Pulitzer Prize awards special citation to teen who filmed George Floyd's murder

Darnella Frazier, the teen who recorded the murder of George Floyd last summer, has earned a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize board.

White House Seeks To Boost Awareness Of Checks Coming To Parents

The expanded child tax credit won’t reach people who don’t file tax returns.

Netflix's Castlevania Is Getting a Spin-Off Series

The final day of Netflix’s “Geeked Week” began with some very welcome news. The team behind the Castlevania anime is officially, thankfully, and wisely returning to the world of the video games for another series, this time starring fan-favorite characters Richter Belmont and Maria Renard.

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Google's Quest to Kill the Cookie Is Creating a Privacy Mess

For the past few months, millions of Chrome users have been roped into Google’s origin trials for the tech meant to replace the quickly crumbling third-party tracking cookie. Federated Learning of Cohorts—or FLoC, for short—is a new kind of tracking technique that’s meant to be a friendlier, more privacy-protective…

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch Finally Solved a Big Problem

Enough with the tangent missions. On this week’s episode of Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Bad Batch, the crew finally did something for themselves—something they should have done a long time ago but didn’t know how. Thankfully, with the help of a familiar friend, Hunter, Tech, Echo, Wrecker (all Dee Bradley…

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China’s New Rover Captures Unique Selfie on Mars

The Zhurong rover, whose name translates to “fire god,” used a detachable wireless camera to capture a clever image of itself and its landing platform on the surface of Mars.

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A Hanging Glacial ‘Tooth’ Caused February’s Deadly Indian Flash Flood

In February, a massive avalanche tore through a mountain valley in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, causing flash flooding and mudslides. A new study has found that debris broke off a glacier above the valley and disintegrated so quickly that the resulting friction melted ice around it, causing the enormous,…

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NASA reveals its first two payload missions to the Moon’s far side

The Moon has two ‘sides,’ one that perpetually faces the Earth and another that perpetually faces away from our planet. Many refer to this as the Moon’s far side, one that hasn’t gotten as much attention from scientists as the part we can directly observe. That has slowly changed, however, and now NASA plans to join the work. NASA has … Continue reading

The Witcher season 2 gets first teaser as Netflix reveals WitcherCon for July

It’s safe to say that the first season Netflix’s The Witcher series was a pleasant surprise for a lot of fans of the franchise. Season 2 is on the way, and today we received the very first teaser trailer for it. On top of that, Netflix and CD Projekt also announced that they’re teaming up to hold the first-ever WitcherCon … Continue reading

Helen Hunt Says Her Idea For ‘Twister’ Sequel With Black, Brown Cast Got Rejected

The “Mad About You” star said she and her co-writers could “barely get a meeting” on the now-defunct project.