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May 01, 2024
T-Mobile officially finalized the $1.35 billion deal to acquire Mint Mobile, according to a press release from the telecom company. The deal was first announced in March 2023 but had to clear regulatory approval.
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May 01, 2024
Samsung teased the Galaxy Ring earlier this year when it introduced the Galaxy S24 series of smartphones. Naturally, this sparked a flurry of rumors about what's to come and what the wearable could be like. But Samsung is still making smartwatches, too. Based on the hearsay, 2024 may be the year the company pulls out…
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May 01, 2024
May is always a huge month for Lego—thanks to its annual celebration of all things Star Wars on May 4. This year's even more special, with the 25th anniversary of both The Phantom Menace and Lego's Star Wars line, but while the galaxy far, far away is a big part of this month's releases, galaxies closer to home have…
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May 01, 2024
The California Forever project is one step closer to becoming a reality. This week, the ambitious project's backers announced that they had received enough local support to trigger a ballot initiative. Local voters will now decide the fate of the project during the November election.
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May 01, 2024
Ashley Madison promotes itself as a dating site that helps people cheat on their partners. But newly released consumer complaints filed with the FTC, obtained exclusively by Gizmodo, should probably give any potential cheaters pause. The site is lousy with extortion attempts, to put it mildly.
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May 01, 2024
Just when we thought we'd already seen all of what 2024's mini-LED TVs had to offer, Hisense finally gave us the chance to look at the new pinnacle of its ULED displays, the U9N. It's a TV that's desperately trying to thread that fine needle between ultra-premium and upper mid-tier, but all wrapped up with a bow…
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May 01, 2024
There's tackling a beloved franchise... and then there's tackling The Legend of Zelda. Wes Ball has done the former a few times, most recently with his foray into the world of Planet of the Apes with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Soon though, he'll take that to a whole new level as the first director to make a…
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May 01, 2024
After more than a decade of delays and failures, Boeing is finally ready to launch its first crew of NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff of the Starliner CST-100 spacecraft is scheduled for May 6—and it's going to be a true nail-biter.
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May 01, 2024
May I interest you in some new streaming movies? Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. (And sometimes, just the…
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May 01, 2024
A woman's blindness in her right eye turned out to have an unexpected and frightening cause: metastatic lung cancer. Doctors in India reported the strange occurrence last month—seemingly the first of its kind ever documented.
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May 01, 2024
Across three seasons, The Bad Batch laid out a vast swath of plot threads around the rise of the Empire era beyond its titular squad of renegade clones. From Rex's resistance to the rise of the stormtrooper, from the dark arts of cloning to Project Necromancer, a lot remained on the table coming into its final…
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May 01, 2024
Anthropic takes the fight to OpenAI on Wednesday with a new iOS app for itspowerful Claude AI. The app will put Claude into more hands and try to take some space in the AI marketplace that ChatGPT already dominates.
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May 01, 2024
The Rabbit R1 doesn't have a lot of capabilities that your phone already has. It doesn't send emails for you. It can't set calendar reminders or alarms. It can't connect to any apps outside a select four thatincludes Spotify, Uber, DoorDash, and Midjourney. All those features may be coming in the future, but if…
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May 01, 2024
May has a little bit of everything for genre fans spread across its dozens of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror book releases: space operas, doomsday cults, apocalyptic mysteries, fantastical romances, haunted mansions, dimensionally displaced vampires, badass wasteland motorcycle couriers, and more!
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May 01, 2024
Tesla announced Tuesday that it will lay off everyone who works on both the new vehicle and Supercharger teams. At this point, no one has any idea what CEO Elon Musk was thinking or what's going to happen going forward. Including other automakers that recently switched to NACS. Maybe Musk is just looking to get out of…
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May 01, 2024
An experimental satellite that launched in 1974 disappeared from ground-based sensors in the 1990s, only to be found again this week. Some defunct satellites or debris can often go missing for years, presenting hazards within an increasingly crowded Earth orbit. But, how exactly do objects disappear in space?
