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An AI-powered lottery website designed to let users envision themselves as winners of the big prize allegedly gave one user more than she bargained for when, instead of giving her a fun AI-generated image of herself, itspit out porn.

Across four seasons, Westworld explored an array of intrigue and power struggles between humans and remarkably lifelike human robots, first contained to an immersive Wild West theme park, then spread out across the world at large. When its season four finale hit HBO in August 2022, it felt like it could be stopping...Read more...

We finally know what the sequel to Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi will be. It's called Star Wars: Tales of the Empire and it's coming sooner than you'd expect.Read more...

Tuberculosis has likely reclaimed its spot as the world's deadliest infectious disease. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that cases of TB, a bacterial infection, once again rose in the U.S. in 2023, reaching a toll not seen for a decade. While its incidence remains low in the...Read more...

New research is the latest to suggest that sildenafil-the active ingredient in popular erectile dysfunction drug Viagra-might help fend off Alzheimer's disease. The study found that people taking sildenafil were noticeably less likely to develop Alzheimer's than similar patients not taking it. The results do not yet...Read more...

The history of cinema has been filled with interpretations of Frankenstein's monster and the Bride of Frankenstein-and today, two more are added to the list. Maggie Gyllenhaal took to social media Thursday to reveal the first look at the lead characters of her new film, The Bride!, coming to theaters next year, and...Read more...

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NASA and its international partners have big plans when it comes to the Moon-plans that will require the careful synching of Earth-based clocks with those on the Moon. The White House wants NASA to develop a solution to support the Artemis program, but to also maintain the United States' leading position in the global...Read more...

The new horror film The First Omen isn't the first Omen. It's a prequel set before the events of the actual first Omen, aka the 1976 classic starring Gregory Peck, which itself had several sequels and a remake. Those movies focused on a young child named Damien, who happens to be the Antichrist, and this movie is the...Read more...

While having someone pay you to wrap your car with ads sounds like easy work, there's a good chance it'll end up costing you money in the end. So, take it from Uncle Sam: Beware.Read more...

A trio of commercial space ventures has been tasked with designing a lunar terrain vehicle for the upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon, helping astronauts explore the south polar region as part of humanity's return to the dusty satellite.Read more...

Nine years and 3.2 billion pixels later, it is complete: the LSST Camera stands as the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and will serve as the centerpiece of the Vera Rubin Observatory, poised to begin its exploration of the southern skies.Read more...

Have you recently acquired new AirPods or AirPods Max, and are you trying to connect them to your MacBook? You've come to the right place. Pairing AirPods to your laptop is as easy as connecting via Bluetooth, and since we now expect fourth-gen AirPods, AirPods Lite, and a new AirPods Max this year, you could be...Read more...

Today is April 4, and Marvel would like you to very suddenly pretend that this has long been a day to celebrate the Fantastic Four, a superhero team they have definitely 100% cared about 100% of the time and not at all because they've finally been able to put them into one of their own movies soon. But hey, look, free...Read more...

Elon Musk reinvented the blue checkmark Wednesday night, regressing to an old Twitter policy where anyone with a certain amount of status gets a check. Now, accounts with more than 2,500 verified subscriber followers automatically received a blue checkmark for free. Thousands of influential X users were devastated to...Read more...

Big news for theme park fans out of Disney Imagineering: Disneyland and Walt Disney World are expanding with attractions and more inspired by Star Wars, James Cameron's Avatar, Encanto, and Indiana Jones.

Meta released its own AI-powered image generator back in December called Imagine. Like other image generators of its kind, Imagine seems to have some very strange racial hangups. Namely, the application can't seem to envision a world where Asian men are capable of being with white women.Read more...

The Witcher's fourth season adds some interesting new names to the post-Henry-Cavill era. Gillian Anderson is open to Scully's return in the new X-Files reboot. Plus, what's coming on Yellowjackets, and our first look at Librarians sequel. To me, my spoilers!

