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Private Spanish firm PLD Space launched its Miura 1 rocket this past Friday on a suborbital flight that lasted for five minutes, marking a significant milestone for Europe's nascent spaceflight industry.

Tidal waves of controversy are once again rising in the world of Aquaman 2 and it's not because of a war in Atlantis. A new report is filled with claims regarding Amber Heard's treatment on the set of the film, and it involves people such as star Jason Momoa, director James Wan, and Heard's former flame Elon Musk,...Read more...

It's become somewhat of a cliche in recent months for AI researchers and engineers to claim they simply don't really know or understand how advanced new artificial intelligence models are coming to their conclusions. When it comes to designing walking robots from scratch, at least one new AI model has some...Read more...

Google announced a small update Tuesday that could usher in the biggest change in the history of cybersecurity: the death of the password. Going forward, so-called passkeys will replace passwords as Google's default sign-in tool. The company says its plan is to make passwords a rarity, and eventually obsolete."Read more...

Adobe just shared a full public release of its Firefly AI tools last month, but the company isn't nearly done giving the AI hype train a big push down the tracks. During its Adobe Max conference, the company said that the original Firefly AI model is already old hat after just five months in beta. Now we have the AI...Read more...

After nearly nine years of ruining the reputation of what was once one of the most popular open game engines in the world, Unity President and CEO John Riccitiello announced he was stepping down from his role as the most hated man in gaming.Read more...

In 2024, the Roku Channel will debut The Spiderwick Chronicles, an eight-episode children's fantasy show that was unceremoniously cancelled two years into production. Disney axed the seriesbased on the bestselling series of books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black in an effort to claim a tax break before the show...Read more...

Russia's Nauka module sprung a leak on Monday in the latest incident of faulty hardware on board the International Space Station (ISS).Read more...

Amazon is hosting Prime Day 2.0 today and tomorrow (October 10 and 11). They're calling it Prime Big Deal Days, and are offering a number of pretty good deals.

For the first time ever, the BBC will be the streaming home of as much of Doctor Who history as it possibly can be next month in celebration of the show's 60th anniversary, as over 800 episodes from across 60 years of adventures in time and space head to its streaming platform, iPlayer.Read more...

X, formerly called Twitter, now allows users to block unverified accounts from replying to their posts as Elon Musk strives to make paying for a subscription worth the money. The company announced the change in a post on Monday, telling users they can now limit replies to verified users."Read more...

No one wants toexplain away the whims of a megalomaniac, and Linda Yaccarino has been having such a rough go of it. The X/Twitter CEO has reportedly dropped out of the Wall Street Journal's upcoming Tech Live conference following a widely criticized interview less than two weeks ago.Read more...

As of this past weekend, the live-streaming sports selection on Max is a lot more robust-just in time for the MLB post-season and the NBA pre-season, and also good news for hockey and soccer fans, too.Read more...

After a tentative fair deal between writers and studios was reached on September 24, you can now remove tentative" from that: the WGA strike, which began May 2 and put the state of Hollywood production under a microscope, is over-over. The acting union, SAG-AFTRA, has been on strike since July 13 and remains so.Read more...

Get ready for 2024 to be the year of Tiana. Not only is the new Disney Parks attraction based on The Princess and the Frog, Tiana's Bayou Adventure, slated to open next year, the long-awaited Disney+ series focusing on the movie's culinarily gifted heroine is finally making big strides forward.Read more...

In the nearly 25 years since the release of Brad Bird's The Iron Giant, the film's history has become legend. Though it's now considered a classic, when it came out the film bombed at the box office largely because the studio releasing it, Warner Bros., didn't quite know what it had. That narrative has changed in...Read more...

Disney has a new film-Wish, out November 22-that celebrates its 100-year history by dramatizing thefairy-tale dream of wishing upon a star." But the company is also dipping into its vast library in honor of this landmark year, including bringing a 4K restoration of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, its first...Read more...

Aberrance is the first Mongolian horror feature to get a theatrical release in the U.S.-a landmark moment for director and co-writer Baatar Batsukh, especially since this is his first feature. The film runs just 75 minutes, but fills that slender space with a suspenseful mystery that changes shape more than once.Read more...

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To all the space probes we've loved before: sorry! You fell into Saturn, drifted into deep space, suffocated in Martian dust-all for the greater good of science. Today, we're memorializing the space explorers that met dramatic endings far, far from Earth.

The first trailer for Invincible season two packed in so much news, watching it felt like being punched by a superhero. So many new actors are joining the show it's, frankly, a little unfathomable and damned near impossible to pick out your favorite. Tim Robinson! Calista Flockhart! Chloe Bennet! Rhea Seehorn! Daveed...Read more...

Congrats, ye hearties: a new survey polling over 2,000 streaming customers has found that Max-home of popular series like House of the Dragon, The Last of Us, and Our Flag Means Death-is tops when it comes to overall viewer satisfaction. Hulu came in second, followed by Disney+, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Netflix, Prime...Read more...

It's undeniable that in HBO Max's pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, Edward Teach (Taika Waititi) and Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) are in love with each other. But in season two, David Jenkins is giving jilted first mate Izzy Hands (Con O'Neill) a chance to compete for the hearts of the two captains. Or at least, mess...Read more...

Yes, Amazon is having a second Prime Day event, this time in the middle of October. The company did the same thing last year, positioning itself right before the holiday shopping season really kicks off in November.Read more...

