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Star Trek likes to imagine itself as a franchise that is largely above conflict, but it is defined by it: and how its most idealized heroes in Starfleet and the Federation react to, and become shaped by it. While Trek's history is littered with devastating battles, few conflicts hold a mirror to Star Trek quite like...Read more...

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This guide was updated on April 19, 2024, to reflect the latest real-life" leaks of the Pixel 9 and upcoming satellite connectivity available on Android.Read more...

An iconic horror duo makes its debut in Abigail with Alisha Weir's vampire ballerina and Melissa Barrera's would-be kidnapper Joey. The Radio Silence film introduces a friends-to-enemies relationship you root for between Barrera-one of this generation's best final girls, having left an indelible mark on the Scream franchi...Read more...

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Typically, when a person isn't performing well at their job, they get put under review or get a stern talking to. Well, unless you're a top executive, that is. Then you might get a 25 percent raise, as the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery just did.Read more...

A breakout anime's first movie often falls into one of two categories. Either it's a showcase of the source material that feels like a stretched-out arc of the anime itself, or it attempts to fill in some backstory and set up some dominoes for the season to come. In the case of the former, the question of whether it's...Read more...

Apple removed several U.S.-based messaging apps from its App Store in China, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Threads, according to the Washington Post Friday. Officially, the apps were already banned in China but could still be accessed by users with a VPN.

You don't make a movie as sumptuous and engrossing as Dune: Part Two and not think of every little detail. How the planets move, who all the people are, how people get off the sandworm. In preparing and making both Dune films, Denis Villeneuve thought of everything. And, to illustrate that, in a new interview he...Read more...

As the year 2000 approached, pop culture channelled its millennial unease into science fiction. While 1999 did see some standout horror (The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project) and fantasy (Toy Story 2, The Mummy) releases, one genre reigned supreme-and it involved aliens, time-travelers, virtual realities, robots,...Read more...

This article was updated on 4/18/2024 to include information about how Apple may attempt to reduce lens flare, Wi-Fi 7 capabilities for the iPhone 16 Pro series, and the debut of a convincing set of machined blanks that show the iPhone's new family of side buttons.

It's been a wild and wacky last few weeks in space, not to mention awe-inspiring, as a spectacular total solar eclipse graced the skies across North America. We also said goodbye to a trusty old rocket, while saying hello to what might finally be the first crewed mission of Boeing's beleaguered Starliner spacecraft.Read more...

This week's excellent episode of Star Trek: Discovery, Face the Strange", let the series take a moment to reflect on the four seasons that came before it in a wonderful meld of a classic Star Trek storytelling device and metatextual commentary. But in preparing to do so, its star found it much more challenging than...Read more...

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They may not sound as majestic as herds of elephants or flocks of migrating birds, but as these photos attest, there's incredible beauty to be found in moss springtails and slime molds. Life is just as dramatic at a smaller scale, and, like in the macro world, water is key to survival.Read more...

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Scientists may have figured out how addictive drugs like cocaine hijack the brain's reward system to make us ignore basic needs like food or water. In mice, the researchers were able to extensively detail a neural pathway that allows the brain to respond to natural positive stimuli, while also showing how drugs can...Read more...

The good news about Zack Snyder's latest film, Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver is that, without a doubt, it's better than its predecessor. It's more focused, cohesive, and character-driven, telling a story that nearly makes Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire feel insignificant. Unfortunately, there's also bad...Read more...

Tesla's Cybertruck has been quite an embarrassment and not just because of its looks. The electric vehicle that looks like it was designed by a child already has rust issues, doesn't do well with puddles, and some can't even survive a car wash, but an issue that causes the accelerator pedal to stick finally prompted a...Read more...

Sam Reid teases a big twist for Interview With the Vampire's second season. Rashida Jones in on the case in a new look at Apple TV+'s sci-fi drama Sunny. Plus, Netflix gives us a first look at the Platform sequel. Spoilers now!

Police say a teenager is responsible for setting fire to one of Waymo's self-driving cars in San Francisco earlier this year.

Researchers at Microsoft released a paper this week about VASA-1, a new AI tool that can generate a convincing video of someone speaking, using just a still image. Microsoft doesn't have immediate plans to release the new tool to the public, but it's pretty impressive. Well, it's impressive if you don't look too...Read more...

Don't shoot the messenger, but even if you've played your Xbox consistently for the past four years and you think you know it inside and out, you may still be surprised by what your console is capable of. Just like the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S have a bevy of hidden...Read more...

The world it takes place in may have ended, but Fallout will continue-the Prime Video adaptation of Bethesda's long-running, post-apocalyptic video game series is getting a second season.Read more...

The Adobe Express app's generative AI features are officially out of beta today. Now, everyone can access the company's Firefly generative AI engine on iOS and Android. This version of Adobe Express is a pared-down version of the desktop app. Most of what you can make on it is for sharing on social media. Most of what ...Read more...

