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The smartphone audience is so wide that it’s difficult to settle on just one best phone of 2023. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there are the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best…

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There was a time when you could hop onto Netflix and feel like you had pretty much any movie or show at your fingertips. Those years are long gone. Now consumers have a growing number of streaming providers all clamoring for attention, splitting up the media catalog against dozens of services and making finding the…

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As YouTube continues to pour its energy into its TikTok clone YouTube Shorts, it’s leaving its Snapchat copycat in the dust. YouTube is officially shutting down its stories feature in just a few weeks.

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Mortal Kombat II is still on track to start production this summer, and Warner Bros. has been gradually revealing new castmates for the upcoming film. The sequel to the 2021 reboot flick appears to have more fan-favorite characters from the games this time around, with Karl Urban and Tati Gabrielle on hand to play…

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Earlier this year, Microsoft unleashed an AI chatbot. The company named the AI Bing, after its search engine, but buried deep in its architecture was a robot with a whole other personality: an early version of the AI that called itself Sydney. In the first days of Bing’s release, Sydney reared its unhinged digital…

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MoviePass announced it’s ready for the limelight, again. The resurrected company that was most-known for its epic-scale blowout and collapse just a few years ago is once again back and ready to cause trouble with a subscription service promising cheaper movies, though this time it’s promising to act far more tame than…

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Washington state building code officials voted Wednesday to delay the first statewide mandate for electric heat pumps in new buildings, dealing a significant blow to restrictions on natural gas.

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Shaquille O’Neal was served court papers in the class-action FTX case during his live coverage of the Miami Heat versus the Boston Celtics game on Tuesday. Process servers reportedly tried to track down O’Neal for four months, going as far as following him to his homes in Georgia, Texas, and Florida.

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After years of being brutalized by godawful Transformers movies, audiences are seemingly not yet ready for the idea of a good one. That much was evident back in 2018 when Paramount released Bumblebee, a lean, mean, heartfelt version of a Transformers movie that exceeded critical expectations, but underwhelmed at the…

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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane pulled off its first suborbital flight in nearly two years, potentially paving the way for the company to resume commercial trips to the edge of space.

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Co-founder of Twitter and head of Block Jack Dorsey doesn’t have a great track record promoting people into positions of power recently. His good friend Elon Musk has taken his blue bird app down a rabbit hole where it might never escape. Now, the former Twitter exec is actively promoting major anti-vaxxer, …

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AI feels like it’s taking over the world, and now it’s coming to one of the most popular social media platforms. TikTok is reportedly adding an AI chatbot to its app.

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A man is hired to find a thing. That’s basically the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark, a film that’s widely considered to be one of the best action-adventure films of all time, not to mention one of director Steven Spielberg’s best movies. It’s also the kick-off to a franchise called Indiana Jones with actor Harrison…

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After a prolonged absence from the gravitational-wave-detection scene, the massive LIGO project is back up and running.

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After what feels like an eternity (ok, it’s been five years—but a lot has happened since 2018!), the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is nearly here—and the first reactions to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse make it sound like the wait was well worth it.

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The Supreme Court has ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency in a decision that significantly narrows the Clean Water Act’s protections. The majority, 5-4 opinion was authored by Justice Samuel Alito and supported by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney…

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The toys that McDonald’s serves up with its Happy Meals are often the best reason to visit the fast food joint, but instead of targeting kids, McDonald’s in China is going after nuggs fans with a penchant for retro gaming. On sale now at locations across the country is a super-sized, Tetris-playing Chicken McNugget…

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New research this week is the latest to find that ketamine can help people with difficult-to-treat depression. The study has found that people with treatment-resistant depression responded as well to ketamine therapy as those who were given electroconvulsive therapy, a commonly used intervention for these cases.

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Former President Donald Trump released a clip of a fake Twitter spaces event Wednesday where he used what appeared to be the deepfaked voices of Elon Musk, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, a coughing Dick Cheney, Satan, and, yes, Adolf Hitler, to mock Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The bizarre two-minute clip, which was…

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The Nintendo 64 was the first to introduce console gamers to analog control sticks, but over 25 years after its debut, many of those original controllers aren’t doing so well (we blame Mario Party). With 8BitDo’s new N64 Mod Kit, you can now give them a welcome and very easy upgrade, including a hall effect joystick…

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