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Apr 26, 2024

New Karate Kid Movie Shifts to Line Up With Cobra Kai
Cobra Kai fans finally have some clarity about how, exactly, this new Karate Kid movie fits into everything. Sony Pictures just moved the new movie's release date from December 13 to May 30, 2025, specifically so it could be released after the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai.

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Apr 26, 2024

The Full Star Wars Saga Celebrates 25 Years of Lego
Nowhere in Star Wars will old Han Solo meet young Han Solo. Yoda is not likely to ever meet Grogu. Princess Leia won't cross paths with General Leia. Some things are just not going to happen. Unless, well, it's Lego, where any and everything is possible.

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Apr 26, 2024

Chaturbate Owes Texas $675,000 for Not Verifying the Age of Users
Chaturbate will pay $675,000 in fines for not adhering to a new law in Texas that requires all porn sites to verify the age of users, according to a new report from 404 Media which cites a court order released Friday.

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Apr 26, 2024

The Long Comics History Behind X-Men's Sentinel Program
For almost as long as they have been in the comics, the X-Men and mutantkind at large have been stalked by a world that hates and fears them—a world that manifested that hate in the metallic, unflinching face of the Sentinel Program. Just as the X-Men have grown and changed wildly since those early days, so too have…

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Apr 26, 2024

Florida Dolphin Dies of Bird Flu as Alarm Grows Over Species Spread
Bird flu isn't just lurking inside cows, new research shows. Florida scientists have reported the first known case of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Though the case dates back to 2022, it's the latest indication that these flu strains can potentially infect…

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Apr 26, 2024

Nintendo Switch 2: Everything You Need to Know
This post was updated 4/26/24 at 4:35 p.m. ET to include new rumors about the size of the Switch 2's Joycons.

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Apr 26, 2024

How Twisters' Director Developed a Taste for Disaster
When Lee Isaac Chung was announced as the director of the long-awaited sequel Twisters, many of us scratched our heads. Chung is, obviously, a talented filmmaker. His most recent film, Minari, had just come off multiple Oscar nominations including a win. But to go from that small, personal film to the big-budget…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Google Wants to Show You More YouTube Ads When You Pause Videos
If you already hate ads on YouTube, then you're going to have a bad time with Pause Ads. During its earnings calls on Thursday,Google crowed about the success of the tests it's run on the ads, which could indicate the "feature" will roll out to even more watchers.

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Apr 26, 2024

Julia Garner's Rosemary's Baby Prequel Finds a Home at Paramount
It's universally acknowledged that 1968's Rosemary's Baby is an influential horror classic. Attempts to directly recapture that witchy magic, however, have fallen flat: 1976 made-for-TV sequel Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby is pretty universally despised, as is the 2014 miniseries remake with Zoe Saldaña.…

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Apr 26, 2024

It's a Great Time to Be an Alien Fan
Happy Alien Day to all those who celebrate. April 26, as many of you know, is the day pop culture has decided to celebrate one of the landmark franchises in science fiction: Alien. That's because the planet in the sequel Aliens is LV-426—so, April 26. But while in the past Alien Day has been largely an excuse to…

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Apr 26, 2024

Drake Removes Diss Track With AI Tupac to Avoid Lawsuit
Update, Apt. 26, 2:43 p.m.: As of Friday morning, Drake appears to have pulled "Taylor Made" from X and Instagram where he originally posted the diss track. A link to the original post on Instagram read "the page may have been removed." It seems Drake bent to the demands of Tupac's lawyers to avoid legal action.

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Apr 26, 2024

Hubble Telescope Put Into Dreaded Safe Mode Due to Ongoing Glitch
NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope isn't doing so well. The observatory has been suffering from a pesky glitch affecting its gyroscope, causing it to suspend its science operations for a second time in less than six months.

