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The California DMV suspended GM-owned Cruise driverless taxis from roadways on Tuesday. This comes weeks after a hit-and-run incident in San Francisco. Cruise's robotaxi suspension is effective immediately, and the DMV says it determined the manufacturer's vehicles are not safe for the public's operation."

Crunchyroll very recently announced a linear channel-and now, the self-described ultimate home for anime worldwide" has announced yet another convenient way to bring its programming to your eyeballs. As of today in the U.S., Crunchyroll is now available as a Prime Video Channel.Read more...

General Motors' autonomous vehicle company Cruise can't shake the safety scrutiny over its driverless robotaxis. Now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is digging into whether or not these AVs are safe for the pedestrians being forced to live with them.Read more...

The Hunger Games is coming to a stage near you. Well, near you if you live in London, England. The first book of Suzanne Collins'best-selling young adult series is getting a dramatic stage play adaptation, and is currently scheduled to premiere in fall of 2024.

A bipartisan coalition of 33 state attorney generals sued Meta for allegedly designing and deploying harmful features on Instagram and Facebook that addicted a generation of young people.

Microsoft has a few reasons to celebrate as of late thanks to a few record-breaking buyouts to put a huge swathe of the game industry under its thumb. Microsoft's big man in charge Satya Nadella shared a few of his big plans for the future, especially regarding the company's plans now that its $69 billion merger with...Read more...

Riley Reid is many things: adult film superstar, social media influencer, meme-lord, and now, buzzy tech founder. As part of her new venture, Clona.ai, Reid is helping develop AI-generated chatbots of living creators that are designed with their explicit content and personal insights front and center. You can probably...Read more...

Urban Outfitters is no stranger to selling ancient tech. The clothing and furniture brand went from pushing vinyl back into the mainstream to selling $350 refurbished iPods on behalf of the tech's 22nd anniversary.Read more...

From the earliest days of his career as a superhero, Peter Parker has made taking pictures-pictures of Spider-Man-as vital as webslinging and crimefighting. Photojournalism is as important a part of Spider-Man's legacy as any other aspect, and with the release of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, there's plenty of opportunities...Read more...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will look to add child psychologists to its staff to advise its efforts on regulating the internet. Democratic Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said the FTC plans to add a psychologist to its staff by next fall, if not sooner, and said he is embarrassed he hasn't previously focused on how...Read more...

It's an inescapable fact that genre fiction is littered with tropes. Tropes provide something of a backbone to almost any story you will ever read, particularly in science fiction and fantasy. They are the thing we writers use to ground our stories before drenching them in weird locals and unfathomable magic. From the...Read more...

An encouraging new study has found that the interference from exoplanets-planets that orbit stars outside our solar system-has been overestimated in searches for extraterrestrial signals.

Ever wondered where the creepy clowns-the most unsettling part of Stephen Cognetti's Hell House LLC found-footage horror series-came from? Enter Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, the fourth film in the series, which follows an internet sleuth whose cold-case digging unearths fresh frights.Read more...

Boo! Apple has a not-so-surprising surprise in store for fans on October 30th. The Cupertino company announced Tuesday its set to reveal its second fall event of 2023. Titled Scary Fast," the online event is where Apple is expected to reveal new Mac products that could include a new iMac desktop or MacBook laptop.

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Apple Maps has flipped the switch on live traffic data in Israel and Gaza at the request of the Israeli Defense Forces, according to The Hill. The move follows Google and Waze who did the same yesterday, eliminating any options in the region to track traffic jams or source crowding information.Read more...

Amazon is doing more than just selling you things you don't need and producing some gruesome TV-now, they want to get into the veterinary business.Read more...

In order to be able to carry heavier payloads through deep space, NASA designed a lightweight rocket engine nozzle made of aluminum that can still withstand the heat of launches.Read more...

Lego is already coming for your 2024 savings-especially if you're waiting for Dune: Part Two after its delay. Its latest Icons" set is a 1,369-piece take on the quad-wing Ornithopters from the film, but the real star of the show might be its minifigure collection.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) issued a subpoena to Tesla in relation to its Autopilot and FSD (full self-driving) features, the company revealed in an SEC filing on Monday. The subpoena follows the DoJ's request for documents and additional information about Tesla's driver assistance systems earlier this year.Read more...

Binance is once again fighting off regulators, claiming the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) lawsuit is an overreach of U.S. law. The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world says the agency is trying to regulate foreign individuals and corporations operating outside the US.Read more...

Global climate extremes are adding up, and scientists are warning with renewed urgency that both natural and human systems are at risk of collapse. In a new report published in the journal BioScience, researchers analyze what they describe as 35 planetary vital signs used to track climate change. They found that 20 of...Read more...

Amid announcing one of its biggest iPhone releases of the last few years, Apple dedicated a big part of last month's Wonderlust product announcement to its supposedly sweeping environmental initiatives. The company even included a cringey featurette with actor Octavia Spencer talking down to CEO Tim Cook. Europe's...Read more...

Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 2 is getting a year long delay. Get a few more looks at Godzilla Minus One. Halloween comes to the White House in new Chucky season 3 pictures. Plus, what's coming on Star Trek: Lower Decks' penultimate episode of the season. Spoilers get!Read more...

Android 14 is already available for Pixel phone owners and is rolling out to other handsets as we speak-and while it doesn't include a plethora of new features, there are some cool upgrades for your handset that are worth making use of. We've picked out 5 of our favorites that you should try out as soon as Android 14...Read more...

