Amazon workers in the UK are staging a strike over four days in November, including Black Friday, as they seek higher wages and safer working conditions. The GMB Union, which represents Amazon workers announced the strike on Monday, demanding that the company “urgently reconsider … | Continue reading
At long last, you may now finally be able to fit a new PlayStation 5 onto your TV cabinet’s shelf. On Tuesday, Sony’s PlayStation division revealed the new skinny form factor for the PS5, coming both with and without a disc drive and for the same price as the previous models.Read … | Continue reading
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory just dropped, and it’s a massive one: the spacecraft has identified half a million stars in a nearby cluster, nearly 400 gravitational lenses, and the orbits of some 156,000-odd asteroids.Read more... | Continue reading
Lego’s latest collaboration with Nintendo isn’t part of its digitally enhanced Mario line or its pricey collector-series display kits. It’s an honest-to-god plain and simple Lego line—and it takes us away from the Mushroom Kingdom and to the faraway islands of Animal Crossing wit … | Continue reading
Private Spanish firm PLD Space launched its Miura 1 rocket this past Friday on a suborbital flight that lasted for five minutes, marking a significant milestone for Europe’s nascent spaceflight industry.Read more... | Continue reading
Tidal waves of controversy are once again rising in the world of Aquaman 2 and it’s not because of a war in Atlantis. A new report is filled with claims regarding Amber Heard’s treatment on the set of the film, and it involves people such as star Jason Momoa, director James Wan, … | Continue reading
It’s become somewhat of a cliche in recent months for AI researchers and engineers to claim they simply don’t really know or understand how advanced new artificial intelligence models are coming to their conclusions. When it comes to designing walking robots from scratch, at leas … | Continue reading
Google announced a small update Tuesday that could usher in the biggest change in the history of cybersecurity: the death of the password. Going forward, so-called passkeys will replace passwords as Google’s default sign-in tool. The company says its plan is to make “passwords a … | Continue reading
Adobe just shared a full public release of its Firefly AI tools last month, but the company isn’t nearly done giving the AI hype train a big push down the tracks. During its Adobe Max conference, the company said that the original Firefly AI model is already old hat after just fi … | Continue reading
In 2024, the Roku Channel will debut The Spiderwick Chronicles, an eight-episode children’s fantasy show that was unceremoniously cancelled two years into production. Disney axed the series based on the bestselling series of books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black in an effort t … | Continue reading
Russia’s Nauka module sprung a leak on Monday in the latest incident of faulty hardware on board the International Space Station (ISS).Read more... | Continue reading
Amazon is hosting Prime Day 2.0 today and tomorrow (October 10 and 11). They’re calling it Prime Big Deal Days, and are offering a number of pretty good deals.Read more... | Continue reading
For the first time ever, the BBC will be the streaming home of as much of Doctor Who history as it possibly can be next month in celebration of the show’s 60th anniversary, as over 800 episodes from across 60 years of adventures in time and space head to its streaming platform, i … | Continue reading
X, formerly called Twitter, now allows users to block unverified accounts from replying to their posts as Elon Musk strives to make paying for a subscription worth the money. The company announced the change in a post on Monday, telling users they “can now limit replies to verifi … | Continue reading
No one wants to explain away the whims of a megalomaniac, and Linda Yaccarino has been having such a rough go of it. The X/Twitter CEO has reportedly dropped out of the Wall Street Journal’s upcoming Tech Live conference following a widely criticized interview less than two weeks … | Continue reading
Robert Rodriguez still wants to do Alita Battle Angel 2. Take at look at Ed Skrein’s Rebel Moon villain. David Gordon Green still wants to bring the Garbage Pail Kids to TV. Plus, more casting details for Daredevil: Born Again and Spider-Man: Freshman Year. Spoilers, away!Read mo … | Continue reading
As of this past weekend, the live-streaming sports selection on Max is a lot more robust—just in time for the MLB post-season and the NBA pre-season, and also good news for hockey and soccer fans, too. Read more... | Continue reading
After nearly nine years of ruining the reputation of what was once one of the most popular open game engines in the world, Unity President and CEO John Riccitiello announced he was stepping down from his role as the most hated man in gaming.Read more... | Continue reading
Amazon’s second Prime Day of 2023 is here, and it runs October 10-11. Yes, that’s right before the holiday shopping season really kicks off in November, but if you shop early, there are some good deals to be found on TVs, audio gear, laptops and especially Amazon’s own branded it … | Continue reading
After a tentative fair deal between writers and studios was reached on September 24, you can now remove “tentative” from that: the WGA strike, which began May 2 and put the state of Hollywood production under a microscope, is over-over. The acting union, SAG-AFTRA, has been on st … | Continue reading
Get ready for 2024 to be the year of Tiana. Not only is the new Disney Parks attraction based on The Princess and the Frog, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, slated to open next year, the long-awaited Disney+ series focusing on the movie’s culinarily gifted heroine is finally making big s … | Continue reading
In the nearly 25 years since the release of Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant, the film’s history has become legend. Though it’s now considered a classic, when it came out the film bombed at the box office largely because the studio releasing it, Warner Bros., didn’t quite know what it … | Continue reading
Disney has a new film—Wish, out November 22—that celebrates its 100-year history by dramatizing the fairy-tale dream of “wishing upon a star.” But the company is also dipping into its vast library in honor of this landmark year, including bringing a 4K restoration of Snow White a … | Continue reading
