The Amazing Art and Toys We Loved at DesignerCon 2023

Every year, there are a few dates I immediately look forward to on the calendar. My birthday, of course. My wedding anniversary. Christmas. Super Bowl. San Diego Comic-Con. And, maybe above all others, DesignerCon.Read more... | Continue reading


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Covid-19 Paralyzed a Teen Girl's Vocal Cords, Doctors Say

We’re still discovering new ways covid-19 can harm us, some four years after the emergence of this complicated viral disease. In a recent report, doctors in Massachusetts describe a teen girl whose vocal cords became paralyzed soon after a bout of covid-19. The girl required a tr … | Continue reading


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NASA-Funded Space Ventures Set for Back-to-Back Moon Landings in Early 2024

Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are all set with their Moon landers. Now they just need their rockets prepped and the launch windows to swing open. But once underway, these NASA-funded missions, slated for early 2024, will chart a new course for the future of private space expl … | Continue reading


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Why Xbox Game Pass Will Help Microsoft Win the Console Wars

This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.Read more... | Continue reading


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The Most Captivating Spaceflight Images of 2023

Experimental rockets, Moon landers, planetary flybys, breathtaking spacewalks, and vintage boosters—these are just a few of the many stories that contributed to the most striking and memorable images of 2023.Read more... | Continue reading


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NASA's Moon-Bound Astronauts Prepare for Emergency Ahead of 2024 Launch

Four astronauts are getting ready to travel to the Moon and back for NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, and the space agency is making sure that the crew is well-prepared in case things go wrong during the 10-day journey through space.Read more... | Continue reading


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Ryan Gosling Brings Major Holiday Flair to Barbie's 'I'm Just Ken'

When the sunglasses go on, Ryan Gosling disappears and becomes just Ken. Read more... | Continue reading


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With AI Advertising, Nothing Is Real | AI Unlocked

An ad exec explains how AI is building a surreal new marketing landscape. | Continue reading


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Here's How to Get a Piece of the $25 Million Apple Family Sharing Settlement

If you ever enrolled in the Apple Family Sharing with a family member between 2015 and 2019, you may entitled to a cut from the $25 million legal settlement Apple agreed to pay. MacRumors did some math and claims you could get between $30 to $50 if you qualify.Read more... | Continue reading


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Godzilla Minus One Is Getting a Glorious Black and White Re-Release

The best sci-fi movie of 2023 is already making an early play for the best sci-fi movie of 2024 on a technicality. After its unprecedented international success, Godzilla Minus One is returning to Japanese theaters for a special release in black and white.Read more... | Continue reading


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Flightless Bird: E-Scooter Company Bird Declares Bankruptcy

Electric scooter company Bird is flying south for the winter, and it might be a very different kind of fowl by the time it returns. The Miami, Florida-based micro-mobility company known for allowing rambunctious, helmetless e-scooterists to fly down city streets declared bankrupt … | Continue reading


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Disney+ Sets Its Star Wars and Marvel Slate for 2024

Mutant Mayhem’s Jeff Rowe talks keeping Shredder back for the sequel. Wyatt Russell discusses’ Thunderbolts filming schedule. Get a look at Jadis’ return for Walking Dead: Ones Who Live. Plus, get a look at Adam Sandler’s new sci-fi movie for Netflix, Spaceman. To me, my spoilers … | Continue reading


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Here's Why You'll Hear About a Lot More Data Breaches in 2024

Cybersecurity incidents are constantly in the news these days, but you’ll soon be hearing about a lot more of them. That’s because a new rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission went into effect on Monday, requiring all public companies to report data breaches in just fou … | Continue reading


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Adorable Cat Video Reaches Earth After 16-Million-Mile Journey from Deep Space

NASA just combined all of my favorite things: space, lasers, and cats. In a first-of-its-kind demonstration of deep space optical communication, the space agency streamed a high-definition video from 19 million miles away from Earth. And as it turns out, NASA is just as obsessed … | Continue reading


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Elon Musk Draws the Ire of the Tesla Hoe

This week, Tesla made an abrupt change to its in-vehicle entertainment system interface, appearing to cut Disney+ out of the rotation of apps that could be accessed by users. Teslarati initially reported that the car company appeared “to have axed Disney+ from its vehicles.” The … | Continue reading


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10 Movies to Stream Tonight If You Can't Stand Christmas

Christmas horror movies are never not popular—but what about those holiday-themed dramas, film noirs, and action comedies that never seem to surface on festive watch lists? We’ve gathered 10 movies to stream if all the traditional titles make you want to gouge your eyes out with … | Continue reading


