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I know that this is a weird thing for a space reporter to admit publicly, but here's the truth: I've never had any desire to travel to space. 
Let's just say that I've seen one too many rockets explode to make me comfortable with flying up to space.
SEE ALSO: Please leave me alone while I stare at this photo of Jupiter
But I have to say, photos like this one, of an uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft approaching the International Space Station on April 22, make me rethink my hard-line stance against

And the world keeps turning.
When you accidentally lock your keys in your car, most people call roadside service company AAA to bail them out. But what happens when someone from AAA locks their keys in their car? 
They call AAA, of course.
After locking his keys in his car, Redditor potatoboy221 phoned AAA to help him out. But shortly after arriving on scene, the AAA rep accidentally locked his keys in his car, so he was forced to call his coworker to help him out. Just imagine having

All good things must come to an end, and Kylie Jenner and Tyga's tumultuous and public relationship is no exception.
Word has been circling that the two ended things this spring, and when Kylie stepped out at Coachella with rapper Travis Scott, the rumors picked up steam. 
SEE ALSO: Kylie Jenner showed up at some kid's prom and everyone lost their mind
Kylie was caught on Snapchat with Travis during the festival where the rapper, who is affiliated with Kanye West's GOOD Music, performed. Si

Printing ready-to-use metal objects at your desk is the dream for many engineers and tinkerers. Unfortunately, we're not there yet, but these new Desktop Metal printers, as seen on TechCrunch, get us a lot closer. The Studio Printer is a $49,900 machine that prints metal layer by layer in a way similar to that of a traditional plastic 3D printer, instead of the subtractive method that's more common with metal "printers." Then the plastic binder is removed (by a $9,900 machine) and the part is pu

FCC chairman Ajit Pai announced today that he’s proposing to do away with the regulatory classification his predecessor used to enact tough net neutrality rules.
Instead of classifying internet providers as “common carriers” under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, they’ll instead be classified as “information services” under Title I. That’ll subject them to much more lenient oversight — and naturally, internet providers are happy to hear it.

John Green has a way with wordsObviously. He only wrote The Fault in Our Stars, nbd.
Here, Green describes his discovery of Pokémon. His son Henry is obsessed, so Green shares — in his own, hilarious words — what the fiction and the phenomenon are all about... as he understands it.
Pokémon is weird, especially when it's filtered through the lens of someone who only understands it as a spectator. This is some good internet right here. Read more...
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If you're going to put cheese on a pizza, why stop at one? Why, indeed? 
A pizza place in Portland, Oregon, took this pizza-stential question very seriously, deciding they had nothing to lose by totally just going for it. So, as part of an annual Portland celebration of pizza, Scottie's Pizza Parlor created a pie using 101 cheeses.
SEE ALSO: Someone made a pizza with peas and mayo and the internet collectively barfedThe pie is called the Centouno Formaggio, and, according to Scottie Pizza P

We've all packed on the pounds during winter hibernation, and are trying to get our bods in check before shorts season. 
Some of us are getting a late start on doing just that — one of us being this poor beaver in Hamilton, Ontario, who thought he could make it through a wrought-iron fence unscathed, but misjudged the situation a bit and got himself into an embarrassing ordeal. A fat Hamilton beaver that got stuck in a fence has been freed by the soapy hands of a quick-thinking a

Nearly a month after its release, Netflix's 13 Reasons Why hasn't lost steam, with an ongoing conversation about adolescence, mental health, and bullying, and some of the most strong and salient social media reactions for any show.
Netflix will probably announce Season 2 any day now, and there's a mounting pile of evidence.
SEE ALSO: '13 Reasons Why' will probably get a second season, and that's a terrible idea
As of Tuesday, the actor Ross Butler was "unavailable" for Season 2 of Riverdale and

Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is getting a boost from its own investors.
The financial tech company announced Wednesday that it had raised $110 million at a $1.3 billion valuation, making it Silicon Valley's latest unicorn — the industry term for a startup worth at least $1 billion. 
SEE ALSO: Buy!...Sell!...Without fees: Robinhood app caters to investment newbies
Robinhood's latest funding round was led by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's fund DST Global and included Joshua K

Dozens of glow-in-the-dark mushroom species grow around the world. But details on what makes them shine so bright have long been dim.
In a new study, scientists say they can finally explain what makes bioluminescent mushrooms glow. They describe a process of "enzyme promiscuity" that leads to changes in the intensity and colors of mushrooms' light emissions.
SEE ALSO: This frog's slime can destroy flu viruses
The researchers, who hail from Russia, Brazil, and Japan, published their findings Wedn