Ahsoka is over (for now, at least it seems), and many questions remain. What are Thrawn's plans? What will our heroes do to stop him? Just what great mysteries are out there for our other foes left to uncover? But an even sillier question lingers, too: what is up with the eyeballs on this show?

That's right, we almost got a standalone Jabba the Hutt Star Wars film from Guillermo del Toro.Read more...

It's spooky season and Hot Topic is celebrating Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with a new collection for the film's 30th anniversary.Read more...

Just in time for Halloween and for the release of Blumhouse and Universal Pictures' Five Nights at Freddy's fans can visit a pop-up location of the fictional franchise from the game and film.Read more...

For the last 10 years, Chromebooks have remained just what they are. Chromebooks are Chromebooks. Manufacturers release new models every year with slightly updated specs and Google makes minor additions to the ChromeOS-based platform. But despite that, Chromebooks are still low-end budget laptops for folks who only...Read more...

Vince Gilligan is returning to Albuquerque-and science fiction. The acclaimed creator of AMC's Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul, who also worked for multiple years on Fox's The X-Files (and co-created spin-off The Lone Gunman) just revealed a tiny bit of information about his new series starring...Read more...

In 2018, a skin-crawlingly eerie horror movie from Argentina called Terrified hit Shudder after debuting at Fantastic Fest. Writer-director Demian Rugna is following a similar path (with a theatrical release in between) with his latest, When Evil Lurks, a film which proves Terrified was no fluke while unfurling its...Read more...

With the end of Ahsoka's first season on Disney+ comes sad news from behind the scenes of the Star Wars series: costume designer Shawna Trpcic, a lifelong fan of sci-fi and comic bookswho also brought her talents to The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, has died at the age of 56.Read more...

Horror fans know the sudden appearance of a crate is never, ever a good thing, especially if that crate is old and marked with some kind of warning or other sinister writing. But while Creepshow segment The Crate" may have inspired the set-up for short film Momo, its monster is of a more newfangled breed.Read more...

The V/H/S series has enough built-in fans by now that it's barely necessary to review the latest release. But anyone feeling ambivalent about the found-footage horror franchise should make it a point to seek out its sixth entry (eighth, if you count the two spin-off films), because V/H/S/85 is excellent.Read more...

The reviews for The Exorcist: Believer haven't been kind, with far less goodwill being showered upon David Gordon Green's series revival than his 2018 Halloween sequel. Box office, however, has been decent-the Hollywood Reporter notes it made nearly $3 million in Thursday previews; all told, Variety notes, it made...Read more...

With Trick r Treat at Loungefly and Beetlejuice at RSVLTS and BlackMilk, and pop culture icons like Looney Tunes and Friday the 13th flexing their tricks, there'sa ton of spooky-fun merch to add to your listin time for WB100 and Halloween.Read more...

An opaque legal case against a Florida journalist is alarming press advocates, who see it as a troubling example of draconian government overreach.Read more...

When a director publically acknowledges what his next movie is going to be, when it's shooting, and who is in the cast, that's about as official as something can get. And so, even though Netflix hasn't made any announcement yet, at a screening this week, Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro dropped all of that...Read more...

New research could complicate the narrative over using exercise to help with depression and other mental health issues. A study compared depressed and/or anxious people who joined a running program to those who took a course of antidepressants, and found that both groups experienced a similar level of mental health...Read more...

Creepshow is back for its fourth season, and the horror anthology series doesn't diverge much from its established formula: two stories per episode, both putting characters through gory ordeals that climax in (usually) well-earned punishment. You know a twist is coming, but Creepshow's draw is that you can never...Read more...

The second Amazon Prime Day is fast approaching, kicking off on Oct. 10 at 3 a.m. EST through Oct. 11. The company is offering major Prime Day sales, exclusively for members, as we head into the holiday season.

Prime Video's The Wheel of Time, adapted from the Robert Jordan book series, just dropped its season two finale. A third installment was announced back in 2022 at San Diego Comic-Con, and stars Rosamund Pike and Daniel Henney have teased what fans might expect when the fantasy series returns.Read more...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission launched on July 14, headed towards a historic touchdown on the lunar surface. But before the lunar lander took off, it had to wait a few seconds until its path to orbit was clear.Read more...

Stephen Graham Jones, a bestselling horror author who has written incredible novels like The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw, is back, and this time he's part of something new. True Believers is Jones' first comic, and he co-wrote it alongside Joshua Viola. The artist, Ben Matsuya, is known for his...Read more...

The oil company Shell is facing some heat from climate activists for its collaboration with the influencers of the popular battle royale video game Fortnite, during which the game's young user base was encouraged to participate in a gas-fueled virtual road trip.Read more...

In another discrimination accusation against SpaceX, the private space company is being sued by a former employee for alleged underpayment of women and minorities.Read more...

Totally Killer, a new Blumhouse film that hits Prime Video today, blends three of my favorite genres: time travel, horror, and whodunit. It's about a teenager who travels back in time to stop a masked killer, teaming up with her teenage mom in the process, and it's every bit as enjoyable as that sounds.Read more...

Is Love The Answer? became the English-translated debut of Isaki Uta when it debuted earlier this year, a touching manga with a nuanced exploration of asexuality and aromanticism. But now Uta and Irodori Comics are taking to crowdfunding to bring more of their work to English audiences-and blurring the line between...Read more...

Move over monotremes and the range of rodents known to glow: over one hundred other furry creatures do, too, new research shows, vastly increasing the number of mammals known to show the spooky trait.