Let Me Entertain You

The dark you'll be in, figurative and literal
Failing the correct frequency digital

Though sitting and staring may sound boring
Strange new worlds may you be exploring

As I entertain you, time will quickly pass
The images you will witness, all seen through glass

The first's main subject may be a monstrous creature
Comedy or intrigue may prevail in the second feature

What am I?


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When a large language model expresses doubt about the information it supplies, people are less likely to accept it as fact and more likely to find accurate information elsewhere

Pulsars that emit radio waves “glitch” as they rotate – this seems to be caused by interruptions to swirling vortices inside these ultra-dense stars

An AI that watches you while you eat can estimate how much you’re consuming, and could help people track their calorie intake

The Chang’e 6 moon lander touched down on 2 June and began collecting lunar rock for China’s second sample-return mission

If matter falls into one end of a wormhole, it could heat up in a tornado of plasma hot enough to initiate nuclear fusion – and come blasting out the other end

A simple statistical test can quickly guide humanitarian efforts in areas like Gaza and Ukraine impacted by war – and it could perform as well as more expensive, AI-powered methods

A simulation-generated image reveals how charge distributions and gas densities vary in the plasma that floats across our universe

Boeing's Starliner capsule had a helium leak in one of its thrusters, but it is still scheduled to launch on 1 June for its first crewed flight to the International Space Station

One of the first bioelectronic devices to combine living bacteria with sensors has successfully improved healthy skin regeneration in mice with psoriasis

Landing on the far side of the moon is rarely attempted, due to difficulties communicating with Earth, but China is about to try. If successful, its Chang'e 6 mission will then bring lunar samples back home

A star in a distant galaxy appears to have been almost torn apart in a close shave with a supermassive black hole, not once but twice – and astronomers hope to see it happen again

Missing Word 55

A 3-letter word has been taken out of each of the following words. Can you figure it out?

S _ _ _
_ _ _ AL
MA _ _ _ RE
_ _ _ LE


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You love your Chrome browser bookmarks but your computer is on the verge of dying. Is there any way you can save them so they appear on your new computer?

SpaceX is getting ready to launch its massive Starship rocket, perhaps as soon as 5 June, and we have all the details on the mission

Mars is a planet much beloved and much maligned, and in this episode of Dead Planets Society it is getting a dramatic makeover via an enormous orbiting magnet

Google's AI Overviews tool can offer impressive answers to search queries, but it will also make up facts and tell people to eat rocks. Can it be fixed, or will it have to be scrapped?

A 3-letter word has been taken out of each of the following words. Can you figure it out?

D_ _ _ RE
B_ _ _ SE
L _ _ _ R
F _ _ _ R


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A 3-letter word has been taken out of each of the following words. Can you figure it out?

B _ _ _ IC
L _ _ _
UN_ _ _
SC_ _ _


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Complete the sentences below so that they make sense, by filling in the blanks of each sentence with two words which are anagrams of each other.

For example, given the sentence:

"Rachel originally planned to buy an apple, but found a bargain and bought a _____ instead, because it was fresh and _____.",

the two words would be "peach" and "cheap" respectively.


1. As he ran his _____ along the _____ of the tapestry, he could feel its silkiness.

2. His dreadful performance on the _____ caused him to _____ off the final green.

3. Once in a while he took a _____ over at his friend to see how long he could _____ running on the treadmill.

4. It was difficult to _____ any information from their observation post due to the oblique _____ of their position.


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