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A landslide in Alaska’s iconic Denali National Park has closed the only road through the park and shut down activity weeks ahead of the normal end of tourist season. The cause: Rapidly thawing permafrost triggered a landslide that made the road too unstable to use.Read more...

After all, the original anime did have its own manga, Shooting Star, so why not?Read more...

In a proposed settlement for a class-action lawsuit with developers, Apple’s agreed to make some key changes after a year of particularly intense scrutiny over its App Store policies. There are a number of changes and they’re pending court approval, but the big one would let developers directly inform customers…Read more...

Peloton has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, the fitness equipment maker confirmed on Friday, reportedly over its apparent failure to make information related to injuries customers had sustained on the company’s treadmills readily available. The Securities and…Read more...

Almost a decade before the world finally realized how tedious April Fool’s Day pranks are, Google revealed a farcical 8-bit port of Google Maps for the iconic Nintendo Entertainment System. The prank was quickly forgotten, but not by one maker, who, nine years later, has made the NES version of Google Maps a reality.Read more...

When a fourth Matrix movie was finally announced, the obvious conclusion is that sisters and co-directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski would both be returning to the franchise. So it was quite a surprise to learn that Lana would occupy the sole director’s chair for The Matrix: Resurrections. Now Lilly Wachowski explained…Read more...

As if you don’t already have enough to worry about, murder hornets are now an annual problem in the U.S.

You have no idea how much went into that surprise you saw on December 18, 2020. That was the day the eighth and final episode of The Mandalorian season 2 was released and, with it, a reveal of epic proportions. None other than Jedi Master Luke Skywalker himself arrived to take Grogu from Din Djarin to train with the…Read more...

Paleolithic hunters built mammoth traps in what is now Mexico some 14,700 years ago. An unknown sea creature left footprints in sand some 550 million years ago, making them the oldest known footprints on Earth. The mysterious Denisovan humans reached southeast Asia 160,000 years ago, as evidenced by a jawbone found on…Read more...

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.Read more...

David F. Sandberg offers a Shazam: Fury of the Gods update. David Cronenberg chills in new footage from Shudder’s Slasher: Flesh & Blood. Get a look at Disney’s Up spinoff, Dug Days. Plus, what’s to come in Walking Dead: World Beyond’s final season. Spoilers now!

Spending $329 on a pair of wireless earbuds is no small investment, and as easily pocketable as Apple’s AirPods Pro are, they’re also very easy to lose. Instead of immediately dumping out bags and tearing apart your home in search of them, Spigen now offers a less panicked solution: a protective case for the AirPods…Read more...

I admit I’ve begun to give up hope that Android smartwatches would ever improve. Until recently, the market was messy and fragmented with so many issues that it seemed certain no one company could solve them. Over the years, Samsung’s smartwatches tended to be the best of the lot, but its watches, which ran on…Read more...

Windows 11 is on the way, and if you’re curious, you can actually try it out right now. If you’d rather wait for polished public version of Microsoft’s next operating system to be released, there are some things you need to check on your PC ahead of time to make sure there’s a smooth and stress-free transition.Read more...

The Cuban government announced it will legalize and regulate cryptocurrencies for payments, according to a resolution published Thursday in Cuba’s Official Gazette and a new report from the Associated Press. But the details are incredibly scarce at this point.Read more...

Every year, the Library of Congress chooses 25 movies to single out for preservation as part of the National Film Registry. Last year the Library chose to recognize and preserve everything from classics like The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) and A Clockwork Orange (1971) to more recent films of the 21st century like …Read more...

Patty Jenkins has joined the growing crowd of directors who immensely dislike your ability to watch their films on TV screens instead of movie screens during a global pandemic. She’ll be in good Hollywood company, as Tenet’s Christopher Nolan and Dune’s Denis Villeneuve have also gone out of their way to decry their…Read more...

The fourth build of the Android 12 Beta is out, and it gives us an even closer look at what’s coming in the next update. We can see the new Material You theming engine in this latest release, and some new icons. The Privacy Dashboard is also available to try, plus a few new gestures. The updated Power Menu is starting…Read more...

