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My Favorite Cinematic Space Battles

From For All Mankind to Space Sweepers, every day more great sci-fi adventures grace our screens both big and small. All signs point to a sci-fi renaissance filled with reluctant heroes, scrappy misfits, and snarky sentient robots. Of course, I can’t forget one of the most quintessential staples of the genre: the epic space battle.…

Movies J.S. Dewes

The Weird, Unholy Alliance of Tucker Carlson and Environmentalists

Tucker Carlson has used his platform to, among other things, undermine climate science and lie about renewable energy. Yet last week, he put out an impassioned plea to save the Maine woods, claiming that “real environmentalists” should oppose a power line connecting Quebec hydropower to the U.S. Bizarrely, he and the Sierra Club are on…

Energy Molly Taft

Apple Mulled Lowering Its App Store Commissions Way Back in 2011, Emails Show

At the heart of Epic Games’ case against Apple is the company’s 30% App Store commission and its iron rule over in-app purchases. We now know, thanks to internal documents unearthed through the Epic’s lawsuit, that Phil Schiller, the top executive in charge of App Store, had floated the idea of cutting its infamous Apple…

Tech News Victoria Song

The Original Super Sentai Manga Is a Fascinating Tale of 2 Tones

Shotaro Ishinomori is one of the grandfathers of Tokusatsu as we know it—the legend behind Kamen Rider and Super Sentai. Without him, Japanese superheroes would be in a very different space today. But Ishinomori is equally remembered as a mangaka king: and when he combined the two, there were some truly remarkable results. Before he…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Despite Drug Industry Claims, Higher List Prices Do Mean Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs for Many Patients

New research suggests that as the list price of brand name drugs rise, so do out-of-pocket medical costs for these drugs—at least for some patients. This is counter to a common industry claim that patients aren’t affected by list price increases. The study found a link between list prices rising and out-of-pocket increases among people…

Health Ed Cara

NOAA’s New Climate Normals Show the U.S. Has Never Been Hotter

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants us to know it’s not the 1980s anymore. On Tuesday, it announced new 30-year averages for temperature and precipitation. Unsurprisingly, the “new normal” is hotter. NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information update what it considers average every decade. For the past decade, the U.S. has used normals based on…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Disney’s ‘Real’ Star Wars Lightsaber Is Revealed, and It’s Fantastic

It’s always fun waking up to presents, and on this most Star Wars of holidays, Disney has gifted fans with the first official video of its real-life lightsaber replicas featuring glowing blades that actually extend and retract. But sad news for many of us: it sounds like you won’t be able to buy one for…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

Updates From Dungeons & Dragons, The Conjuring, and More

There’s good news for Stargirl and Kung Fu’s future on the CW. Get a look at the new ghost-ship show from the creators of Dark. The What We Do in the Shadow sets its premiere date. Plus, a psychedelic glimpse of Army of the Dead. Spoilers get! Dungeons & Dragons Production has officially begun on…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Samsung’s Galaxy A52 5G Gives You the Most Phone for Your Money

Samsung’s Galaxy A52 5G has a lot to live up to. Not only is it the successor to last year’s top-selling Android phone, but it’s also the star of Samsung’s new mid-range A-Series (the slightly more premium Galaxy A72 isn’t coming to the U.S). With people holding onto their phones for longer, there’s a good…

Smartphones Sam Rutherford

India Surpasses 20 Million Covid-19 Cases as Biden Stays Silent on Vaccine IP Waivers

India surpassed 20 million covid-19 cases on Tuesday, becoming only the second country in the world after the United States to reach that dark milestone. And to make matters worse, experts pretty uniformly agree it’s a vast undercount of the real crisis, which has left at least 222,408 people dead in the country since the…

Health Matt Novak

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Trades a Murky War for a Touching Tale of Found Family

After over a decade and seven seasons, last year brought us the end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. But it also introduced us to its spiritual successor in the form of the unlikely clone heroes of the Bad Batch. Now, they’re in their own Disney+ animated series, and in leaving the Clone War behind,…

Television James Whitbrook

Turn Your Amazon Echo Dot Into an Aging Baby Yoda With Male Pattern Baldness

A few months after OtterBox gave the Echo Dot a Baby Yoda facelift last year, Amazon revealed a complete redesign of the smart speaker, making it rounder to squeeze better speakers inside. So OtterBox is back with another Grogu-themed stand for the fourth-generation Echo Dot, but this time around, the Child isn’t looking as adorable.…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say

