How to Spoof Google's Circle to Search With an Apple Shortcut

Android’s best new feature in years is Circle to Search. So it’s no wonder iPhone users are happy to learn there’s a way to replicate it. Read more... | Continue reading


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Furiosa's Latest Trailer Rewinds Through the Wasteland

Almost a decade has passed since we last visited George Miller’s Wasteland and now it’s almost time to return. In just two short weeks, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, will be here and it’ll be a lovely day indeed. Read more... | Continue reading


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NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months

The future of space travel depends on our ability to reach celestial pit stops faster and more efficiently. As such, NASA is working with a technology development company on a new propulsion system that could drop off humans on Mars in a relatively speedy two months’ time rather … | Continue reading


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These Are the Best Budget Headphones Under $150

Let’s face it: while some of the best headphones we’ve tested sound incredible, they don’t come cheap. Believe it or not, there are plenty of affordable options out there that sound good and don’t require you to spend hundreds of dollars. This list specifically shouts out all the … | Continue reading


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Star Trek's 2009 Reboot Changed Everything

Star Trek has been an important fixture of sci-fi TV for decades, and alongside its continued existence, movies have helped further flesh out the characters. But in both the movies and TV, the early 2000s weren’t kind to the franchise: 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis was a critical and … | Continue reading


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Meredith Salenger on Barriss' Big Moment in Tales of the Empire

As Tales of the Empire digs its way through the story of Barriss Offee—and her quest to survive the rise of the Empire, at any cost—there comes a moment that climaxes a decade-plus wait for fans who’ve wanted to see what happened to the former Jedi Padawan after the shocking conc … | Continue reading


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X-Men '97's New Costumes Go Back to the '80s

The wait is almost over.X-Men ‘97's three-part finale continues tomorrow when “Tolerance Is Extinction, Pt. 2” drops on Disney+. Read more... | Continue reading


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Russell T Davies Wants to Save Doctor Who From the British Government

Russell T Davies may have already returned to Doctor Who with its 60th anniversary specials, but a new, full season of the show brings with it myriad opportunities. Doctor Who’s latest relaunch is no exception: a new Doctor, a new companion, new adventures, and perhaps in the big … | Continue reading


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Disney's New Tangled Ride Has to Be Seen to Be Believed

Here’s our first look inside Rapunzel’s Lantern Festival, a new dark ride at Tokyo DisneySea’s Fantasy Springs based on Disney Animation’s Tangled. The attraction is a boat ride not unlike Pirates of the Caribbean that takes you through the story of Rapunzel’s dream to see the fl … | Continue reading


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How Did Water Escape From Venus? A New Study May Have Solved the Mystery

Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure, it’s believed that both planets likely began with similar amounts of water. Today, however, Venus is a hellish … | Continue reading


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Future Swiss Army Knives Won't Have Blades, Maker Victorinox Says

The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the “Swiss Army Knife” of whatever category they’re a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuf … | Continue reading


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3 Things We Liked, and 4 We Didn't, About Tales of the Empire

This past weekend, Lucasfilm dropped Tales of the Empire, the second entry in its animated anthology series exploring the dual stories of characters in the galaxy far, far away. But what worked and what didn’t in getting to explore the stories of Morgan Elsbeth and Barriss Offee … | Continue reading


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Microsoft Has a New Offline AI Service Designed for U.S. Spies

Microsoft deployed a generative AI model on Thursday for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret information, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft announced the AI offering at the 2024 SCSP AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The GPT-4-based mode … | Continue reading


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George Miller on the Subtle But Important Use of CG in Furiosa

As part of a special screening of Furiosa at IMAX Headquarters in Los Angeles, George Miller chatted with press about the highly anticipated prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. The film, long in development hell during multiple WB regime changes, will finally open on May 24—and it’s w … | Continue reading


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TikTok Sues U.S. Government Over Ban

On Tuesday, TikTok fired back against the U.S. government over a law that could put an end to the social video platform. Read more... | Continue reading


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Tesla Has a Looming Deadline to Explain Its Autopilot Recall

Tesla has less than two months to respond to inquires from U.S. auto safety regulators about its December recall of more than 2 million electric vehicles. Read more... | Continue reading


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U.S. Military Shot Down Drones With Lasers in Middle East: Report

The U.S. military has been using drones to shoot down enemy drones in the Middle East, according to a new report from Forbes, which cites the U.S. Army. And while it’s been public knowledge that lasers have been deployed on U.S. ships and used in tests overseas during the past de … | Continue reading


