After landing back to Earth from Virgin Galactic’s latest suborbital flight, planetary scientist Alan Stern and science communicator Kellie Gerardi received a ton of text messages from other researchers asking, “How do I get to do that?”Read more... | Continue reading
You probably know Jupiter, the rotund fifth planet from the Sun, as orange and tan with a big red splotch. But the Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged the gas giant in ultraviolet light, giving the world a very different look.Read more... | Continue reading
Inspired by the impact of chance in everyday life, BalletCollective, an experimental dance group in New York City, collaborated with Sam Leigh (Anamnesis), an award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designer, to create a totally new and unique expression of the medium: a ballet i … | Continue reading
Godzilla isn’t just a monster movie icon, the king of all kaiju: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades he’s been stomping around the box office, Godzilla’s gone through more appearances than most cinematic legends ever could. From his earliest days to his smashup … | Continue reading
Unlike a lot of other upcoming movies, Deadpool 3 is still on track to open as scheduled, in May of 2024. In a new interview, director Shawn Levy explains that much of the Ryan Reynolds-Hugh Jackman Marvel movie was already filmed when the SAG-AFTRA strike shut down production. H … | Continue reading
You have an opportunity. If you turn back now, you can live out the rest of your days without absorbing the cosmic horror that is the music video for “Now and Then,” or as Paul McCartney’s marketing team puts it, “the last Beatles song.”Read more... | Continue reading
Loki (Tom Hiddleston) travels through dying timelines to find his team—but has to decipher what’s really reality, as everything is crumbling—in Loki episode five, “Science/Fiction,” now streaming on Disney+.Read more... | Continue reading
Netflix has plenty of titles sorted into its horror, sci-fi, and indie categories. But its skimpy “cult” section contains a hodgepodge of genres that feels decidedly random. We’ve picked out five that Netflix thinks are cult movies—followed by five more, found elsewhere on the st … | Continue reading
There's a growing dispute in the tech world about the direction AI regulations should take. Plus: a closer look at the Biden AI executive order. | Continue reading
Max customers who currently pay $15.99 a month for the “legacy ad-free” plan might have noticed an email this week with an ominous subject line: “Upcoming changes to your Max subscription plan.” For once, the missive wasn’t about an outright price increase—but subscribers will ha … | Continue reading
In a surprise move, Marvel has just lifted the lid on its mysterious crime thriller series Echo, spinning out of the events of Hawkeye—but honestly, most of the surprises aren’t about the story of the show itself.Read more... | Continue reading
Of all the moves made with Doctor Who in recent years, few proved as divisive as “The Timeless Children”—the season 12 finale that saw Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor face the Master on their homeworld, and discover the truth behind the Time Lords’ origins. But as much as new eras … | Continue reading
New research may change the narrative over how mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has become a human problem. Researchers found evidence that strains of the virus have been circulating between humans since at least 2016, years before it caused a surprise global epidemic in 2022. … | Continue reading
As NASA’s Lucy spacecraft zoomed past its first asteroid on Wednesday, its mission scientists made a surprising discovery of a bonus space rock.Read more... | Continue reading
69 years ago today, the movie industry was changed forever as Godzilla stomped its way into Japanese theaters, revolutionizing the monster movie as we would come to know it for generations. Now, he’s doing much the same as Japanese theatergoers head to see Godzilla Minus One—and … | Continue reading
Neopets is still kicking around 24 years after its first release, and now it’s planning its big comeback, of sorts. World of Neopia CEO Dominic Law, who now leads the company that bought Neopets for $4 million back in July, emphasized that the team is done with those obtuse effor … | Continue reading
Succession star Brian Cox has joined the parade of actors fighting against artificial intelligence, calling it a “human rights issue.” Cox, who’s known for playing Logan Roy in the series, equated using AI to replicate an actor’s likeness as “identity theft” in an interview with … | Continue reading
Stephen King hypes up the new Salem’s Lot adaptation. Natalie Holt teases what to expect in Loki’s season two finale. Plus, what’s coming on Quantum Leap, and another snifter of new Godzilla Minus One footage. To me, my spoilers!Read more... | Continue reading
On Friday, Google and real estate group Lendlease called off plans to build 15,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, as housing developers continue to exit the troubled region. Read more... | Continue reading
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If you’ve invested in a shiny new iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max, then it comes with a change to previous iPhones: The long-serving mute switch (officially known as the Ring/Silent switch) has been replaced by the more dynamic-sounding Action button. You can customize this bu … | Continue reading
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Sam Bankman-Fried is guilty on all seven federal charges in his criminal trial for defrauding customers of his crypto exchange out of billions of dollars with his crypto empire, jurors decided on Thursday night in a Southern District of New York court, according to CoinDesk. Juro … | Continue reading
Much-loved DC Comics characters Superman and Lois aren’t going anywhere—you might have heard about that James Gunn movie in the works—but their iteration on the CW is coming to an end. The fourth season of Superman & Lois, due to arrive next year, will be its final.Read more... | Continue reading
David Tennant’s Doctor is very big on hands. Well, most biped humanoids, Time Lords included, are quite keen on having all their limbs. But remember the sword fight in “Christmas Invasion”? Remember the fighting hand? Remember how he grew a whole other version of himself out of t … | Continue reading