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Last summer, Marvel Comics boldly announced that it would return to The Most Notorious Spider-Man Story Ever Told," to which the world cried out You'll really have to be more specific!" After quickly clarifying that it was a sequel to Spider-Man: Reign, the world cried out again: Oh. The one with the radioactive...Read more...

Netflix continues to add more subscribers to its service, but next year, the company won't bother telling anyone about it.Read more...

Back in the 1980s, FedEx had a great tagline: When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight." Well, in situations like ground conflicts and disaster scenarios, that's not good enough. Recognizing the need for an ultra-fast delivery service, Colorado-based Sierra Space is currently developing a system to...Read more...

Like Leigh Whannell's 2020 reimagining of The Invisible Man,Abigail proves that you don't need a bigger Dark Universe to make damn good horror films as part of Universal's legacy in the genre. The latest from Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream) takes vampire lore to a fun and exciting new level.

Two recent flybys of Jupiter's moon Io by NASA's Juno spacecraft revealed a couple of stunning surprises: a remarkably steep mountain and islands in the middle of a burbling lava lake. The new findings were announced yesterday by Scott Bolton, the principal investigator of the Juno mission, at the European Geophysical...Read more...

Bitcoin will go through its latest so-called halving" event starting Friday. The halving will cut the current reward for mining new coins from 6.25 Bitcoin to 3.125. Halving is an integral part of the Bitcoin blockchain system, which creates a monetary system that controls inflation.Read more...

NASA's experimental solar sail is ready to take flight in Earth orbit, using the pressure of sunlight to test a new way of propulsion through the cosmos.Read more...

It was our first look at the vision of Star Trek's future: the original ship model of the USS Enterprise that zoomed across screens in the show's opening credits. But after being loaned out during the making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it had gone missing... until now.

Google says it terminated 28 employees associated with protests of the company's $1.2 billion cloud computing contracts with the Israeli government on Wednesday. The firings follow the arrests of nine Google employees for trespassing in the company's New York and California offices on Tuesday during an hours-long...Read more...

The power of social media virality and Gen Z's merciless wit have transmuted a boring Chinese chemical product into an overnight internet sensation.

These are the best airports in the world according to Skytrax, an air transport rating organization." By surveying travelers across more than 570 airports, the ranking tracks satisfaction across categories like check-in, arrivals, transfers, shopping, and security through to departure at the gate. Here are the top...Read more...

Tech myths are extremely pervasive. Half of the things we believe in are stuff we've seen people around us believe in. Confirmation bias leads to us blindly following without ever questioning. This guide aims to shatter some of those preconceived notions. The aim is also to teach you the truth about some headphone...Read more...

The delightfully zany Spy x Family has captured hearts in anime form since it blew up in 2022. While the Forgers won't be back on your TV for a while, they're coming to the silver screen with Spy x Family Code: White.Read more...

Star Trek: Discovery is really good with time. We knew this almost immediately when one of its earliest episodes to really wow us was Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad," a delightful time loop caper. We knew it again, when it flung caution to the wind and catapulted itself into a future no Star Trek show had...Read more...

The U.S. Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced successful tests of a new artificial intelligence system using the experimental X-62A VISTA aircraft on Wednesday. The tests-AI dogfights that pitted the X-62A against a human-piloted F-16 aircraft-are being billed as the first...Read more...

Emergency service systems tied to 911 went offline across several states on Wednesday night including parts of Nevada, Nebraska, Texas, and the entire state of South Dakota. And the cause has finally been revealed-at least partially. Apparently, the outage had something to do with the installation of a light pole,...Read more...

The best art inspires more incredible art and Denis Villeneuve's Dune films have certainly done that. In addition to the artistry in the films themselves, graphic designers from all over the world have been moved to create gorgeous Dune posters-and the latest may be the most unique, and quite possibly the best, one...Read more...

Some of your favorite produce might be dicier to eat than assumed. An analysis from Consumer Reports published Thursday suggests that a substantial portion of commonly sold fruits and vegetables have a significant risk of exposure to dangerous pesticides-around 20%. Bell peppers, watermelons, and blueberries were some...Read more...

M. Night Shyamalan is the king of the twist and, in the first trailer for his new movie Trap, the twist is right on the surface.Read more...

When you think about end-of-the-world, post-apocalyptic stories, you think about a lack of food. A lack of water. A lack of sun or a lack of power. However, all those stories have one thing in common. The characters can breathe.Read more...

A newly described fossil snake in India may be the largest that ever lived, according to a team that studied 27 vertebrae recovered from a lignite mine in India. The new species is dubbed Vasuki indicus-named for India and the mythical serpent that wraps itself around the neck of the Hindu god Shiva. Extrapolating the...Read more...

The winds are about to stop howlin' at Netflix. As the first season of its adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher novels without Henry Cavill in the title role enters production, the streamer has confirmed that season five will bring The Witcher to its final end.Read more...