Ebon Moss-Bachrach is reading comics and looking at rocks for The Fantastic Four. House of the Dragon prepares for war in new footage. Plus, a tiny look at Superman & Lois’ final season, and a new clip from the Rick & Morty anime. Spoilers away! Read more... | Continue reading
The first of two presidential debates between presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and President Joe Biden is scheduled for Thursday, June 27 at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT. Hosted by CNN in Atlanta, it will be the earliest presidential head-to-head in modern U.S. history, … | Continue reading
A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and “decel”. The accels want AI to progress rapidly – move fast and break things – while the decels want AI deve … | Continue reading
Puzzles and dystopian fiction have a recurring theme in common: those in power forcing their subjects to play twisted games for entertainment. Crack the spine of any brainteaser book, and it reads like The Hunger Games–prisoners vying for their lives and monarchs sacrificing thei … | Continue reading
During WWDC 2024, Apple showed off a bunch of shiny new features heading to iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia (and its other software platforms) later this year—but if you don’t want to wait around for these features to arrive, you can get a lot of them right now. Read more... | Continue reading
If you read comics, you know the market is partially built on issues with variant covers drawn by different artists to entice collectors to snatch up any issue they can. This is particularly true for Marvel and DC Comics, and it’s now that latter that’s found itself pulling some … | Continue reading
Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to get Megalopolis into people’s eyes for decades. It’s only recently that fate’s gone Coppola’s way with a theatrical US release in September (and its eventual physical release) courtesy of Lionsgate, but if you thought all’s well that ends w … | Continue reading
With its floral aroma and sweet, deep-crimson flesh, the blood orange is an indisputably cool fruit. Yet, a recent University of Florida study measures how literally cooling blood oranges for months post-harvest could make them healthier by boosting antioxidant levels, while yiel … | Continue reading
Warner Bros. and DC Comics have been riding the high of Batman for decades, both in the comics and expanded media like TV, games, and film. That last one is where the character seems to do particularly well, and whose existence is plenty formative for many a viewer. But whichever … | Continue reading
Every time the BBC brings in a new actor to portray the Doctor, their inaugural Doctor Who season (and any holiday specials that precede it) carry weight behind them. Read more... | Continue reading
Weeks ago, The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke talked about his hope to get Supernatural star Jared Padalecki on the superhero show. Just days afterward, The CW went and canceled Walker—which the actor had been starring in and producing for four seasons, and whose end now opened up a … | Continue reading
It sounds like the jig is up for YouTube users who snagged cheaper Premium memberships by obscuring their location with virtual private networks (VPNs). Read more... | Continue reading
In 2020, English author Susanna Clarke published her second-ever novel, Piranesi. Given that it’d been over 15 years since her Hugo Award-winning debut Jonathan Strange & Mr. Morrell, the book’s arrival had been a big deal at the time—and like how Strange was later adapted to TV, … | Continue reading
Democrats’ attempts to woo content creators and their fans reached a natural conclusion on Friday, when the Democratic National Convention Committee opened up media credentials to influencers for its big convention this summer. Read more... | Continue reading
Ever since the Suicide Squad came crashing into theaters back in 2016, Warner Bros. has been doing whatever it can to keep them around in the public eye. Games, animated movies, popping up in other characters’ shows: the DC antiheroes are going to feature in whatever they can. Th … | Continue reading
Some actors come into a superhero role fairly early in their careers. Others do so in the middle, which can carry some extra weight if this comes as their star profile is growing. And sometimes you have the ones that are fighting to be cast in something because they’re pretty con … | Continue reading
Last month, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes came to theaters, bringing with it a new set of characters positioned to continue the human/ape war established in Caesar’s reboot trilogy. If you somehow managed to miss it in theaters over the last six weeks—where it’s kept making m … | Continue reading
Speculative new research outlines a method for detecting extraterrestrial civilizations: by catching the gravitational waves produced by the collapse, or failure, of their warp drives. Sounds wild, but the concept is grounded in the principles of Einstein’s general relativity. Re … | Continue reading
This week, Star Trek: Prodigy dropped the first trailer for its second season, and it’s full of all the sort of good Star Trek action you’d want—even more so if, like me, you’re a Voyager fan. But as a Voyager fan, there was one shot in particular that called to me: Admiral Janew … | Continue reading
With things in motion on theMarvel Studios slate, actor Benedict Cumberbatch is once again talking about his role in the franchise as Doctor Strange. Read more... | Continue reading
The secret’s out: The Boys is a satire that lives to skewer the sorts of right-wing nightmares that unfortunately are part of our real world these days. The current fourth season’s election plot has been a highly fertile one for the show’s signature sense of humor, with one new c … | Continue reading
A major revamp of the Alexa platform is on the horizon, and it looks as if it’s going to cost you. Eight current and former anonymous employees who worked on Alexa told Reuters that the project is known internally as “Banyan,” referring to a type of fig tree with propagation root … | Continue reading
Earlier this week during Nintendo’s latest Direct livestream, Capcom shocked the fighting game world with the surprise reveal of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, an unprecedented collection of seven iconic crossover games between the comics and video games … | Continue reading
There’s a new swamp treat at Universal Studios Orlando’s newly opened Dreamworks Land and it pays homage to Shrek in the weirdest, most unhinged way. It’s a pretzel in the shape of Mike Myers’ ogre face inspired by the hit fairytale parody franchise—a “Shrekzel,” as it’s become k … | Continue reading
Last week, we reported that Elon Musk has 11 children, which seemed like a lot at the time. Unfortunately, that number appears to be incorrect. In fact, he has yet another previously unreported kid, according to a report published Friday by Bloomberg. The total number of kids (th … | Continue reading
