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‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ is ready to let its ensign heroes rank up
The following contains minor spoilers for season two, episode nine of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks.’ Throughout the history of Star Trek, it’s generally accepted that a member of Starfleet will spend about three years as an ensign, the lowest officer rank in the fleet. It’s the position given to new…
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What kind of show was Marvel’s ‘What If…?’ meant to be?
This post contains spoilers for the season finale of Marvel's 'What If…?' All season there were hints that What If…? was going to be more than just an anthology show. The fact that it debuted week to week, instead of dropping all at once like Star Wars Visions. The Watcher’s…
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What Facebook should change, according to its whistleblower
The whistleblower behind “bombshell” disclosures that have rocked Facebook in recent weeks spent much of Tuesday's three-hour hearing explaining to Congress how Facebook could fix itself. While the hearing was far from the first time a Facebook critic has briefed lawmakers, her insider knowledge and expertise in algorithm design made…
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‘Lower Decks’ mines the weirder corners of the Star Trek universe
The following contains minor spoilers for season two, episode eight of 'Star Trek: Lower Decks.' The subject of “canon” has come up a lot recently. Marvel’s What If…? is a show that plays around but still mostly adheres to it, while Star Wars Visions disregards it almost completely. Meanwhile, Star…
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The Watcher takes center stage on this week’s ‘What If…?’
This post contains spoilers for episode eight of Marvel's 'What If…?' In physics there’s what’s known as the “observer effect,” wherein an object or system is changed merely by observing it. On Marvel’s What If…? each episode has been witnessed by an apparently omniscient narrator known as The Watcher, who…
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Facebook publishes slides on how Instagram affects teen mental health
Facebook has published two slide decks detailing its research into how Instagram affects teens’ mental health. The slides were heavily cited by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month in a story that reported the company’s own researchers had found that ““Instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage” of teens,…
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