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If your Instagram experience is anything like mine, you might’ve noticed that things are feeling rather stale lately; every day seems to bring a new deluge of aggregated makeup tutorials from YouTube, Reels of lifehacks ripped from TikTok, and vlogs from Instagram accounts that are wholly unrelated to the anonymous…Read more...

There’s certain rules about time travel that Star Trek’s heroes try to follow, either to avoid completely imploding the timeline or because, well, someone above them in the Federation will get very huffy about it. This week, Picard’s heroes realize that in order to save the day, they’re going to have to do what they…Read more...

A popular dieting trend, intermittent fasting, may not offer much over traditional dieting for losing weight, according to a new randomized trial published this week. The study found that people living in China who were told to fast while dieting did lose weight over a year’s time, but not significantly more than…Read more...

Apparently, actions have consequences.

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San Francisco-based Planet Labs has announced plans to deploy a global constellation consisting of 32 Earth-observing satellites. Called Pelican, the fleet will monitor such things as political conflicts, natural disasters, and the ongoing effects of climate change.

At the first D&D Direct livestream, Wizards of the Coast revealed what’s in store for Dungeons & Dragons with a series of new reveals—including major new additions to Fifth Edition in the form of the return of not one, but two classic campaign settings in all new releases: Starjammer and Dragonlance.Read more...

A rare piece of computing history is for sale on eBay, and it can be yours for the low, low price of $30,000. We’ve all heard of the Commodore 64—the best-selling computer model of all time—but had things gone differently, we’d also be looking back fondly on the Commodore 65.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has the backing of several big name banks in order to get enough scratch together to make a play for Twitter.Read more...

The idea behind Pixar’s Lightyear is simultaneously genius and confusing. For starters, we all know Buzz Lightyear as one of the main characters in the popular Toy Story franchise. Buzz is a space toy, voiced by Tim Allen, that a boy named Andy is gifted for his birthday. But why did Andy want a Buzz Lightyear toy?…Read more...

Sure, Star Wars brings a lot of people back these days, and sometimes, it can be a little much. But we’re going to make an exception for Mike Chen’s new novel Brotherhood, an Obi-Wan and Anakin team-up set in the early days of the Clone Wars, when it lets us revisit Dex’s Diner and its beloved four-armed proprietor.

Are you ready to rumble? The Florida government has challenged corporate heavyweight Disney. The state is attempting to strip away the company’s self-governing status, which was implemented in 1967, and allows Disney to operate Walt Disney World within the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The District basically…Read more...

May the 4th is just a few weeks away and just like the Death Star targeting a defenseless planet, there’s nothing you can do to protect your budget against the onslaught of Star Wars merchandise enroute, including a new addition to Lego’s pricey Ultimate Collector Series line.Read more...

The Steam Deck, Valve’s portable handheld console, is often compared to the Nintendo Switch due to its familiar form factor. However, another similarity we shouldn’t overlook is that both consoles can connect to a dock for charging and playing on a larger screen.

4/20 is generally a celebration of everybody’s favorite green. Unfortunately, It’s also Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

Amazon’s blue Prime logos could soon appear in stores all over the internet, even if you’re not on Amazon.com. In an effort to expand the reach of its prized Prime subscription service, Amazon will allow merchants to pay to add the Prime checkout experience to their own online stores, enabling them to offer the…Read more...

Robert Eggers is losing hope for his Nosferatu movie to ever get made. Anson Mount talks Pike’s future on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Plus, get a look at today’s episode of Picard, and Chucky’s ready for round two on Syfy. To me, my spoilers!

The bottom of the sea can be a lonely place, and not just for the weird and creepy creatures that call it home. So if you’re already wealthy enough to afford a personal submarine, why descend to the murky depths alone when U-Boat Worx will build you an even more elaborate private sub with enough seating for nine…Read more...

One might not associate “public media” with “carrying water for the oil and gas industry,” but it’s 2022, and anything can happen. On Wednesday, Houston Public Radio, which encompasses the city’s NPR affiliate as well as its public broadcasting network, unveiled a series it produced with oil giant Chevron on the…Read more...

Amazon failed to stop a historic first of its kind unionization effort at a Staten Island fulfillment center despite documents showing it was considering spending up to $100,000 per month on anti-union consultants to kill it.Read more...

Are you ready to ditch Earth for the cold blackness of space? Look no further, because there’s a space vacation on tap for you. We’ve considered all possible factors—price, safety, photo opportunities, prestige, and thrill level—to help you determine which of the many space tourist offerings are appropriate for your…Read more...

The day is here. Beginning today, April 21, 2022, adults 21 years old and over are able to legally purchase recreational marijuana in New Jersey. The state’s weed enthusiasts have been anticipating this date for years, and their joy is likely to be only slightly tempered by the fact that the launch date inexplicably …Read more...

Mid-range smartphones are having a moment. Every major brand that considers itself a worthy player in today’s smartphone wars has to have an affordable equivalent to its flashy flagship. For Google, it’s the Pixel 5a—soon to be Pixel 6a, if rumors are true. For Apple, the iPhone SE nets you the same silicon as the…Read more...

Alienware tapped AMD for the first time in more than a decade when it launched the m15 Ryzen Edition R5 last year, and now the company is doubling down on Team Red by releasing a new fleet of PCs powered by Ryzen chips.

Elon Musk’s “mass” transportation venture, known as The Boring Company, has been valued at $5.675 billion, according to a press release from the company. Yes, that’s billion with a “B.” And who says the Silicon Valley hype machine is dead?

The return of Miles Morales is going to be just a little bit longer. Sony just announced that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will now be released June 2, 2023, moved back eight months from its most recent October 7 release date. Which sucks. But, we now know when the second part is coming too. Spider-Man: Across…Read more...