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Apr 26, 2024

Ritual Offerings, Hallucinogenic Plant Found Under Ancient Maya Ball Court
A baseball player may tap his helmet three times before stepping up to the plate, and an Argentina supporter may burn incense in front of a portrait of Diego Maradona as the Albiceleste kick off. Now, a team of archaeologists have found evidence that the ancient Maya blessed their ball courts with ritual offerings, an…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Bring Your Favorite Creative Geniuses Home With You
George Lucas. Hayao Miyazaki. Stan Lee. Shigeru Miyamoto. Names such as these have defined our lives. The art and products geniuses like these have created are as important to us as anything. And while we decorate our homes and imaginations with their work, what about the people themselves? When is their time in the…

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Apr 26, 2024

Everything You Need to Know About Disneyland's Pixar Fest
Pixar Fest is kicking off today at the Disneyland Resort in a celebration that will span both Disney California Adventure and Disneyland. At a recent media preview, io9 visited both parks getting in on the Pixar Fest action, which runs from now until August 4 with entertainment offerings that include characters from Tu…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Former Pixar Animator Gives One Big Reason AI Video Won't Work in Hollywood
AI-generated video has received a lot of hype lately as a tool that's supposedly going to revolutionize Hollywood. But Craig Good, a former animator at Pixar who worked on classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo, isn't convinced. Good thinks there's one big problem with AI video software that will immediately…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Russia's UN Veto Fuels More Tension With the US Over Nuclear Weapons in Space
This week, Russia unsurprisingly vetoed a draft resolution to prevent the placement of nuclear weapons in orbit. Russia's rejection of the United Nations resolution is not a clear indication that it possesses orbital arsenal that could destroy satellite constellations, but it shows the country is not wavering under…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Another New Evil Dead Movie Is Escaping the Basement
Evil Dead's cackling Deadites can never truly be defeated, which means there'll always be fresh Evil Dead stories to tell—even without horror icon Bruce Campbell playing the lead, as last year's excellent Evil Dead Rise proved. A few months back, an Evil Dead "spin-off" was announced, and now there's news of a whole…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Bernie Sanders Is Taking on Ozempic's ‘Astronomically High' Price Tag
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking aim at one of Big Pharma's newest cash cows: the latest generation of effective obesity medications. On Wednesday, Sanders' office announced that the senator is launching an investigation into Novo Nordisk over the "astronomically high" list prices of their drugs Wegovy and…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

9 Disturbing Stories From People Who Say They Found Cameras in Their Airbnb
Airbnb announced in March that all indoor security cameras would be banned at its properties worldwide starting April 30. And if you read through online complaints about cameras that were discovered during Airbnb stays over the years, it's easy to understand why it's been such a controversial issue.

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Feds Probe Tesla's Recall of 2 Million EVs Over Autopilot
Tesla is facing a new probe from U.S. auto safety regulators related to its Autopilot driver assistance technology, even as a separate investigation has been closed.

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone
Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect's phone using their fingerprint. You probably didn't hear about it. The case didn't get a lot of coverage, especially because the courts weren't…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Using AI for Visual Dubbing Part 1 | AI Unlocked
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Apr 26, 2024

Doctor Who's Ncuti Gatwa and Russell T. Davies on Bringing Out the Doctor's Queerness
Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who debut last year broke the mold for many reasons, but for one excellent one among many, it meant that for the first time ever fans got to be introduced to a Doctor played by an openly queer man—and playing a Doctor unafraid of acknowledging that, either.

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Apr 26, 2024

Scientists Discover Mysterious Ecosystem Beneath Earth's Driest Desert
The Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth—is actually teeming with life beneath the ground, according to a team of researchers that recently scrutinized its soils.

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Apr 26, 2024

Plato's Burial Place and Details of His Last Night Revealed in Carbonized Scroll From Herculaneum
The Greek philosopher Plato—Socrates' student and Aristotle's teacher—died nearly 2,400 years ago, having produced a voluminous amount of writing on political philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, and more (he came up with Atlantis!). This week, researchers announced that they found the burial place of the famous…

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Apr 26, 2024

Baltimore Man Accused of Framing High School Principal With Racist AI Voice Clone
Baltimore County Police arrested the former athletic director of Pikesville High School on Thursday, alleging he used an AI voice clone to impersonate the school's principal, leading the public to believe Principal Eric Eiswert had made racist and antisemitic comments, according to The Baltimore Banner.

