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At San Diego Comic-Con in July, we learned that Common Side Effects would be returning in early 2027. Adult Swim has made good on that promise by announcing at New York Comic Con that the trippy animated series about a mushroom with miraculous healing powers—and the chaos surrounding it—will premiere its second season on January…

It’s always interesting how things get their names. Sometimes, names come from very personal places, but other times, a name is given simply because it sounds cool. Then, of course, there are crowdsourced names, which is how a submarine ended up being called Boaty McBoatface. For an example, let’s look at the 6.7-liter Power Stroke Turbo Diesel…

Sotheby’s sold an NFT collection for just shy of$17 million. Big-name companies like Coca-Cola were appointing in-housechief metaverse officers. A virtual Gucci bag sold on Roblox for over$4,100, more than the cost of its physical counterpart. Matt Damon and Tom Brady were shilling FTX, the crypto company whose CEO would soon be imprisoned for conspiracy…

Okay, technically, the replica cordless phone included in this snazzy new Screambox set does not actuallycall you. It is, however, splashed with blood to match the handset Casey Becker clutches in the 1996 slasher‘s iconic opening scene, and it’s rigged to ring and play memorable quotes from the film. We’re betting with all certainty that…

Push-starting, which is also called bump-starting, works because in a moving car with a clutch, letting the clutch out causes the transmission to lock the spinning wheels to the engine’s flywheel, which causes the crankshaft to move. When the engine starts spinning fast enough, the motion will kick off the standard combustion cycle.

The combat tank as we know it debuted on the battlefields of Europe in World War I and has changed significantly in the decades since. Modern tanks are computerized, networked, and advanced vehicles, decked out with all kinds of technology that would have been unheard of in past conflicts. Advanced as they are, though, they still…