April 21, 2021 Astronomers Don’t Know What Our Black Hole Ate, but They Definitely Saw It Belch In May 2019, astronomers witnessed a bright flare coming from the center of our galaxy. The event was caused by matter accreting to our…
April 21, 2021 Spider-Man Films New and Old Will Eventually Appear on Disney Streaming Services It may come as no surprise but Sony just signed a deal with Disney that’ll allow its upcoming theatrical releases from 2022-2026 to appear…
April 21, 2021 Site of Harriet Tubman’s Family Home Uncovered in Maryland The site of a 19th-century cabin belonging to the family of Harriet Tubman has been uncovered in Maryland. It’s a significant find, as the…
April 21, 2021 Roku Wisely Rebrands Its Soon-to-Debut Quibi Content as ‘Roku Originals’ Quibi content acquired by Roku earlier this year will henceforth be known as Roku Originals, a move that should mercifully allow all of us…
April 21, 2021 Lego’s Giant R2-D2 Is, of Course, the Droid You’ve Been Looking For In a few weeks, just in time for unofficial Star Wars holiday May the Fourth, everyone’s favorite R2 unit will join Lego’s line of giant,…
April 21, 2021 European Commission Proposes Taking Away the Cops’ Big Boy Surveillance Machine The EU is giving the U.S. a run for its money with privacy regulation, and now they’ve upped the ante with a dynamo of…
April 21, 2021 Mortal Kombat Had a ‘Fight Plan’ to Make Sure the Action Was Balanced One of the most impressive things about Mortal Kombat is how each fight means something. When things get cooking in the second half of…
April 21, 2021 Tetris-OS Is an ‘OS’ That Only Plays Tetris As a former Tetris fanatic, the idea of an operating system that only runs Tetris, over and over again forever, is fairly compelling. First,…
April 21, 2021 New Technique Could Turn Plastic Back Into Oil, Which Is … Something There is way too much plastic in the world—and we’re making more every day, even as we struggle to find a way to get…
April 21, 2021 Physicists Get a Good Look at an ‘Exciton’ for the First Time After nearly a century of probing the nature of tiny, ephemeral objects called excitons, researchers finally managed to image the structure, hinting at the…