Israel has been using an artificial intelligence system called Lavender to create a “kill list” of at least 37,000 people in Gaza, according to a new report from Israel’s +972 magazine, confirmed by the Guardian. Lavender is the second AI system revealed after the existence of Is … | Continue reading
Not content with having depressed wages in the transportation industry, Uber is teaming up with Waymo to eliminate food delivery drivers entirely. The two companies are ramping up a collaboration begun last year that involves driverless delivery, CNBC reported Wednesday. Read mor … | Continue reading
You’ve got to watch this trailer for Neon’s new horror film, Cuckoo. First of all, that’s a great title. Second of all, it’s just very difficult to lock down in any discernible way. Is it a supernatural film? Is it a cult film? Is it an isolation film like The Shining? What the h … | Continue reading
Meta platforms Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are experiencing a global outage with thousands of reports of the app not working properly since roughly 2 p.m. ET Wednesday.WhatsApp appears to have gone down first, with Instagram and Facebook following suit about 30 minutes late … | Continue reading
X-Men as a franchise can be defined by one idea: adapt or die. Indeed, the X-Men wouldn’t exist beyond their ‘60s heyday if they hadn’t evolved or changed, from the renaissance of the Chris Claremont run, to their adaption to the times in the ‘90s, to New X-Men and beyond, all th … | Continue reading
The atmosphere at Disney’s corporate offices must feel slightly lighter these days, between Disney World’s recent detente with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and news today that shareholders have voted against billionaire “activist investor” Nelson Peltz’s attempt to snag two seats o … | Continue reading
New research points to a clear origin for humanity’s love of farm-raised chicken eggs. Archaeologists say they’ve found evidence showing that humans in Central Asia began to raise the forebears of modern chickens for their eggs as early as 400 BCE. The reliable supply of eggs als … | Continue reading
The problem with Netflix shows is that there are just so many, even good ones can fall through the cracks. It’s simply impossible to keep track of or watch everything. You just have to find the ones that speak to you. So, if you’re into sci-fi oddities, tall skinny young men, My … | Continue reading
Using the multitasking feature on iPad is ridiculously helpful for boosting productivity or for people (me) who can’t focus on one task at a time. I’ve used it to take notes while studying, color while watching Netflix, or take down my favorite one-pot recipes. Read more... | Continue reading
For the past six years, the Parker Solar Probe has been traveling through the inner solar system to become the first spacecraft to “touch” the Sun. With each close approach to the star, the probe gathers more clues as to what triggers the Sun’s mysterious outbursts. Read more... | Continue reading
Let’s face it: you have owned a big, hulking, expensive piece of tech for long enough that you start to assume you already know everything about it. If you’re one of those lucky few who managed to pick up a PlayStation 5 several years ago, you probably think you’ve mastered the c … | Continue reading
Turns out that 2021's The Matrix Resurrections wasn’t the end of the Matrix saga after all: a fifth film in the highly successful sci-fi series is now in the works at Warner Bros. Franchise co-creator Lana Wachowski, who helmed Resurrections, is on board to executive produce, but … | Continue reading
Of all the public domain woodland and fairy-tale creatures that are part of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey’s ever-expanding Twisted Childhood Universe, Bambi is probably the one with the most legitimate gripe against humanity. Knowing this, Bambi: The Reckoning’s first trailer … | Continue reading
A collection of stars 30,000 light-years away is the faintest and lowest-mass Milky Way satellite ever found, according to the group of scientists who recently observed it. Oh, and it may be dominated by dark matter, the unknown stuff that makes up about 27% of the universe. Read … | Continue reading
It’s one of the most infamous stories in DC’s long history: the handful of public phone-in votes that decided that the Joker should take a crowbar to Jason Todd’s face and leave him a bloodied, dead pulp. It’s comics of course, so Jason eventually got better(?), but fans and the … | Continue reading
A little over a week ago, Trump Media Technology Group, which owns Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, became a publicly traded company. Around the same time, Trump Media launched a lawsuit against the co-founders of the platform, claiming that they had hurt the c … | Continue reading
The Department of Homeland Security issued a damning review of Microsoft’s cybersecurity practices on Tuesday, blaming the cloud provider for exposing the emails of high-ranking government officials. The review found Chinese-state affiliated hackers capitalized on “a cascade of s … | Continue reading
When the first trailer for the original Sonic movie came out, it’s hard to imagine that we’d be here five years later looking at a franchise preparing for its third film, a spinoff show with Idris Elba as an Echidna, and a sea of potential in its wake. Mostly because people watch … | Continue reading
Spotify is once again raising prices. This time around, the subscription bump is to pay for something that subscribers might not want in the first place. Read more... | Continue reading
In less than a week, the Moon will come between us and the Sun, creating a remarkable view of our host star. The total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the U.S., and Canada, with millions of people along the path of totality. But if you happen to not b … | Continue reading
Russell Crowe discusses the future of The Pope’s Exorcist. The Minecraft movie set pictures reveal its take on the blocky aesthetic. Joker: Folie a Deux teases a deadly dance. Plus, what’s coming on Ghosts, and a look at Star Trek: Discovery’s return. Spoilers get! Read more... | Continue reading
Nine years and 3.2 billion pixels later, it is complete: the LSST Camera stands as the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and will serve as the centerpiece of the Vera Rubin Observatory, poised to begin its exploration of the southern skies. Read more... | Continue reading
Amazon’s grocery stores ditched their “Just Walk Out” technology on Tuesday, though it turned out the automated checkout system included 1,000 reviewers in India. However, this is hardly the only example of times when automation breakthroughs were nothing more than human workers … | Continue reading
