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Seeing a famous face appear considerably younger than their actual years in a brand-new movie can be startling-Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinydid all right by Harrison Ford, but even Jeff Bridges shudders at his appearance in Tron: Legacy. But 93-year-old Star Trek legend William Shatner is willing to take his...Read more...

The gendered feud over the temperature setting in the office or at home might be overblown, new government-led research suggests. The study found little difference between how men and women self-reported the chilliness of their surroundings. There was also no major distinction between the sexes in the temperatures...Read more...

The Star Wars Universe gets turned upside down in Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a fun what-if style series. When ordinary nerf-herder Sig Greebling (Gaten Matarazzo) unearths a powerful artifact from a hidden Jedi temple, the galaxy as we know completely changes.Read more...

Apple Watch wearers seem to want a smartwatch that isn't the Apple Watch. At least, that's the impression I got while wearing the WiThings Scanwatch Light out in the world. I was getting constant compliments from friends and passersby, mainly from those who lean femme and were card-carrying iOS users. Can you use...Read more...

Have you seen a photo of MyPillow CEO and big-time Trump backer Mike Lindell looking spaced out, with dark circles under his eyes? It's gone viral on social media, racking up millions of views. But it's not real. The photo might look oddly realistic, but it's been altered significantly.Read more...

SpaceX is preparing to launch a private crew of astronauts on a five day journey through Earth orbit, and they will be the first to try on the company's latest spacesuit design during a first-of-its-kind spacewalk.Read more...

James Gunn's Superman-and with it, the full unleashing of James Gunn's DC Studios era-isn't out until next summer, but we have our first look at David Corenswet pulling on those famous red boots and getting into character. This comes courtesy of Warner Bros. and James Gunn's Instagram, which simply warns us: Get...Read more...

The Biden administration is looking for proposals from companies that can establish and operate an institution that will develop digital twins" of semiconductors, with the opportunity to receive up to $285 million in funding.Read more...

Evil is ending with its upcoming fourth season-and it's going to be a wild ride to the end, what with Rosemary's Baby now part of the action. The show follows a trio of assessors (David, a priest played by Mike Colter; Kristen, a psychologist played by Katja Herbers; and Ben, a tech whiz played by Aasif Mandvi) who loo...Read more...

A tokamak in New Jersey set a new record in fusion plasma by encasing its reaction in tungsten, a heat-resistant metal that allows physicists to sustain hot plasmas for longer, and at higher energies and densities than carbon tokamaks.

One of Star Wars' finest gaming protagonists, and the galaxy far, far away's premiere Space Barbie, Cal Kestis, is finally getting a Lego minifigure replica. Hooray! Less hooray: right now, the only way to get him is if you buy a pretty hefty Imperial Star Destroyer, to boot.Read more...

Bluesky confirmed Jack Dorsey's departure from the decentralized social media company's board of directors on Sunday. Earlier this weekend, Twitter's founder and former CEO tweeted a simple no" in response to a user's questions to announce his exit from Bluesky, a platform he helped create.Read more...

Peter Macon talks about Caesar's legacy in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Get another new look at Jennifer Lopez's mech movie Atlas. Gen V will rework its season 2 storyline after the tragic passing of Chance Perdomo. Plus, get a new look at the Rick & Morty anime. Spoilers, away!

When one Doctor biologically passes the torch to another, they do so in fire: a cascading, revitalizing burst of energy that blinds, dazzles, destroys, changes, and births in equal measure. Although Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor already went through all that-of a sort-late last year for Doctor Who's 60th anniversary...Read more...

PlayStation has announced that, after about three days of online yelling and reviewing bombing, it will no longer require Helldivers 2 players on PC to link their Steam account to a PlayStation Network account in order to continue accessing the popular sci-fi co-op shooter.Read more...

May's already stacking up to be an intense month for big tech companies, and guess who's starting us off with a bang? Apple is planning something big at its upcoming Let Loose event on May 7. But what could they possibly be showing off? It's iPads, duh. What do you think that hand spinning the Apple Pencil signifies?...Read more...

Apple's apps and services usually work brilliantly well on Apple devices, but what about when you're on a computer that isn't running macOS? While using Apple's apps on Windows isn't ideal, it's significantly easier than it used to be-and you can now get most of your Apple information from a Windows desktop or laptop.

