A lot of Star Trek opinion is based on the paradoxical idea that the series within the franchise simply “get good” at some point. TNG’s not TNG until Riker has a beard, we say, ignoring all the fantastic ideas the series got into before that. The idea of Trek shows usually having … | Continue reading
Researchers have found a blue hole they say is the deepest in the world—and they’ve yet to find where it bottoms out. The formation is the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay, and it has so far been measured to 1,378 feet deep, or 420 meters below sea level. Read more... | Continue reading
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is just over a week away and if you are still on the fence about it, a major revelation in a new trailer might change that. Read more... | Continue reading
Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao was sentenced to four months in federal prison on Tuesday, first reported by the Associated Press. Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering violations as part of Binance’s agreement with the United States Department of Justice, al … | Continue reading
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem won over audiences with its sci-fi mysteries, complex characters, and startling visuals. If you’re still haunted by that Panama Canal scene—in which a ship full of people is sliced into ribbons—or the unpredictable landscapes of the VR game world, here’s … | Continue reading
Would you be willing to eat pitch-black garlic cloves in exchange for no stinky breath? Researchers in Australia are studying and hoping to popularize a unique, specially aged variant of the cooking herb. The blackened variant apparently has a sweet flavor, while still having the … | Continue reading
Apple announced two new offerings to its Beats line of headphones and earbuds. The Beats Solo Buds are a pair of true wireless earphones that promise up to 18 hours of battery life, while the Beats Solo 4 is an upgrade for those looking to swap their current over-the-ear cans for … | Continue reading
If you had to make a list of visuals Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is best known for, Queen Amidala’s costumes would be right near the top. Darth Maul is certainly striking, the cities of Theed and Otoh Gunga are stunning, and those Naboo Starfighters are awesome, but … | Continue reading
Jostling on the fault lines of Enceladus’ frozen crust may be responsible for the plumes of icy material spewing from the moon’s watery underbelly, according to a team of researchers that recently modeled the motion. Read more... | Continue reading
“Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning.” This week, that saga once again begins in movie theaters with Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, returning for not just May the Fourth Be With You, but its 25th anniversary, happe … | Continue reading
Dave & Buster’s plans to add a feature to its app that will allow customers to place bets amongst themselves on competitive games, according to an announcement from the entertainment chain on Tuesday. It’s just the latest sign that tech-based gambling is becoming normalized in th … | Continue reading
While DC Comics fans wait longingly for next summer’s James Gunn Superman movie, there’s a tasty treat coming much sooner for the Man of Steel faithful. My Adventures With Superman kicks off its second season May 25 on Adult Swim, and from the looks of the trailer our young hero … | Continue reading
Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are already being drowned in new AI features, so we suppose it was inevitable that Apple would also try to shove some AI activities into its default browser. With Apple reportedly jumping on the AI hype train for iOS 18 (though getting on at the c … | Continue reading
A mysterious new AI chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” is turning heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came from, but many consider it to have roughly the same capabilities as OpenAI’s GPT-4. This … | Continue reading
When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during Covid-19 lockdowns, many began questioning those hours they had spent commuting to work. All those rushed mornings stuck in traffic could have been spent getting things d … | Continue reading
Absurd as it is as there’s anyone to particularly take “blame” for a popcorn superhero blockbuster that raked in $761 million during its theatrical run—few studios would see that, critical drubbing or otherwise, as something to find blame in—Chris Hemsworth seemingly cannot help … | Continue reading
SCUF’s Envision Pro controller feels so good, so clicky, so responsive, it makes me hate it. I know it’s not the controller, it’s my dumb thumbs, and yet SCUF’s $180 device feels like a memento mori for all the years I spent trying and failing in online multiplayer. The Envision … | Continue reading
We appear to have concrete proof that rich people have problems too: Matthew Prince, the billionaire CEO and co-founder of tech giant Cloudflare, is currently suing two of his millionaire neighbors because, according to court papers, the neighbors’ overly enthusiastic Bernese Mou … | Continue reading
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We hope you like TVs because that’s what April had to deliver in 2024. Samsung showed off its latest Neo QLED 4K TV, while Sony refreshed its entire QLED-based Bravia lineup. Read more... | Continue reading
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but there’s a new, unexpected twist on a classic fairytale in the works. Jeff Daniels talks about the upcoming Arachnophobia remake. Plus, get another look at Barriss Offee’s return in Tales of the Empire. Spoilers, away! Read more... | Continue reading
Just two weeks after Tesla laid off at least 14,000 workers across the world, CEO Elon Musk is planning layoffs for hundreds of additional staffers — including the bulk of the company’s Supercharger team and several executives. Read more... | Continue reading
Since last year, a subreddit has been toiling away to find the source of a particular ‘80s song and it finally hit the jackpot. Read more... | Continue reading
A former employee of the National Security Agency was sentenced to 262 months, just shy of 22 years, in prison on Monday for trying to send classified information to someone he thought was a Russian spy, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As i … | Continue reading
One thing has been ridiculously clear in my 15-plus-year career reviewing consumer tech. I’m a size queen when it comes to laptops, particularly gaming laptops. I was bereft when Dell put the original Alienware 18 out to pasture and spent a number of years requesting its return. … | Continue reading