Elon Musk helped publicize a claim that illegals" are registering to vote in several U.S. states on Tuesday. But, like so many of Musk's tweets on X recently, the billionaire's fearmongering crumbles under the smallest amount of scrutiny. And in this case, the state of Texas is calling bullshit.

Fresh off dumping its electric vehicles project, Apple appears to be pivoting to something fairly different: household robots. Engineers at the iPhone company have been working on some sort of personal robotics" device that can cohabitate with you and follow you around, Bloomberg reported Thursday. So, basically a...Read more...

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When you think of space and Lego these days, you'd be forgiven for immediately going to one of the most important and influential lines in the toymaker's vast arsenal: Star Wars. But although Lego and the galaxy far, far away are celebrating 25 years of brick-building partnership this year, Lego's fascination with the...Read more...

We've known for some time that Microsoft is dropping support for Windows 10 on Oct. 14, 2025. But on Tuesday, Microsoft announced just how much it will cost commercial organizations to keep getting security updates for its old operating system, first reported by The Verge.Read more...

Marvel Studio's latest Fantastic Four cast seemed mostly set in Pedro Pascal (Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm/Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn (Johnny Storm/Human Torch), and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Ben Grimm/The Thing), but now the missing piece has been slotted into place: Julia Garner as Silver...Read more...

An experimental liver-growing treatment is facing its biggest test in humans yet. This week, biotech company LyGenesis announced that it has just begun a phase II trial of its therapy designed to grow miniature livers inside a person's lymph nodes. If the therapy works as hoped, it could potentially save the lives of...Read more...

It's almost unfathomable to think the new film Monkey Man is Dev Patel's directorial debut. Sure, we know Patel as a talented, versatile actor. But for him to make a film that's so assured of itself, so beautifully constructed, so well-considered in every single frame, all on his very first attempt, is borderline...Read more...

Some might argue the entire point of the electric vehicle industry is to make the world a better place by cutting carbon emissions and fighting climate change. That's what makes it so hilarious that the EV startup Canoo seems to have spent twice what it generated in revenue last year on the CEO's private jet.

We're still over a year away from James Gunn's Superman arriving in theaters to usher in an new era for DC Studios, but the superhero universe that will follow is already taking shape. Supergirl may now have its director in Craig Gillespie, whose filmography includes Disney villain prequel Cruella, sports mockumentary ...Read more...

Meta platforms Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are experiencing a global outage with thousands of reports of the app not working properly since roughly 2 p.m. ET Wednesday.WhatsApp appears to have gone down first, with Instagram and Facebook following suit about 30 minutes later.Read more...

Israel has been using an artificial intelligence system called Lavender to create a kill list" of at least 37,000 people in Gaza, according to a new report from Israel's +972 magazine, confirmed by the Guardian. Lavender is the second AI system revealed after the existence of Israel's The Gospel was first reported on ...Read more...

Not content with having depressed wages in the transportation industry, Uber is teaming up with Waymo to eliminate food delivery drivers entirely. The two companies are ramping up a collaboration begun last year that involves driverless delivery, CNBC reported Wednesday.Read more...

You've got to watch this trailer for Neon's new horror film, Cuckoo. First of all, that's a great title. Second of all, it's just very difficult to lock down in any discernible way. Is it a supernatural film? Is it a cult film? Is it an isolation film like The Shining? What the hell is going on here?Read more...

X-Men as a franchise can be defined by one idea: adapt or die. Indeed, the X-Men wouldn't exist beyond their 60s heyday if they hadn't evolved or changed, from the renaissance of the Chris Claremont run, to their adaption to the times in the 90s, to New X-Men and beyond, all the way to the Krakoan age-and whatever...Read more...

The atmosphere at Disney's corporate offices must feel slightly lighter these days, between Disney World's recent detente with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and news today that shareholders have voted against billionaire activist investor" Nelson Peltz's attempt to snag two seats on the company's board.Read more...

