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Freezing your butt off thanks to February’s bitterly cold temperatures? It could be so much worse: You could be on a tropical vacation from hell! As these 12 horror, cult, and thriller picks will prove, sometimes there’s no more worse place to be than a warm, sunny beach.Read more...

It’s the big question for the big game: How do I watch the Super Bowl online?Read more...

You can now have Optimus Prime read you a bedtime story. This is not a sentence I expected to write today, and yet, it is now an inescapable fact that you can go to bed listening to the dulcet tones of the leader of the Autobots... as he describes the horrible wars that enveloped his home planet Cybertron before…Read more...

NASA won’t be performing a wet dress rehearsal of SLS in February as planned. This latest delay to the Artemis I mission means the 322-foot-tall rocket won’t roar through Florida skies until April at the earliest.

It’s a strange time of late in Tesla land. That’s particularly true for an increasing number of drivers who’ve had to endure their vehicles seemingly violating local laws, and now, a surge of others who claim their Teslas are suddenly slamming on the breaks for no reason.Read more...

For better or worse, the sixth episode of The Book of Boba Fett was pure Star Wars catnip: 48 minutes jam-packed with things some fans have imagined seeing for their entire lives. Boba Fett even made a brief appearance on his own show! But eventually, the episode ended with a huge decision to be made. One that’s sure…Read more...

More than 20 women employees of Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining companies, reported a rape or attempted sexual assault while on the job, while a third of all female employees and 7% of male employees experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, the company said this week.Read more...

Did a peeved American hacker singlehandedly take down the internet in North Korea? That’s the story, according to a recent article from Wired.Read more...

Comics are a lot more open about exploring queer stories than they ever have been before. From independent queer-focused creations to even blockbuster pride celebrations from the likes of Marvel and DC, the medium has taken big steps toward bringing more LGBTQ creators and their stories into the spotlight. A new…Read more...

The White House is renewing an initiative originally spearheaded by President Biden during his vice-presidency in the Obama administration years earlier: the cancer moonshot. On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced the relaunch of the moonshot program, with an ambitious goal of substantially reducing the…Read more...

The end of The Walking Dead TV series is nigh, but the end of The Walking Dead franchise is nowhere in sight. Perhaps the most anticipated new development was the announcement of an anthology TV series set in the show’s particular zombie apocalypse. Or, at least, it will definitely be the most anticipated development,…Read more...

Meta, the freshly rebranded parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is reportedly seeking insights from right-wing think tanks and nonprofits as it goes about its grandiose plans to usher in a whole new era of digital reality.

Internet from low Earth orbit just got a lot faster—and even more expensive. SpaceX revealed today a new pricey, high-performance tier to its nascent Starlink satellite internet service.

The Archie of Archie Comics gets around. He’s met both Kiss and the Ramones. He’s palled around with Batman. He’s teamed up with the Punisher, and even been chased by the Predator. But none of these comics crossovers—not a single one—holds a candle to Archie’s next comics crossover, in which the happy, peppy stars of…Read more...

Scientists in China say they’re well on their way to developing what would be an important achievement in medicine: a blood test that can detect the early stages of the most common form of lung cancer. In a new study this week, they’ve shown evidence that the test was over 90% accurate in identifying these tumors in…Read more...

We’ve known practically since it was announced that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds would bridge the gap between the original Discovery era—before that show jetted off to the 31st century—and the road to the original Star Trek. But new details about a few of the familiar faces joining the Enterprise give us more of an…Read more...

The whirring of helicopter blades on Mars could create small electric fields in the Martian air, NASA scientists found, which may make the surrounding air faintly glow with a charged electric field.Read more...

Caribbean queen, beauty mogul, businesswoman, and artist who has not dropped an album since 2016’s Anti, Robin Rihanna Fenty has pledged to donate $15 million to climate justice organizations in the United States and the Caribbean.Read more...

Channing Tatum was planning on playing Gambit for years. News of his involvement with the popular X-Men character began in 2014, and eventually it seemed all but certain the 21 Jump Street star would bring the Cajun to the big screen—until Disney bought Fox and the movie was cancelled. In a new interview, Tatum and…Read more...

Amazon founder turned rocket-man Jeff Bezos wants to prove that, with enough money, you really can move mountains—or at least, in this case, cherished bridges. That’s according to local reports cited by Dutch News and Boat International which claim the city of Rotterdam will temporarily disable its historic…Read more...

Texans, grab your coats and winter jackets: The state is girding up for a host of wintry conditions and chilly temperatures through the end of this week. The bad weather comes less than two weeks before the anniversary of a winter storm that caused power outages across the state amid bone-chilling conditions that…Read more...

Boys will be boys. And the boys of the animated spin-off of Prime Video’s depraved superhero series The Boys will also be The Boys, in the sense that they will also be lewd, crude, and incredibly violent like their live-action counterparts. For proof, look no further than this first trailer for Diabolical, the…Read more...

Perhaps the only working prototype of Intel’s abandoned Larabee GPU just sold for more than scalped, pandemic-era AMD or Nvidia graphics card. This lovely blue component, one of the only remaining reminders of Intel’s failed attempt at a discrete GPU, was purchased on eBay France for €4,650, or $5,234.

As a mostly passive gamer who’s never chased achievements, high scores, or actually completing most games I’ve played, it’s rare that I’ll go out of my way to hunt down a title I’m interested in. I’m more of a “hey, I guess I should play this now that it’s finally on sale” kind of gamer, but in 2005 I was obsessed…Read more...

The World Meteorological Organization is recognizing two new world records having to do with lightning, one for the longest duration and the other for the longest single flash.

Heads up for all the Google Workspace users out there: starting at the end of next month, you’re going to need to take a few extra steps to delete your data off the platform.Read more...

