 Zuckerberg Just Had the Most Humiliating Day of His Life, But His Hair Looked Great Jan 31st 2024, 22:30, by Thomas Germain In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg waltzed into the halls of Congress for the most high-profile moment of his career. He was pale and glass-eyed, his tie wrapped loosely around his neck, and his hair cropped high and thin in a bizarre homage to Augustus Caesar. His speech was practiced and robotic, and while his performance… Read more... |  20 Nostalgic Collectibles From the Golden Age of Fast-Food Movie Tie-Ins Jan 31st 2024, 22:30, by Sabina Graves Remember fast-food kids meals with specially marketed pop culture toys? They just don't make 'em like they used to. In the 1990s, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and Burger King often chose chaos with their tie-ins, like the Batman Forever glass mugs or the Hercules plates. Heck, even when big event films like… Read more... |  SpaceX's Giant Starship Tapped to Launch Starlab's Giant Steel Space Station Jan 31st 2024, 21:45, by George Dvorsky Starlab Space's forthcoming space station is so big and heavy that only the formidable SpaceX Starship megarocket can launch it into orbit, but the one-time delivery option comes with distinct benefits.
Read more... |  Thank God FTX Won't Be Coming Back Jan 31st 2024, 21:35, by Lucas Ropek It's official: There will be no further attempts to salvage FTX. The once popular but now defunct crypto exchange that "misplaced" billions of dollars in user assets before collapsing in a heap of scandal is officially headed to the corporate graveyard.
Read more... |  Rocket Lab Is Getting Closer to Achieving Rocket Reusability Jan 31st 2024, 21:35, by Passant Rabie Rocket Lab kicked off the year with the launch and recovery of its Electron rocket as part of the company's continued efforts to reuse its small launch vehicle's first stage.
Read more... |  22 Years Later, Cillian Murphy Might Return for 28 Years Later Jan 31st 2024, 21:25, by Germain Lussier The granddaddy of the modern zombie genre is now officially back, and it seems its biggest star may also be along for the ride. Weeks after news broke that director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland were bringing back the world of their 2002 hit 28 Days Later with 28 Years Later, the sequel has now found a home at… Read more... |  'Senator, I'm Singaporean': TikTok CEO Faces Off Against Tom Cotton Jan 31st 2024, 21:05, by Oscar Gonzalez Wednesday's hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee got a little spicy as senators took turns bashing the CEOs of the biggest social media platforms. While well-deserved for the most part, it was Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, who decided to go down a weird path with TikTok CEO Shou Chew. Read more... |  The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Seems Like One Tough Phone Jan 31st 2024, 21:00, by Florence Ion I don't know how durable the titanium is on Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra, and I'm not up to throwing our review unit into a blender and finding out. But JerryRigEverything is up to poking and prodding the Ultra with sharp tools, and it turns out that at least Ultra's display is the toughest thing about it so far.
Read more... |  Record Label Execs Tell TikTok That Exploiting Artists Is Their Thing Jan 31st 2024, 20:15, by Maxwell Zeff Universal Music Group is expected to remove its entire library of songs from TikTok on Wednesday night, according to Reuters, as the record label has failed to renew its contract with the social media platform. The label condemns TikTok for unfairly paying artists and doing little to protect them from AI, in an open… Read more... |  Samsung Galaxy S24: First Features You Should Try Jan 31st 2024, 19:55, by Kyle Barr The Samsung Galaxy S24 is a particularly feature-packed release from the South Korean tech giant, and—yes—most of them surround all the newfangled (and, for the moment, free) Galaxy AI. Sure, there's the Ultra's titanium, but you're interested in just what the new phone is capable of compared to previous generations. Read more... |  Mathematicians Have Just Reversed the Sprinkler Jan 31st 2024, 19:26, by Isaac Schultz For 141 years, physicists like Richard Feynman have puzzled over a question of fluid flow: how would a sprinkler rotate if it were underwater, sucking in the stuff instead of spewing it? Now, a team of researchers has found an answer. Read more... |  30 Years on, TNG's Ghost Sex Episode Remains as Unhinged and Awful as Ever Jan 31st 2024, 19:00, by James Whitbrook It is a banner week for questionable Star Trek anniversaries, but while earlier this week we found at least something to admire in Voyager's bold exploration of the Warp 10 threshold and space-amphibian evolution, there is very little to admire in the other major milestone. Thirty years ago today, The Next Generation… Read more... |  The Best—and Most Upsetting—Space Images From January Jan 31st 2024, 18:37, by George Dvorsky We knew 2024 was going to be a landmark year in spaceflight, and judging by the wide range of developments in just the first month, we're in for an extraordinary ride throughout the rest of the year.
Read more... |  Cancel Your Amazon Prime Account, Coward Jan 31st 2024, 18:10, by Lucas Ropek Last night, I flipped on Prime Video to watch a movie and, like millions of other streamers across the world, was promptly greeted with a commercial. Read more... |  Samsung Galaxy Fit 3 Leak: Is That a Smartwatch? Jan 31st 2024, 17:45, by Dua Rashid A recent leak on the Samsung UAE website revealed quite a lot of information on the company's upcoming fitness tracker, the Galaxy Fit 3. The info that was apparently accidentally posted by Samsung is still up on the site in the form of a web cache. Samsung Community and Gadgets & Wearables quickly spotted the leak… Read more... |  What's Going on With Americans and Syphilis? Jan 31st 2024, 17:22, by Ed Cara The U.S. has a big syphilis problem on its hands. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that reported cases of the sexually transmitted infection once again climbed in 2022, reaching a total not seen in over 70 years. In slightly better news, reported cases of gonorrhea have taken a slight… Read more... |  Argylle Feels Like Several Movies in One, So Which Is the Real Argylle? Jan 31st 2024, 17:00, by Germain Lussier If you've been to a movie theater in the past few months, odds are very high that you saw the trailer for Argylle. The latest film from director Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman, Kick-Ass) has been promoted so much, it's become meme-worthy, especially the question of "Who is the real agent Argylle?" Well, I'm happy to report… Read more... |  Trojan Asteroids Loom Closer as NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Fires Up Engine for First Time Jan 31st 2024, 16:45, by Passant Rabie Fresh off of its first asteroid encounter that revealed a bonus space rock, Lucy is now ready for the big leagues. The NASA spacecraft began maneuvering its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, traveling to a farther orbit in deep space in order to reach the Jovian system. Read more... |  Peter Thiel Is Funding a New Olympics, Steroids Not a Problem Jan 31st 2024, 16:35, by Thomas Germain There's good news for steroid fans: juicers will finally get their day on the field. A who's who of extremely online investors pitched in to fund a series of events called the Enhanced Games, which describes itself as "the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing." The list includes Christian Angermayer, venture… Read more... | |
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