Warner Bros. has its own streaming service, sure, but Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series will be driving its psychedelic Mystery Machine straight to Netflix. It’ll be produced by Greg Berlanti, whose other Netflix projects include a pair of other spooky shows: Chilling Adventures … | Continue reading
Universal Studios Hollywood and the Universal Orlando Resort are bringing more blockbuster movie action to your summer vacations before next year’s Epic Universe opening. Things kicked off at Universal Studios Hollywood with the Studio Tour’s 60th anniversary and Ryan Gosling mak … | Continue reading
NBCUniversal’s Peacock will raise its prices by $2 this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. The price change is slated to go into effect on July 18 for new customers, just a week before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. If you’re just look … | Continue reading
Since time immemorial, the machine of movie merchandising has revealed plot details—or at the very least got people to wildly and often incorrectly speculate about them—well before a movie’s release. So it’s perhaps fitting then, that the most we’ve seen of Captain America: Brave … | Continue reading
Remember when we called Razer’s Zephyr face mask one of the most disappointing gadgets of 2021? It’s even more disappointing when you realize that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges the company never even submitted the face mask for testing three years later. The FTC want … | Continue reading
Knuckles hits Paramount+ with a limited series that picks up on the red echidna’s journey to making Earth home. The third Sonic franchise film may be delayed to next year, but in the meantime you can catch up with Knuckles (Idris Elba) on his own side quest with Wade Whipple (Ada … | Continue reading
A drone that paints over graffiti has been launched in Washington state under a new pilot program, according to a press release from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). And if the new spray drones succeed, one could easily imagine other municipalities acros … | Continue reading
We already knew Fallout was a hit; the Prime Video series based on the popular video games has already been renewed for a second season. But now we know just how much of a hit it is, raking in 65 million viewers globally during its first 16 days. Read more... | Continue reading
Tyrannosaurus rex was just about as smart as modern crocodiles and other reptiles, according to a team of researchers that investigated recent claims that the Cretaceous predators may have been as smart as monkeys. Read more... | Continue reading
The Financial Times announced a deal with OpenAI on Monday to license its world-class journalism for training and informing ChatGPT’s models. It joins Axel Springer and the Associated Press who struck similar deals, where OpenAI reportedly offers millions for the right to use con … | Continue reading
Jared Leto may be the main star of the upcoming Tron: Ares, but we now know the face of the franchise will also join him. In a new podcast, Jeff Bridges revealed that he’s returning to the third film in a franchise that he headlined both in 1982's original and 2010's sequel. Read … | Continue reading
If Conan the Barbarian was a desktop gaming PC enthusiast, and you asked him what is best in life, his answer would probably be the standard “crush those framerates… see the pixels driven before you… hear the lamentations of your CPU fan,” or something of that nature. He’d want t … | Continue reading
In all good X-Men stories, out of the fires of chaos something new and exciting is reborn in phoenix-flame. There’s perhaps no better example of that right now than the consolidation of the Fox X-Men movie era into mutantkind’s renaissance on the small screen for X-Men ‘97—and th … | Continue reading
OpenAI is under scrutiny in the European Union again — this time over ChatGPT’s hallucinations about people. Read more... | Continue reading
Despite dedicating years of innovation and research toward convincing consumers to buy electric vehicles, automakers are still grappling with a lack of charging infrastructure across the United States. But California — a leader in EVs — says that isn’t too much of a problem for i … | Continue reading
Director Matt Reeves was not messing around when he made Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He wipes out most of the human race before the title card, then unfurls a powerful story of two opposing societies destined for war despite having every possible opportunity at peace. It’s bl … | Continue reading
The Webb Space Telescope has given us another cosmic treat. The young observatory captured a closer look of the ethereal clouds of dust and gas that form a nearby nebula, illuminated by a companion star in the constellation Orion. Read more... | Continue reading
Even as Marvel Studios finds success on the small screen right now with X-Men ‘97 lighting fans up every week on Disney+, it’s not undiplomatic to say at this point that its star has faded a touch when it comes to its big screen tentpole releases. Is it the output itself, lacking … | Continue reading
At first glance, Marc Andreessen would appear to have all sorts of contradictory beliefs. From a distance, the venture capitalist spouts your standard brand of right-wing libertarianism, but he’s also somehow a huge fan of the Pentagon. He’s a big fan of “America” but doesn’t see … | Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine that some of the most sumptuous animated movies ever made have yet to be converted and released in the format, and yet, none of Studio Ghibli’s exquisite back catalogue has made its way to 4K UHD quite yet, even as the films enjoy regular re-releases in theat … | Continue reading
Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, muddy passages, icy waterfalls. Bats and spiders. Abseiling over ledges into the unknown. How far would you go for a fossil? On a two-year retrieval mission of nearly 60 hours in an underground cave, we met our limits—and went beyond. Read … | Continue reading
Disney has released the first trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King, Barry Jenkins’ continuation of the live-action Disney remake universe. It certainly has Mufasa. It certainly has a lot of other animals that exist in this trailer just for you to go “look, animals! Lion King!” It al … | Continue reading
Rabbit R1, the bright orange AI gadget that became the talk of the town during CES 2024, was launched and demoed at a private event in New York last week. The “pick-up party” as the company called it was exclusively for the first few hundred buyers and now we’re seeing some early … | Continue reading