One of last week's puzzles asked how many times per day all six digits on a 24-hour digital clock change simultaneously. Reader mattcoz responded, This one seemed too obvious, my mind wouldn't accept that it was that easy." I'm taking this comment as a challenge.

Last summer was pretty packed with big movies, from the likes of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to Across the Spider-Verse and Barbie. 2024's summer movie season began this weekend with The Fall Guy and a re-release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. With two throwback movies coming out in the same weekend-one based on...Read more...

Like the original series, X-Men 97 has been adapting a variety of comic book storylines from the 90s. Thus far, the likes of Inferno, The Trial of Magneto, and Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly's New X-Men run have been brought to life, with varying levels of time and success. The show has a lot of stories it can...Read more...

Ask the average person what high-profile actor should join the MCU that already hasn't, and Giancarlo Esposito will be one of the common answers. Folks have wanted the Breaking Bad star to be a part of the superhero franchise for years, and it apppears they'll finally get their wish-but only up to a point.Read more...

Bernard Hill, the actor that brought Lord of the Rings' Theoden to life memorably in Peter Jackson's movie adaptation trilogy, has died at the age of 79.Read more...

The age of IP means no property is off limits for a revival, and that includes Robin Hood.

Nintendo's Pokemon series has had a powerful grip on pop culture for decades, and it's doubtful to change anytime soon. The bulk of that power comes from the video and trading card games, along with the eternally ongoing anime and the movies and shows that've spun out of that. So how do you make one of the biggest...Read more...

At the start of the year, it was reported that Francis Ford Coppola's long-awaited sci-fi flick Megalopolis might finally see the light of day. That day appears to be pretty soon, because Coppola's production banner American Zoetrope released first-ever footage of the film that gives an idea of its scope.

It's now been five years since Disney bought 20th Century Fox, and we're finally seeing that really pay off on the movie side. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is hitting theaters next week, Alien: Romulus and Deadpool & Wolverine are later this summer. What Fox movies are due next for a comeback? The Maze Runner seri...Read more...

It's May 4th, which doesn't just make it Star Wars Day. We're also one month out from The Acolyte, our first-ever show set in the High Republic era, and which also had a special preview playing with Phantom Menace screenings this weekend. Along with that clip, the show's got a brand new trailer that teases the...Read more...

Summer's almost here, and that means it's time for the return of everyone's favorite superhero show The Boys. With season four set to kick off in a little over a month, Prime Video released a new trailer that's got everything you expect from the show now: Supes being chaotic freaks, pointed political imagery, and a lot...Read more...

If you thought the less-than-stellar launch of the highly anticipated Rabbit R1 AI device was all that happened in gadget news this week, we understand. Everyone in the tech industry was talking about this thing and no one particularly likes it. Our full review is still forthcoming, but our first impressions were very...Read more...

May the 4th be with you! But if you'd like to read some things that aren't about Star Wars this Star Wars Day, our most-read stories of the week have you covered, from Captain America merchandise to critical reflections (and not quite so critical ones) behind the scenes of Marvel, our continued look back at the Planet...Read more...

This week saw a blast from the past as we told the tales of numerous fraud victims who were targeted by scammers on the cheating site, Ashley Madison. A new chatbot came and went leaving so many people with questions.And then there's Elon Musk who went hardcore" with layoffs he even got rid of those pesky interns...Read more...

Elon Musk became the butt of more than a few jokes after internet users pointed out Tesla's robot demo wasn't all it appeared to be. As it turns out, a video the billionaire posted of Optimus, the company's much-hyped humanoid robot, was actually being controlled by a human slightly off-screen. And it's interesting to...Read more...

In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes the rediscovery of a satellite lost in the 1990s and why we sometimes lose sight of our orbital property. Researchers have discovered what they claim is the world's deepest blue hole, the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, and have yet to...Read more...

The X-Men find themselves, perhaps almost always, on the precipice of great change. But right now they really do feel like they're on the edge of something new again. In the comics, after years rejuvenated by the Krakoan Age, they're ready to rise from the ashes of tragedy once more. On the big screen, we're ready to...Read more...