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May 01, 2024
Even more Captain America: Brave New World marketing gives us a glimpse at its new super-suits. Bitsie Tulloch bids farewell to Superman & Lois. Jurassic World's Camp Cretaceous follow-up teases a wild murder mystery. Plus, what's coming on Chucky. To me, my spoilers!
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May 01, 2024
Challengers, a movie where Zendaya plays a tennis star who has a threesome, came out last week and, while I haven't seen it yet, I sure do plan to. Director Luca Guadagnino's new romantic tennis/thriller/drama is getting pretty good reviews, has a fun premise, and would seem to harken back to the days when fun, pulpy…
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May 01, 2024
Keeping track of medications is vital in most cases, but it can be hard to do without alarms and an extra nudge to make it a habit. I've personally had difficulty staying on schedule since I started taking daily medications decades ago. But these last few years, as more smartphones began to have the ability built-in,…
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Apr 30, 2024
Star Wars loves nothing more than understanding a villain. Part of the reason the franchise's greatest evils are also some of its most compelling characters is because it loves to dive deep into understanding why these figures are the way they are. The time has come for Morgan Elsbeth's turn—and for us and the actress…
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Apr 30, 2024
In his vast career, Francis Ford Coppola has made masterpieces (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, The Conversation), cult classics (Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Outsiders), and curious whatsits (The Godfather Part III, Peggy Sue Got Married). Which will Megalopolis be? While the world waits to see …
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Apr 30, 2024
Cannabis is expected to officially become a less dangerous drug in the eyes of the U.S. government. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the Drug Enforcement Administration will soon propose to reclassify cannabis. The change will likely still take some time to come into effect and would not legalize it…
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Apr 30, 2024
Update: April 30, 4:22 p.m. ET: NASA says Hubble is back online and resuming science duties, doing so on April 29. "The spacecraft is in good health and once again operating using all three of its gyros," the space agency said. "All of Hubble's instruments are online, and the spacecraft has resumed taking science…
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Apr 30, 2024
A lot of Star Trek opinion is based on the paradoxical idea that the series within the franchise simply "get good" at some point. TNG's not TNG until Riker has a beard, we say, ignoring all the fantastic ideas the series got into before that. The idea of Trek shows usually having a dodgy first season has been…
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Apr 30, 2024
Researchers have found a blue hole they say is the deepest in the world—and they've yet to find where it bottoms out. The formation is the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, and it has so far been measured to 1,378 feet deep, or 420 meters below sea level.
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Apr 30, 2024
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is just over a week away and if you are still on the fence about it, a major revelation in a new trailer might change that.
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Apr 30, 2024
Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao was sentenced to four months in federal prison on Tuesday, first reported by the Associated Press. Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering violations as part of Binance's agreement with the United States Department of Justice, allowing the company to settle legal…
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Apr 30, 2024
A mysterious new AI chatbot called "gpt2-chatbot" turned heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came from, but many consider it to have roughly the same capabilities as OpenAI's GPT-4. This put gpt2-chatbot in a rare class of AI…
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Apr 30, 2024
Netflix's 3 Body Problem won over audiences with its sci-fi mysteries, complex characters, and startling visuals. If you're still haunted by that Panama Canal scene—in which a ship full of people is sliced into ribbons—or the unpredictable landscapes of the VR game world, here's a peek behind how they came together.
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Apr 30, 2024
Would you be willing to eat pitch-black garlic cloves in exchange for no stinky breath? Researchers in Australia are studying and hoping to popularize a unique, specially aged variant of the cooking herb. The blackened variant apparently has a sweet flavor, while still having the potential health benefits associated…
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Apr 30, 2024
Apple announced two new offerings to its Beats line of headphones and earbuds. The Beats Solo Buds are a pair of true wireless earphones that promise up to 18 hours of battery life, while the Beats Solo 4 is an upgrade for those looking to swap their current over-the-ear cans for something new. Both devices are more…
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Apr 30, 2024
If you had to make a list of visuals Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is best known for, Queen Amidala's costumes would be right near the top. Darth Maul is certainly striking, the cities of Theed and Otoh Gunga are stunning, and those Naboo Starfighters are awesome, but Amidala's dresses are more than just…
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Apr 30, 2024
Jostling on the fault lines of Enceladus' frozen crust may be responsible for the plumes of icy material spewing from the moon's watery underbelly, according to a team of researchers that recently modeled the motion.
