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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...

Eat your heart out, A24: Some real-life bacterial germs are literally hungry for our blood, new research suggests. Scientists have found evidence that certain disease-causing bacteria, including strains of Escherichia coli, are chemically attracted to the serum in our blood as a source of food. The horrifying findings...Read more...

There are a ton of vendors and online marketplaces selling fake AirPods these days. First, you must remember that Apple's AirPods should not be retailing for $19. Even on Cyber Monday. And that should be the first thing that tells you they're fake. The second thing to keep in mind is to only purchase from reliable...Read more...

NASA is preparing to send astronauts on a spacewalk to repair a telescope mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS). The repair involves installing patches to eliminate unwanted sunlight leaking into the instrument.Read more...

Movie marketing always treads a fine line between actually giving you an indicator of what you'll see in the final film and more about evoking a specific vibe-from made-for-trailer shots to hypothetical what ifs, it's sometimes not always clear what part of it will actually be seen on screen when you're in a movie...Read more...

It's been so lovely playing Dreamlight Valley lying down. I used to do that with my Nintendo Switch Lite when I didn't have the energy to sit in my computer chair and play at my desk. But the Switch Lite's screen is too small for some games and lacks a night filter, making it hard to get in some gaming before bed. I...Read more...

Speculation about extraterrestrials is not all that new. There was a vibrant debate in 17th-century Europe about the existence of life on other planets.

Is your TikTok filled with terrible content that you don't want to see like TikTokers saying it was ok to stare at the solar eclipse? Well, those lovely people might not show up on your For You" feed anymore after TikTok's big policy changes take effect in May.Read more...

At last week's CinemaCon, Paramount unveiled more information about its upcoming animated prequel Transformers One, with Chris Hemsworth-who voices Orion Pax, a young version of Optimus Prime-in tow. Today, the actor and his co-star Brian Tyree Henry introduced the trailer as it was launching into orbit... yes, into...Read more...

The International Space Station (ISS) is home to crews of astronauts conducting research in low Earth orbit, but it also hosts a group of mutated bacteria that are thriving under the harsh conditions of space.Read more...

Werner Herzog has joined Bong Joon Ho's mysterious new animated movie. Sophia Di Martino ponders Sylvie's potential path in a future with more Loki. Plus, get a look at Sweet Tooth's return. Spoilers get!

This week, Congress is expected to vote on a bill that would update key federal surveillance authorities.The legislation hasbeen packaged by its proponents as a reform but is, in reality, an attempt to vastly expand the government's spying powers, privacy advocates say.Read more...

The United Arab Emirates was hit with historic flooding on Tuesday after roughly a year's worth of rain fell in just a single day. The record rainfall, more than four inches at the Dubai airport and 10 inches elsewhere in the country, caused some people online to speculate it was all caused by cloud seeding. But the...Read more...

Ever since dogs were first domesticated about 18,000 years ago, they've often had jobs to earn their keep. Today, some dogs are used to herd sheep while others help hunters track and flush out game. And, believe it or not, dogs were sometimes used historically to power machines in private homes and factories.Read more...

The Bravia Theater U is everything I love in a tech product. It's weird (and a bit phallic) looking, a bit janky, and still produces good-quality sound. It also has a naming scheme that reminds me of the Nintendo Wii. In Amidst Sony's new product scheme-combining its sound and TV line under the Bravia name-one of its...Read more...

While Universal Pictures has long stepped away from its planned Universal Monsters Dark Universe (except at Universal Studios theme parks), the cinematic lore of the characters has found new life, thanks to standalone films like Leigh Whannell's Invisible Man, Zelda Williams' Lisa Frankenstein, and now Radio...Read more...

Hasbro's Star Wars toys truly love The Mandalorian-there are few entries in the galaxy far, far away (besides the original trilogy) that come close to the sheer depth the toymaker has delved into the Disney+ show for inspiration. Which is why it feels so bizarre that we have these new figures, missing a very familiar...Read more...

The second half of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon is out this week and, believe it or not, it's like a completely different movie. While Part One: A Child of Fire, followed the heroic Kora (Sofia Boutella) across the galaxy as she picked up allies, Part Two: The Scargiver is way more focused. Everything takes place on one...Read more...

After last week's episode-already a contender for one of 2024's best single episodes of TV-it would be tough for even a show as consistently strong as X-Men 97 to top what it just laid down. It's not surprising then that this week's episode of the Disney+ series doesn't reach the same highs. It doesn't quite...Read more...

Truth Social's stock price appears to be making a slight rebound Wednesday after losing more than half of its peak value in the month of April. That's a bit surprising considering the fact that the far right's favorite meme-stock company has been exposed for buying into the woke ideology of DEI.

Disneyland Forward, the Walt Disney Company's initiative to expand its original theme park, just got the go-ahead from the Anaheim City Council. Deadline reports that the $1.9 billion expansion plan, which will take decades to finish, received unanimous approval.Read more...

