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It's been a tumultuous decade but Rick Riordan is finally all in again on Percy Jackson and Hollywood. The creator of the popular book franchise was famously unimpressed about how Fox treated his characters with its two movie adaptations, 2010's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and 2013's Percy...Read more...

YouTube introduced a dedicated news-watching experience to help viewers across 40 countries find the latest stories from reputable sources, the company announced on Wednesday. The aim is to make reliable news more readily accessible with two added features including a watch page and a Shorts Innovation Program."Read more...

A sweeping analysis of European and Asian genomes over the last 40,000 years reveals when and how some genetic exchange occurred between Homo sapiens and our closest cousins, Homo neanderthalensis. It also shows how the Neanderthals' genetic footprint depended on later exchanges between members of our own species.Read more...

The Internal Revenue Service will offer a pilot run of its free, electronic tax filing service, called Direct File, in thirteen states for the 2024 tax season.Read more...

After rumors began to swirl that Sam Altman's OpenAI tapped Jony Ive on a secret piece of hardware, the company's wunderkind CEO says he has no plans to compete with the smartphone market.

When The Hunger Gamesmoviecame out in 2012, the world was set on fire. Jennifer Lawrence became a superstar, the books stayed on bestseller lists for months, and another three films were quickly announced. The prequel story based on the newly released book of the same name, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds...Read more...

An experimental gene therapy that uses a modified herpes virus shows promise as a brain cancer treatment, according to new research. The Phase I study found evidence that the virus could safely induce an immune response that attacked the often-fatal cancer. It also seemed to extend the length of survival in those who...Read more...

The best time-travel movie you haven't seen yet is coming in early 2024. io9 can confirm that the North American rights to River, Junta Yamaguchi's follow-up to the 2021 hit Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, have been picked up by Cineverse with the aim to release the film on its streaming service AsianCrush in early...Read more...

Earlier this year Netflix revealed that the second season of Dead End: Paranormal Park-the long-in-the-works adaptation of Hamish Steele's supernatural comic series DeadEndia-would be its last, leaving the story of Barney, Norma, and their friends at Phoenix Parks unfinished. But now fans will see at least one version...Read more...

Everyone knows (or may have had experience being) the colleague or classmate who's taken the easy route on an assignment knowing someone else will swoop in to save the day. New research suggests that the same phenomena, which psychologists call social loafing," may also apply when a teammate is made of software and...Read more...

Our quickly warming world is losing many signs of winter-once snowy mountain tops aren't as frosty tipped, glaciers are disappearing, and sea ice at the poles is melting at alarming rates. But new research outlines a small reason for optimism. Scientists project that even though climate change will make the world...Read more...

Those hoping to see some of Activision Blizzard's biggest titles make their way to Xbox Game Pass will have to wait just a little while longer.

An Austin-based startup called Blackdot wants to bring modern robotics to an ancient practice: Tattooing. The company plans to begin piercing customers' skin with ink soon using what they are calling the world's first automatic tattooing device." The company believes its highly precise tattoo robot, which took a team...Read more...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Foxconn CEO Young Liu unveiled AI factories at the fourth annual Hon Hai Tech Day Tuesday. These data centers will not only build Foxconn's newest electric vehicles but also design the software that powers the fleet of self-driving cars.Read more...

One of the most exciting aspects of a new Indiana Jones film being released was the realization there would be new merch. Over the years, Indy has had plenty of merch, from toys and props to sleeping bags and bed sheets, but he hasn't had anything major in 15 years. In that time, since the release of his last film in...Read more...

According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, a new, higher-end iMac with a mini-LED 32-inch display is likely going to be released in 2025.

New research appears to provide a long-sought answer about the mysterious cicadas that emerge after years in the ground: do they eat during the brief time they spend as adults before dying? The study found evidence of plant DNA in the guts of some adult cicadas, but not in the guts of those that freshly reached the...Read more...

X, formerly called Twitter, launched its Not a Bot" beta Tuesday, which charges new accounts a $1 annual fee to tweet and retweet. The initial test applies to new accounts created in New Zealand and the Philippines to allegedly combat bots and scammers on X," the company said on its Help Center page.

Hear a little more from Rick and Morty's new stars in another teaser for the latest episode. Get a look at Marvel's Werewolf By Night, now... in color! Plus, What's coming on Krapopolis, and more. Spoilers, away!

OpenAI's world-famous chatbot is free to rummage through the internet's darkest corners. The company declared Tuesday that the Browse with Bing" feature is ready for prime time for those ChatGPT users paying for Plus or Enterprise editions. This lets ChatGPT access up-to-date information, rather than being limited to...Read more...

Hitting the snooze button on your wake-up alarm might just be fine, new research out this week suggests. In a pair of studies, scientists found evidence that a majority of people regularly hit snooze and that the habit doesn't seem to noticeably harm our sleep. It could even help make some people more alert in the...Read more...

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Ridley Scott is no stranger to seeing new talent step into franchises he created-he did it with Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049, a movie he recently said he regretted not directing himself. The veteran filmmaker is still going strong at 85 withNapoleonand Gladiator 2 on the way, but he still made time to watch ...Read more...

