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An outbreak of hepatitis A has sickened at least 50 people in Virginia, with one person dying and another needing a liver transplant. The cases have been tied to a restaurant employee who worked at several locations of a local chain. Though the spread of the outbreak is now thought to be largely contained, more cases…Read more...

Just five companies have spent $96.3 million over the past two years in a fight over a transmission line in northern Maine that will face a reckoning at the ballot box next week. A remote transmission line running through miles of sparsely populated woods may not seem like such a big deal, but the issue has…Read more...

Apple Music subscribers who also own a PlayStation 5 can now stream to their heart’s content after the gaming console quietly rolled out a new integration for the subscription music service this week.

When the Charmed reboot’s Madeleine Mantock recently announced that she would be leaving the show after its third season, it was impossible not to notice the parallels between the ongoing CW series and its WB predecessor from the mid-‘90s starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, and Alyssa Milano. Coincidentally…Read more...

The people can now repair and tinker with their own devices under copyright law. The US Copyright Office (USCO) submitted recommendations, approved today by the Librarian of Congress, to add exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)’s rules governing access to devices and software. (This section.) The…Read more...

There is no anime more responsible for a love of space bounty hunters (and an ill-advised love of jazz) than Cowboy Bebop. The seminal series has been beloved for so long, and with the Netflix adaptation on the way now’s as good a time as any to dive in and see if Bebop is a jam session you can jive with. Here are our…Read more...

Hundreds of naturally mummified human remains in the Tarim Basin, part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, have long perplexed archaeologists. The remains, which date from 2,000 BCE to around 200 CE, are confounding for their remarkable state of preservation, luxurious clothing, and their burial in boat coffins…Read more...

Intel has officially announced details on its much-anticipated 12th-gen Alder Lake processors, including pricing and performance details for three new chips.Read more...

No matter who Nintendo and Universal announced as the voice of Mario for their upcoming animated movie based on the video game franchise, people were certain to have rather strong feelings if the role didn’t go to Charles Martinet, the actor who’s been lending his voice to the character for 30 years.Read more...

Despite what the company’s stock prices might tell you, Facebook is a company with an image problem. At best, critics warily regard Facebook as a company that ruthlessly strips users for their data so it can curbstomp competitors in increasingly hostile ways. At worst, people call the company a threat to democracy…Read more...

The Brazilian Senate committee that produced a draft report accusing fascist gut flora gravy-boat President Jair Bolsonaro of 11 crimes against humanity including mass homicide, genocide, and charlatanism crimes in his handling of the covid-19 pandemic has voted to recommend charges.Read more...

A snazzy new trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fantasy epic The Wheel of Time is here, and it gives us our best look yet at the magical world inhabited by forces both good—like Rosamund Pike’s Moiraine—and evil, led by the aptly named Dark One.Read more...

Every year Adobe uses its Max conference to share sneak peeks at the technologies created up by the company’s R&D departments that may one day find their way into apps like Photoshop and Premiere. For 2021 that includes Project In-Between which can turn a pair of similar photos into a short animation.Read more...

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It’s rare that trailers are as spoiler-filled as this new video for the second half of Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Kevin Smith’s “continuation” of the classic ‘80s He-Man cartoon. I assume it’s in hopes of winning back some of those grumbling fans who disliked the first half of the series. I hope it…Read more...

Wildlife officials in Texas recently documented a peculiar natural horror: a fish with its tongue replaced by a parasitic crustacean known as an isopod. These isopods aren’t dangerous to humans and are usually not deadly to their hosts, but their unique way of life is another example of the terrors created through…Read more...

One of the Pixel lineup’s best features is Call Screen, which seamlessly roots out spam and other unwanted calls. Previously only available in U.S., Canada and Japan, the feature is now being quietly deployed in seven new markets—meaning that the global crusade against spam calls will soon gain some key allies.Read more...

After spending several lifetimes playing foil to Peter Pan, Captain Hook finally finds a way out of Neverland and into the real world—where unfortunately life doesn’t get much easier. A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling, explores the villainous pirate’s strange twists of fate in Hooked, a new fantasy novel arriving…Read more...

There are thousands of games that can be played with a simple deck of cards, but Rob Halifax has found a way to make 52 cards even more versatile with a redesign that lets you play games like chess, checkers, and even dominoes with the same deck that entertains you for hours on end with Solitaire.

Bill Murray is an unpredictable man. He shows up in weird places to hang with random people, like that time in 2009 when he read poetry to construction workers. He’s certainly not above a bit of trolling, so take a grain of salt—or should I say salz—at Murray’s announcement he’s in Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp…Read more...

An upcoming launch to deliver four astronauts to the International Space Station is ready for 3, 2, 1, blast off—oh, aside from NASA still having to approve a last-minute adjustment made to SpaceX’s leaky toilet.

Eternals might be the first Marvel Studios movie that doesn’t benefit from being a Marvel Studios movie. After over a decade of interconnected films, the company has carefully crafted audience expectations. To us, a Marvel movie has a certain undeniable energy; a blend of action, humor, and heart that’s aimed to…Read more...

Instagram’s arbitrary rules for who gets to post links have always been frustrating. But now, the social media platform will allow anyone to post links in their Stories. Yes, anyone.Read more...

Last year, Olympus announced it was getting out of the camera business. And today, the company taking over Olympus’ camera division has announced a new brand name for the business going forward: OM System.

It doesn’t matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars you shell out for an audiophile-grade home stereo, a recorded piano performance will never sound as good as a live one on an actual piano, so Steinway is finally introducing a feature that allows live performances to be streamed and performed, in real-time,…Read more...

