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S19
Tesla's Wade Mode Can Actually Help the Cybertruck Swim    

After we found out about Tesla’s decision to include a Wade Mode as an option for off-roading, it was only a matter of time before someone was brave enough to make their Cybertruck a guinea pig. Thanks to YouTuber TechRax, we’re thoroughly impressed with how the Cybertruck can traverse flooded roads with relative ease and without much damage.You might remember TechRax from recreating Tesla’s stainless steel ball test with some promising results. Even though the YouTuber is known for destroying smartphones, they’ve taken their skills to all things Cybertruck. Since Tesla isn’t planning to show off any of these durability tests, we’re glad someone is willing to put their Cybertruck through all this abuse.

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'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Review: Netflix's Live-Action Remake Is So Close to Being Perfect    

Growing up in the mid-2000s, you were either a Harry Potter kid, a Narnia lover, or an Avatar: The Last Airbender devotee. The latter was catnip to many a younger millennial. It was an animated series that combined the worldbuilding and lore of its contemporaries with a story unlike any other. It was soulful, huge in scope, and impossibly endearing. Almost 20 years later, it remains one of the strongest stories in any medium, a reputation backed by its 2020 resurgence on Netflix. It’s not a stretch to say that nothing can replace the original Avatar; one needn’t look further than M. Night Shyamalan’s embarrassing attempt at a live-action remake in 2010. There’s no way to describe the wound it left on the fandom without verging into hyperbole. In our defense, though, it’s hard to watch characters you grew up with, and storylines you spent years unpacking, adapted without the reverence they deserve. So when Netflix’s adaptation came along with promises to check all the boxes that were previously disregarded, it seemed like a perfect solution. Unfortunately, that slavish devotion to the source material creates a wholly different problem.

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Mottainai: In Japan, creativity is key to a no-waste ideal    

The breezy fishing village of Murakami, only three hours by train from Tokyo, feels light-years removed from the hubbub of the world's largest city. I've come to the frozen-in-time castle town for respite from the rush and roar of urban Japan and to dine at Idutsuya, a renowned restaurant inside an inn once patronised by the 17th-Century poet and Zen master Basho. In a dining room as serene as a Zen meditation hall, I relish a dozen distinct salmon delicacies presented like jewels on a lacquered tray. Pickled salmon milt. Crunchy, flash-fried skin. A pâté-like treat made from liver. The parade of briny bites is a symphony of flavours and textures, and every part of the fish, from the coveted o-toro (luxurious belly fat) to the organs, finds delicious expression. Even the bones and teeth are rendered into an umami-laden gel to be eaten atop rice. The meal – an edible ode to silky, orange fish flesh – beautifully expresses the Japanese ideal of mottainai, finding creative ways to eliminate waste.

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S18
Jurassic World's Divisive New Director Could Actually Save the Franchise    

Jurassic World is entering a new era. After bringing back the original cast for the bombastic misfire that was Jurassic World: Dominion, it looked like the franchise had nowhere left to go. But in January, Variety revealed a new Jurassic World movie was in development, and now we have some sense of the identity the film is pursuing.When the new movie was announced, an intriguing screenwriter was already attached: David Koepp, the writer of the original Jurassic Park. Then John Wick’s David Leitch was soon announced as being in talks to direct. But the duo of Davids wasn’t meant to be, as Leitch left the project only four days later.

