More than 50 years ago, Apollo astronauts left 96 bags of their own waste on the surface of the Moon. But they didn’t exactly fear getting hit with a fine for littering, as space—the Moon included—has been a largely lawless region. Canadian law makers are hoping to change that.
The Webb Space Telescope is one step closer to being fully operational: It is now fully aligned and calibrating its suite of four instruments to collect data on our universe. NASA announced the new milestone in a blog post yesterday.
Back in February, current Spider-Man Tom Holland made the surprising and surprisingly weird announcement that one of the three Spider-Men in No Way Home—which includes previous Spideys Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, along with Holland, of course—wore a fake ass underneath their superhero costumes while filming the…
The family found the ordnance during a trip to Israel and thought it would make a nice souvenir.
Airbnb rentals sometimes turn sour, and media moguls are betting that this makes for quality entertainment. Deadline has learnedQueer Eye company Scout Productions is teaming with Bloomberg to produce a documentary series on Airbnb’s safety team. The show will be based on an investigative piece from Olivia Carville that outlines how an “elite” team handles horrific incidents, including hidden camera creeps, scammers and cleaning up the aftermaths of violent crimes.
The Airbnb docuseries doesn’t have a tentative release date. It’s also unclear which providers will carry the show, although it won’t be surprising if it reaches a streaming service like Amazon or Netflix.
The project is the latest in a succession of documentaries and semi-fictional adaptations covering major names in tech. Apple’s WeWork series is one of the better-known recent examples, but there have also been productions detailing TikTok, the rise and fall of Theranos and other well-known subjects. More are on the way, too, including Amazon and Netflix documentaries about Blue Origin and SpaceX flights. Hollywood is increasingly convinced you want to see tech triumphs and calamities on TV, and Airbnb apparently has plenty of them.
What happens when your car tires fail, and how can you prevent this situation from occurring? How important are tire inflation, damage, and tread wear?
In light of a certain new shiny, licensed Superhero RPG release, I decided to look at some of my favorite superhero–focused RPGs, and found that I had at least seven in my personal collection, and another dozen saved online in various places. So you know what, let’s go. Superhero RPG megaslideshow, prepare for impact.
This probably isn’t what they meant when they said “trim the fat.” Weight loss app Noom will be laying off 495 wellness coaches in total over the coming days, according to a report by Insider based on company documents.
The use of biometrics—measurements of physiological characteristics to identify someone—has made interactions with our mobile devices a lot easier by trading passcodes for face scans and fingerprint readings. But are there other ways our physical interactions with devices can make them easier to use? Researchers in…
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