The Galaxy Note 7 will never die. 
Samsung has been planning to release the volatile Note 7 again as a refurbished device since March, but now we know more about the zombie phone's relaunch. 
SamMobile, citing information from South Korea's ET News, claims the Note 7s will launch in the South Korean market at the end of June. Samsung just can't break away from the ghost of the explosive handset.
SEE ALSO: The Galaxy S8 blew up Samsung's record for pre-orders
The re-release will reporte

After months of blunt force foreshadowing, the Federal Communications Commission announced today that it’s ready to pick a fight with the public over the future of the open internet. It’s great news if you’re a lawyer for Verizon or Comcast, and terrible news for the rest of us.In its first wave of propaganda, the FCC says that its proposal to roll back internet regulation will “Restore Internet Freedom for all Americans” — a mendacious slogan on the level of

We've seen dogs do trust falls. Now even cats are doing it.
That's right. Even an animal that instinctively does not trust humans, will never trust humans (even though we feed them, shelter them, play with them, and attempt to pet them) is doing a trust fall. Even a cat is doing a trust fall.
This is truly a momentous occasion in pet-owning history. Read more...
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Photographer David Finlay was flying his drone and checking out the scenery at a Kiama beach in Australia on Monday — as you do — when he noticed something circling below a group of surfers hanging out in the water. 
Cue Jaws music.
"There's a shark right under the surface," Finlay can be heard saying in the clip. 
The surfers were completely oblivious to what was happening under the water. Thankfully, Finlay was there with a birds-eye-view (captured in this pretty mesmeri

Until recently, it seemed that we would be able to manage global warming-induced sea level rise through the end of the century. It would be problematic, of course, but manageable, particularly in industrialized nations like the U.S.
However, troubling indications from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets show that melting is taking place faster than previously thought and that entire glaciers — if not portions of the ice sheets themselves — are destabilizing. This has scientists in

Returning from a digital sabbatical during which you disabled your Instagram account? Get ready for a blast from the notifications past, courtesy of a tagging glitch.
I recently temporarily disabled my Instagram account for the first time, and when I re-enabled my account - something weird happened. Instagram re-tagged everyone I had ever tagged in a photo. Yep, notifications and all.
SEE ALSO: Instagram Direct update is Facebook's latest attack on Snapchat
I didn't realize it at first. Upon re-

Saturday Night Live has announced the musical guests for May, and Haim and Katy Perry will be performing live from New York next month. 
LCD Soundsystem was previously announced for the May 6 show. They'll be joining hosts Chris Pine, Melissa McCarthy, and Dwayne Johnson. 
SEE ALSO: Katy Perry's 'Chained to the Rhythm' is cotton candy political popHappy May! #SNL pic.twitter.com/lUN9sdiAWV
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) April 26, 2017Perry is expected to drop a new single, possi

A couple days ago, we suggested other mythical creatures who are not unicorns that deserve to have their own frappuccinos. 
Little did we know, one of those frappuccinos was indeed developing in the shadows of the unicorn frappuccino. And now, with the unicorn frappuccino run officially over at Starbucks, that new frappuccino has come into the spotlight.
Introducing the dragon frappuccino.SEE ALSO: Starbucks baristas are now creating 'unicorn lemonade' and there's no end to this109/365: I a

20th Century Fox has released a new clip from Alien: Covenant and it shows off how the film connects to the last entry in the franchise, Prometheus. While the movie’s trailers have gone to great lengths to make viewers forget about Scott’s disappointing side film, this clip shows that Prometheus will have a role to play in this year’s film.
This is the second prologue that we’ve seen for Alien: Covenant. In February, the studio released a clip that introduced us to the co

One of the more recent trends in gaming accessories is the addition of LED lights to everything. Keyboards? LEDs. Mice? Pass the glowy stuff. Headphones? Dang right they’ve got programmable colors. Cup holders? Yeah, that actually exists. (I’m as surprised as you are.)And, of course, the subject of this post, the mouse pad. Gaming companies have been making custom mouse pads for gamers with ultra high-tech surfaces for years, and when Razer announced the Firefly mouse pad with LED li

