Disney’s “Real Life” Star Wars lightsaber.Gif: Disney Imagineering Next year, Disney will reveal the most authentic-looking real-world Star Wars lightsaber yet, and a new video just revealed our best look to date. Advertisement Earlier this year, buzz began that Disney was working on what fans quickly called a “real-life lightsaber.” Not because it had a...
Photo: Drew Angerer / Staff (Getty Images) As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so too is it all but guaranteed in 2021 that social media platforms will eventually test some ill-fated version of Instagram Stories in their feeds. And as of Wednesday, TikTok is no longer the...
The Overlook Hotel, seen here in The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, is coming back.Photo: Warner Bros. Much like the ghostly residents of the Overlook Hotel, a show based on the famed location has died—but is (most likely) coming back to life. Last year, news broke that as part of his company’s deal with WarnerMedia, J.J. Abrams...
Google is removing safe browsing from the criteria sites need to meet to benefit from the page experience ranking factor. As a result of this change, Google is updating Search Console’s page experience report with a simplified design that removes redundant data. Specifically, the safe browsing and ad experience widgets are getting dropped from the...
Photo: Ian Waldie/Getty Images (Getty Images) In addition to helping police arrest the wrong person or monitor how often you visit the Gap store, facial recognition is increasingly used by companies as a routine security procedure: it’s a way to unlock your phone or social media account, for instance. This security practice comes with an...
A rat in a pipe.Photo: AFP (Getty Images) A California neighborhood seems to have had a series of encounters with the now-rare disease typhus. According to local media reports, at least two people in Monrovia, California recently caught typhus after handling dead rats, presumably through the infected fleas they carried. Thankfully, typhus is easily treatable...
A crop of the In a Garden Burning Gold cover.Image: Del Rey Author Rory Power earned acclaim for her YA fantasy novels Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down, but in 2022 she’ll be making her adult fantasy debut with In a Garden Burning Gold, a tale of magical twins that’s inspired in part by...
The Nauka module next to a Soyuz spacecraft.Image: Roscosmos Early reports suggest the International Space Station incurred no damage as a result of an incident last week involving the newly arrived Nauka module. That may be the case, but Russian officials are launching an investigation to assess the true impact of the frightening mishap. Advertisement...
“For us, if you’re flying 90 days with one aircraft, that’s two takeoffs and landings versus […] hundreds.” Long Haul The US Navy is developing an uncrewed aircraft that can remain airborne for 90 days at a time thanks to massive solar panels on each of its wings, New Scientist reports. The aircraft, evocatively called...
Epstein revealing his connection to Gates “was absolutely a retaliatory move.” Epstein Connection Even now, months after it was revealed that Bill Gates’ relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was likely a driving factor in his divorce and a great source of personal turmoil, more troubling details about the duo continue to emerge. New reporting from Rolling...