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Just Look at This Jar Jar Binks Action Figure
A lot is going on this May to celebrate 25 years of the prequel trilogy kicking off in The Phantom Menace—a way for us to reflect, and look back on how remembrance and appreciation of the film has wildly evolved over the last quarter century. But it also gives ups an opportunity, as Star Wars always wants, for…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Saudi Arabia's Sci-Fi Megacity in the Desert Isn't Going Well
Over the last several years, Saudi Arabia has been working on a massive infrastructure project that its leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS) hopes will transform the Kingdom and its relationship with the outside world. The Neom project is a series of developments that are currently under construction in…

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Apr 26, 2024

Russell T. Davies Teases Jinkx Monsoon's Divine Doctor Who Villain
Zach Cregger's mysterious Barbarian follow up recruits a Silver Surfer. Rosario Dawson dances around the mystery of Ahsoka season 2. Olga Kurylenko shows off from the Thunderbolts set. Plus, what's coming on Chucky as things get even weirder. To me, my spoilers!

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

$20,000 Reward Offered After Dolphin Found Shot Dead in Louisiana
A dead dolphin recently found washed up at West Mae's Beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana was shot three times, according to a news release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The NOAA is now offering a $20,000 reward for any information that leads to the successful identification and prosecution…

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Fight, Sell, or Shut Down: What's Next for TikTok?
Congress passed a bill this week that forces TikTok to be sold or face a nationwide ban. President Biden signed it into law Wednesday, starting a 270-day timer for TikTok to decide its future in the United States. There's been talk about a ban like this for years, but now it's actually happening.

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Gizmodo
Apr 26, 2024

Make Taking Pictures on iPhone Fun Again With These Retro Photo Apps
No matter your composition, the lighting, and your attempts to manually set zoom or exposure, iPhone pictures all still have the same dull quality. They are not dull in the sense they're not vibrant or detailed, but by default, with the "Standard" photo style, they're all using the same obtuse post-processing that…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Pixar Fest Is Turning Red With Mei the Panda and 4*Town at Disney Parks
Fans of Pixar's sleeper hit Turning Red will be happy to know that Mei and her friends have taken over both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in a big way.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Ella Purnell Breaks Down Fallout's Big Season Finale Twists
Like the video games before it, Fallout is a hit. The Prime Video series is getting a second season, which means we'll get to see what's next for Ella Purnell's Lucy. After leaving the artificial confines of Vault 33, she got a crash course in surface-dwelling life in the post-apocalyptic world—as well as the sinister…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Net Neutrality Is Back. Yes, You Should Care
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) killed net neutrality back in 2017 under former president Donald Trump, but on Thursday, it brought it back from the dead.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Today's the Day The Flash Was Meant to Go Missing
When The Flash launched in October 2014—the second project of the CW's bold attempt to flesh out its own superhero cinematic universe—its premiere episode ended with a bold statement: not only would the series be still going in a decade's time, it would have grown enough to tackle one of the most iconic stories in DC…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Scientists Can Now See Inside a Single Cancer Cell
A team in the UK hasfound a new window into cancer, thanks to a novel imaging technique that allows them to take a detailed look at the fatty cargo inside a single tumor cell. The tech could make it easier to understand how different cancers respond to specific treatments, among many other insights.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Everything Exciting About the Android 15 Beta So Far
In the past, every new version of Android felt like a special occasion for the platform's devoted users. It meant new software features, better algorithms, improved user interfaces, and maybe even something fun, like an easter egg.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

10 Years Ago Today, Star Wars Changed Forever
Arguably the most important, game-changing event in the history of Star Wars storytelling happened 10 years ago today. On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm announced that the Star Wars Expanded Universe was being pushed aside. All future storytelling would be part of the same, cohesive canon, and the EU stories fans knew and…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

The TikTok Ban Is Law. What Now?
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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