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Apr 30, 2024
"Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning." This week, that saga once again begins in movie theaters with Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, returning for not just May the Fourth Be With You, but its 25th anniversary, happening May 19. In its honor, Lucasfilm…
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Apr 30, 2024
Dave & Buster's plans to add a feature to its app that will allow customers to place bets amongst themselves on competitive games, according to an announcement from the entertainment chain on Tuesday. It's just the latest sign that tech-based gambling is becoming normalized in the U.S. at an unprecedented rate,…
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Apr 30, 2024
While DC Comics fans wait longingly for next summer's James Gunn Superman movie, there's a tasty treat coming much sooner for the Man of Steel faithful. My Adventures With Superman kicks off its second season May 25 on Adult Swim, and from the looks of the trailer our young hero is gonna meet some familiar faces
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Apr 30, 2024
Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are already being drowned in new AI features, so we suppose it was inevitable that Apple would also try to shove some AI activities into its default browser. With Apple reportedly jumping on the AI hype train for iOS 18 (though getting on at the caboose end rather than the passenger…
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Apr 30, 2024
A mysterious new AI chatbot called "gpt2-chatbot" is turning heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came from, but many consider it to have roughly the same capabilities as OpenAI's GPT-4. This puts gpt2-chatbot in a rare class of…
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Apr 30, 2024
When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during Covid-19 lockdowns, many began questioning those hours they had spent commuting to work. All those rushed mornings stuck in traffic could have been spent getting things done? Life was often lonely for those…
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Apr 30, 2024
Absurd as it is as there's anyone to particularly take "blame" for a popcorn superhero blockbuster that raked in $761 million during its theatrical run—few studios would see that, critical drubbing or otherwise, as something to find blame in—Chris Hemsworth seemingly cannot help but take on a lot of the audience…
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Apr 30, 2024
SCUF's Envision Pro controller feels so good, so clicky, so responsive, it makes me hate it. I know it's not the controller, it's my dumb thumbs, and yet SCUF's $180 device feels like a memento mori for all the years I spent trying and failing in online multiplayer. The Envision Pro is packing so many extra paddles…
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Apr 30, 2024
We appear to have concrete proof that rich people have problems too: Matthew Prince, the billionaire CEO and co-founder of tech giant Cloudflare, is currently suing two of his millionaire neighbors because, according to court papers, the neighbors' overly enthusiastic Bernese Mountain dogs keep treading just a little…
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Apr 30, 2024
We hope you like TVs because that's what April had to deliver in 2024. Samsung showed off its latest Neo QLED 4K TV, while Sony refreshed its entire QLED-based Bravia lineup.
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Apr 30, 2024
Stop me if you've heard this before, but there's a new, unexpected twist on a classic fairytale in the works. Jeff Daniels talks about the upcoming Arachnophobia remake. Plus, get another look at Barriss Offee's return in Tales of the Empire. Spoilers, away!
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Apr 30, 2024
Just two weeks after Tesla laid off at least 14,000 workers across the world, CEO Elon Musk is planning layoffs for hundreds of additional staffers — including the bulk of the company's Supercharger team and several executives.
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Apr 30, 2024
Since last year, a subreddit has been toiling away to find the source of a particular ‘80s song and it finally hit the jackpot.
