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The New Mortal Kombat Theme Remix Is So Goddamned Good, You Guys

I don’t care how good this new Mortal Kombat movie is going to be, it is extremely unlikely to be better than this glorious—update? remix? cover?—of the classic Mortal Kombat theme. It’s a banger that slaps, and whatever other cool slang kids are calling very good music nowadays. This glorious EDM update of the Mortal…

Movies Rob Bricken

California Could Require Uber and Lyft to Go Electric by 2030

If you live in California, chances are you could be taking many more Uber and Lyft trips in electric vehicles in the coming years. The state’s clean air agency is poised to mandate that nearly all vehicles used by drivers working for ridesharing companies be electric by 2030. The proposal from the California Air Resources…

Climate Change Molly Taft

Take Off With This NASA-Themed Casio G-Shock

Casio watches range from the super-complex to the dead simple, and this homage to NASA trends to the latter. The watch, the G-Shock DW5600, basically just tells time, but, if you love the Space Shuttle or you’re a hypebeast, you’ll be telling time in style. The watch commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first Space…

Gadgets John Biggs

Indiana Jones 5 Picks Up the Talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Another Lucasfilm saga to add to her ridiculously talented belt. Today Disney confirmed that Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge—who previously appeared as the self-righteous droid L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars story—will join the main cast of the still-untitled Indiana Jones 5. According to Lucasfilm, Waller-Bridge will “star alongside” the returning Harrison Ford, who of course…

Movies James Whitbrook

Apple Never Made iMessage for Android to Lock-In iOS Users, Epic Court Docs Show

As part of the ongoing legal battle between Fortnite maker Epic and Apple, some new information has come to light confirming the most annoying thing about Apple’s iMessage app: that Apple could make a cross-platform version of iMessage for Android phones, but it won’t because it would be bad for business. This info comes from…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

‘Explosive Eruption’ Rocks St. Vincent as Soufriere Volcano Spews Ash Across the Caribbean

On Friday, the small Caribbean island of St. Vincent became the epicenter of the seismic world when La Soufriere volcano sent a cloud of ash flying 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) into the sky and streaming across the Atlantic. The volcano has been rumbling for months, but authorities raised alert levels to red in the northern…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Amazon Union Vote Fails in Bessemer, as Union Calls for Investigation

Amazon has won the first round in its fight to squash a union in its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse. Hundreds of contested ballots remain, but Amazon has reached the minimum threshold of 1,608 “no” votes needed to prevent workers from joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The public count of uncontested ballots has…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Star Trek: Discovery and She-Ra Win Big at GLAAD Media Awards

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation held their annual Media Awards ceremony last night (virtually, of course) to celebrate the fiction and nonfiction that best represents the LGBTQ community. While She-Ra and the Princesses of Power was probably a lock to win Outstanding Kids & Family Programming, Star Trek: Discovery also snagged the Best…

io9 Rob Bricken

Verizon’s Recalling 2.5 Million of Its Dangerously Literal Hotspots

Verizon, along with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), has issued a recall of roughly 2.5 million Ellipsis Jetpack hotspots as they, quite literally, get too hot to handle. So far, Verizon has received 15 reports of the devices overheating, six of which resulted in fire damage to bedding or flooring, according to CPSC. There…

Internet Victoria Song

You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy and Build Festo’s Incredibly Agile Wing-Flapping Robotic Bird

About a year ago, Festo, a company whose nature-inspired robots are as impressive as Boston Dynamics’ creations, blew our minds with a robotic flying bird that used feather wings to perform agile airborne maneuvers. It was a prototype back then, but later this year, the company will start selling a kit that allows anyone to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

How to Use a USB-C Hub to Upgrade Your Chromecast With Google TV

The Chromecast with Google TV is one of our favorite gadgets, but its capabilities can be extended even further with the right accessory.

Gadgets David Nield

Updates From Black Adam, Black Widow, and More

A new Saw is in development. The 4400 reboot expands its cast. The Mortal Kombat kast assembles in a new poster. Plus, what’s next on Supergirl and Batwoman, and a sneak peek at today’s Invincible. Spoilers get! Black Adam Deadline reports Tony-nominated actor James Cusati-Moyer has joined the cast of Black Adam in a currently…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

My Eyes Hate Me for Loving This Impossibly Tiny Game Boy Clone

If someone dared Nintendo to make the smallest handheld console imaginable, the results would be the FunKey S, a keychain-sized retro gaming machine that can emulate more than 10 different classic consoles. Only this console wasn’t made by Nintendo—instead, this pint-sized device was created by a group of retro enthusiasts whose love for gaming has…

