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Marvel’s Secret Invasion TV Show Casts a Mysterious Villain

Beginnings and endings abound, as production wraps on The Batman and Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop, and begins on Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show loses a star. Plus, new posters for Godzilla vs. Kong and Mortal Kombat. Spoilers now! The Batman Production has officially wrapped on Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Sonic the…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Charles Steinmetz’s Predictions About 2021 From the Year 1921 Were Amazingly Accurate

Back in 1921, Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, the pioneering inventor and mathematician, was published in a Massachusetts newspaper predicting what the fantastical world of 2021 would look like. Steinmetz made some amazingly accurate predictions about things like air conditioning, cooking, electric bicycles, and home entertainment in the future. At first glance, the predictions may not…

Culture Matt Novak

Google’s New Nest Hub Tracks Your Sleep From Your Nightstand, No Wearables Required

Google hasn’t updated its smart display, the Google Home Hub, in more than two years, but today the company announced a brand new Nest Hub. While the updated version may look identical to its predecessor, Google makes up for it a fresh feature: the ability to track your sleep without requiring you to strap a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in Spotify

Just in case there are still some tricks and tools that you haven’t yet spotted, these are some of our favorites.

Gadgets David Nield

Encrypted Messaging App Signal Goes Down in China

Signal, the popular encrypted messaging app, stopped working in China on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. The app is still available in the Apple App Store in China, according to Reuters, but it’s not clear how much longer that might last. The Chinese government has not made any announcement about Signal being blocked or banned…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Machine Creates 3D Objects in Seconds

When we think of 3D printing we usually think of a little robot that squirts out endless lines of plastic onto a surface. But vacuum forming—smoothing a sheet of thin plastic over an object to make a hollow copy—has been around much longer and is the premise behind Myyard’s Formart 2. The machine allows you…

Gadgets John Biggs

Apparently the Pentagon Is Thinking of Giving Jetpacks a Try

If you need further proof that we are living in a literal science fiction movie right now, look no further than the fact that the U.S. Defense Department is thinking about strapping jetpacks onto its special forces cadres. Well, actually the term they are using is “portable personal air mobility system,” but you get the…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Let the Right One In TV Series Is Back From the Dead, With Demián Bichir Set to Star

Long in the works, the Showtime series based on the Swedish vampire tale finally has some new momentum.

Television Cheryl Eddy

California Passes New Regulation Banning ‘Dark Patterns’ Under Landmark Privacy Law

New regulations were approved under California’s Consumer Privacy Act on Monday that will prohibit the use of so-called dark patterns — tricks deployed by websites or apps that seek to frustrate or bamboozle users into doing things they wouldn’t normally do. In a Monday press release, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the new regulations,…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

In the New Voyagers Trailer, the Space Kids Are Not All Right

When we got our first look at Limitless director Neil Burger’s upcoming sci-fi movie Voyagers, it had way more footage of animals fighting each other than we had anticipated. The new trailer thankful drops most of that nonsense, only to replace it with footage of even more dangerous animals fighting each other: teens. Honestly, if…

Movies Rob Bricken

Amazon Prime Video Is Testing a Shuffle Feature Now, Too

Amazon’s streaming service is currently testing a shuffle tool that could help switch up your binge-watching routine. Prime Video’s shuffle tool will not pull from Amazon’s entire catalog but will instead shuffle episodes within a given series where it’s supported, the company confirmed to Gizmodo. That might make it a useful tool for popular legacy…

Internet Catie Keck

Everything to Remember Before The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Just two weeks after the end of WandaVision, the next story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is ready to be told. (Which is nice considering we waited well over a year between the last two installments.) That story is called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and the six-episode Disney+ series will center on two…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space

Some 230 million light-years from Earth, there’s a black hole going places. These extraordinarily dense objects are usually found sitting at the center of a galaxy violently gobbling up matter, so it was a surprise when astronomers spotted this one moving out of step with its resident galaxy. Containing more than 3 million times the…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

