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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...

The same weekend a film mentioning Zack Snyder's cut of Justice League crossed a billion dollars at the box office, a film that also relates to Snyder's story had reason to celebrate. David Ayer, the director of 2016's DC film Suicide Squad, said on X that he's spoken to one of the presidents of DC Films, James Gunn,...Read more...

PayPal is diving into the messy world of crypto with a new stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, aptly and uninventively named PayPal USD. The company's entrance into the industry comes at a time of deep regulatory uncertainty as federal agencies and lawmakers continue to grapple with the fallout of multiple major ...Read more...

One of the greatest American film directors of his generation, William Friedkin, died this week in Los Angeles at the age of 87. Best known for films like The Exorcist, The French Connection, Sorcerer, Cruising, and To Live and Die in L.A., Friedkin was as prolific as he was talented, redefining the horror genre one...Read more...

Two firefighters and a pilot died this weekend after helicopters that were responding to a fire in Southern California collided in midair. The National Transportation Safety Board has opened a probe into the crash, and investigators are on their way to the scene of the accident.Read more...

Last week, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers offered to meet with the strikingWriters Guild of America for the first time in nearly 100 days. But almost immediately after leaving the bargaining table, the WGA started receiving calls from trade magazines asking for comments on the negotiations....Read more...

Stephen King is one of the most adapted authors of all time, and-unlike Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, and Ian Fleming-he's still alive and prolifically publishing. New documentary King on Screen celebrates the phenomenon of King-inspired movies and TV series, mostly through interviews with directors who've helmed...Read more...

While the scientific community has been recently focused on the feasibility of an alleged room-temperature semiconductor, U.S. scientists revealed this week that they have successfully recreated a pivotal fusion experiment.Read more...

Google is just plain tired of all your grammar flubs in Search. The company announced Monday it had added a simple grammar check feature into the world's largest search engine, though you won't be using it to shore up any writing you want to show someone else.Read more...

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Elon Musk said his social network will livestream his cage match with Mark Zuckerberg in a post on Sunday. Musk challenged Zuckerberg to the fight in late June, and the Meta CEO called his bluff.Read more...

Sure, we're all busy playing Baldur's Gate, but if you have a minute to look up from the screen, we're here to tell you about what's coming up on...well, your other screen, probably. Check out the trailer for Marvel's I Am Groot and keep your eyes out for the Korean film Devils, hopefully coming to a big screen near...Read more...

After years of dominating the cell phone market, one thing has become clear to Apple: Things on the smartphone front might be slowing down. The tech corporation has acknowledged a dip in sales in the U.S. ahead of the release of the iPhone 15.Read more...

There's something about an elevator that touches on the very nature of the .GIF format. There's a repetition to its design, a cyclical nature of destination and return, a permanent transience. It loops, constantly, permanently. What changes is the people who are there to inhabit it-or witness it.Read more...

Since 2005's Elantris, Brandon Sanderson has gradually risen in prominence as one of the biggest (and busiest) fantasy authors working today. And like other authors of similar status, Sanderson's reach is gradually expanding outside of books over to other industries such as games. Though he's stepped into the video...Read more...

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is the first movie version of the comic book characters since the two live-action films nearly a decade ago. The Heroes in a Half Shell have had an off-and-on relationship with movies, but Mutant Mayhem is shaping up to be one of the better received incarnations....Read more...

One of the artists working on Dungeons & Dragons' newest book-Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants!, has stated that they used AI to help generate certain details or polish and editing" in a recent post on X, on the site formerly known as Twitter. Ilya Shkipin, who drew the art in question, has deleted his posts, but...Read more...

Two weeks after release, Greta Gerwig's Barbie is part of the billion-dollar club.

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2023 is a big year for superhero movies, as it's when many of them from years past are hitting big milestones. Along with the MCU overall, the original Iron Man turned 15 this year, and it's not the only one-The Incredible Hulk, which released months later, is similarly a decade and a half old. But unlike Tony Stark,...Read more...

By now, just about everyone has seen the digital artand prose of generative AI models like Midjounrey and ChatGPT. In a reversal of the text-to-image format of Midjourney, a New York-based technologist and artist has released a new app that flips those concepts on their head, having AI models conjure up poems based...Read more...

Magic: The Gathering has been going hard on the brand crossovers through its Universes Beyond" line this year with the likes of Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings. Over the next few years, that expansion is set to continue, with more big-name franchises added to the line-namely video games.

Kaiju stories often live and die not just on the monster itself, but whoever's fighting against (or with) it. Whether it's the military, other monsters, or giant robots, part of the fun can be seeing what's able to go blow-for-blow with a massive beast that shoots fire out of its eyes or some such.

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Warner Bros.' plans for its DC movies have shifted enough times that even Mystique would tell the company to chill, and last year's Black Adam only served to further complicate things. Prior to release, its claim to fame was that Dwayne Johnson would finally play a comic book superhero (that he had an iron grip on for...Read more...

