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An election worker in Maricopa County, Arizona has been arrested for allegedly stealing a digital magnetic key that can be used for accessing the county's vote-counting machines. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) held a press conference Tuesday that was light on details but stressed to the public that...Read more...

You can find a lot of weird shit for sale on eBay, including, apparently, a used police Harris Stingray that could allow you to intercept the cellular traffic of your friends and enemies.Read more...

Google's Pixel devices will launch earlier than Apple's iPhone this year. Google announced its annual Made by Google event will occur two months earlier than expected. It will take place Tuesday, August 13, at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, and it's when we expect the company will reveal everything...Read more...

A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into accel" and decel". The accels want AI to progress rapidly - move fast and break things - while the decels want AI development to slow down for the sake of...Read more...

While much ado is made about Batman's iconic enemies being clever inversions of his own neurosis, or how the Flash's rogues are everyday career criminals who've deliberately rebranded themselves with a fun gimmick, it seems Aquaman's are rarely discussed in the same positive breath. We're here to make the case that a...Read more...

Patron announced on Tuesday on its blog that it will allow creators to gift limited-time subscriptions to their followers and other ways to monetize their platforms.Read more...

Herschel Guy" Beahm, better known by his popular streaming persona Dr. Disrespect, saw his lucrative Twitch channel suddenly go away four years ago with no specific reason given to the public. Former employees of the streaming company have come forward to give specifics on what happened.Read more...

It's halfway to Christmas and even so you're not ready to behold the confoundingly chaotic trailer for Red One. The Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson holiday action movie directed by Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) is set for release on November 15 from Amazon MGM.

Earlier this year, Lego and Lucasfilm lifted the lid on Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a what-if style Lego series that takes the already high-zaniness of many of the animated Lego specials and cranks everything up even further, in a world where heroes become villains, vice versa, and, of course, there's Jar Jar...Read more...

The east coast of the U.S. has been experiencing a punishing heat wave over the past week, with cities like Washington D.C. hitting 100 degrees and breaking all kinds of heat-related records. Combine that with the very real possibility that Donald Trump could be president again, and there's perhaps no better symbol of...Read more...

Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and director Shawn Levy discuss the long, difficult road to a third Deadpool moviein a new interview with Vanity Fair. According to Reynolds, These movies just swallow lives whole. In a normal movie, you work your ass off. But on a movie like this, you forsake a lot of things that you...Read more...

The future of weight loss is fast approaching. At a recent scientific conference, drug companies showed off a variety of next-generation drugs for both obesity and type 2 diabetes. Some of these treatments might help people lose even more weight than current forerunners like Novo Nordisk's semaglutide-the active...Read more...

Hello, Moto; this is starting to feel like deja vu. The return of the Razr flip phone in foldable form didn't set the world on fire as much as Motorola may have wanted last year with its Razr+ phone. Still, Moto's coming back in 2024 with a few improvements and the largest exterior screen we've seen yet on a flip...Read more...

As originally reported by Forbes, due to a high-severity vulnerability, Google has warned federal employees to update their Pixel devices before 4th July, or else they should stop using the device. This warning-CVE-2024-32896-is a part of the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog managed by CISA (Cybersecurity...Read more...

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has done a great many things since he formally retired from the world of his most legendary creation a few years ago (even some actual Hellboy here and there). But it's always fascinating to see when the writer/artist tries his hand at something new-and his next big step is a new universe...Read more...

The Cybertruck has some glaring problems aside from how ugly it looks. Elon Musk's new toy has been out in the public for a little more than six months and it's already getting its second physical recall, this time affecting more than 11,000 vehicles.Read more...

Jodie Comer teases the familiar camerawork of 28 Years Later. New footage from My Adventures With Superman teases Amanda Waller's plans for the Kryptonians. Plus, Tubi wants to split the world wide open with its new Earthquake horror. To me, my spoilers!

On February 3, 2023, a freight train owned by Norfolk Southern carrying thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals derailed in the town of East Palestine, Ohio. For days, flames engulfed the rail cars, which contained highly hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate, used in the production of...Read more...

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the duo who conceived the story for John Krasinski's A Quiet Place, then co-wrote the screenplay with him-they also co-wrote 2023 Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman-have a new tale of terror: Heretic. The villain is played by Hugh Grant, who's at a point in his career where he's not...Read more...

A man in Oklahoma City who used a fake Amazon van to transport pot has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). And it's a great reminder that while enormous industries have sprung up to sell cannabis for recreational use in nearly half of...Read more...

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has been released from prison in the UK and will be allowed to return to his home country of Australia after he pleads guilty to illegally disseminating national security material in the U.S., according to a surprising new report from NBC News.Read more...

San Diego Comic-Con exclusive toy releases are beginning to roll out and Mattel's Jurassic World Hammond Collection has a winner right out of the (Jurassic) gate.

After all the brouhaha over re-casting the title characters of Rick and Morty for season seven, fans were relieved to find that not only were the new voices seamlessly integrated-the episodes themselves proved the show was just as funny, rude, and incisive as ever. So what's next for the Adult Swim staple?Read more...

Bad news for Paramount+ viewers: Your subscription prices are about to go up again. The higher prices, which were announced this week and are set to take effect later this summer, are yet another example of the streaming industry's unfortunate habit of bilking TV customers for everything they've got.Read more...

The members of the Theatre des Vampires have captured Claudia (Delainey Hayles), Louis (Jacob Anderson), and Madeleine (Roxane Duran) with the help of Armand (Assad Zaman), to be put on trial for the murder of Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) in a very special production.Read more...

