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News Image Joker 2’s Surprise Actor Defends Its Divisive, Shocking Ending

Todd Phillips' Joker saga took a...surprising turn, but Connor Storrie thinks the film was fated to not sit well with audiences.

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News Image Terrifier is Bringing Its Gnarly Terror to Video Games

Art the Clown may be jumping to a new medium, but he's still gonna do what he does best and raise bloody hell.

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SpaceX will attempt historic catch of returning Starship booster on Sunday

Starship is ready to fly again — and for the first time, SpaceX is going to try to bring the booster back to the launch site to catch it with a pair of oversized “chopsticks.” SpaceX will launch the mammoth Starship on Sunday in a launch window that opens at 5 AM PST (7 AM […]

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News Image Hackers took over robovacs to chase pets and yell slurs

Someone gained access to Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni robotic vacuums across several US cities earlier this year and used them to chase pets and yell racist slurs at their owners, reported ABC News in Australia this week. The outlet spoke with multiple Deebot X2 owners who say their Deebot X2s had been hacked in May, including Minnesota lawyer Daniel Swenson, who said he was watching TV with his family when a noise “like a broken-up radio signal or something” started coming from the robot’s speaker. He said after he reset his password and rebooted the robot, it began again, only this time the sound was clearly a voice — he guessed a teenager’s — yelling slurs. ABC News lists other, similar accounts from owners in El Paso and Los Angeles, the...

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E. coli bacteria found in drinking water in Limburg, over 13,000 households affected

Drinking water company Waterleiding Maatschappij Limburg (WML) advises the residents of Venray and the surrounding areas in Noord-Limburg to boil their drinking water for three minutes this weekend

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TikTok’s research reportedly acknowledges negative effects on teens

Court documents suggest that TikTok executives are aware of the app’s potential harm to teenagers, according to reporting by NPR and Kentucky Public Radio. Fourteen U.S. attorneys general sued TikTok earlier this week, claiming that the app harms children’s mental health. Much of the material in those suits was redacted, but reporters were able to […]

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News Image Disney Sets Some More Dates For Its 2025 Movie Slate

If Captain America 4 and the Snow White remake weren't enough for ya, Lilo & Stitch and Freaky Friday 2 are also hitting theaters next year.

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Going on vacation is more popular again, although still less than before the pandemic

The Dutch are increasingly using the upcoming fall break to travel to the sun.

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News Image Prime Day Isn’t Over; Amazon Reveals 10 Amazing Deals This Saturday Morning

Amazon has chosen to extend the majority of Prime Day offers through this weekend. Almost all the deals remain available, except for those that are out of stock.

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‘Where we are today in biology AI is similar to GPT in 2020’: An interview with the CEO of Africa’s biggest AI startup

In January last year, German biotech company BioNTech acquired African AI startup InstaDeep for over $550 million, a deal finalized in July of the same year. Instadeep, whose exit is currently the largest from Africa, has been operating under the German pharma umbrella for just over a year. Now is a good time to look […]

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