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The NASA Mission that Photographed Pluto in 2015 Has Discovered Something Unexpected     

Hundreds of thousands of icy rocks lurk around in the Kuiper Belt, a place discovered just a few decades ago, and exists far beyond Neptune. As a NASA spacecraft sojourns deeper into space, it has encountered a puzzling finding in this cosmic hinterland: The Kuiper Belt may be much bigger than expected.Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter formed billions of years ago and their gravitational influence may have cleared out the middle of the Solar System of the objects that now live in the Kuiper Belt. Now, after having been slingshotted into the dark and frigid outer edges of the Solar System, these planetary building blocks are coming into the spotlight with missions like NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

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S24
Incredible 'Batman Beyond' Movie Could Defy a Terrible Hollywood Trend    

Of all the disappointments wrought by DC’s The Flash, the most egregious might be the rumored Batman Beyond movie that hinged on its success. A live-action adaptation of the beloved ‘00s cartoon was reportedly in the works, with once and future Batman Michael Keaton set to reprise his role as Bruce Wayne — and serve as mentor to a new Crusader, Terry McGinnis. Unfortunately, such an adaptation relied entirely on The Flash’s box office reception. It’s safe to say the 2023 film didn’t break any records in that arena, so a live-action Batman Beyond is probably never going to happen.

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The two women behind a world-changing scientific discovery | Aeon Videos    

Good Chemistry takes viewers behind the scenes and beyond the headlines of the CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough. Centred on the work of the French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and the US biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who together became the first all-female team to receive the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2020, this short documentary details how their landmark 2012 paper on the CRISPR system was the result of years of experimentation, passionate work and collaboration. The film is both an accomplished piece of storytelling and of science communication, illuminating the biochemistry behind CRISPR and the experience of being part of a truly world-changing discovery.

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Tracking tropical turtles deep down to the seabed reveals their feeding habits    

Hawksbill turtles are critically endangered, they are found in every ocean and are the most tropical of sea turtles. Adult hawksbills have long been considered to have a close association with shallow (less than 15 metres depth) seas where coral reefs thrive.Young hawksbills drift in currents during their pelagic (open water) phase of their development before they move to benthic (sea bed) habitats. Hawksbills are usually seen foraging in coral reefs where their diet is predominantly sponges. They also feed on a variety of algae, corallimorphs (coral-like anemones), tunicates and more.

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Hard to kill: here's why eucalypts are survival experts    

They can recover from fire. Grow back from a bare stump. Shrug aside bark loss that would kill a lesser tree. Endure drought and floods. Eucalypts are not interested in dying. They’re survivors. The world’s 800-plus species are almost all found in Australia, a continent with old, degraded soils and frequent fires and droughts.

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'Dune 2' Review: Villeneuve's Exhilarating Sequel Is the Best Sci-Fi Epic of the Century    

Dune: Part One was, in many ways, the antiblockbuster. It’s a movie that began at the end — at the end of a centurieslong secret battle between noble houses we only see glimpses of and amid a sea of change that we can’t even begin to understand. There was no emotional anchor because most of the characters were doomed from the moment we met them and no catharsis because the story wasn’t really over. It’s an incredibly ballsy way to start a sci-fi franchise, and Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve’s electrifying, stupendously action-packed sequel, is no less bold. But while it would be easy (and cliche) to say that Dune: Part Two delivers on everything the first film built up — and more! — the film is more than the sum of its jaw-dropping spectacle and rousing battle scenes.Dune: Part Two is a sci-fi epic for the ages: a sweeping tragedy of mythic proportions, a cautionary tale of the perils of zealotry, and maybe most importantly of all, a love story. It’s a towering feat of sci-fi cinema that will put Dune: Part Two in contention for the pantheon of greatest sequels ever.

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Are You Eating Too Much Protein? This Common Amino Acid Could Reveal the Answer    

How much protein do you eat daily? At first glance, this question may seem straightforward considering protein's outsized influence on our contemporary lifestyles — from foodies throwing back plates of juicy fried chicken, fitness enthusiasts chugging whey shakes for gains, and carnivore diet followers chomping on red meat.But as it turns out, we’re consuming far more than is recommended. About 75 percent of Americans “meet or exceed the recommendation for meats, poultry, and eggs,” according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services.

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S17
This Mod Turns the PlayStation Portal Into a Real Gaming Handheld    

A pair of Google engineers jailbroke the PlayStation Portal to run PlayStation Portable games natively with the help of an emulator. This mod makes the Portal more of a standalone gaming handheld, rather than just a remote-play streaming device for your PS5.It’s not exactly the Sony-made handheld gaming device we expected, but until we get a next-gen PlayStation Portable, this thing looks pretty rad.

