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18  avril     23h00
3 Body Problem’s Marlo Kelly Breaks Down Her Sinister and Complex Character
Artem Golub and Cheryl Eddy    Read more...
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Marvel Returns to Spider-Man’s Radioactive Semen This Summer
James Whitbrook    Last summer, Marvel Comics boldly announced that it would return to The Most Notorious Spider Man Story Ever Told, to which the world cried out You’ll really have to be more specific After quickly clarifying that it was a sequel to Spider Man: Reign, the world cried out again: Oh. The one...
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Netflix Doesn’t Want to Talk About Subscriber Numbers
Oscar Gonzalez    Netflix continues to add more subscribers to its service, but next year, the company won’t bother telling anyone about it. Read more...
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Space Company Aims to Deliver Critical Supplies to Any Location in 90 Minutes
George Dvorsky    Back in the s, FedEx had a great tagline: When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight. Well, in situations like ground conflicts and disaster scenarios, that’s not good enough. Recognizing the need for an ultra fast delivery service, Colorado based Sierra Space is currently...
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Abigail Takes a Bloody Delightful Bite Out of the Vampire Genre
Sabina Graves    Like Leigh Whannell’s reimagining of The Invisible Man,Abigail proves that you don’t need a bigger Dark Universe to make damn good horror films as part of Universal’s legacy in the genre. The latest from Radio Silence Ready or Not, Scream takes vampire lore to a fun and exciting new level....
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Yeah, That’s a Freakin’ Lava Lake on a Moon
Isaac Schultz    Two recent flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io by NASA’s Juno spacecraft revealed a couple of stunning surprises: a remarkably steep mountain and islands in the middle of a burbling lava lake. The new findings were announced yesterday by Scott Bolton, the principal investigator of the Juno mission, at the...
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5 Cryptocurrencies to Watch Now That the Bitcoin Halving Is Here
Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz    Bitcoin will go through its latest so called halving event starting Friday. The halving will cut the current reward for mining new coins from . Bitcoin to . . Halving is an integral part of the Bitcoin blockchain system, which creates a monetary system that controls inflation.Read more...
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NASA Set to Launch Solar Sail for Sunlight-Propelled Space Travel
Passant Rabie    NASA’s experimental solar sail is ready to take flight in Earth orbit, using the pressure of sunlight to test a new way of propulsion through the cosmos.Read more...
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The Long-Lost Original Star Trek Enterprise Model Is Heading Home
James Whitbrook    It was our first look at the vision of Star Trek’s future: the original ship model of the USS Enterprise that zoomed across screens in the show’s opening credits. But after being loaned out during the making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it had gone missing... until now.Read more...
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Google Fires 28 Workers Who Protested Its Contracts With Israel
Maxwell Zeff    Google says it terminated employees associated with protests of the company’s . billion cloud computing contracts with the Israeli government on Wednesday. The firings follow the arrests of nine Google employees for trespassing in the company’s New York and California offices on Tuesday...
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Gen Z Propels Chinese Industrial-Grade Glycine to Viral TikTok Fame
Lucas Ropek    The power of social media virality and Gen Z’s merciless wit have transmuted a boring Chinese chemical product into an overnight internet sensation.Read more...
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These Are World’s 20 Best Airports
Melvin Backman, Quartz    These are the best airports in the world according to Skytrax, an air transport rating organization. By surveying travelers across more than airports, the ranking tracks satisfaction across categories like check in, arrivals, transfers, shopping, and security through to departure at the gate...
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Drive-Through Car Wash Was Too Much for Tesla Cybertruck
Bradley Brownell    This story originally appeared on Jalopnik.Read more...
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7 Most Popular Headphone Myths, Debunked
Dua Rashid    Tech myths are extremely pervasive. Half of the things we believe in are stuff we’ve seen people around us believe in. Confirmation bias leads to us blindly following without ever questioning. This guide aims to shatter some of those preconceived notions. The aim is also to teach you the truth...
