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The Batman gets its rating, and it’s perhaps not what some people would’ve expected. Get a look at the Looney Tunes’ return to HBO Max. Plus, what’s coming on Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman. To me, my spoilers!

There are screenshots and then there are scrolling screenshots, which are extended screengrabs that include the entirety of the webpage or the document or the menu that you’re viewing, beyond what you can actually see on screen. If you need to capture these kinds of screenshots the process is slightly different than a…Read more...

Tesla has removed any mention of the year 2022 from the Cybertruck website, a bad sign for anyone hoping to get their hands on the electric truck before the end of the year. Don’t say we didn’t warn you back in 2019.

Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter on Thursday after seven months, according to a statement published online from the country’s technology development agency. The government banned Twitter for enabling “subversive” and “criminal” activities, though in reality it was likely because the social media company deleted a…Read more...

Watching a professional DJ turning random scratches, loops, and samples into a catchy tune is mesmerizing. If it’s a skill you’ve aspired to, or just one you’d like to experiment with in your free time, Pioneer’s new DDJ-REV1 is an affordable all-in-one alternative to dropping a few thousand dollars on a pair of…Read more...

One of the weirder stories from last year involved a gargantuan FBI honeypot operation designed to catch crooks all over the world. According to Motherboard, that operation had a bigger imprint in the U.S. than originally believed.Read more...

Starz has just dropped a sneak peak at Shining Vale, a new half-hour horror comedy series starring Courteney Cox, a marketing move that is no doubt timed to a certain huge horror movie starring Cox that’s out later this week. But hey, the themes go together, and this clip—which also features Greg Kinnear (as Cox’s…Read more...

The year 2022 is here, and hopefully it won’t feel like 2020 part two. Back then, as the world shut down in an attempt to stop the spread of covid-19, most major movies were delayed—and no one wants a sequel to that. Last year began to buck the trend, culminating in the record-breaking release of Spider-Man: No Way HomeRead more...

Phishing schemes already litter the internet, and now they’re coming for our parking meters, too. San Antonio police were first to warn locals about the scam, which targets people trying to pay for their parking ticket via QR code. Authorities say people have started plastering their own QR codes onto the machines,…Read more...

A series that was going to be Lucasfilm’s first non-Star Wars or Indiana Jones project since it was purchased by Disney has now been picked up by another company. Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to the Children of Blood and Bone trilogy, a action fantasy series based on YA novels by Hugo and Nebula…Read more...

There have been long debates about just how Mandalorian Boba and his father were at times in their long history in Star Wars, but their personal influence in the evolution of the Mandalorian people and their culture is indelible. But it’s also had a huge influence on how we literally see them too.

A daring scheme to catch a returning Starship booster rocket is taking shape at SpaceX’s launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

The NASA InSight Lander was forced to enter safe mode last Friday as a Martian dust storm swept over its location. The ongoing storm has reduced the amount of sunlight hitting the lander’s solar panels, so mission controllers have reduced its activity to the bare minimum to reduce strain on the batteries.Read more...

Major car manufacturers aren’t giving up on their efforts to stymie Massachusetts’ right to repair legislation. Less than two years after residents in the state voted in favor of updated right to repair laws that would let independent auto repair shops receive telematics data from vehicles, groups representing auto…Read more...

Star Trek: Picard’s largely confounding season one finale included a tiny step forward in the wider franchise’s approach to queer characters when it allowed Michelle Hurd and Jeri Ryan’s Raffi and Seven to... well, hold hands. Look, baby steps! Anyway, while we’re not sure what season two will have in store for them,…Read more...

We’re only now seeing widespread support for PCIe 5.0, but as is so often the case in this industry, new tech is old tech the moment it arrives. And so, the PCI Special Interest Group today released a finalized spec for PCI Express 6.0, setting the groundwork for the next (next?) generation of SSDs.

