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Bernard Hill, the actor that brought Lord of the Rings' Theoden to life memorably in Peter Jackson's movie adaptation trilogy, has died at the age of 79.Read more...

The age of IP means no property is off limits for a revival, and that includes Robin Hood.

Nintendo's Pokemon series has had a powerful grip on pop culture for decades, and it's doubtful to change anytime soon. The bulk of that power comes from the video and trading card games, along with the eternally ongoing anime and the movies and shows that've spun out of that. So how do you make one of the biggest...Read more...

At the start of the year, it was reported that Francis Ford Coppola's long-awaited sci-fi flick Megalopolis might finally see the light of day. That day appears to be pretty soon, because Coppola's production banner American Zoetrope released first-ever footage of the film that gives an idea of its scope.

It's now been five years since Disney bought 20th Century Fox, and we're finally seeing that really pay off on the movie side. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is hitting theaters next week, Alien: Romulus and Deadpool & Wolverine are later this summer. What Fox movies are due next for a comeback? The Maze Runner seri...Read more...

It's May 4th, which doesn't just make it Star Wars Day. We're also one month out from The Acolyte, our first-ever show set in the High Republic era, and which also had a special preview playing with Phantom Menace screenings this weekend. Along with that clip, the show's got a brand new trailer that teases the...Read more...

Summer's almost here, and that means it's time for the return of everyone's favorite superhero show The Boys. With season four set to kick off in a little over a month, Prime Video released a new trailer that's got everything you expect from the show now: Supes being chaotic freaks, pointed political imagery, and a lot...Read more...

If you thought the less-than-stellar launch of the highly anticipated Rabbit R1 AI device was all that happened in gadget news this week, we understand. Everyone in the tech industry was talking about this thing and no one particularly likes it. Our full review is still forthcoming, but our first impressions were very...Read more...

May the 4th be with you! But if you'd like to read some things that aren't about Star Wars this Star Wars Day, our most-read stories of the week have you covered, from Captain America merchandise to critical reflections (and not quite so critical ones) behind the scenes of Marvel, our continued look back at the Planet...Read more...

This week saw a blast from the past as we told the tales of numerous fraud victims who were targeted by scammers on the cheating site, Ashley Madison. A new chatbot came and went leaving so many people with questions.And then there's Elon Musk who went hardcore" with layoffs he even got rid of those pesky interns...Read more...

Elon Musk became the butt of more than a few jokes after internet users pointed out Tesla's robot demo wasn't all it appeared to be. As it turns out, a video the billionaire posted of Optimus, the company's much-hyped humanoid robot, was actually being controlled by a human slightly off-screen. And it's interesting to...Read more...

In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes the rediscovery of a satellite lost in the 1990s and why we sometimes lose sight of our orbital property. Researchers have discovered what they claim is the world's deepest blue hole, the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, and have yet to...Read more...

The X-Men find themselves, perhaps almost always, on the precipice of great change. But right now they really do feel like they're on the edge of something new again. In the comics, after years rejuvenated by the Krakoan Age, they're ready to rise from the ashes of tragedy once more. On the big screen, we're ready to...Read more...

Elon Musk says Grok's real-time news feature, which is going about as well as you'd expect so far, will get information purely from summarizing what people say on X," in an email to the Big Technology newsletter Friday. Musk says each Grok summary aims to combine breaking news and social commentary by analyzing tens...Read more...

This year is a big one for Star Wars on the small screen. We've already had Young Jedi Adventuresand The Bad Batch, and Tales of the Empire and The Acolyte are coming very soon. Now we have a release window for Disney+'s Skeleton Crew, coming to the streamer this winter.Read more...

No one deserves their much-delayed accolades as part of the Star Wars franchise more than Ahmed Best, who portrayed Jar Jar Binks in George Lucas' prequel trilogy. The actor was met with the first very public show of vitriol from Star Wars' toxic fandom, which is something we're unfortunately much more used to seeing...Read more...