There is nothing weirder than going to a feature panel at New York Comic Con focusing on a single actor and hearing them talk about... well... nothing. From Ewan McGregor evaluating the relative merits of New York bagels, to David Tennant discussing Shakespeare, to Chris Evans only spending 20 minutes on stage, most of it...Read more...

Tesla issued yet another recall for thousands of its Model X vehicles following a safety issue report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The report found that 54,676 of Tesla's 2021-2023 Model X cars may fail to detect low brake fluid and will not display a warning light.Read more...

There's very little that's surprising about Elon Musk's flailing X anymore. Now, a year after he finally purchased the platform, the data is in and the outcome is to be expected: X is not doing so hot.Read more...

The Lucy spacecraft is on a 12-year journey to visit eight different asteroids, and it's almost caught up with the first space rock on its checklist.Read more...

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Despite a heap of rumors and speculation, Tuesday came and went without any new iPad news. Apple usually waits a few weeks after releasing its latest smartphones to share news about its tablets. Apple fans have been waiting for a fair bit to see the next tablet, but according to some reliable Apple leakers, we might...Read more...

Google announced Tuesday a slew of new ways to help those with a wide range of disabilities use its products.

Gunmakers reveled in the success of major first-person shooters as it gave them the chance to market guns to a market that was escaping them, namely kids. New documents show Activision Blizzard signed a deal with gunmaker Remington Arms more than a decade ago to feature its guns in gaming megahits like Call of Duty:...Read more...

Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender made a big impression back in 2005 and continues to be fondly remembered to this day. Fans of the show love the larger cast of characters, and they definitely have their favorites-particularly when it comes to the members of the Fire Nation.

Quiz time: If you or your friends were given the following string of text during a party, would anyone in the room confidently be able to guess or infer any personal attributes of the text's author? Give yourself a few seconds.Read more...

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The animated, mega-cameo-filled short film Once Upon a Studio is now streaming on Disney+ to celebrate Disney's 100-year anniversary.Read more...

A man accused of murdering a 6-year-old Palestinian boy and grievously wounding his mother in Illinois on Saturday was motivated by misinformation surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, officials say.Read more...

Netflix is touting its new series The Netflix Cup as its first-ever live sports event," which sounds at first like a retreat of sorts from the streamer's assurance in late 2022 that it wouldn't be adding sports packages to its offerings. But if you look a little closer, this is more of a celebrity golf...Read more...

Frank Herbert's sci-fi classicDune ends with an intense showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha, two sides of an epic war that'll decide the fate of a trade, a planet, and a galaxy. In the film adaptation, Dune: Part Two, Atreides is once again played by Timothee Chalamet, and Feyd-Rautha, the heir-apparent to...Read more...

After a more widespread rollout this week of its tirade against ad blockers, YouTube began its roll out of dozens of new features for its mobile app Tuesday.Read more...

This weekend, SAG-AFTRA and NAVA-the National Association for Voice Actors-teamed up for a panel at New York Comic Con about AI in entertainment. Moderator Lindsay Rousseau, who is also a voice actress, introduced the panel by explaining that right now there are no legal or legislative protections for our voices, and...Read more...

Around 11 miles above Earth's surface, leftover bits from rockets and spacecraft are lingering in our planet's atmosphere that could potentially have a lasting effect on the climate.Read more...

Snapchat introduced two new features Tuesday for users to embed content on their profiles or stories into a website. The social media platform added web embeds for its Lenses, Spotlight videos, public stories and public profiles for users to share an article or website with their followers easily.Read more...

The probably-not-so final film from the legendary Hayao Miyazaki has just shared its stellar English voice dub cast.Read more...

The Biden administration laid out new restrictions on Tuesday to limit the primary and secondary sale of United States-made chips to China, according to a CNBC report. The move is an effort to limit the nation's technological and military progress.Read more...

Like all big superheroes, Spider-Man has been played and voiced by a variety of different people over the decades. There's a certain art to the wallcrawler that a number of voice actors have managed to perfect in recent years, and among those is longtime performer Yuri Lowenthal. Known for a number of roles during the...Read more...

Blue Origin revealed plans for a new spacecraft platform with the potential to reshape in-space logistics, offering unprecedented maneuverability and a host of advanced capabilities.Read more...

Nearly 60 years to the day that Doctor Who began airing, next month, the BBC will launch an unprecedented collection of over 800 episodes from the show's distant and not-so-distant past on its streaming platform, iPlayer-the first of its kind from the corporation. But it turns out that the very first story that kicked...Read more...

The days of Terminator and The Matrix could be closer to reality as the artificial intelligence wave continues to crash. A U.S. think tank released a report arguing that the AI that guides the likes of ChatGPT and those dystopian influencers from Meta could be used to create a new bioweapon.Read more...

What, you thought Tiffany Valentine, queen of tawdry glam, would drab herself down like any other inmate? Relish her jailhouse style in this exclusive clip from Chucky's third episode, which sees Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind) visiting Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), hoping she'll provide some desperately needed information.