Between promoting scientifically baseless theories that the coronavirus pandemic has triggered “mass formation psychosis” and switching to a fruit and meat diet, wildly popular podcaster Joe Rogan found the time to become active on MAGA-themed social media site Gettr. Surprise, he hates it.

If you’ve ever lost even a single precious French fry as a result of a fast food bag tipping over during the ride home from the drive-through, you’ll appreciate the understated brilliance of the BAGO: a seatbelt that keeps all sorts of bags upright even if you’ve got a lead foot or are hard on the brakes.

New research suggests that ketamine may help people struggling with alcohol addiction. The small randomized, controlled trial found that people with severe alcohol use disorder given infusions of ketamine reported more days of abstinence at a six-month follow-up than those in a control group. The benefits also…Read more...

Since the debut of Toy Story in 1995, Pixar’s animated films have helped catapult Disney’s rise to become one of the biggest corporations in the world. Seeing their films in the theater every other year was often an event in and of itself, and that’s led to a powerful, passionate fanbase that’s grown with each sequel…Read more...

The countless delays and cancellations plaguing air travel right now (not to mention the packed planes, the skyrocketing ticket prices, and mask mandates) have left many airline passengers angrier than we’ve ever seen them before. Most air travelers have been seen taking their air rage out on flight attendants or…Read more...

For years, 3D printing has promised to bring about a revolution in manufacturing, but we’re only recently starting to see it trickle down to consumer goods. Companies like Adidas have been pursuing 3D printing as a way to make sneakers that perfectly fit every size and shape of foot, and now Ikea is offering its first…Read more...

So far, our looks at The Legend of Vox Machina, Critical Role’s leap from the world of tabletop gaming into full-on animation, have focused on propping up its lovable cast of misfits as the heroes most Criticial Role fans know them to be at this point. The latest trailer goes to great lengths to show that they are also…Read more...

Ground temperatures climbed above 129 degrees Fahrenheit (54 degrees Celsius) in parts of Argentina this week as the country suffers through a shockingly hot start to summer. Air temperatures were equally suffocating, leading to widespread blackouts as the Southern Cone attempts to beat the heat.Read more...

All the news about Ben Affleck nowadays seems to be about how miserable he was playing Batman and shooting the Justice League movie. So it’s almost heartening to hear something else about him, even if it’s basically about Armageddon director Michael Bay making sure the actor was sexually objectifiable enough to star…Read more...

Imagine this scenario. You’re driving down the highway in a spiffy new Tesla with your legs stretched out as the Autopilot driver-assistance feature maintains your speed when suddenly the car’s stereo starts blasting at full force. During your panicked scramble to pull over, you notice your windows strangely start…Read more...

A wedding on a cruise ship, investments in the jade industry in Guatemala, and a private jet: Those are just some of the things investors who thought they were getting rich in the oil industry paid for instead. Two Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuits filed last month against Ponzi-style scammers selling…Read more...

Scientists say a Homo sapiens fossil found in Ethiopia in the 1960s is at least 233,000 years old, which would make it 36,000 years older than the previous estimate.Read more...

A team of astronomers has reconstructed the history of our local universe to understand the origin of the nearest stars. In a study published today in Nature, they describe an amorphous, 1,000-light-year-wide bubble ensconcing Earth that is responsible for those stars.

Google had all but abandoned its smartwatch platform until Samsung stepped in last year to help build Wear OS 3. Now the company finally seems open to tackling the problems its user have been complaining about for years, starting with support for left-handed users.

If the first few episodes of The Book of Boba Fett were interested in contextualizing the man its titular former bounty hunter became after escaping the Sarlacc, its third, “The Streets of Mos Espa,” is the first to really examine what he’s up against in the present. But like drivers on the titular streets of that…Read more...

One last trailer for Scream sets up the sequel’s interesting subversions. A new Peacemaker clip sees John Cena’s unlikely hero wrestle with the events of Suicide Squad. Plus, a look at what’s coming on Superman & Lois and Naomi. Spoilers, away!