Facebook and News Corp Have Reached a Three Year News Distribution Deal

After temporarily disabling Australian news organizations’ ability to share news links in February, Facebook announced on Monday that it had reached a licensing agreement with the news giant News Corp. In a statement, News Corp Australia said that the three-year deal would allow the media conglomerate’s properties — including the national newspaper The Australian, the…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Studio Khara Casually Tells Evangelion Fans It Will Lock You in Jail if You Leak Thrice Upon a Time

When tentpole movies release, it’s become de rigueur for creatives to reach out and, while thanking fans for their support, casually remind them to respect their fellow fans and not leak and/or spoil anything online. Studio Khara’s taking a…more blunt approach when it comes to the final Evangelion rebuild film. After multiple delays—a diplomatic description…

Movies James Whitbrook

The AstraZeneca Vaccine Can’t Catch a Break

The covid-19 vaccine jointly developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University is once again running into trouble. On Monday, Germany, France, and Italy became the latest countries to suspend their rollout of the vaccine over concerns that it may increase the risk of blood clots. However, many experts and regulators say these suspensions are unwarranted and…

Health Ed Cara

Researchers Are Working on a Virtual Phone Virus That ‘Mimics’ the Spread of Covid-19

In an effort to assist the evolving science of contact tracing, researchers have created a virtual phone virus that is meant to “mimic” the spread of Covid-19. By “infecting” phones within a controlled environment, the researchers hope to gain a better understanding of the trajectory of viruses as they proliferate within a given population. Academics…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

The Stylish New Cruella Trailer Faces the Future

I don’t know what’s more unlikely: that Disney is making a big-budget, live-action Cruella de Vil origin story movie in the first place, or that it looks so damn good—as good as almost any of the mesmerizingly outstanding outfits Ms. De Vil (Emma Stone) sports in this new sneak peek. As Charles Pulliam-Moore pointed out…

Trailers Rob Bricken

Disney+ Series Earth Moods Is Just What I’ve Been Looking For

For those of us who turn to nature sounds when we’ve got the weirds, a new Disney+ series looks like it may fit the bill. The streaming service on Monday debuted the first look trailer and key art for Earth Moods, a National Geographic joint that will debut on Disney+ on April 16. By all…

Internet Catie Keck

Why Rainbows Look Different in Hawaii

Rain and sunlight are the key ingredients of rainbows, but many other environmental factors are required to consistently pull off this visual trick, as new research shows. “Rainbows are some of the most spectacular optical phenomena in the natural world, and Hawaii is blessed with an amazing abundance of them,” opens a new science paper…

Earth Science George Dvorsky

Marvel’s Secret Invasion TV Show Casts a Mysterious Villain

Charles Steinmetz’s Predictions About 2021 From the Year 1921 Were Amazingly Accurate

Google’s New Nest Hub Tracks Your Sleep From Your Nightstand, No Wearables Required

12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in Spotify

Encrypted Messaging App Signal Goes Down in China

This Machine Creates 3D Objects in Seconds

Apparently the Pentagon Is Thinking of Giving Jetpacks a Try

Let the Right One In TV Series Is Back From the Dead, With Demián Bichir Set to Star

California Passes New Regulation Banning ‘Dark Patterns’ Under Landmark Privacy Law

In the New Voyagers Trailer, the Space Kids Are Not All Right

Amazon Prime Video Is Testing a Shuffle Feature Now, Too

Everything to Remember Before The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space

Facebook and News Corp Have Reached a Three Year News Distribution Deal

Studio Khara Casually Tells Evangelion Fans It Will Lock You in Jail if You Leak Thrice Upon a Time

The AstraZeneca Vaccine Can’t Catch a Break

Researchers Are Working on a Virtual Phone Virus That ‘Mimics’ the Spread of Covid-19

The Stylish New Cruella Trailer Faces the Future

Disney+ Series Earth Moods Is Just What I’ve Been Looking For

Why Rainbows Look Different in Hawaii

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