Meta has paused sales of the Meta Quest 3 Elite Strap with Battery at retail, reportedly over a charging defect affecting some customers, according to Road to VR. Meta told the outlet that it’s not recalling the faulty device but is working to send out updated replacements to aff … | Continue reading
At the end of the week, Godzilla stomps back into theaters with the release of Godzilla Minus One, one of the best movies of the year. He’s doing so with a slick new look, evoking the King of the Monsters’ classic design with some gritty, grotty detailing and a whole lot of threa … | Continue reading
OpenAI’s GPT Store, a marketplace of customizable chatbots, is slated to roll out any day now, but users should be careful about uploading sensitive information when building GPTs. Research from cybersecurity and safety firm Adversa AI indicates GPTs will leak data about how they … | Continue reading
Associate Professor of Hip-Hop A.D Carson, talks about the use of AI in the music industry. | Continue reading
Sandy Claws is coming to town with the smallest, cutest-yet-creepiest Bitty Pop Funkos you’ve ever seen.Read more... | Continue reading
Although Marvel is often, perhaps rightfully, granted dominance over the superhero movie boom of the last decade and a half, it’s arguably Zack Snyder who has, for better or worse, defined that trend more than any other singular figure. But, on the precipice of launching is own n … | Continue reading
Want your tech delivered to your home with the same anxiety-inducing speed as your local pizza delivery guy? DoorDash said it was now working with Best Buy to offer door-to-door delivery for tech products, though your average food delivery guy might need a bigger bike if he’s to … | Continue reading
NASA has announced a delay in its ambitious Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan, moving the launch date to July 2028. This decision, driven by budget uncertainties, comes despite the mission successfully passing key design reviews. Worryingly, the space agency is delaying fo … | Continue reading
Okta announced on Tuesday that hackers who breached its systems in October stole details about every user of the identity management service’s customer support platform, contradicting the company’s announcement in early November that only one percent of users were affected.Read m … | Continue reading
Godzilla x Kong teases something big coming. The Alien TV series adds more to its cast. Get a look at Cartoon Network’s Craig of the Creek prequel. Plus, what’s coming on The Santa Clauses. To me, my Spoilers!Read more... | Continue reading
There must have been at least a handful of people around the world who were desperate to use the browser that comes baked into Samsung phones on their PCs. Well, if you’re one of those odd individuals, rejoice. Without any formal announcement, Samsung Internet hit the Microsoft S … | Continue reading
Google released a new top-level domain that lets website creators throw .meme at the end of their URL on Tuesday, and I for one am already terrified of the websites about to be created.Read more... | Continue reading
Last week, Stability AI announced a new tool called Stable Video Diffusion, a model that turns images into AI-generated videos. It was only a matter of minutes before people jumped on it and started flooding the world with more content from the robotic abyss.Read more... | Continue reading
Online voting is now open for the People’s Choice Award winner in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest, an annual competition developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. You can chose your favorite from among 25 shortlisted photos of the near-50,000 sub … | Continue reading
The Boys has continued to have success with its spinoffs, so Prime Video figured, why stop now? Blue Beetle writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer is teaming up with executive producers Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal for The Boys: Mexico.Read more... | Continue reading
The animal pharmaceutical company Loyal announced that the FDA has accepted the development of a drug that could extend the lifespans of large and giant dog breeds.Read more... | Continue reading
Wonka—the musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel—has screened for critics, and the reactions are mixed... but mostly good.Read more... | Continue reading
If Elon Musk is actively trying to drive advertisers away from his floundering social media site X, then he’s doing a really fantastic job of it. Fresh off spurring a maelstrom of criticism over a tweet that was broadly decried as antisemitic (and which led to an outflux of adver … | Continue reading
Google is now using geothermal energy to meet the massive power needs of its data centers. Google announced a first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now operational in Nevada in a blog post on Tuesday, using heat from the Earth’s core as energy.Read more... | Continue reading
Amazon is throwing its e-commerce bulk into the AI game like an enormous capybara stampeding into the outside lane of the ongoing AI rat race. The company finally shared details of its new AI chatbot assistant dubbed “Q” at its AWS re:Invent event on Tuesday. Just as can be expec … | Continue reading
Initial overnight ratings have come in for Doctor Who’s highly anticipated return this past weekend in “The Star Beast,” and it’s good news for the show: numbers are way, way up, even if they’re also way, way down compared to where the show used to be. But, for good reason!Read m … | Continue reading
Just in case you needed a new fear to keep you awake at night, here’s this possibly fanciful tale of arachnid infestation. A UK man claims to have gotten a gnarly swollen toe while on a cruise from having a wolf spider lay eggs inside it. Though the toe injury appears to be real … | Continue reading
The live-action Clone Trooper has had a bit of a renaissance lately, between The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and even Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor last year, all taking us back to the Clone War and its aftermath to give us actual, physical live-action phase one and phase two Troopers on scr … | Continue reading
Google’s latest on its list of merciless murders is the Assistant’s “animal of the day” feature. While it’s not likely that the individual command product will make the Killed by Google Graveyard anytime soon, once it’s officially phased out by the end of the month, it will mark … | Continue reading