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Apr 30, 2024
A former employee of the National Security Agency was sentenced to 262 months, just shy of 22 years, in prison on Monday for trying to send classified information to someone he thought was a Russian spy, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As it turns out, the Russian spy was…
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Apr 30, 2024
One thing has been ridiculously clear in my 15-plus-year career reviewing consumer tech. I'm a size queen when it comes to laptops, particularly gaming laptops. I was bereft when Dell put the original Alienware 18 out to pasture and spent a number of years requesting its return. So, I was ecstatic to see the behemoth…
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Apr 29, 2024
Millions of Americans pay for streaming services, doling out anywhere from $5 to $75 a month. It's a common belief that you can get out of recurring charges like this by switching your credit card. The streamers won't be able to find you, and your account will just go away, right? You wouldn't be crazy for believing…
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Apr 29, 2024
Warner Bros. has its own streaming service, sure, but Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series will be driving its psychedelic Mystery Machine straight to Netflix. It'll be produced by Greg Berlanti, whose other Netflix projects include a pair of other spooky shows: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the current Dead Boy…
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Apr 29, 2024
Universal Studios Hollywood and the Universal Orlando Resort are bringing more blockbuster movie action to your summer vacations before next year's Epic Universe opening. Things kicked off at Universal Studios Hollywood with the Studio Tour's 60th anniversary and Ryan Gosling making a surprise appearance for a new,…
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Apr 29, 2024
NBCUniversal's Peacock will raise its prices by $2 this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. The price change is slated to go into effect on July 18 for new customers, just a week before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. If you're just looking to stream the Olympics, Peacock…
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Apr 29, 2024
Since time immemorial, the machine of movie merchandising has revealed plot details—or at the very least got people to wildly and often incorrectly speculate about them—well before a movie's release. So it's perhaps fitting then, that the most we've seen of Captain America: Brave New World so far is not in a trailer,…
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Apr 29, 2024
Remember when we called Razer's Zephyr face mask one of the most disappointing gadgets of 2021? It's even more disappointing when you realize that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges the company never even submitted the face mask for testing three years later. The FTC wants Razer to pay back over a million…
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Apr 29, 2024
Remember when we called Razer's Zephyr face mask one of the most disappointing gadgets of 2021? It's even more disappointing when you realize that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges the company never even submitted the face mask for testing three years later. The FTC wants Razer to pay back over a million…
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Apr 29, 2024
Knuckles hits Paramount with a limited series that picks up on the red echidna's journey to making Earth home. The third Sonic franchise film may be delayed to next year, but in the meantime you can catch up with Knuckles (Idris Elba) on his own side quest with Wade Whipple (Adam Pally).
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Apr 29, 2024
What is AI art? Well, of all the many, many ways armchair philosophers have come to define art and the act of human expression, AI-generated images don't have much in relation. There is certainly skill in knowing the correct type of prompt to get the results you want, but there's no real intent behind an image. If the…
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Apr 29, 2024
A drone that paints over graffiti has been launched in Washington state under a new pilot program, according to a press release from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). And if the new spray drones succeed, one could easily imagine other municipalities across the country embracing drones for…
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Apr 29, 2024
Millions of Americans pay for Netflix, doling out anywhere from $6.99 to $22.99 a month. It's a common belief that you can get out of recurring charges like this by canceling your credit card. Netflix won't be able to find you, and your account will just go away, right? You wouldn't be crazy for believing it, but it's…
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Apr 29, 2024
We already knew Fallout was a hit; the Prime Video series based on the popular video games has already been renewed for a second season. But now we know just how much of a hit it is, raking in 65 million viewers globally during its first 16 days.
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Apr 29, 2024
Tyrannosaurus rex was just about as smart as modern crocodiles and other reptiles, according to a team of researchers that investigated recent claims that the Cretaceous predators may have been as smart as monkeys.
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Apr 29, 2024
The Financial Times announced a deal with OpenAI on Monday to license its world-class journalism for training and informing ChatGPT's models. It joins Axel Springer and the Associated Press who struck similar deals, where OpenAI reportedly offers millions for the right to use content. However, ChatGPT was trained on…
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Apr 29, 2024
The Financial Times announced a deal with OpenAI on Monday to license its world-class journalism for training and informing ChatGPT's models. It joins Axel Springer and the Associated Press who struck similar deals, where OpenAI reportedly offers millions for the right to use content. However, ChatGPT was trained on…
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Apr 29, 2024
Jared Leto may be the main star of the upcoming Tron: Ares, but we now know the face of the franchise will also join him. In a new podcast, Jeff Bridges revealed that he's returning to the third film in a franchise that he headlined both in 1982's original and 2010's sequel.