No, This Is Not a Pope's Exorcist Sequel, It's a Different Russell Crowe Exorcist Movie
His Jekyll and Hyde moment might have evaporated with Universal's ill-fated Dark Universe, but Russell Crowe hasn't turned his back on horror: on the heels of The Pope's Exorcist, which became a surprise Netflix smash, he's got The Exorcism—an unrelated film that obviously shares some familiar themes.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Juno's Best Images of Jupiter and Its Moons (So Far)
Jupiter and its moons are a diverse and dynamic subdivision of our solar system's neighborhood, one that NASA's Juno spacecraft has been visiting since 2016. Besides hosting the system's largest planet, at over 300 times the mass of our own planet, the Jovian system includes 95 known moons, the largest of which are…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Deadpool & Wolverine's Director Promises No Homework Is Needed
Outside of Avengers: Endgame, Deadpool & Wolverine may carry the most pre-release baggage of anything in Marvel history. For Deadpool, you've got not just two movies, but also all the behind-the-scenes drama leading up to them. With Wolverine, you've got 10 X-Men movies with all manner of wild stories, including the…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Reddit Suffers Widespread Outage, Slowly Comes Back Online
Update, 1:33 p.m.ET: Reddit says on its status page that a fix for the problem has been deployed and the site should be coming back up for everyone.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Love Is Always the Answer on Star Trek: Discovery
We've said this many times before, and will no doubt say it a least a few times before as it nears its final end this season: Star Trek: Discovery is not a subtle show. It never has been, but ever since it really found its confidence and understood where its strengths were, it has never shied away from yelling them…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Moderna Employees Should Use ChatGPT at Least 20 Times a Day, CEO Says
One of the world's top vaccine-makers is partnering with a major AI company to advance medicine — and its chief executive is excited.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

The Lord of the Rings Is Coming Back to Theaters This Summer
Pack the lembas bread and gather up your fellowship, we're going back to Middle-earth. Warner Bros. is releasing the extended editions of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters for one weekend only this June, and it's the first time the re-releases will feature their remastered 4K versions from 2020.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Chinese Astronauts Performed Emergency Space Station Repairs Following Debris Impact
China's space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings attached to the core module, which had been damaged by space debris.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Photos: Hellish Dust Storm in Greece Leaves Athens Dark Orange
Residents in Greece were witnesses to a hellish-looking dust storm this week. The dust originated from the Sahara desert in North Africa and was blown across the Mediterranean Sea by strong winds. By Tuesday, Athens and other Greek cities were blanketed in an orange-red and potentially dangerous haze.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Heroes & Villains' New Star Wars Collection Is Your Niamos-Worthy Look This Summer
Ramp up your summer fandom wardrobe with Heroes & Villains' new Star Wars resort collection. This new line from the online retailer has ‘fits perfect for May the Fourth, Mother's Day, Memorial Day weekend, Father's Day, and summer vacations at beach destinations like Niamos or Ibiza.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

The Worst Airlines for Losing and Damaging Luggage
It would be easy to presume that airlines would spare no expense to ensure that passengers' luggage meets them at their destination, considering how lucrative the attached fees are. Airlines globally made more than $29 billion in checked bag fees in 2022. However, frequent flyers are well aware that bags can be lost…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

The Saddest and Strangest Tales of Animals in Space
From spiders struggling to make webs in orbit to bats clinging to the outside of the Space Shuttle, the history of animals in space is as fascinating as it is weird. Here are some of our favorite stories.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Everything You (Probably) Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Steam Deck
The Steam Deck remains extra popular partly due to the stranglehold Valve's Steam has on the PC games market but also partially because it (arguably) popularized the modern rendition of the handheld console. It's not the smallest, it's not the most powerful, but damn is it appealing. More than two years after the Deck'…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Russell T. Davies Defends Doctor Who's Timey-Wimey New Release Schedule
There is perhaps no funnier dichotomy in sci-fi fandom than Doctor Who—a show that has inherently been about the nature of change and the mutability of time for six decades—having a fandom that, by and large, does not cope well with change. But one major change coming into the show's new season has had UK audiences…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Unistellar Odyssey Telescope Brings Powerful Simplicity to Backyard Astronomy
Robotic telescopes of various shapes and sizes are hitting the market these days, each promising clear views of the cosmos and ease of use—attributes not often found paired together in a single telescope. Amateur and backyard astronomers are now fully embracing this ongoing, auto-GOTO revolution, but not every…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Drake May Go to Court Over AI-Generated Tupac
Drake released a diss track against Kendrick Lamar over the weekend featuring AI-generated versions of West Coast legends Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. Tupac's estate sent Drake a letter on Wednesday threatening to sue him for using the late rapper's voice in a "blatant abuse" of his legacy, according to Billboard.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Lego's Gorgeous New Space Sets Shoot You Into the Stars
If you thought Lego's space toys for May were limited to the world of Star Wars, think again—the toymaker's latest reveals bring things back to our time and our galaxy, and they combine stunning engineering with incredible art.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