Gaming Andrew Liszewski

9.5 Million Users Traded Cryptocurrency on Robinhood in First Quarter of 2021

Roughly 9.5 million people traded cryptocurrency on the Robinhood app in the first quarter of 2021, the company announced in a new blog post on Thursday. The number is significantly higher than the last quarter of 2020, when just 1.7 million people traded cryptocurrencies on Robinhood, according to the company. The news from Robinhood comes…

Tech News Matt Novak

Elon Musk’s ‘Public Transit’ in Las Vegas Still Just Humans Driving Cars Slowly in a Tunnel

Local media outlets in Las Vegas were invited for a sneak peek of Elon Musk’s new form of ‘public transit’ on Thursday. But just how futuristic is this technology, which Musk’s Boring Company has dubbed the “Loop”? That depends how futuristic you think a car being driven slowly by a human inside of a tunnel…

Tech News Matt Novak

Samsung’s Upgraded Smart Tracker Can Help You Find Your Keys Using AR

On Thursday, Samsung announced plans to launch an upgraded version of its Galaxy SmartTag smart trackers, the aptly named SmartTag+, globally on April 16 with a U.S. rollout expected sometime “in the coming weeks.” These smart trackers attach to your keys, wallet, or whatever you frequently misplace to help you hunt them down via an…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

Emails Show Amazon Pressured USPS to Install Mailbox at Alabama Warehouse Ahead of Union Vote

Amazon reportedly pressured the United States Postal Service to expedite the installation of a mailbox outside of its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse ahead of a high-profile union vote, a move union supporters argue is a blatant tactic to intimidate employees. That’s according to a series of internal USPS emails obtained in a Freedom of Information Act…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Ranking the Ghostbusters Mini-Puft Toys From Least Distressing to Infinitely Disturbing

Yesterday, a short clip from the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife introduced the Mini-Pufts, miniature versions of the classic Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man that terrorized Manhattan back in the original 1984 movie. They’re adorable…in theory, because in practice they’re tiny nightmares who live only to torture, murder, and cannibalize each other. Hasbro has revealed some of Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s…

Toys & Collectibles Rob Bricken

Biden Orders DOJ to Come Up With a Way of Regulating Untraceable Gun Kits

Joe Biden’s administration made its first move on gun control on Thursday, issuing executive actions for the Department of Justice to develop rules regarding so-called “ghost guns” and attachments that turn high-powered pistols into rifles, as well as write model legislation to keep volatile individuals away from firearms. Ghost guns, as they’ve become known, are…

Politics Tom McKay

Renée Elise Goldsberry Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s First Hamilton Alum

Looks like someone included women in the sequel after all. Deadline reports Renée Elise Goldsberry, best known for her Tony Award-winning performance as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, has been cast in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ show She-Hulk. Tatiana Maslany stars as the title character, a lawyer with powers similar to that of Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo,…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

The New Mortal Kombat Theme Remix Is So Goddamned Good, You Guys

California Could Require Uber and Lyft to Go Electric by 2030

Take Off With This NASA-Themed Casio G-Shock

Indiana Jones 5 Picks Up the Talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Apple Never Made iMessage for Android to Lock-In iOS Users, Epic Court Docs Show

‘Explosive Eruption’ Rocks St. Vincent as Soufriere Volcano Spews Ash Across the Caribbean

Amazon Union Vote Fails in Bessemer, as Union Calls for Investigation

Star Trek: Discovery and She-Ra Win Big at GLAAD Media Awards

Verizon’s Recalling 2.5 Million of Its Dangerously Literal Hotspots

You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy and Build Festo’s Incredibly Agile Wing-Flapping Robotic Bird

How to Use a USB-C Hub to Upgrade Your Chromecast With Google TV

Updates From Black Adam, Black Widow, and More

My Eyes Hate Me for Loving This Impossibly Tiny Game Boy Clone

9.5 Million Users Traded Cryptocurrency on Robinhood in First Quarter of 2021

Elon Musk’s ‘Public Transit’ in Las Vegas Still Just Humans Driving Cars Slowly in a Tunnel

Samsung’s Upgraded Smart Tracker Can Help You Find Your Keys Using AR

Emails Show Amazon Pressured USPS to Install Mailbox at Alabama Warehouse Ahead of Union Vote

Ranking the Ghostbusters Mini-Puft Toys From Least Distressing to Infinitely Disturbing

Biden Orders DOJ to Come Up With a Way of Regulating Untraceable Gun Kits

Renée Elise Goldsberry Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s First Hamilton Alum

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