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Apr 29, 2024
If Conan the Barbarian was a desktop gaming PC enthusiast, and you asked him what is best in life, his answer would probably be the standard "crush those framerates… see the pixels driven before you… hear the lamentations of your CPU fan," or something of that nature. He'd want the biggest desktop, the biggest GPU,…
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Apr 29, 2024
In all good X-Men stories, out of the fires of chaos something new and exciting is reborn in phoenix-flame. There's perhaps no better example of that right now than the consolidation of the Fox X-Men movie era into mutantkind's renaissance on the small screen for X-Men ‘97—and the latter is certainly cute about…
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Apr 29, 2024
OpenAI is under scrutiny in the European Union again — this time over ChatGPT's hallucinations about people.
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Apr 29, 2024
Despite dedicating years of innovation and research toward convincing consumers to buy electric vehicles, automakers are still grappling with a lack of charging infrastructure across the United States. But California — a leader in EVs — says that isn't too much of a problem for its residents.
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Apr 29, 2024
Director Matt Reeves was not messing around when he made Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He wipes out most of the human race before the title card, then unfurls a powerful story of two opposing societies destined for war despite having every possible opportunity at peace. It's bleak. It's bold. It's bloody fantastic.
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Apr 29, 2024
The Webb Space Telescope has given us another cosmic treat. The young observatory captured a closer look of the ethereal clouds of dust and gas that form a nearby nebula, illuminated by a companion star in the constellation Orion.
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Apr 29, 2024
Even as Marvel Studios finds success on the small screen right now with X-Men ‘97 lighting fans up every week on Disney , it's not undiplomatic to say at this point that its star has faded a touch when it comes to its big screen tentpole releases. Is it the output itself, lacking a strong coherent thread compared to…
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Apr 29, 2024
At first glance, Marc Andreessen would appear to have all sorts of contradictory beliefs. From a distance, the venture capitalist spouts your standard brand of right-wing libertarianism, but he's also somehow a huge fan of the Pentagon. He's a big fan of "America" but doesn't seem to like most Americans very much. His…
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Apr 29, 2024
It's hard to imagine that some of the most sumptuous animated movies ever made have yet to be converted and released in the format, and yet, none of Studio Ghibli's exquisite back catalogue has made its way to 4K UHD quite yet, even as the films enjoy regular re-releases in theaters. That is, until now.
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Apr 29, 2024
Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, muddy passages, icy waterfalls. Bats and spiders. Abseiling over ledges into the unknown. How far would you go for a fossil? On a two-year retrieval mission of nearly 60 hours in an underground cave, we met our limits—and went beyond.
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Apr 29, 2024
Disney has released the first trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King, Barry Jenkins' continuation of the live-action Disney remake universe. It certainly has Mufasa. It certainly has a lot of other animals that exist in this trailer just for you to go "look, animals! Lion King!" It also has... Beyoncé's daughter?
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Apr 29, 2024
Rabbit R1, the bright orange AI gadget that became the talk of the town during CES 2024, was launched and demoed at a private event in New York last week. The "pick-up party" as the company called it was exclusively for the first few hundred buyers and now we're seeing some early hands-on impressions. Scouring all the…
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Apr 29, 2024
A third Happy Death Day could be on the way. Isabela Merced teases her role in The Last of Us season 2. Plus, a new look at the season finale of Ghosts. To me, my spoilers!
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Apr 29, 2024
This guide was updated on April 29 at 8:15 a.m. to include new info about the iPad's supposed chip and the Apple Pencil, April 24 at 2:10 to include new details on the iPad calculator app, and April 19 at 8:44 a.m. ET to include new rumors from DSCC analyst Ross Young,.