Forget your stack of dusty old cookbooks and your worries about gunking up your phone with messy hands while you struggle to follow directions in the kitchen. Google Home will help streamline your cooking experience with a major expansion of its ability to guide you through recipes.
Google announced in a blog post that Assistant will now give users access to step-by-step, voice-activated guides for more than 5 million dishes through the Home speaker. The new recipes come courtesy of partnerships

Yesterday, Disney announced that it was shuffling its release schedule to move Star Wars: Episode IX — the last film in the main “sequel trilogy” — from December 2019 up to May 24th, 2019.Now, at first glance, this is pretty pedestrian news. Films get moved around all the time, whether that’s due to trying to avoid competitors, taking more time on editing or special effects, or just the realities of Hollywood politics. But this particular move is somewhat strange.Af

You’re not tripping — these mushrooms really do glow. And now, we have a better idea how, thanks to a study published today in the journal Science Advances.More than 100 years ago, a naturalist named George Gardner visited Brazil and saw children playing in the street with what he thought were giant fireflies. They turned out to not be insects, but big, glowing fungi that grow on rotting palm fronds. The species became known as Neonothopanus gardneri.Recently, scientists discovered w

The Federal Communications Commission is cracking open the net neutrality debate again with a proposal to undo the 2015 rules that implemented net neutrality with Title II classification.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai called the rules “heavy handed” and said their implementation was “all about politics.” He argued that they hurt investment and said that small internet providers don’t have “the means or the margins” to withstand the regulatory onslaught.
“E

Distracted driving is a problem. It’s dangerous for you, it’s dangerous for other people on the road, and it’s increasingly an issue as we become more and more attached to our smartphones. Samsung is trying to combat that with a new app called In-Traffic Reply that’s designed to help people avoid using their phones while driving or biking by automatically sending preset replies when in motion.
Cleverly, In-Traffic Reply relies on the phones GPS sensor to figure out when y

If you need a break from whatever Earthly news is terrifying you today, might I suggest the stellar photo above? It’s even better in super high resolution — see for yourself. Click, breathe, and be awed.
This is a picture of the Orbital Cygnus spacecraft as it approached the International Space Station this weekend. It’s not a fantastic image because of some particularly deft use of basic photographic technique. Rather, it stands apart because of the wonderful timing. Stress ab

Google introduced an app called Trips last year to help people organize their travel plans and figure out what to do once they arrive at their destination. And today, the app is getting a few new features that’ll make it even more useful.
First up, Trips will now automatically pull in train and bus tickets that have been sent to your Gmail address. The app already collates all of your flight, hotel, and car reservations, so today’s update makes its overview of your travel plans far m

Call of Duty: WWII just got its first trailer and true to the game’s name, the footage gives the first look at the series’ return to its original WWII setting.
The trailer doesn’t show off too much of the actual gameplay for the upcoming shooter, but the description promises that players will be able to “play through the story of ordinary men turned soldiers in the 1st Infantry Division as they fight to preserve freedom in the face of tyranny.”Call of Duty: WWII is

Anki is updating its Overdrive line of smart toy cars next month with a special line dedicated to the Fast and the Furious. The new kit will include two recognizable cars: Hobbs’ MXT and Dom’s Ice Charger. I assume if you watch the movies you’ll know what these cars are. Beyond the branded cars, players will get a special modular track that also appears to have the Fast and the Furious name on it. It’ll fit with any other modular tracks you have from Anki.
The idea behind

M. Night Shyamalan has hopped on Twitter to unveil some new details about the third installment in his Unbreakable series — most importantly that it’s called Glass and it’s coming out on January 18th, 2019.The film was announced in February following the debut (and impressive box office success) of Split, a film that wasn’t marketed as having any relation to the beloved 2000 thriller Unbreakable; it revealed the connection only in its final minutes.My new film is the sequ

The next Call of Duty is launching in November. During a live stream today, developer Sledgehammer Games revealed that the recently announced Call of Duty: WWII will be available on November 3rd on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. The studio also provided the first glimpse at the game witha debut trailer.
The new game returns the series to its World War II roots, following last year’s sci-fi- themed Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. While that game was largely a critical hit, it also failed to hit the

 Spotify has acquired the Brooklyn-based blockchain startup Mediachain Labs, whose team will join the company’s office in New York where they will work on developing better technology for connecting artists and other rights holders with the tracks hosted on Spotify’s service. Prior to its acquisition, the startup had developed several technologies that could aid in these… Read More