Boeing, the troubled aircraft manufacturer that makes most of the planes that Americans fly on, was the subject of an unsettling Congressional hearing Wednesday wherein multiple invited speakers accused the company of fostering a safety culture" that is anything but safe. Among other things, speakers accused the...Read more...

NASA is building a compact seismometer for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission to the Moon, hoping to learn more about the internal structure of the dusty satellite from its lunar tremors.Read more...

There's more Star Trek around right now than there has been since its 90s heyday, but there's not exactly all that much of it in comparison. The franchise's resurgence in the age of streaming has meant condensed seasons-these days, the average season is often half the size (or less) of one from the broadcast era. But...Read more...

A jawbone found in Somerset, England, may belong to the largest marine reptile yet known, a huge ichthyosaur that lived about 200 million years ago. The new species is dubbed Ichthyotitan severnensis and may have been over 80 feet long, according to the team's estimates. The finding means that ichthyosaurs could have...Read more...

Three needs are famously fundamental to survival: food, water, and shelter. According to new research, ancient humans had at least two of those three needs met by a nearly mile-long lava tube about 77 miles (125 kilometers) north of Medina, Saudi Arabia, for at least 7,000 years.Read more...

The newest weight loss drug on the market, Zepbound, might also help keep people's snoring down. On Wednesday, Eli Lilly announced the preliminary results of two Phase III trials testing its drug tirzepatide for people with both obesity and obstructive sleep apnea. Not only did those taking the drug lose much more...Read more...

In the realm of toy collecting, there are few things more iconic than vintage Star Wars toys. The variety. The history. The value. We all have images in our heads when we think of vintage Star Wars toys-but what you maybe don't know is many of those images are from the same person.Read more...

Nine Google workers were arrested for trespassing in New York City and Sunnyvale, California on Tuesday night after an hours-long sit-in protest against their company's contracts with Israel, a spokesperson from No Tech For Apartheid tells Gizmodo. Google says it has cut the protestors' access to their offices and...Read more...

The world of For All Mankind was forever changed when the Soviet Union arrived on the moon before the United States. That one event changed the course of the show's alternate history, and now we'll get to see exactly how it happened.Read more...

Atlas the robot was killed off yesterday, only to rise from the dead today. So don't write off the robot uprising just yet.

Netflix has enough English-language horror movies to keep you binge-watching for weeks, but don't overlook the broad selection of international frights the streamer also has on offer. Here are 10 titles-mostly recent Netflix arrivals-that were all released in their home countries in the past few years.Read more...

Sony's latest TVs are getting updates in all the expected and the least expected ways. Sony's televisions are easily some of the best we've seen, but compared to competitors like Samsung, its latest screen update feels more significant than the average refresh. There's also a lot of talk about new drivers that are...Read more...

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When the trailer for Abigail dropped folks were quick to point out that the Kevin Durand (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes) bore a striking resemblance to one Elon Musk. Many even thought the tech personality had gone Hollywood again after his brief cameo in Iron-Man 2. But no, the internet movie hive mind formerly...Read more...

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James Gunn has been filming his new film, Superman, for a few weeks now but there's still plenty of news to be had. Case in point, the actor behind Jonathan Kent, aka Superman's Earth father, has just been revealed.Read more...

In a little more than 30 years, we went from knowing only of the planets in our star system to discovering over 5,000 distant worlds spread across the cosmos. So far, none have looked quite like Earth. If an Earth-like planet was orbiting another star, however, it may look different than our precious pale blue dot. In...Read more...

Scientists in California want to know if you would ever feed your cat a bowl of bug chow. They're looking to survey cat owners about their attitudes on the emerging trend of insect-based cat diets, which some researchers and advocates say could be more sustainable and possibly even healthier than traditional pet food.Read more...

Buying an air conditioner is hard. There are lots of specs that aren't found on any other kind of product, the damn things are heavy, so if you buy the wrong one you'll dread returning it even more, and if you mess up you will find yourself living in an unpleasant ice box, or a muggy misery. But don't worry, it's...Read more...

Things get cosmic in a new X-Men 97 clip. Velma sets the stage for its unlikely return. Plus, Chucky gets into the family atomics, and what's coming up on Smiling Friends season 2. Spoilers now!

It's been a wild ride with Google's total pivot toward infusing AI into every bit of its products, and I need a break. The company released Gemini for the Pixel phones a few months ago, and it's already wreaking havoc on my life and the lives of others on Reddit. Gemini doesn't do everything the Google Assistant does,...Read more...

U.S. officials pledged not to pursue the death penalty against Julian Assange if he's extradited from the UK to face charges related to his publication of documents highly embarrassing to the U.S. government, according to a report from Australia's ABC News Tuesday. But that will be cold comfort to some in the British...Read more...