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ADHD drug shortages: what to expect if you take Vyvanse and can't access your usual dose    

Alison Poulton is a director of the Australasian ADHD Professionals Association. She has previously taken part in an advisory panel and received personal fees and non-financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, which manufactures ADHD medications including some mentioned in this article. She has received book royalties from Disruptive Publishing (ADHD Made Simple).Imagine you or your child has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and after several weeks, or even months, you’ve found a dose of medication you’re happy with.

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'Shadow of the Erdtree' Looks So Good I'm Determined to Finally Beat 'Elden Ring'    

The first gameplay trailer for Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree is finally out, announcing that the anticipated DLC launches June 21. So now I know exactly how long I have to somehow find a way to beat Elden Ring.FromSoftware’s latest game is, in no uncertain terms, a masterpiece. It’s hard to think of a way of the developer could even improve on what it did with Elden Ring — at least it was until the DLC trailer dropped.

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S13
A Backbone Holding Up the Milky Way Is Bending --    

We live near the end of a long, thin stream of gas, dust, and stars, which spirals outward from the center of the Milky Way. Our cosmic neighborhood is called the Orion Spur, and it’s sort of like a stellar side street between the main pair of spiraling “arms” that give the Milky Way its trademark pinwheel shape. The backbone of the Orion Spur is a chain of dense gas clouds called nebulae, and all along that chain of nebulae, clumps of gas are collapsing into clusters of bright new stars.This sparkling chain of gas clouds and newborn star clusters is called the Radcliffe Wave, because when astronomers mapped it in 2020, it traced an undulating shape, like the graph of a sine wave. It stretches 9,000 light years along the Orion Spur, and it passes just 500 light years from the Sun at its closest point. According to a recent study, it’s not just wave-shaped: It’s moving up and down.

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S20
Nintendo Just Revealed the Sequel to 2021's Most Stunning Metroidvania    

Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct revealed plenty of exciting games coming to the Switch, but for one very specific kind of gamer (me), the most exciting announcement was an indie Metroidvania shown in the first few minutes. While the newly announced game isn’t coming until sometime later this year, that means now is a great time to play its fantastic sleeper hit of a predecessor.Ender Magnolia is a dark fantasy game set in a world overrun with artificial lifeforms called homunculi. Playing as a young girl named Lilac, your goal is to “liberate” these homunculi, bringing bosses over to your side by defeating them.

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S21
Why iPhone 15 Batteries Are Now Rated for 1,000 Charge Cycles    

When Apple released the iPhone 15 series last September, the phones came with a way to see their battery health — how many cycles their lithium-ion cells have been charged — within the Settings app.Up until yesterday, Apple had maintained that its iPhone batteries “are designed to retain 80 percent of their original capacity at 500 complete charge cycles under ideal conditions.” But then Apple released iOS 17.4 beta yesterday, and suddenly the batteries in all iPhone 15 models can now retain 80 percent of their original capacity at 1,000 complete charge cycles.

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S43
Q&A with Sergei Guriev: 'The optimistic scenario is the departure of Vladimir Putin in whatever way'    

When Russian economist Sergei Guriev and The Conversation sit down to speak on the morning of 16 February, the news of the death of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny hasn’t yet broke. In fact, we discuss how the international community could best protect his imprisoned friend. Guriev has since described Navalny’s death, decried by the West as a political assassination orchestrated by Kremlin, as “terrible news — not only for the future of Russia, but also for Ukraine, Europe and the entire free world”. He has also endorsed Yulia Navalnaya as a “strong and independent leader” on Twitter days after the opposition leader’s widow – herself a trained economist – announced that she would be taking up her husband’s mantel.Our Q&A, which focuses on the state of the Russian economy almost two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, remains more relevant than ever, as the West begins to unleash a new wave of sanctions in response to Navalny’s alleged murder.

