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A Time Loop Harbors a Killer in the Trailer for Shudder’s Lucky

Every night, without fail, a woman must fight off the same mysterious maniac who comes to her house and tries to kill her. That’s the premise for time-loop chiller Lucky—presumably the title is ironic—a mind-bending new horror movie from director Natasha Kermani (Imitation Girl) that’s coming soon to Shudder. Check out the trailer for Lucky…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Survivors of Severe Covid-19 Should Get Their Eyes Checked, Study Suggests

Doctors are warning that covid-19 may be capable of causing lingering eye problems. A new study suggests that some people who survive a severe infection can develop growths in the back of their eyes that could lead to vision loss. It is not yet clear how covid-19 might cause these growths, or if people with…

Health Ed Cara

Billionaires’ Favorite Climate Solution Is a Dangerous Distraction

An Elon Musk tweet can do everything from moving the stock market to convincing people to invest in a joke cryptocurrency. So when the richest man on Earth tweeted in late January about kicking $100 million to whoever could come up with the best technology to capture carbon from the air, the world took notice.…

Earther Brian Kahn

Elijah Wood Is Nerdily Confused About Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Show Title

And if anyone would know, it’s Frodo, right? Speaking toEmpire Magazine (via /Film), Lord of the Rings film trilogy star Elijah Wood mentioned his confusion over the name of Amazon Prime’s upcoming prequel show, which will take place in Middle-earth’s Second Age, thousands of years before the events chronicled in Lord of the Rings. “I…

io9 Rob Bricken

M1 Malware Has Arrived

Now that Apple has officially begun the transition to Apple Silicon, so has malware. Security researcher Patrick Wardle published a blog detailing that he’d found a malicious program dubbed GoSearch22, a Safari browser extension that’s been reworked for Apple’s M1 processor. (The extension is a variant of the Pirrit adware family, which is notorious on…

Tech News Victoria Song

Image: Anthony Winn, Robert Jones, Michael Taylor, Dave Nestelle, and Guy Major/Dark Horse Comics and Marvel Comics

That Time Star Wars Was Fine With a Polygamous Jedi

With the heady mix of an unnecessarily passionate fanbase and overwhelmingly archived canonical world, Star Wars fandom is the perfect hellscape for arguments over what a certain kind of thing a character can be. The Jedi are no exception, and the idea of Force users adopting that title if they don’t perfectly gel with the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Google Maps Adds Tools to Pay for Parking and Transit in App

As part of Google’s continued efforts to expand the features of its popular mapping app, today Google announced the ability to pay for both parking and transit fares directly in Google Maps. With the pandemic making people even warier of touching public surfaces, the ability to pay for parking in Google Maps is not only…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Million-Year-Old Mammoth Teeth Contain Oldest DNA Ever Found

An international team of scientists has sequenced DNA from mammoth teeth that is at least a million years old, if not older. This research, published today in Nature, not only provides exciting new insight into mammoth evolutionary history, it reveals an entirely unknown lineage of ancient mammoth. The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) may rival T.…

Biology Jeanne Timmons

The RetroN Sq Console That Plays Game Boy Games on Your TV Finally Arrives Next Month

First announced as an April Fool’s Day prank product back in 2017, at CES 2020 Hyperkin revealed that it was actually turning the Game Boy cart playing RetroN Jr. into a real console. Over a year later, the company has renamed the device—now called the RetroN Sq (because of its boxy square shape)—and confirmed that…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Hackers Steal Data from Law Firm Accused of ‘Aiding’ Trump’s Election Disputes

A ransomware gang claims to have stolen over 100 gigabytes of data from Jones Day, a prominent global law firm that recently stirred backlash for its entanglement in the 2020 presidential election. The hacker group CL0P has posted a large tranche of stolen files to a dark web “leak site,” claiming it snatched them from…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

I Miss My First Real Digital Camera, a 3.3-Megapixel Wonder

The Game Boy Camera might have been my first foray into digital photography, but my first real digital camera—the one that taught me the basics of photography and digital post-processing—was also one of the first true prosumer digital cameras to hit the market in 2000: the Canon PowerShot G1. Although my uncle had a basement…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Disney’s Cruella Trailer Is Pretty Much a Batman Villain Origin Story