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Apr 29, 2024
Before you accuse me of clickbait, hear me out. If you scroll the same corners of social media that I do, then you're sick of seeing meme puzzle accounts abuse the caption "Only 1% of people can solve!" over some lightweight teasers. Are we really supposed to believe that only 1 in 100 people can count the triangles…
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Apr 29, 2024
Millions of Americans pay for Netflix, doling out anywhere from $6.99 to $22.99 a month. It's a common belief that you can get out of recurring charges like this by canceling your credit card. Netflix won't be able to find you, and your account will just go away, right? You wouldn't be crazy for believing it, but it's…
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Apr 29, 2024
Millions of Americans pay for Netflix, doling out anywhere from $6.99 to $22.99 a month. It's a common belief that you can get out of recurring charges like this by canceling your credit card. Netflix won't be able to find you, and your account will just go away, right? You wouldn't be crazy for believing it, but it's…
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Apr 28, 2024
Just before the weekend started, the animation space lit up when someone suddenly leaked a lot of never-before-seen internal material from Disney. We won't link to it, but included in that material is a sizable amount of stuff from the company's TV animation slate across its Disney Channel and Disney XD networks that…
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Apr 28, 2024
Since it debuted back in 2021, Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa's Radiant Black has become one of Image Comics' biggest books. Now that it's got an entire universe of its own full of equally colorful characters headling their own books, it's just a question of what's next for the series that started it all. The answer…
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Apr 28, 2024
The original Happy Death Day in 2017 was one of those "why hasn't this done before?" horror movies, wherein college girl Tree (played by Jessica Rothe) got stuck in a time loop that always ended with her getting murdered. That first movie did really well, and its sequel Happy Death Day 2U also did pretty good! Over…
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Apr 28, 2024
There are plenty of apps you can turn to to generate pictures using artificial intelligence. Still, Midjourney remains one of the best and one of the most popular options, having launched in beta form in July 2022.
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Apr 27, 2024
Fallout's a pretty good show, and one of the big reasons why is the ever-reliable Walton Goggins. As the Ghoul—or Cooper Howard, once upon a time—he's a menace to Lucy and everyone else throughout the season, while being enjoyable to watch both in the irradiated present and the pre-nuclear past. Creating him and…
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Apr 27, 2024
The Power Rangers have been doing their thing for decades, but recent times have been kind of all over the place. While the Boom! comics have been going for nearly a decade in the Mighty Morphin time period under a rotating roster of creators, Hasbro hasn't done a lot with the larger property. But a new beginning is…
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Apr 27, 2024
You've gotta hand it to Marvel Studios: it sure knew how to make its movies feel like big events back in the day. After the original Avengers dropped in 2012, nearly every entry aimed to be bigger in some way, like the entire enterprise was obsessed with topping itself. Sometimes this was in pursuit of greater thematic…
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Apr 27, 2024
Kingom of the Planet of the Apes is one of this summer's big blockbusters, and with its release in a few weeks, that means its time to up its promo game. We've gotten plenty of trailers and posters, and there are standees in theaters, but that's apparently not enough. 20th Century has decided that we need to see some…
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Apr 27, 2024
It's been a minute since we've last heard anything about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, hasn't it? The series from Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts was first teased in 2022, and save for details and footage provided during last year's Star Wars Celebration, there's been no real mention of it since. But according…
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Apr 27, 2024
If you thought that Excel spreadsheets were just for mind-numbing office work, think again. A gaming hobbyist has created an Excel-based RPG game that he based on the popular post-apocalyptic game Fallout. It's the end of the world, all over again.
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Apr 27, 2024
Welcome back to the week that was in io9's coverage of the latest, and greatest, in pop culture news. It's been a busy week, as the highly anticipated new trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine brought with it oodles of insight and analysis on its comic book connections—but that's not all. Check out the other big stories we…
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Apr 27, 2024
In the tech world, developer conferences are like birthdays. These mega-events happen annually and remind us of the cadence of life and that time is a neverending circle. Google I/O 2024 will be no different.
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Apr 27, 2024
This week Apple got a dose of reality as people are caring less about its Vision Pro. A robot tank with green eyes and a robo dog with a flamethrower show that the future of warfare is here. And to round things out, Elon Musk's AI bot isn't that smart. Here's all the big tech news for the week.
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Apr 27, 2024
Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent years, as the ‘de-extinction' company announced plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and, most recently, the dodo bird, developing a bioengineering toolkit along the way that has prompted investment from outfits like In-Q-Tel, a…
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Apr 27, 2024
Colossal Biosciences has generated a flurry of headlines in recent years, as the ‘de-extinction' company announced plans to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and, most recently, the dodo bird, developing a bioengineering toolkit along the way that has prompted investment from outfits like In-Q-Tel, a…
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