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S10
Netflix's Most Contentious Live Action Remake Has Finally Arrived    

Netflix’s highly-anticipated new series is finally here. Will it live up to the animated original?The wait is nearly over. After almost 14 years, one of the most beloved animated series of all time is about to get the live-action treatment... again.

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S14
The Wildest Crime Caper of the Year is Almost Too Ridiculous    

Drive-Away Dolls is best thought of as a time capsule. Apart from being set in the ’90s, the raucous lesbian road trip movie is a snapshot of the Coen Brothers’ early career and, perhaps most tellingly, a glimpse at a Coen movie that quite literally might’ve been.Director Ethan Coen and his wife, Tricia Cooke, first dreamed up the movie in the early 2000s, imagining it as a riff on the 1970s exploitation romances Coen saw in his youth. By 2007, it had had a director and cast attached — imagine Selma Blair, Holly Hunter, Christina Applegate, and Chloë Sevigny making a meal out of this — but dropped back into development hell. Almost 20 years after it was conceived, was Drive-Away Dolls worth the wait? Kind of.

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40 Years Later, a Classic Cyberpunk Story Could Finally Be Brought to Television    

In 1984, William Gibson’s debut novel Neuromancer invented a genre. While 1982’s Blade Runner is the flashpoint for how we think about cyberpunk on film, Neuromancer fully realized its sci-fi aesthetics for novels, games, and television. You’ll feel some retroactive Blade Runner vibes while reading Neuromancer, but Gibson began writing the book before its release, and was even nervous to see the film in 1982 for fear it would mean he was “done for.”Neuromancer and Gibson’s other cyberpunk books remain hugely influential, and as we grapple with the emergence of what practical AI is doing to our day-to-day lives, the story of “cowboy” hacker Case and his struggle against two sentient AIs — Wintermute and the eponymous Neuromancer — feels more relevant than ever. If Neuromancer actually becomes an Apple TV series, and gets a certain actor to star as Case, we could be looking at the best TV take on cyberpunk ever.

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S25
This Misunderstood Genetic Condition Has Afflicted Humans For Centuries, Fossil Evidence Reveals    

Such findings may lend insight into how rare genetic conditions were viewed by ancient societies. Beneath the shadow of an ancient hilltop village of Alto de la Cruz situated in Spain's northern Navarre region, an infant was buried with all the pomp and finery not typically reserved for anyone in this region during the Iron Age. While the dead were usually cremated, this baby was placed beneath a dwelling surrounded by sheep and goat remains — likely offerings for the afterlife — bronze rings and a Mediterranean sea shell.

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S27
Nintendo Switch Just Added The Most Overlooked Game of 2022    

If I had my way, Pentiment would’ve won Game of the Year in 2022. But instead, it was Elden Ring, which was also deserved, I guess.The smaller game from developer Obsidian Entertainment may get more well-earned attention now that it’s making the jump to the Nintendo Switch starting on February 22. The release follows weeks of rumors that Xbox exclusives would come to other platforms, and Pentiment is leading that charge.

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The birth of our system for describing web content | Aeon Essays    

is an academic librarian with a background in web indexing and scholarly publishing. She works at the Manchester Metropolitan University Library and lectures in the MSc Information Science programme at City, University of London.One weekend in March 1995, a group of librarians and web technologists found themselves in Dublin, Ohio, arguing over what single label should be used to designate a person responsible for the intellectual content of any file that could be found on the world wide web. Many were in favour of using something generic and all-inclusive, such as ‘responsible agent’, but others argued for the label of ‘author’ as the most fundamental and intuitive way to describe the individual creating a document or work. The group then had to decide what to do about the roles of non-authors who also contributed to any given work, like editors and illustrators, without unnecessarily expanding the list. New labels were proposed, and the conversation started over.

