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Got a DIY project in mind that requires a bit more horsepower than an Arduino offers? The creators of the Framework laptop, which is designed to be very easily upgradable and modifiable, are finally selling the laptop’s mainboard as a standalone single board computer that simply needs memory and a power source.

Happy Earth Day, Tesla owners! A new project out of Australia may be the beginning of an alternative way to charge your electric car with solar energy.

A star-studded cast—including Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons—leads Amazon’s new series Night Sky (originally called Lightyears, which was destined to be changed, all things considered). A new trailer for the series, created by Holden Miller and showrun by Daniel C. Connolly, gives us a good look…Read more...

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has a stellar track record of believing space lasers cause wildfires and having completely level-headed vaccine discussions on Twitter, but today she is taking the stand to testify against her involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Apple’s vying to rejoin its seat alongside Meta and Amazon as a member of the four dollar sign club of corporate political influence.Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope is in its final (seventh) stage of alignment, bringing the superlative spacecraft tantalizingly close to commencing its scientific operations.

When it comes to chip-making, smaller is better. Intel, Samsung, and TSMC fight an endless race to reduce the size of their chip nodes, increasing transistor density, which results in faster and more efficient processors. Right now, TSMC’s customers are lining up to be the first to get a taste of its latest…Read more...

Superheroes in every medium are bigger than ever these days—and while they’ve been around for generations, as the heroes of Marvel, DC, and other publishers are ascendant on TV and on film, there’s a wealth of characters from comics’ classical eras left languishing in obscurity. So what happens when one of America’s…Read more...

Senator Bernie Sanders is taking shots at ongoing efforts to privatize space exploration, accusing NASA of fueling competition between the billionaires behind private space ventures: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Sanders referred to NASA as an ATM and warned of a “bad science fiction…Read more...

How food looks can have just as much impact on its taste as the ingredients that went into it, but all five human senses actually play a part in how we perceive and enjoy what we eat. Chocolate is a great example of this, as its snap and crackle is hard to perfect when baking but is a big part of its appeal. This has…Read more...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning doctors to keep an eye out for mysterious cases of hepatitis that are affecting young kids in the U.S. and elsewhere. Two children in the U.S. have become so sick that they’ve required a liver transplant. Officials in Europe and Israel have reported similar…Read more...

Earlier this week, private space technology company Astrobotic unveiled its new robotic lunar lander. Called Peregrine, the 6-foot-tall probe is scheduled to land on the Moon later this year.Read more...

If you’re not living inside a heavily populated zone, it’s likely much, much harder to gauge the air quality outside. Despite a rather quiet rollout, a new feature on Google’s search engine isn’t likely to make it easier for people to know whether they should go outside or else crack open a can of Spaceballs’ …Read more...

As the release date for Obi-Wan Kenobi–the stand-alone Disney+ show starring Ewan McGregor—gets closer and closer, more details about the production are being revealed. One of those is the identity of the composer for the series, Natalie Holt.

Nearly two months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia’s online creators are finding themselves increasingly limited in the platforms they can use to make content and make money. Thursday brought more bad news: Creators were cut off from OnlyFans after the company said it could “no longer properly serve our Russian…Read more...

Sweet birthday baby! Russian Doll is back, and Nadia Vulvokov (Natasha Lyonne, who also wrote, co-wrote, and/or co-directed several episodes this season) is once again on a time-warped journey that pinballs between being surreal, existentially alarming, funny, frustrating, and deeply moving.Read more...

Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are perhaps the most anticipated noise-canceling headphones of 2022, and a new leak claims to have revealed their new design and key specs.

If dashing up a couple flights of stairs leaves you gasping for air and your heart pounding in your ears, Sennheiser’s new Sport True Wireless earbuds might be just the headphones you’ve been looking for. They can be customized to focus on your music or your surroundings, but uniquely also have the ability to tune out…Read more...

Ever since comics legend George Pérez announced his retirement from comics—and eventually, a stage 3 cancer diagnosis—creatives across the industry have rallied to show support in ways big and small for one of the greatest comics artists in living history. After an unprecedented push from DC and Marvel alike to bring…Read more...

It’s been over 50 years since the first Earth Day, and boy, we really solved all those problems, huh?

If someone randomly told you the premise of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, you’d think it was a joke. Imagine a movie about the actor Nicolas Cage being paid to attend the birthday party of a rich man only to find out the man is an international criminal. The authorities then recruit Cage to work for them to…Read more...

The Dungeons & Dragons movie has its official title. Original Michael Myers actor Nick Castle teases a surprising end to, uh, Halloween Ends. Could Britain’s finest monster-slayer be joining Marvel’s Werewolf by Night special? Plus, it’s Jurati vs. Borg Queen in a new clip from Star Trek: Picard. Spoilers, away!

The last few years haven’t been kind to the PC builder community. As we all know, the chip shortage caused by the coronavirus pandemic has raised the price of key components, putting many projects on hold.

The bigwigs at movie/TV studios and those pulling the strings at major streaming services are betting big that we’re all remaining enthralled by the stories of failed tech startups and scams. This past year, we’ve seen a slew of docudramas centered around people making money off other people by skirting laws and…Read more...

