Thrawn has finally arrived on Ahsoka and into live-action Star Wars media at large, and—as has become the tradition—Disney+ is marking the character’s debut with a snazzy new poster. All the major new faces in “Far, Far Away” got them, in fact, including some guy named Ezra Bridg … | Continue reading
In his new movie 57 Seconds, Josh Hutcherson discovers the ability to travel through time... sort of. While undoing just under a minute of time and space might not seem like the most useful time travel, it’s still enough to blow someone’s mind wide open when they discover it, as … | Continue reading
Planescape has returned to Dungeons & Dragons. Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse includes three new books: the setting book Sigil and the Outlands; Turn of Fortune’s Wheel, the campaign book; and Morte’s Planar Parade, the bestiary. Read more... | Continue reading
As Uber continues to tout driver and rider safety as a number one priority, reports that its new spokesperson will be Robert De Niro playing Travis Bickle from 1976's Taxi Driver definitely caused some head-scratching. Lucky for us, while Robert De Niro will be involved in a new … | Continue reading
The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for 24 years, hosting crews of astronauts and running experiments in the microgravity environment. By 2030, however, the space station’s reign in low Earth orbit must come to an end and NASA is figuring out exactly how … | Continue reading
Billionaire, philanthropist, and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this week that he will invest $500 million into his campaign to shut down coal plants and halve gas use by 2030.Read more... | Continue reading
The arms race over the next generation of obesity drugs is continuing to heat up. This week, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced it was suing several pharmacies, spas, and wellness centers in the U.S. for allegedly selling unauthorized copycats of its blockbuster drug tirz … | Continue reading
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced he is stepping down as chairman of News Corp. and Fox in a memo to staff on Thursday. He will officially retire in November and will pass the torch to his son, Lachlan Murdoch, who will also remain as CEO and executive chairman of Fox Corporat … | Continue reading
How many times have you watched a TikTok or YouTube short and thought “This is fun, but what if there were some strange pandas desperately trying to shove coffee from a morphing teacup into their nose or maw?” Great news. Read more... | Continue reading
Vizio’s has built up television brand on trying to offer relatively strong picture display quality on a budget, and the company isn’t breaking away from that mold with its latest displays. Vizio announced its new Quantum and Quantum Pro Smart TVs on Thursday, promising relatively … | Continue reading
No space-based gravitational wave observatory exists…yet. But that hasn’t stopped a team of astronomers from demonstrating how the gravitational universe might look, using simulated data to create a “synthetic gravitational sky.”Read more... | Continue reading
Based on the massively successful MMORPG, Square Enix has announced the publication of the Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG. The Starter Set is available for preorder, and it includes a Player Book, Gamemaster Book, Premade Character Sheets, a Rules Summary & Strategy Guide, and 16 custom … | Continue reading
Keeping the Fall new product pipeline going, Microsoft is following Apple, Amazon, and others in announcing a series of new Surface hardware products and new software/AI initiatives.Read more... | Continue reading
Few directors seem better suited to a galaxy far, far, away than Guillermo del Toro. The Oscar-winning director of The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Pacific Rim, and so many others, thrives on practical creatures, sweeping romance, and large-scale adventure. He’d be p … | Continue reading
Ballerina director Len Wiseman teases Ana de Armas’ turn in the John Wick spinoff. The cast and crew of Saw X talk about bringing back a horror legend. Netflix teams up with Takeshi Miike for a new Onimusha anime. Plus, what’s coming on the last episodes of Fear the Walking Dead. … | Continue reading
MGM Resorts says it resumed full operations on Wednesday, a full 10 days after hackers took over its system. The cyberattack caused mayhem at several of its locations across the country, affecting hotel reservations, and credit card processing, while guests complained they lost a … | Continue reading
Amazon is under fire in a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission over the company’s alleged workflow to trick customers into signing up for a Prime membership. Now, the FTC is amending that June lawsuit with additional information that three company executives were aware o … | Continue reading
Studio Ghibli, the animation studio co-founded by famed director Hayao Miyazaki, has been sold. According to AP, the studio will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. This deal was reportedly discussed last year when producer Toshio Suzuki approached a Nippon TV … | Continue reading
As part of its efforts to create a space-based cellular broadband network, AST SpaceMobile made the first ever 5G phone call between its prototype satellite and a Samsung Galaxy S22.Read more... | Continue reading
In July 2022, TikTok introduced a tool called Filter Video Keywords to let users block videos with words or hashtags they did not want to see. Cormac Keenan, Head of Trust and Safety at TikTok, described it as an important safety feature to “help viewers customize their viewing p … | Continue reading
The latest RSVLTS spooky season drop celebrates the Sanderson sisters in a big, boo-tiful way.Read more... | Continue reading
A soul-eating demon haunts a pair of first generation Indian American girls in a suburban town they already don’t quite fit into in Bishal Dutta’s horror debut It Lives Inside.Read more... | Continue reading
When Paramount launched very Short Treks a few weeks ago, it did so with a short that trod a very fine line between being crass and flexing some knowingly Trek humor. But as it’s progressed, things have only gotten a closer to the former.Read more... | Continue reading
In a new assessment of several major social media platforms, X, formerly known as Twitter, came in dead last in managing climate misinformation.Read more... | Continue reading
Even before it turned 30, NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat franchise had one eye on its past. After 2011's reboot retold the original three games, Mortal Kombat 11 used time travel to have older characters interact with their younger selves, while those who died in the reboot or Morta … | Continue reading
