What’s new for Scooby-Doo? Being played by a real dog. In Netflix’s upcoming live-action series Scooby-Doo: Origins, the iconic mystery-solving dog will—for the first time in the franchise’s 57-year history—be portrayed by an actual dog rather than being animated. Scooby-Doo and the rest of the Mystery Incorporated crew—Daphne, Fred, Velma, and Shaggy—are most often portrayed in animation, including 14 cartoon TV series and 43 animated movies (made-for-TV, theatrical, and direct-to-video releases). But even in previous live-action adaptations of Scooby-Doo, including 2002’s Scooby-Doo and its 2004 sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, the titular dog has remained an animated character surrounded by…
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We know the planet is getting hotter, but some of the grim details about what exactly that means for humanity remain a mystery. Researchers are racing to peer into the not-too-distant future of the climate crisis to better prepare us for the worst-case scenarios to come. A new climate study published on Tuesday found that by 2040, overwhelming urban heat and spiking temperatures in the U.S. could double the number of people hospitalized with heat-related illness. Using advanced modeling, the researchers predicted that heat-related illnesses could result in 217,000 hospitalizations by 2040 in a low-emissions scenario and as many as…
When you think of America’s biggest brands, tech companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon; retailers like Walmart and Target, and food and beverage giants like McDonald’s and Starbucks usually come to mind. But every year, those established brands also face the risk of being upended by smaller, faster-growing upstarts. Now, the crowd-sourced review platform Yelp has published its annual list of the fastest-growing brands in America. Here are the top 10 brands Yelp says are growing the fastest across the country. Starbucks’ competitor 7 Brew leads the list According to Yelp’s data, the fastest-growing brand in America in 2026 is…
We’re inundated with data, but for many people, finding a way to make sense of it is elusive. But when it comes to health data, one company thinks it’s found a way to help: with weekly, AI-generated personal podcasts for users, updating users on their latest health and fitness statistics, sleep performance, and more. The podcasts are the latest product offering from Eternal, a health and longevity startup geared toward avid athletes, which combines various services like body scans and bloodwork and turns them into personalized reports and readouts. The company emerged in early 2025 after a $13.25 million seed…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 1,392,03 points or 2.17% to 65,416.63 • Shanghai increased 50.693 points or 1.28% to 4,010.031 • Hang Seng decreased 91.16 points or -0.37% to 24,565.90 • ASX 200 decreased 20.90 points or -0.24% to 8,604.20 • SENSEX increased 394.50 points or 0.54% to 73,918.76 • Nifty50 increased 119.10 points or 0.52% to 23,242.10 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.00074 or -0.11% to 0.70316 • NZDUSD increased 0.00110 or 0.20% to 0.58204 • USDJPY increased 0.188 or 0.12%…
A sunscreen ingredient that has been used across Europe for decades can now officially come stateside. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized its approval of bemotrizinol, also called BEMT, officially adding it to the list of permitted active sunscreen ingredients. It marks the first time that the FDA’s list of approved filters has been updated in more than 25 years, since 1999. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) called the change a “landmark decision for public health and consumer protection.” “This is a great day for American consumers,” David Andrews, chief science officer at EWG, said in a statement, “and…
Another sell-off for high-flying artificial-intelligence stocks is dragging Wall Street sharply lower on Tuesday. The S&P 500 dropped 1.7% after careening between an early gain of 1% and a loss of 2.3%, sinking further from its all-time high set a week ago. The Nasdaq composite was 2.9% lower, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 408 points, or 0.8%, as of 1 p.m. Eastern time. Indexes swung lower as companies selling computer chips, memory and other building blocks of the AI boom broke from early gains to losses. Micron Technology went from a jump of 4.2% to a drop of 7.6%, for example. That’s…
Anthropic on Tuesday released Claude Fable 5, a public, guardrailed version of its vaunted “Mythos” AI model. The AI startup said Claude Fable 5 is more capable than any other model it has released to the public, showing outstanding performance in software engineering, knowledge work, and vision tasks, among other areas. The model is superior to earlier iterations in performing longer, more complex tasks. The analytics company Hex said that Fable 5 was the first model to break 90% on its core benchmark of complex, long-running analytical tasks–a 10-point jump over earlier Opus models. Claude Fable 5 scored 80.3% on…
Teddy Roosevelt boxed. Richard Nixon bowled.Dwight D. Eisenhower put in a putting green. George H.W. Bush added a horseshoe pit. Herbert Hoover played a game named for himself to get more exercise, while George W. Bush threw open the space for youth T-ball.The White House and its storied South Lawn are no strangers to sporting events. But they’ve never seen anything like the UFC bout President Donald Trump is hosting to celebrate his 80th birthday on Sunday or the eight-sided, wire-mesh cage complete with an open overhead dome featuring large screens that are surrounded by thousands of arena seats.Sometimes called…
More than a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the landscape of the country’s robust public data collection and publishing infrastructure has deteriorated. Federal reports on everything from billion-dollar climate disasters to food insecurity have been scrapped; thousands of workers involved in government data collection have lost their jobs. USAFacts, the not-for-profit focused on making government data more accessible and understandable, has been reacting in real time. And now, its new president Lauren Woodman, who took the helm on April 20, is looking to empower voters ahead of the midterms to call for better data infrastructure to inform genuinely impactful…