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This Is the Elite Group of Spacecraft That Have Carried NASA Astronauts

Following a scrub on Monday, Boeing is getting ready to launch its first crew of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, May 10, as part of a $4.3 billion contract with NASA. Perhaps surprisingly, this is only the sixth vehicle owned or funded by NASA to be … | Continue reading


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First Look: Apple’s New OLED iPad Pro Is Incredibly Light and Hella Bright

We’ve long anticipated this new OLED iPad Pro, growing almost bored with the wait, and yet the new tablet announcement was weighty enough that it still managed to leave us winded. Sure, the updated iPad Air with M2 and a 13-inch variation would be par for the course for Apple’s s … | Continue reading


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How Caesar’s Legacy Impacts Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Living creatures don’t live forever but ideas can. They may shift, change, or get misinterpreted along the way, but ideas remain long after the people who had them are gone. That’s a central theme in the new film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, especially when it comes to the … | Continue reading


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Here’s Everything Apple Announced at Its 'Let Loose' iPad Event

Amid a backdrop of spring birds chirping away the morning, Apple announced a bevy of updates to its iPad lineup in a streamed presentation. The company has launched a new family of iPad Airs with an updated processor and double the storage, plus two new iPad Pros with MacBook-lev … | Continue reading


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Dark Matter's Twisty Sci-Fi Thrills Have a Very Human Heart

A physics professor with a pretty great life—cool Chicago brownstone, cool wife, cool teenage son—is nonetheless bothered by a voice in his head that wonders what his life might have been, if he’d only he’d made different choices along the way. It’s something everyone has thought … | Continue reading


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Google Pixel 8a First Look: A Budget Phone With Everything You Need

You officially know everything there is to know about the Pixel 8a—and this time, it’s not based on rumors! Google revealed the details behind its next mid-tier smartphone, the $500 Pixel 8a. It features plenty of bells and whistles you’ve seen before, including the Tensor G3 CPU … | Continue reading


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The Google Pixel 8a Is an Almost Complete Do-Over of the Pixel 8

If you like affordable, stylish smartphones, you’ll like what the Google Pixel 8a is all about. Once again, Google’s mid-year mid-range offering is a revised reprise of the previous fall flagship. It comes in a batch of new colors, with most of the same camera and performance fea … | Continue reading


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You're Practically Guaranteed to Get Alzheimer's If You Have This Genetic Variant

A team of scientists seems to have discovered a previously hidden genetic cause of Alzheimer’s. In a new study Monday, the researchers found strong evidence that people carrying two copies of a genetic variation already tied to Alzheimer’s risk are practically destined to develop … | Continue reading


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Apple Announces New OLED iPad Pros With Powerful New M4 Chips

The wait is finally over. Apple just announced two brand-new iPad Pros—an 11-inch and a 13-inch model—at its Let Loose event today, confirming our months-long speculation about them. The event also revealed two new 11 and 13-inch iPad Air models. Read more... | Continue reading


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Cop-Proof Your Phones Right Now

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Sperm Whale Communication Is Remarkably Similar to Human Language, Research Suggests

Sperm whales’ clicking communiques include context and combination structures that make their messaging more akin to language than previously known, according to a team of researchers at MIT. Read more... | Continue reading


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Bob Iger Says Marvel Will Only Release Up to 3 Movies and 2 Shows a Year Now

Marvel’s diplomatically up-and-down recent history has sat alongside a desire from its parent company Disney to see the studio capitalize on the post-Endgame era with Marvel content overflowing from not just the box office, but our TV screens as well. It’s meant that in the last … | Continue reading


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Michelle Yeoh Will Lead Amazon's Blade Runner 2049 Sequel Series

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once academy award-winner, Star Trek star, and action queen of our hearts Michelle Yeoh is coming to the world of Blade Runner. Read more... | Continue reading


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Powerful New Chatbot Mysteriously Returns in the Middle of the Night

The mysterious AI chatbot, “gpt2-chatbot,” returned to the major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org, on Monday night roughly a week after it abruptly disappeared. But now, there are two: “im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot” and “im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot.” These models exhib … | Continue reading


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Trippy NASA Visualization Takes You Inside a Black Hole

Light famously cannot escape the event horizon of a black hole, leaving astrophysicists to theorize and speculate what it’s like beyond the limits of human perception. Now, NASA researchers take that theorization a step further, in the form of an animation that takes you (the vie … | Continue reading


