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Your work chats are going to look very different very soon. On Wednesday, Slack said it would update its interface for the first time in three years, adding new ways to quickly gauge who's screaming for your attention across multiple channels and chats and mark conversations for followup.

Gen Con 2023 is in full swing, but the day before the festivities started, a heist occurred on the show floor.

It's been a few weeks since Good Omens season two dropped on Prime Video, and let me tell you the Aziracrow girlies (non-gendered) have been eating good and also sobbing into their meals for the past two weeks. I'm not going to spoil it, as the entire season dropped at once and I would like more people to watch the...Read more...

The saga of Cardi B's microphone retaliation in Las Vegas has come to an end. After an audio technician began an auction last week for the mic the rapper threw at a fan, it's now sold for almost $100,000 on eBay, with the proceeds being split between two charities.Read more...

Google hungers for all that content produced by the wealth of digital publishers creating text, video, and images on a daily basis. To deal with the sticky copyright issues at the heart of AI training, Google is proposing that all those companies who don't want their content gobbled up will need to opt-out" to ensure...Read more...

Peter Dinklage welcomes you to The Academy in a new Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes teaser. Universal's live-actionHow to Train Your Dragon has been hit with indefinite delays. Plus, more behind the scenes on Last Voyage of the Demeter. Spoilers now!

This year's Perseid meteor shower is set to be a good one, and it'll reach its peak this coming weekend. Here's what you need to know about the Perseids and the best way for you to catch this dazzling display.

The days of sky-high carshare rates could be behind us-at least if Lyft is your app of choice. The Uber competitor announced during a quarterly earnings call yesterday that phasing out surge pricing is on its list of priorities moving forward.Read more...

Meta is adding more features to Instagram Threads. Users will now be able to see their own liked posts if they update the app. The feature was beta tested on Android last week but rolled out for all users over the weekend.Read more...

The back-to-school season has a different feel now than in the pre-pandemic days. Today, hybrid learning is a given for many students, and having a reliable computer is table stakes for even grade schoolers, not just high school and college students.Read more...

Though most American audiences know Matt Berry for playing frisky vampire Laszlo on What We Do in the Shadows, he's had a lengthy comedy career in his native England, highlighted by cult-beloved shows like Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, and Toast of London, to name just a few.

While you still can't share passwords without paying extra, it sounds like Netflix will soon attempt to sweeten your subscription deal by bringing its game offerings to your TV. The streaming giant has unexpectedly published the Netflix Game Controller to the iPhone App Store without any heads-up or an official launch...Read more...

Looks like a good old fashioned visit to the toy aisle might be in order if you want a chance at the second drop of Barbie movie dolls.Read more...

NASA is working to resolve a lingering issue with the Orion capsule's heat shield, which is designed to protect the astronauts on board the spacecraft during its return to Earth as part of the Artemis 2 mission.

Amazon has removed half a dozen AI-generated books published under a living author's name without her consent following a social media backlash. Though the misleading content was finally removed on Tuesday, the author, veteran publishing industry writer Jane Friedman, worries that a lack of clear, coherent policies at...Read more...

Preventive mammograms for breast cancer might be less worthwhile for older women, according to research released this week. The study's authors estimate that a substantial percentage of cancer cases caught through screening in women over 70 are overdiagnosed, that is, the detection of a tumor that isn't likely to...Read more...

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Disney is jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon. The conglomerate has formed a task force to determine how the technology can be strategically deployed across various parts of its vast entertainment and media empire.Read more...

So... Gen Con happened. To like, all of us. The annual gaming con held in Indianapolis brought record breaking" numbers of fans through the convention center. Also, a few awards. Yours truly lost the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming to a truly excellent and deserving game, Coyote & Crow. Additionally Free...Read more...

Alarming heat and humidity killed hundreds of cows in Iowa last month. These losses have further decreased the size of the overall U.S. cattle herd, which has shrunk to a more than 50-year low. The Department of Natural Resources in Iowa told Reuters that it had received a much higher than normal number of body...Read more...

The ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes have made it so that Hollywood productions are largely ground to a halt, and other arms of the entertainment industry are similarly in stasis. Things have been a little murkier over in the Actual Play space, where actors play a roleplaying game on YouTube or another streaming...Read more...

Update: They're real! For those thinking about getting a Steam Deck but who recently missed out on sale prices, Valve now says customers will be able to buy used, refurbished Steam Decks at discounted prices.Read more...

Security researchers at IBM say they were able to successfully hypnotize" prominent large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT into leaking confidential financial information, generating malicious code, encouraging users to pay ransoms, and even advising drivers to plow through red lights. The researchers were able...Read more...

Russia is getting ready to launch its first mission to the Moon in nearly fifty years in an attempt to stay relevant amidst a renewed space race.Read more...

In a new interview with Empire, Ridley Scott revealed that he regrets being forced to turn down the director position for the Blade Runner sequel. Because of scheduling conflicts with Alien: Covenant, he was asked to choose between the two films (the Alien franchise is released by 20th Century, Blade Runner by Warner...Read more...

Data collected by the InSight Lander on Mars before its untimely demise this past December may have revealed some of the planet's curious behavior. Scientists studying Mars recently revealed that the planet's rotation may be increasing while its core is causing it to wobble.Read more...

Get ready to greet more ghosts in a sequel to the scariest movie of the summer: Talk to Meis getting a part two and yes, it's called Talk 2 Me.