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Spy x Family’s Mother and Daughter on Hitting the Big Time with Code: White
Justin Carter    The delightfully zany Spy x Family has captured hearts in anime form since it blew up in . While the Forgers won’t be back on your TV for a while, they’re coming to the silver screen with Spy x Family Code: White. Read more...
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This Week’s Star Trek: Discovery Is a Time-Hopping Marvel
James Whitbrook    Star Trek: Discovery is really good with time. We knew this almost immediately when one of its earliest episodes to really wow us was Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad, a delightful time loop caper. We knew it again, when it flung caution to the wind and catapulted itself into a future no Star...
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DARPA Tests AI Dogfighting (But Won’t Say If the Human Pilot or Computer Won)
Matt Novak    The U.S. Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA announced successful tests of a new artificial intelligence system using the experimental X A VISTA aircraft on Wednesday. The tests AI dogfights that pitted the X A against a human piloted F aircraft are being billed...
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911 Outages in Las Vegas, South Dakota, and Texas Blamed on Light Pole Installation
Matt Novak    Emergency service systems tied to went offline across several states on Wednesday night including parts of Nevada, Nebraska, Texas, and the entire state of South Dakota. And the cause has finally been revealed at least partially. Apparently, the outage had something to do with the installation...
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Mutant’s New Dune Poster Will Melt Your Mind
Germain Lussier    The best art inspires more incredible art and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films have certainly done that. In addition to the artistry in the films themselves, graphic designers from all over the world have been moved to create gorgeous Dune posters and the latest may be the most unique, and quite...
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U.S. Produce Contains High Levels of Pesticides, Consumer Reports Finds
Ed Cara    Some of your favorite produce might be dicier to eat than assumed. An analysis from Consumer Reports published Thursday suggests that a substantial portion of commonly sold fruits and vegetables have a significant risk of exposure to dangerous pesticides around . Bell peppers, watermelons, and...
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M. Night Shyamalan’s Serial Killer Concert Film Has Its First Trailer
Germain Lussier    M. Night Shyamalan is the king of the twist and, in the first trailer for his new movie Trap, the twist is right on the surface.Read more...
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Milla Jovovich and Jennifer Hudson Face Off in Exclusive Clip From Breathe
Germain Lussier    When you think about end of the world, post apocalyptic stories, you think about a lack of food. A lack of water. A lack of sun or a lack of power. However, all those stories have one thing in common. The characters can breathe. Read more...
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50-Foot-Long Fossil Snake May Be the Largest That Ever Lived
Isaac Schultz    A newly described fossil snake in India may be the largest that ever lived, according to a team that studied vertebrae recovered from a lignite mine in India. The new species is dubbed Vasuki indicus named for India and the mythical serpent that wraps itself around the neck of the Hindu god...
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Netflix Will End The Witcher With Season 5
James Whitbrook    The winds are about to stop howlin’ at Netflix. As the first season of its adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher novels without Henry Cavill in the title role enters production, the streamer has confirmed that season five will bring The Witcher to its final end.Read more...
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Dangerous Bacteria Actively Seek Out Human Blood, Scientists Discover
Ed Cara    Eat your heart out, A : Some real life bacterial germs are literally hungry for our blood, new research suggests. Scientists have found evidence that certain disease causing bacteria, including strains of Escherichia coli, are chemically attracted to the serum in our blood as a source of food. The...
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How to Spot Phony Airpods and Never Get Fooled
Dua Rashid    There are a ton of vendors and online marketplaces selling fake AirPods these days. First, you must remember that Apple’s AirPods should not be retailing for . Even on Cyber Monday. And that should be the first thing that tells you they’re fake. The second thing to keep in mind is to only...