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The First Reactions to Furiosa Tease Another Mad Max Action Epic

It’s not all that much longer before we get to return to George Miller’s madcap vision of the post-apocalypse in his long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa. But while we wait, at least some people have managed to witness her already: and found a film that, while perhaps … | Continue reading


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NASA Director Is Glad Elon Musk Isn't Running SpaceX

NASA plays nicely with privately owned SpaceX, but is that something to be concerned about? In an interview with NPR, NASA director Bill Nelson assuages any fears of an unsupervised Elon Musk running a space agency by reminding us that SpaceX is actually run by its president Gwyn … | Continue reading


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Spirit Airlines CEO Calls the Airline Industry a 'Rigged Game'

Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie is definitely not bitter about how things went down with the JetBlue Airways merger that was halted by the Justice Department before eventually being abandoned. Read more... | Continue reading


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Boeing's First Crewed Starliner Launch Delayed Over Valve Issue

NASA and Boeing were forced to stand down from a launch attempt of the Starliner spacecraft on Monday due to a faulty valve that ground teams discovered just hours before liftoff. Read more... | Continue reading


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Superman & Lois' Final Episode Will Include a Surprising Arrowverse Star

The cast and crew of Doctor Who break down Ncuti Gatwa’s new Time Lord. Nicolas Cage’s next movie is an ancient Egyptian thriller. Plus, get a new look at MaXXXine. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading


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Nintendo Finally Confirms That the Switch 2 Exists

The Nintendo Switch 2 is real. Realer than real. It is so real that only the most precious select insiders, accessory-makers, and publishers have been able to see it or, in some cases, merely touch it. But Nintendo Japan’s big boss has finally offered us the measliest of official … | Continue reading


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Trump's Former Campaign Manager Is Back and He Wants to Remake American Politics With AI

GOP operative Brad Parscale is credited with using technology—specifically social media—to help get a certain former reality TV star elected President. Now, Parscale is back and he wants to use tech again to disrupt America’s political game. This time, the tech he’s excited about … | Continue reading


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Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe

What happens when you stick your finger in the closing trunk—or, in this case, the “frunk”—of a Tesla Cybertruck? It’s a question that way too many Cybertruck owners are asking themselves these days. And a new video posted to YouTube appears to show the most grotesque answer to d … | Continue reading


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The Kendrick/Drake Rap Battle Is Meme Culture at Its Finest

Late Sunday evening, I logged onto Fortnite to enjoy all the newly added Star Wars content, solo-queuing up for a No Build quads match right away. As I waited for the battle bus to pick me up, I could hear one of my teammates loudly playing Canadian actor-turned-rapper Aubrey “Dr … | Continue reading


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David Dastmalchian Auditioned for This Huge TV Role

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Hey, Vin Diesel's New Riddick Movie Is Really Happening

It’s been over a decade since we last caught up with Vin Diesel’s sci-fi antihero Richard B. Riddick—Diesel’s been spending most of his time voicing Marvel’s Groot and doing Fast & Furious movies—but it’s time to dig those goggles out of storage. The fourth film in the series, ti … | Continue reading


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Blinken Blames Social Media For Israel’s Lost Narrative on War in Gaza

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said social media dominated the narrative around Israel’s war in Gaza on Friday, sitting for an interview with Senator Mitt Romney at the McCain Institute’s 2024 Sedona Forum. Blinken’s statement on social media, which did not reference TikTok by … | Continue reading


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Breaking Down the Dark Shadows Rising in The Acolyte's New Trailer

To celebrate Star Wars Day this past weekend, Lucasfilm treated us all to one more major look at The Acolyte, the next live-action Disney+ series for the galaxy far, far away—one that in equal measure surprises us with a bunch of new tidbits about this new murder mystery among th … | Continue reading


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Boeing Admits That Its Employees Falsified Aircraft Records for 787 Dreamliner

In the latest disturbing twist to the Boeing saga, the company admitted to falsifying records related to the inspection of its 787 Dreamliner plane. The company publicly disclosed this after news broke of yet another federal investigation into the company. Read more... | Continue reading


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Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns

Would you let Elon Musk tinker with your brain? That’s a question we all might be facing in the future if his brain-computer interface company Neuralink succeeds. But anyone who’s ready to raise their hands for brain surgery might want to hear what one of the Neuralink co-founder … | Continue reading


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