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For more than a year, the largest space-based telescope ever built has been observing the far ends of the cosmos with unprecedented detail. The Webb Space Telescope could soon get a little extra help in the form of a miniature satellite the size of a toaster oven and equipped with extremely powerful vision.Webb Telescope Images the Pillars of CreationNASA recently selected the Monitoring Activity from Nearby sTars with uv Imaging and Spectroscopy (MANTIS) to assist Webb by observing the skies in the full range of…

In "Spider-Man" #7 by Dan Slott, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Andrew Hennessy, Edgar Delgado, and VC's Joe Caramagna from Marvel Comics, Shathra's attempt to control the Web of Life and Destiny fails, as the collection of web-slingers from the Spider-Verse stop her. Following the battle's conclusion, Neith, the Goddess of Spiders, appears, giving the Spider-Verse heroes a talisman that allows them to bring back heroes erased from time by Shathra's Totem Dagger. Jessica Drew's Spider-Woman is the first to be…

This week sees the publication of Blue Beetle #5, the fifth issue of the 6-issue mini-series by Josh Trujillo and Adrian Gutierrez.This week sees the publication of Blue Beetle #5, the fifth issue of the 6-issue mini-series by Josh Trujillo and Adrian Gutierrez, that takes a look down the timeline of many legacy Beetles. Even as the Blue Beetle comic book looks to the future for the most recent user of that name and reputation. Stargirl: The Lost Children, also with the fifth issue of a 6-issue mini-series by Geoff…

, former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos predicted Prime Air, the company’s then newly announced drone delivery unit, would be flying within four to five years. A decade later, the service appears to be than it was in 2018. However, some drone startups have had more success. Among those is Zipline, which says it’s on track to complete about 1 million deliveries by the end of the year. By 2025, the company says it expects to operate more flights than most airlines, a feat it intends to accomplish thanks to its next-generation…

The original came out way back in 2015, so it's a wonder why took so long to release its own take on a premium gamepad. But now that the is more widely available (kind of), the company is finally ready to show the world what it can do. While the $200 DualSense Edge costs a bit more than its rival, it offers a few nifty features you don't get on Microsoft's controller, combined with one potentially major shortcoming. Design For the Edge, Sony didn't stray much from its default template. From the top, the Edge looks…

| So who is The Quiz Kid?  The solicitation for the DC New Golden Age one-shot this week by Geoff Johns, Steve Lieber, Jerry Ordway, and Diego Olortegui is bringing us new Golden Age Heroes for the DC Universe. It looks like these are characters who did not previously exist in the DC Universe because they were removed from it and now are being returned under the Time Masters watch, with DC continuity retconning around them. Flashpoint Beyond #6 gave us the name of The Thirteen. Use this tag to keep up with details on…

Let’s kick it Who doesn’t love a good video game sidekick? I’ve been playing through some of the old Ratchet & Clank games with a friend, and while A Crack in Time is one of the best of the series, my biggest gripe is that we don’t get enough Ratchet and Clank quality time. Maybe I’m just too sentimental, but I really love seeing best buddy characters in my games, and Clank makes just about the best sidekick a girl could ask for. He’s got it all — an adorable personality, quippy dialogue, useful game mechanics, he…

Apex Legends continues to hold its players’ attention even after several years on the market, and next week, the battle royale shooter will bring things back to where they started with a new season that revisits the game’s original map. This year, the game already added two new characters (plus two more in the new mobile version), brought upgrades for next-gen consoles, rotated in a well-received Control game mode, and, according to EA’s earnings call this week, notched double-digit income growth again for the last…

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible-token (NFT) holder has lost many NFTs, including a ‘bubble gum ape’. After being duped into exchanging valuable pieces for worthless PNGs in a fraudulent swap transaction, a Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible-token (NFT) holder has lost many NFTs, including a ‘bubble gum ape’. People losing money in Apecoin is not a new thing anymore. After swapping their NFTs at an exchange called ‘swapkiwi’, the holder known as ‘s27′ lost the ‘bubble gum…