Want to capture that fleeting content flying past your screen? There’s a few simple commands you can use to screenshot on Windows PCs or desktops. On Windows 11 and Windows 10, it’s all about the Snipping Tool, though the latest version of Microsoft’s OS offers some easy shortcut … | Continue reading
Alex Garland’s Civil War isn’t shy about its premise. It’s right there in the title. It’s about a United States of America that’s no longer united, with various sections engaged in a civil war. But while many would assume it’s some kind of easy-to-understand red state, blue state … | Continue reading
Nineteen years ago today, alien denizens of the universe gathered in the Doctor Who revival’s sophomore episode, “The End of the World,” to bid farewell to the planet Earth by mourning her with song: the traditional ballad “Toxic” by Britney Spears, played on vinyl. It took nearl … | Continue reading
It’s been a nice 69 years for Disneyland’s car attraction Autopia, but it’s finally getting an upgrade worthy of its neighbors. Situated in the futuristic area called Tomorrowland, nestled next to Space Mountain and Star Tours, the ride has used gas-powered cars since its debut i … | Continue reading
California Forever, the tech billionaire-backed effort to create a new city on hundreds of acres in the Bay Area, has faced a number of challenges, including a legal dispute between the project’s backers and a number of families who are longtime residents of the area where develo … | Continue reading
Bird flu is once again setting many of us on edge. Early this week, health officials announced a human case of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Texas, one that may have been caught from infected cows in the area. These recent cases in livestock and now humans are a real … | Continue reading
NASA and its international partners have big plans when it comes to the Moon—plans that will require the careful synching of Earth-based clocks with those on the Moon. The White House wants NASA to develop a solution to support the Artemis program, but to also maintain the United … | Continue reading
X-Men ‘97 has so far been a nostalgia feast for fans of the much-loved X-Men: The Animated Series, capturing its 1990s vibes while carrying the stories of its characters into their next chapters (sometimes at dizzying speeds). This week brings episode four, “Motendo / Lifedeath - … | Continue reading
A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data. Read more.. … | Continue reading
This week, Star Trek: Discovery boldly goes for one final adventure. After years of waiting—and knowing that this fifth season would be its last—the Trek show that launched the franchise’s current renaissance will begin its victory lap. But before that, it has been a while since … | Continue reading
It’s finally time to say goodbye to your trusty Samsung smartphone. But before you do, don’t forget to remove all that data. You’ll need to factory reset the device to restore it to its “first-day” state. While this won’t buff out the scratches and scuff marks the phone’s outer s … | Continue reading
A hunk of rock found on the South African coast may be the oldest human artwork representing another animal, according to a team of researchers that examined the stone. Read more... | Continue reading
Get ready for the two keyboard shortcuts you’ll get the most mileage on with MacBooks. Have you ever heard of Ctrl C + Ctrl V? Well, get ready for (drumroll) Command C + Command V. Yup, that’s it. To copy text or an image, hold the Cmd key and hit C. To paste, hold Cmd and hit V. … | Continue reading
One of 3 Body Problem’s earliest mysteries comes wrapped in a sleek, shiny package: the seemingly not-of-this-world VR helmets that Jin (Jess Hong) and Jack (John Bradley) are given—and that transport them into an eerily lifelike environment they assume at first is a next-level i … | Continue reading
An April Fool’s Day video posted to YouTube by the chat platform Discord wracked up well over a billion page views in less than a single day. The video is only 17 seconds long and jokingly advertises “Loot boxes”—the frequently recurring video game trope—as coming to the chat and … | Continue reading
The UK has embarked on a first-of-its-kind initiative that will make the lives of many diabetics much easier. The country is set to provide artificial pancreas devices to tens of thousands of people living with type 1 diabetes. The recently approved devices should eliminate the n … | Continue reading
The Apple Vision Pro’s Spatial Personas, avatars designed to replicate a user’s facial expressions and hand gestures, have been set loose. The avatars can now roam freely in your virtual space, allowing them to look at, point to, and interact with, various apps over SharePlay. It … | Continue reading
Three years ago, NASA tossed a massive pallet of old batteries from the International Space Station (ISS), hoping that it would burn up through Earth’s atmosphere. A few weeks ago, the space station’s trash finally did reenter through the atmosphere, but a piece of it may have su … | Continue reading
Just when the internet had started to calm down over catching Bill Skarsgård’s Eric Draven interpretation in The Crow reboot, here comes a new red band trailer for Skarsgård’s other upcoming splashy revenge thriller: Boy Kills World. Read more... | Continue reading
Star Wars is fascinated with the downfall of the Jedi Order right now. The High Republic transmedia effort has seen the Jedi’s apex challenged; the 25th anniversary of the prequel era’s beginnings in The Phantom Menace is on the way; and soon The Acolyte will show the rise of dar … | Continue reading
If you already hated the Dell XPS 14 from the first glimpse of it back at CES this year, then there’s nothing I or anybody can say that would probably change your mind. You can judge by its cover all you want; the sleek and spartan 2024 XPS, whether 13, 14, or 16 inches, is a dif … | Continue reading
Disney+ and Hulu are now a single destination, after a beta period designed in part to let parents fiddle with the settings ahead of Disney+’s impending influx of edgier titles. But the gates are open now, kiddos—so here are 10 wonderfully weird movies (and one TV series) you can … | Continue reading
Amazon is reportedly phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, according to The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track … | Continue reading
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From its heart rate monitors to its car crash detection, the Apple Watch has a multitude of features that have helped save lives. Now, Apple wants to add another feature to the smartwatch that can warn you about going to the deep end of the pool. Read more... | Continue reading