On August 24 in 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over three cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. According to most modern accounts, the story pretty much … | Continue reading
If the quantity of Rebel Moon we already have wasn’t somehow enough, as he is wont to do, Zack Snyder has found room for more. Today, the director confirmed that both extended editions of his Netflix sci-fi duology will release on the same day this summer, all the better to numb … | Continue reading
I am the person in my friend group responsible for all of our tech needs, and I take my job very seriously. I’ve got a spare power bank, an instant camera, and, most importantly, a Bluetooth speaker with me at all times, no matter the occasion. So you can understand why JBL’s lat … | Continue reading
Saw XI’s co-writer wants the film to have something to say. Peacemaker season 2 adds more to its cast, and confirms the return of a familiar comics face. Plus, The Boys’ Jack Quaid teases the new season’s Herogasm-topping gross out moments. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading
It was just shy of a month ago when Keith Gill, better known as Roaring Kitty, began posting on his Twitter account giving some amateur investors hope that GameStop’s stock would skyrocket in value like it did in 2021. On Friday, Gill had his triumphant return to YouTube with a l … | Continue reading
Fidias Panayiotou, a YouTuber from Cyprus known for weird stunts, has been elected to the European Parliament, according to the Cyprus Mail on Monday. The 24-year-old secured third place in his election with 19.4% of the vote, as reported by the BBC, which means he’ll become one … | Continue reading
At WWDC 2024, Apple unleashed a blitzkrieg of software updates to put AI, or “Apple Intelligence,” front and center in your iPhones, iPads, and Macs. After Samsung and Google pushed AI on phones, it’s now Apple’s turn to try and flip the script to make smartphones, tablets, and l … | Continue reading
The Lord of the Rings can still make that precious, precious money. This past weekend, Fathom Events began a three-day marathon of Peter Jackson’s original trilogy, with screenings of the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Saturday and The L … | Continue reading
Apple and OpenAI’s partnership is only a few hours old, and Elon Musk is already going to war over it. The owner of Tesla, X, SpaceX, and xAI said he would ban Apple devices at his companies if Apple integrated ChatGPT at the operating system level, which the companies are very m … | Continue reading
At the WWDC 2024, held in Apple Park, Cupertino, Apple demoed one of the most impressive updates that AirPods Pro has received in a while: Siri Interactions. This upcoming iOS 18will allow for more seamless integration between AirPods Pro and Siri to let users control calls with … | Continue reading
A complaint that Tesla has misled consumers with the name of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) and Autopilot features, brought by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, will be allowed to go forward, according to a report from Bloomberg Monday. Read more... | Continue reading
Nearly 20 years ago, astronomers observed a massive cloud of fine dust particles around a young star located just 63 light-years away from Earth. In recent observations from the Webb Space Telescope, however, the dust cloud had mysteriously vanished. Now, a new paper suggests the … | Continue reading
As unbelievable as it sounds, the iPad has never had its own Calculator app like the iPhone. That just changed with the iPad OS 18. When the new OS rolls out in the fall, users can finally do some quick math on the iPad and more. This is one of those updates that should have happ … | Continue reading
For years, Apple has tried to make privacy a core part of its brand. The keyword here is “tried,” since multiple investigations (including one from Gizmodo) have shown that the company doesn’t always live up to its lofty privacy promises. As part of its annual Worldwide Developer … | Continue reading
The Doctor’s romantic history has long been a fraught topic for the show to dive into—but in its modern incarnation, the Doctor’s identity as a sexual character, and how that interplays with their gender fluidity, has slowly but surely broken down barriers to allow interpretation … | Continue reading
The Pleistocene Epoch—with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals—still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended a mere 12,000 years ago. Now, a team of researchers posit that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet’s history may have been chilly d … | Continue reading
Apple revealed its partnership with OpenAI during the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, integrating ChatGPT as a core technology in new iPhones, iPads and Macs coming later this year. Apple also officially unveiled Apple Intelligence, the company’s homegrown AI products … | Continue reading
The ability to freely walk around the Star Wars universe is closer than ever. Star Wars Outlaws, the new game from Ubisoft, is the world’s first open-world Star Wars game, and brand new gameplay footage was just released at the company’s event, UbiForward. Read more... | Continue reading
Taylor Swift, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and Shawn Levy walked into a Kansas City Chiefs game last year and the internet exploded. Surely, this was confirmation thatthe pop megastar would be appearing in the trio’s upcoming Marvel movie Deadpool & Wolverine. Surely, it was happ … | Continue reading
Is that... the sound of midnight margaritas? After much speculation and some nearly forgotten rumors of a prequel series, it now seems ever more likely that 1998's Practical Magic, long a Halloween staple, will get a sequel. Hey, if Hocus Pocus can get two sequels, why not this o … | Continue reading
Glen Powell recently shared a shocking story about his sister’s friend who went on a date with a cannibal. The only problem with his story? It sounds like an urban legend that dates back to at least 2001. Read more... | Continue reading
Over two years have passed since fans were treated to one of the most exciting and maddening cliffhangers ever on the Apple TV+ show, Severance. In that time, everyone has been dying to know what’s next for the innies and outies of Lumon Industries. Well, the bad news is, we stil … | Continue reading
This past weekend, I sat down to bring an end to a story I have been following for the best part of the last 10 years of my life: Bungie’s Destiny saga, told across two games, myriad expansions, seasons of living-game content, and many crushing highs and lows, came to what has lo … | Continue reading
Molloy (Eric Bogosian) and Louis (Jacob Anderson) revisited their very first Interview With the Vampire meeting in “Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape,” directed by Craig Zisk and written by Hannah Moscovitch and Jonathan Ceniceroz. And what memories they are. Read more... | Continue reading