Christopher Nolan's new movie Oppenheimer, eponymously named after the creator of the atomic bomb, has renewed public interest in America's dark history with nuclear weapons. Nolan's movie focuses primarily on the Trinity" test-the first test of an nuclear bomb to occur in the U.S. But for years after Trinity, the...Read more...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a delight for many reasons: the energetic teens who voice the Turtles, its fun embrace of 90s culture, its unique animation style, and the way it both honors and advances TMNT lore. But the movie's more than just a light-hearted nostalgic trip.Read more...

A social media influencer's event spun wildly out of control in downtown Manhattan on Friday. For some reason, thousands of people who had turned out to Union Square park to to see Youtube star and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat began rioting, obstructing traffic, and antagonizing police. The unruly crowd eventually...Read more...

There's a lot of monsters ready to be let out of their crypts for Halloween haunt season.Read more...

Need something Witcher to sink your teeth to now that Henry Cavill has bid his farewell to the Netflix show? Well, there's good news: series author Andrzej Sapkowski has revealed he's working on a new novel set in the world of his fantasy creation.Read more...

A group of engineers is testing an air conditioning system in space, seeing how two basic processes work in an environment with less gravity than Earth in order to design a system for future habitats on the Moon and Mars.Read more...

Futurama's new season continues its examination of 3023 by way of 2023 with next week's How the West Was 1010001," which sees the gang heading to, ahem, Doge City to cash in on the bitcoin mining craze. Like most places they visit, they encounter absurdities, even more puns, and some very shady robot...Read more...

Google is trying to lure employees back to the office by offering a special for its on-campus hotel in Mountain View, California. The special will run through Sept. 30 and is serving as another attempt for Google to establish the new norm of a hybrid work-from-home schedule.Read more...

Widespread wildfires across Canada have broken a carbon pollution record this year, a European climate monitoring agency said this week.Read more...

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Samsung isn't the only phone maker expanding its quick-fix repair network. 9to5Google reports that Google will set up Pixel repair kiosks within select Best Buy locations to rival the Korean electronics giant's new line of repair shops and Apple's Genius Bar.

The time has come-after six years of waiting, and three of those spent in early access, Baldur's Gate 3 has finally released on PC. If you've already started gathering your party and venturing forth, we want to see the characters you've come up with to venture into this latest D&D adventure.

A disease spread by fleas is becoming more common and deadlier in Los Angeles, California. In a new report this week, health officials say that recorded cases of flea-borne typhus have steadily risen in LA since 2010, with the highest tally seen last year. Additionally, three people are thought to have died from...Read more...

Strange New Worlds' musical episode dropped this week, giving us a wonderful, all-singing all-dancing hour of Star Trek. But now that we've had a chance to give the Enterprise crew's showtunes a few repeat listens, we're ready to declare which hit the high notes and which should've been left on the cutting room floor.

An older woman with steel gray hair, wearing a tiara and a stylish red dress-suit combo, sits at the front of the Lorcana line at Gen Con 2023, explaining to a group of four younger men what happened that morning. She has a diagram. This is Esther Emerald. That's not her real name; that's her character's name for a ...Read more...

Players jumping into the hotly anticipated Dungeons & Dragons RPG Baldur's Gate 3 will likely want to skip through the intensely rambling licensing agreement. But for those players who actually decide to stay awhile and listen-er, sorry, wrong game-I mean read the mountainous EULA agreement, developer Larian has a...Read more...

Axiom Space will fly a fourth crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as NASA once again selects the private space venture for another mission to low Earth orbit.Read more...

A failed state attorney general candidate endorsed by Donald Trump, a former Republican Michigan state representative, and a Trump sympathetic election denying attorney have all been criminally charged with attempting to tamper with voting machines, according to charging documents first spotted by The Detroit News....Read more...

We're only a month out since Meta released its Instagram-tied Twitter-killer app Threads. Since then, the time users spent on the app has tanked. Now, two separate data analysis firms say that the number of users logging in each day on the app has similarly flatlined just a month after its release.Read more...

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a noted fan of bringing New York City stories to the stage and screen (Hamilton lyrics call it the greatest city in the world," after all), and he'll be tackling a new tale set in his hometown for his next project: a stage musical adapting Sol Yurick's 1965 novel The Warriors-previously the...Read more...

Like every other tech company, Tinder is bringing artificial intelligence to its operations in an attempt to create a better user experience, its parent company Matchgroup said in its Q2 earnings letter on Wednesday. The company says it plans to create new features around the needs of Gen Z users.Read more...

The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit's controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called John Oliver rules" which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits. It marks the end of months of fighting, which included site-wide blackouts. Now...Read more...

When I was 19 years old, I stood outside a Toys R" Us for hours, waiting for midnight so I could buy toys from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. It was mere weeks before the movie was released, the hype was at an all-time high, and I spent a lot of money because of it.Read more...