The days are getting brighter, but with the current heatwave plaguing much of the US, how many of us can really go out and enjoy it? Luckily, Nanoleaf’s Skylight Smarter Kit is on sale for the first time, offering the rest of us a way to add some
Two of my favorite trailers for this week share a common theme: parasitic aliens. The trope has given us some of the finest moments in cinema history; consider the whole Alien franchise, the horrifying dog transformation in The Thing, or that scene from Spaceballs. You could make a convincing argument that Star Trek’s Borg race are

E3 may be dead, but its spirit lives on in the Summer Game Awards. Geoff Keighley’s annual showcase was light on big blockbusters, by his own admission, but it was made up for with a variety of double-A and indie titles that caught everyone’s attention. Here’s the best of what we saw that fell in our wheelhouse in…
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- CEOs in the S&P 500 made almost 200 times what their average worker did in 2023.
- CEO compensation had been trending downward before a 12.6% increase in 2023.
- Broadcom CEO Hock Tan was the highest-paid CEO in 2023 at $161.8 million.
Good news for all you CEOs out there: You're
Kevin Jenkins is a Star Wars veteran at this point, having worked in a variety of design roles across multiple films, ranging from Rogue One to The Rise of Skywalker. But as production designer on the Disney Plus series The Acolyte, he faced an entirely new challenge: finding a look that doesn’t rely on Star Wars staples like Stormtroopers or Star
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- Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference begins on Monday.
- The event is likely to unveil a new operating system update and new AI features.
- Here is a look at the big product reveals Apple has made in its history.
Apple hosts multiple events every year, including
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- China's newest aircraft carrier is a major capability and technological jump for its naval forces.
- But China still has a lot to learn before it can operate carriers like the US, experts say.
- There's plenty China can learn from US experiences
Meta will now let you create massive community chats on Messenger with people you aren't connected to in any way. Back in 2022, the company launched community chats for Facebook Groups, giving people belonging to the same groups an easy way to talk in real time. While that community feature is tied to groups on the social network, this one isn't — it will let use Messenger like Discord to connect
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- Biden has rejected Ukraine's NATO membership bid as part of a peace agreement.
- It would weaken Biden's reelection chances, a foreign policy expert said.
- Ukraine's accession to NATO would be perceived as an escalation by Russia.
US President Joe Biden appears to have drawn a line beneath Ukraine's bid for NATO membership.
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The following contains spoilers for “Rogue.”
Doctor Who has always been gay.
From the get-go, many of its key creative figures were queer, and a large proportion of its fans are too. As Tat Wood explained in his essays in show guide About Time 6, the mix of science, fantasy and camp offered subtextual solace for queer youth in less tolerant times. Russell T. Davies returned and pledged to start
When Apple first launched Siri in 2011 alongside the iPhone 4S, the company made a series of very compelling ads showing how you might use this newfangled voice assistant thing. In one, Zooey Deschanel asks her phone about delivering tomato soup; in another, John