Alex Dobrenko

🦸 Much like a frozen computer, DC Studios needed someone to hit the restart button. And that’s exactly what new co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran did yesterday, revealing their eight-to-ten-year vision for a rebooted DC universe.

☝️ A mysterious moving spiral formation was spotted in the night sky above Hawaii earlier this month; astronomers say they believe it’s connected to a top-secret US military GPS satellite that launched from a SpaceX rocket earlier this month. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

❌🚗 Self-driving cars still need to pass driver’s ed, right? Because according to letters sent by San Francisco transportation officials to California regulators last week, they desperately need it.

☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners of the Underwater Photography Guide’s 2022 Ocean Art Images of the Year, which handed out more than $100,000 in total prize money. Click to see the top stories you should know for today.

☝️ An asteroid the size of a small bus whizzed by Earth last night at a distance of 2,200 miles, or within the orbit of some satellites; it marked one of the closest passes of our planet ever recorded.

⚖️🤖 Joshua Browder, CEO of legal chatbot startup DoNotPay, has walked back his plan to have a robot lawyer argue a speeding ticket case in a live courtroom after several state bar associations threatened legal action

✈️😬 Southwest revealed yesterday that its December meltdown will cost the airline more than $1 billion.

🔥 It’s Thursday, January 26th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

⛰🎥 More than 100,000 people converged on Park City, Utah, last week for the annual Sundance Film Festival. And while the temps may not reach above 32°F, the dealmaking at the ten-day-long event is heating up like a player in the classic video game NBA Jam.

☝️ A 600-square-mile iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in western Antarctica on Sunday after a ten-year separation process; scientists said the break, which created an iceberg roughly half the size of Rhode Island, isn’t related to climate change.

☝️ Local Hawaiian lifeguard Luke Shepardson beat out fellow amateurs and pros alike on Monday to win the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational; this prestigious surfing contest, known simply as “The Eddie,” is only held when waves at Hawaii’s Waimea Bay consistently reach 30 feet or higher.

📦💊 Amazon announced RxPass, a Prime add-on that gives patients access to over 50 generic medications, delivered for free, no insurance needed – all for just $5/month.

☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the fourth-annual ranking of the Top 100 Close-up Photographers of the Year.

👥📺 If seeing whether That 90’s Show is any good hinges upon you having your ex’s password, this is no time to chill – it’s time to Netflix. Because the password-sharing clock is quickly running out.

🚫🚰 About1,000 residents of Rio Verde Foothills, AZ, have been without running water for more than three weeks, after the neighboring city of Scottsdale shut off their water supply.

☝️ Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision enshrining the constitutional right to an abortion (which was overturned last summer). Click for more stories you should know today.

☝️ A galactic photo shoot of the Milky Way by a team of international astronomers has revealed 3.32 billion celestial objects (mostly stars), marking one of the biggest sky surveys in history. Click for more stories you should know for today.

☝️ Meet Atlas, a new humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics with brand-new hands allowing it to pick up and drop off (or throw) heavy objects.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, January 18th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

☝️ NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured this series of images showing a star’s final moments before it was gobbled up by a massive black hole.