Baltimore Bridge Insurer Will Pay Out $350 Million After Collapse
Chubb, the insurer of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, is reportedly preparing to make a $350 million payout to Maryland a little more than a month after it collapsed.
Tesla’s Interns Reportedly Feeling the Wrath of Elon Musk
Elon Musk said he wanted to be “absolutely hardcore” about reducing Tesla’s headcount earlier this week, and it looks like he’s entered full “demon mode,” as his biographer calls it. Now, an unlikely cohort is feeling his wrath: Tesla’s summer interns. College students shared how Musk’s cost-cutting efforts imploded…
New Close-up Video Shows the Sun’s Surface as the Hellscape We Always Imagined
The recent total solar eclipse on April 8 provided a rare glimpse of the Sun’s roiling corona, including some eye-grabbing prominences. Those views were neat, but a new video captured by Europe’s Sun-buzzing probe is providing some of the best close-up views of our host star that we’ve ever seen.
The Best Movie of 2023 Gets an Explosive New Limited Edition Poster
Oppenheimer may have been named the Best Picture of 2023, but io9 reserves that honor for its spiritual sequel. We’re talking about Godzilla Minus One, the creature feature from the legends at Toho, which follows a monster born from the technology Oppenheimer helped create. io9 said it’s the best film of the year and…
Cobra Kai’s Final Season Will Be Split Into Three Parts
The sixth and final season of Cobra Kai is coming this July. And this November. And next year. Netflix just revealed a first look at the popular show’s sixth season and with it, news that it’ll feature 15 episodes spread over three unique release dates. Part one will arrive on July 18, part two on November 28, and the…
All Signs Point to This Old Nokia Brick Phone Getting a Full Reboot
If you were born early enough to come into semi-adulthood in 1999, you used to have a Nokia 3210. OK, maybe you didn’t, but your friend or a family member had one, or they had a slightly later model. Maybe you forgot about it completely because, for hell’s sake, it’s been 25 years. But you’d recognize the silhouette,…
The M3GAN Sequel Might Have Found Its Next Victim
Terrifier 3 will terrify you a little earlier than planned. Warner Bros Animation lifts the lid on Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 3. Barriss Offee returns in a new clip from Tales of the Empire. Plus, a new look at Furiosa. Spoilers get!
Now’s Your Chance to Save AM Radio
Good news: A legislative push to save AM radio is almost certain to succeed, which means that America’s weirdest auditory wavelength will continue to survive for the foreseeable future.
8 Tech Products That Notoriously Got Wrecked by First Reviews
The reviews for Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin are here, and they’re bad. These AI-enabled devices promised to reduce our dependency on smartphones, but now everyone is wondering why they’re not apps to begin with. I have no idea if we’ll be using Rabbits and AI Pins five years from now (if so, I hope they can set alarms…
10 Things We Hate About the Rabbit R1
I’ve spent a day with the Rabbit R1, and to say that I was underwhelmed would be an understatement. In fact, I was surprised at how little it offers at the moment, and even from what it offers, what a poor job it does at that. According to the CEO Jesse Lyu, the R1 is “the worst this technology will ever be,” which…