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Scientists in California want to know if you would ever feed your cat a bowl of bug chow. They’re looking to survey cat owners about their attitudes on the emerging trend of insect-based cat diets, which some researchers and advocates say could be more sustainable and possibly even healthier than traditional pet food.

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Buying an air conditioner is hard. There are lots of specs that aren’t found on any other kind of product, the damn things are heavy, so if you buy the wrong one you’ll dread returning it even more, and if you mess up you will find yourself living in an unpleasant ice box, or a muggy misery. But don’t worry, it’s…

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Things get cosmic in a new X-Men ‘97 clip. Velma sets the stage for its unlikely return. Plus, Chucky gets into the family atomics, and what’s coming up on Smiling Friends season 2. Spoilers now!

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It’s been a wild ride with Google’s total pivot toward infusing AI into every bit of its products, and I need a break. The company released Gemini for the Pixel phones a few months ago, and it’s already wreaking havoc on my life and the lives of others on Reddit. Gemini doesn’t do everything the Google Assistant does,…

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U.S. officials pledged not to pursue the death penalty against Julian Assange if he’s extradited from the UK to face charges related to his publication of documents highly embarrassing to the U.S. government, according to a report from Australia’s ABC News Tuesday. But that will be cold comfort to some in the British…

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Say what you want about gaming gear’s absolute obsession with RGB lighting on every desktop, keyboard, and laptop, but at least they’re consistent. We’ve gotten used to gaming setups awash in the glow of RGB lighting, but good old boy Razer has come out with a new extra-colorful mouse pad called the Firefly V2 Pro, a…

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Warhammer 40,000's grimdark world of horrors both human and alien has developed a complicated relationship with elements of its audience over the years. What was once a biting satire of Britain’s conservative government in the late ‘80s has, in iteration after iteration of lore and retcons, become a messy…

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As much as Star Wars fans are looking forward to The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew, if we’re being honest, the crown jewel of the upcoming release calendar is Andor. The highly anticipated second season of the Emmy-nominated show has had a rough road amid all the strikes and, as a result, got pushed back into the next…

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There have been many things in recent years that have helped Dungeons & Dragons transform into a global pop culture force—including the pandemic’s necessity for remote social forms of play, the rise of actual play into its own entertainment boom, andBaldur’s Gate 3. But few perhaps match the boost that Stranger Things…

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Motorola has announced its new family of flagships, the Edge 50 series. The series features three new models, from premium to mid-range, available in various finishes, from vegan leather (plastic) to wood. And like the rest of the Android brood, Motorola is hedging its bets on AI-infused software features to attract…

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This article originally appeared on Kotaku.

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So what if you just emptied your wallet for those rare Star Wars posters io9 shared last week? This auction of vintage horror and cult movie posters has some truly staggering offerings too. And if you’re not in the market for pricey memorabilia, well—you can still ogle this slideshow of the goods, courtesy of …

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Wednesday was a huge hit for Netflix, breaking records for the streamer and pulling in Emmy nominations. So it’s no surprise a second season is on the way—or that the cast is adding another big name to a slate that already includes Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Christina Ricci: Steve Buscemi.

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Much of the ocean’s life remains a mystery to us, but an international team of scientists has just filled in a few blanks after a 40-day expeditionto the Salas y Gómez Ridge. The ridge is a lengthy corridor filled with over 100 underwater mountains that extends from Chile to Rapa Nui, more commonly known as Easter…

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Though Doctor Who fans met Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor in Christmas special “The Church on Ruby Road,” he’ll be setting out for his first proper season of adventures next month—and the early teases have signaled a big change for the show beyond the new star and the Disney dollars: the Doctor’s incredible range of…

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The Brits are getting serious about deepfake porn—so serious, in fact, that if you get caught making or sharing the content in the United Kingdom it could soon get you thrown in prison.

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AirPods have taken the consumer audio industry by storm and successfully entered most households. There’s a chance that most of us (like me) have never tried to look into everything they can do. Let’s look at those hidden features we didn’t know about one of the planet’s most popular pairs of buds.

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This story originally appeared on Quartz.

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Marvel’s comics have suddenly dovetailed into what’s been going on in Marvel’s movies for a long time—even before the MCU hit stratospheric heights, there’s always been elements from adaptations that then make their way back to the source. But while this has been an often left-unspoken (or at least diplomatically…

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Google workers in California and New York are planning a sit-in protest of the company’s ties to Israel on Tuesday, organizers from “No Tech for Apartheid” tell Gizmodo. The protestors demand their company drop Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract held by Google and Amazon to provide cloud computing services to…

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