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By now, Star Wars fans have all read reviews of Galactic Starcruiser, the new immersive (and expensive) attraction at Walt Disney World set aboard the Halcyon, a hotel designed to make guests feel like they’re traveling within the galaxy far, far away. As you might imagine, the “journey” required a hell of a lot of…Read more...

A small army of overworked content moderators is the public’s last line of defense against a flood of depraved and horrific content uploaded to social media. While the moderators help us normal users avoid the worst of the worst, constant exposure to humanity’s darkest impulses can wreak havoc on their mental health.…Read more...

The iPad Air is one of the easiest products to recommend. Need a tablet? You should probably go with this one. That’s even more true today now that Apple has equipped the mid-range product with a more powerful engine. The supercharged M1 processor now powering this slate is a proven entity, having logged miles on the …Read more...

The American Psychiatric Association last week officially introduced a new diagnosable mental health condition: prolonged grief disorder. The news, while welcomed by some clinicians and researchers, has also been controversial. At the heart of the debate is the long-running question of how to define suffering, as well…Read more...

It should be no surprise to anyone that I love a TTRPG anthology, and as soon as I got my hands on Tiny Tome I knew that I was holding something special. Collected from an open call via itch.io, Long Tail Games has curated a selection that touches on every genre and gameplay style. Like a lot of games selected from an…Read more...

Using a microphone, a laser, and some crafty mathematics, a team of scientists has measured the speed of sound on Mars, in what is a scientific first and another cool finding made possible by NASA’s Perseverance rover.

Google is working on a new version of its Nest Hub with a different form factor than its predecessors: a dockable tablet, according to 9to5Google.

Having treated myself to several good Dungeons & Dragons novels in a row—mainly the original Dragonlance trilogy and R.A. Salvatore’s The Halfling’s Gem—in the last few D&D&N columns, I knew that I must pay a price in return. That price was reading Artifact of Evil, the second Greyhawk novel by D&D co-creator Gary…Read more...

The first episode of Halo is full of nods to the legendary Microsoft shooter franchise’s video game roots and its wider lore from generations of tie-in novels and comics. But it also managed to sneak in a lovely little nod to a fellow sci-fi gaming icon—one that itself has been aching for an adaptation for almost as…Read more...

Major Western oil companies including Exxon, Shell and BP have paid billions of dollars to the Russian government as it escalated tensions against Ukraine in recent years, a new analysis released Friday from a group of NGOs finds, illustrating how the oil and gas industry has helped prop up and enrich President …Read more...

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a movie you have to meet exactly where it is. It is not a subtle film, and it demands that when you watch it, you suspend all your disbelief at the door. As directing duo the Daniels (Swiss Army Man) propel us through a furious multitude of universes, the audience is left gasping…Read more...

An ice shelf the size of Hong Kong has collapsed in eastern Antarctica, spawning a large iceberg and concerns that unusually warm temperatures in the region might be responsible.

Regulators in the European Union’s Parliament reached an agreement on a package of laws aimed at curtailing technology companies’ anti-competitive practices late Thursday.Read more...

This Sunday, the 94th annual Acadamy Awards will grace your TV screen and with them, another cycle of film achievement comes to a close. Among the night’s nominees, the Acadamy rightfully recognized some of the best genre films of the year in various categories. But this slideshow isn’t about them.Read more...

Apple’s MacBook Air has received some crucial internal updates recently, but the larger design of this ultra-portable laptop has remained the same for nearly a decade—always a 13-inch screen. That could soon change with the introduction of a 15-inch model.

You Won’t Be Alone had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (we were big fans), and will be hitting theaters on April 1. It’s a movie full of imagery and ideas that hang out in your head for days, somehow making a gritty story about a shape-shifting witch into a startlingly lovely investigation…Read more...

Offering better visibility in bright conditions and lower power consumption, E Ink’s electronic paper screens are gaining in popularity as alternatives to LCD and OLED panels for digital signage, and the company has just made them even more appealing with an updated version of its color e-paper panels featuring much…Read more...

Just announced this morning, a new illustrated edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, The Silmarillion, is going to be available in October 2022. This year is going to play host to Fantasy Rings Fall, with both the Amazon Studio’s show, Rings of Power out in September and now this new book, complete with Tolkien’s…Read more...

Mandy’s Panos Cosmatos is working on a new fantasy nightmare with A24. J.K. Simmons talks about being a dad for Batgirl. Jensen Ackles teases the infamous comic book moment coming to The Boys’ third season. Plus, more Moon Knight footage, and MST3K prepares for its next season. To me, my spoilers!

The long-running argument over the harms and benefits of artificial sweeteners will be further complicated by new research out this week. The results of a large observational study suggest that higher consumption of artificial sweeteners is linked to a higher risk of cancer. Importantly, though, this sort of data…Read more...

Although companies like Apple never do anything by accident, users were perplexed when Apple revealed its Magic Mouse 2 back in 2015 with the charging port inconveniently located underneath it. It’s an issue that still plagues the mouse seven years later, and it’s apparently an issue that Apple is determined to…Read more...

Police in London have arrested seven young people between the ages of 16 and 21 for allegedly hacking Microsoft and Okta under the hacker group name LAPSUS$. All seven people have been released and none have been formally charged with a crime. At least not yet.

