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Peter Cullen’s Final Performance as Optimus Prime Is a Love Letter to ‘Transformers’ Fans
After Peter Cullen, the longtime voice actor behind Optimus Prime, died last month at the age of 85, Hasbro’s upcoming 40th anniversary screenings of The Transformers: The Movie took on…
A Forested Island Suddenly Appeared in This Gigantic Reservoir—and Then Mysteriously Vanished
Welling up against the northernmost ridge of the Canadian Rockies, the Williston Reservoir in British Columbia is the seventh-largest reservoir…
M. Night Shyamalan Launches an Earnest New YouTube Channel
In this era of carefully calibrated marketing and image-shaping, it’s kind of amazing that M. Night Shyamalan—a blockbuster genre director…
We Were Wrong About How the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Hunted Its Prey
Australia’s colonists, followed by citizens of the newly autonomous Commonwealth, hunted the nation’s iconic Tasmanian tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus, to extinction…
GoPro Shares Skyrocket After YouTuber Markiplier Becomes Biggest Shareholder
YouTube star Mark Fischbach, aka “Markiplier,” just became the largest single shareholder in GoPro with an 8.5% stake, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. GoPro is not doing well. Or at least…
Somehow the Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ Just Got Even More Dystopian
The Sphere in Las Vegas has already raked in buckets of cash with its AI-enhanced Wizard of Oz spectacular. But…
Scientists Discover a Hidden Supervolcano Buried Beneath England
The phrase “hidden supervolcano” sounds a bit like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Supervolcanoes are notoriously conspicuous, what with their enormous…
MapQuest Surges in Usage as Google Bends the Knee to Trump on ‘Lake America’
When it comes to navigation, MapQuest is back on the map. The mapping company from way back when (that is…
Chess.com Vibe-Coded a Poker Site and Says More Is on the Way
You’d never die wondering what a site called Chess.com has to offer. The site claims over 275m members—including your forlorn,…
Bank of England Governor Warns AI Represents Threat to the Global Economy
The governor of the central bank of the United Kingdom is worried that AI’s potentially catastrophic economic impact can spread…
Trump to Communities Fighting Data Centers: Have Fun Being Poor
President Donald Trump has heard the complaints from Americans across the country who don’t want data centers in their communities.…
Climate Change Is Supercharging El Niño, 1,000 Years of Coral Data Shows
As the peak of El Niño approaches, there is little doubt that this will be the strongest one on record.…
Meta Just Made Navigation on Its Smart Glasses a Lot More Useful
If there’s one area that Meta’s smart glasses feel genuinely built for (outside of covertly recording people), it’s doing stuff…
After Today, the Nintendo Switch 2 May Never Be $450 Ever Again
As August tips into September, the Nintendo Switch 2 will slide from $450 to $500. Knowing Nintendo, this means we…
The Best Gadgets of August 2026
It’d be easy to misconstrue August as the calm before the storm when it comes to gadgets. Next month ushers…