One of the most memorable Apple II games of all time is now available to play on your Apple Watch thanks to the efforts of Oliver Klemenz who’s ported Prince of Persia to JavaScript making it playable on almost any device with a web browser.Read more...

The Nvidia Shield is arguably one of the most popular streaming devices for the Android-using crowd, and it’s getting a massive update to start the new year.

A team of zooarchaeologists in the United Kingdom recently analyzed the bones of centuries-old warhorses to determine their size, finding that they were actually of a surprisingly small stature.Read more...

An unnamed senior official at the White House has mocked the idea of sending out free N95 masks to Americans because some people won’t wear them, according to a new report from Politico. The incident is reminiscent of when White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked the idea of sending out free covid-19 tests, before…Read more...

The best thing about the new Scream is that it knows everything.Read more...

I wish I had a solution like the Logitech Litra Glow when I started buying odds and ends to build my perfect office lighting situation. It took me a few years to land on my current setup for video chats and live streaming, and that was after a bit of trial and error. And even still, it sometimes feels like a bit of…Read more...

A suspected ransomware attack in New Mexico has incapacitated services for an entire county, including the local jail—which frighteningly lost access to its camera feeds, facility databases, and automated doors.Read more...

Continued flight cancellations and increasing numbers of staff testing positive for Covid-19 are making an already dire situation worse for the U.S. airline industry. Now, following thousands of missed flights and worker shortages, some airlines like United are opting to preemptively reduce their schedules.Read more...

A team of astronomers studying distant exoplanets found one that seems to be shaped like a football—or a rugby ball, depending on your frame of reference—rather than the usual sphere. The team suspects the planet’s shape is caused by the intense tidal forces of its host star.Read more...

Marvel’s mutantkind doesn’t die right now. Well, mutants do—they just come back. But only Krakoans know of the great secret their island nation has given their species... which makes it a very big problem when one of them perishes quite publicly. Just as Krakoa faces turmoil within, the X-Men right now are having to…Read more...

Aside from the plethora of scummy privacy practices Facebook uses to track your every move on its myriad platforms, the company’s also come up with plenty of sneaky ways to keep tabs on you off its sites as well. Now, a new study wants to fight back against these offsite trackers by... tracking them back. Researchers…Read more...

After helming what’s now one of the top 10 highest-grossing films of all time, director Jon Watts will attempt to cheat death. He’s written a story treatment and come on board to produce Final Destination 6, the latest film in the hit horror franchise, which will go direct to HBO Max.Read more...

In January 2021, stock trading app Robinhood infuriated users when it responded to surging trades of so-called meme stocks, by halting trades—effectively preventing users from selling shares until the prices had collapsed. Congressional hearings, regulatory probes, and a deluge of regulatory complaints and lawsuits…Read more...

The idea of trapping a dirty coal plant’s carbon emissions at the source and storing it underground may sound like the solution to our climate problems. In practice, it’s proven all but completely unfeasible, but that hasn’t stopped the government from plunging money into it.Read more...

A movie about killing is scary enough. A movie that could actually kill you is something else entirely. And yet, that’s the fear the new Scream movie is facing when it hits theaters Friday. While film fans returned to theaters in droves last month for Spider-Man: No Way Home, the omicron variant of covid-19 might keep…Read more...

“Smart guns,” the personalized firearms once heralded as tech’s solution to rampant U.S. gun deaths before quietly pittering out of the mainstream conversation, are gearing up for a 2022 comeback.Read more...

On Monday, the U.S. government released data showing that 2021 was the third-costliest year for extreme weather on record. It was also the highest tally for the number of disasters that cost $1 billion or more, beating 2020, and the deadliest year in a decade.

The American Red Cross is facing a major blood donation shortage. On Tuesday, the organization announced its first-ever national blood crisis, citing the damaging effects that the winter covid-19 surge has had on the blood supply. They’re now calling for eligible people to donate as soon as possible.Read more...