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The United States is at a pivotal point in its efforts to combat the covid-19 pandemic. By the end of Tuesday, it’s expected that a majority of American adults will be fully vaccinated, and within days, a majority of all Americans will have gotten at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine. The accomplishment comes in…Read more...

Though the ceasefire has ended the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Palestine is still a humanitarian catastrophe, one with a rising ecological toll that will compound human suffering for years.

No, Jeff Bezos should not just get billions of dollars from NASA because he thinks he deserves it, Bernie Sanders says. After Blue Origin made a stink over losing out to SpaceX on an exclusive $2.9 billion NASA contract for a moon landing mission (due, NASA said, to limited funding), Democratic Senator Maria…Read more...

Coming off the hit film Godzilla vs. Kong, director Adam Wingard is not letting his moment pass. First, he signed up to make a sequel to John Woo’s sci-fi action hit Face/Off. Then he revealed he was going to try and make the classic 1980s cartoon Thundercats into a live-action film. Oh, and possibly another King Kong movie…Read more...

On Wednesday, May 26, the Moon will move into Earth’s shadow, resulting in the first total lunar eclipse in nearly two and a half years. Here’s how to see it, regardless of where you live in the world.

Google’s added a new way to keep other people’s prying eyes out of your search history, YouTube faves, and more. As first spotted by Android Police, the company has started prompting users to password-protect their Web and Activity page, which shows off a person’s history across a slew of Google services.Read more...

First, the trees came out of the ground. A few weeks later, the bones emerged. Bit by bit over the past year, a team of paleontologists and geologists, among others, have uncovered the fossilized remains of a Miocene forest, from its gomphotheres and mastodons to the trees themselves.

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It’s rare to find an ebook reader now that doesn’t use a touchscreen to make navigating its user interface—or just flipping the pages of a digital book—much easier. So, given the demand for that functionality, today E Ink announced a new electronic-ink screen featuring a touch sensor built right in that should improve…Read more...

Netflix is seriously considering expanding into gaming, according to several reports from the past few days. Not only is the streaming giant rumored to be looking to hire a gaming executive to oversee the effort, but it’s also reportedly mulling building out its own version of an Apple Arcade-like gaming bundle.Read more...

Fans of author Douglas Adams in general and his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in particular know that today, May 25, is the international holiday known as “Towel Day.” To celebrate, io9 has some wonderful illustrations to share from Del Rey’s new edition of Adams’ beloved classic.

Huawei has long been working on its own fork of Android, and on June 2, Huawei’s HarmonyOS will finally make its official debut on phones.Read more...

Otters are some of the cutest and most fun animals on Earth. It’s always a joy to see them in the wild. That was doubly so for the conservationists at Fundación Rewilding who recently spotted a wild giant river otter swimming in the Bermejo River in Impenetrable National Park, located in the Chaco province of…Read more...

Mechanical keyboards are becoming more popular to use these days, but finding one that isn’t tethered by a cable feels like an impossible task. It’s not that there aren’t any wireless mechanical keyboards—it’s that the ones that exist aren’t wireless by the end of the day.

Catalonia police investigating the appearance of a human corpse crammed into the leg of a papier-mâché statue of a dinosaur in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain, say the most likely explanation is that the deceased man somehow lost his phone in the dino and got stuck trying to retrieve it.

Action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake may not be strictly genre but it does star a slew of badass women from Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Black Panther, Star Trek, and more. The first trailer is now here, and put together these women are truly a force to be reckoned with.Read more...

Full-frame mirrorless cameras may get all the attention, but with the new Lumix GH5 II and the forthcoming GH6, Panasonic is giving its Micro Four Thirds cameras some love, too.

Like the city it calls home, Lego’s 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum has already fallen as the largest set ever released by the toymaker. Half a year after the landmark’s reveal, Lego’s new World Map set has stolen the record with 11,695 pieces that mostly consist of tiny single-stud dots that will test even the most…Read more...

Hellraiser and Predator’s next films have started taking big steps. Zack Snyder already has ideas for more Army of the Dead. Plus, new looks at The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and what’s to come on Fear the Walking Dead’s finale. Spoilers, go!

The new M1-powered iPad Pros are now on sale, but more than a decade after Apple’s tablet was first introduced, we’re still debating what it’s good for and what it’s not good for. While some producers might find the new iPad Pro to be less than ideal for professional audio production, the latest models are capable of…Read more...

Hong Kong might be forced to throw out millions of expiring Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine doses within the next three months, according to a member of Hong Kong’s coronavirus task force. Hong Kong secured enough vaccine doses for its population of 7.5 million, with both Pfizer vaccine and China’s Sinovac, but has…Read more...

One of Japan’s most widely used dating apps recently suffered a cyberattack, potentially exposing the personal information of close to 2 million people, a new report from Bloomberg shows.Read more...

Batman’s live-action adventures have tried multiple times to depict the character’s iconic, white-eyed cowl from the comics in multiple ways. The Dark Knight gave us bulbous Bat-Sonar lenses, while Batman v Superman added massive, glowing eyes to Bruce’s chonky armored supersuit. But could the latest, Matt Reeves’ The…Read more...

On Monday, the U.S. State Department issued a Level Four: Do Not Travel advisory for Japan, urging Americans to exercise caution when traveling to the country just two months before it’s set to host the 2021 Summer Olympics.Read more...