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An Exciting Challenge’: NASA Plans Rare Repair Spacewalk to Fix Busted Telescope
Passant Rabie    NASA is preparing to send astronauts on a spacewalk to repair a telescope mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station ISS . The repair involves installing patches to eliminate unwanted sunlight leaking into the instrument.Read more...
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A24 Under Fire for Seemingly AI Generated Civil War Ads
James Whitbrook    Movie marketing always treads a fine line between actually giving you an indicator of what you’ll see in the final film and more about evoking a specific vibe from made for trailer shots to hypothetical what ifs, it’s sometimes not always clear what part of it will actually be seen on screen when...
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The Razer Kishi Ultra Is the Best Way to Convert Your Android Foldable Into a Handheld Console
Florence Ion    It’s been so lovely playing Dreamlight Valley lying down. I used to do that with my Nintendo Switch Lite when I didn’t have the energy to sit in my computer chair and play at my desk. But the Switch Lite’s screen is too small for some games and lacks a night filter, making it hard to get in some...
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How Early Scientists Envisioned Life Beyond Earth
Philip C. Almond, The Conversation    Speculation about extraterrestrials is not all that new. There was a vibrant debate in th century Europe about the existence of life on other planets.Read more...
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TikTok Is Going to War With Grifting Gym Bros and Conspiracy Theorists
Oscar Gonzalez    Is your TikTok filled with terrible content that you don’t want to see like TikTokers saying it was ok to stare at the solar eclipse Well, those lovely people might not show up on your For You feed anymore after TikTok’s big policy changes take effect in May.Read more...
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The Most Interesting Uses for Apple AirTags Other Than Finding Your Keys
Kyle Barr    Despite their ever present controversy, trackers, particularly Apple’s AirTags, have proved helpful over the past three years since their first release. We now see Google entering the fray with its own Find My Device network, and it seems only a matter of time before it makes its own tracker. If...
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Transformers One’s First Trailer Certainly Looks Different
Sabina Graves    At last week’s CinemaCon, Paramount unveiled more information about its upcoming animated prequel Transformers One, with Chris Hemsworth who voices Orion Pax, a young version of Optimus Prime in tow. Today, the actor and his co star Brian Tyree Henry introduced the trailer as it was launching into...
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Mutated Strains of Unknown Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found Lurking on ISS
Passant Rabie    The International Space Station ISS is home to crews of astronauts conducting research in low Earth orbit, but it also hosts a group of mutated bacteria that are thriving under the harsh conditions of space.Read more...
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Steven Spielberg’s Next Movie Could Bring Him Back to Sci-Fi
Gordon Jackson and James Whitbrook    Werner Herzog has joined Bong Joon Ho’s mysterious new animated movie. Sophia Di Martino ponders Sylvie’s potential path in a future with more Loki. Plus, get a look at Sweet Tooth’s return. Spoilers get Read more...
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Lawmakers Are Kicking Warrantless Wiretapping Into Overdrive
Lucas Ropek    This week, Congress is expected to vote on a bill that would update key federal surveillance authorities. The legislation has been packaged by its proponents as a reform but is, in reality, an attempt to vastly expand the government’s spying powers, privacy advocates say.Read more...
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UAE Denies Rumors That Cloud Seeding Caused Record-Breaking Flooding
Matt Novak    The United Arab Emirates was hit with historic flooding on Tuesday after roughly a year’s worth of rain fell in just a single day. The record rainfall, more than four inches at the Dubai airport and inches elsewhere in the country, caused some people online to speculate it was all caused by...
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These Dog-Powered Machines Were Surprisingly Common in the 19th Century
Matt Novak    Ever since dogs were first domesticated about , years ago, they’ve often had jobs to earn their keep. Today, some dogs are used to herd sheep while others help hunters track and flush out game. And, believe it or not, dogs were sometimes used historically to power machines in private homes and...
