The BoysCreator Doesn’t Care if You Stop Watching Because You’ve Just Noticed Its Agenda

Then, when Trump was actually elected, We had a metaphor that said more about the current world. Were right in the eye of the storm. As THR points out, not everyone in the viewing public is onboard with that. The truth is out there (or is it?) in The Boys season four.Photo: an Thijs/Prime Video Anyone who wants to call the show woke or whatever, thats OK. Go watch something else....

June 7, 2024 · 1 min · 213 words · James Brewer

The NextGodzilla/KongMovie Has Found a Surprising New Director

Doctor Who shows off some feathery new aliens from its latest episode. Plus, when to expect the return of Daryl and Carol in their Walking Dead spinoff. Borderlands Fandango has six new Borderlands character posters, including Gina Gershons Moxxi. Image: Warner Bros. In the writing, And its a blast. Theres different characters, different setting, different story and Im enjoying it like crazy. I will not tell you that yet yet....

June 7, 2024 · 1 min · 141 words · Anthony Burns

Windows Is Getting Its Own AI Upscaler That Promises Better Frames in Any Game on Copilot+

Microsoft is getting its ownAI upscaling technologybaked straight into Windows 11 that will appear on the latestCopilot+ PCs. This is Borderlands 3 running on the just announced Qualcomm Snapdragon Developer Kit. So lets forget other AI features like the Microsoft Paint art generator Procreate or the auto-screenshotting and potentially problematicRecall. Microsoft is claiming you’ll get a handy framerate boost with Auto SR on any game, though we’ll have to test it ourselves to see if latency becomes an issue....

June 7, 2024 · 2 min · 324 words · Douglas Howard

A Bird Flu Virus Has Killed Its First Human

A particular pop in of bird flu has now killed its first human. Doctors detected an unknown subtype of influenza A virus within the mans respiratory samples, which prompted genetic sequencing. On May 24, local health officials notified the WHO of their discovery. Image: Dimas Ardian (Getty Images) This is the first confirmed human case and death ever linked to H5N2. Bird flu is worrying for several reasons. As of yet, neither avian H5N1 nor H5N2 appear certain to make this jump to people....

June 6, 2024 · 1 min · 92 words · Daniel Sawyer

A Killer Job Forces Exes to Reunite in This Queer Sci-Fi Short Story

io9 is proud to present fiction fromLIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEEDs current issue. This months selection is The Waking Sleep of a Seething Wound by dave ring. Illustration: Grandeduc (via Adobe Stock) Bini had been awake for hours, back aching. She was too old for this shit. Mox still slept like the dead, her snores a regular wheeze. Graphic: Adamant Press Hard to imagine Bini had once slept beside that noise every night....

June 6, 2024 · 5 min · 922 words · Michael Davis

Boeing’s Starliner Docks at ISS After Five Thrusters Unexpectedly Shut Off

Update: June 6, 1:45 p.m. ET: Starliner missed its first docking opportunity at 12:15 p.m. ET due to technical issues, prompting NASA to target another docking window starting at around 1:30 p.m. Five of the spacecraft thrusters failed during its approach, and four were subsequently recovered. Starliner approaching the ISS on June 6.Screenshot: NASA TV The capsule finally docked with the ISS at 1:34 p.m. ET following a nail-biting journey....

June 6, 2024 · 2 min · 241 words · Katherine Moore

Boeing’s Starliner Spouts Fresh Helium Leaks During Trek to ISS

Two of the affected helium valves have been closed and the spacecraft remains stable, the space agency wrote. The Starliner Crewed Flight Testblasted off on June 5from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft consists of a reusable crew capsule and an expendable service module. Boeing’s Starliner capsule launched atop an Atlas V rocket on June 5.Photo: Boeing Helium is used in the spacecrafts thruster systems to allow the thrusters to fire without being combustible or toxic....

June 6, 2024 · 1 min · 135 words · Alan Mclaughlin

CDC Says Cucumbers Likely Cause of Salmonella Outbreak in 25 States

Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina have all identified 8 cases each. The recalled cucumbers are dark green, roughly 1.5-2 inches in diameter, and between 5-9 inches long. News from the future, delivered to your present. The cucumbers that are potentially making people sick, in a photo distributed by the FDA about the recall.Photo: FDA / Fresh Start Produce Sales, Inc. Dangerous Bacteria Actively Seek Out Human Blood, Scientists Discover They’re calling it bacterial vampirism....

June 6, 2024 · 1 min · 120 words · Monica Johnson

Costco Working on Ad Network to Sell Its Shoppers’ Data, Report Says

Costco is the perfect place to shop whenever you need a 3-pound tub of pretzels andfour gallons of mayonnaise. Or, perhaps more famously, those $1.50 hot dog combos. But now those purchases will help the retailer target you with ads, according to a report fromMorning BrewThursday. Image: The Image Party (Shutterstock) And so its a really good time to be starting fresh in retail media. Costco has 130 million members worldwide and Williamson acknowledges consumer tastes can be fickle....

June 6, 2024 · 1 min · 133 words · Brett Li

Cybertruck Cop Cars Could Be Just Over the Horizon

Now this is cool. Imagine getting pulled over by this? Not sure if I would be worried or fangirling, one user wrote on theCybertruck Owners Forum. Gif: Twitter Others compared the look of the modified Cybertruck to something out of the classic 1982 sci-fi filmBlade Runner. Cybertruck goes@UpfitTeslaIntroducing worlds first Police Cybertruck ready for Patrol use now from here to Mars! AsPopular Sciencereports, UN-FIT has already sold modifications to the Anaheim Police Department for the Tesla Model Y....

June 6, 2024 · 1 min · 108 words · Brian Leonard

GameStop Trading Halted Again Following Roaring Kitty Livestream Return

TheTwitter account for Roaring Kittystarted tweeting last month and people blindly ran headfirst into buying GameStop. On Thursday, a live stream on Gills YouTube show was scheduled, sparking an all-new frenzy of speculation. As of 10:17 a.m. Is Roaring Kitty going back to the moon?Image: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket (Getty Images) (Getty Images) ET, its lost20% of its valuefrom the opening bell. ET on Friday, June 7. What Will Roaring Kitty Say?...

June 6, 2024 · 1 min · 117 words · Anna Gonzales

Google Messages Will Finally Let You Text 911

Its not Androids equivalent to the iPhonesemergency SOS via satellite, but itll do for now. The company is teaming up withRapidSOSto unlock the service via RCS. It will begin rolling out the ability in the U.S. this winter. Image: Google Google says its goal is to make RCS the standard for emergency services texting everywhere. Or maybe its calling out to Apple? Pixel users can use thePersonal Safety appto store essential emergency information, including medical information and emergency contacts....

June 6, 2024 · 1 min · 102 words · Derek Stuart

Here’s What Netflix’s First Big Redesign in a Decade Looks Like

Can you believe its been 10 years since Netflix last made any big changes to its interface? A new TV app redesign will be rolling out to a subset of users on Thursday. The first thing youll probably notice is that the redesign of the TV app removes the left-most vertical menu. Gone is the left-hand menu, and in its place is a top horizontal bar that simplifies all your options....

June 6, 2024 · 2 min · 309 words · Joanna Ruiz