Since day one, shot one, moment one, Star Wars has been about fascism. It’s not some hidden message. A group of Rebels fights an evil Empire that has taken over the galaxy, using masked Stormtroopers and by committing genocide. It’s right there in the text. Over the past few years, that story was given even...

Most people become an expert in something by putting in their 10,000 hours. But what a waste that is when you can just trick ChatGPT into telling everyone you are an expert in about 20 minutes. BBC reporter Thomas Germain laid out how he got ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini AI to recognize his hot dog-eating...

Donating blood is a lifesaving gift, but it’s not always the easiest one to give. I should know—I’ve been doing it for over 15 years. The national blood supply is currently in dire straits. Last month, the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies, America’s Blood Centers, and the American Red Cross jointly and...

Ryan Coogler walked so Phil Lord and Chris Miller could… get shaken around and sprayed with water, apparently. Last year, the Sinners director did a very excellent video breaking down all the different formats his film was being released in. Now, Lord and Miller are doing the same for their upcoming filmProject Hail Marybut with...

In the last year, AI agents have become all the rage. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic all launched public-facing agents designed to take on multi-step tasks handed to them by humans. In the last month, an open-source AI agent called OpenClaw took the web by storm thanks to its impressive autonomous capabilities (and major security concerns)....

As carbon emissions push Earth’s temperature higher and higher, Antarctica is taking the brunt of the impact. This frozen continent is warming nearly twice as fast as the rest of the world, threatening its ecosystems, driving sea level rise, and destabilizing global food chains. Humanity’s choices over the next decade will determine Antarctica’s fate, according...

Following an investigation into the Starliner mishap that left NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore stuck on the International Space Station for nine months, the agency says its own leadership is largely to blame. During a Thursday press briefing, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that while Williams and Wilmore were aboard the ISS and...

In 1994, Russian archaeologists unearthed a tiny cemetery with a grave holding a mummified woman wearing a wig. More than 30 years later, researchers revisited the long-dead body—exposing what appears to be a primitive prosthetic in her jaw. In a statementarchaeologists at Novosibirsk State University in Russia announced that a recent analysis of a 2,500-year-old skull...

If there’s one bet that will always hit on one of the various “prediction markets” that are now apparently undergirding our economyit’s that America will take the wrong lesson from a crisis. One of the starkest bits of evidence for this truism is what remains changed in our society post-COVID lockdown. Our all-too-brief tastes of...

One of the first big Ls of the second Trump administration was just handed to him by an unlikely source: The Supreme Court of the United States. After years of Trump-friendly rulings—upholding the travel ban, permitting ICE to racially profileand OKing his freezing foreign aidto name just a few—the Roberts court has finally found one...