There is no better machine to screen capture with than Macs and MacBooks, period. Apple has made it incredibly easy to snap a picture of the full or part of the screen. If you're used to Windows and the annoying Snipper Tool, MacBooks will feel like a screenshotter's paradise by comparison. You'll need to memorize a...Read more...

You'll sometimes need to commit the dirty deed and reset your Mac when unfortunate circumstances arise. Thankfully, you'll need to follow a few simple steps to reset your Mac or MacBook to factory settings. Don't worry, if everything goes well you should be able to keep your most important documents and pictures.Read more...

A few simple shortcuts on Macs make it incredibly easy to record your screen, perhaps even easier than screen recording on mobile. These options also allow you to record audio, which will come through the Mac's built-in microphone or any connected microphone, so don't expect you'll get the best audio quality.Read more...

Have a dirty Mac or MacBook screen? You're not the only one. Those who like to slurp soup in front of their screen might have an issue when wayward slop stains their precious screen. Don't be afraid; we have the (rather obvious) best practices for making your screen as shiny and chrome as the day you bought it.Read more...

Get ready for the two keyboard shortcuts you'll get the most mileage on with MacBooks. Have you ever heard of Ctrl C + Ctrl V? Well, get ready for (drumroll) Command C + Command V. Yup, that's it. To copy text or an image, hold the Cmd key and hit C. To paste, hold Cmd and hit V. To cut text, hit Cmd + X instead. You...Read more...

For the past six years, the Parker Solar Probe has been traveling through the inner solar system to become the first spacecraft to touch" the Sun. With each close approach to the star, the probe gathers more clues as to what triggers the Sun's mysterious outbursts.Read more...

Let's face it: you have owned a big, hulking, expensive piece of tech for long enough that you start to assume you already know everything about it. If you're one of those lucky few who managed to pick up a PlayStation 5 several years ago, you probably think you've mastered the console by now. But you know what? There...Read more...

Turns out that 2021's The Matrix Resurrections wasn't the end of the Matrix saga after all: a fifth film in the highly successful sci-fi series is now in the works at Warner Bros. Franchise co-creator Lana Wachowski, who helmed Resurrections, is on board to executive produce, but this new film will be written and...Read more...

Of all the public domain woodland and fairy-tale creatures that are part of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey's ever-expanding Twisted Childhood Universe, Bambi is probably the one with the most legitimate gripe against humanity. Knowing this, Bambi: The Reckoning's first trailer leads with hunters, who you have to...Read more...

A collection of stars 30,000 light-years away is the faintest and lowest-mass Milky Way satellite ever found, according to the group of scientists who recently observed it. Oh, and it may be dominated by dark matter, the unknown stuff that makes up about 27% of the universe.Read more...

It's one of the most infamous stories in DC's long history: the handful of public phone-in votes that decided that the Joker should take a crowbar to Jason Todd's face and leave him a bloodied, dead pulp. It's comics of course, so Jason eventually got better(?), but fans and the publisher alike have long been...Read more...

A little over a week ago, Trump Media Technology Group, which owns Donald Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, became a publicly traded company. Around the same time, Trump Media launched a lawsuit against the co-founders of the platform, claiming that they had hurt the company's value by bungling key parts of...Read more...

The Department of Homeland Security issued a damning review of Microsoft's cybersecurity practices on Tuesday, blaming the cloud provider for exposing the emails of high-ranking government officials. The review found Chinese-state affiliated hackers capitalized on a cascade of security failures at Microsoft," and...Read more...

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with Just Walk Out" technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company's senior vice president of grocery stores says they're moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.Read more...

When the first trailer for the original Sonic movie came out, it's hard to imagine that we'd be here five years later looking at a franchise preparing for its third film, a spinoff show with Idris Elba as an Echidna, and a sea of potential in its wake. Mostly because people watching couldn't imagine anything else but...Read more...

Spotify is once again raising prices. This time around, the subscription bump is to pay for something that subscribers might not want in the first place.Read more...