The California DMV suspended GM-owned Cruise driverless taxis from roadways on Tuesday. This comes weeks after a hit-and-run incident in San Francisco. Cruise’s robotaxi suspension is effective immediately, and the DMV says it determined “the manufacturer’s vehicles are not safe … | Continue reading
Crunchyroll very recently announced a linear channel—and now, the self-described “ultimate home for anime worldwide” has announced yet another convenient way to bring its programming to your eyeballs. As of today in the U.S., Crunchyroll is now available as a Prime Video Channel. … | Continue reading
The Hunger Games is coming to a stage near you. Well, near you if you live in London, England. The first book of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young adult series is getting a dramatic stage play adaptation, and is currently scheduled to premiere in fall of 2024.Read more... | Continue reading
A bipartisan coalition of 33 state attorneys general sued Meta for allegedly designing and deploying harmful features on Instagram and Facebook that addicted a generation of young people.Read more... | Continue reading
Microsoft has a few reasons to celebrate as of late thanks to a few record-breaking buyouts to put a huge swathe of the game industry under its thumb. Microsoft’s big man in charge Satya Nadella shared a few of his big plans for the future, especially regarding the company’s plan … | Continue reading
Riley Reid is many things: adult film superstar, social media influencer, meme-lord, and now, buzzy tech founder. As part of her new venture, Clona.ai, Reid is helping develop AI-generated chatbots of living creators that are designed with their explicit content and personal insi … | Continue reading
Urban Outfitters is no stranger to selling ancient tech. The clothing and furniture brand went from pushing vinyl back into the mainstream to selling $350 refurbished iPods on behalf of the tech’s 22nd anniversary. Read more... | Continue reading
From the earliest days of his career as a superhero, Peter Parker has made taking pictures—pictures of Spider-Man—as vital as webslinging and crimefighting. Photojournalism is as important a part of Spider-Man’s legacy as any other aspect, and with the release of Marvel’s Spider- … | Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will look to add child psychologists to its staff to advise its efforts on regulating the internet. Democratic Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said the FTC plans to add a psychologist to its staff by next fall, if not sooner, and said he is embarrass … | Continue reading
It’s an inescapable fact that genre fiction is littered with tropes. Tropes provide something of a backbone to almost any story you will ever read, particularly in science fiction and fantasy. They are the thing we writers use to ground our stories before drenching them in weird … | Continue reading
An encouraging new study has found that the interference from exoplanets—planets that orbit stars outside our solar system—has been overestimated in searches for extraterrestrial signals.Read more... | Continue reading
Ever wondered where the creepy clowns—the most unsettling part of Stephen Cognetti’s Hell House LLC found-footage horror series—came from? Enter Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, the fourth film in the series, which follows an internet sleuth whose cold-case digging u … | Continue reading
Boo! Apple has a not-so-surprising surprise in store for fans on October 30th. The Cupertino company announced Tuesday its set to reveal its second fall event of 2023. Titled “Scary Fast,” the online event is where Apple is expected to reveal new Mac products that could include a … | Continue reading
The popular video game-based film is in theaters and streaming on Peacock October 27. | Continue reading
Apple Maps has flipped the switch on live traffic data in Israel and Gaza at the request of the Israeli Defense Forces, according to The Hill. The move follows Google and Waze who did the same yesterday, eliminating any options in the region to track traffic jams or source crowdi … | Continue reading
Amazon is doing more than just selling you things you don’t need and producing some gruesome TV—now, they want to get into the veterinary business. Read more... | Continue reading
In order to be able to carry heavier payloads through deep space, NASA designed a lightweight rocket engine nozzle made of aluminum that can still withstand the heat of launches.Read more... | Continue reading
Lego is already coming for your 2024 savings—especially if you’re waiting for Dune: Part Two after its delay. Their latest “Icons” set is a 1,369-piece take on the quad-wing Ornithopters from the film, but the real star of the show might be its minifigure collection.Read more... | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) issued a subpoena to Tesla in relation to its Autopilot and FSD (full self-driving) features, the company revealed in an SEC filing on Monday. The subpoena follows the DoJ’s request for documents and additional information about Tesla’s driver … | Continue reading
Binance is once again fighting off regulators, claiming the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) lawsuit is an overreach of U.S. law. The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world says the agency is trying to regulate foreign individuals and corporations operating out … | Continue reading
Now in his second season as Quantum Leap’s fast-thinking time-traveler, Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) has found himself in lots of high-stakes situations; last week’s X-Files-ish episode was a particularly hairy one. This week, however, could be his wildest adventure yet, peeking be … | Continue reading
Global climate extremes are adding up, and scientists are warning with renewed urgency that both natural and human systems are at risk of collapse. In a new report published in the journal BioScience, researchers analyze what they describe as 35 planetary vital signs used to trac … | Continue reading
Amid announcing one of its biggest iPhone releases of the last few years, Apple dedicated a big part of last month’s Wonderlust product announcement to its supposedly sweeping environmental initiatives. The company even included a cringey featurette with actor Octavia Spencer tal … | Continue reading
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 2 is getting a year long delay. Get a few more looks at Godzilla Minus One. Halloween comes to the White House in new Chucky season 3 pictures. Plus, what’s coming on Star Trek: Lower Decks’ penultimate episode of the season. Spoilers get!R … | Continue reading