A North Carolina man’s family filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, claiming the company was grossly negligent in allowing its Maps application to direct the man to drive off a collapsed bridge where he plunged to his death. Philip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two was dri … | Continue reading
Everyone’s favorite squishable pest—the spotted lanternfly—might be less of a nuisance than we thought, new research suggests. The four-year-long study found that the insects caused little to no long-term damage to a variety of different tree species. The authors say the invasive … | Continue reading
“Far, Far Away,” the sixth episode of Ahsoka, took the series, and us, to a whole new galaxy full of potential and new mysteries. But in doing so, it touched on a fascinating piece of old Star Wars history in the Nightsisters of Dathomir—one that ties several of Star Wars’ prior … | Continue reading
Despite the repeated reports of doom, gloom, and reorganization inside Amazon’s hardware division, that hasn’t stopped the company from moving forward with its vision for the “ambient home.” At its streamed live event in Virginia today, Amazon announced a bevy of new connected pr … | Continue reading
When Robin leads the Teen Titans and a bunch of classic animation characters from The Looney Tunes to Cartoon Network to more DC animated faves on a tour around the Warner Bros. Studios lot, it’s just as unhinged as you’d imagine it to be.Read more... | Continue reading
As Big Tech continues to jam every half-baked piece of artificial intelligence into every other over-baked piece of software, OpenAI has come full circle. The AI company behind ChatGPT is placing the wildly popular chatbot into the next version of its image generation tool.Read m … | Continue reading
At Amazon’s Fall Devices Event, the pressure was on to come up with a hit product that would stun the world the way Alexa and the Echo speaker did a decade ago. The event, held at Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington, VA was Amazon’s first in-person event since before Covid and the first ch … | Continue reading
NASA released a new mosaic of an impact crater that perpetually lies in the shadows of the lunar south pole. By combining the light sensitivity of NASA’s ShadowCam with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s ability to view shadowed regions, scientists put together a rare image of th … | Continue reading
We can tell you just how fun and surprising the new Hulu alien film No One Will Save You is, but leave it to the film’s writer and director, Brian Duffield, to really sell it. “By the time we get to the end of our first act, hopefully people will just have no idea where this movi … | Continue reading
Did you know that if you just slightly rename a show, it’s still considered a totally new show, and the production company gets to renegotiate contracts? Usually crew members who are with IATSE get full benefits, including vacation, after a show hits its third season. Disney is p … | Continue reading
A group of common cold viruses may be able to cause a life-threatening, if rare, blood clotting condition, recent research suggests. A team of scientists in the U.S. and Canada have recently found evidence linking the viruses to two cases of the condition, in a child and an adult … | Continue reading
The last time we saw movie star Chris MacNeil, she’d just been through quite an ordeal in Georgetown involving a demon and her tweenage daughter. That was back in 1973—so what’s she been up to since then? That’s a question Ellen Burstyn asked herself when reprising the character … | Continue reading
Fortnite will pay out millions of users as part of a settlement it reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), it announced on Tuesday. The FTC claimed Fortnite’s parent company, Epic, used deceptive tactics to get users to make unwanted purchases, in some cases, withou … | Continue reading
Look what she made us do. Ahead of the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) next month, one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Taylor Swift, began teasing the album’s bonus tracks with one the biggest tech companies in the world, Google. Read more... | Continue reading
After last week’s unforgettable, Ahsoka-heavy episode, this week’s “Far, Far Away” flipped the script. Ahsoka is on her way to that galaxy even further away and in the meantime, things pick up with the villains. Do they make it to this alternate galaxy? Is Thrawn there? Is Ezra t … | Continue reading
Despite holding the title for the longest stint in space by a NASA astronaut, Frank Rubio would have rather not spent all that extra time in low Earth orbit and away from his family. In a recent interview, the astronaut revealed that he would have likely turned down the mission h … | Continue reading
In an attempt to explain dystopia, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes continues to dig itself deeper into the political and moral knots that the original trilogy presented in 2008. The film trilogy began in 2012, and now we’ve got another addition to the franchise … | Continue reading
A hacker appears to have briefly gained access to Donald Trump Jr.‘s account on Twitter (now named X) and falsely claimed that daddy Donald had died. The bogus post, which was retweeted around 400 times before it was deleted, claimed Trump Jr. would run for president in his fathe … | Continue reading
Archaeologists investigating cut logs and other wooden tools at a site near Zambia’s Kalambo Falls have found the settlement to be far more ancient than previously thought: the logs date back to nearly half a million years ago, before our species (Homo sapiens) appeared on Earth. … | Continue reading
In February, io9 shared an excerpt from That Self-Same Metal, the debut fantasy novel from Brittany N. Williams—who drew upon her background as a classically trained actor to weave its Shakespearean tale. Things are even more perilous for her uniquely gifted metal-working heroine … | Continue reading
The Jaime Reyes DC era continues to blast off with Blue Beetle getting a digital release next week.Read more... | Continue reading
Neuralink announced it is recruiting for human clinical trials to test and assess the safety of its brain chip implants in a news release on Tuesday. The neural interface technology company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, said it received approval from an independent institution … | Continue reading
In a world of increasing demand for labor rights, Apple store employees in France are looking to join in on the movement. Ahead of the launch of the iPhone 15 this week, French Apple staff have officially called for a strike to begin this Friday.Read more... | Continue reading