The pairing of Deadpool and Wolverine in their own full-fledged action comedy always somehow felt inevitable-despite Wolverine's grand send-off in Logan, Ryan Reynolds seemingly willed his re-teaming with Hugh Jackman into existence. But enthusiasm is only the first step, and in a new interview, the star and Marvel's...Read more...

Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu defended the Rabbit R1 for the last week, telling Gizmodo and other outlets that it's not an Android app." Now, he may have to defend the next fatal claim for an AI device: that it's not just a ChatGPT wrapper. The push-to-talk feature on Rabbit R1s experienced a brief outage on Thursday night, ...Read more...

A Florida woman's serious pneumonia that landed her in the hospital turned out to have a very strange culprit: deer meat tainted by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Though it took some time for the woman's doctors to discover the true cause of her worsening illness, they were able to treat her in time once they did.Read more...

Barriss Offee is a rare character for Star Wars. Not just because she was a Jedi so horrified by the part the Order had to play in the Clone War that she took extreme action to try and stop it, but simply because the next step of her story was left untold for over a decade. Now, at long last, it's time to tell it, and...Read more...

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed in March after it was struck by an enormous container ship that lost power while exiting the city's port. The collision left the stricken Dali container ship stuck under the remnants of the bridge and made entry and exit of the Port of Baltimore nearly impossible. Now,...Read more...

As Peacock preps for this summer's Olympics (and a price increase), the streamer's genre movie library remains as robust (and as weird) as ever. Here are 10 fantasy and horror movies to check out, including a pair of Jim Henson favorites and some very recent titles that you might have missed in the theater.

The Transportation and Security Administration plans to vastly expand its use of facial recognition technology in the U.S., going from 25 airports with the tech to over 430 by this July. And a group of 14 senators from both parties are not happy, arguing in a new letter that, this powerful surveillance technology as...Read more...

Microsoft shared its responsible artificial intelligence practices from the past year in an inaugural report, including releasing 30 responsible AI tools that have over 100 features to support AI developed by its customers.Read more...

Twas the afternoon before Star Wars Day, and all through the internet, Hasbro was stirring our wallets with yet another big stream of reveals from the galaxy far, far away. Appropriately, given that 2024's Star Wars Day coincides with the 25th anniversary of The Phantom Menace, many of these goodies are celebrations...Read more...

Physical media is very popular these days. Nostalgia, fandom, and streaming burnout have caused certain segments of American society to switch off their Amazon Prime accounts and fire up their Blu-ray players. One of the many advertised benefits of physical media is that it offers a more permanent, definitive form of...Read more...

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ended in 2021, and Captain America: Brave New World isn't arriving until 2025. But Marvel doesn't want you to forget about one of its signature heroes, now played by Anthony Mackie, amid all the Deadpool & Wolverine hype, teasing Sam Wilson's new costume as he steps fully into his...Read more...

Every celebrity has various trolls who say mean things about them online, a fact of life for most famous people in the modern era. But Tiffany Haddish isn't just a passive observer when people insult her on social media networks. Haddish says she's tracked down people trolling her and has even given them a call,...Read more...

A Chinese probe is on its way to the far side of the Moon to collect samples and drop them off at Earth in what would be a historic first. The Chang'e-6 mission launched from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 5:30 a.m. ET on Friday. The lunar probe was riding on board China's largest rocket, the 57-meter-tall...Read more...

Tomorrow is May the Fourth, but you have a few more weeks to save up ahead of Heritage Auctions' next Star Wars-themed sale, which happens May 31. The superstar of this one is Kenner's famously rare Boba Fett figure with rocket-firing" action, which was never released after being deemed a choking hazard.Read more...

Climbing gyms might be teeming with toxic rubber particles, recent research suggests. The study found high levels of rubber additives in the air and dust of two climbing gyms, likely coming from the soles of specialized climbing shoes worn by gym goers. The authors say that customers and workers might be getting...Read more...

Universal Studios Hollywood is gearing up to get its first-ever high speed outdoor roller coaster with Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift in 2026-based, of course, on the Fast & Furious franchise. The release sent out by Universal Parks shared the coaster will elevate the guest experience with innovative and...Read more...