Elon Musk says Grok's real-time news feature, which is going about as well as you'd expect so far, will get information purely from summarizing what people say on X," in an email to the Big Technology newsletter Friday. Musk says each Grok summary aims to combine breaking news and social commentary by analyzing tens...Read more...

This year is a big one for Star Wars on the small screen. We've already had Young Jedi Adventuresand The Bad Batch, and Tales of the Empire and The Acolyte are coming very soon. Now we have a release window for Disney+'s Skeleton Crew, coming to the streamer this winter.Read more...

No one deserves their much-delayed accolades as part of the Star Wars franchise more than Ahmed Best, who portrayed Jar Jar Binks in George Lucas' prequel trilogy. The actor was met with the first very public show of vitriol from Star Wars' toxic fandom, which is something we're unfortunately much more used to seeing...Read more...

The pairing of Deadpool and Wolverine in their own full-fledged action comedy always somehow felt inevitable-despite Wolverine's grand send-off in Logan, Ryan Reynolds seemingly willed his re-teaming with Hugh Jackman into existence. But enthusiasm is only the first step, and in a new interview, the star and Marvel's...Read more...

Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu defended the Rabbit R1 for the last week, telling Gizmodo and other outlets that it's not an Android app." Now, he may have to defend the next fatal claim for an AI device: that it's not just a ChatGPT wrapper. The push-to-talk feature on Rabbit R1s experienced a brief outage on Thursday night, ...Read more...

A Florida woman's serious pneumonia that landed her in the hospital turned out to have a very strange culprit: deer meat tainted by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Though it took some time for the woman's doctors to discover the true cause of her worsening illness, they were able to treat her in time once they did.Read more...

Barriss Offee is a rare character for Star Wars. Not just because she was a Jedi so horrified by the part the Order had to play in the Clone War that she took extreme action to try and stop it, but simply because the next step of her story was left untold for over a decade. Now, at long last, it's time to tell it, and...Read more...

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed in March after it was struck by an enormous container ship that lost power while exiting the city's port. The collision left the stricken Dali container ship stuck under the remnants of the bridge and made entry and exit of the Port of Baltimore nearly impossible. Now,...Read more...

As Peacock preps for this summer's Olympics (and a price increase), the streamer's genre movie library remains as robust (and as weird) as ever. Here are 10 fantasy and horror movies to check out, including a pair of Jim Henson favorites and some very recent titles that you might have missed in the theater.

The Transportation and Security Administration plans to vastly expand its use of facial recognition technology in the U.S., going from 25 airports with the tech to over 430 by this July. And a group of 14 senators from both parties are not happy, arguing in a new letter that, this powerful surveillance technology as...Read more...

Microsoft shared its responsible artificial intelligence practices from the past year in an inaugural report, including releasing 30 responsible AI tools that have over 100 features to support AI developed by its customers.Read more...

Twas the afternoon before Star Wars Day, and all through the internet, Hasbro was stirring our wallets with yet another big stream of reveals from the galaxy far, far away. Appropriately, given that 2024's Star Wars Day coincides with the 25th anniversary of The Phantom Menace, many of these goodies are celebrations...Read more...

Physical media is very popular these days. Nostalgia, fandom, and streaming burnout have caused certain segments of American society to switch off their Amazon Prime accounts and fire up their Blu-ray players. One of the many advertised benefits of physical media is that it offers a more permanent, definitive form of...Read more...

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ended in 2021, and Captain America: Brave New World isn't arriving until 2025. But Marvel doesn't want you to forget about one of its signature heroes, now played by Anthony Mackie, amid all the Deadpool & Wolverine hype, teasing Sam Wilson's new costume as he steps fully into his...Read more...

Every celebrity has various trolls who say mean things about them online, a fact of life for most famous people in the modern era. But Tiffany Haddish isn't just a passive observer when people insult her on social media networks. Haddish says she's tracked down people trolling her and has even given them a call,...Read more...

A Chinese probe is on its way to the far side of the Moon to collect samples and drop them off at Earth in what would be a historic first. The Chang'e-6 mission launched from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 5:30 a.m. ET on Friday. The lunar probe was riding on board China's largest rocket, the 57-meter-tall...Read more...