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If you were in charge of selecting the Lego minifigures for a massive celebration of a decade of Marvel Cinematic Universe films and beyond, you'd have plenty of priorities on your list. Heroes, villains, Earth's mightiest movie stars. Lego decided it had so many options, it could throw in Marvel Studios head honcho...Read more...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe gets the team-up we've been waiting for since Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel with The Marvels.Read more...

On Tuesday, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new automotive right-to-repair ballot initiative forcing car manufacturers to provide independent mechanics and technicians with the same diagnostics they give to authorized repair shops. The landslide vote comes months after the Biden Administration backpe...Read more...

In an effort to cut cost for the sake of the development of its next generation spaceplane, Virgin Galactic will lay off a number of its employees and save on expenses in hopes of bringing in future profits from its commercial flights.Read more...

Earlier this year, io9 revealed the cover for LySandra Vuong's Covenant, Oni Press' graphic novel publication of the wildly popular Webtoon digital comic. Today, we're thrilled to share the first chapter from the book, as well as some commentary from Vuong, aka Explodikid, ahead of the April 2024 release.

Apple released 14 and 16-inch variants of the MacBook Pros touting its newly-released M3 chips. It doesn't bring a lot of new upgrades and doesn't make much sense if you're on an M2-series chip already. However, if you're one of those Intel or M1 MacBook Pro holdouts, now might be the time for a change.

WhatsApp has recently been added to Apple's App Store for Mac. I know it seems weird that it wasn't there this whole time. You've not gone crazy, I swear.

Millie Bobby Brown will sleuth again in Enola Holmes 3. Hear Alan Tudyk sing about farts in a new clip from Disney's Wish. Plus, more looks at the return of The Santa Clause. Spoilers get!

Samsung aims to take a stab directly at the heart of Google's big AI ambitions with its upcoming phones. The next range of Samsung mobile devices coming next year will be bursting at the seams with generative AI, including a new assistant chatbot.Read more...

Rockstar Games decided Wednesday to acknowledge that yes, there is a trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI and that it will premiere next month.Read more...

The first impressions for The Marvels have hit the internet, and while for some the Marvel Studios flick that soars by the might of its trio of heroes, for others that chemistry is brought down by some wider issuesRead more...

Everyone has their go-to annual holiday movies and specials to watch, but what if you're itching to watch something new? Here's a list of 10 brand-new releases coming for 2023's festive season, leaning heavily into the comedy and Santa-style magic, with some animation along for the ride too.Read more...

The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but two tiny asteroids orbiting around Dinkinesh.Read more...

This afternoon Nintendo of Japan officially confirmed that it is working with Sony Pictures to bring one of its most seminal franchises, The Legend of Zelda, to the big screen in a live action movie adaptation.Read more...

Netflix is doing its best to lure its customers into exploring its gaming options, and now another streamer-one that's perhaps better angled for this purpose-is trying the same: anime hotspot Crunchyroll. Starting today, members of the Mega Fan ($9.99/month) and Ultimate Fan ($14.99/month) tiers can access free games...Read more...

Twenty years ago today, the sight of a diminutive cartoon Yoda-shrouded in a hooded cloak, his green lightsaber ignited and held high-riding atop a goatlike mount transformed Star Wars as we knew it. A year before at the climax of Attack of the Clones, he'd told us that begun, the Clone Wars had: now they truly had,...Read more...

It surely says something about the state of the world today that one of the web's most anodyne and wholesome memes chose to come out of retirement this week to wade into the discussion surrounding one of the most contentious political conflicts in modern history.Read more...

Viruses are somehow even weirder than we thought. In a recent study published last month, scientists say they've discovered two new viruses that hijack the machinery of other bacteria-infecting viruses in order to replicate themselves. One of these vampiric viruses even acts the part, appearing to bite" and latch...Read more...

A one way trip to the Red Planet would take up to nine months. During that time, astronauts on board the Mars-bound spacecraft could lose their sense of direction and ability to know up from down, making it difficult to orient themselves on the Martian surface. In order to keep astronauts on course, a wearable device...Read more...

A UK-based startup is hoping to turn their specialized tampons into a popular test for sexually transmitted infections. The company Daye has launched a new at-home screening service for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and other common STIs. The test is currently only available in the UK but will reportedly expand to the U.S....Read more...

Over a decade has passed since Christopher Paolini last published a book in The Inheritance Cycle, and he returns to Alagaesia, this time following a fan-favorite character from the original series, Murtagh. Picking up a year after 2011's Inheritance, Murtagh, alongside his dragon, Thorn, is searching for meaning in a...Read more...

Everyone's talking about how creepy generative AI is, so Google Photos won't let you edit pictures of your driver's license, ID cards, or anything personally identifiable. If you try to use the Magic Editor with a compatible Pixel device, Photos pops up a window to let you know it can't complete the action since it...Read more...

Early last week, Israel's Arrow 2 missile system successfully intercepted and destroyed a suborbital ballistic missile suspected of launching from Yemen. It's a notable technological achievement, but one with potentially serious legal and geopolitical implications.Read more...

Texas will vote on whether to give the oil and gas industry billions to make its barely-working power grid more reliable while ignoring the benefits of renewable energy. This comes two years after a winter storm shut off power for millions of Texans, and a heat wave this past summer that pushed the power grid to its...Read more...

A rare bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has teamed up to propose major privacy reforms that could fundamentally reign in the US government's most powerful domestic surveillance tools.

