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
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Let’s say you want to listen to high-quality surround sound without a sound bar orheadphones. Or maybe you want to annoy someone trying to enjoy a book on the couch next to you? Perhaps you were looking for one of the most awkward gaming setups involving wired connections to your … | Continue reading
Universal Studios would not be the premiere cinematic experience theme park without the Universal Monsters. Influencing filmmakers from Spielberg to Peele, they are the blueprint of thrills and it’s about damn time that the almost century-old fandom will finally get its due with … | Continue reading
Now it can be told: Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass) will voice Batman in Bruce Timm’s latest animated series, Batman: Caped Crusader, taking over for late Batman: The Animated Series star Kevin Conroy. You can hear a tease of Linklater’s performance in the below video. Read more … | Continue reading
In 1665, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini observed a massive storm raging on Jupiter. It became known as the Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds that’s almost twice as wide as Earth. New research, however, suggests that the red-hued feature spotted by Cassini is not the … | Continue reading
A new home security system that uses AI-driven smart tracking to shoot potential intruders with paintballs might sound like something out of a Home Alone reboot set in the future. But it could be a reality soon if folks on Kickstarter get their way. The big question that’s still … | Continue reading
In two dimensions, it’s the Reuleaux triangle: an equilateral triangle with curved arcs connecting each corner, creating a shape with a constant width but a smaller area than a circle. Now, a team of mathematicians say they’ve scaled up the shape into the third dimension and beyo … | Continue reading
Donald Sutherland, the veteran actor whose career stretched back to the late 1960s and included an array of classics across a wide variety of genres (The Dirty Dozen, MASH, The Day of the Locust, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Ordinary People... … | Continue reading
Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web standard, the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape parts of the web that operators don … | Continue reading
Despite the best efforts of “anti-woke” trolls who are just now realizing The Boys is satire—something series showrunner Eric Kripke has repeatedly expressed astonishment at—the show’s fourth season, its penultimate, has pulled in impressive ratings since its June 13 release. Rea … | Continue reading
Forbes has recently reported on a new Wi-Fi vulnerability for Windows that can let hackers take over your Windows device and infect it with malware by just being on the same Wi-Fi network as you. Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability and advised all users to update their Wind … | Continue reading
There’s definitely a certain song that could be sung about the road Star Trek: Prodigy’s second season will have taken to our eyeballs by the time we get to watch it on July 1. But now we have our first extended look at Prodigy’s sophomore season, I mostly just find myself whistl … | Continue reading
Max has released a second trailer for The Penguin, its upcoming spinoff of Matt Reeves’ The Batman starring Colin Farrell as crime lord Oswald Cobblepott. Take a look! Read more... | Continue reading
Friday is when the Shadow of the Erdtree drops, and it’s already shaping up to be some of the best DLC ever released for a game. In preparation for the big release, Elden Ring received a new update with a variety of changes, but the big one is adding your bestie to the fight with … | Continue reading
We know as much about Apple’s AI, dubbed “Apple Intelligence,” as we’re about to, at least until we get some hands-on time with it (which likely won’t be until next year). Still, you can only experience a better Siri and “semantic” AI if you have an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro … | Continue reading
Last year, Valiant Entertainment teamed up with publisher Alien Books in an attempt to expand its superhero universe to new heights. Now, after a year of cooking on and off the page, this are ready to explode in Resurgence of the Valiant Universe, a new status quo that will lead … | Continue reading
Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Thursday, which the AI startup says outperforms its previous AI models and OpenAI’s recently launched GPT-4 Omni on several metrics. The company also released Artifacts, a new dynamic workspace within Claude where users can edit and build u … | Continue reading
White men can’t jump, but terrestrial leeches can. This is now a scientific fact; after centuries of anecdotal reports, the parasites have been caught on video leaping from leaves in the Madagascan rainforest. Read more... | Continue reading
Kit Harington gets hairy in a trailer for The Beast Within. Get to know A Quiet Place: Day One’s feline star in a new featurette. Resident Alien will return for season 4, but at a new residence. Plus, what’s coming on Orphan Black: Echoes. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading
Lenovo’s latest Android tablet might seem overt for its price point, but it also sounds like something I want to travel with this summer. The Lenovo Tab Plus has eight boomy speakers to blast music and movies everywhere. The speakers are specially tuned to work with Dolby Atmos, … | Continue reading