Quiz time: If you or your friends were given the following string of text during a party, would anyone in the room confidently be able to guess or infer any personal attributes of the text’s author? Give yourself a few seconds.Read more... | Continue reading
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The animated, mega-cameo-filled short film Once Upon a Studio is now streaming on Disney+ to celebrate Disney’s 100-year anniversary.Read more... | Continue reading
Misinformation about an imaginary Hamas plot allegedly pushed Joseph Czuba, a Chicago-area landlord, to murder 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume. Czuba was reportedly motivated by conspiracy theories started on social media about an "international day of jihad." | Continue reading
Netflix is touting its new series The Netflix Cup as its “first-ever live sports event,” which sounds at first like a retreat of sorts from the streamer’s assurance in late 2022 that it wouldn’t be adding sports packages to its offerings. But if you look a little closer, this is … | Continue reading
Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune ends with an intense showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha, two sides of an epic war that’ll decide the fate of a trade, a planet, and a galaxy. In the film adaptation, Dune: Part Two, Atreides is once again played by Timothée Chalamet … | Continue reading
After a more widespread rollout this week of its tirade against ad blockers, YouTube began its roll out of dozens of new features for its mobile app Tuesday.Read more... | Continue reading
This weekend, SAG-AFTRA and NAVA—the National Association for Voice Actors—teamed up for a panel at New York Comic Con about AI in entertainment. Moderator Lindsay Rousseau, who is also a voice actress, introduced the panel by explaining that “right now there are no legal or legi … | Continue reading
Around 11 miles above Earth’s surface, leftover bits from rockets and spacecraft are lingering in our planet’s atmosphere that could potentially have a lasting effect on the climate.Read more... | Continue reading
Snapchat introduced two new features Tuesday for users to embed content on their profiles or stories into a website. The social media platform added web embeds for its Lenses, Spotlight videos, public stories and public profiles for users to share an article or website with their … | Continue reading
The ensemble for Miyazaki's upcoming Studio Ghibli film includes Christian Bale, Florence Pugh, Mark Hamill, Dave Bautista, and more. | Continue reading
The Biden administration laid out new restrictions on Tuesday to limit the primary and secondary sale of United States-made chips to China, according to a CNBC report. The move is an effort to limit the nation’s technological and military progress.Read more... | Continue reading
Like all big superheroes, Spider-Man has been played and voiced by a variety of different people over the decades. There’s a certain art to the wallcrawler that a number of voice actors have managed to perfect in recent years, and among those is longtime performer Yuri Lowenthal. … | Continue reading
Blue Origin revealed plans for a new spacecraft platform with the potential to reshape in-space logistics, offering unprecedented maneuverability and a host of advanced capabilities.Read more... | Continue reading
Nearly 60 years to the day that Doctor Who began airing, next month, the BBC will launch an unprecedented collection of over 800 episodes from the show’s distant and not-so-distant past on its streaming platform, iPlayer—the first of its kind from the corporation. But it turns ou … | Continue reading
The days of Terminator and The Matrix could be closer to reality as the artificial intelligence wave continues to crash. A U.S. think tank released a report arguing that the AI that guides the likes of ChatGPT and those dystopian influencers from Meta could be used to create a ne … | Continue reading
What, you thought Tiffany Valentine, queen of tawdry glam, would drab herself down like any other inmate? Relish her jailhouse style in this exclusive clip from Chucky’s third episode, which sees Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind) visiting Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), hoping she’ll provide som … | Continue reading
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday he is rolling out an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan in light of the growing “risks” of the technology. Adams said at a press conference that he hopes to use AI responsibly “to improve quality of life for New Yorkers.”Read more. … | Continue reading
The upcoming Gaganyaan demo is a big deal for India, laying the groundwork for ambitious crewed missions and setting sights on lunar astronaut landings by 2040. | Continue reading
President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign launched its account on former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform on Monday. The reason? They thought it would be funny, according to an X post. Read more... | Continue reading
Apple’s Newsroom announced the new Apple Pencil on Tuesday. It’s more affordable than its predecessors and offers some new features.Read more... | Continue reading
General Motors’ autonomous vehicle company Cruise can’t shake the safety scrutiny over its driverless robotaxis. Now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is digging into whether or not these AVs are safe for the pedestrians being forced to live with them.Rea … | Continue reading
Director Emma Tammi talks about working with the FNAF creator on the film's story—and her own gateway horror inspirations. | Continue reading
New York Comic Con 2023 is at an end, and with it the book is closed on one of the most peculiar versions of the show in a long while—with the long shadow of Hollywood’s summer of labor reckonings and the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike making for an event with some severely constrained … | Continue reading
One of Disney’s darkest shows may soon get a live-action revival. James Wan, the man who helped reinvent horror with Saw and Insidious (and made the mega-blockbusters Furious 7 and Aquaman) is teaming up with frequent collaborator Gary Dauberman to turn the 1990s Disney cartoon G … | Continue reading
