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Star Trek and Tron aren’t two things that typically go together, but filmmaker Patrick Collins recently mashed the pair together in a short film called Star Trek: Legacy. In this 22-minute film, he recut Star Trek: The Motion Picture and set it to Daft Punk’s fantastic score from Tron: Legacy. The resulting film works better than it sounds on paper, and makes for a really cool viewing experience.

“The latest technology isn’t always easy to use for people of a certain age.” So says the narrator in one of sketches from last night’s Saturday Night Live, which imagined an Amazon’s Echo speakers designed for the elderly.

This week marks the 2017 television upfronts, in which networks reveal next season’s programming for advertisers. To get ready for the new group of shows, lower-rated programs have been getting the ax. One such show was NBC’s time travel show Timeless, which was canceled last week. However, the network took an unusual step by reversing that decision on Saturday, thanks in part to outcry from the show’s fans.

Aerospace startup Rocket Lab is finally about to launch its first vehicle to space. Later this month, the California-based company will try to pull off the inaugural test flight of its Electron rocket — a new launch vehicle capable of sending small satellites into orbit.

On Friday afternoon, NHS hospitals in the UK were infected with a ransomware strain known as WannaCry. Since then, it has continued to spread across the world, infecting computers in over 150 countries. Follow along for the latest updates.

Since its discovery on Friday afternoon, the WannaCry ransomware attack has continued to spread this weekend, impacting over 10,000 organizations and 200,000 individuals in over 150 countries, according to European authorities. However, while measures have been taken to slow the spread of the malware, new variations have begun to surface.

Google is expected to formally announce more details on the version 8.0 of Android, which we know to be codenamed Android O. But the biggest question about Android O — more so than what new features it will bring to the mobile OS or if Google will be able to actually get carriers and hardware companies to offer the update to older phones — remains unanswered: what is Android O going to be called?

This year, people are expected to spend more than half their day reading e-mail, articles, or posts on social media, and it’s only going to get worse. To help solve this problem, researchers at Salesforce have developed an algorithm that uses machine learning to produce “surprisingly coherent and accurate” summaries according to MIT Technology Review.

Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency. She currently holds a few spaceflight records — including being the first person ever to brew an espresso in space.

The Federal Trade Commission says it’s cracking down on pop-up scams selling tech support “fixes” to fake computer problems.

As the massive WannaCry ransomware attack spread to over 100 countries this weekend, French automaker Renault halted production in several of its factories on Saturday, according to a spokesperson.

There is something undeniably appealing about a little monster. That’s why people can call their human children “little monsters” and it’s not an insult.

After just two issues, Marvel is cancelling Black Panther & The Crew, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest series following Black Panther and some of Marvel’s better known black characters. Coates tells The Verge that the cancellation is due to poor sales, and the series will end after six issues. However, the story currently being told will have the chance to end.