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Screengrab via Universal Pictures We’re at least a third of the way through the final stretch of the Fast & Furious saga now that Fast X is playing in theaters, and, as expected, the latest entry has continued the franchise’s trend of shamelessly leaning into its unprecedented stupidity with the straightest face possible, and the result is the purest, most delightful form of Fast nonsense yet. Indeed, no respectable breed of film criticism can or should ever arrive at the conclusion that Fast X is a good…

Curveball by Pablo Cartaya & Miguel Díaz Rivas, a middle-grade baseball graphic novel from Disney for 2024.Curveball is Pablo Cartaya's graphic novel debut, drawn by Miguel Díaz Rivas, a middle-grade contemporary story that "stars 12-year-old Elena Rueda, whose whole identity is baseball—until she embarks on a summer without it. Through a season without scoreboards, Elena finds not just herself but also a new sense of belonging in friendship and family—and learns what it really means to play". Rachel Stark at…

While there is water on the Moon, it’s not kept in convenient reservoirs, it’s locked away in the lunar soil. Now, a team of scientists has found that thirsty astronauts could one day refresh themselves fairly easily – by throwing a cup of Moon dirt in the microwave.Over the past decade or so, increasing evidence has been found for water on the Moon, bound between the grains of the surface lunar dust, known as regolith. Its estimated abundance is between 100 and 400 parts per million, with higher concentrations at the…

After Ice Spice’s unreleased song “Like” was leaked last week, the 23-year-old quote-tweeted a minute-long snippet of the song, calling it a “throw away.”“Like, why you tryna come for me?” she raps on the track, which was produced by RiotUSA. “Like, didn’t know that you fuck with me / I be poppin’ shit but do it humbly / Like, please, not too much on me.”“Like” was leaked shortly after her “Princess Diana” remix with Nicki Minaj debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Ice has appeared on the chart a few times before,…

Pentagon pushback could imperil national plans for a sustainably powered future. Maps from the Department of Defense show that the U.S. military has serious concerns about planned offshore wind development, according to a Monday report from Bloomberg.How Can You Be a Steward of Good Tech in 2023? | Gizmodo InterviewAcross vast expanses of ocean off the mid-Atlantic, the Pentagon has apparently indicated it would prefer there to not be wind turbines. In an annotated graphic shown in the Bloomberg report, four big sections…

THIS WEEK: The DC Round-Up team convenes for a roundtable discussion of The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country – The Glass House #1. Note: the review below contains spoilers. If you want a quick, spoiler-free buy/pass recommendation on the comic in question, check out the bottom of the discussion for our final verdicts. The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country – The Glass House #1 Writer: James Tynion IVArtist: Lisandro EstherrenColorist: Patricio DelpecheLetterer: Simon BowlandCover Artist: Reiko Murakami Joe…

Amazon.com Inc has lost a bid to throw out three sample lawsuits brought by British delivery drivers seeking employment rights including the minimum wage and holiday pay. More than 1,400 drivers who deliver Amazon parcels are suing in a London employment tribunal, arguing they should be classed as employees rather than self-employed contractors. Amazon says it has no contractual relationship with the drivers and applied to throw out the claims at a hearing last month. However, in a ruling made public on Monday, a judge…

It seems like OPPO plans to throw its own SoC into the ring next year. We’ve already seen a report saying that OPPO is planning to launch its own SoC in 2024, that report arrived at the end of last year. Well, another one just surfaced, kind of confirming what we heard beforeOPPO is planning to throw its own SoC into the ring next yearAccording to a MediaTek executive, who held a speech at a foreign investment forum in Taiwan, OPPO wants its own SoC in order to retain its competitive edge. He also said that OPPO’s chip…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAustin Butler has opened up about the intense physical preparation required for his role in the forthcoming Dune sequel.The Elvis star revealed that the training sessions would cause him to “throw up every time”.In the film, a sequel to Denis Villenueve’s 2021 sci-fi blockbuster Dune, Butler will play Feyd-Rautha, the younger nephew of the villainous Baron Harkonnen (Stellan…

Kevin Winter/Getty Images/DC Comics Here we go, DC fans, what we’ve been waiting weeks for is finally upon us. New co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn has been promising all month that he would unveil the first wave of announcements for his shiny new DCU sometime in January. Well, with just two days to go at the time of writing, we can be sure that these exciting updates will be dropping any moment. So with time running out before the DCU starts officially taking shape, desperate diehards are busy throwing their…