Android 14 is already available for Pixel phone owners and is rolling out to other handsets as we speak—and while it doesn’t include a plethora of new features, there are some cool upgrades for your handset that are worth making use of. We’ve picked out 5 of our favorites that yo … | Continue reading
After shoving a Threads carousel into Facebook and Instagram, Meta gets that users might not like it. Meta posted Monday on its platform’s official account that it was collecting feedback on the new feature, but it almost certainly won’t do anything to make it any better. Read mo … | Continue reading
The Moon’s crater-covered countenance was previously thought to be a youthful 4.42 billion years old, give or take about 10 million years. But now, samples of crystals taken from the rocky satellite half a century ago indicate that the Moon is about 40 million years older than we … | Continue reading
Cosplay looks for your pets are here from Loungefly, with a new line of backpacks and other accessories from some of your favorite fandoms.Read more... | Continue reading
They did it, they really did it. The Freddy Fazbear Pizza band from Five Nights at Freddy’s has been made real, and of course Blumhouse got the Jim Henson Creature Shop to do it.Read more... | Continue reading
Stranger Things—which premiered in the summer of 2016, and last dropped new episodes on Netflix in July 2022—will end its blockbuster run with a fifth season that’s not coming anytime soon. Over the years, we’ve seen the young cast grow up in real time, something the team behind … | Continue reading
The natural world is filled with dramas that play out on the macro- and microscopic scales, in our cities and in remote wilderness alike. In the British Ecological Society’s annual photo competition, ‘Capturing Ecology,’ those activities take center stage as flora and fauna of al … | Continue reading
The AMC adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire is a rich gothic romance that takes the source material and updates it in ways that are both fascinating and, at time, far more explicit than the books ever were. While gay sex was deftly skirted around, the deed was al … | Continue reading
Remember Matter? The smart home standard that was supposed to unify all gadgets in the connected home? It’s been updated with support for a bevy of connected devices, mainly home appliances. The update should help more third-party accessories work together in Google, Apple, and A … | Continue reading
How can artists hope to fight back against the whims of tech companies wanting to use their work to train AI? One group of researchers has a novel idea: slip a subtle poison into the art itself to kill the AI art generator from the inside out.Read more... | Continue reading
It’s been a year since Doctor Who bid farewell to Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor in “Power of the Doctor”—an episode that didn’t exactly provide the most fitting farewell to her tenure. But enough about that! Remember when David Tennant showed up for like 30 seconds at the end? Th … | Continue reading
Today, the Biden administration announced a massive dose of funding to the tech industry—the president named 31 “tech hubs” across the U.S. and Puerto Rico in an effort to spur economic growth.Read more... | Continue reading
Google Maps and Waze have disabled live traffic updates for areas of Israel and the Gaza Strip at the request of the Israeli military, according to a Bloomberg report. The live data tool was removed ahead of a potential ground invasion for the safety of local communities.Read mor … | Continue reading
Where do we start with Sam Altman’s Worldcoin? The OpenAI CEO’s startup is building a new cryptocurrency. Worldcoin is also part of Altman’s disquieting plan to capture all of the world’s money with AI and then “redistribute this wealth to the people.” (Literally). And, because y … | Continue reading
About a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample canister was designed to keep the main chunk of the asteroid safe during its journey through space, but now teams at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) are strugg … | Continue reading
Loki’s Tom Hiddleston is already aboard as The Life of Chuck’s title character, and Mark Hamill—coming off an excellent turn in Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher—is also a known part of the cast. But Flanagan’s next big-screen project, which marks a return to Stephen … | Continue reading
A duck’s back is not the only slippery surface water is prone to slide off of. Researchers have developed a new method of coating surfaces in a liquid-like layer to make them extra slick.Read more... | Continue reading
The era of a common over-the-counter cold medicine is coming to an end. Major retail chain CVS said this month that it will be pulling some cold and cough products made with oral phenylephrine from its shelves. The Food and Drug Administration may soon push for the ingredient to … | Continue reading
My latest book, The Hard Switch, is about the crew of a small cargo ship, comprising Ada, Haika, and Mallic (an extractor, pilot, and engineer, respectively), and as I was thinking about this central trio, I started musing on “crews” in general. What makes a great crew? Which cre … | Continue reading
Sure, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has been delayed multiple times, but that just means the DC Movie Machine has had more time to prime the media on what to expect from the second installment in the Jason Momoa-led franchise. Today’s fanservice character of the day is “Topo.”Read … | Continue reading
Temperatures are currently cooling down across the U.S., but much of the country is in for a warmer, wetter winter than usual, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in this year’s winter outlook.Read more... | Continue reading
NASA’s Voyager team has rolled out important measures in an attempt to further prolong the interstellar journey of the two Voyager spacecraft, which have been transmitting data from deep space since 1977.Read more... | Continue reading
Matthew Vaughn, the director of X-Men: First Class (2011), the Kingsman franchise, and the upcoming Argylle, shared a few opinions on superhero films at New York Comic Con last week. “I genuinely don’t know what’s happening with the superhero in the sense that, I do think, maybe … | Continue reading
If you’re on the internet browsing with the recently redesigned Google Chrome, you’re probably not the most privacy-minded person out there. Still, the world’s most popular browser is gearing up to allow users to hide their IP address from websites, even without a VPN.Read more.. … | Continue reading