How Cult Filmmaker Don Coscarelli Brought Phantasm From the Screen to the Page
io9 talked to cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli when he released his memoir in 2018. Now, the director of Phantasm I-IV, as well as Bubba Ho-Tep, The Beastmaster, and John Dies at the End, is trying something new: fiction. Or rather, Phiction—a book of short stories that explores "tales from the world of Phantasm."

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis's Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
In about five years' time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers). During this rare encounter, Apophis will be ten times closer to Earth than the Moon and scientists want to take full advantage of its visit.

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Sonic 3 Has Big Connections to One of Sonic's Most Beloved Games
Hasbro is working with Sony on bringing Clue back to the world of film and TV. The producers of Dead Boy Detectives tease the new adaptation. Plus, Furiosa gets rated. Spoilers, away!

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Garry's Mod Deleting 20 Years of Content After Nintendo Sends Takedown Notices
Garry's Mod, a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve's Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry's Mod, are in the process of removing about 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related content from the…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Do You Have a Constitutional Right to TikTok?
President Biden signed the TikTok ban into law on Wednesday, forcing China-based Bytedance to sell the app or face a ban in American app stores. TikTok tells Gizmodo it will fight the law in court, a case likely to reach the Supreme Court, saying that Biden's law "tramples" First Amendment protections. In interviews…

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Gizmodo
Apr 25, 2024

Hidden Google Maps Features You Should Know About
I have always used Google Maps but never cared enough to look beyond the basic features. It wasn't until today that I made an effort to explore the app and ended up going down a rabbit hole of all the cool things it's capable of. You might already know some of these, but you might have missed a handful of interesting…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Has There Ever Been a More Joyful Movie Than Amélie?
Try putting pure joy into words. The English language has plenty of worthy adjectives and beautiful metaphors but nothing quite comes close to actually, perfectly capturing what it feels like to be completely filled with happiness. To reverberate with delight. To float on cloud nine. No, to adequately capture that…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Tales of the Empire's First Clip Gives General Grievous a Bit of Menace Back
When we first met General Grievous 20 years ago this month in Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars microseries, it gave him an immediate, chilling presence. But then Revenge of the Sith, and with it the Clone Wars 3DCG series, constrained what could be done with the character. Grievous took on the air of a Saturday morning…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Steam Changes Refund Policy to Stop Freeloaders
Steam's refund policy for games is simple: You have two hours to play the game after you buy it to decide if you want to keep it. Like all good things, some folks decided to take advantage of a loophole, and now Valve has changed its policy to close it.

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

What Made George Takei Write a Children's Book About World War II?
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Apr 24, 2024

Oh No, There's an Orb Shortage
Worldcoin, the project that hands out free cryptocurrency in exchange for biometric data, is experiencing a shortage of the orbs that scan everyone's eyeballs, according to a new report from Semafor. But Tools for Humanity, the startup behind Worldcoin, seems to think that's a good sign. Apparently, 10 million people…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Zombie Blockbuster 28 Years Later Will Have Serious Star Power
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are not screwing around when it comes to their upcoming zombie film, 28 Years Later. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes are the first three actors who've joined the film, a follow-up to the cult classics 28 Weeks Later and 28 Days Later.

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

The Bird Flu Situation Is Not Looking Great
Food and Drug Administration officials reported this week that lab tests have found genetic material from strains of H5N1 avian influenza in samples of store-bought pasteurized milk. Officials say these samples do not appear to contain live virus and that the commercial milk supply should still be safe. But the…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Airlines Will Now Have to Give You Cash When They Screw Up
The Department of Transportation announced a final rule mandating that airlines automatically give cash refunds to passengers and inform passengers of their right to a refund on Wednesday. The policy change highlights the Biden Administration's continued hardline support of consumer rights in the skies. The USDOT…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find
A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person's political orientation by simply looking at that person's blank, expressionless face.