If you've ever stumbled upon Shudder OriginalFried Barry-the tale of a sleazy drug addict who gets possessed by an alien andheads out for a debauched rampage around Cape Town-you might not be surprised to hear its director, Ryan Kruger, is planning a remake of Street Trash. And if you're a fan of that grimy...Read more...

Sword and sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian has become a cult classic for many reasons, including Arnold Schwarzenegger's breakthrough performance as Robert E. Howard's musclebound warrior and the movie's Ron Cobb-designed, Frank Frazetta-inspired sets. (It also has some killer quotable lines.)Read more...

Zoom updated its Terms of Service on Monday after a controversy over the company's policies about training AI on user data. Although the policy literally says that Zoom reserves the right to train AI on your calls without your explicit permission, the Terms of Service now include an additional line which says,...Read more...

Prosecraft.io, a site that used novels to help power a data-driven project to display word count, passive voice, and other much more subjective, writing-style markers such as vividness, shut down today after authors protested the project. Prosecraft used the full text of over 25,000 books-which is entirely copyrighted...Read more...

Two people are dead and more than a million were in the dark after a series of severe weather bringing heavy rain, thunder, and strong winds swept over much of the East Coast yesterday evening.Read more...

The Changeling, adapted from the Victor LaValle novel, already looks like it's going to be incredible. Before Apollo (LaKeith Stanfield) married Emmy (Clark Backo), she made a deal with a woman in the rainforests of Brazil. After Emmy gives birth to their first child, something horrible happens, and she disappears....Read more...

The upcoming movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter has plenty going for it. The premise-following Dracula's voyage to England-is enticing. The cast, including Corey Hawkins, Liam Cunningham, and David Dastmalchian, is fantastic. Director Andre Ovredal (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Trollhunter) knows how to do ...Read more...

Wegovy, the popular obesity treatment, also seems to offer heart health benefits. On Tuesday, Novo Nordisk reported the results of a comprehensive clinical trial evaluating the drug's efficacy in preventing heart attacks and strokes in overweight or obese individuals. According to the company, Wegovy cut the risk of...Read more...

I know that the Demeter travelogue portion of Dracula takes literally less than ten pages in the whole book, but those epistolary passages (well known to anyone who follows Dracula Daily, as we have just sailed through the traumatizing passages) are incredibly horrific and haunting. Not to mention that they used all...Read more...

Apple is reportedly testing out just how much juice it can squeeze from its highly anticipated M3 processor, with the next M3 Max set to hold a surprising amount of graphical capability to power the company's next main laptop offering.Read more...

The race for song of the summer is seeing a dark horse candidate overtake what we thought were frontrunners. The latecomer is a Eurodance banger called Planet of the Bass" from memer and pop genius DJ Crazy Times with vocals from elusive chanteuse Biljana Electronica.Read more...

Following several delays and over $1 billion in losses, Boeing claims its troubled Starliner program will be ready to launch crews to the International Space Station (ISS) by early 2024 as it works to resolve two safety hazards on its capsule.Read more...

The mermaid (and merman) of the moment might be popping up on screens right now in Barbie, but Disney would like to remind you that The Little Mermaid also came out this year. If you didn't make it to the theater to see Halle Bailey's star-making turn as the live-action Ariel and you've been holding out for Disney+,...Read more...

From iconic directors and legendary actors, to big corporations and famous name brands, it seems everyone in Hollywood has something incredible to say about William Friedkin. The legendary, Oscar-winning filmmaker behind The Exorcist, The French Connection, Sorcerer, and so many others passed away at 87 this week in...Read more...

A new study published by a number of British researchers reveals a hypothetical cyberattack in which a hacker could leverage recorded audio of a person typing to steal their personal data. The attack uses a home-made deep-learning-based algorithm that can acoustically analyze keystroke noises and automatically decode...Read more...

Almost a full year after allegations of overwork and poor conditions, the visual effects staff at Marvel Studios is forming its own union.

A notorious 500-pound black bear responsible for a spate of home invasions over the last year was finally successfully captured in Lake Tahoe on Friday. The female bear, known as Hank the Tank," broke into 21 different homes with three cubs in tow. She will be transferred to a sanctuary in Colorado if her veterinary...Read more...

Across various slices of entertainment, crunch and overwork have become big problems. Though it's been commonly talked about in video games in recent years, those discussions have bloomed over into animation, as we saw with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse earlier this summer.

Sharknado-the knowingly goofy horror comedy about a tornado that dumps hungry ocean predators all over Los Angeles-turns 10 this year. Though it started off as a made-for-TV affair, it eventually transcended that label to become a full-fledged pop-culture phenomenon, and it's marking its birthday with a special...Read more...

A day spa in Northern California might be the source of a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. Over the weekend, local health officials reported three cases of the bacterial illness, including two deaths, among recent customers of the Zen Day Spa in Richmond. The spa has now been closed down while officials...Read more...

The Star Wars Rebels heroes are back in a new fight led by Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) to stop the threat of Thrawn. The continuation of the Dave Filoni universe that started with Star Wars: The Clone Wars makes the jump from animation to live-action in Ahsoka, coming soon to Disney+.Read more...

More than 100 million Americans living on the East Coast are on the lookout for severe weather conditions that could form this week beginning Monday afternoon.Read more...

Noah Schnapp had a massive year in the wake of Stranger Things season four. The 18-year-old actor publicly came out on TikTok, mirroring Will Byers' journey on the Duffer brothers' supernatural horror show. Schnapp recently spoke to Variety about how his personal experiences will be affecting season five of the show.Read more...