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Magic: The Gathering Formally Bans the Use of Generative AI in 'Final' Products

An error in judgement earlier this year—when a D&D artist confirmed they had used generative AI programs to finish several pieces of art included in the sourcebook Glory of the Giants—saw Wizards of the Coast publicly ban the use of AI tools in the process of creating art for the … | Continue reading


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INTERPOL Arrests 3,500 Suspects in Sweeping Cybercrime Operation

Interpol, an international police organization, has arrested nearly 3,500 people allegedly connected to cybercrime in a sweeping operation announced on Tuesday. $300 million worth of assets across 34 countries were reportedly seized. The operation, Haechi IV, blocked over 80,000 … | Continue reading


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The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users

Last week, Epic won a years-long suit against Google for anti-competitive practices within the Play Store. We were all left wondering: what would happen to Android’s app store moving forward? Today, Google laid out what’s happening in its Keyword blog, and it’s all in time for th … | Continue reading


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What We Do in the Shadows Is Coming to an End

The finest residents of New Yohrk Citaaaaaay are bowing out. Vulture reports that as What We Do in the Shadows prepares to begin production on its sixth season next month, it is doing so knowing that it will be the last.Read more... | Continue reading


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China’s Spaceplane Just Released Six Mysterious Objects in Orbit

China’s Shenlong robotic spaceplane, on its third mission, has added a new layer of intrigue to its space activities by deploying six unidentified objects into Earth’s orbit.Read more... | Continue reading


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Dave Filoni Sees Hera Syndulla as Thrawn's Ultimate Foe

A second season of Ahsoka hasn’t been officially announced yet, but showrunner Dave Filoni has begun to share some of its possibilities. Read more... | Continue reading


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2023 Was the Weakest Year for Memes in History

For the last two decades, some of the weirdest and most creative things on the internet played out in images and GIFs. There have always been terrible memes, but for years, memes as a category were consistently funny, useful, inspiring, and even thought-provoking. They crossed ov … | Continue reading


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Can Apple Finally Make Mac Gaming Stick?

This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.Read more... | Continue reading


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Master & Dynamic's new Headphones Will Use Neural Sensors to Help You Focus

Master & Dynamic’s already-premium $599 luxury headphones, MW75, are about to get a very brainy upgrade. They’re about to get brain tech embedded in them.Read more... | Continue reading


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Lego Is Officially Making a Twilight Set

Vampires are so hot right now. With Interview With the Vampire and Baldur’s Gate 3's Astarion being anywhere and everywhere online, we’re in a toothsome renaissance not seen since the days of... well, Twilight’s cultural dominance. So it’s perhaps fitting that it itself returns f … | Continue reading


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Marvel Became Its Own Worst Enemy in 2023

This year, the once-untouchable Marvel Studios finally showed some vulnerability. For 15 years, the studio behind some of the biggest and best superhero movies ever was all but invincible. Every single gamble paid off. Every story expertly seeded over a decade blossomed beautiful … | Continue reading


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Polish Train-Bricking Scandal Reportedly Kept Under Wraps by Government Officials

A Polish hacking group, Dragon Sector, went public recently with a scandal about one of Poland’s oldest train makers, Newag, bricking its own trains when they were repaired by third parties. However, new reporting on Tuesday from Polish publication Onet alleges that Dragon Sector … | Continue reading


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See the Breathtaking Power of Iceland's Volcanic Eruption

A trepidatious Iceland has waited for this moment for over a month: a large crack in the ground has started to spew up lava. In mid-November, hundreds of tremors—earthquakes that portended the eruptions to come—forced the evacuation of the nearby Icelandic village of Grindavík an … | Continue reading


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Blue Origin Rebounds With New Shepard's Successful Launch After Previous Mission Failure

After over a year of being grounded, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket embarked on its first cargo mission since a fiery anomaly led to a mission failure in September 2022.Read more... | Continue reading


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Rick and Morty Season 7 Sets Max Streaming Date

Rick and Morty’s seventh season wrapped up Sunday night with “Fear No Mort,” another standout episode in what’s been one of the Adult Swim series’ strongest installments yet. But if you don’t have Adult Swim access and have been dying to see what you’ve been missing—including the … | Continue reading


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Netflix Avatar's Showrunner Discusses Losing the Original Creators

When Netflix first announced it was bringing the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender to live-action, it was doing so with the help of the people who helped shape it in the first place: Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino. Then, two years later, they suddenly weren’t. And … | Continue reading


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Volkswagen Bows to Touchscreen Criticism, Will Bring Back Physical Buttons

