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World Princess Week is upon us and Disney is celebrating through collections inspired by its royal slate.Read more...

It's official: a band of British teenagers managed to hack some of the biggest companies on the planet last year, and they did it all using fairly basic hacking techniques.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but someone in the new Star Wars needs to find a map to somewhere before someone else does. Yes, same as it ever was, even Ahsoka cannot escape the mapification of Star Wars storytelling-from the map to Luke Skywalker to Wayfinders and unknown regions of the galaxy, the franchise...Read more...

A few months ago I started the thankless task of recapping Secret Invasion, and now, a month after the series ended, I'm still deeply underwhelmed by the predictable blandness of the entire thing. Then, because I was hit by a fit of nostalgia and because I find Hayley Atwell absurdly attractive, I started a re-watch...Read more...

Two of the original developers of the crypto mixer Tornado Cash are caught up in a whole new shitstorm of a federal indictment. On Wednesday, the U.S. alleged that two of the original devs, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, helped crypto criminals launder millions of crypto at a time helping to emphasize the anonymous"...Read more...

The CW is no stranger to shows with some very odd elevator pitches, but Riverdaleisdefinitely in its own league. Updating the Archie Comics characters into modern day sexed-up teens turned heads back in 2017, but that first season had way more going for it beyond that. The end result was definitely absurd, but also...Read more...

When you think about all things pop culture, few people check as many boxes as Todd McFarlane. The iconic comic book artist best known for his work on Spider-Man and creating Spawn not only keeps a high profile in that field, but he's got his own toy line, while also dabbling in TV, movies, video games, you name it.Read more...

He's been on boats and he's been in caves. He's been on planes, trains, rafts, tanks, bikes, and more. But one place fans had never seen Indiana Jones was underwater, which is why director James Mangold made that a priority in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.Read more...

It doesn't matter how old you get. Planting your butt into a faux NASA cockpit is bound to excite the senses and imagination of any who once put a checkmark next to astronaut" when asked what they want to be when they grow up. Now, Xbox and Tempur have their own fake cockpit setup that's giving select players the...Read more...

Researchers studying the remains of six individuals from Pompeii concluded they asphyxiated during the volcanic eruption that doomed the town nearly 2,000 years ago.Read more...

Researchers recently dated charcoal drawings in Borneo's Gua Sireh Cave to around the 18th century CE, giving a colonial context to the artwork.Read more...

Dark Forces is a classic game for a reason-not just a great licensed game that told a new, original story in a beloved franchise, but because it helped begin to revolutionize the first-person shooter genre as we know it, setting the stage for iconic luminaries in the field. And now, it's back with a fresh coat of...Read more...

On Tuesday, Hawaiian officials urged family members to provide DNA samples that might help identify relatives missing from the wildfires. There are still more than 1,000 people missing after the United States deadliest wildfire in more than a century swept through Maui.Read more...

The Walking Dead was on TV for so long, most viewers knew what to expect from it. Lots of zombies, humans betraying each other, everyone coming together, a few people dying, then a happy ending and it all starts up again. So with the show's spinoffs, each needs to be something different and Norman Reedus thinks his...Read more...

Sony is finally sharing new details on its upcoming PlayStation-branded wireless earbuds. In a blog post, the company said the premium headphones are called the Pulse Explore and will cost gamers $200, as much as the PlayStation Portal mobile gaming device, also announced Wednesday.Read more...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre turns 50 in 2024, but there's no reason you can't start your celebration early by watching the movie (and its sequel; you can, uh, skip all the others) as often as possible, and adding The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Slaughterhouse to your collection of horror-themed board games.Read more...

The company behind everyone's favorite pandemic purchase, the Peloton, is facing subscriber and financial backlash. Subscribers are pausing their memberships with the cycling tech amidst a recall over bicycle seats. And now the company has to answer to Wall Street.Read more...

Sony's big DualSense controller with a screen, originally dubbed Project Q," wasn't the next-gen handheld console we originally hoped for, but new details on what's now being called the PlayStation Portal" show the device is going to be a Wi-Fi streaming-only device used to remote play your PlayStation 5, and you...Read more...

Fifteen years after the character was first introduced and five years after her story came to a standstill, Ahsoka Tano is back with her very own Star Wars show, Ahsoka. The first two episodes are now on Disney+; every week until the October finale, we're going to run down what happens, what's important, and just...Read more...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed on the Moon on Wednesday, marking a huge feat for the nation's growing space program.Read more...

After a week of back-and-forth between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the public got a look at the latest offer from the AMPTP. However, it was released yesterday to industry trades after about ten days of push and pullwith the guild-who say the tactic was...Read more...

A reticulated giraffe was born without spots at a Tennessee Zoo on July 31, making it a rare, one-of-a-kind mammal. The Brights Zoo in Limestone announced it had welcomed the female giraffe and said experts believe she is the only solid-colored reticulated giraffe living anywhere on the planet."

The crumbling crypto empire that tech bros everywhere once hyped up has now claimed another victim. Nathaniel Chastain, former Head of Product at leading NFT marketplace OpenSea, has been sentenced to three months in prison for insider trading.Read more...

Netflix has released a new look at the Chicken Run sequel, as well as another new look at One Piece. Get ready for the return of Upload with new images. Plus, what's coming on the series finale of Nancy Drew.

