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Step into a slice of New Orleans at Tiana's Palace, a new themed dining concept at Disneyland inspired by The Princess and the Frog.Read more...

Tweeting out your latest PlayStation platinum trophy on a PS5 is going to get a little tricky. PS4 and PS5 owners received a message Monday saying the integration of X, formerly known as Twitter, will be coming to an end next week, as first spotted by users on X.Read more...

Fantasies of immortality and extended life preservation are likely as old as humanity itself, but new advances in robotics and advanced artificial intelligence models are inching those transhumanist tales closer to reality at a rapid pace. AI researchers and entrepreneurs eager to cash in on our deepest-rooted anxiety...Read more...

Ahead of Rick and Morty's seventh season, all anyone cared about was the new voice actors replacing Justin Roiland. Four episodes in, the show itself has reclaimed the spotlight, with last night's standout That's Amorte" offering some particularly poignant and gross food for thought with its storyline.Read more...

The European Space Agency's $1.4 billion Euclid space telescope is charged with revealing the dark universe-the 95% of the cosmos we don't see. On Tuesday, the telescope's first images will be revealed live.Read more...

The Marvels finally hits theaters this week with the cosmic team-up between Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris).Read more...

Sam Altman, OpenAI cofounder and CEO, revealed Chat GPT-4 Turbo at the company's first-ever developer conference called DevDay in San Francisco Monday. The new model supports 128,000 tokens of context, equivalent to a 300-page book and sixteen times ChatGPT-4's context limits.Read more...

After teasing the return of Doctor Who's traditionalChristmas special, the BBC and Disney have confirmed that Ncuti Gatwa's debut episode as the Doctor will air on Christmas Day 2023-the series' first holiday broadcast in six years.

If you are Apple Watch has recently had issues with its battery life, there may be some relief on its way. Sort of. Apple recently sent an internal memo with a few Apple Authorized Service Providers saying that a fix for some Apple Watches suffering from excessive battery drain after updating to WatchOS 10.1. was...Read more...

If you have an anime fan on your holiday gift list-or even someone you think might want to get into anime-Crunchyroll, which just launched a linear channel and a Prime Video channel, would like to help you out. The anime purveyor is launching Crunchyroll Fan Shops in over 2,400 Walmart stores across the U.S.Read more...

Amid a sea of salacious reports about the current hectic state of Marvel Studios in a report by Hollywood trade Variety last week-including rumors that the studio could attempt to reunite its original Avengers stars for a new film-one unexpected detail that sparked a swirl of commentary wasn't really about Marvel at...Read more...

Young people are breaking up with dating apps, according to a new poll from Axios, showing that 79% of college students don't use any dating apps. A decline in interest from dating apps' core demographic is wreaking havoc across the industry, as Bumble's CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd steps down a day before the...Read more...

SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship rocket for the second time, aiming for mid-November for another flight test of its launch vehicle after the first one didn't go so well.Read more...

Stranger Things is still charting the long and winding path to its final season, between the Hollywood strikes, and the not-so-simple prospect of bringing an end to what is arguably Netflix's most defining original series. An unexpected melding of those two issues? A West End play depicting the origin story of big bad...Read more...

What began as a jovial conference celebrating crypto culture and flashy nonfungible tokens this weekend ended with multiple attendees in a hospital believing they were going blind.

Tyson Foods announced that it is voluntarily recalling almost 30,000 pounds of its famous (and delicious) dinosaur-shaped nuggets this weekend after some consumers reported finding little bits of metal in their patties.Read more...

Rebecca Sugar is open to returning to Steven Universe. J.J. Abrams' Constantine series for DC and Max is no more. Plus, what's to come as Fear the Walking Dead nears its end. To me, my spoilers!

Elon Musk unveiled Grok' Saturday, a snarky, anti-woke AI chatbot that has access to all tweets, giving real-time knowledge about the world - if you can call everything on X knowledge'. It's built on Grok-1, the first large language model from the billionaire's artificial intelligence company, xAI.Read more...

You may think Nebraska and China have little in common, but the two places definitely share one ancient similarity: the presence of a 30-million-year-old primate lineage which headed to North America millions of years before modern human ancestors would evolve.

It's been over two years since Apple has updated its colorful line of all-in-one desktops. While it's nice to see the return of the iMac, now sporting Apple's fancy new M3 chip, you'd be surprised at how much it feels like we're walking on familiar ground.

I'm just going to say it. Black looks good on a MacBook. Silver is nice, and so is white, but the new M3- and M3 Max-powered MacBook Pros have that machined sleekness that feels very Apple. Plus, I can say that in the days since I've gotten my grubby little paws on the massive 16-inch MacBook, the anodized material on...Read more...

Want to buy invasive personal details about an active-duty service member who works on a specific military base? You better have $0.12, because according to a new study that's all it costs. The good news is the unregulated data brokers who sell that information probably won't ask you any pesky questions about your...Read more...

This week's lovely puzzle was brought to my attention by one of our readers, Nicolas Audet. Nicolas says it was used as a brain teaser for a finance job interview. I have to hand it to Wall Street on this one-it's a delightful little puzzle. Thanks for sharing, Nicolas!

Earlier this week, Prime Video's Gen V ended its debut season. The college-bound spinoff of the streamer's popular series The Boys has managed to make its own separate name for itself with audiences, but the question was always going to be in what way it linked up with the main show. And the way it did so...Read more...

Since 1998, Makoto Shinkai has grown to become one of Japan's most celebrated creators in the animation space thanks to works like Weathering With You, Your Name, and 2022's Suzume (which released earlier this year for international audiences). After last week's news that Suzume would be returning to theaters for a...Read more...

