The Screen Actors Guild prevents two actors from claiming the same name, for obvious reasons; that’s why, for instance, we know Emily Stone as Emma Stone. Actors with very similar names don’t have that issue—though as veteran performer Tom Hollander has revealed, that can still l … | Continue reading
If you’re not familiar with them before asking, you might be surprised if an X-Men comic reader declares Hank McCoy—the fuzzball genius Beast—one of the most evil characters in the franchise. This is not a new twist, either, even in the wake of X-Men: The Animated Series and the … | Continue reading
You can now check your temperature with your Pixel 8 Pro thanks to the new updates Google recently added to its flagship phone. The newly added temperature sensor allows you to simply put your phone to your forehead and check how you’re doing.Read more... | Continue reading
Stay calm, everybody stay calm. But it’s finally happening: The European Space Agency is committing itself to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a gravitational wave observatory that will study some of the universe’s most enigmatic phenomena.Read more... | Continue reading
Netflix is on everything. It’s on your phone, computer, and game console, going all the way back to the Nintendo Wii. Hell, you can get your Netflix fix on a Peloton if you really need to work off the vicarious carbo loads of Paul Hollywood while watching the latest season of The … | Continue reading
The miracle-pregnancy theme is right there in the title—Immaculate—but the conception in question in Sydney Sweeney’s new nun horror movie feels way more malevolent than anything involving Mary, Joseph, and a manger. The film’s first trailer is here, and the plot appears as devil … | Continue reading
Microsoft laid 1,900 employees in its gaming division, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge on Thursday, with a majority of the layoffs hitting its newly acquired Activision Blizzard employees. Some Xbox and ZeniMax employees were also affected, according to the memo. … | Continue reading
EV buyers are often motivated by a desire to save money on gas and/or drive something more environmentally friendly. But, a recent story out of Florida in The Miami Herald details how EV owners there have been blindsided by how fast they’re having to change the tires on their EVs … | Continue reading
The saga of Japan’s lunar lander continues to unfold, with the first images of SLIM on the surface of the Moon revealing the unfortunate position the spacecraft has ended up in.Read more... | Continue reading
In one month, two of The Walking Dead’s most popular characters return. Rick and Michonne, played by Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, are back on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, and now its final trailer has been released.Read more... | Continue reading
On Wednesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the Big Apple would be the first city to officially classify social media as a public health risk. Social media is an “environmental toxin,” Adams said in a speech, comparing the problem to guns and tobacco. The mayor then pr … | Continue reading
A popular class of weight loss drugs may offer more lasting success than assumed, new data from Epic Research suggests. The study of medical records found that a slight majority of people who took GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide either maintained or improved their weight loss in the … | Continue reading
The Sundance Film Festival is fond of programming Satan-themed documentaries, including 2019's Hail Satan?, about the Satanic Temple, and 2023’s Satan Wants You, about the Satanic Panic phenomenon of the 1980s. This year, Realm of Satan continues the tradition, though it’s hardly … | Continue reading
Meta no longer allows teenagers to receive direct messages from anyone they’re not following on Instagram, or friends with on Facebook, according to a company blog post on Thursday. The policy update aims to create a safer environment for minors on the platform, one week after Me … | Continue reading
Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan’s vampire movie is close to finding a home. Robert McCamon’s post-apocalyptic novel Swan Song is being turned into a TV series. Dune Part 2 gets the mandatory floating heads poster. Plus, what’s to come as La Brea enters the endgame. Spoilers no … | Continue reading
Big tech’s big dreams of a corporate metaverse filled with virtual reality workplaces aren’t quite dead yet, at least according to Microsoft. The Redmond, Washington tech giant finally unveiled its 3D Mesh integration for Microsoft Teams, offering a new wave of generic-looking, l … | Continue reading
iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security researchers at Mysk Inc., an app development company. Users sometimes close apps to stop them from collect … | Continue reading
Meet the animal kingdom’s newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod—a member of the family Cirolanidae—and is only the second species of its genus described from the Western North … | Continue reading
In the summer of 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma was boarding a flight to Spain at London’s Gatwick Airport when he sent a message to his friend on Snapchat: “On my way to blow up the plane (I’m a member of the Taliban).” As you might expect, the message was a joke. Unfortunately, … | Continue reading
Christopher Nolan is currently having the biggest year of an already incredible career and he’s about to rewind it back in time. Apparently, he asked Warner Bros. if it would re-release his troubled 2020 film Tenet in theaters as a way to build hype for Dune: Part Two, and it agr … | Continue reading
It’s already been established that a pocket of toxic Star Wars fandom is rooting for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s movie exploring the New Jedi Order to fail. But the star of the first Star Wars feature to be directed by a woman—Rey Skywalker herself, Daisy Ridley—is here to remind fan … | Continue reading
Oscar winner Halle Berry may have at one time played Catwoman, but this week she got Batgirl’d. In a move reminiscent of what Warner Bros. did to the DC film a few years back, Netflix has decided to pull the plug on Berry’s upcoming sci-fi film The Mothership before the film was … | Continue reading
The labyrinthine mire that is Twitch’s streamer revenue-sharing system is getting both a little more streamlined and more convoluted in equal measure. Read more... | Continue reading
No, you’re not seeing double. The Sun just flung out two massive flares of radiation from opposite hemispheres at nearly the same exact moment, a sign that our host star is fast approaching a period of peak activity.Read more... | Continue reading
