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After getting pushback from local lawmakers and regulators abroad—along with just about everyone who cares about privacy online—Google announced on Thursday that it will delay its plans to kill off third-party cookies in its Chrome browser until late 2023. This is a nearly two-year setback from its initial plan, which…Read more...

The covid-19 pandemic has receded substantially in the U.S., thanks in part to a successful vaccine campaign. But a new report from the Associated Press released Thursday highlights a clear divide in the country: Americans are still getting seriously sick and dying from the viral illness, but the vast majority of this…Read more...

We’ve got a new Lestat-us update, and it’s a good one. After years of trying to bring Anne Rice’s vampire franchise to the small screen, AMC has greenlit a new adaptation of Interview with the Vampire. And it looks like this is just the beginning of vampire season for the network.

The Biden administration has been outspoken about its commitments to climate action and environmental justice. But, in the legal arena, it keeps falling down on the job. The latest disappointment came Wednesday, when the administration asked a court to toss complaints from environmental and tribal groups seeking to…Read more...

Another wrench has been thrown into our understanding of human origins, thanks to recently discovered remains of an archaic hominin in the Levant. The person or people who left these bones behind over 120,000 years ago may have coexisted with Homo sapiens, according to new research.Read more...

A new report out from the University of Cambridge confirmed what many of us have known for years: being a contrarian asshole on social media is a great way to get people clicking on your posts.Read more...

As we’ve learned, the torture on Game of Thrones wasn’t all fake. Actress Hannah Waddingham, who played Septa Unella, recently shared a horrible experience on the HBO show while shooting her final scene with Cersei Lannister. She said, “I’ve basically just been waterboarded for 10 hours.” Now, Lena Headey is speaking…Read more...

Researchers at Columbia University and elsewhere say they’ve found a way to track the graying of a person’s hair over time. It’s a discovery that also suggests stress really can turn people’s hair gray or white, and that relieving this stress can then turn the color back on, at least up to a certain point.

Let’s face it. We’re all old. Even if that’s not technically true, there’s always something a person can say or do to make you feel that way. One of those is when we realize a movie we feel an affinity for is way older than we remember it being. The best course of action? Use the fact that your favorite movie is about…Read more...

If the acronym “NFT” didn’t already give you a headache, perhaps this news will: artist Mark “Beeple” Winkelmann and Ryan Schreiber, the founder of Pitchfork, are launching a site where people can buy random moments in time as non-fungible tokens on the blockchain.

Earlier this year, one of the biggest fan wikis on the internet, Star Wars resource hub Wookieepedia, found itself embroiled in a debate between site admins pushing to make the wiki’s handling of LGBTQIA+ topics and transgender people in particular more inclusive, and retrograde administrators who wouldn’t. The public…Read more...

Microsoft’s next version of Windows is officially here.

Just a few months before the world is scheduled to gather in Glasgow to hammer out how, exactly, we’re going to meet the Paris Agreement targets, Greta Thunberg is calling out the UK government for approving a major new plan to simply keep on drilling.Read more...

The climate crisis is rendering parts of California downright dangerous with wildfires and extreme heat. To add insult to injury, it’s also making drinking water in some areas literally taste like dirt.Read more...

Stranger Things season four is coming (eventually). But you can fill the Hawkins, Indiana-sized hole in your heart with a fun new comic miniseries coming this fall from Dark Horse. We’ve got the scoop and a look at covers for the appropriately retro-looking adventure Stranger Things: Tomb of Ybwen.Read more...

A glitching 1980s-era computer is causing headaches for a NASA operations team struggling to bring the Hubble Space Telescope back online.Read more...

The original Life is Strange video game may have come to an emotionally painful conclusion in 2015, but the world wasn’t ready to say farewell to Max and Chloe. Their love story has continued in comics form, but that’s about to end. Titan Comics is sending the couple on their way for good.Read more...

On a riverbank in the far north of Alaska, a team of paleontologists have been scraping away at the muck. They’ve uncovered evidence of dinosaur breeding at the top of what is now North America, a sign that in the late Cretaceous period, dinosaurs were living full-time in cool climates.

Starting July 12, Altice will reduce upload speeds on all its Optimum Online cable internet plans. While there’s no indication thus far that will impact prices, some plans will see upload speeds cut by as much as 86%. At a time when people are still working and learning remotely, you’d think Altice would have a good…Read more...

While carriers in the U.S. are racing to add 5G coverage to their networks, today India’s largest wireless provider announced a new device designed to bring 4G service to potentially millions of users with the “ultra-affordable” Jio Phone Next.Read more...

It’s about time Microsoft introduced something new, and we’re pretty sure that what’s on the way is a new version of Windows. Specifically, we expect to see Windows 11, because Windows 10X has all but kicked the bucket before it even had a chance. (RIP.)Read more...

What was obvious the moment that Marvel’s mutants began sending out invitations for the latest Hellfire Gala was that while the function was partially meant to introduce the rest of the world to Krakoa, it was also an elaborate stunt building up to some great statement about the future of mutantkind.Read more...

It feels like every consumer electronics company is attempting to make a pair of smart glasses right now. For the most part, those efforts are focused on augmented reality. But TCL’s NXTWEAR G Wearable Display Glasses aren’t about giving context to the world around you. They’re meant to help you stay immersed in your…Read more...

After weeks of Earthlings fawning over Venus and the Perseverance rover stepping out of its shell to begin its scientific mission, one can imagine the Mars helicopter Ingenuity felt a little miffed that the spotlight has moved on. But on Tuesday morning, NASA announced that the helicopter had completed its eighth…Read more...

