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Earlier this year at Star Wars Celebration, looking ahead to a new slate of Star Wars movies, Lucasfilm officially unveiled a new chronological look at continuity, breaking down thousands of years in the galaxy far, far away into nine distinct periods. Now, the official website has gone a little deeper-and teased some...Read more...

Across seven seasons of Riverdale a lot of bonkers shit went down. Archie sleeping with his teacher in the premiere would ultimately be one of the most normal things to happen on a show that turned Cheryl Blossom into a comet-stopping witch, did time travel and super powers, flung multiple teachers out the same...Read more...

If you've already had your iris scanned for Worldcoin's crypto-based free money" promise, your biometric investment has been cut in half since launch.Read more...

A team of researchers scrutinizing the Extended Groth Strip, a region of space between the constellations Ursa Major and Bootes, saw fewer growing supermassive black holes and less dust than they expected.

There are plenty of urban legends that live rent-free in our minds, but few as notorious as the Loch Ness Monster. This weekend, a group of cryptozoologists will be taking to the namesake body of water to hunt for the mythological creature with a suite of technology in the biggest manhunt-or monster-hunt"-in over...Read more...

It's a Barbie world-and you, me, and Luigi are just living in it. Greta Gerwig's subversive comedy starring Margot Robbie as a toy that breaks free from her plastic world was already a $1 billion hit, and already Warner Bros.' highest-grossing movie of all time domestically after passing The Dark Knight. Now, it's...Read more...

On Thursday, Cherry, the OGs of the mechanical keys, announced a redesign of its signature Cherry MX mechanical switches. The switch-maker is releasing the next-generation Cherry MX2A, which is promised to feel smoother and quieter. The first mechanical keyboard to feature the new switches will be the XTRFY K5V2.

One of the year's most maligned movies, The Flash, hits the Max streaming service today. And, since the film was basically a box office disaster, grossing only $108 million domestic against a production budget well over $200 million, this will probably be how most people see the movie.Read more...

Titan Books-publishers of the recent behind-the-scenes exploration of Conan the Barbarian-have another essential release for fans of classic genre film on the way. From authors John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - The Making of the Classic Film reveals rare and previously unpublished...Read more...

Maui County filed a lawsuit againstHawaiian Electric Company this week over the fires that destroyed thousands of structures and killed over 100 people this month. Officials said that the utility company did not shut off power during the dangerous combination of high winds and dry conditions that helped spark and...Read more...

GuliKit is offering modern handheld gamers a way to feel safe and snug in a piece of retro gaming history. The company's new docking station is an all-in-one kit for supporting the Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, and more, and it's all packaged in something that looks very similar to the old Super Nintendo...Read more...

The Wheel of Time's first season wrapped up on Prime Video in December 2021, so it's understandable if you might have forgotten how things ended. The short answer: things are bleak for the characters on the Robert Jordan-adapted fantasy series. How did they get there, and what lies ahead? Read on for our reminder,...Read more...

I'm pleased with my decision to wait a generation and upgrade from the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 to the Galaxy Watch 6. Samsung's newest smartwatch launched alongside its foldables, the Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5. It brings a slightly larger display, a new processor, and improved wellness tracking. It's also backward...Read more...

Ravensburger's much-anticipated new Disney Trading Card Game Lorcana will be released in big box stores on September 1, but ahead of it's global release, Ravensburger has given local game stores an exclusivity window of two weeks. This means that from mid-August through the first of September, local brick-and-mortars...Read more...

A tidal wave of strife plagued Reddit following the popular social media platform's decision to charge exorbitant fees for access to its API. Now, the company wants to reward the free labor of the moderators it once antagonized.Read more...

Dropbox is no longer offering new customers unlimited cloud storage. The company says crypto miners and other dastardly individuals pooled or resold storage space. Now, none of us can have nice things.Read more...

The BBC might have slip just when Ncuti Gatwa's first Doctor Who season will begin. Could there be even more of Ahsoka and The Acolyte on the way? Futurama goes festive in new pictures. Plus, get another look at Invasion's return. To me, my spoilers!Read more...

It's been a busy night in Trumpland. On the same evening that the former President was booked into jail in Georgia-thus spawning an unforgettable mugshot-Trump also returned to Twitter (which is now called X, thanks to Elon Musk). In fact, the first new tweet from Trump is his mugshot. After leaving Georgia, Trump...Read more...

The founder of floundering social media site Truth Social (oh, and, also, the former President of the United States) was booked into jail in Fulton County, Georgia on Thursday night. Donald Trump, who faces RICO charges and is accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, is now officially a part...Read more...

What happens when a human knocks up a werewolf? Season two of Peacock's Wolf Like Me will explore that uniquely bizarre situation when it returns October 19, dropping all seven episodes of the Isla Fisher-Josh Gad series at once.Read more...

Tony Gilroy addressed the picket line in a fiery speech earlier today that evoked his Star Wars series, Andor. Gilroy was in attendance at the Screenwriter's Solidarity Picket in NYC, and when he was given the mic he didn't hold back from letting the members of both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA know how he really felt about...Read more...

We will not return to Arrakis in 2023. Warner Bros. has confirmed that Denis Villeneuve's sequel to the smash hit Frank Herbert adaptation Dune will now release March 15, 2024, a four-month delay from its original planned November 2023 release.

Watchmaker Citizen's latest attempt at making a traditional-looking but simultaneously tech-heavy smartwatch hasn't gone to plan. The company debuted its CZ Smartwatch at CES this year, proclaiming the device's health features would keep track of all your sleep and physical activity to provide users alertness tests."...Read more...