When Google first rolled out its Accelerated Mobile Page (or AMP) protocol back in 2015, the search company promised that the tech would bring faster surfing to handheld gadgets everywhere. That may be the case, but what has also become clear in the years since is that AMP has become less about speed and more about …Read more...

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Asus announced a pair of Zenbook laptops today, and one, in particular, has my attention. Revealed alongside the Zenbook Pro 15 Flip OLED, the Zenbook S 13 OLED (UM5302) is an ultra-sleek clamshell laptop with AMD CPUs and an OLED display. That’s all well and good, but what really holds my gaze is the Zenbook S 13's…Read more...

The few psychos eagerly awaiting Meta’s grand metaverse vision may have to wait up to a decade longer, the company said during an event Wednesday. In the meantime, Meta’s hoping a fresh catalog of improved VR games can function as a type of gateway drug to get users accustomed to their days jacked into a VR headset.

One of the draws of playing a franchise’s licensed tabletop role-playing game is the ability to role play as your favorite character. This is, unfortunately, also one of the big pressure points I commonly see in adapted games. The game becomes dedicated to the ability to play these characters, built up to serve the…Read more...

There’s no better way to celebrate 4/20, the stoner’s holiday, than by going down the vast rabbit hole that is the internet to find nerdy bongs, pipes, and vape pens.

Here’s a Moon Knight theory about Harrow’s Ammit-headed cane and how it could tie into other parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As the slow burn of the Disney+ show kicks into gear and for the most part stands on its own in terms of world-building, we couldn’t help but notice this small detail.Read more...

New York City may be the Big Apple, but the Peach State may soon become home to the first Apple union. Workers at an Atlanta Apple Store filed for a union election Wednesday, the first in the country to do so.Read more...

Traveling through space can get lonely. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is currently on a six-year journey to Jupiter, traveling through the sparse interplanetary medium since launching in October 2021. Luckily for Lucy, the views have been spectacular.Read more...

Russian Doll is back, baby! After nearly a three-year wait, the elegantly realized time-loop series drops its second season today on Netflix. This season takes a slightly different spin: instead of our main characters being stuck in their own time loop, they find a portal to other times, and spend the whole season in…Read more...

Google’s security-focused Project Zero first started keeping records of exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in popular software in 2014. Since then, no other year has seen as many open exploits as 2021, the tech company announced this week.Read more...

You’ve probably gotten one already: a text from a strange number (maybe even your own) advertising CBD gummies, confirming a package delivery, or letting you know a bill has been paid, complete with a seemingly unsuspecting link. These texts are scams called “smishing,” and apparently they are on the rise.

New research explores how radical “fixes” to our planet’s climate could have serious side effects—including exposing a billion more people to infectious diseases. This study looks at the possibility of what’s known as solar radiation management, the idea that we could use aerosols in the atmosphere to block sunlight…Read more...

Yes, Moon Knight fans. That happened. You didn’t dream the last 10 minutes of the latest episode, “The Tomb.” They were real and you’ll be happy to know it wasn’t just some random creation. The twist is strongly rooted in one of Moon Knight’s most surprising and fascinating comic book stories ever, a run by Jeff…Read more...

Some filmmakers are saying they would be using Final Cut Pro rather than most any other editing software, if only Apple would make it worth the trouble.

This week kicked off with our long-awaited first look at Thor: Love and Thunder, and even more specifically that that, our long-awaited first look at Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster taking up Mjolnir to become the Mighty Thor. Now, as befitting a Goddess of Thunder, she has her very own version of the movie’s teaser…Read more...

April 20th is one of the chillest days of the year, but maybe not so much for our pets. A new survey of veterinarians in the U.S. and Canada suggests they are seeing more pets poisoned by cannabis products lately, following its legalization in many places. Dogs were the pets most commonly sickened by cannabis, but…Read more...

Hideaki Anno, creator of the seminal Neon Genesis Evangelion series, made his first real claim to fame in the animation world when beloved director Hayao Miyazaki hired him to help make Nausicaä and the Valley of Wind back in the early ‘80s. The two anime legends would collaborate together again, less directly, with …Read more...

Researchers in Spain’s arid Southeast are working to restore Islamic-era acequias, canals that form an irrigation system in Andalucia’s Sierra Nevada mountains.

The same qualities that make drones fantastic tools for capturing amazing aerial footage can also make them a genuine threat that’s difficult to intercept when misused. But a clever new design for an anti-drone countermeasure uses a second drone that sacrifices itself mid-flight to disable its target.Read more...

In the umpteen years leading up to the premiere of The Batman, the film’s trailers all wanted to make one thing abundantly unclear: what the Riddler, played by Paul Dano, looked like under his mask. Although I stayed away from spending three hours in a theater to watch the newest cinematic outing of the Dark Knight,…Read more...

Nothing quite screams 4/20 like aimlessly flailing around your room, possibly to the point of self induced nausea, immersed in happy visions of another world. You might be using recreational substances, or perhaps you’ve got a VR brain bucket strapped around your head. If that’s your idea of a good time, you might…Read more...

Today, YouTube pulled the channel of John Lee, the sole candidate for the 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election, the Associated Press reports. Despite running unopposed, Lee began promoting his campaign on both Facebook and YouTube.

If you’ve been tuning into Amazon’s Josh Brolin Western Outer Range, you know about the plot hole: the literal giant hole at the center of the series’ supernatural mystery. The sci-fi and horror genre has great love for giant holes and bottomless pits as plot devices, and we have some favorites. Read on, but don’t…Read more...