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screenshots of the letterboxd mobile app

7 ways movie lovers can make the underrated Letterboxd feel like home

Traveller walking down conveyor belt walkway with luggage in airport

Your phone data isn’t safe from Customs and Border Protection

Chinese man wearing COVID-19 mask walking down city street in China with national flags behind him

China’s DNA policing program targeted Tibetans and other minorities, reports reveal

Sketch drawing of web of Ethereum logos

Ethereum finally completed ‘The Merge’

Thumbs up Facebook buttons reflected in water droplets in front of blurry thumbs down symbol

Facebook’s automated image removal system is flawed, says Oversight Board

Stocked aisles in a Walmart store

Walmart wants to combine big box and big bank

AI voice filters can make you sound like anyone—and make anyone sound like you

AI voice filters can make you sound like anyone—and make anyone sound like you

Amazon robotics working working on assembly line

Amazon’s tech empire is expanding into mechatronics

Serving Turkish coffee cup

How to enjoy the flavor, history, and science of Turkish coffee

By Alisha McDarris

Hand resting on car stick shift holding Juul e-cigarette

Juul to pay states $435M and stop marketing e-cigarettes to kids

Signal’s new president is a privacy advocate and active critic of Big Tech

Photo of galaxies in space taken by NASA's James Webb Telescope

Scammers are using a Webb Telescope photo to hide complex malware

Screenshot of worker in front of shelf within Amazon warehouse

Four Amazon warehouse workers died on the job within a month

Interior rear passenger view of man driving car with Uber app on phone attached to dashboard.

Uber enlists home security company ADT in attempt to improve ride safety

Exterior shot of entrance to Federal Trade Commission building in Washington DC

FTC sues data broker for selling sensitive information, including abortion clinic visits

Amazon Ring security doorbell camera installed next to front door

Privacy advocates urge cancellation of Amazon’s nightmarish Ring Nation

Gila monster lizard and real-life dragon hissing in the desert

Science Fiction

Could dragons be real? Not in the way we think.

By Purbita Saha

Unidentified aerial phenomena filmed from a US Navy jet

Congress sounds really concerned about unidentified aerial phenomenon

Close up of woman's mouth and headset microphone speaking at a call center

A startup is using AI to make call center workers sound ‘American’

YouTube screenshot of AI rapper FN Meka

Viral AI rapper dropped from major record label for racist content

Woman holding smartphone displaying TikTok download page above table

TikTok’s rumored ‘Nearby’ feed would show videos recorded in your neighborhood

Movie audience with masks

Plot twist: MoviePass is returning from the dead next month

Yelp will flag anti-abortion pregnancy centers in its local listings

Yelp will flag anti-abortion pregnancy centers in its local listings

Man using Tesla interface inside vehicle

Electric Vehicles

YouTube removes video of Tesla superfan testing autopilot safety on a child

First-person photo of someone using remote control to scroll through Netflix menu on TV

Streaming services pulled ahead of cable TV in viewers, barely

Screenshot of DeepMind Transframer image examples from Google

Google’s DeepMind AI can ‘transframe’ a single image into a video

Everyday Robots helper robot picking up snack bar off of table

Google’s new robot butler was trained on social media and Wikipedia articles

Promo photo of Lyft and Motional's self-driving Ioniq 5 robotaxi

Electric Vehicles

Self-driving Lyfts will cruise the Vegas strip by early 2023

YouTube screenshot of snake using DIY invention to walk with robot legs

Watch a snake wearing robot trousers strut like a lizard

Press photo of John Deere 8RX Tractor with ExactEmerge Planter

John Deere tractors are getting the jailbreak treatment from hackers

Stock image of a satellite orbiting above the Earth with the moon in the background

Hackers prove it doesn’t take much to hijack a dead satellite

Four teens standing in a row using their smartphones

Study confirms the obvious: youth have abandoned Facebook

Photo of customers in line to checkout at a Walmart

Walmart is on the hunt for its own streaming partnership

a black, white and purple designed image of a man driving a levitating car

The century-old dream of traveling by hovercraft is still alive

By Bill Gourgey

Banana butterfly on person's brown ponytail at butterfly house in Frankfurt, Germany

If you have a serious fear of bugs, a butterfly house might change your tune

By Sara Kiley Watson

The Craiyon interface, showing a courtroom sketch of a sperm whale vs. a giant squid

5 ways to get Craiyon, formerly Dall-E mini, to bend to your will

By John Kennedy

Faafafine individual at Auckland, New Zealand pride parade

Sex and gender binaries don’t tell the entire story of life

By Rachel Feltman

First of a kind study finds that after five years, trans children stand firm in their identities.