In pre-covid times, I frequently traveled domestically and internationally for work and would invariably forget a key item—a wall plug adapter, a USB-C microSD card reader, you name it. The easiest way to track down those items was usually the Apple store in whatever city I was in, so needless to say I’ve seen many of…Read more...

Nathan Pyle’s Strange Planet is becoming an animated series at Apple. There’s more casting for the Midwich Cuckoos adaptation. American Horror Stories’ mysterious rubber-clad woman gets her own cryptic teaser. Plus, what’s next on Rick and Morty and Tuca & Bertie. Spoilers, away!

Think of the Oculus Quest 2 and you naturally think gaming: flying through virtual reality worlds, shooting down virtual reality enemies, and so on. But Oculus has been updating its software recently and new features suggest it’s keen to help you get some work done, too—even if we’re still in the early stages of that…Read more...

Canada’s ruling Liberal government announced on Wednesday that it plans to make online hate speech a crime punishable by as much as $20,000 (roughly $16,250 US) for the first offense and $50,000 ($40,600 US) for the second. The proposal would punish social media users who broke the law but exempt social media…Read more...

China wants to put the first human on Mars in 2033, according to a new presentation made by Wang Xiaojun, the head of China’s top rocket manufacturer. Wang’s plans were outlined in a new report from Chinese state media outlet the Global Times and includes a Martian base, though nothing is a given when you’re planning…Read more...

Apple continued its impassioned defense against a new crop of antitrust bills on Wednesday, advising lawmakers that the legislation’s recommendation that the company open itself up to third-party app stores would spell disaster for consumers by exposing them to unvetted scams and violating their privacy.Read more...

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When Netflix first announced Q-Force back in 2019, the animated series sounded like a queer sendup of the James Bond franchise and other stories about hypermasculine superspies that have been fixtures in the genre space for decades. But Q-Force’s first trailer makes it pretty clear that the energy it’s going for is…Read more...

A woman’s attempt to augment her buttocks led to an unusually delayed and life-threatening infection that started to rot away her skin, doctors in Ireland say. In a new report, they describe how the 29-year-old contracted a rare infection in the same part of her buttocks where she had gotten dermal fillers injected…Read more...

Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman and CEO of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, is resigning from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for probably no particular reason at all, why do you ask?

We haven’t even seen the iPhone 13 lineup yet—which is expected to launch this September—but now we have a hint at what to expect from the iPhone 14 in 2022. Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a note to investors predicts next year’s iPhones will bring back Touch ID in the form of an in-screen fingerprint sensor.Read more...

Amazon Studios’ The Boys continues to grow its cast of heroes, villains, and everyone in between. Actors Sean Patrick Flanery, Nick Wechsler, and Gaston Villanueva are three of the newest Supes to join the squad. But who are they going to play?

Many birds have a sixth sense. No, not seeing dead people: They detect Earth’s magnetic field, an ability that allows them to return to the same sites, year after year, during seasonal migration. Now, scientists have come closer to identifying the mechanism that our feathery friends use to feel Earth’s magnetic…Read more...

Now that Google has opened up its business-focused Workspace suite to everyone, there are some new Google Drive features. But as with every move, sometimes things get busted along the way.

A mammoth 1642 Rembrandt is now complete after centuries of disfigurement, thanks in part to artificial intelligence.

Last year, comics writer Warren Ellis—known for his work at Marvel and DC on series like Nextwave, The Batman’s Grave, Transmetropolitan, and more, as well as his work on Netflix’s Castlevania series—was the subject of accusations from a group of over 60 people who claim years of grooming and sexually predatory…Read more...

John McAfee was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona on Wednesday, officials have confirmed.

Dwindling access to power, the result of dust settling onto solar panels, is threatening to end NASA’s InSight Mars mission by April of next year.Read more...

It’s no secret that pilots on long-haul flights have access to private sleeping quarters that passengers never see, but it turns out there are more surprises hidden away inside a modern airliner, including an entire server room full of rack mounted computers and electronics located beneath the cockpit.

An intrepid team of biologists embarked on an extensive genetic survey of Chinese cats to determine the true identity of the Chinese mountain cat, an enigmatic feline that inhabits a swath of the Tibetan Plateau. It turns out that the creature is its own wildcat subspecies—Felis silvestris bieti—and, despite its…Read more...

In late 2020, Peloton quietly snapped up a few startups specializing in wearable and fitness technology, sparking speculation that perhaps the connected fitness company was mulling a wearable of its own. Now, a Bloomberg report claims that Peloton is working on an armband that measures heart rate.

In much of our modern supernatural genre media where heroes and villains wage war for reality, you can plainly see the long-lasting influence of myths about gods and monsters incessantly vying for dominance over one another. DC’s Lucifer, Marvel’s Loki and Thor, and Sersi of the Eternals are just a handful of the…Read more...

I never owned a netbook, but I played with them constantly when I was interning at Maximum PC magazine. I worked there in 2009, during the height of the netbook’s popularity. The idea of a tiny laptop with the basic functionality of my custom desktop PC at home was genuinely enticing to my nerdbrain. Not to mention,…Read more...

Tucker Carlson is freaking out about something a professor said at a conference five years ago, as Tucker Carlson is prone to do. He also used those remarks to insinuate they’re about the future scientists want despite that being false, as Tucker Carlson is prone to do.Read more...

As we look towards a Waterworld-esque future where our access to H20 is increasingly rare, it’s even more important to figure out how to squeeze every last drop we can, including out of thin air. In a study published Wednesday in Science Advances, a team of researchers from ETH Zurich demonstrated a new way to create…Read more...

American Horror Story conjures up three images: Ryan Murphy, scary stuff, and Sarah Paulson. The actress has been a key part of the FX series since the beginning, appearing in nearly every season and playing roles ranging from a powerful witch to conjoined twins. But not all the stories are winners.