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You don’t have to be a diehard Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fan to feel a pang of sadness about a recent auction that saw Hasbro sell off a trove of costumes, props, and other memorabilia from the franchise’s three decades of history. As io9 covered when the auction was announced, it was seen as controversial … Read more

Seeking out witches, psychics, mediums, or other purveyors of magic or mysticism during times of change or uncertainty has been happening for centuries. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Yelp noted a 74 percent increase in Americans searching for psychics and a 63 percent uptick in searches for astrologers. Following Trump’s first election in 2016, US witches … Read more

Marissa Mayer has a lot of insights into the promise and problems with online advertising. She played an instrumental role in the early days of Google Search and spent several years as Yahoo’s CEO. Today, Mayer is the CEO of her own company, Sunshine, which is creating apps to do things like share photos among … Read more

Researchers from the University College London have done what celebrity chefs and Italian nonnas could only dream of: they’ve made the world’s thinnest spaghetti. This culinary-sounding accomplishment, in Nanoscale Advances, has yielded strands of starch nanofibers that are just 372 nanometers wide, which is invisible to the naked eye and is even smaller than some … Read more

With Black Friday just a week away, many Cyber Week deals at Amazon are already live and ready to shop. If you’re in the market for a new portable speaker for yourself or a loved one this holiday season, the Beats Pill is one of the best Bluetooth speakers you can buy. It offers excellent … Read more

Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ final season has unified itself around a singular thematic message as it prepares to say goodbye, around how its ever-learning, ever-growing heroes still need to remember to be open and honest with each other to be their very best. It’s a good theme to build the show’s last season around, but … Read more

In the game known as the streaming wars, Disney+ came out swinging, bringing with it a massive library of movies and TV shows—with new ones being added all the time. Watched everything on Netflix? Disney+ has a seemingly endless selection of Marvel movies and plenty of Star Wars and Pixar fare too. Problem is, there’s … Read more

As SpaceX’s Starship test program continues to gain momentum, the company signed its second commercial deal to deliver a payload to the moon using a lunar lander variant of the massive vehicle.  Starship will deposit Lunar Outpost’s rugged rover, called Eagle, to the lunar surface by 2029, the Colorado-based startup said. Lunar Outpost CEO Justin … Read more

The 4K Chromecast with Google TV streaming stick is down to $40 on Amazon as part of a Black Friday sale. That’s a savings of 20 percent, or ten bucks for the math wizards out there. We called the 1080p version of this device “a great little streaming dongle” and that certainly holds true for … Read more

As we head into the holiday gifting season, folks have started asking me for Bluetooth speaker recommendations, because they do make for good gifts. I like to point them to our list of the best Bluetooth speakers, but I also mention that I awarded a CNET Editors’ Choice to the Anker Soundcore Boom 2, because I think … Read more