First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition

a female astronaut on the international space station takes a picture of section of the station with equipment

International Space Station

What an extraterrestrial archaeological dig could tell us about space culture

By Tatyana Woodall

Wooden lacquer-painted tray by Mexican artist José Manuel de la Cerda depicting a war scene at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Classic Mexican art stood the test of time with the help of this secret ingredient

By Maggie Galloway

Museum collections tag for Indigenous seeds from the University of Michigan

Indigenous farmers are ‘rematriating’ centuries-old seeds to plant a movement

By Kalen Goodluck

Light brown tarantula with white discharge around mouth being attacked by a nematode worm on a bacteria backsplash

What do you call a tiny tarantula killer? Jeff Daniels.

By Purbita Saha

A bronze helmet shown from the front and the side. It has curving horns coming out of the sides of the head, and a birdlike face.

Horned helmets came from Bronze Age artists, not Vikings

By Philip Kiefer

a bushel of lychee, a red, prickly skinned spherical fruit with white, glossy edible flesh surrounding a dark oval shaped seed. two of the lychees' skin is peeled to reveal the white flesh

Good news for lychee lovers: There may be a way to grow the fruits year-round

Slats of an old shipwreck in Lake Michigan seen from the air

Dead ships find solace under the treacherous surface of the Great Lakes

By Margo Milanowski

Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete

Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete

By Elana Spivack

Dune 2021 movie actors looking across the desert of Arrakis

Science Fiction

Could humans survive on Dune’s Arrakis?

By Farnsworth et al./The Conversation

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

How the stunt crew in ‘No Time to Die’ pulled off the film’s astounding motorcycle jump

How the stunt crew in ‘No Time to Die’ pulled off the film’s astounding motorcycle jump

Soy sauce, cilantro, broth, and other umami foods on a pink and purple background

What is umami? No, really.

By Elana Spivack

a sulfur-crested cockatoo perched on a wall

Australian cockatoos are teaching each other to open trash cans

By Philip Kiefer

Orange jessamine flowers

Get to know the plant that showed up in the National Spelling Bee finals

By Purbita Saha

White Olympics five-ring flag flying during the 1988 summer games in Seoul

Why are people obsessed with the Olympics?

The real Jurassic Park may have been in the Arctic

The real Jurassic Park may have been in the Arctic

Chinese banyan bonsai tree on bright yellow

The beauty and science of growing bonsai

By Stan Horaczek

the start of the cooperative board game, Pandemic

Two-player games that won’t turn you and your friend into enemies

By Harry Guinness

Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance

Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance

Darth Vader weilding a lightsaber

How lightsabers went from a DIY project to culturally iconic

a woman sits in a dark house and browses on her computer, with the image overlaid with colorful pictures of a much more luxurious home within the frame of a web browser

The psychology behind our love of ‘Zillow porn’

By Nicole Johnson

An illustration of a person with footsteps

Fitness & Exercise

Why 10,000 steps a day isn’t the secret to better health

By Claire Maldarelli

A person putting an Apple Pencil on a blank iPad Mini screen.

NFTs are blowing up the digital art and collectibles worlds. Here’s how they work.

By Stan Horaczek

Why square aspect ratios still live on in new movies like ‘Justice League’

By Stan Horaczek

sperm whales seen from above

Sperm whales have a surprisingly deep—and useful—culture

By Ellie Shechet

The NASA STS-39 shuttle crew in orange astronaut suits on a space backdrop

What did ’90s NASA astronauts pack for space?

By Scott Murdock/Task & Purpose