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The announcement trailers for new entries in Doctor Who's classic-era remasters just keep getting more and more involved. At first, it was just a cute way to bring back a classic companion for a fun moment or a short skit, but now they've gotten so big the latest gives us a whole new look at the final days of The Last...Read more...

The announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu this week raises a bunch of interesting questions about just why this is the next chapter of the titular heroes' tale. But one of the most interesting is when it's coming. The end of season three saw Din undo the machinations of his greatest foil on The Mandalorian, and the...Read more...

Researchers believe they've found the oldest known fossilized skin, hidden away in a limestone cave system in Oklahoma. The skin sample dates to the early Permian Period, between 289 million years ago and 286 million years ago.

SpaceX used its Starlink satellites to send and receive a text message from low Earth orbit in an effort to expand its connectivity beyond the reach of traditional cell tower signals.Read more...

Jason Momoa hypes up the chance he might play DC's Lobo. Get a new look at Lionsgate's creepy killer teddy bear movie Imaginary. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters showrunner Chris Black has high hopes the show will return for season 2. Plus, Netflix teases a new German sci-fi series. Spoilers get!

For millennia, our species looked at the Moon as a place that would forever be beyond our reach, but 20th-century technologies finally made our natural satellite accessible to probes, landers, and even human explorers. Despite these achievements, however, the Moon has furiously resisted our overtures, whether it be...Read more...

Few fans of the first season of Halo would call it an exactly faithful adaptation of Microsoft's legendary sci-fi video game series. But the series is picking itself up for round two by taking on an iconic moment from the series' battle for the fate of humanity: the infamous Fall of Reach.

Jesse Lyu, founder and CEO of Rabbit, was bothered by how we have to open a different app each time we wish to get something done on our phones. So, he came up with a device that will manage all your apps for you. Think of it like a voice assistant but fairly more advanced.

It would be nice to tune into the world without taking off my headphones. That's the premise behind Auracast, a new broadcasting feature coming to Bluetooth. Not only can the headphones and earbuds you use now tap into the capability, but so can hearing aids. I got to try out the technology at CES 2024, and I can...Read more...

In the year that Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie is a major awards contender-with a script the director co-wrote, starring and produced by Margot Robbie, and an incredible ensemble of female talent-women in film are still a majorly marginalized group. Mattel, no doubt inspired by Barbie's success, has come out with a new...Read more...

Winter weather is a great reason not to leave the couch-so why not crank up the heat, pile on some blankets, and seek chills in your entertainment instead? Hulu's got a great selection of recent horror films streaming right now, so here are 10 to get you started.Read more...

Star Trek has been doing quite well on TV of late but it's time to beam back to the big screen. While a fourth Star Trek film on the Kelvin timeline is still in the works, now a new project has been revealed too.

It's the horror sequel we didn't realize we were waiting for, and now demand ASAP: 28 Years Later, a continuation of the post-apocalyptic zombie tale started in 2002's 28 Days Later and further explored in 2007's28 Weeks Later. And this time, director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are coming back.Read more...

Superman will make his return to the big screen next year and he might be bringing Supergirl with him. Last year, when James Gunn and Peter Safran revealed their ambitious schedule for the future of the DC Universe, it included a film called Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, based on the Tom King comics. Now, with that...Read more...

A legal battle over how death row prisoners in Alabama can be killed has reached a critical point. On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that the state can proceed with its planned execution of inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen gas. The execution is scheduled for later this month and would be the first ever to...Read more...

To coincide with the release of Echo, Disney+ has rolled out its own take on the correct order to watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe's shows and movies. It includes shows like Daredevil and Jessica Jones, holdovers from the Netflix slate of once loosely related universes. They officially enter the fold, with Echo...Read more...

After a hilarious fake out yesterday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) *officially* approved 11 Bitcoin ETFs, giving the crypto world a much needed win. The ETFs will make it easier for normal, non-web3 people to invest in the cryptocurrency, opening up the opportunity for broader interest in the...Read more...

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NASA, along with a suite of international and private partners, has big plans to build a small space station. Called Lunar Gateway, the proposed outpost will support missions at and around the Moon and provide a unique platform for conducting science. Here's what you should know about the upcoming space station and...Read more...

Not since 1972 has a human set foot on the Moon, but NASA is aiming to change that through its ambitious Artemis program. The lunar missions kicked off on November 16, 2022 with Artemis 1, and now the space agency is preparing its astronauts for bigger and bolder missions to the Moon.Read more...

Elon Musk endorsed a tweet Tuesday that suggested graduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have IQs approaching borderline intellectual impairment." This isn't the first time the billionaire celebrated blatant bigotry on his platform in recent months. In November, Musk promoted a tweet that...Read more...

With a much-anticipated sci-fi project coming soon-Netflix's 3 Body Problem series-creative partners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are reflecting back on a different, equally anticipated sci-fi project they never ended up making. In 2019, Disney revealed the Game of Thrones showrunners were working on a Star Wars movie,...Read more...

SpaceX is currently developing its gigantic Starship megarocket, a next-gen launch vehicle with the potential to revolutionize the spaceflight industry. Here's what you need to know.Read more...

The dreaded announcement arrived yesterday in a tweet, with Astrobotic admitting that, as a result of a catastrophic propellant leak, there's no chance of a soft landing on the Moon." Mission specialists are scrambling to salvage what they can, but the much-hyped Peregrine-1 lunar mission is effectively over, with a f...Read more...

Only two months after it unveiled its much anticipated AI Pin," flashy startup Humane laid off four percent of its staff, according to a report from The Verge Tuesday. The layoffs, which will affect 10 people, come as a wave of cuts are impacting workers at other, larger companies in the tech industry.