There’s more than nostalgia making folks pine for the days of knobs, dials, and buttons. Touchscreens are fine for all-in-one devices but not for something as simple as controlling a car’s air conditioning. Volkswagen had to learn the hard way that just because something can be p … | Continue reading


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NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Telescope Is Being Dragged Down by the Sun

A diligent surveyor of the night skies, NEOWISE is sadly approaching its fiery demise as the Sun’s erratic outbursts are causing the infrared telescope to gradually fall out of its orbit before it eventually burns up in Earth’s atmosphere.Read more... | Continue reading


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Updates From Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and More

Kung Fu Panda director Mike Mitchell hopes there’s more movies in the series’ future. Get a new look at a brooding Lestat in Interview With the Vampire season two. Plus, get a look at Hulu’s fantasy anime/live-action hybrid Dragons of Wonderhatch. Spoilers, away!Read more... | Continue reading


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Insomniac Hack Exposes Wolverine Video Game and Employee Passports

Developers at Insomniac Games working on the upcoming Wolverine video game just had over a terabyte of internal data leaked on the dark web, according to Cyber Daily. A ransomware gang, Rhysida, leaked 1.3 million files on Tuesday that expose key details about PlayStation’s new M … | Continue reading


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The Cage Fight With Musk Never Happened, but Zuck Won 2023

This summer, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk blew the internet’s mind by claiming they would fight each other in a “cage match”-style brawl. The rival tech execs were feuding over their platforms’ competition in the microblogging space and their proposed solution to this rivalry wa … | Continue reading


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Timothée Chalamet Isn’t Sure Why Dune Spoilers Are a Thing

The future of the Dune movies are shrouded in a lot of secrecy, especially given the high anticipation for the now long-delayed Part Two. But at least one person at the heart of them is a little confused as to why, when you can get a pretty good gist of what’s to come by reading … | Continue reading


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Americans Have a Snack Problem

Your snack habit may be even more calorie-dense than you think, recent research suggests. A study estimated that snacking contributes to around 20% of an average American’s daily caloric intake, and these snacks often add little nutritional value. The scientists found, though, th … | Continue reading


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Upcoming SpaceX Launch to Include First Direct-to-Cell Starlink Satellites

SpaceX is gearing up to launch the first batch of Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability, with plans to test the technology in Earth orbit so that it can expand its reach on Earth beyond the range of cell towers.Read more... | Continue reading


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Marvel Drops Jonathan Majors as Kang After Assault Trial Verdict

The future is uncertain for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Marvel’s planned crossover film, set for release May 1, 2026, will likely feature a new face taking over the role of Kang the Conqueror as Jonathan Majors has been ousted as the MCU’s reigning big bad.Read more... | Continue reading


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OpenAI’s New Board Members Are Now the Boss of Sam Altman (If They Want to Be)

OpenAI has a new Board of Directors following its November skirmish, but they can still overrule CEO Sam Altman on any decisions he makes, according to a set of guidelines the company released Monday. That means if OpenAI creates artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI syste … | Continue reading


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Tolkien Estate and Amazon Win Court Case for Lord of the Rings Rights

It’s baffling that someone really tried to legitimize fan fiction when the estate of of The Lord of the Rings author is still actively pushing out adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal work.Read more... | Continue reading


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Elon Musk Gets the John Oliver Treatment

It’s been a long year. The Titan submersible getting crushed? That was only six months ago even though it feels like it had to have been at least two years ago considering all that has happened since then. Elon Musk, especially, has been in the news constantly and rarely for anyt … | Continue reading


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Growing Up With Cats Linked to Higher Schizophrenia Risk

Growing up with cats could have a strange effect on your mind, new research suggests. The study, a large review of existing literature, found that cat ownership at a young age was associated with a noticeably higher risk of developing schizophrenia and related disorders—a risk po … | Continue reading


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Huge Mortgage and Loan Company Suffers Data Breach Impacting 14 Million People

If you’ve ever bought a home with the help of the well-known mortgage and loan firm Mr. Cooper, there’s a good chance that your personal information has been stolen by cybercriminals. Read more... | Continue reading


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Marvel Star Jonathan Majors Found Guilty of Reckless Assault

The jury has reached a verdict in Jonathan Majors’ trial, declaring the Marvel Studios actor guilty of reckless assault in the third degree as well as guilty of harassment. He was found not guilty of intentional assault in the third degree and not guilty of aggravated harassment … | Continue reading


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The Fictional Characters We Lost in 2023

Light a candle for those fictional characters we lost in 2023. Characters we’ve come to know either over the years, or maybe even over just a few short hours of a movie or TV show. But these characters left an impression on us meaning, as 2023 comes to an end, it was time to give … | Continue reading


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