Just a few days ago, Marvel Studios revealed the first footage its upcoming series Echo. Previously meant for 2023 before getting knocked to 2024 in order to space things out, the Hawkeye spinoff sees Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) return home after having just violently turned in her resignation as Kingpin's enforcer and...Read more...

These days, it doesn't take much for a Hollywood star to become a meme and have it hang over their career for several years. Nicholas Cage is perhaps the perfect embodiment of this: over the decades, there've been so many memes made of his various roles-from Con Air and National Treasure to Face/Off and Ghost Rider....Read more...

During this weekend's Toronto Animation Industry Conference, Invincible company Skybound Entertainment revealed it's acquired the rights to Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation.

The Biden administration is betting on hydrogen to power the country, create well-paying jobs, and lower climate-warming emissions. Last month, the president announced that $7 billion will be invested to create seven regional hydrogen-producing hubs across the U.S., promising to work with unions and disadvantaged...Read more...

Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon movies were well-liked hidden gems during the 2010s, and it seemed inevitable that the series would eventually return in some form. (In film, at least, because the series has been chugging along with various TV spinoffs.) Earlier this year, we learned that would be the case...Read more...

Once upon time in the distant year of 2019, Marvel Studios held a pretty momentous Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con. With Avengers: Endgame in the rearview mirror and Spider-Man: Far From Home presently raking in cash at the box office, everyone was wondering what was coming next for the MCU. The Phase Four slate...Read more...

Over a year ago, Hulu announced it would be reviving Futurama, Matt Groening's other very popular animated series that aired on Fox. Things were rough at first: it originally seemed like John DiMaggio wouldn't reprise his role as Bender, to say nothing of how many times this show has ended, then been suddenly...Read more...

Despite headlining a movie and starring in several recent live-action shows, Daredevil's only had one chance to headline a video game of his own. That movie tie-in game for the Game Boy Advance may be forgotten by most, but at one point, the Marvel character was meant to star in a console before it was ultimately...Read more...

We've all been there: You're getting some peanut butter, or looking to nosh a nice pickle, when you find your wrist strength is insufficient to get at the jar's delicious contents. That's more or less NASA's vexing issue with the OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples-though, of course, that canister's contents aren't for eating.Read more...

If Prime Video's regular movie selection doesn't feel deep enough, a new streaming video channel from one of the most noted indie film distributors is here to help. This week, Kino Lorber launched Kino Film Collection, a new addition to Amazon's SVOD line-up, and one that's filled with an impressive array of titles...Read more...

If you're behind on what's happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here's a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don't forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same topic.Read more...

Sam Bankman-Fried may be headed to prison but the story of FTX is far from over. Like an evil spirit, the exchange seems destined to haunt the crypto community for the rest of its days.Read more...

Christmas is starting now-well, maybe that actually happened a couple weeks ago, as it wiped out most Halloween sections well before October 31. We know, we know, it's wild to see aisles already filled with holiday cheer and online stores rolling out their winter collections.Read more...

Earlier today, we got our surprising first look at Marvel's Hawkeye spinoff series centered around Alaqua Cox's Maya Lopez, Echo. But now that Maya is getting into the spotlight, she's going to be even more different than her comics counterpart.Read more...

EV startup Revel's moped-share option is ending in both New York City and San Francisco, the company announced in a company-wide email on Friday, citing the need to focus on its ride-hail service, according to a company-wide email seen byTechCrunch. Revel added rideshare in June of last year as a more eco-friendly...Read more...

Scientists seem to have found a kink in the armor of super gonorrhea. In a large-scale clinical trial reported this week, the experimental drug zoliflodacin was found to be just as effective as other frontline antibiotics at treating the stubborn bacterial infection. The results will pave the way for zoliflodacin to...Read more...

After landing back to Earth from Virgin Galactic's latest suborbital flight, planetary scientist Alan Stern and science communicator Kellie Gerardi received a ton of text messages from other researchers asking, How do I get to do that?"Read more...

You probably know Jupiter, the rotund fifth planet from the Sun, asorange and tan with a big red splotch. But the Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged the gas giant in ultraviolet light, giving the world a very different look.Read more...

Inspired by the impact of chance in everyday life, BalletCollective, an experimental dance group in New York City, collaborated with SamLeigh (Anamnesis), an award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designer, to create a totally new and unique expression of the medium: a ballet inspired by a TTRPG.Read more...

Godzilla isn't just a monster movie icon, the king of all kaiju: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades he's been stomping around the box office, Godzilla's gone through more appearances than most cinematic legends ever could. From his earliest days to hissmashup with Kong in Warner's Westernized...Read more...

Unlike a lot of other upcoming movies, Deadpool 3 is still on track to open as scheduled, in May of 2024. In a new interview, director Shawn Levy explains that much of the Ryan Reynolds-Hugh Jackman Marvel movie was already filmed when the SAG-AFTRA strike shut down production. He also dropped in a hint about some...Read more...

You have an opportunity. If you turn back now, you can live out the rest of your days without absorbing the cosmic horror that is the music video for Now and Then," or as Paul McCartney's marketing team puts it, the last Beatles song."Read more...

Loki (Tom Hiddleston) travels through dying timelines to find his team-but has to decipher what's really reality, as everything is crumbling-in Loki episode five, Science/Fiction," now streaming on Disney+.Read more...

Netflix has plenty of titles sorted into its horror, sci-fi, and indie categories. But its skimpy cult" section contains a hodgepodge of genres that feels decidedly random. We've picked out five that Netflix thinks are cult movies-followed by five more, found elsewhere on the streamer, that also fit the criteria.