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Watch Office Pals John Krasinski and Steve Carell Reunite for If
Many of us watch The Office more often than we care to admit. We've spent so much time with the series that, over the years, the characters and the actors who portray themhave almost become family. So when a video like this comes online, it's more than just delightful. It's cathartic.

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Trump Media Goes to Congress With Claims That Its Stock Is Being Illegally Traded
Trump Media & Technology Group is doubling down on claims that its stock is being illegally traded — this time bringing its concerns to congressional leaders.

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

How Dark Matter Aims to Ground High-Concept Sci-Fi With Real-World Emotions
If you've read Blake Crouch's 2016 novel Dark Matter—and a lot of people have, considering it's a best-seller—you're probably wondering how the upcoming Apple TV adaptation will handle the high-concept gimmick that propels the story: a box, designed by a genius that's one version of the main character, that allows…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Voltron's 40th Anniversary Set Proves Dreams Come True
It took 40 years, but recently one of my toy dreams came true. After writing this article about toys that you always wanted, but could never have, I was contacted to see if I'd be interested in receiving and writing about a brand new set of Voltron toys to celebrate the franchise's 40th anniversary. The answer wasn't…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

How to Turn Off Those Pesky Start Menu Ads in Windows 11
I didn't realize that Microsoft had pushed out the update that brought advertising to the Windows 11 Start menu until I started to read the news. I've had recommendations turned off this entire time. It turns out the same option hides the "curated" Microsoft Store apps currently populating on systems running the KB5036…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

X-Men '97 Knows Exactly Where Tolerance Will Get You
The concept of tolerance has weighed heavily upon Disney seriesX-Men ‘97. And now as the world and what is left of mutantkind looks upon the ruins of Genosha, the series is ready to grit its teeth and show some fangs, giving us righteously bitter examination of just where the morals of that tolerance—the morals cast…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

iPad Pro OLED: Everything We Know So Far
This guide was updated on April 24 at 2:10 to include new details on the iPad calculator app April 19 at 8:44 a.m. ET to include new rumors from DSCC analyst Ross Young.

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

New Research Points to Violent Origin of Enigmatic Earth 'Quasi-Moon'
For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo'oalewa has invoked speculation over how it came to orbit the Sun in total synchrony with Earth as though it shares some special relationship with our planet. A new study of the oddball may have pinpointed where it came from: a young impact crater on the far side of…

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

This Jim Henson Documentary From Director Ron Howard Already Has Us Weeping
Edit Kermit the Frog singing "Rainbow Connection" over almost anything and people are going to get emotional. But when you put it over a documentary about the man who created Kermit, with footage of them both together, then it's a surefire shot to the tear ducts.

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Fallout's Vinyl Soundtrack Is Coming, And We Spoke to Composer Ramin Djawadi About It
Before you leave the Vault and head to the Wasteland, you'd better pack the essentials. Water, weapons, Pip-Boy, and of course a vinyl copy of the original soundtrack to Fallout.

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

DARPA's New 12-Ton Robot Tank Has Glowing Green Eyes for Some Reason
DARPA announced successful tests of its new autonomous vehicles on Wednesday, all part of the agency's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program. And while the tests sound impressive, we found ourselves transfixed by one little visual detail: The 12-ton tank's glowing green eyes.

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Gizmodo
Apr 24, 2024

Injury Rates at SpaceX Soar Above Industry Norms
SpaceX, the world leader in rocket launches, is increasingly coming under scrutiny for its workplace practices. A recent safety review performed by Reuters highlights an upsetting trend at the aerospace company. For the second year in a row, injury rates at SpaceX far exceed the industry average. This is according to…

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Apr 24, 2024

Biden Signs TikTok Ban Into Law, but His Campaign Will Continue Using It
President Joe Biden signed the TikTok bill into law on Wednesday morning, officially starting the 270-day clock for TikTok's owner, China-based Bytedance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in American app stores.

