MoviePass, if at first, you don't succeed; Musk, absurdly broad & overly burdensome; crypto games; virtual rappers; stealing Project Titan; bitcoin mining, data centers & a global energy crisis; Neuralink's Halloween show-and-tell; SpaceX & T-Mobile team up; the Gen-X joys of Top Gun: Maverick; Day Shift's dialogue; Light & Magic; She-Hulk; House of the Dragon; Going Back to Xanadu; our preferred chairs, browsers, and fitness apps; trackers on bikes; Netflix games; Binance scammers get scammed; those Chinese surveillance cameras; Twitter's whistleblower claims.

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