Meta and Its Oversight Board Are Squabbling Over Ads for Dubiously Legal Drugs

Meta is once again showing the limits of its own Supreme Court’s policy recommendations. This time, the disagreement centers around the ways users can post about certain drugs like ketamine on Facebook and Instagram. These drugs, which can straddle the line between recreational and therapeutic use, can run right up…

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Five Nights at Freddy's Animatronics Steal the Show in Their Movie Debut

If you’ve always wanted to see more of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, your time has arrived: Five Nights at Freddy’s will soon be both in theaters and streaming on Peacock, offering an entertaining if imperfect expansion on the popular Five Nights at Freddy’s video game franchise.

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Roku's New Channels Include One Dedicated to Universal Monsters

The Roku Channel, which already has a robust array of free-with-ads content, has added even more live linear channels, all curated around a specific theme, to its 400-plus options. Just in time for Halloween, there’s a new channel completely dedicated to Universal Monster movies—earlier today, we clicked over and…

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‘It’s The F**king Weapons’: Democrat Gives New GOP Speaker Blunt Fact-Check On Guns

Rep. Mike Johnson had made a wild claim about the true cause of mass shootings — and his critics aren’t buying it.

Samsung's Temporary Cloud Backup is Like a Scratch Pad for Your Phone's Data

Need to fix your Samsung device? Why not temporarily back up your data in the cloud before attempting it yourself or sending it to a technician? Samsung announced it’s started rolling out a “temporary cloud backup” feature to select smartphones and tablets running the latest version of One UI 6. The ability lets you…

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Pieces of Asteroid Bennu Land at the Smithsonian After 200 Million Mile Voyage

After traveling through space for 200 million miles, rocky pieces from asteroid Bennu were dropped off on Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in late September. Now, some of those fragments will be put on display for museum-goers to observe firsthand.

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Patrick Stewart Thinks He Wasn't That Great in The Next Generation's Early Seasons

When you have an acting career as vast and varied as Patrick Stewart’s, you’re allowed a little moment or two of going “well, that wasn’t great, was it?” But it’s surprising to see him reflect so harshly on what, to legions of people, will remain some of defining work: as Captain Picard on Star Trek: The Next…

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You Can Now Order a Waymo Robotaxi on the Uber App in Phoenix

Uber’s partnership with Waymo, a driverless taxi service, began Wednesday to provide autonomous ride options for customers in Phoenix. Riders who book an UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric could be paired with an autonomous Waymo vehicle.

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Jimmy Kimmel Tells Judge Exactly How To Hurt Trump Most

The late-night host reveals the one punishment that the former president truly fears.

One Year On: The 12 Worst Moments of Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover

My oh my, what a year it’s been. After several months of back-and-forth between billionaire and tech tycoon Elon Musk and social media company Twitter, the former officially took over as owner of the platform one year ago on Oct. 26, 2022.

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