Star Trek itself turns 55 in just a couple of weeks, but as of today’s episode of Lower Decks, “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris,” the franchise hit another major milestone: 800 episodes of boldly going have now been released for our joy, horror, and occasional mockery. But it also means picking your all time favorite gets…Read more...

It’s a tale as old as time: Humans goading themselves into serious, preventable injury and then getting banned. This time, it’s something called the “Milk Crate Challenge,” which involves building a tall pyramid out of milk crates and filming oneself walking over before inevitably careening off of it, and hashtags…Read more...

Fridays For Future—the global climate strike organization that was founded three years ago by Greta Thunberg—is in trouble. On Thursday, the Twitter account repping the group’s activists working in the “Most Affected Peoples and Areas” (MAPA) put out a desperate plea begging for anyone with resources to help evacuate…Read more...

Denmark and Costa Rica want to make extra sure the world quits fossil fuels as soon as possible. The two countries are reportedly launching an alliance of nations that are committed to setting a date to phase out both fossil fuel production and use.Read more...

Sheriff’s deputies in Colorado tracked down and arrested a man using Apple’s Find My iOS app, claiming that an officer had “lost” his work phone in the bed of the man’s truck after the suspect fled the scene. The unique case could serve as a constitutional test of warrantless location tracking.Read more...

We’re heading into the peak of Atlantic hurricane season with a storm on the horizon. And unfortunately, it could be a very serious one.Read more...

As we enter the last (hopefully) stretch of iPhone 13 rumors before Apple’s September event, it appears that upgrading might cost more than usual.

At the center of Spider-Man: No Way Home’s explosive trailer is a simple request from Peter Parker that seemingly turns the Marvel universe upside down: can magic make the world forget he’s Spider-Man? It’s a desperate act—and a road that Peter has gone down before in his comic book journey, as part of one of the …Read more...

If you’re still on the fence about buying a Peloton Bike, the company is doing everything in its power to talk you into it. After dropping the price of the original Bike last year, Peloton is permanently knocking off another $400, from $1,895 to $1,495, for customers in the U.S., UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia.Read more...

New research from Israel offers some unsurprising but reassuring news on the safety of covid-19 vaccines. The study found that the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine was not associated with a higher risk of most potential adverse events. And for rare suspected complications such as myocarditis, the risk was still…Read more...

U.S. citizens can be kicked out of the country based on the findings of a secret algorithm. The Department of Homeland Security is using an Amazon-hosted system called ATLAS that analyzes millions of records and can be used to automatically flag naturalized Americans for the revocation of their citizenship, the …Read more...

Star Trek’s big new break into kid-focused animation with Prodigy has already given us a motley crew of alien teens, a Starfleet legend to guide them, and even a glimpse of their slick new ship. But now we know what they’re going to be up against, and it’s already sounding very good.

When you think of the online video game Fortnite, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? If you answered “the late Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.,” then there’s good news for you: a new virtual in-game exhibit will pay tribute to the slain leader by exposing players to his speeches and crusade…Read more...

Much like the Fast and Furious movies, the Mission: Impossible movies are always raising the bar. First Tom Cruise climbs up the Burj Khalifa, then hangs off the side of an airplane, then dives out of an airplane higher than should be humanly possible. And that trend will continue with Mission: Impossible 7, currently…Read more...

Twenty years since it was found in Argentina, a fossil of a 231.4-million-year-old lepidosaur has been described in detail by paleontologists. This animal has features place it before the split between lizards, snakes, and sphenodonts (a branch of reptiles that today only includes the strange tuatara). The fossilized…Read more...

Google seems to have no problem doling out cash to ensure it remains the search engine of choice. Documents have shown the company offers financial incentives to smartphone manufacturers to keep its app store front and center, and it pays developers to offer their games in Google Play. The company also pays Apple a…Read more...