Buried in Tuesday's news of an upcoming Star Wars movie starring the Mandalorian and Grogu was an update that's arguably even more exciting. Dave Filoni is hard at work developing a second season of Ahsoka, something that hadn't yet been made official in the wake of season one.Read more...

Sony and Siemens revealed an XR (Xtended Reality) headset collab at CES 2024. Launching later this year, the headset was developed with business in mind, and that's apparent from multiple aspects of it.

We've already seen multiple teases of the highly anticipated, long-awaited Walking Dead spinoff featuring Rick and Michonne-but now, the full trailer is here. And it's not what you're expecting.Read more...

OpenAI launched its much-anticipated GPT Store on Wednesday, offering its customizable AI chatbots to ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, and Team users. The GPT Store is Sam Altman's biggest consumer product launch since ChatGPT, and it aims to make AI more practical and accessible.Read more...

Marvel Studios' latest show, Echo, is unique in that the bulk of its story is isolated. After quickly explaining its place in the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, the show focuses on Maya Lopez, her family, her heritage, and, eventually, her uncle" Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin.Read more...

The largest primate in our family tree went extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago, and its existence has been known to humankind for less than a century. Now, a team of researchers has reviewed the ancient records and devised a more specific extinction window for our huge fallen relative, Gigantopithecus blacki,...Read more...

We're all ready to see just what Denis Villeneuve and his crew do with Dune: Part Two in a few months, but what if nearly four decades ago we'd had a chance to get a sequel to compare it to? David Lynch's planned script for a sequel to his wild 1984 movie has been missing for years, but now, an unfinished draft has...Read more...

The Peregrine lander has less than a day to live, and the company behind the spacecraft may have figured out why its mission was doomed shortly after its launch.Read more...

Twitch laid off 35% of its staff, just over 500 employees, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. This is the latest round of layoffs at Amazon's live-streaming site, which says it receives over 35 million daily visitors but has failed to turn a profit.Read more...

What's better than one screen? How about two? If you're one of the many used to the dual-screen lifestyle, PC maker Asus is trying to get into your good graces with its three-in-one Zenbook Duo, a clamshell laptop with two full 14-inch touchscreens and a magnetically attached keyboard. Unfold it, and it becomes two...Read more...

Rachel Brosnahan discusses getting ready to play Superman Legacy's Lois Lane. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Godzilla x Kong swap release dates. Plus, a new version of The Blob could be on the way, and Sony teases Venom 3, Karate Kid, and more. To me, my spoilers!

We want you to be able to throw out your user manual," was one of the first things Dean Miles, Amazon's director of product for its smart vehicles, told me as we sat down to chat over Amazon's big push to stick AI in cars at CES 2024. The idea was first billed to me as-essentially-yo dawg, we put a chatbot in your...Read more...

I love mechanical keyboards. And I love that companies have finally caught on that CES is the show to debut their wares. I got to see a PC peripheral maker's first-ever mechanical keyboard. HYTE launched the aptly named Keeb TKL. It lights up in tandem with other desk accessories and apps; it's fully customizable with...Read more...

Among several cool releases, including a cute little robot and an 8K projector, Samsung also released a picture frame at CES 2024, which is actually a wireless speaker. I haven't decided yet on whether this is impressive or unnecessary.Read more...

Sometimes, a moment is so fleeting or a scene is so small that not even the fiercest squint can capture it.Read more...

The Securities and Exchange Commission's primary X account was hacked on Tuesday, the social media site has confirmed. The account, which falsely tweeted about a much-anticipated Bitcoin ruling, thus throwing the crypto world into a temporary uproar, didn't have two-factor authentication activated, which allowed an...Read more...

The X account belonging to the Securities and Exchange Commission was hacked on Tuesday, allowing a fake announcement to be posted to the web concerning a much-awaited happening in the crypto world: the first Bitcoin ETFs. The bogus tweet claimed the ETFs had been approved but, as it turns out, that's not true. When...Read more...

The Security and Exchange Commission's X account was hacked on Tuesday afternoon, sending an untrue tweet that the Bitcoin ETF was approved. Chairman Gary Gensler quickly tweeted from his personal account that the tweet was false and the result of a hack. In the following 15 minutes, the price of Bitcoin shot up to...Read more...

Echo, the latest show from Marvel Studios, debuts on streaming tonight. It's the first Marvel show to not only drop all of its episodes simultaneously, but also to premiere both on Disney+ and on Hulu, which is happening for a few reasons. One, it's TV-MA, meaning it's aimed at a more mature audience. Two, it's the...Read more...

Pennsylvania became the first state in the nation to use ChatGPT Enterprise, Governor Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday, leading a pilot program with OpenAI in which state employees will use generative AI. Governor Shapiro says Pennsylvania government employees will start using ChatGPT Enterprise this month to help state...Read more...

NASA is dealing with a host of safety and technical issues related to the spacecraft that will fly astronauts to the Moon, forcing it to postpone two Artemis missions as it tries to resolve a number of logistical challenges.Read more...

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JBL gave its Tour Pro 2 earbuds a smart charging case last year, and it was such a hit that they decided to do it again on their 2024 offering: the Live 3 earbuds series. The series consists of the Live Buds 3, Live Beam 3, and Live Flex 3, and they will include a new feature for those in need of more screens in their...Read more...

Star Wars has liked announcing a lot of movies in the years since The Rise of Skywalker, but us getting to actually see them? Less so. That definitely seems like it's changing, with the Rey movie set to begin filming this year and now, the announcement of another new movie that will lead the charge: The Mandalorian &...Read more...

Critics say that Meta has often caused serious psychological harm to younger users by exposing them to a variety of toxic and inappropriate content. Eating disorders, depression and even suicide have all been blamed on the company's algorithms, and the calls to reform those algorithms have grown so loud lately that...Read more...