Aberrance is the first Mongolian horror feature to get a theatrical release in the U.S.—a landmark moment for director and co-writer Baatar Batsukh, especially since this is his first feature. The film runs just 75 minutes, but fills that slender space with a suspenseful mystery … | Continue reading
China dominates production of the crucial metals, and wind companies are scouring the globe for more sources. | Continue reading
The first trailer for Invincible season two packed in so much news, watching it felt like being punched by a superhero. So many new actors are joining the show it’s, frankly, a little unfathomable and damned near impossible to pick out your favorite. Tim Robinson! Calista Flockha … | Continue reading
Congrats, ye hearties: a new survey polling over 2,000 streaming customers has found that Max—home of popular series like House of the Dragon, The Last of Us, and Our Flag Means Death—is tops when it comes to overall viewer satisfaction. Hulu came in second, followed by Disney+, … | Continue reading
It’s undeniable that in HBO Max’s pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, Edward Teach (Taika Waititi) and Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) are in love with each other. But in season two, David Jenkins is giving jilted first mate Izzy Hands (Con O’Neill) a chance to compete for the hearts o … | Continue reading
Ahsoka is over (for now, at least it seems), and many questions remain. What are Thrawn’s plans? What will our heroes do to stop him? Just what great mysteries are out there for our other foes left to uncover? But an even sillier question lingers, too: what is up with the eyeball … | Continue reading
The filmmaker confirmed the Lucasfilm shelved project he was working on with David Goyer during Pacific Rim Screening. | Continue reading
It’s spooky season and Hot Topic is celebrating Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas with a new collection for the film’s 30th anniversary.Read more... | Continue reading
Just in time for Halloween and for the release of Blumhouse and Universal Pictures’ Five Nights at Freddy’s fans can visit a pop-up location of the fictional franchise from the game and film. Read more... | Continue reading
For the last 10 years, Chromebooks have remained just what they are. Chromebooks are Chromebooks. Manufacturers release new models every year with slightly updated specs and Google makes minor additions to the ChromeOS-based platform. But despite that, Chromebooks are still low-e … | Continue reading
Vince Gilligan is returning to Albuquerque—and science fiction. The acclaimed creator of AMC’s Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul, who also worked for multiple years on Fox’s The X-Files (and co-created spin-off The Lone Gunman) just revealed a tiny bit of information … | Continue reading
In 2018, a skin-crawlingly eerie horror movie from Argentina called Terrified hit Shudder after debuting at Fantastic Fest. Writer-director Demián Rugna is following a similar path (with a theatrical release in between) with his latest, When Evil Lurks, a film which proves Terrif … | Continue reading
With the end of Ahsoka’s first season on Disney+ comes sad news from behind the scenes of the Star Wars series: costume designer Shawna Trpcic, a lifelong fan of sci-fi and comic books who also brought her talents to The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, has died at the age … | Continue reading
Horror fans know the sudden appearance of a crate is never, ever a good thing, especially if that crate is old and marked with some kind of warning or other sinister writing. But while Creepshow segment “The Crate” may have inspired the set-up for short film Momo, its monster is … | Continue reading
The V/H/S series has enough built-in fans by now that it’s barely necessary to review the latest release. But anyone feeling ambivalent about the found-footage horror franchise should make it a point to seek out its sixth entry (eighth, if you count the two spin-off films), becau … | Continue reading
The reviews for The Exorcist: Believer haven’t been kind, with far less goodwill being showered upon David Gordon Green’s series revival than his 2018 Halloween sequel. Box office, however, has been decent—the Hollywood Reporter notes it made nearly $3 million in Thursday preview … | Continue reading
Yes, Amazon is having a second Prime Day event, this time in the middle of October. The company did the same thing last year, positioning itself right before the holiday shopping season really kicks off in November.Read more... | Continue reading
Meta’s AI-generated stickers, which launched just last week, are already causing mayhem. Users swiftly realized they could use them to create obscene images, like Elon Musk with tits, ones involving child soldiers, and bloodthirsty version of Disney characters. Ditto for Microsof … | Continue reading
With Trick ‘r Treat at Loungefly and Beetlejuice at RSVLTS and BlackMilk, and pop culture icons like Looney Tunes and Friday the 13th flexing their tricks, there’s a ton of spooky-fun merch to add to your list in time for WB100 and Halloween.Read more... | Continue reading
An opaque legal case against a Florida journalist is alarming press advocates, who see it as a troubling example of draconian government overreach.Read more... | Continue reading
When a director publically acknowledges what his next movie is going to be, when it’s shooting, and who is in the cast, that’s about as official as something can get. And so, even though Netflix hasn’t made any announcement yet, at a screening this week, Oscar-winning director Gu … | Continue reading
New research could complicate the narrative over using exercise to help with depression and other mental health issues. A study compared depressed and/or anxious people who joined a running program to those who took a course of antidepressants, and found that both groups experien … | Continue reading
Creepshow is back for its fourth season, and the horror anthology series doesn’t diverge much from its established formula: two stories per episode, both putting characters through gory ordeals that climax in (usually) well-earned punishment. You know a twist is coming, but Creep … | Continue reading
The second Amazon Prime Day is fast approaching, kicking off on Oct. 10 at 3 a.m. EST through Oct. 11. The company is offering major Prime Day sales, exclusively for members, as we head into the holiday season.Read more... | Continue reading
Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time, adapted from the Robert Jordan book series, just dropped its season two finale. A third installment was announced back in 2022 at San Diego Comic-Con, and stars Rosamund Pike and Daniel Henney have teased what fans might expect when the fantasy se … | Continue reading