There are thousands of games that can be played with a simple deck of cards, but Rob Halifax has found a way to make 52 cards even more versatile with a redesign that lets you play games like chess, checkers, and even dominoes with the same deck that entertains you for hours on end with…
Bill Murray is an unpredictable man. He shows up in weird places to hang with random people, like that time in 2009 when he read poetry to construction workers. He’s certainly not above a bit of trolling, so take a grain of salt—or should I say salz—at Murray’s announcement he’s in Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and…
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft in a hanger at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image: SpaceXAn upcoming launch to deliver four astronauts to the International Space Station is ready for 3, 2, 1, blast off—oh, aside from NASA still having to approve a last-minute adjustment made to SpaceX’s leaky toilet.Launch of the new Crew…
In this image from video, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 25, 2021.Photo: House Energy and Commerce Committee (AP)You’ve likely seen the deluge of damning news stories about Facebook everywhere this past week. Those came thanks to Facebook whistleblower Frances…
Eternals might be the first Marvel Studios movie that doesn’t benefit from being a Marvel Studios movie. After over a decade of interconnected films, the company has carefully crafted audience expectations. To us, a Marvel movie has a certain undeniable energy; a blend of action, humor, and heart that’s aimed to please everyone from ages…
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam subjecting Paul Atreides to the gom jabbar.Screenshot: Warner Bros.Though Denis Villeneuve’s Dune focuses on Paul Atreides as he and most everyone around him dance around the obvious fact that he is the long-prophesied chosen one destined to bring an end to the war between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, when we…
Photo: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP (Getty Images)Authorities in the U.S. and Europe have arrested droves of people in connection to dark web drug peddling, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Tuesday. The coordinated police operation, dubbed “Dark HunTor,” involved a large number of law enforcement agencies, including the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Europol, and various other U.S.…
A crop of the cover of Skin of the Sea; see the full cover, including mermaid tail, below!Image: Random House Books for Young ReadersWhen a mermaid saves a human life, she’s most definitely not hailed as a hero—she’s marked for terrible punishment because she’s broken an ancient law designed to protect her kind. In that…
A mural on a wall in Glasgow, Scotland. The city hosts the COP26 UN Climate Summit later this month.Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images (Getty Images)At a glance:COP26 is the 26th annual UN Climate Change ConferenceThe conference will be held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.The event may be the world’s best shot…
Image: SonyAfter leaks surfaced yesterday, Sony has officially announced its Xperia Pro-I, a smartphone with a wild camera—or a wild camera that’s also a smartphone, depending on how you look at it. The Pro-I features the world’s first 1-inch camera sensor with PDAF in a phone. Due to their size constraints, putting big image sensors…
The rightful President of the United States, Regina Oliver (Jennifer Wigmore), plays a big role on this week’s Y.Image: FX on HuluThe secret is out. Not that Y: The Last Man won’t be picked up for season two by FX on Hulu, though that’s true too. It’s that Yorick Brown is alive and his mom,…
A computer-generated view of Mars. Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechNew research details a biological solution for producing rocket fuel on Mars, but significant hurdles need to be overcome to make this intriguing idea work.With plans to visit Mars next decade, NASA is still sorting out the fuel situation; launching a rocket to the Red Planet is not the…