The idea of Pixar returning to the world of Toy Story in order to dig deeper into the lives of flesh and blood humans might not sound like the most promising premise on its face, but the first teaser trailer for director Angus McClain’s Lightyear makes it seems like the studio’s figured out a way to pull the concept…Read more...

Digital real estate marketplace Zillow has been hemorrhaging cash in the home-buying arms race in certain markets, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, after the company tweaked its algorithm to jack up the bids it offered on real estate.Read more...

Robbie Amell talks about stepping into Chris Redfield’s zombie-stomping shoes for Resident Evil. Doctor Who teases a historical scrap with the Sontarans. Plus, a new look at Last Night in Soho, and what’s to come on Stargirl, Star Trek: Prodigy, and more. To me, my spoilers!

It’s tough to pack a lot of features into today’s tiny actions cams. But with DJI’s new Action 2, the company has come up with a novel twist that makes customizing your mobile video rig for your needs a whole lot easier.Read more...

The MacBook lineup has just expanded with brand new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros available to buy. But there’s also the existing MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, and they all run on custom-made Apple Silicon chips, all with various configurations available when you buy them direct from Apple. So which of these…Read more...

Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world who happened to make $36 billion on Monday alone, could save 42 million people around the world from starvation with just 2% of his wealth, according to a global hunger expert at the United Nations. But Musk doesn’t even need to pony up a full 2% if he gets America’s other…Read more...

Russian military hackers have been waging an ongoing hacking campaign against high-level American targets and have been using a special technique to mask their activities: a tool to hide behind addresses associated with everyday Americans’ home and mobile networks.Read more...

Two young nuns, Mary (Castle’s Molly C. Quinn) and Agnes (Hayley McFarland), meet at a convent and form a friendship—but as the trailer for new horror movie Agnes suggests, one of them is being followed by some kind of poltergeist-like presence... and the other becomes quite-possibly demonically possessed. At least it…Read more...

Hormone-disrupting chemicals known as phthalates were found in many fast food meals tested as part of new research. The study authors found several different phthalates, as well as other chemicals meant to replace phthalates, across a variety of fast food takeout items, including fries, burritos, and cheeseburgers.…Read more...

Every carrier is out to prove they have the best 5G network around, but how that’s played out it is, well, confusing—to say the least.

Forget the generic blog preamble! We’ve all been waiting forever to watch the first real trailer for Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop series. The wait is over. Watch.Read more...

On Thanksgiving night, a group of weary toy-store employees pulls up to work, anticipating an unruly, door-busting crowd who’ll arrive in the wee hours for a frenzy of Black Friday shopping. What they’re not expecting is an alien invasion that turns all those would-be customers into a hungry mob of an entirely…Read more...

In the midst of the second-hottest October in human history, a question popped up on an internal Facebook message board. “Policy for Misinformation - Climate Change Denial?”Read more...

Lord Howe Island was declared free of rodents in 2019, but the celebration may have been premature. The recent appearance of nearly 100 rats has conservationists wondering if these intruders are survivors or newcomers to the island, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site home to various endangered species.

After leaks surfaced yesterday, Sony has officially announced its Xperia Pro-I, a smartphone with a wild camera—or a wild camera that’s also a smartphone, depending on how you look at it.Read more...

Though Denis Villeneuve’s Dune focuses on Paul Atreides as he and most everyone around him dance around the obvious fact that he is the long-prophesied chosen one destined to bring an end to the war between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, when we first meet him, he’s a far cry from the legendary messiah king he’ll…Read more...

Authorities in the U.S. and Europe have arrested droves of people in connection to dark web drug peddling, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Tuesday.

When a mermaid saves a human life, she’s most definitely not hailed as a hero—she’s marked for terrible punishment because she’s broken an ancient law designed to protect her kind. In that vein, Nigerian-Welsh author Natasha Bowen drew upon West African mythology to create her fantasy debut, Skin of the Sea, and io9…Read more...

Joe Biden has, after nine months, nominated Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the Federal Communications Commission. While longtime Commissioner Rosenworcel filled in as the acting chair, we’ve been banging our heads against the desks wondering why Biden wouldn’t just pull the trigger. While Biden waited, the FCC has…Read more...

At the end of Dune: Part One, Zendaya’s character Chani told the audience “This is only the beginning,” and now that’s officially true. Legendary, the company behind Dune, as well as Paul Atreides himself, Timothée Chalamet, tweeted out the news that Dune: Part Two is officially going to happen.Read more...

For all the talk of democratizing finance, the vast majority of Bitcoin continues to be owned by a relative handful of investors.

It’s not often that an award-winning author and screenwriter decides to direct a TV series adapted from his own beloved novel, but that’s exactly what Niccolò Ammaniti has done with Anna (set to air on AMC+). Based on his 2015 book, the six-episode series takes a science-fiction dystopia—a world where a mysterious…Read more...

Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes; some are large enough to earn the title of dwarf planet, while others are about ostrich-sized. These wandering rocks are incredibly important objects for scientists seeking information about the formation of the solar system and even life on Earth. Some meteorites (the space…Read more...

I assume you’re well aware of Disney World’s $6,000 Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser hotel/high-end LARPing experience. If you’ve been hoping for a Marvel Cinematic Universe equivalent, you’ll have to settle for lunch. But, if it makes you feel any better, it’s surely going to be an extremely expensive lunch, as the…Read more...

Sen. Joe Manchin has all but forced Democrats to abandon their best tool to combat climate change in the reconciliation bill. Now he’s reportedly turning his eye towards another proposal to address one of the easiest climate fixes.Read more...