When The Book of Boba Fett began, I posited that the show’s strength was that it already knew who its titular character was. But as the series sets the stage for its conclusion, it has lost that self-assurance—and almost entirely lost the point of being a series about Boba Fett.Read more...

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is working on yet another Stephen King adaptation. Renfield’s cast gains an Expanse star. A new look at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds goes old west. Plus, get new looks at posters for The Batman and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Spoilers now!

If you own a smart speaker or two and also have children, you know that they’re very comfortable using the technology, shouting out commands to Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant as if it was second nature.Read more...

Back in 2019, io9 did a round-up of all the Star Trek shows that were then in various stages of boldly going to CBS All Access. A couple years later, CBS All Access is now Paramount+, but studio’s keen interest in giving viewers as much Trek as possible is still steamrolling ahead. The latest to reportedly enter the…Read more...

Of all the people working on a film, the sound team is maybe the most invisible. If they do their job right, everything you hear is perfectly acceptable and natural. You rarely think about the work that goes into layering in dialogue, footsteps, movement, or creating sounds for things that don’t exist. It all just…Read more...

Archaeologists working along the southern coast of Peru have unearthed nearly 200 reed posts adorned with human vertebrae. Sound macabre, but these spines on spikes may have been a response to the Colonial-period looting of graves.Read more...

Apple TV+’s loose adaptation of the classic Foundation sci-fi novels has just gotten a little looser. Ten new actors have been added to the cast to play 10 new characters on the show—and six of them appear to be very new, having not appeared in any of Isaac Asimov’s seven Foundation novels.

Users lamenting online word game Wordle’s decision to sell out to The New York Times this week may have at least one way to preserve the original game’s free, anti-money leaching spirit. Since Wordle runs in a browser, all of the game’s code is saved as plaintext on the Wordle website. That means users interested in…Read more...

It’s been a few years now, but it’s hard to imagine a world without the X-Men and their fellow, now significantly merrier mutants, living their lives on the sentient island Krakoa. The Dawn of X has been very kind to mutant and reader alike, thrusting the X-Men into a level of prominence in the comics they’d not seen…Read more...

A whistleblower alleges that the scandal-ridden spyware firm NSO Group once offered a telecom security company “bags of cash” to buy access to its cellular networks, ostensibly so its clients could track specific mobile users within the United States.Read more...

A man in Thailand’s bong session went disastrously wrong, according to his doctors. In a new case report, they describe how he “completely amputated his penis” using scissors, apparently due to a rare episode of cannabis-induced psychosis. Though the man’s delusional symptoms faded after being admitted to the hospital…Read more...

A social worker shows up to investigate an alleged case of child abuse, only to discover something far more supernatural is to blame. Fortunately for the family, the social worker also happens to be able to see dead people. But at what price? That’s the set-up for They Live in the Grey, a new Shudder Original that…Read more...

Being mocked as “cowards” and “feds” by one of America’s top podcasters wasn’t as devastating a blow as it might’ve first seemed for a Hitler fan club that’s spent nearly half a decade recruiting and training perhaps hundreds of young racist men to spread white nationalist ideals with public displays of hatred and…Read more...

NASA’s ATLAS, a planetary defense system that scans the sky for near-Earth objects, has been upgraded to search the entire night sky—half of it in either hemisphere—once every 24 hours. The surveillance system is vital for tracking objects like asteroids and debris that are on a collision course with Earth.Read more...

Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry may be action movie stars, but the real hero of Moonfall, Roland Emmerich’s newest disaster movie, is played by Game of Thrones’ John Bradley. As good-natured conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman, he keeps Wilson’s disgraced ex-astronaut Brian Harper and Berry’s no-nonsense NASA chief Jo…Read more...

Rumors that Sonos will release its own headphones are heating up again: according to Procotol, the company just acquired T2 Software, a Bluetooth audio startup.

We’re already in a world where there’s enough new Star Trek to fill out half a year of consecutive weekly broadcasts. According to ViacomCBS, well, that just means there’s still another half a year to fit some boldly going into.

There’re ch-ch-ch-changes at ExxonMobil. On Monday, the oil giant announced major shakeups in how it will do business moving forward—and continued its attempts to convince the public that it’s working towards a brighter climate future. The company is relocating offices, restructuring, and touting a new flashy but…Read more...

A massive fire spewing from a fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina has led local authorities to issue an evacuation order for around 6,500 residents, with officials anxiously fearing the possibility of a massive explosion. That fertilizer plant was filled with around 600 tons of ammonium nitrate which, if…Read more...

Facebook’s long-term stablecoin project, Diem, is finally shutting down. On Monday, an outside investment firm, Silvergate Bank, confirmed it was buying $182 million worth of Diem assets from the tech giant, marking the end of a long-coming—and pretty tumultuous—exit.Read more...

Marvel’s merry mutants have spent the past few years since their excellent new genesis in House and Powers of X largely keeping to themselves on the living island Krakoa. Their interaction with the wider world of Marvel’s heroes has been limited, and when it does happen, it’s strictly on their own terms. That’s…Read more...

If you’re a person who likes barbecue, few things are more disappointing than biting into tough, desiccated brisket. Now, new scientific observations suggest that some spiders might feel the same way about their nuggets of bugs.

Both Haiti and Brazil weathered torrential rains earlier this week. The rain caused floods in the city of Cap-Haitien, killing at least 3 people and displacing thousands of families. In the Brazilian state of São Paulo, the heavy rainfall caused landslides and floods leading to more than 20 deaths and thousands of…Read more...

A covid-19 vaccine for the youngest American children may be here sooner than expected. This week, Pfizer will reportedly apply for an emergency use authorization of their low-dose vaccine for children under five. Should the Food and Drug Administration grant the authorization, the vaccine could be available as a…Read more...