SpaceX has reached a deal to launch four Galileo satellites next year in coordination with the European Space Agency, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Two launches on Elon Musk's Falcon 9 rockets will add to the 28 satellites currently orbiting Earth in Europe's global navigation system.Read more...

After shoving a Threads carousel into Facebook and Instagram, Meta gets that users might not likeit. Meta posted Monday on its platform's official account that it was collecting feedback on the new feature, but it almost certainly won't do anything to make it any better.Read more...

How can artists hope to fight back against the whims of tech companies wanting to use their work to train AI? One group of researchers has a novel idea: slip a subtle poison into the art itself to kill the AI art generator from the inside out.Read more...

The Moon's crater-covered countenance was previously thought to be a youthful 4.42 billion years old, give or take about 10 million years. But now, samples of crystals taken from the rocky satellite half a century ago indicate that the Moon is about 40 million years older than we knew.Read more...

Cosplay looks for your pets are here from Loungefly, with a new line of backpacks and other accessories from some of your favorite fandoms.

They did it, they really did it. The Freddy Fazbear Pizza band from Five Nights at Freddy's has been made real, and of course Blumhouse got the Jim Henson Creature Shop to do it.

Stranger Things-which premiered in the summer of 2016, and last dropped new episodes on Netflix in July 2022-will end its blockbuster run with a fifth season that's not coming anytime soon. Over the years, we've seen the young cast grow up in real time, something the team behind the series has obviously taken into...Read more...

The natural world is filled with dramas that play out on the macro- and microscopic scales, in our cities and in remote wilderness alike. In the British Ecological Society's annual photo competition, Capturing Ecology,' those activities take center stage as flora and fauna of all sorts find a way to persist in every...Read more...

The AMC adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampireis a rich gothic romance that takes the source material and updates it in ways that are both fascinating and, at time, far more explicit than the books ever were. While gay sex was deftly skirted around, the deed was all but said in the novels. In the new...Read more...

Remember Matter? The smart home standard that was supposed to unify all gadgets in the connected home? It's been updated with support for a bevy of connected devices, mainly home appliances. The update should help more third-party accessories work together in Google, Apple, and Amazon-led smart homes, provided...Read more...

Today, the Biden administration announced a massive dose of funding to the tech industry-the president named 31 tech hubs" across the U.S. and Puerto Rico in an effort to spur economic growth.Read more...

It's been a year since Doctor Who bid farewell to Jodie Whittaker's 13th Doctor in Power of the Doctor"-an episode that didn't exactly provide the most fitting farewell to her tenure. But enough about that! Remember when David Tennant showed up for like 30 seconds at the end? The BBC would like you to remember that....Read more...

Google Maps and Waze have disabled live traffic updates for areas of Israel and the Gaza Strip at the request of the Israeli military, according to a Bloomberg report. The live data tool was removed ahead of a potential ground invasion for the safety of local communities.Read more...

Where do we start with Sam Altman's Worldcoin? The OpenAI CEO's startup is building a new cryptocurrency. Worldcoin is also part of Altman's disquieting plan to capture all of the world's money with AI and then redistribute this wealth to the people." (Literally). And, because you log in by scanning your eyeball,...Read more...

About a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample canister was designed to keep the main chunk of the asteroid safe during its journey through space, but now teams at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) are struggling to open it to get at the space...Read more...

Loki's Tom Hiddleston is already aboard as The Life of Chuck's title character, and Mark Hamill-coming off an excellent turn in Mike Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher-is also a known part of the cast. But Flanagan's next big-screen project, which marks a return to Stephen King for the Doctor Sleep and Gerald's...Read more...

A duck's back is not the only slippery surface water is prone to slide off of. Researchers have developed a new method of coating surfaces in a liquid-like layer to make them extra slick.Read more...

My latest book, The Hard Switch, is about the crew of a small cargo ship, comprising Ada, Haika, and Mallic (an extractor, pilot, and engineer, respectively), and as I was thinking about this central trio, I started musing on crews" in general. What makes a great crew? Which crew would I most happily join (impending...Read more...

Sure, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has been delayed multiple times, but that just means the DC Movie Machine has had more time to prime the media on what to expect from the second installment in the Jason Momoa-led franchise. Today's fanservice character of the day is Topo."

Temperatures are currently cooling down across the U.S., but much of the country is in for a warmer, wetter winter than usual, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in this year's winter outlook.Read more...

Matthew Vaughn, the director of X-Men: First Class (2011), the Kingsman franchise, and the upcoming Argylle, shared a few opinions on superhero films at New York Comic Con last week. I genuinely don't know what's happening with the superhero in the sense that, I do think, maybe we all need a little bit of time off...Read more...

NASA's Voyager team has rolled out important measures in an attempt to further prolong the interstellar journey of the two Voyager spacecraft, which have been transmitting data from deep space since 1977.

If you're on the internet browsing with the recently redesigned Google Chrome, you're probably not the most privacy-minded person out there. Still, the world's most popular browser is gearing up to allow users to hide their IP address from websites, even without a VPN.Read more...

You can now use passkeys to sign into your Amazon account, the company announced on Monday. Amazon is following suit from other big tech players who are moving away from passwords and towards biometrics, such as your fingerprint or face, as well as pins to secure your digital identity.

The social experiments seen in Netflix's Squid Game dystopian future series have become real in our dystopian present: the trailer for thereality game show inspired by the hit series gathers 456 real contestants to put their skills to the test for that grand, glass-pig-encased prize of $4.56 million.Read more...