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Our Brains Are Designed To Learn From People We Like: Study - Forbes India    

A study suggests that we're much more selective than we think when it comes to memorizing new information. Image: ShutterstockOur memories enable us to store information from different sources, retain it and use it when needed. But some things are harder to remember than others. A Swedish study suggests that this phenomenon is due to the feelings inspired by the person teaching us.

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Guide to the classics: Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian novel We inspired Orwell and influenced the Western imagination    

This year is the centenary of Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We – a major influence on George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, as well as an important early contribution to the burgeoning genre of science fiction. We and 1984 (published in 1949) were crucial influences on Cold War western imagination of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian state. But Orwell had never been there, and Zamyatin wrote his dystopia in 1920, a time of chaos and civil war just three years after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia and two years before the Soviet Union formally came into being.

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S46
Privilege or poisoned chalice? As deputy chair at next week's WTO meeting, NZ confronts an organisation in crisis    

Jane Kelsey is attending the WTO ministerial as a representative of the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG), and as an invited Guest of the Chair. She advises a number of developing country governments on these issues. She is not paid by, and this is not written on behalf of, any of them. New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay will be one of three deputy chairs (alongside ministers from Panama and Cameroon) at the 13th ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Abu Dhabi next week.

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Should You Take Supplements? A Doctor Reveals the 2 That Are Worth It    

Walk into any drugstore in America and there will be at least one entire aisle dedicated to supplements that all claim to support better health. Listen to every claim associated with those supplements and you might find yourself with a Stanley cup full of pills to take every morning.But of all the supplements out there, are there any that are actually worth taking? According to nutrition experts, the answer is far simpler than you might think.

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Does hosting the Olympics, the World Cup or other major sports events really pay off?    

After a long battle, Paris’s beloved bouquinistes will be staying put this summer. The decision, announced on 13 February by the French government, came after considerable public backlash to the police prefecture’s original plan to move part of the iconic Seine booksellers elsewhere for the inauguration of the Olympics Games on 26 July.Meanwhile, less than six months away from the event, Parisians continue to grumble over a lack of consultations with locals, warnings of gridlocked traffic, closed metro stations, extensive video surveillance and other grievances. So for host countries, what was the point of the Olympics, again?

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LGBTQ history month: celebrating queer memory in our cities    

Cities are like archives. Through their architecture, street names, monuments, plaques and cultural heritage sites, we learn about what remains of the past. But who is remembered in public spaces, and who is kept forgotten?To diversify the histories revealed in these places, there are attempts around the world to give voice to hidden stories. This includes an increasing interest in representing the memory of LGBTQ communities, often absent from the public realm.

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The brightest object ever observed in the night sky is a black hole that's growing by the equivalent of one Sun a day    

Philip Wiseman works at the University of Southampton and is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass than the Sun every single day.

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The power and pleasure - and occasional backlash - of celebrity conspiracy theories    

With Taylor Swift pulling in over half-a-million audience members on her Australian tour, we’ve been thinking a lot about fans. In this series, our academics dive into fan cultures: how they developed, how they operate, and how they shape the world today.For years, people have claimed Elvis Presley is alive and well. Theories that his death was faked to escape the pressures of fame were even stoked by his record label, who, two years after his death, debuted a performer who sounded like and resembled Presley, but performed wearing a mask.

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How to Focus on What's Important, Not Just What's Urgent - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)    

Do you get to the end of the day and feel that you’ve met your most pressing deadlines but haven’t accomplished anything that’s fundamentally important? You’re hardly alone. In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research, people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward.

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Working from home is producing economic benefits return-to-office rules would quash    

More of us have been in paid work this past year than ever before. A big part of that is because more of us have been able to work from home than ever before.The proportion of Australians in paid work climbed above 64% in May last year, and has stayed there since. At the same time, unemployment has hovered around a half-century low of 4%.