Four episodes in, season seven of Rick and Morty has already introduced new voices (who sound just like old voices), as well as packed in fan-favorite side characters and guest stars. But amid the partying, grotesque mutations, and horrifying spaghetti reveals, the biggest theme so far has been the importance of...Read more...

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed to hold big tech accountable to the same regulations that banks are, in a filing Tuesday. If Apple and PayPal offer financial services similar to banks like savings accounts, credit cards, and payments, the CFPB wants to regulate them like it does the banks.

The AMPTP has doubled down on AI-a contentious issue within the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike-with its latest final offer" for the actors' union.Read more...

Google how many days until Christmas" on a computer, and you'll find a little animated present that transports you to the company's Santa Tracker hub, a winter wonderland full of activities and educational content for children. Among the offerings is a guessing game called Quick Draw, which makes an explicit and...Read more...

Waze users will start hearing directly from the app which are the most accident-prone roads on their route. Perhaps now the Google-owned app will help settle the age-old argument about which state has the worst roads and the worst drivers (hint: it's a tie between all states in the northeast U.S.).Read more...

YouTube is testing out two generative AI features for Premium users that will answer user questions about the video they're watching and summarize a video's comment section, Google announced Monday.Read more...

A lot has happened in Star Wars: The High Republic since we last left big bad Marchion Ro-the Eye of the Nihil, and the biggest threat the Jedi and the Republic had faced in generations-triumphant. A whole phase of the transmedia initiative, in fact, as it jumped back in time to set the stage for a climactic third...Read more...

The S Pen Creator Edition was announced in July when the Galaxy Tab S9 was released. Well, now you can finally buy it for $99 in the US.

In space, misplacing a bag of tools is hard to recover from. A tiny mishap during a recent spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) has led to a new object in the night sky, with a tool bag now orbiting Earth ahead of the space station, temporarily taunting the astronauts who dropped it.Read more...

Interview With the Vampire attracted plenty of fans during its first season on AMC-but the Anne Rice adaptation saw its audience grow exponentially when the show recently enjoyed a two-month showcase on Max. It might go without saying, but you can expect collaborations of this sort to become even more prevalent in the...Read more...

Marvel Studios is tapping into the majorly cosmic powers of Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers (Brie Larson); Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani); and Photon, Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) by fueling them with the power of family.Read more...

ByteDance, the China-based company that owns TikTok as well as one of the biggest overseas VR makers, Pico, is taking a long look at its VR headset business, finding that all those metaverse champions were way too optimistic" in their estimation that virtual reality would take over the world.Read more...

Earlier this morning, ESA released the Euclid space telescope's first scientific images, offering a glimpse into its mission to explore the dark universe"-the mysterious 95% of the cosmos made up of dark matter and dark energy.Read more...

WeWork filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, listing nearly $19 billion in debts, according to Bloomberg. The coworking space, once the largest office space tenant in Manhattan, will keep existing offices open, according to its bankruptcy filing.Read more...

Chad Stahleski wants to keep Queen's Highlander music in his reboot. Get new looks at Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon and Godzilla Minus One in new posters. Plus, what's to come on Fear the Walking Dead, and even more sneak peeks at Doctor Who's return. Spoilers, away!

The American Ornithological Society announced this week that, next year, North American birds named for people will no longer be, as the society seeks to instead name the birds for themselves-and remove any negative human connotations from the domain of avifauna.

The first Marvels trailer dropped all the way back in April, giving us our first good glimpse of the movie's superhero-switcheroo hijinks. Now, of course, we know a lot more about the Captain Marvel sequel-but of course Marvel can't resist one last tease before the movie itself arrives Friday.Read more...

Things just keep getting worse for Cruise, the troubled robotaxi company that once dreamed of being a leader in the autonomous driving industry. Only a month after a violent collision forced the company to ground all of its fleets nationwide, multiple news outlets have reported that the company's self driving" cars...Read more...

There's a slight update on Snow, Kit Harrington's Jon Snow Game of Thrones spin-off that was being talked about at Max.Read more...

Marvel's upcoming Blade movie will introduce the beloved vampire hunter to the MCU and mark his first theatrical appearance since Wesley Snipes bowed out of the role with 2007's Blade Trinity. Much has been made about what the movie is or isn't, but for director Yann Demange, the film will be a great showcase for star...Read more...

This past weekend at BlizzCon, fresh off the news that Blizzard-and the rest of Activision-would be joining Microsoft officially, the video game developer lifted the lid on the future of its longest-running game, World of Warcraft, in a big way. And in doing so, it reminded us in quite a stark way just how much time...Read more...

It's nearing the end of the year, which means once holiday shopping and sales are over, we'll be talking about the next generation of new smartphones. Samsung typically starts us off for the year with the Galaxy flagship lineup. And next year, it could be accompanied by new fancy jargon to compete with the iPhone 15...Read more...

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OpenAI revealed a lot of significant innovations during its first-ever developer conference on Monday. The company reported it currently has two million developers and 100 million weekly active users, with 92% of Fortune 500 companies building on its products. OpenAI is the most advanced and widely used AI platform...Read more...

Truth Social founder, failed businessman, and flop POTUS Donald Trump has been attempting to shitpost his way through an avalanche of legal troubles. Beset by as many as four separate court cases, Trump's solution has mostly been to whine about it a lot on social media-often taking aim at prosecutors and judges...Read more...