Did you forget that the latest Adventure Time: Distant Lands installment debuted May 20 on HBO Max? A sweet new trailer for Together Again is here to remind you—and to give you a good punch right in the feels, as Finn and Jake finally find each other just in time for their ultimate adventure.

Today, Trump lackey and Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law “Florida’s Big Tech Bill,” a thinly-veiled attempt to appease Trump’s Twitter and Facebook gripe. And also money in the bank for Big Tech warrior, Ron DeSantis.

Game of Thrones started as a dark, rich, captivating fantasy epic. Over the years, however, the show kept getting darker, particularly in regards to how it treated its female characters, who seemed to increasingly bear the show’s most horrific, disturbing violence. Unfortunately, that also turns out to have been the…Read more...

Don’t forget to include Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne on the small but embarrassing list of home furnishing magnates milking every last penny from Donald Trump supporters who are convinced Biden can be retroactively tossed out of office.Read more...

Though there are no in-universe connections between the worlds of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead and the director’s Dawn of the Dead from 2004, one of the Netflix zombie movie’s more interesting plot points feels like a purposeful callback to the earlier film’s most disturbing scene.

Today Apple released iOS 14.6, which includes some new features for AirTags, support for subscriptions in Apple Podcasts, and most importantly, a number of major security updates for pretty much all modern iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices.Read more...

Doctors in India are warning about a peculiar hazard. In a new case study this week, they detail having to remove a can of aerosol spray deodorant from a patient’s rectum. It’s a injury made even more potentially dangerous due to the risk of fire or explosion should the offending object be removed “using cautery or…Read more...

Fresh off of playing a smug prick prosecutor in Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will lend his considerable talents to portraying former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in a new Showtime series from the creators of Billions.Read more...

The first full teaser trailer for Chloé Zhao’s Eternals doesn’t really have much to tell us about why now is the time for Marvel’s mighty immortal race to emerge out of the shadows to bring their eons-spanning fight to the forefront. But it does give us our first solid look at just which of Jack Kirby’s esoteric…Read more...

The Hillbilly Elegy guy and right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel are teaming up to invest big money in a conservative alternative to YouTube called Rumble, the Wall Street Journal reported last week. Why would these ghouls want a piece of one of the web’s junkiest services?

“Help! I’m stuck in a terms and conditions factory. Please accept the terms and conditions to release me.”Read more...

Amazon Studios has already given noted yacht owner Jeff Bezos a big way into the Hollywood media space, between its Prime Video streaming offerings and its big plans for movies and TV. Very soon, those plans are potentially about to become even bigger because Amazon is on the verge of acquiring one of the biggest…Read more...

Many men have scaled the perilous ranks of the underworld, soaring to the heights of criminality, only to be laid low by their own personal failings: hubris, ambition, indulgence. Also the love of cheese, apparently.

Researchers have identified the likely origins of Citrinus lanatus vulgaris, commonly known as the watermelon, according to a new study. Their work pegs a Sudanese melon as the progenitor of the iconic green-striped fruit.

After investing $100 million to ship delayed products by air, Peloton announced today that it’s putting down another $400 million to build its first U.S.-based factory in Troy Township, Ohio.Read more...

What do you think Mark Wahlberg, who was going to be the star of the movie adaptation of the hit action-adventure game Uncharted for what seems like a million years, is thinking as he stands behind Tom Holland, the star of the Uncharted movie?

Ben Santer, one of the nation’s leading climate scientists, said he is cutting ties with a prestigious government-funded laboratory over its plans to invite a scientist who has spread climate denial to speak in a seminar.

Researchers say their experimental gene therapy was able to partially restore a man’s eyesight 40 years after he lost most of his vision. The findings are exciting, but the authors of the new study caution that more research will be needed to confirm the effectiveness of this treatment.Read more...

Self-driving cars are still a few years away (at least) from being available to you or me. But there’s a lot of work to do to get them ready for prime time, including ensuring they’re climate-friendly. A new study underscores that last part, showing that nearly one-third of people would choose an autonomous vehicle as…Read more...

It would have been perfectly understandable if Warner Bros. had decided not to move forward with the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel it first announced back in 2016. But the studio’s still keen on bringing the world’s second-most unsettling candy man back to the big screen with a new story.Read more...

Back in the ‘80s, Nintendo’s renewed commitment to quality games helped the company rebuild the crashed video game market with the NES, but now that consoles basically print money, the company seems less worried about what ends up on its hardware. A new $10 app promises to turn your Switch into a motion-…Read more...

A security unit tasked with assessing threats against the U.S. Department of Commerce used counterintelligence tools to gather information about U.S. citizens and foreign visitors to the United States, unauthorized surveillance that included the monitoring of Americans’ Twitter accounts for comments critical of the…Read more...

Horror has a rich history of movies revolving around cursed masks that spell doom for the wearer—and usually anyone in the wearer’s vicinity. Halloween III: Season of the Witch is one example; Demons is another. Brazilian slasher Skull: The Mask now adds itself to the list, with extra-squishy flair.Read more...

We live in a world of refuse—not simply the orange peels, Amazon boxes, and old TVs rotting away in landfills but also the texts, emails, and torrented movies looked at once and left to languish in the cloud. We appear to be verging on a crisis point with the first kind of trash, but rarely ever think about the…Read more...

Charlie’s about to bite his last finger.Read more...

Nondescript on the forest floor, the flowering plant Aristolochia microstoma has developed an arresting means of self-preservation: It smells like dead bugs, which attracts the living bugs that act as the plant’s pollinators.