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Workers are producing structural components of EV batteries at a production workshop in Qingkou Automobile Industrial Park in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China, on February 23rd, 2024. | Photo by Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images

The Biden administration announced much higher tariffs today on key goods from China that the US will need to meet its climate goals. The move



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Sydney Sweeney’s Barbarella movie might have found its writers. Chris Pratt has very high hopes of an MCU return—and a DC debut. Planet of the Apes’ producer wants at least five more movies of simian shenanigans. Plus, get a creepy look at David Cronenberg’s latest film. Spoilers, away!

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Alexey Pertsev, the developer behind crypto mixer Tornado Cash, has been found guilty of money laundering by a Dutch court in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Pertsev was first imprisoned in the Netherlands, where he had been residing, in August 2022 on charges of laundering $1.2bn in stolen cryptocurrency. He was released in April 2023 and remained under house arrest pending his trial in March this year — the



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Amazon's Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was both extremely successful and extremely divisive in the LOTR fan community. (Separate question, has any recent adaptation or new content in a beloved franchise not been divisive? Thoughts for another time.) Lots of people whined about how Amazon should just trash the first season and start over, but clearly that was never going to happen. What is



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Sharks, glorious sharks. One of the trinity that makes up elasmobranchs, a group of cartilaginous fish that includes sharks, rays, and skates. Sharks get their fair—actually unfair—share of hate for negative portrayals in media, especially of great white sharks, but the animals are intelligent denizens of all the…

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Your experience while taking a flight comes down to many random factors, including who sits next to you. Your seatmate has plenty of ways to bother you — you've lived them, we don't need to remind you how — but now there's a whole new option. Meta has announced a new feature called Travel Mode for its Quest 2 and 3 headsets that lets people use the devices while on a plane.

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The Arctis Nova 5 headset’s mic can retract into the earcup when not in use. | Image: SteelSeries

If you hate (or simply can’t be bothered) to adjust your audio profiles when setting up a new gaming headset, then you might be the target demographic for SteelSeries’ latest offering. Introduced on Tuesday, the new Arctis Nova 5 headset is supported by a dedicated companion



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As if it wasn’t already clear enough that streaming is basically just cable by another name at this point (though it's arguably less expensive for now), many of the top services are banding together to create bundles. A package combining Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ is expected to debut later this month. This StreamSaver bundle will be available to Comcast customers, according to CEO Brian



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A man holds a portable electronic warfare system at an event in Ukraine earlier this year.
  • Former US officials said the US is falling behind in its electronic warfare capabilities.
  • Russia has developed sophisticated electronic warfare weapons. 
  • It's using it to neutralize US weapons given to Ukraine. 

The US has been outclassed by its rivals, such as Russia, in its