Medieval residents of Winchester, England, probably got their leprosy from red squirrels in the area, according to a team of archaeologists and geneticists that studied remains from two archaeological sites in the city.Read more...

Hugh Jackman's Wolverine has defined the Fox era of X-Men movies. His storied tenure from the 2000 film all the way up to Logan gave us perhaps one of the most definitive live-action superhero performances of our lifetime. That makes the temptation of his return in Deadpool & Wolverine so potent-but for Marvel...Read more...

Good news, everyone. Apple made money, or more specifically it made most of its cash this quarter with services like its Apple Savings Account. Its hardware, on the other hand, has been a fair bit more diluted, leading to an overall 4% decline year-over-year. Worst of the bunch was the iPad, which made more than $1...Read more...

Furiosa contains a teeny tiny Mad Max cameo. Louis Letterier is heading to sci-fi for his next project. New Boys posters herald a political dust up. Plus, even more casting for Zach Cregger's Weapons. To me, my spoilers!

The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 16 comes close to having practically everything you could want or need in a gaming laptop, almost to the point of excess. There may not be many folks out there who demand numpad controls on a mobile device. Why? Because why not? The only thing it's missing is an SD card slot. Knowing just how...Read more...

Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century-so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech magazines and came up with ideas that were often way ahead of their time. Or, in the case of the office isolator" pictured...Read more...

A Bluey episode originally released in 2020 everywhere except the United States finally gets the green light to be seen-with a catch: it's only online (for now).Read more...

Time to celebrate the moms in your life-who we should really be celebrating every day-with the latest fashion and accessory releases from major geeky retailers in stores and online. BoxLunch, the Disney Store, the Gap, Hot Topic, and more have incredible fandom picks across genre favorites like Star Wars, The Lord of...Read more...

A long-standing tradition for most Planet of the Apes sequels is a long title with a unique, fitting first word. So far there's been Beneath, Escape, Conquest, Battle, Rise, Dawn, and War. That tradition continues with next week's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes which, according to director Wes Ball, was always the...Read more...

There's been a lot of talk about the Tesla Cybertruck having a deep desire to chomp people's fingers off with its power frunk latch, but no one has been brave enough to stick their fingie in there and find out what happens... until now. So far, we've only seen various vegetables and dummy hands get crunched by the...Read more...

Over the years, the Star Wars saga has been taken under the knife and chopped and edited-for better or worse-many times, even beyond the Special Editions of the 90s. And yet one of the weirdest tweaks is still one of the most recent: the bizarre rally cry of maclunkey!" when Greedo goes to shoot Han Solo in A New...Read more...

Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the Microsoft-owned platform Github. Over 8,000 repositories were removed as the Zelda publisher seemingly tries to stomp out forks...Read more...

Bird flu continues to be a real public health threat, but apparently not to our food supply at least. The Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture separately announced late Wednesday that their tests of pasteurized milk and ground beef failed to find any live H5N1 in samples at risk of being...Read more...

Prime Video's Outer Range-one of the weirdest sci-fi series in recent memory, and among the weirdest sci-fi neo-Western series ever-is returning for a second season, which feels like a streaming miracle. You can likely thank the star power of Josh Brolin, who anchors the show's oddball plot and tone with his...Read more...

Just a few weeks after Discovery showed how much confidence it had in taking a Star Trek trope it knew it was good at and damn near perfecting it, this week we get the series diving into another-and not really finding much interest in why it even took it on in the first place.

Humans aren't the only primates with a medicine cabinet, it seems. In a new paper published today, scientists document a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. While there have been other recent accounts of animals using medicine in the wild, this...Read more...

The Sonic the Hedgehog Cinematic Universe is knocking out the competition on Paramount+ as limited series Knuckles sets a streaming record for the platform.Read more...

Another whistleblower who raised safety concerns about production practices related to Boeing has died. Joshua Dean, who previously worked as a quality auditor at the plane manufacturer's supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, died Tuesday as the result of a sudden, fast-spreading infection," the Seattle Times reports.Read more...