a big way, especially as more and more people are reveling in their…Read more...

I’ve always gravitated to genre stories about heroes that are defined by their power to persist. Peter Parker, famously raising himself out from under a pile of rubble in Amazing Spider-Man #33, was burned into my mind as a kid, and Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Clayton Cowles’ Mister Miracle is one of my all time favoritesRead more...

In case you didn’t know, the U.S. Navy has militarized sea mammals that help identify undersea mines, defend against enemy swimmers, and protect about a quarter of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. Recently, a team of researchers equipped some of the Navy’s dolphins with cameras and captured some remarkable footage of the…Read more...

Wednesday’s Russian spacewalk didn’t exactly go as planned, as one cosmonaut’s spacesuit malfunctioned, forcing him to head back inside the International Space Station (ISS) due to an unexpected drop in voltage.Read more...

A brand new superhero potentially coming to the big screen has been revealed in the way most of them are: a toy. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won’t be in theaters until June 2, 2023, but since it was originally supposed to be out in October, merchandise is finding its way on shelves. One such piece of merch,…Read more...

The deep sea is filled with creatures adapted to intense environments, and new research describes how biofluorescent snailfish near Greenland use antifreeze proteins to keep themselves alive in frigid waters.Read more...

If you love ultra-low-budget, dare we say schlocky (but in-on-the-joke schlocky, not “we think we’re making a masterpiece” schlocky) horror movies—well, you are well familiar with animal-attack saga Birdemic. The original (2010's Birdemic: Shock and Terror) caused a sensation... and kick-started a cult franchise…Read more...

Do you think of Google as a “Web3” company? No? Well at least as far as their investing portfolio is concerned, they’re pretty deep into blockchain and crypto technology, just based on the investment rounds they were party in.Read more...

The robots are coming...to relieve you of doing the dishes. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently revealed new details about Optimus, an artificial intelligence humanoid robot which he envisions will take over so-called “boring” tasks at your average household.Read more...

A Spanish YouTuber who fell from grace—although it’s doubtful that a man who hospitalized a stranger with an electric shaver ever had grace—wants you to know that his 8-minute apology video was fake. Borja Escalona had enraged much of Spain after threatening a server for declining to give him a $2 empanada for free…Read more...

We spent pretty much the entire arc of Game of Thrones’ TV existence, and then some, wondering about one of the biggest questions in Westeros: just when the hell was The Winds of Winter going to come out? Well, we kind of have an answer now; you’ll know when George R.R. Martin is damn well sure of it.

Fresh off the heels of “Hot in Herre,” Nelly blessed the public with yet another hit: “Dilemma.” The R&B song was released in June 2002 and features Kelly Rowland as a woman smitten with Nelly despite being in a relationship with someone else. The song is a staple in Y2K music culture, and today is actually a special…Read more...

The West Nile virus is having a great summer in New York City. Health officials this week reported that at least two people have recently contracted the viral illness, while a record number of mosquitoes are estimated to be carrying it currently. Officials are warning people to use repellant and wear protective…Read more...

Netflix has released the first full-length trailer for Wednesday, the new series directed by Tim Burton that follows the eldest Addams Family child as she attempts to find her way in her new school. Jenna Ortega takes on the lead role, alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones (Morticia), Luis Guzmán (Gomez), and Isaac Ordonez…Read more...

TikTok is rolling out new features and doubling down on lessons learned from the 2020 Elections as we head into the midterms this November. The social media giant wants influencers to know that paid political content and ads are not allowed. The app is also launching an Elections Center to connect its young and…Read more...

In an unusual production decision, Superman & Lois will recast the role of Jonathan Kent following Jordan Elsass’s immediate exit. Elsass did not arrive in Vancouver by the deadline given to the cast, according to Deadline, and the recasting announcement came shortly after.

Last December, we got a sneak peek at a radical new way to interact with the myriad of smart devices in our homes. It was a point and click iPhone app that eliminated the need for voice commands or jumping between device specific apps. But it turns out developer Bastian Andelefski’s neat iOS demo wasn’t just a concept;…Read more...

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