Microsoft is on a bit of an AI kick, but its efforts to shove generative capabilities into its Bing browser and Windows 11 itself have only helped emphasize how its forgotten apps like Paint have remained stranded in time. However, far from adding Ferrari-level AI capability to its old jalopy of a scribble tool,...Read more...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission is aiming for a landing spot on the lunar south pole, hoping to make history as the nation's first successful touchdown on the cratered surface.Read more...

What's become one of the internet's go-to companies for creating realistic enough visual deepfakes now has the ability to clone your voice and force it to speak in a growing variety of tongues. ElevenLabs announced Tuesday its new voice cloning now supports 22 more languages than it did previously, including...Read more...

Google's experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google gave cooking tips for Amanita ocreata, a poisonous mushroom known as the angel of death." The...Read more...

As Dave Filoni's The Mandalorian universe expands, more Star Wars canon icons get their chance to shine-and it's finally time for Ahsoka. It's time for her new era and BoxLunch has a stellar unisex collection drop you've got to check out.

It's impossible to watch or even think about David Lynch's Dune and not want to know more about it. Everything about the movie-its adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel, incredible cast, groundbreaking visual effects, out-of-this-world costumes, and controversial legacy-screams for an equally epic dissection. And now...Read more...

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The trailer for Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire dropped today giving us our first look at the upcoming Netflix space odyssey.Read more...

Oh, won't you look at the time? It's Make-You-Feel-Old-O'Clock. Yes, it's one of those days we write about something that feels like it was yesterday, but was almost certainly not yesterday. And today that something is Ben Affleck's casting as Batman.Read more...

It's time to start believing in the lore your family passes down-it might just give you a chance to survive the demons of myth when they rear their heads. In the latest look at director Bishal Dutta's It Lives Inside, a teen girl learns just that.Read more...

The Pixel Watch isn't Google's only wearable darling. According to a recent FCC filing, a new Fitbit band may be in the works, albeit with the Google branding plastered all over it.Read more...

Summer is nearly over-and as we already start looking to autumnal vibes and the annual extension of spooky season even further and further before October-but DC's sending off this year's blistering season with a little heat of its own in G'nort's Swimsuit Edition, a love letter to classic superheroic cheesecake.Read more...

Tropical storm Harold made landfall over Southern Texas earlier today, making it the first storm to reach the continental U.S. in the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.Read more...

Easily qualifying as the worst thing I can remember reading lately, a terrifying new report from the New York Times claims that near collision" episodes involving commercial airlines are basically a weekly occurrence in America. The Times report draws on extensive records sourced from the Federal Aviation...Read more...

Experian Consumer Services was ordered to pay a $650,000 civil penalty on Monday for allegedly sending consumers commercial emails without providing the option to unsubscribe from future emails. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that Experian had violated the CAN-SPAM Act (Controlling the Assault of...Read more...

I'm a Grant Howitt stan, so when Rowan, Rook & Decard announced their newest endeavor, Eat the Reich, I was already in line and taking notes. This game will get a longer feature from io9 later in the week, but the quick pitch is sexy, over-the-top vampiric ultraviolence in the 1940s as you fight and bite your way...Read more...

Atari is again testing how many times users are willing to pay for that nostalgic, faux woodgrain-paneled game console, this time coming out with what seems like the most detailed recreation of its original Atari 2600 console since it first debuted close to 46 years ago. The recreated console will even play the old...Read more...

Behold the ambitious worlds being built by Zack Snyder in our first look at Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire. Netflix is doubling down on its own Snyderverse with two movies shot back to back, inviting audiences along for a ride beyond the stars in a new original galactic franchise.

Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine has destroyed infrastructure and displaced about 5 million people from the country since last spring. The country's conservationists have also noticed that the war is killing endangered Black Sea dolphins and harbor porpoises.

One of the first 5e adventure supplements ever released, The Lost Mines of Phandelver has remained a fan favorite for the past decade of the game. Now, Dungeons & Dragons has released more information for the newest adventure supplement.Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk returns to the town of Phandalin as...Read more...

Netflix's DVD subscription platform will allow subscribers to keep their final delivery of DVDs as the company prepares to close its 25-year-old service, the company announced on Monday. In April, Netflix confirmed it will be shutting down its DVD mail order option, telling existing customers in a Twitter post last...Read more...

India's space agency is gearing up for a lunar touchdown, hoping to stick the landing this time after a failed first attempt nearly four years ago.Read more...

Meta took a step towards a universal language translator on Tuesday with the release of its new Seamless M4T AI model, which the company says can quickly and efficiently understand language from speech or text in up to 100 languages and generate translation in either mode of communication. Multiple tech companies have...Read more...

Our feelings on the two-episode premiere of Ahsoka are clearly on display in the show's opening moments. Creator/writer and episode one director Dave Filoni starts his story in a way Star Wars fans will find both familiar and delightful. Finally," you may think. Someone who gets it." But then you realize the crux of...Read more...

Tech giant Microsoft's acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard continues to be a headache. After facing some back-and-forth over antitrust concerns with the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft is now selling the rights to Activision's cloud gaming services to video game publisher Ubisoft in a bid to...Read more...

It's been a long time since Frozen 2, and it's going to be an even longer time still until Disney is able to do anything about its plans for a third entry in the series. So... why not podcasts?