Few did the timeworn Hollywood plot of hey, guys, let's put on a show!" better than the Muppets, and their ultimate realization of that underdog scenario is probably 1984's Broadway fantasy The Muppets Take Manhattan-the third feature they starred in after The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and the latest...Read more...

NASA is getting ready to launch the next crew of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft was declared a go" for launch earlier this week.Read more...

Eight Republican presidential candidates took the stage on Wednesday night for the first GOP debate. Twenty minutes into the show, one of the moderators asked the candidates to raise their hands if they believed that human behavior was causing climate change.Read more...

This week Ahsoka kicked off a new chapter of Star Wars' latest quest for a map to find people-the race between heroes and villains alike to find out just what happened to Ezra Bridger and Grand Admiral Thrawn. But in throwing out a very specific location, the show has kicked off a bevy of speculation about the true...Read more...

The same federal agency that once helped bring down the biggest crypto-based dark web drug marketplace Silk Road got swindled by one of the oldest tricks in the crypto scammer playbook. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly handed a fraudster a little more than $55,000 in confiscated crypto funds after...Read more...

I haven't seen much of Ahsoka. Not just in the sense that there are only two episodes of her show currently released, but in the sense that I haven't watched much of the animated shows where she shows up. I haven't seen all of Clone Wars, I've got no memory of Tales of the Jedi, and I've dipped into maybe three...Read more...

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday against SpaceX for allegedly refusing to hire refugees and asylum seekers. The DOJ said the company incorrectly cited federal regulations to justify discriminatory hiring practices.Read more...

Within the coming weeks, you should see options in the Google Home app for any indoor Nest cameras you have in your smart home from the original 2015 run. Finally, all my Nest security cameras can be accessed and maintained from the same app. Google announced a while back that it would eventually deprecate the Nest...Read more...

We all know not to judge a book by its cover, but apparently, that also extends to movies. Take the aboveofficially licensed still for Foe, starring Oscar nominees Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal. If you don't know anything about the source material, you look at that image and form a pretty clear picture. It's some...Read more...

The first two episodes of Ahsoka are now on Disney+ and even for the most seasoned Star Wars fan, they left us with a few questions. Questions like when, exactly, is this taking place? Did we miss something? And is that scene the scene we think it is? We'll get into all of it and more but, first a spoiler warning in...Read more...

Driverless car systems have a bias problem, according to a new study from Kings College London. The study examined eight AI-powered pedestrian detection systems used for autonomous driving research. Researchers ran more than 8,000 images through the software and found that the self-driving car systems were nearly 20%...Read more...

Don't let the gloss fool you, but CBS has announced it'll be airing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on the network to celebrate Star Trek Day.Read more...

Uber introduced a new age requirement for its California drivers on Thursday in response to rising commercial and auto insurance rates. The company said that moving forward, it will only allow people 25 years and older to transport passengers, but the rules won't apply to Uber Eats delivery drivers.Read more...

As the streaming bubble began to burst, Warner Bros. Discovery's plan for its streaming service CNN+ crumbled as well. Now, it appears that those plans have been repurposed into a new CNN hub, which will have a home on the company's streaming service Max.Read more...

Online content farms are using AI chatbots to scramble and rewrite" thousands of news stories from major publications like The New York Times and republish them to earn advertising revenue, according to a new report from misinformation monitor NewsGuard. The stories, which often repurposed entire lines directly from...Read more...

The neighborhood of Hollywood, California has two levels of immortality. The first is a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which itself is an incredible, amazing achievement. Then there's an even cooler, more personal, way to be part of Hollywood history, and that's to have one's hands imprinted outside the TCL...Read more...

Right on cue, Meta has shared its latest AI drop with the world, and this time, the company is letting anybody get their hands on a bot that will write, debug, and describe code in a multitude of coding languages.Read more...

After Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland was dropped by Adult Swim in light of domestic abuse allegations, the network said the titular roles would be recast with a new actor. The recasting coincides with the show's upcoming seventh season, and we've finally got a release date... but-as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA...Read more...

This week, Apple announced its support for a California bill to allow consumers to repair or modify their devices independently. The bill, called SB 244 or the Right to Repair Act, was passed by the state senate in May with a 38-0 vote, requiring manufacturers to provide owners and repair shops with the necessary...Read more...

Futurama's Hulu revival has seen the show continue its love of stories that comment on current events, while also incorporating Easter eggs and callbacks that reference its nearly 25 years of history. But while this week's episode took on Amazon, the next installment offers a pure slice of Planet Express nostalgia,...Read more...

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Demian Rugna's next supernatural horror is heading to Shudder-and the channel is already in full spooky season swing with a new look at the next V/H/S. Plus, what's coming on the American Horror Story: Delicate premier. To me, my spoilers!

In the wake of the onslaught of the covid-19, employees across the world grew chummy with a perfectly appropriate remote work schedule that allows them to work from home. However, one of the companies that carried pandemic digital infrastructure on its back, Zoom, isn't too keen on keeping remote workers away from the...Read more...

Google is pinky-swearing it will be more transparent in the future about how and why you keep seeing the same ads that seem to know you much better than you know yourself, though only if you live in the European Union.Read more...

Job listings geared towards artificial intelligence roles have gone up for film and television studios despite the continued protests from their writers and actors against the use of AI. Disney, Netflix, and Sony were among the entertainment companies that listed AI-centric roles, offering between $200,000 and more...Read more...

Barbie is still going strong at the box office but it's already taking the next steps. We already heard about the digital release coming in a few short weeks-and now, on September 22, it'll be playing on IMAX screens for one week only in North America. With some brand-new bonus footage too.Read more...

In a sad case of debris-on-debris crime, a defunct payload adapter that was chosen as the subject of a space debris cleanup mission was itself hit by a piece of space junk.Read more...