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There’s been a lot of talk about the Tesla Cybertruck having a deep desire to chomp people’s fingers off with its power frunk latch, but no one has been brave enough to stick their fingie in there and find out what happens… until now. So far, we’ve only seen various vegetables and dummy hands get crunched by the…

Over the years, the Star Wars saga has been taken under the knife and chopped and edited—for better or worse—many times, even beyond the Special Editions of the ‘90s. And yet one of the weirdest tweaks is still one of the most recent: the bizarre rally cry of “maclunkey!” when Greedo goes to shoot Han Solo in A New…

Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the Microsoft-owned platform Github. Over 8,000 repositories were removed as the Zelda publisher seemingly tries to stomp out forks…

Bird flu continues to be a real public health threat, but apparently not to our food supply at least. The Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture separately announced late Wednesday that their tests of pasteurized milk and ground beef failed to find any live H5N1 in samples at risk of being…

Prime Video’s Outer Range—one of the weirdest sci-fi series in recent memory, and among the weirdest sci-fi neo-Western series ever—is returning for a second season, which feels like a streaming miracle. You can likely thank the star power of Josh Brolin, who anchors the show’s oddball plot and tone with his…

Just a few weeks after Discovery showed how much confidence it had in taking a Star Trek trope it knew it was good at and damn near perfecting it, this week we get the series diving into another—and not really finding much interest in why it even took it on in the first place.

Humans aren’t the only primates with a medicine cabinet, it seems. In a new paper published today, scientists document a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. While there have been other recent accounts of animals using medicine in the wild, this…

The Sonic the Hedgehog Cinematic Universe is knocking out the competition on Paramount+ as limited series Knuckles sets a streaming record for the platform.

Another whistleblower who raised safety concerns about production practices related to Boeing has died. Joshua Dean, who previously worked as a quality auditor at the plane manufacturer’s supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, died Tuesday as the result of a “sudden, fast-spreading infection,” the Seattle Times reports.

As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon as part of the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, the space agency still needs to resolve a few lingering issues with its Orion capsule that could jeopardize the safety of the crew on board, according to a new report.

Last week Hot Toys surprised Star Wars fans with a two-for-one reveal that the toymaker would start to dip into the world of Star Wars “Legends”—the contemporary name for the galaxy far, far away’s former canon in the Expanded Universe. Now, it’s somehow topping that surprise even further, with this: Dark Empire…

It’s been over a decade since the final Twilight movie, so the timing feels just right for Kristen Stewart to enter her second vampire era with Flesh of the Gods. Things are going to be quite a bit different this time around though, with Oscar Isaac as her co-star and Mandy director Panos Cosmatos at the helm.

The sixth and final season of Cobra Kai is coming this July. And this November. And next year. Netflix just revealed a first look at the popular show’s sixth season and with it, news that it’ll feature 15 episodes spread over three unique release dates. Part one will arrive on July 18, part two on November 28, and the…

If you were born early enough to come into semi-adulthood in 1999, you used to have a Nokia 3210. OK, maybe you didn’t, but your friend or a family member had one, or they had a slightly later model. Maybe you forgot about it completely because, for hell’s sake, it’s been 25 years. But you’d recognize the silhouette,…

The reviews for Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin are here, and they’re bad. These AI-enabled devices promised to reduce our dependency on smartphones, but now everyone is wondering why they’re not apps to begin with. I have no idea if we’ll be using Rabbits and AI Pins five years from now (if so, I hope they can set alarms…

Terrifier 3 will terrify you a little earlier than planned. Warner Bros Animation lifts the lid on Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 3. Barriss Offee returns in a new clip from Tales of the Empire. Plus, a new look at Furiosa. Spoilers get!

Good news: A legislative push to save AM radio is almost certain to succeed, which means that America’s weirdest auditory wavelength will continue to survive for the foreseeable future.

Things are about to get powered up: today, Universal Orlando Resort revealed more details about theSuper Nintendo World coming to its new Epic Universe theme park, hot on the heels of revealing more about one of the other portals,How to Train Your Dragon’s Isle of Berk. And yes, it’s better than the one at Universal…

I’ve spent a day with the Rabbit R1, and to say that I was underwhelmed would be an understatement. In fact, I was surprised at how little it offers at the moment, and even from what it offers, what a poor job it does at that. According to the CEO Jesse Lyu, the R1 is “the worst this technology will ever be,” which…

Mad Max franchise auteur George Miller knew even before Fury Road, that by creating an extensive outline for the 2015 hit, he might have more stories to tell. But that wasn’t always the case for Miller, who co-created the concept with Byron Kennedy in Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond…

The Department of Transportation announced a new final rule last week that would require airlines to automatically refund passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed. There are some exceptions, but in general, it’s a huge win for passengers who are tired of airlines giving them the runaround. As…

It was inevitable, really: as soon as beloved childhood characters became fair game under public domain, they’d be seized upon by horror filmmakers... and eventually, the biggest headliners would square off. The world may not be ready for Mickey vs. Winnie, but it’s coming, and its creators promise gore galore.

Just in case you’d like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a new paper this month, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female’s uterus—a tactic not documented with any other mammal species to date.