Apple has been relatively absent from last year’s AI hype cycle, and Microsoft even briefly surpassed it as the most valuable company in the world. But don’t count out the iPhone maker as some analysts expect the move into AI will happen with iOS 18 at this summer’s Worldwide Dev … | Continue reading
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in the UK is trying a new plan to contain its growing group of foul-mouthed African grey parrots. The zoo will introduce the expletive-loving birds to a larger flock in hopes that the other parrots will pass along their good manners. But there is a … | Continue reading
In the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000's future, there is only one thing: war. In the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000 fandom right now, there are only two: not enough hardback novels, and too many reseller bots gobbling them up.Read more... | Continue reading
The Destroy All Neighbors star chats with io9 about his favorite horror films. | Continue reading
The new era of spaceflight is all about reaching orbit in the fastest and cheapest way possible, and reusable rockets have defined the future of the industry. That’s why so many companies are trying to get in on the action, including a Chinese startup that recently pulled off the … | Continue reading
Yesterday the Academy announced the nominees for the 2024 Oscars, and Barbie did very well for itself. Best Adapted Screenplay! Two original song nods! Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor and America Ferrera for Best Supporting Actress! A Best Picture nomination! But alas, thi … | Continue reading
Ryan Reynolds celebrated the conclusion of filming Deadpool 3 in the most Deadpool way imaginable. With a picture of his genitals. They were behind a costume, of course—but still, it’s clearly a photo of Deadpool’s junk.Read more... | Continue reading
Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behavior are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data and a 50-year-old prediction about gravity’s import on subatomic particles, a te … | Continue reading
New Yorkers will finally be able to grow their own thanks to new ordinances set for a vote by the state’s Cannabis Control Board. If the proposed regulations are finalized, state residents will be allowed to cultivate up to 12 cannabis plants and keep 5 pounds of self-produced ca … | Continue reading
Ring, Amazon’s home surveillance company, announced it would stop letting police departments request video from your doorstep in a blog post Wednesday. The company has historically shared tons of footage with law enforcement, and Amazon came under fire for reportedly handing a fu … | Continue reading
Nintendo confirmed on its support page that April 8 is when it’s going to shut down online services for two of its older consoles: the 3DS and Wii U. The Mario company says March 27 is when the eShop for both will be discontinued while March 11 is the last date to transfer any mo … | Continue reading
Note: This story originally appeared on The Takeout, an excellent site that publishes a lot of things you’d probably be interested to read about.Read more... | Continue reading
A relatively new cancer treatment known as CAR T cell therapy is perhaps more dangerous than we knew. The Food and Drug Administration found evidence that the treatment can potentially raise the risk of secondary cancers and is telling makers of these products to add a boxed warn … | Continue reading
Everybody, at one time or another, has wanted something they can’t have. Often it’s something other people can buy, but you’re not able get your hands on. As an adult, maybe it’s a high-end car like a Ferrari. As a teenager, maybe it’s the latest video game system. And, when you’ … | Continue reading
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is quietly building a kamikaze drone startup in the U.S. and Ukraine called “White Stork,” according to a report by Forbes Tuesday. The project is named after Ukraine’s national bird and White Stork hopes to sell advanced AI drone technology to the coun … | Continue reading
This year, at least some countries will have to say goodbye to the Netflix Basic subscription tier, the last cheap(ish) way to watch Netflix without ads. While the streaming giant had already severed the $12 Basic subscription tier for new or returning subscribers, anybody who ch … | Continue reading
Ian McShane discusses John Wick’s latest spinoff and its place in the timeline. X-Men ‘97 reveals its new and returning cast. La Brea sets the stage for the beginning of its end. Plus, another new look at Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender. To me, my spoilers!Read more... | Continue reading
There is enough dust lingering in the bowels of my old, childhood desktop tower to make my roommate sneeze and cough while sitting on the couch 10 feet behind me. It’s been a long time since I dared crack the shell on my ancient PC, a decade and a half since I first put it togeth … | Continue reading
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When NASA attempted to return to the Moon for the first time in 50 years on January 8, more was at risk than just $108 million worth of development and equipment. The agency earned the ire of the Native American Navajo people, who made a bid to stop the launch because of an unusu … | Continue reading
Ever wondered what a masked maniac in the vein of Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees does in his downtime—or what it might be like if Terrence Malick made a slasher movie? In a Violent Nature, which just debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and will stream on Shudder, sets out to … | Continue reading
When your landmark film gets a surprise, history-making Oscar nomination, there’s cause for celebration. And that’s exactly what the team behind Godzilla Minus One did earlier today when the film was nominated for Best Visual Effects.Read more... | Continue reading
BMW has signed a first-of-its-kind deal to put “humanoid” robots to work at one of its factories. The robots, which are designed to be more operationally flexible than traditional industrial robots, will supposedly assist the luxury car manufacturer with various parts of the manu … | Continue reading
Squid Game: The Challenge may have been controversial—but it was a huge hit for Netflix, and now there’s good news for both the streamer and fans who’d much rather have the real deal than the reality competition spin-off: the smash hit South Korean thriller will finally return th … | Continue reading