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Apr 24, 2024

10 Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Movies to Watch After You Binge Fallout
Fallout's delightful fun first season dropped all eight episodes on Prime Video at once, meaning if you started watching it when it arrived, you've no doubt reached the end—and are longingly pining for season two's arrival. Since that is at least a year away, and probably longer, here are 10 movies to watch now that…

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Apr 24, 2024

Elon Musk Needs Robots, and He Needs Them Now
It's a classic Elon Musk move. Tesla released some pretty grim first-quarter numbers on Tuesday, showing that net income dropped more than 50% from last year. During the earnings call, however, Musk floated his "new" vision for the electric car company. Tesla is now focused on building an AI-powered fleet of…

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Apr 24, 2024

A Complete, Unhinged Guide to the X-Men Movie Timeline Before Deadpool & Wolverine
The chronology of any comic book storyline or character—woven throughout decades of creative teams, retcons, and realignments to the narrative—is always a complicated affair. But there are few mainstream adaptations with a more convoluted mess of timelines and canons than Fox's X-Men movies. Now, nearly two and a half…

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Apr 24, 2024

NYU Doctors Perform First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Combined With Heart Pump Implant
Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world's first combination pig kidney and heart pump transplant. The recipient is a 54-year-old woman named Lisa Pisano who was diagnosed with terminal kidney disease and heart failure.

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Apr 24, 2024

Cities Scramble to Find Trees That Will Survive the Century
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Apr 24, 2024

Home Depot's New Halloween Collection Brings Back All Your Giant-Sized Skeletal Friends
It's just about halfway to Halloween and Home Depot is ready to start rolling out spooky season decor to celebrate. The store's most viral release—Skelly, the 12-foot skeleton—is consistently hard to find as the holiday gets closer, so with that in mind the popular must-have will be released early as part of this drop.

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Apr 24, 2024

First Look: Qualcomm Is Coming for Intel's Lunch With the Snapdragon X Plus
Tired of the so-called AI PCs already? Buckle up because we, or perhaps the artificial intelligence, haven't even begun to peak. More power-efficient ARM-based CPUs don't get nearly as much limelight as the x86 type. Still, chipmaker Qualcomm is trying to turn your eyes toward its latest Snapdragon chips by promising…

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Apr 24, 2024

Explore NASA's Best Photos of the Year
NASA is a proud boomer that loves posting a good photo album. The space agency released 100 of its best 2023 photos on flickr, which go through the exciting highlights of the previous year.

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Apr 24, 2024

Top 7 AirPods Tips for Newbies
If you have really basic questions about your new AirPods, this guide will help you with everything from connecting them to cleaning them. It also includes some tips for improving sound and customizing controls—that will make the most out of your new Apple earbuds.

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Apr 24, 2024

Nathan Fillion Teases Superman's Take on Guy Gardner
Apple's Neuromancer adaptation finds itself a new hacker. Al Pacino and Dan Stevens are teaming up for a new exorcist horror. Plus, more casting news from Wednesday season 2, what's coming on Chucky season 2, and a new clip from X-Men ‘97. Spoilers get!

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Apr 24, 2024

NASA Rover Reaches Promising Place to Search for Fossilised Life on Mars
Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA's Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to "search for potential evidence of past life," according to the official mission objectives.

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Apr 24, 2024

NASA Launches Solar Sail to Test Sunlight-Propelled Space Travel
A new experimental mission by NASA is now flying in orbit, aiming to use photons from the Sun to propel its way to higher altitudes.

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Apr 24, 2024

Viral Photo of Dog Humping a Robot Dog Is Sadly Fake
Have you seen that photo of a dog attempting to make sweet and passionate love to a robot dog? It's gone viral on sites like Reddit, Instagram, and X. But it's fake. Hopelessly, tragically fake.

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Apr 24, 2024

The Best Alternatives to Spotify for Streaming Music
Things have been rough for Spotify. There was anti-vaccine misinformation prominently featured on a Joe Rogan podcast on the app, which garnered quite a lot of criticism, and earlier this month, it also once again raised its prices. The famous music streaming app is also notorious for being anti-artist by severely…

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