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Building Culture From the Middle Out    

The winter 2024 issue features a special report on sustainability, and provides insights on developing leadership skills, recognizing and addressing caste discrimination, and engaging in strategic planning and execution.The winter 2024 issue features a special report on sustainability, and provides insights on developing leadership skills, recognizing and addressing caste discrimination, and engaging in strategic planning and execution.This article draws from our extended research engagement with a Fortune 100 company that has been named to “Best Companies” lists for the past decade. The authors conducted 120 interviews with current employees, former employees, and leaders at various levels to better understand how it manages culture during times of growth. Examples in this article are drawn from interviews with midlevel leaders in the company who were in the top 10% for both team performance and employee retention. Additional examples come from executive education programs focused on culture building.

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Apple Just Released a Free iPhone App for Following Real-Time Sports Teams Stats    

The app is free and has a single purpose: Display real-time sports scores, stats, and more as quickly as possible.I know we all love Marvel and Star Wars and tech, but do we also have any sports fans here at Inverse? If your answer is yes, then you might be excited to hear that Christmas has arrived in February. Today, Apple is launching a new iPhone app called Apple Sports for tracking real-time professional sports teams and their games, scores, and stats.

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5 Years Later, Star Wars Is Finally Fixing The Palpatine Detail That 'The Mandalorian' Fumbled    

In 2019, when the world was first introduced to Baby Yoda, he immediately became the most adored fictional alien creature in the entire world. But for hardcore Star Wars fans, the start of The Mandalorian also turned Baby Yoda into a puzzle. For all three seasons of Mando, the reason why the Empire wanted to sample Grogu’s blood seemed somewhat obvious; clearly, Palpatine’s loyal followers wanted to harvest some midichlorians in order to clone their favorite Sith Lord.By the conclusion of Mando Season 3, it was clear that Palps had nothing to do with Baby Yoda mystery even though Mando Season 3 did hint at the existence of something that felt linked to the Emperor’s return: Project Necromancer. How this secret Imperial operation connected with Palpatine was vague. But now, with the debut of The Bad Batch Season 3, Palpatine’s link to the goals with Project Necromancer is much clearer than anything ever was on The Mandalorian. Spoilers ahead for The Bad Batch Season 3 episodes 1-3.

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Ford's Push for Affordable EVs Could Give Us the Compact Electric Car We Deserve    

The automaker’s CEO Jim Farley recently teased plans to improve growth, notably with a smaller EV platform. We still don’t have exact details on this platform, but it should be considerably more compact than its existing Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning EVs.The American automaker is likely feeling the pressure from overseas EV makers who seem to have figured out the formula behind affordable, compact electric cars. Chinese competitors like BYD have been consistently pumping out compact EVs that often start at half the price of cars in the U.S.

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2024's Most Exciting Apocalypse Movie Could Fix a Bigger Hollywood Problem    

Somewhere between the smash success of The Last of Us and the surprise reveal that the Twisted Metal series was actually good, the video game curse was officially broken. But the slate of successful gaming dramas can mostly be divided into two categories: dark and gritty, or light and colorful. Now, a new video game movie may just find the perfect balance between the two. Borderlands, Gearbox Software’s looter-shooter series, is being adapted into a movie by Thanksgiving director Eli Roth. Borderlands is slated for release on August 9, 2024, and boasts an all-star cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, and Jack Black as the voice of the robot Claptrap. Here’s the full trailer.

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Netflix Just Quietly Added the Best Holiday Thriller of the Decade    

When it comes to scary movies, there’s Halloween and then there’s everything else. Nothing will ever surpass John Carpenter’s genre-defining horror classic, but the holiday itself also holds a singular sway over the horror pantheon. There are plenty of scary movies set during Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and various other holidays, but nothing beats an October 31st thriller. Until now.Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, which premiered in time for Turkey Day 2023, recently made its Netflix debut and quickly skyrocketed to the Top 10. The autumnal horror movie is worth watching, even in February, because it pushes the entire genre forward while establishing Thanksgiving as the scariest day of the year.

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