Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed in March after it was struck by an enormous container ship that lost power while exiting the city’s port. The collision left the stricken Dali container ship stuck under the remnants of the bridge and made entry and exit of the Port … | Continue reading
As Peacock preps for this summer’s Olympics (and a price increase), the streamer’s genre movie library remains as robust (and as weird) as ever. Here are 10 fantasy and horror movies to check out, including a pair of Jim Henson favorites and some very recent titles that you might … | Continue reading
The Transportation and Security Administration plans to vastly expand its use of facial recognition technology in the U.S., going from 25 airports with the tech to over 430 by this July. And a group of 14 senators from both parties are not happy, arguing in a new letter that, “th … | Continue reading
Microsoft shared its responsible artificial intelligence practices from the past year in an inaugural report, including releasing 30 responsible AI tools that have over 100 features to support AI developed by its customers. Read more... | Continue reading
‘Twas the afternoon before Star Wars Day, and all through the internet, Hasbro was stirring our wallets with yet another big stream of reveals from the galaxy far, far away. Appropriately, given that 2024's Star Wars Day coincides with the 25th anniversary of The Phantom Menace, … | Continue reading
Physical media is very popular these days. Nostalgia, fandom, and streaming burnout have caused certain segments of American society to switch off their Amazon Prime accounts and fire up their Blu-ray players. One of the many advertised benefits of physical media is that it offer … | Continue reading
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ended in 2021, and Captain America: Brave New World isn’t arriving until 2025. But Marvel doesn’t want you to forget about one of its signature heroes, now played by Anthony Mackie, amid all the Deadpool & Wolverine hype, teasing Sam Wilson’s new … | Continue reading
Every celebrity has various trolls who say mean things about them online, a fact of life for most famous people in the modern era. But Tiffany Haddish isn’t just a passive observer when people insult her on social media networks. Haddish says she’s tracked down people trolling he … | Continue reading
A Chinese probe is on its way to the far side of the Moon to collect samples and drop them off at Earth in what would be a historic first. The Chang’e-6 mission launched from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 5:30 a.m. ET on Friday. The lunar probe was riding on board China … | Continue reading
Tomorrow is May the Fourth, but you have a few more weeks to save up ahead of Heritage Auctions’ next Star Wars-themed sale, which happens May 31. The superstar of this one is Kenner’s famously rare Boba Fett figure with “rocket-firing” action, which was never released after bein … | Continue reading
Climbing gyms might be teeming with toxic rubber particles, recent research suggests. The study found high levels of rubber additives in the air and dust of two climbing gyms, likely coming from the soles of specialized climbing shoes worn by gym goers. The authors say that custo … | Continue reading
Universal Studios Hollywood is gearing up to get its first-ever high speed outdoor roller coaster with Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift in 2026—based, of course, on the Fast & Furious franchise. The release sent out by Universal Parks shared the coaster will “elevate the guest exp … | Continue reading
Medieval residents of Winchester, England, probably got their leprosy from red squirrels in the area, according to a team of archaeologists and geneticists that studied remains from two archaeological sites in the city. Read more... | Continue reading
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu defended the Rabbit R1 for the last week, telling Gizmodo and other outlets that it’s “not an Android app.” Now, he may have to defend the next fatal claim for an AI device: that it’s not just a ChatGPT wrapper. The push-to-talk feature on Rabbit R1s experien … | Continue reading
Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine has defined the Fox era of X-Men movies. His storied tenure from the 2000 film all the way up to Logan gave us perhaps one of the most definitive live-action superhero performances of our lifetime. That makes the temptation of his return in Deadpool & Wol … | Continue reading
Good news, everyone. Apple made money, or more specifically it made most of its cash this quarter with services like its Apple Savings Account. Its hardware, on the other hand, has been a fair bit more diluted, leading to an overall 4% decline year-over-year. Worst of the bunch w … | Continue reading
Furiosa contains a teeny tiny Mad Max cameo. Louis Letterier is heading to sci-fi for his next project. New Boys posters herald a political dust up. Plus, even more casting for Zach Cregger’s Weapons. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading
The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 16 comes close to having practically everything you could want or need in a gaming laptop, almost to the point of excess. There may not be many folks out there who demand numpad controls on a mobile device. Why? Because why not? The only thing it’s missin … | Continue reading
Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech magazines and came up with ideas that were often way ahead of their time. Or, in the c … | Continue reading
A Bluey episode originally released in 2020 everywhere except the United States finally gets the green light to be seen—with a catch: it’s only online (for now). Read more... | Continue reading
Time to celebrate the moms in your life—who we should really be celebrating every day—with the latest fashion and accessory releases from major geeky retailers in stores and online. BoxLunch, the Disney Store, the Gap, Hot Topic, and more have incredible fandom picks across genre … | Continue reading
A long-standing tradition for most Planet of the Apes sequels is a long title with a unique, fitting first word. So far there’s been Beneath, Escape, Conquest, Battle, Rise, Dawn, and War. That tradition continues with next week’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes which, accordin … | Continue reading
There’s been a lot of talk about the Tesla Cybertruck having a deep desire to chomp people’s fingers off with its power frunk latch, but no one has been brave enough to stick their fingie in there and find out what happens… until now. So far, we’ve only seen various vegetables an … | Continue reading