As excitement ramps up for Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs with growing word of mouth of how darkly grim and scary the Nicolas Cage-starring feature is, the director’s next project, Stephen King adaptationThe Monkey, is starting to gain more and more attention. Read more... | Continue reading
Flat Earth conspiracy theories have run rampant in recent years, despite fairly conclusive proof that our planet is shaped like an orb (William Shatner wouldn’t lie to us would he?). Yes, for some reason, a substantial demographic of America’s more internet-addled folks have take … | Continue reading
Heritage Auctions—the same outfit that just sold an extremely rare “rocket-firing” Boba Fett toy for half a million bucks—is back with more Star Wars treasures, this time offering over 100 pieces of concept art created by John Gallagher for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. … | Continue reading
A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted five men who operated Jetflicks, a subscription TV and movie service that streamed pirated content, according to a press release Thursday from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Jetflicks offered more than 118,000 television episodes and 1 … | Continue reading
Tonight, Doctor Who’s latest season comes to an end, as the Doctor and Ruby prepare to battle an almighty foe from the Time Lord’s past. But it also means there’s one last chance to see the most constant of factors in what has been a very up-and-down season—one more appearance fr … | Continue reading
The Perseverance rover has been toiling on the Martian surface for over three years, collecting rock samples that will eventually be brought to Earth if all goes according to plan. But the rover has also picked up hitchhikers, in the form of traces of Martian atmosphere that are … | Continue reading
According to a new report from the Wrap, the Jim Henson Company is selling its Los Angeles studio lot at 1416 La Brea Avenue as “part of a much longer-term strategy” to merge an undisclosed future location with its Jim Henson Creature Shop in Burbank, California. The building has … | Continue reading
The World Health Organization is warning the public to stay away from counterfeit Ozempic, or “fauxzempic.” The agency has recently received reports of medication falsified to appear like the diabetes and off-label weight loss drug Ozempic in at least three countries, including t … | Continue reading
A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of Israel has stumbled upon a 3,300-year-old ship on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, its cargo still intact. The wreck was found about 56 miles (90 kilometers) from the coast, a surprising distance from land for such an ancien … | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s social media business X, formerly Twitter, took a turn for the worse in November 2023 when he told advertisers to “go f**k yourselves” on stage with the New York Times. At the time, Musk said he refused to be “blackmailed” into “censorship,” responding to a few big br … | Continue reading
Donald Sutherland has departed at the age of 88, but the acting powerhouse will forever live on thanks to his iconic array of performances. While a lot of his best-known works are not in the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror realms (think MASH, National Lampoon’s Animal House, JFK, Pri … | Continue reading
We’re encroaching on 25 years since Sony first unveiled the PlayStation 2, yet current-day PS5 owners don’t have much to be excited about in 2024. We’re on the short road to the expected release of the PlayStation 5 Pro. Despite it likely being the company’s biggest hardware rele … | Continue reading
Boeing has been having serious problems all year but it’s beginning to look like the company may be in pretty deep shit. After lawmakers humiliatingly yelled at the embattled plane maker’s CEO during a disastrous Congressional hearing earlier this week, lawyers for the families o … | Continue reading
Get another look at Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum’s Apollo 11 rom-com, Fly Me to the Moon. Bryce Dallas Howard is directing another episode of Star Wars TV. Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman promises answers in its season finale. Plus, Superman and Supergirl shar … | Continue reading
Donald Trump, a convicted felon who’s promised to be a dictator on day one if he retakes the White House, made an appearance on the All-In Podcast on Thursday. And Trump’s ramblings would almost be funny if he wasn’t running neck-and-neck to become the next president of the Unite … | Continue reading
The bizarre marketing for Longlegs has raised the intrigue level for the summer horror movie sky-high. But one thing audiences have yet to catch a good glimpse of is its biggest star: Nicolas Cage, who plays the title character. And there’s a careful reason behind that. Read more … | Continue reading
The scariest horror movies are often the ones that present a version of reality where madness feels like it’s just part of the atmosphere, and evil is slowly infecting everything in the frame. These 10 picks from Shudder all have the power to make your skin crawl—and push your im … | Continue reading
The United States announced it is banning the sale of antivirus software from the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs on Thursday, according to a release from the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security. Kaspersky’s alleged close ties to the Russian governm … | Continue reading
Done Global, the online healthcare company that saw two executives arrested last week, issued a statement this week assuring patients it will do its best to continue operations despite the federal indictments by the U.S. Department of Justice. The executives were charged with pro … | Continue reading
Since early 2020, many of Marvel’s primary Star Wars comics—the main Star Wars series, Darth Vader, and the already concluded Doctor Aphra and Bounty Hunters—shifted to a new period in the timeline of the original movies: the immediate days and weeks after the events of The Empir … | Continue reading
If you’re a diehard Android user who can’t wait a couple of more months for Android 15, now is the best time to check out the beta. The third beta of Android 15 started rolling out several days ago and officially hit Platform Stability. That means that developers can code their a … | Continue reading
There’s a new eerily lifelike android coming from the same tech universe that created M3GAN—but this one’s aimed squarely at adults. Fans of the Blumhouse killer AI doll movie will recall that the invention’s files slipped out of company HQ, which could be the thread leading to t … | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered a new, very cool-looking dinosaur. The intricately horned beast is a relative of the famous Triceratops and has been named Lokiceratops rangiformis. It’s thought to have roamed around the western half of North America over 78 million years ago, back whe … | Continue reading