It’s tough to say just how much public interest there was in a movie exploring the early days of 101 Dalmatians’s would-be dog-murdering fashion icon Cruella de Vil. But it’s easy enough to see how, with two live-action Maleficent movies under its belt, Disney figured it could keep the villain origin machine chugging. Cruella’s freshly-dropped…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

More Rumors About Cara Dune’s Uncertain Star Wars Future

The Dungeons & Dragons movie adds a Bridgerton star. Jordan Peele’s next horror movie is already attracting stars. Is there really hope for a new Gremlins movie? Plus, Zack Snyder wants his hands on Arthurian legend, and Ducktales reveals its farewell plans. To me, my spoilers! Dungeons & Dragons Vulture reports Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page has…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Lenovo Can Do No Wrong With Its Yoga 7i Laptop

One of Lenovo’s newest Yoga 2-in-1 convertible laptops

Laptops Joanna Nelius

Texas Mayor Announces Resignation After Unhinged Facebook Rant About Power Outages Goes Viral

Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, announced his resignation on Tuesday following a viral Facebook post where he whined about residents who wanted help during the extreme weather that has caused widespread power outages and dangerously cold conditions for millions of people throughout the state. Boyd accused some Texans who didn’t have power…

Earth Science Matt Novak

Seriously Gruesome Death of an Egyptian Pharaoh Detailed in New Study

The forensic analysis of a 3,600-year-old mummy is providing fascinating new insights into a pivotal Egyptian pharaoh and the circumstances of his exceptionally violent death. Seqenenre-Taa-II was likely executed by multiple assailants after being captured on the battlefield, according to new research published in the science journal Frontiers in Medicine. The new research also shows…

Human History George Dvorsky

A Hugely Popular File-Sharing Android App Also Has Giant, Terrible Security Flaws

An Android app used by a significant chunk of the global population also has glaring security flaws that would allow a savvy hacker to steal a user’s data or even hijack the app’s operations using arbitrary code. ShareIt, which claims to have more than 1 billion global downloads, is the product of Singapore-based developer Smart…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Sony Sued For Not Honoring Warranty Agreements on Defective PS5 Controllers

Sony is facing a class action lawsuit over its reported failure to honor warranty agreements on PlayStation 5 controllers with obvious “drift” defects. In a complaint filed in the Southern District of New York on February 12, the Japanese conglomerate is accused of violating consumer fraud statutes and breaching warranty agreements related to the PS5…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Netflix’s Dota: Dragon’s Blood Anime Reveals Itself in New Teaser

The video game-adapted series launches globally starting March 25.

Television Cheryl Eddy

Tom and Jerry Will Kill Us All

No, not the upcoming movie. I mean Tom the mouse and Jerry the Cat, who will clearly unleash destruction and possibly death throughout the world if their animated forms ever break through to our material plane of existence. The Tom & Jerry movie is no longer a movie, but a PSA warning us of the…

Movies Rob Bricken

A Time Loop Harbors a Killer in the Trailer for Shudder’s Lucky

Survivors of Severe Covid-19 Should Get Their Eyes Checked, Study Suggests

Billionaires’ Favorite Climate Solution Is a Dangerous Distraction

Elijah Wood Is Nerdily Confused About Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Show Title

M1 Malware Has Arrived

That Time Star Wars Was Fine With a Polygamous Jedi

Google Maps Adds Tools to Pay for Parking and Transit in App

Million-Year-Old Mammoth Teeth Contain Oldest DNA Ever Found

The RetroN Sq Console That Plays Game Boy Games on Your TV Finally Arrives Next Month

Hackers Steal Data from Law Firm Accused of ‘Aiding’ Trump’s Election Disputes

I Miss My First Real Digital Camera, a 3.3-Megapixel Wonder

Disney’s Cruella Trailer Is Pretty Much a Batman Villain Origin Story

More Rumors About Cara Dune’s Uncertain Star Wars Future

Lenovo Can Do No Wrong With Its Yoga 7i Laptop

Texas Mayor Announces Resignation After Unhinged Facebook Rant About Power Outages Goes Viral

Seriously Gruesome Death of an Egyptian Pharaoh Detailed in New Study

A Hugely Popular File-Sharing Android App Also Has Giant, Terrible Security Flaws

Sony Sued For Not Honoring Warranty Agreements on Defective PS5 Controllers

Netflix’s Dota: Dragon’s Blood Anime Reveals Itself in New Teaser

Tom and Jerry Will Kill Us All

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