Critical Role’s panel at New York Comic Con was full of questions about the popular web series—including its guest stars, recurring villains, and Matt Mercer’s uncanny ability to bring NPCs back from the dead. Or out of the shadows, whatever suits the story at any given time. Rea … | Continue reading
Back in August, Netflix announced it would be continuing to build out its gaming realm—introduced with 2021's rollout of mobile games—by testing bringing games to any device where people watch Netflix, including TVs and computers. Now, that plan is inching closer to reality.Read … | Continue reading
It’s a rough day for tech workers, with layoffs at both LinkedIn and the recently-sold Bandcamp. Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A forum for programmers, says it’s cutting about 28% of its staff.Read more... | Continue reading
LinkedIn, the business social networking platform owned by Microsoft, announced Monday it is laying off 668 employees, amounting to more than 3% of its staff, as part of its alleged organizational restructuring efforts. The decision marks the second round of mass layoffs at Linke … | Continue reading
Goosebumps is back, and it’s offering a fresh take on R.L. Stine’s collection of YA horror for a new age.Read more... | Continue reading
Over the weekend, rumors circulated that Signal, one of the most trusted encrypted chat apps on the web, had a pretty bad zero-day vulnerability. The claims, which have now been all but debunked, swiftly caused a panic in the infosec community. Read more... | Continue reading
Twitch users may start receiving some potentially annoying push notifications from their Twitch subscriptions. Streamers on the streaming mobile app now have access to the Twitch Stories feature, letting creators share short content and promote their channels much like they can o … | Continue reading
Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense team requested a higher, longer-lasting dose of Adderall on Sunday night, so their client can meaningfully participate in his ongoing trial.Read more... | Continue reading
Construction and gas trade groups have filed a lawsuit to block a law passed by New York officials that would ban furnaces and gas stoves in newly constructed buildings.Read more... | Continue reading
Russian doctors have stumbled upon a remarkable tale of survival. They detail finding a needle that has been lodged inside an 80-year-old woman’s brain her entire life. The needle seems to be the result of a botched infanticide, but it has apparently caused no major health issues … | Continue reading
Another year, another New York Comic Con is in the books. NYCC always brings out the best and brightest in terms of cosplay so we just had to grace you with one more heaping helping of amazing photos. You saw day one, you saw day two, you may have even seen day three, and here’s … | Continue reading
A team of paleoanthropologists has assembled the only known cranium of the extinct ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, revealing how the ape’s face looked. The reconstruction allows them to place Pierolapithecus on the hominid family tree and improves our understanding of how the a … | Continue reading
We’re just past the midpoint of Our Flag Means Death’s second season, and we’ve already sailed through some stormy weather alongside Blackbeard–aka Ed Teach (Taika Waititi)—and Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) as they attempt to reunite and rekindle their relationship. Showrunner and wr … | Continue reading
New research suggests that Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide can boost existing efforts to lose weight. The company’s latest clinical trial found that people who dropped at least 5% of their weight before taking the drug went on to lose substantially more weight than those who took a place … | Continue reading
New York residents eyeing a new 3D printer may soon have to submit a criminal background check if a newly proposed state bill becomes law. The recently introduced legislation, authored by state senator Jenifer Rajkumar, aims to snub out an increasingly popular loophole where conv … | Continue reading
Supporting himself with a cane, Michael Rooker still managed to grab hold of the spotlight on stage at New York Comic Con along with his fellow stars of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The 68-year-old actor known for playing roles like Yondu in Guardians and Merle Dixon in The Wa … | Continue reading
On Monday, Analogue revealed that it will release a recreation of the Nintendo 64 console, the Analogue 3D, which will play cartridges like Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 4K.Read more... | Continue reading
A new Gallup survey found more than half of teenagers in the U.S. spend an average of 4.8 hours on social media each day. The responses came from 1,591 people ages 13-19 years old, and the survey’s findings show that as teens got older, they stayed on social media even longer.Rea … | Continue reading
In 2018, Wizards of the Coast made a major change to the way Magic: The Gathering was sold when it split the then-standard booster pack of cards into two different varieties: Draft Boosters, focused on the game’s build-and-play formats, and Set Boosters, aimed at people looking t … | Continue reading
Apple’s iPhone lost its top spot among Chinese smartphones, according to a Jefferies analyst note originally reported by CNBC. A lackluster release of the iPhone 15 allowed Huawei to replace the iPhone as the number one spot for market share.Read more... | Continue reading
It’s Taylor Swift’s world, and we’re all just living in it. In an economy racked with corporate greed-induced hyperinflation and a population evermore saddled with student loan debt, younger generations are apparently more interested in shelling out for experiences over at-home t … | Continue reading
Bethany Jacobs’ debut novel, These Burning Stars, hits shelves tomorrow—but io9 has the first chapter here for you to read today. Do you like sci-fi tales of revenge, dark secrets from the past that threaten to re-emerge, and thieves plotting schemes on forgotten planets? Read on … | Continue reading
The Moon took a big chomp out of the Sun this weekend, and photographers across the Americas were ready to capture the celestial feast. Dive into our slideshow to experience the mesmerizing moments of this annular eclipse.Read more... | Continue reading