North Korean state TV aired a bizarre video Friday afternoon showing off the country’s latest nuclear-capable ICBM. And while the Hwasong-17 missile was meant to be the star of the show, we all know the real star.Read more...

In the words of Billie Eilish’s Bond theme: “Are you death or paradise?”Read more...

Wolverine has been a very important part of the X Lives and X Deaths of Wolverine event—after all, he is Wolverine, and he’s in the title of both books—but the post-Inferno story explored in Deaths has explicitly not made him the focal character. Instead, that side of the duology has seen one of the most important…Read more...

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What did Luke Skywalker do after Return of the Jedi? It’s a question fans had been thinking about for decades and, over the past few years, we’ve learned bits and pieces: a baby apprentice here, villainous nephew there, self-imposed exile, etc. A new book, however, promises to be the deepest dive into this story yet…Read more...

In hopes of protecting more people from climate change-fueled disasters, the United Nations is working on a global system to warn populations who are in the path of a storm or about to be hit by a heatwave or drought. The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) aims to build a system within the next five years to…Read more...

New Yorkers looking to catch an Uber may soon find themselves sitting in the back of classic Yellow Cab.Read more...

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The best character in Aliens is getting her very own book. No, not Ripley. No, not the Queen Alien, though that would be cool. We’re talking of course about Private First Class Jenette Vasquez, 2nd Battalion Bravo Team in the United States Colonial Marine Corps.Read more...

A mosaic image packed with 83 million pixels is providing an unprecedented view of the Sun and its tumultuous outer atmosphere.Read more...

In the future, you don’t own anything—maybe not even your iPhone or iPad.

If you’re tired of skyrocketing gas prices and are thinking about the benefits of an electric ride, chances are you’re not alone. But even though switching to an electric vehicle may seem like a no-brainer, there are some significant obstacles—including new problems caused by the conflict in Ukraine—facing the EV…Read more...

Star Trek has always been about the power of unity and standing together, but as of late it’s been on a bit of a connective kick. Discovery’s most recent season was a paean to reaching out and understanding each other to negotiate hardship, and even Picard’s first season, when it finally decided what it was about,…Read more...

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Fans of Heather Fawcett’s YA and middle-grade books (including Even the Darkest Stars and The School Between Winter and Fairyland) won’t be surprised to hear her adult debut, due out in January, keeps within that same fantastical vein—though its characters are early 20th century academics rather than kids on quests.Read more...

Every piece of electronics goes through countless iterative prototypes before finding their way into consumers’ hands, but those prototypes are rarely seen by the general public. That’s what makes this prototype of an Atari Pong console so interesting; only two were ever created, and in a time before rapid prototyping…Read more...

The Batman director Matt Reeves tweeted out that the film’s ARG viral website has released the extended prisoner scene that was cut from the film. In it we get a longer look at Barry Keoghan as the Joker. At this point it’s pretty obvious its him—following the series of puzzles participants in the Riddler’s games on…Read more...

A young man’s persistent hiccups were a sign of a far scarier health problem, according to a recent case report from doctors in India. The man turned out to have an aggressive brain tumor, one that had started to cause pressure on his brain. After he received cancer treatment, though, his hiccups began to subside.Read more...

Lego has finally realized that the only thing adult collectors like more than building a detailed model is displaying it on a shelf and then standing back and admiring it from afar. So the latest addition to the toy maker’s Star Wars collection is a series of dioramas that are the perfect build and display models.

New evidence indicates that tiny bits of plastics can reach our bloodstream. A small study detected microplastics in about 80% of the people tested. For now, the health implications of this exposure are still unclear.

Notorious U.S. facial recognition technology from Clearview AI is now being used to identify deceased soldiers fallen on the battlefield.Read more...

Nova, Nova, Nova. For years, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been asking the studio to bring in the cosmic superhero known as Nova. And now, it seems it’s finally happening.Read more...

NASA has announced plans to develop a second lunar lander for the upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon. The space agency will solicit proposals from U.S. companies, with a target date for delivery within the next four to five years.

With all the video game shows and films we’re expected to get in the near future, not many have the strange baggage that the TV adaptation of Halo does. Microsoft’s flagship shooter was first announced to be getting the TV treatment back in 2013, and has been in development for nearly a full decade—which is to say…Read more...

For two weeks between March 26 and April 10, four of Satoshi Kon’s most acclaimed films will be available to stream, for free, online. The Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC), Embassy of Japan, and the National Museum of Asian Art are presenting a retrospective event in honor of the influential…Read more...

Way back in 2001, Star Trek fans were delighted to receive a director’s cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with enhanced visual effects, on DVD. For a film that director Robert Wise originally felt was rushed to theaters—and definitely had incomplete visual effects—the remasters version of the movie was a godsend.…Read more...

New The Last of Us set pictures give us a glimpse at the game’s stars in the flesh. Netflix confirms its Pacific Rim anime will return for a second and final time next month. Plus, a familiar face returns on The Flash, and a look at The Hardy Boys’ season 2. Spoilers, away!

It’s been a while since I’ve suggested a Motorola flagship to folks, and I’m not sure its latest release, the Edge+, will change that. On paper, the Motorola Edge+ has all the specifications and capabilities of its competition, namely the Samsung Galaxy S22. But spend a moment with the phone, and it’s immediately…Read more...