Moving swiftly and learning through failure, SpaceX says it’s already looking ahead to version 2 of the Starship upper stage.Read more... | Continue reading
Walt Disney Animation Studios ushered in a new era with the release of 2013's Frozen, a film which opened second upon release but went on to become the highest-grossing animated film at the time. Frozen II followed in 2019 and was similarly successful—so of course, there’s now mo … | Continue reading
Jeff Bezos might want to start accepting packages on his 417-foot superyacht as it’s becoming increasingly clear the ship isn’t much good for transporting the ultra-wealthy into the most luxurious ports. Pictures and live data show the Amazon founder has had to park his ship next … | Continue reading
If you’re a horror fan and you have a Prime Video subscription, your streaming options are vast—especially if you don’t mind ads (via Freevee) or paying a couple bucks to rent the title of your choice. But you also shouldn’t overlook the original films that get distributed throug … | Continue reading
A study out this week suggests that semaglutide—the active ingredient in popular obesity drug Wegovy—might be able to help people struggling with alcohol use disorder, too. In a small sample of cases, researchers found evidence that people who took semaglutide for weight loss als … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Max subscribers received their monthly email announcing what’s coming to the platform—and what’s leaving. Fans of Looney Tunes—already smarting over Warner Bros.’ recent decision to shelve the completed feature Coyote vs. Acme; the film’s now seeking distribution elsew … | Continue reading
When Ellen Ripley said “Get away from her, you bitch,” she apparently wasn’t talking about the latest Alien movie. Turns out, Fede Alvarez’s 2024 Alien movie is actually much, much closer to the originals than anyone could’ve guessed.Read more... | Continue reading
Apple unveiled its most popular podcasts of 2023 on Tuesday, revealing that true crime’s chokehold on the platform continues for another year. True crime took first place in two categories, with Crime Junkie as the most popular podcast for the second year in a row, and Scamanda a … | Continue reading
Fallout makes its global premiere on Prime Video April 12, 2024—and it’s a series that fans of Bethesda’s popular post-apocalyptic video game have been eager to learn more about. Today, we finally have fresh images to share, and they’re full of jumpsuits, power suits, and at leas … | Continue reading
Ikea just announced a set of smart home sensors all for under $10. The set includes a door and window sensor named Parasoll, a motion sensor called Vallhorn, and a water leakage sensor called Badring. These are set to be globally released in the first half of next year. Read more … | Continue reading
For as much as Doctor Who’s first 60th anniversary special, “The Star Beast,” was a celebration of the old, it also brought plenty of new with it—including Heartstopper’s Yasmin Finney as Rose, Donna Noble’s trans teenage daughter. But for as important as Rose became to the episo … | Continue reading
How best can you display the advances in technology over the years? Let’s take a PC like the landmark original 1984 Apple Macintosh—later rebranded the Macintosh 128K—and shrink it by more than half. Then, boost its processing capability and memory by a factor of thousands or eve … | Continue reading
Thales Alenia Space and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) are embarking on a pioneering venture to construct the first permanent human outpost on the Moon, a critical component of NASA’s Artemis program.Read more... | Continue reading
Hannah Waddingham has not heard about returning for Hocus Pocus 3. Mortal Kombat 2 director Todd Garner offers some tiny glimpses of the sequel. Plus, Get a behind-the-scenes look at Agatha: Darkhold Diaries. Spoilers, assemble!Read more... | Continue reading
YouTube ventured into gaming this week by rolling out a test of YouTube Playables to all Premium users. Playables are small, free games for mobile and desktop devices with no downloads, such as Angry Birds Showdown, from YouTube. Read more... | Continue reading
Released in 2000, Ron Howard’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas has become a modern Christmas classic—so much so that it’s managed to be more timeless than Illumination’s 2018 Grinch animated film. That’s probably thanks to the presence Jim Carrey’s inimitable take on the character … | Continue reading
The first rule of playing a superhero is deny, deny, deny. Is there a rumor going around about your character? Is that rumor true? Don’t sweat it. Simply lie about it for fear of ruining the surprise. Read more... | Continue reading
In recent weeks, Elon Musk’s car company has been locked in a labor dispute with the unions of Sweden. Now, as the dispute drags on, Tesla seems to have won a small victory amidst the broader fight: license plates. Read more... | Continue reading
The world of Alien just got a whole lot sexier with the addition of actor Timothy Olyphant. The Justified star, who recently dipped his toe into another major sci-fi universe as Cobb Vanth on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, has been cast in Noah Hawley’s upcoming FX sh … | Continue reading
From the very first episode of The Mandalorian, you wanted to know about the Armorer. She was fierce. She was mysterious. And she was wise beyond her years. As we’ve learned more about her in subsequent seasons, that mystique has only grown. Is she honest? Does she have ulterior … | Continue reading
The parent company that owns the storied and once-lauded magazine Sports Illustrated has been shoveling more AI slop into its readers’ eyeballs. Instead of telling its audience the garbled, nonsensical AI-created content was crafted by a chatbot, the company has tried to smuggle … | Continue reading
The Swedish electronics company most famous for its synthesizers, just put out two of the most delightful audio products we’ve ever seen. | Continue reading
Americans looking to stay on top of their sexual health have a new at-home option available to them. Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first home test for chlamydia and gonorrhea. Developed by the company LetsGetChecked, the Simple 2 test costs b … | Continue reading
As Marvel looks to refocus the creative teams behind its far-flung Avengers duology in the wake of director Destin Daniel Cretton’s departure, the studio has reportedly decided that why not make the man already writing an Avengers movie, write another Avengers movie?Read more... | Continue reading