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Great Muppet Caper, Midnight Run
Kermit the Frog and the late, great, Charles Grodin.Photo: Universal Charles Grodin, one of the great comedic actors of all…
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Researchers Find ‘Forbidden’ Quasicrystal in Wake of Nuclear Bomb Test
The red trinitite that held a quasicrystal.Photo: Luca Bindi It’s reasonable to think of nuclear bombs in terms of their…
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Anonymous Donors Keep the Climate Denial Machine Chugging
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) There’s lots of talk from the GOP and fossil fuel companies these days about changing…
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Venmo Stops Payments for Palestinian Relief Funds
Photo: Igor Golovniov (Getty Images) We’re officially entering the second week in a row of fighting between Israel and Palestine,…
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Google Wants to Make the Next Pixel Camera More Inclusive
Google’s new algorithm is better at adjusting edits based on skin tone. Screenshot: Google Android is used on 3 billion…
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Amazon Extends Moratorium on Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
Photo: PHILIPPE LOPEZ / Contributor (Getty Images) Law enforcement officials are still banned from using Amazon’s facial recognition technology “until…
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Here’s Everything Announced at Google I/O 2021
Google I/O is back, baby, and that means a metric crap-ton of updates for the Google ecosystem. Although it was…
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Eli Roth, Zak Bagans Horror Anthology
Zak Bagans of Ghost Adventures is teaming up with Eli Roth for a new show.Photo: Discovery+ Horror movies are scary,…
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HBO A Black Lady Sketch Show: Fairy Auntmother’s Brutal Truth
Laci Mosley as the Fairy Auntmother.Screenshot: HBO Once people born in the early-to-mid ‘80s started having fits on TikTok over…
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Andy Weir’s Book Is Alien The Martian
A crop of the cover of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.Image: Ballantine Books io9 ReviewsReviews and critical analyses of…
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