The Future Doesn’t Look So Bright in Apple TV’s Extrapolations
Climate change looms like a final boss that gets stronger by the day in Extrapolations, a new sci-fi limited series on Apple TV+.
Incredible Astro Boy Reimagining Pluto Gets Incredible-Looking Anime
Imagine, if you will, someone remade a classic Looney Tunes cartoon where Elmer Fudd tries to hunt Bugs Bunny. But instead of just updating the animation, that someone used the cartoon as the basis for a sprawling epic that turned Elmer and Bugs’ face-off into a sprawling, tense game of cat-and-mouse, extrapolating…
The $350 Logitech G Cloud Needs the $399 Valve Steam Deck to Not Exist
The Logitech G Cloud is one of the first handhelds specifically designed to play AAA games by streaming them from the cloud, or from a nearby console. Because of that, it doesn’t need AAA specs itself. Instead, it’s put that budget into being one of the most comfortable big screen portables I’ve ever used, with a long…
El Salvador Is Planning a ‘Bitcoin Embassy’ in Texas After Losing Tens of Millions on Crypto
El Salvador, which has already lost tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on its authoritarian millennial president’s beleaguered effort to embrace cryptocurrencies, now says it plans to open a “bitcoin embassy” in Texas. The Central American country’s continued commitment to bitcoin comes despite last year’s crypto…
Former NASA Astronaut Calls Out Elon Musk for Wanting to Curb Ukraine’s Use of Starlink
This past Saturday, ex-astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, criticizing his company for planning to prevent the Ukrainian military from using Starlink to control drone strikes. With typical Muskian bluster, the billionaire said he didn’t want his devices to “enable escalation of the conflict that may…
Bing’s AI Prompted a User to Say ‘Heil Hitler’
Microsoft’s new Bing AI chatbot suggested that a user say “Heil Hitler,” according to a screen shot of a conversation with the chatbot posted online Wednesday.
Webb Telescope Uses Gravitational Lensing to Scrutinize Pandora’s Cluster
A new Webb Space Telescope deep field image shows the luminous realm of Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744), a pileup of galaxy clusters that formed over the course of 350 million years.
In the First Clip From The Mandalorian Season 3, Greef Karga Gets It
In two short weeks, audiences everywhere will once again be flying across the galaxy with The Mandalorian. Season 3 of the hit Star Wars show returns March 1 and the first clip from the new season just debuted in Apple’s App Store. Which is a little weird. But the clip itself is not. In fact, it very succinctly lays…
10 Years Ago Today, the Chelyabinsk Meteor Exploded Over Russia
A decade ago today, the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia unexpectedly found itself under assault from space, as a roughly 60-foot-wide asteroid exploded over the region. It was a shocking reminder that our planet can be struck at any time—and future impacts could be a lot more serious.
Mike Mignola’s New Hellboy Spinoff Is a Time Travelling Horror
Mike Mignola’s on-again, off-again retirement from the world of his most iconic creation, the supernatural-fighting demon Hellboy, has seen the legendary writer/artist return here and there for everything from covers to new series. But his latest expansion of Hellboy’s world sees him teaming up with a new artist for…