Over the years, the Star Wars saga has been taken under the knife and chopped and edited—for better or worse—many times, even beyond the Special Editions of the ‘90s. And yet one of the weirdest tweaks is still one of the most recent: the bizarre rally cry of “maclunkey!” when Gr … | Continue reading
Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the Microsoft-owned platform Github. Over 8,000 repositories were removed as the Zelda publi … | Continue reading
Prime Video’s Outer Range—one of the weirdest sci-fi series in recent memory, and among the weirdest sci-fi neo-Western series ever—is returning for a second season, which feels like a streaming miracle. You can likely thank the star power of Josh Brolin, who anchors the show’s o … | Continue reading
Just a few weeks after Discovery showed how much confidence it had in taking a Star Trek trope it knew it was good at and damn near perfecting it, this week we get the series diving into another—and not really finding much interest in why it even took it on in the first place. Re … | Continue reading
Humans aren’t the only primates with a medicine cabinet, it seems. In a new paper published today, scientists document a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. While there have been other recent accounts of animals … | Continue reading
The Sonic the Hedgehog Cinematic Universe is knocking out the competition on Paramount+ as limited series Knuckles sets a streaming record for the platform. Read more... | Continue reading
Another whistleblower who raised safety concerns about production practices related to Boeing has died. Joshua Dean, who previously worked as a quality auditor at the plane manufacturer’s supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, died Tuesday as the result of a “sudden, fast-spreading infect … | Continue reading
As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon as part of the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, the space agency still needs to resolve a few lingering issues with its Orion capsule that could jeopardize the safety of the crew on board, according to a new report. Read more... | Continue reading
Last week Hot Toys surprised Star Wars fans with a two-for-one reveal that the toymaker would start to dip into the world of Star Wars “Legends”—the contemporary name for the galaxy far, far away’s former canon in the Expanded Universe. Now, it’s somehow topping that surprise eve … | Continue reading
It’s been over a decade since the final Twilight movie, so the timing feels just right for Kristen Stewart to enter her second vampire era with Flesh of the Gods. Things are going to be quite a bit different this time around though, with Oscar Isaac as her co-star and Mandy direc … | Continue reading
Bird flu continues to be a real public health threat, but apparently not to our food supply at least. The Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture separately announced late Wednesday that their tests of pasteurized milk and ground beef failed to find any li … | Continue reading
A team of researchers used a flattened skull of a female Neanderthal who lived some 75,000 years ago to reconstruct the woman’s likeness, providing an uncannily vision of her appearance in life. Read more... | Continue reading
Two years ago, Star Wars stepped into a new animated format with Tales of the Jedi, examining the stories of two characters ostracized by the titular order in Dooku and Ahsoka Tano. Now, in celebration of Star Wars Day this weekend, it’s trying again—this time with a touch of the … | Continue reading
Starlink satellite internet terminals are reportedly still operating in unlicensed places, despite the company’s warning last month that the service would be shut down by May 1 in those areas. Read more... | Continue reading
Ashley Madison, the dating website devoted to cheating on your partner, was hacked in 2015, exposing the private data of 37 million users in more than 40 countries. And a new documentary series from Netflix explores the fallout from that historic data breach. Read more... | Continue reading
Chubb, the insurer of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, is reportedly preparing to make a $350 million payout to Maryland a little more than a month after it collapsed. Read more... | Continue reading
Elon Musk said he wanted to be “absolutely hardcore” about reducing Tesla’s headcount earlier this week, and it looks like he’s entered full “demon mode,” as his biographer calls it. Now, an unlikely cohort is feeling his wrath: Tesla’s summer interns. College students shared how … | Continue reading
The recent total solar eclipse on April 8 provided a rare glimpse of the Sun’s roiling corona, including some eye-grabbing prominences. Those views were neat, but a new video captured by Europe’s Sun-buzzing probe is providing some of the best close-up views of our host star that … | Continue reading
Oppenheimer may have been named the Best Picture of 2023, but io9 reserves that honor for its spiritual sequel. We’re talking about Godzilla Minus One, the creature feature from the legends at Toho, which follows a monster born from the technology Oppenheimer helped create. io9 s … | Continue reading
The sixth and final season of Cobra Kai is coming this July. And this November. And next year. Netflix just revealed a first look at the popular show’s sixth season and with it, news that it’ll feature 15 episodes spread over three unique release dates. Part one will arrive on Ju … | Continue reading
If you were born early enough to come into semi-adulthood in 1999, you used to have a Nokia 3210. OK, maybe you didn’t, but your friend or a family member had one, or they had a slightly later model. Maybe you forgot about it completely because, for hell’s sake, it’s been 25 year … | Continue reading
The reviews for Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin are here, and they’re bad. These AI-enabled devices promised to reduce our dependency on smartphones, but now everyone is wondering why they’re not apps to begin with. I have no idea if we’ll be using Rabbits and AI Pins five years from … | Continue reading
Terrifier 3 will terrify you a little earlier than planned. Warner Bros Animation lifts the lid on Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 3. Barriss Offee returns in a new clip from Tales of the Empire. Plus, a new look at Furiosa. Spoilers get! Read more... | Continue reading
Good news: A legislative push to save AM radio is almost certain to succeed, which means that America’s weirdest auditory wavelength will continue to survive for the foreseeable future. Read more... | Continue reading
Things are about to get powered up: today, Universal Orlando Resort revealed more details about theSuper Nintendo World coming to its new Epic Universe theme park, hot on the heels of revealing more about one of the other portals,How to Train Your Dragon’s Isle of Berk. And yes, … | Continue reading