When you get a new phone number, mobile carriers will often “recycle” your old one—assigning it to a new phone and, therefore, a new customer. Carriers say the reason they do this is to stave off a hypothetical future of “number exhaustion”—a sort of “peak oil” for phone numbers, when every possible number that could…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

There’s So Much New Star Wars Art on May 4, May Your Wallet Be With You

If you’re in the market for a new piece of Star Wars art, May the Fourth be with you. To celebrate the unofficial Star Wars holiday, many galleries, dealers, and artists are selling brand new Star Wars art, and today we’re highlighting just a few of our favorites. First, the team at Mondo has this…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier

Uber Is Teaming Up With Arrival To Create an Electric Ride-Hailing Car

Arrival, the electric bus and vehicle manufacturer that’s been making waves since it went public in March, announced on Monday that it plans to partner with Uber to create a completely electric ride-hailing car. A UK-based startup perhaps best known for its desire to disrupt the traditional assembly line models in auto manufacturing in favor…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Doctor Strange 2 Had to Be Rewritten When Marvel Cut Strange From WandaVision

Benedict Cumberbatch was signed to appear as Doctor Strange on the finale of WandaVision. Then Marvel decided against it and had to change everything. Rolling Stone spoke to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and he explained how this surprising news all went down. Basically, because Marvel had announced Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) would be appearing in…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

Child Sexual Abuse Site With 400,000 Users Shut Down by a Multinational Task Force

An international task force has shut down a large-scale dark web child sexual abuse platform, along with several similarly aligned dark web chat sites. According to an announcement from Germany’s Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT), “Boystown” had 400,000 registered users and was “one of Europe’s most prolific child sexual abuse platforms on the…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Tom Hanks’ New Sci-Fi Film From Game of Thrones‘ Miguel Sapochnik Moves to Apple

Tom Hanks has a new sci-fi film coming out from Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, and while it was originally called Bios and set for theatrical release this August, it has now changed its title to Finch and has a new release date and outlet. Originally, Bios was being released by Universal. Now Finch…

Movies Germain Lussier

Lego’s 2,354-Piece Space Shuttle Discovery Is Worth Every Penny

One of the best ways to learn is to study under someone who’s already highly skilled, and when it comes to building with Lego, the official sets are a treasure trove of knowledge from some of the world’s most talented model makers. The new Lego Space Shuttle Discovery is not only a wonderfully detailed model,…

Other Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

What It Really Means That the U.S. Won’t Reach Herd Immunity

An article in the New York Times today highlights a growing attitude among public health experts about the near future of the covid-19 pandemic: Herd immunity, at least for the time being, is likely out of reach in the U.S. But as upsetting as that sounds, it doesn’t mean the pandemic won’t be substantially contained,…

Health Ed Cara

My Favorite Cinematic Space Battles

The Weird, Unholy Alliance of Tucker Carlson and Environmentalists

Apple Mulled Lowering Its App Store Commissions Way Back in 2011, Emails Show

The Original Super Sentai Manga Is a Fascinating Tale of 2 Tones

Despite Drug Industry Claims, Higher List Prices Do Mean Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs for Many Patients

NOAA’s New Climate Normals Show the U.S. Has Never Been Hotter

Disney’s ‘Real’ Star Wars Lightsaber Is Revealed, and It’s Fantastic

Updates From Dungeons & Dragons, The Conjuring, and More

Samsung’s Galaxy A52 5G Gives You the Most Phone for Your Money

India Surpasses 20 Million Covid-19 Cases as Biden Stays Silent on Vaccine IP Waivers

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Trades a Murky War for a Touching Tale of Found Family

Turn Your Amazon Echo Dot Into an Aging Baby Yoda With Male Pattern Baldness

Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say

There’s So Much New Star Wars Art on May 4, May Your Wallet Be With You

Uber Is Teaming Up With Arrival To Create an Electric Ride-Hailing Car

Doctor Strange 2 Had to Be Rewritten When Marvel Cut Strange From WandaVision

Child Sexual Abuse Site With 400,000 Users Shut Down by a Multinational Task Force

Tom Hanks’ New Sci-Fi Film From Game of Thrones‘ Miguel Sapochnik Moves to Apple

Lego’s 2,354-Piece Space Shuttle Discovery Is Worth Every Penny

What It Really Means That the U.S. Won’t Reach Herd Immunity

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