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The Sony Theater U Neck Speaker Could Be Great, Except for That Pesky Wire
Kyle Barr    The Bravia Theater U is everything I love in a tech product. It’s weird and a bit phallic looking, a bit janky, and still produces good quality sound. It also has a naming scheme that reminds me of the Nintendo Wii. In Amidst Sony’s new product scheme combining its sound and TV line under the...
17  avril     23h00
The Best Speakers to Buy in 2024
Dua Rashid    If you’re looking to fill your life with more sound, there’s nothing like a good speaker. After thorough testing, we have a reliable list of the best speakers you can buy in . Our list includes everything from portable ones to lounge speakers. It also covers a variety of use cases ...
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Kathryn Newton on Becoming a Universal Monsters Staple With Abigail and Lisa Frankenstein
Sabina Graves    While Universal Pictures has long stepped away from its planned Universal Monsters Dark Universe except at Universal Studios theme parks , the cinematic lore of the characters has found new life, thanks to standalone films like Leigh Whannell’s Invisible Man, Zelda Williams’ Lisa Frankenstein,...
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Hasbro’s New Mandalorian Action Figures Are Missing Some Key Players
James Whitbrook    Hasbro’s Star Wars toys truly love The Mandalorian there are few entries in the galaxy far, far away besides the original trilogy that come close to the sheer depth the toymaker has delved into the Disney show for inspiration. Which is why it feels so bizarre that we have these new figures,...
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Zack Snyder Details the Process of Creating, Splitting, Then Expanding Rebel Moon
Germain Lussier    The second half of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is out this week and, believe it or not, it’s like a completely different movie. While Part One: A Child of Fire, followed the heroic Kora Sofia Boutella across the galaxy as she picked up allies, Part Two: The Scargiver is way more focused. Everything...
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On X-Men ’97, Knowing Who You Are Is So Much Bigger Than Supernatural and Cosmic Nonsense
James Whitbrook    After last week’s episode already a contender for one of ’s best single episodes of TV it would be tough for even a show as consistently strong as X Men to top what it just laid down. It’s not surprising then that this week’s episode of the Disney series doesn’t reach the same highs. It...
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Trump’s Truth Social Has Gone Woke
Oscar Gonzalez    Truth Social’s stock price appears to be making a slight rebound Wednesday after losing more than half of its peak value in the month of April. That’s a bit surprising considering the fact that the far right’s favorite meme stock company has been exposed for buying into the woke ideology of DEI...
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Disneyland Is About to Get a Huge, Billion-Dollar Expansion
Sabina Graves    Disneyland Forward, the Walt Disney Company’s initiative to expand its original theme park, just got the go ahead from the Anaheim City Council. Deadline reports that the . billion expansion plan, which will take decades to finish, received unanimous approval. Read more...
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Boeing Whistleblower Says Company Is Involved in a ’Criminal Cover-up’
Lucas Ropek    Boeing, the troubled aircraft manufacturer that makes most of the planes that Americans fly on, was the subject of an unsettling Congressional hearing Wednesday wherein multiple invited speakers accused the company of fostering a safety culture that is anything but safe. Among other things,...
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This Advanced Quake Detector Will Land on the Moon With Artemis Astronauts
Passant Rabie    NASA is building a compact seismometer for its upcoming Artemis mission to the Moon, hoping to learn more about the internal structure of the dusty satellite from its lunar tremors.Read more...
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Alex Kurtzman Hopes Shorter Seasons Are Better for Star Trek
James Whitbrook    There’s more Star Trek around right now than there has been since its s heyday, but there’s not exactly all that much of it in comparison. The franchise’s resurgence in the age of streaming has meant condensed seasons these days, the average season is often half the size or less of one from...
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Jawbone in England Appears to Belong to Largest Marine Reptile Ever Known
Isaac Schultz    A jawbone found in Somerset, England, may belong to the largest marine reptile yet known, a huge ichthyosaur that lived about million years ago. The new species is dubbed Ichthyotitan severnensis and may have been over feet long, according to the team’s estimates. The finding means that...