In case you missed it, we’re officially getting a Jaws Lego set this summer. The company unveiled the upcoming 1497-piece set this week alongside a 90-second mini-movie that reimagines the film in Lego brick form. The Jaws set includes the boat (the Or…
Continue reading "Lego is releasing a Jaws set in August that recreates the final showdown on Quint’s boat"After 378 days inside a mock Mars habitat, the four volunteers for NASA’s yearlong simulation of a stay on the red planet are coming home. The crew — Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones — is scheduled to exit the 3D-printed habi…
Continue reading "Volunteers who lived in NASA’s Mars simulation for over a year will finally emerge today"It pains me to say this, but it’s been 20 years since David Firth’s Salad Fingers made its debut and irrevocably altered the humor of the internet. The first episode of the web series hit Newgrounds on July 1, 2004. To mark this milestone birthday, Fi…
Continue reading "Salad Fingers turned 20 this week and there’s a new episode out to commemorate it"I’ve recently accepted the fact that I am, and always will be, a pen-and-paper kind of gal. When it comes to writing, nothing does it for me quite like the act of scrawling by hand. I’m more creative, less distracted and more emotionally invested in wh…
Continue reading "I’m finding the joy in writing again with a little help from the Supernote Nomad"Extreme E, the premium off-road EV racing series, is pivoting to hydrogen. The series announced this week that it’s rebranding to Extreme H, and unveiled a hydrogen-powered race car it’s calling the Pioneer 25 to usher in the transition. The first seas…
Continue reading "Extreme E is now Extreme H, a hydrogen-powered racing series starting 2025"The Detroit Police Department has to adopt new rules curbing its reliance on facial recognition technology after the city reached a settlement this week with Robert Williams, a Black man who was wrongfully arrested in 2020 due to a false face match. It…
Continue reading "Detroit police can no longer use facial recognition results as the sole basis for arrests"Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, which acquired the movie rental service Redbox in 2022, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Deadline reports. The company recently disclosed net losses of $636.6 million for 2023 in a SEC filing, and…
Continue reading "The owner of Redbox has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy"NASA and Boeing plan to spend the next few weeks conducting tests on the ground in order to better understand issues with the Starliner spacecraft’s thrusters before giving its crew the go-ahead to fly back to Earth. But, officials insisted in a press …
Continue reading "NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks"Apple is apparently looking to take all the help it can get to integrate generative AI into its recently announced Apple Intelligence. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, citing sources with knowledge of the discussions, Apple has held ta…
Continue reading "Apple reportedly even held talks with Meta about an AI partnership as it plays catch-up"A YouTube Live broadcast that ran for five hours today used a deepfake of Elon Musk to push a cryptocurrency scam, in the latest of a series of similar bogus streams. The video, which has has since been taken down, showed a clip of Musk that was meant …
Continue reading "Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live"