Back in 2018, a Colorado man had roughly $1 million worth of bitcoin plundered from his digital wallet. After three years of working with investigators, he says he’s traced the crime back to two Brits named Benedict and Oliver (really)—and now, their parents are being taken to court right alongside the accused chaps.Read more...

A few weeks ago, Amazon gave us a beautiful first look at its new Lord of the Rings TV series, a prequel set thousands of years before the seminal fantasy saga. But in doing so, it gave us a glimpse of a time even further before that—teasing a depiction of some of J.R.R. Tolkien’s earliest Middle-Earth theology in the…Read more...

On Wednesday, a group of citizens claiming they’re worried about the safety of an endangered whale filed a lawsuit against the Vineyard Wind project, an offshore wind farm that’s slated to become the first large-scale offshore project in the U.S. The suit highlights some of the challenges that could continue to face…Read more...

Most nerds know Russell T. Davies as the architect of modern Doctor Who, the man who resurrected the beloved but very much abandoned sci-fi franchise for the 21st century, with help from stars Chris Eccleston and Billie Piper. But this wasn’t Davies’ first work on Doctor Who, which was a script titled “Mind of the…Read more...

Whether on a plate or on the Cerritos bridge, Robert Duncan McNeill’s return as Voyager pilot and holodeck aficionado Tom Paris was the big draw for Star Trek: Lower Deck’s latest episode. But as ever with this show, the Trek cameos are never really the big deal—it’s how they’re used to say things about Lower Decks’…Read more...

Welcome to Burning Questions, a new 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...

The disc-shaped resonator measures less than 2 centimeters across, yet the innocuous device is eavesdropping on spacetime. It’s a newly built acoustic wave resonator, and in its first 153 days of operation it detected a couple of events that researchers believe could be high-frequency gravitational waves, which have…Read more...

If, for some wild reason, you thought the prequel to the ultra-action-packed Kingsman movies would going to be any tamer than its forebears, I can promise you, you needn’t lose any sleep over it. The King’s Man has action for days, and this newest R-rated, red-band trailer for the film proves.

Samsung’s biggest and baddest foldable phone has come a long way in three generations. The original Galaxy Fold was a bold (though unpolished) glimpse at an entirely new category of handset, but also somewhat experimental. Then came the Galaxy Z Fold 2, which sported a much more refined design. But with the brand new …Read more...

Mad with power after universally expanding the maximum video upload length to three minutes last month, TikTok is now reportedly testing out five-minute video lengths for users who want to create even longer-form content.Read more...

When you direct a Marvel movie that makes almost $700 million, that tends to be what most people know you for. And such is the case with director Scott Derrickson whose 2016 film, Doctor Strange, is still as pertinent a part of the MCU today as it was then. Before Strange, though, Derrickson was known for horror…Read more...

One of the many niche-uses for a 3D printer is building on the work of fiendish puzzle maker Ernő Rubik. While Rubik’s 3x3x3 cube presented 54 colored squares for puzzle solvers to sort by color, this custom 19-layer creation features over 4,800 colored panels that could take an entire lifetime to return to uniformity.Read more...

American Horror Story reveals its latest cryptic cast of characters. Lakeith Stanfield will help bring Victor LaValle’s Changeling to life. Game of Thrones’ Jacob Anderson joins AMC’s Interview With the Vampire. Plus, what’s coming on Riverdale and Chapelwaite. Spoilers, away!

Many newer smartphones support eSIMs as well as the physical SIM cards we’ve all been slotting into our devices for years. If you’re wondering what exactly an eSIM is, and whether or not you should be using one, this guide is for you.

Japan’s health ministry has decided to halt all covid-19 vaccinations that depend on the Moderna brand after “foreign substances” were found in 39 vials, according to the Japan Times. The foreign substances have yet to be identified but are reportedly “a few millimeters” in size.

Model rocket maker Estes is releasing a 1/66th scale model of the Blue Origin rocket New Shepard, meaning that anyone will be able to launch their own version of the spacecraft 400 feet into the air. But if you’re wondering, yes, the Estes version looks exactly like the real version. Which is to say that it looks like…Read more...