Fossil's latest fire sale, which seems to have sold out since 9to5Google reported on it, is yet another rendition of a deal that's too good to be true. It feels like a good time to remind you that unless you're purchasing an old smartwatch for archival purposes, a deal like the $80 Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch is not worth...Read more...

A family from Florida filed a claim against NASA for a small piece of trash that the space agency had tossed from the International Space Station (ISS), which ended up in their home.Read more...

Doctor Who is a show about questions more than anything else-more than about time, than about space, than about monsters, than about running up and down corridors to and away from those monsters. It's in the name, a question so profound that the show has constantly struggled to play with that very essence of its core....Read more...

Prequel movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the reason we have standout Disney+ series Andor. Now,areport says one of the movie's key villains may factor into the much-anticipated second season of the Star Wars show: Ben Mendelsohn's ambitious Imperial weapons developer Orson Krennic.Read more...

A little-known U.S. Postal Service program dubbed the mail covers program" has long provided information about certain Americans' mail to federal law enforcement agencies, the Washington Post reported on Monday. While officials maintain that the program is only ever used to investigate criminal activity, it appears...Read more...

At least 34 Cybertrucks being stored in an open parking lot in Florida were vandalized with a spray-painted message that read Fuck Elon" last week, according to local TV news outlet in Fort Lauderdale. Footage of the vandalism went viral on social media over the weekend and it's just the latest sign that Musk's...Read more...

The MSI Claw A1M didn't need to do much to be a contender in the still nascent gaming handheld PC space. If MSI had crafted the budget option, the lower-end device with fewer bells and whistles than its competitors, it would be a solid buy. Unfortunately for everyone involved, MSI made one of the more expensive...Read more...

A video circulating online appears to show debris from a Chinese rocket falling above a populated area, with residents running for cover as a heavy cloud of dark yellow smoke trails across the sky in a frightening scene.Read more...

House of the Dragon season two has only dropped two episodes so far, but both Team Green and Team Black have already been through the emotional wringer as the Dance of the Dragons heats up. At the center of the maelstrom is Alicent Hightower; as the Dowager Queen and mother of King Aegon II, she's one of the most...Read more...

One of the most popular manga of the modern age is coming to a close-a decade after it first began, Kohei Horikoshi's seminal shonen series My Hero Academia will come to an end this summer.Read more...

The Boys is a bigger hit than ever for Prime Video in its fourth season, with a fifth and final season already on the way-not to mention the upcoming season two of spin-off Gen V,plus The Boys: Mexico coming soon. But according to a new report, the popular TV series was almost a movie series instead.Read more...

The European Commission says Apple violated the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) over its App Store policies. This violation could end up costing the iPhone maker billions.Read more...

U.S. prosecutors will recommend to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that criminal charges be brought against Boeing for the company's breach of a settlement agreement involving two deadly plane crashes, according to a report from Reuters Monday.

It's been nearly seven years since The Last Jedi sparked the flames of a culture war Star Wars still finds itself embroiled in, and nearly five since The Rise of Skywalker managed to... well, make things a lot messier beyond that. But never, in all that time, would I ever thought we would continue to be in such a grip...Read more...

Universal Pictures and Focus Features have finally released a trailer for Robert Eggers' long-awaited remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror film, Nosferatu. Take a look:

The $3,500 Apple Vision Pro hasn't yet really found its footing. It had some of the best visuals and hand tracking in the VR space, but the hype around it has practically dried up in just the first few months since its release. Part of that is certainly due to that astronomical price. So, what will it take to cut that...Read more...

After that wrenchingly grim end to episode one, episode two, Rhaenyra the Cruel," is here to remind us that all actions have consequences-while also extolling the ways tragedy can be exploited in unexpectedly positive ways. But of course, even the best-laid plans can go awry on House of the Dragon.Read more...

Ebon Moss-Bachrach is reading comics and looking at rocks for The Fantastic Four. House of the Dragon prepares for war in new footage. Plus, a tiny look at Superman & Lois' final season, and a new clip from the Rick & Morty anime. Spoilers away!

Puzzles and dystopian fiction have a recurring theme in common: those in power forcing their subjects to play twisted games for entertainment. Crack the spine of any brainteaser book, and it reads like The Hunger Games-prisoners vying for their lives and monarchs sacrificing their servants in the name of logic.

During WWDC 2024, Apple showed off a bunch of shiny new features heading to iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia (and its other software platforms) later this year-but if you don't want to wait around for these features to arrive, you can get a lot of them right now.

If you read comics, you know the market is partially built on issues with variant covers drawn by different artists to entice collectors to snatch up any issue they can. This is particularly true for Marvel and DC Comics, and it's now that latter that's found itself pulling some of those variants entirely.

Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to get Megalopolis into people's eyes for decades. It's only recently that fate's gone Coppola's way with a theatrical US release in September (and its eventual physical release) courtesy of Lionsgate, but if you thought all's well that ends well, you'd be mistaken.

With its floral aroma and sweet, deep-crimson flesh, the blood orange is an indisputably cool fruit. Yet, a recent University of Florida study measures how literally cooling blood oranges for months post-harvest could make them healthier by boosting antioxidant levels, while yielding deeper hues.

Warner Bros. and DC Comics have been riding the high of Batman for decades, both in the comics and expanded media like TV, games, and film. That last one is where the character seems to do particularly well, and whose existence is plenty formative for many a viewer. But whichever Bat-actor one grew up with, or...Read more...

Every time the BBC brings in a new actor to portray the Doctor, their inaugural Doctor Who season (and any holiday specials that precede it) carry weight behind them.