When it comes to Tesla, it seems like the only thing people want to talk about lately is the Cybertruck and its flaws. And while we can all have a laugh at that monstrosity on four wheels, the electric vehicle company has a problem with its growing parking lots of unsold Teslas i … | Continue reading
Just as all eyes turn to Netflix and Fortiche to see what’s next for season 2 of the studio’s stunning League of Legends prequel, Arcane, there’s good news for fans of incredible animation and physical media: the first season is heading home, and in ways we’ve never seen it on Ne … | Continue reading
For Xbox, hardware is an afterthought. If you were like us and spent nearly two hours watching the Xbox Showcase, you came away disappointed by whats on offer for 2024. We are getting the same Xbox console hardware first released in 2020, though now with more storage. We could ha … | Continue reading
During the early 1980s, the word tampon became briefly synonymous with terror. Doctors began to document cases of a then little-known condition linked to the feminine care product, called toxic shock syndrome. Thousands of such cases and around a hundred deaths were reported befo … | Continue reading
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference, or WWDC, is all set to be held from June 10 through June 14 at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. If you're not in person, youcan catch up on the Cupertino company’s OS news online. Apple also posts an archive of the keynote on i … | Continue reading
A young female FBI agent with unusually fine-tuned intuition comes aboard an active serial-killer case her superiors have been unable to crack, and proves to be the missing piece that helps move the investigation forward. It could be The Silence of the Lambs—or, if you flipped ev … | Continue reading
If there’s something we could all use to improve our lives, it’s more time in the day to enjoy ourselves, see friends and family, and relax. One of the promises the wave of generative AI bots makes is that they will improve our day-to-day existence. So, does that extend to gettin … | Continue reading
Open your kitchen drawer and take out some tin foil. Twirl it into a cone – maybe even double-wrap it – and put it on your noggin. Do you feel safer yet? The tin foil hat is perhaps the most iconic headgear for conspiracy theorists. Wearing one signals to others that you’re unhin … | Continue reading
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai returns with a new name. Orphan Black: Echoes offers a new taste of what’s to come. Plus, what to expect from the next episode of My Adventures With Superman. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading
Almost exactly a year ago, I posed a card puzzle here that sparked a frenzy in the comments section. The solution to that puzzle was so counterintuitive that several readers rejected it outright. In honor of the approaching anniversary, it’s time to stir up more controversy with … | Continue reading
Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws puts players in the boots of Kay Vess, a young crook trying to make a name for herself in the galaxy’s criminal underworld in the gap between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Doing that means pulling off some small jobs to psyc … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, we got our first real look at Indiana Jones & the Great Circle. The game, coming from Wolfenstein developer MachineGames, puts players in Indy’s hat between Raiders and Last Crusade, and has the adventurer hunting for mysterious sites around the globe that form … | Continue reading
It’s only been about a month since Warner Bros. revealed it was working on a new Lord of the Rings movie. With Andy Serkis in the director’s chair and mocap suit, the studio’s fully set to get the Hunt for Gollum prequel film in theaters by 2026, and that’s naturally got people t … | Continue reading
The first season of X-Men ‘97 may be over, but Disney’s still got some goodies from the show it’s selling to anyone still hit with mutant fever. Composers John Andrew Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart—aka the Newton Brothers—are getting their score for the season in vinyl from merc … | Continue reading
Gearbox’s Borderlands games are known for quite a few things, but the biggest among those is arguably its sense of humor. It was Borderlands 2 where the franchise’s sense of comedy really took shape, and the series has since been littered with humor largely in the vein of crass o … | Continue reading
Later this year, Disney is taking viewers back to the world of Pride Rock with Mufasa, a prequel to its 2019 live-action remake of The Lion King. If you find yourself wanting to watch the original animated version again, good news: that one’s getting a re-release. Read more... | Continue reading
If there’s one thing Tom Cruise knows how to do, it’s be a movie star. Over the years, he’s achieved a mythic stature as the last of a dying breed, from a time when leading actors mattered more than the characters they’d inhabit or the costumes they’d wear. However true that is o … | Continue reading
Hoo-boy, it’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the Legend of Vox Machina, hasn’t it? If you’ve been itching for some more Dungeons & Dragons fun courtesy of Critical Role’s animated adaptation, you’re in luck: the show is coming back starting October 3. Read more... | Continue reading
E3 may be dead, but its spirit lives on in the Summer Game Awards. Geoff Keighley’s annual showcase was light on big blockbusters, by his own admission, but it was made up for with a variety of double-A and indie titles that caught everyone’s attention. Here’s the best of what we … | Continue reading
A rat with at least four testicles, one larger than its head, published in a scientific journal earlier this year. A pterosaur with a third foot sprouting from its wing. A museum posting a psychedelic Godzilla-meets-gecko on social media, while a more life-like illustration of th … | Continue reading
YouTube announced this week it will place new restrictions on the types of gun-related videos that can appear on the video-sharing platform, including a ban on videos that directly promote the sale of firearms and new 18+ restrictions on videos about 3D printing guns. And, as you … | Continue reading
It's almost the end of the developer conference season, and Apple is the last one up to bat. Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference, or WWDC, is expected to be ripe with announcements for iOS, macOS, iPad OS, and the rest of the software that keeps the walled garden fresh—even … | Continue reading
Alan Wake 2 was one of the best games of last year, and now players have a reason to start up the game again. And this time, it has very little to do with Alan Wake himself. Read more... | Continue reading
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