If this were only a few years ago, I’d have trouble recommending a decent budget or mid-range Android phone. Recently, phone makers have paid particular attention to this segment of the market, launching sub-premium models that offer most of the benefits you get from their flagship counterparts.

Plex is the latest platform with ambitions to become a central hub for all your video streaming needs: A new feature called Discovery brings services including Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and Disney Plus together in a single interface. It might be enough for you to spend more time in Plex, or perhaps to give it a go…Read more...

Two hackers just pwned the software that runs a majority of the world’s electrical grids. And they did it without breaking a sweat.Read more...

Fossil fuel companies have known about climate change since 1966, and for almost as long, they’ve been buying TV, radio and newspaper ads trying to make sure you don’t. Decades later, lies about climate change haven’t disappeared; they’ve just gone digital.

The White House is sending the government of Ukraine a new type of drone developed by the U.S. Air Force that’s never been used in the battlefield before, according to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby in a press conference Thursday.

Stranger Things is a certified phenomenon—the nostalgic, coming-of-age sci-fi show show is a huge hit for Netflix and has made stars of its leads like Millie Bobby Brown. Before the first half of Stranger Things season four arrives next month, series co-creators the Duffer Brothers confirmed to SFX Magazine (as…Read more...

Google’s been cleaning house in the Play Store to weed out bad apps, but it’s breaking some features in the process. If you relied on a particular third-party app to do call recording, you might not have access to it soon.

Doctor Who has a long fabled history of actors—from Julian Glover to Carey Mulligan—showing up in the series before they went on to explode into international stardom, and Doctor Who as a veritable who’s who (sorry) of famous stars before they really started shining is a concept as old as the show itself. But now, 15…Read more...

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If you’re in the market to buy a soundbar, you might want to save your cash for what Sonos has coming up.

At least three major U.S. airlines are preparing to welcome back unruly customers who were placed on no-fly lists for refusing to wear masks. The rapid reversal comes just days after a district judge struck down a federal mask mandate.Read more...

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a lucky cosmic event on April 2: Mars’ distinctly potato-shaped moon Phobos eclipsing the Sun. This new video comes fresh off the heels of NASA’s InSight lander capturing a wistful Martian sunrise.

With each season, Young Justice has incorporated more and more of the DC Comics universe into its broader story to help give the idea of a living, breathing world. Through its arc-based storytelling, the current season of Phantoms has widened the scope of the comics history it’s pulling in, such as the Legion of Super…Read more...

SpaceX is preparing to launch NASA’s Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station, where the astronauts will spend the next six months running a diverse selection of scientific experiments in the microgravity environment.Read more...

Since the moment Natalie Portman first held Mjolnir on stage at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, audiences everywhere have anxiously awaited the moment we’d finally see her as the Mighty Thor. The moment happened earlier this week with the release of Thor: Love and Thunder’s first trailer and it was everything we wanted and…Read more...

Notorious big tech executives Sheryl Sandberg and Bobby Kotick once had a big tech power couple relationship in the late 2010s. A new report shows that, like the wonder twins, with their powers combined, the Meta COO and Activision Blizzard CEO would let no British tabloid leave either of them with a black eye, as…Read more...

Features like being able to check its charge level right in iOS and charging that automatically starts when the battery’s attached to an iPhone made the Apple MagSafe Battery Pack our top choice last year, but we did lament its slower charging speeds when unplugged: a limitation that Apple has improved with a recent…Read more...

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has taken quite the stand trying to get back at Disney for speaking out against the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill—something that only happened after members of the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies put pressure on the company through protests which received an outpouring of support…Read more...

Reality TV star and now eco-conscious troll Heidi Montag had her followers furious after she promoted “single-use jeans.” As in denim that you only wear once and then throw out instead of washing.

Are you watching anything on Netflix these days? The streaming giant’s numbers haven’t been looking so good in recent weeks, and they’re bad enough that Netflix has sent out a letter to shareholders with a warning to expect the worse.

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than one month after its launch, CNN+ has died in what may turn out to be one of the biggest digital media bungles in recent years.Read more...

A team of researchers studying 22.5-million-year-old spider fossils from Aix-en-Provence were taken aback when the petrified pests glowed under a fluorescent microscope. The fluorescence was likely due to the circumstances of the fossilization, the group said.

Russian diplomats on social media, Twitter in particular, are routinely spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine, opening up another can of worms for social media companies that already struggle to curb the politically disingenuous and outright harmful activities of government officials.Read more...

After five films, Jurassic World: Dominion is finally making good on the potential terror of the first Jurassic Park film. In the first film, and all the others frankly, the ultimate danger was that, after killing the people on the island, the dinosaurs would then escape the island and run havoc through all of…Read more...

Ah, another day, another overly optimistic tech deadline. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a certified veteran in this arena, has promised the public fully-autonomous Teslas are just around the corner dating back to 2014 but has so far had to eat his lunch. Rather than ease up on those lofty expectations, the troll king of TwitterRead more...

Teenage Engineering has once again demonstrated why companies like Panic, creators of the Playdate handheld, regularly enlist the company’s help to design products for them. The TX-6 is TE’s new handheld, battery-powered mixer, and it is a thing of beauty. It’s so pretty, in fact, that it’s a shame how only a very…Read more...