 Taylor Swift Just Scared Away One of Horror's Most Popular Franchises Aug 31st 2023, 22:30, by Germain Lussier Two things are really shaking up Hollywood these days: labor unions and Taylor Swift. Thursday morning Swift announced that she was entering the fall movie season by releasing a nearly three-hour film based on her blockbuster Eras Tour. The news sent mobs of fans to online ticket sites and fear down the spines of… Read more... |  A New Facebook Setting Tells Meta Not to Use Your Data for AI Aug 31st 2023, 21:40, by Thomas Germain Meta, the maker of Facebook and Instagram, introduced a new privacy setting Thursday that lets you ask, pretty please, for the company not to use your data to train its AI models.
Read more... |  18 Fascinating Facts We Learned From the Indiana Jones 5 Making-of Doc Aug 31st 2023, 21:30, by Germain Lussier How perfect of a match was Harrison Ford's stunt double on the set of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? The stunt double could literally unlock Ford's phone with Face ID. This is just one of the fascinating, but not always essential, facts we enjoyed in a brand new making-of documentary. Read more... |  Google Chrome's New Tool Lets You Copy and Paste Screenshots From Videos Aug 31st 2023, 21:28, by Florence Ion Students, teachers, and vintage TV screencappers, the Chrome browser has a new feature that makes taking screenshots of scenes easier than before. Google used a blog post about helpful classroom tools to subtly announce the ability to copy a frame from a video. It's available in the latest release of Chrome and will… Read more... |  NASA Probe Spots Crashed Russian Moon Lander Aug 31st 2023, 20:40, by George Dvorsky NASA's trusty Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured images revealing a fresh crater on the Moon's surface. This crater is suspected to be the impact site of the ill-fated Luna 25 mission, Russia's first lunar attempt in nearly five decades.
Read more... |  More Disney Lorcana Stock Is on Its Way to Local Stores Aug 31st 2023, 20:32, by Linda Codega The Disney Lorcana trading card game arrived with a massive splash at Gen Con this year, with people staying in line overnight to get booster packs. The high demand continued after the convention, and now a Ravensburger spokesperson tells io9 that "additional booster product" will be arriving at local gaming stores in… Read more... |  A Pig Kidney Has Now Survived Inside a Human Body for Six Weeks and Counting Aug 31st 2023, 20:30, by Ed Cara Surgeons at New York University have reportedly reached another milestone in making pig-to-human organ transplants a reality. They now claim to have transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney that has survived inside a human body for six weeks and counting—the longest period yet. It's likely that larger clinical… Read more... |  Webb Telescope Spots Eye-Shaped Supernova With a Messy Filling Aug 31st 2023, 19:40, by Isaac Schultz The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), one of the brightest supernovae in the night sky and the nearest observed in centuries, according to NASA.
Read more... |  AMC Reaches a Deal With SAG-AFTRA to Resume Production Aug 31st 2023, 19:15, by Linda Codega Hollywood may be at a near-standstill due to the ongoing strikes, but AMC Studios has been granted waivers to resume work on three of its most high-profile shows. Interview With the Vampire and two of the Walking Dead spinoffs, Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live, will resume production under waivers granted by… Read more... |  This Is What Star Wars' Republic Always Was Aug 31st 2023, 18:45, by James Whitbrook In this week's episode of Ahsoka, the New Republic brings to bear its frustrating head, as Mon Mothma and a cadre of senators bullishly cast aside the fact they're sitting on a tinderbox of Imperial resurgence as the threat of Grand Admiral Thrawn offers a lit match. If only they could see, our heroes implore them as… Read more... |  Only 1,280 Reproductive Human Ancestors Once Roamed Earth, Gene Study Suggests Aug 31st 2023, 18:05, by Isaac Schultz Humankind struggled to survive during a 100,000 year period during the early Pleistocene, according to researchers who used a computer model to discover a severe population bottleneck in our species' ancient past. Read more... |  Netflix's Anime Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Puts a New Spin on the Franchise Aug 31st 2023, 17:30, by Germain Lussier You've read the comics. You've seen the movie. Will you still be able to get something out of the new Netflix anime, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off? The answer, according to the show's creators, is a resounding yes. "If you think you know what you're going to see, you don't," show co-creator BenDavid Grabinski told the Los… Read more... |  Space Force's 24-Hour Satellite Challenge Enters Critical Hot Standby Aug 31st 2023, 17:10, by George Dvorsky Firefly Aerospace and its partner Millennium Space Systems have entered into the hot standby phase of Space Force's Victus Nox mission. The groundbreaking initiative aims to launch a satellite with a mere 24-hour notice, a capability that traditionally takes months—if not years. Read more... |  'That Was Insane!' AI Quadcopter Dethrones Top Human Drone Racers Aug 31st 2023, 16:57, by Mack DeGeurin Well, chalk another victory up for the machines. After successfully beating humans in Chess, Go, and a variety of video games, AI has now beaten humanity's best drone racers. Three world champion drone pilots were recently defeated in a competition by an autonomous, artificial-intelligence-powered drone called Swift.… Read more... |  See How Hurricane Idalia Pummeled the Florida Coast and Beyond Aug 31st 2023, 16:50, by Angely Mercado Tropical storm Idalia has made its way through several states since it made landfall yesterday and has moved on to North Carolina after leaving a trail of collapsed homes, flooded streets, and felled trees. Read more... |  Google Kills the Pixel Pass Mere Weeks Before Announcing the Pixel 8 Aug 31st 2023, 16:30, by Kyle Barr Two months before many users' initial Pixel Pass subscription was supposed to come due, Google is altering the nature of the agreement, canceling the service altogether, and letting customers loose with some discounted subscriptions and a $100 pity prize. Read more... |  Read a Slice of Comics Legend Grant Morrison's New Absurdist Noir Aug 31st 2023, 16:19, by James Whitbrook Grant Morrison is responsible for some of the greatest comics of the modern age, from their legendary turn on New X-Men, to the likes of Green Lantern, All-Star Superman, Doom Patrol, and many, many more. But after dipping into the world of prose fiction last year with their novel Luda Morrison is back in comics...… Read more... |  NASA Wants a Giant Inflatable Bag to Collect and Throw Out Space Junk Aug 31st 2023, 16:15, by Passant Rabie Picking up the trash in space could be as easy as stuffing pieces of defunct spacecraft into a giant bag, closing it up, and tossing the pesky space junk into an orbital recycling plant. At least that's what space startup TransAstra hopes to do with its inflatable capture bag. Read more... |  Major Federal Agency Calls for Loosening US Cannabis Regulations Aug 31st 2023, 15:45, by Ed Cara The U.S. federal government is taking a significant step closer to becoming tolerant of cannabis. On Wednesday, a leaked letter from the U.S. Health and Human Services revealed that the agency has endorsed the rescheduling of the drug from a Schedule I to Schedule III controlled substance, a more lenient designation.… Read more... | |
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