Amazon will close its two physical clothing stores by next week, less than two years after it opened its first location in May 2022. The closures appear to reflect a shift in focus toward its grocery stores and add to Amazon’s 68 other brick-and-mortar store closures last year.Re … | Continue reading
Republican lawmakers pounding the well-worn TikTok ban drum are using flaming hot tensions over the conflict in Israel to try, once again, to knock the app offline. The new line of attacks, based on shoddy data analyses, claims TikTok is boosting anti-Israel content in order to b … | Continue reading
Roccat recently released two gorgeous mechanical gaming keyboards as part of its Vulcan series: the Vulcan II and Vulcan II Mini Air. Both models showcase vibrant RGB lighting and robust construction, with the former being a wired variant and the latter presenting a TKL (tenkeyle … | Continue reading
NASA issued an apology for a slightly shady post on X that questioned people’s ability to visit Jupiter.Read more... | Continue reading
Doctor Who is set to celebrate its big 60th birthday in a few weeks—but it wouldn’t be a party without a few friends, nor a few enemies: because the Daleks are showing up to menace the proceedings in glorious color!Read more... | Continue reading
In the latest twist in the satellite industry, Boeing has decided to forfeit its license for a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, a project that would’ve competed with SpaceX’s Starlink network.Read more... | Continue reading
Apple Music subscribers can no longer sign up for the Voice Plan and existing subscribers’ auto-renew will turn off at the end of the billing period, Apple said in a blog post on Wednesday. Subscribers paid just $4.99 for Apple Music’s Voice Plan which launched in 2021 and allowe … | Continue reading
Disneyland’s Indiana Jones Adventure ride gets its moment in the spotlight as part of documentary series Behind the Attraction season two, now streaming on Disney+.Read more... | Continue reading
Amazon faces allegations from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of wielding price-gouging algorithms through an operation called “Project Nessie” according to court documents filed Thursday. The FTC says the algorithm has generated more than $1 billion in excess profit for … | Continue reading
Our global carbon budget to avoid permanently reaching 1.5 degrees of warming is smaller than we previously thought, new research says. A study published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change found that the planet can only emit another 250 gigatons of carbon dioxide for … | Continue reading
Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures—a free ad-supported (FAST) channel devoted to the ever-popular roleplaying game—launches soon, and Hasbro Entertainment has released new clips showcasing the three original series (including a cooking show!) arriving the week of November 13.Read mor … | Continue reading
After a third season that felt like spinning its wheels, so far season four of Star Trek: Lower Decks has made a great effort on pushing all of its characters to grow and change, and to better reflect the arcs we’ve seen them go on. In its season finale, the show sends that journ … | Continue reading
Crunchyroll’s latest absurd mega-collection anime box set is bringing together all of Code Geass into one place... and then throwing in an entire chess set, among other things, for good measure.Read more... | Continue reading
YouTube announced a new effort to curb its own recommendation algorithms to protect teenagers from the rabbit hole of videos that could inspire eating disorders, body image problems, violence, and other problems. The new initiative comes amidst a growing threat of legislation to … | Continue reading
Dream Chaser, built by Sierra Space, is being prepped for transport to a NASA facility in Ohio, where it will undergo a series of tests to make sure the spaceplane can survive its heated reentry through Earth’s atmosphere. Starting these tests is crucial, demonstrating Dream Chas … | Continue reading
Casey Bloys, who gets very upset when people don’t like his shows, announced that the second season of House of the Dragon—the prequel series to George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones—will premier in “early summer’ of 2024, according to Variety. This news comes by way of a press ev … | Continue reading
Northwestern University scientists may have figured out why pulling an all-nighter can leave us feeling loopy and downright giddy for days after. In a new study out this week, the researchers found that acute sleep deprivation in mice can trigger a rapid release of dopamine withi … | Continue reading
Music icon John Lennon was assassinated 43 years ago, but his voice is still kicking around. Using the latest AI technology, surviving members of The Beatles, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, have the ability to recreate Lennon’s voice in the most notorious track of his unreleased … | Continue reading
We all know how the story goes: a large asteroid falls to Earth from space, slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula with 100 million megatons of force. The impact spawned tsunami waves best measured in miles and kicked up dust, soot, and sulfur that blotted out the Sun, causing the d … | Continue reading
Communities throughout the East Coast woke up to a cold blast of air, as temperatures dropped below freezing overnight. Even people in the overheated South needed to break out their warm-weather apparel today.Read more... | Continue reading
If you’re going to put Invincible’s Viltrumite turncoat Omni-Man into a fighting game as infamous for its over-the-top gore like Mortal Kombat, then there’s only really one way this could’ve gone. Read more... | Continue reading
OpenAI updated ChatGPT to include PDF services over the weekend, according to user reports. Several AI startups built themselves around PDF analysis to be used as an add-on to ChatGPT, but OpenAI’s latest update may have just rendered these startups useless.Read more... | Continue reading
In a not-so-spooky Halloween event, Apple announced its new MacBook Pro and iMac line with its new M3 chips. The new products will be available early next week, and a few early benchmark tests were done very recently to give an idea of how accurate the company’s claims were regar … | Continue reading