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Oreo has dropped a collaboration with Lucasfilm featuring special edition Star Wars sandwich cookies. Fans will be able to buy packs of the classic treat representing either the light side or dark side of the Force.Read more...

Donnie Yen's character Caine was at the center of John Wick: Chapter 4's end credit scene and now we know that's exactly where the franchise will continue.

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When news broke that Warner Bros. was making a new Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum, directed by Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, and produced by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh, we instantly wanted someone to pick their brains about it. Why come back? Why this story? Who will return? Now, someone has.Read more...

We're officially going to get some answers to the burning questions we had after watching Netflix's 3 Body Problem: the streamer is bringing back the sci-fi series-which explores what happens as humanity prepares for a slow-moving but inevitably arriving alien invasion-for more.Read more...

Avian influenza has come for New York City's birds. In a new study Wednesday, scientists report traces of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a small number of NYC's wild bird population. Though this discovery may not be directly related to the ongoing outbreaks of H5N1 in U.S. dairy cattle, it's another sign that these viruses...Read more...

To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you'd expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the brittle star was cloning itself, regenerating three of its arms as it died.Read more...

For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have been traveling through the solar system to reach the innermost planet Mercury and observe its extreme conditions. During its complex journey, the BepiColombo mission ran into a problem that's preventing its thrusters from operating at full power, potentially...Read more...

If you think of Mad Max: Fury Road as The Hobbit, Furiosa is its Lord of the Rings. They're two stories set in the same world, with the same characters, taking place at different periods of time. One is a little more singular and focused while the other is larger and more expansive. They're two stories that stand...Read more...

The next live-action Star Wars series, The Acolyte, arrives in less than a month-and a new video released today shares fresh footage from the much-anticipated show, with a focus on key character Master Sol, played by Emmy-winning Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae.Read more...

For the first time in a long while, America's drug overdose crisis has not gotten worse. New preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that total overdose deaths took a slight dip in 2023, including deaths tied to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Deaths tied to certain other...Read more...

And so, X-Men 97's largely successful first season has come to an end. What does it have to say about the state of mutantdom in the face of the overwhelming threat our heroes have thrown down against these past three episodes in Bastion? Honestly, not all that much. But it does have a lot to say about Charles Xavier,...Read more...

In a world of cinematic universes, it makes no sense that IF exists. You may think we mean that becauseIF is an original, big-budget Hollywood release, the likes of which we don't see much anymore. But that's not it at all. What we mean is in a sea of films that are beholden to strict rules of canon and storytelling, ...Read more...

Google is rolling out Android 15's second public beta in tandem with the second day of the Google I/O developer conference. Google announced that many new features, fixes, and tweaks are coming to the operating system, including Private Space and Theft Detection Lock, which are designed to help protect your stuff. A...Read more...

You only need two letters to describe best the latest iteration of Google's big yearly developer shebang: AI. That's right; Google I/O has touched on a slew of new features coming to the Mountainview company's software ecosystem, specifically what could be coming to the still-in-betaAndroid 15. A big chunk of these...Read more...

Star Wars and merchandise have been hand in hand since the very beginning. But there was still something unlike anything the galaxy had ever seen when, 25 years ago this coming weekend, The Phantom Menace launched: a brand new Star Wars saga, completely backed by an overwhelming, frequently insane merchandising push...Read more...

Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is currently working on a bid to buy TikTok, according to reports from several reputable news outlets. And while it remains to be seen whether TikTok's parent company ByteDance will agree to a sale to anyone, McCourt's...Read more...

Just how far would you be willing to go to avoid the dreaded hangover? Researchers in Switzerland have developed an oral gel meant to prevent booze from breaking down into the toxic compounds most responsible for a hangover. In mice, it appeared to work as intended.

Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch's Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades. The New York Times reports that the arcade-pizzeria franchise will soon power down the bands at all but two of the chain's more than 400...Read more...

Boeing may be subject to criminal prosecution after the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused it of violating the terms of a 2021 settlement agreement.Read more...

The most recent Terminator film-2019's Dark Fate-wasn't quite a return to blockbuster form. But the franchise James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off in 1984 (and were back" with in 1991) is, much like its titular killer robots, never going to die. Today, we have our first look at Netflix's long-teased...Read more...

OpenAI and Google showcased their latest and greatest AI technology this week. For the last two years, tech companies have raced to make AI models smarter, but now a new focus has emerged: make them multimodal. OpenAI and Google are zeroing in on AI that can seamlessly switch between its robotic mouth, eyes, and ears.

The first full trailer for Universal Pictures' Wicked is finally here and is bursting with the star power of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. It also offers a fresh glimpse at Oz through the story of two friends: Elphaba (Ervivo), a powerful green-skinned outcast, and the popular, fairy-like Galinda (Grande). They're...Read more...

Engineers are cooking up a new clean energy solution: charging up crystals with solar energy to temperatures of 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius), potentially making them a greener substitute for the carbon-intensive processes that smelt steel and cook cement.Read more...

Today, Apple announced a host of new accessibility features, such as eye tracking and vocal shortcuts, that should arrive on iPhones, iPads, and Apple Vision Pros later this year.

It was only just recently that we started hearing about Warner Bros.' plans for Dune: Prophecy, the mysterious streaming series prequel inspired by the events of Sisterhood of Dune, again. But out of nowhere, we've just got a thunderous first look at its take on Dune's world.

Outer Range's first season was a wild ride-a sci-fi Western about a rancher whose land contains a mysterious hole made of time itself. The Prime Video series returns with plenty of fresh weirdness, but it feels sharper-as star Josh Brolin promised-with a plot that's less meandering this time around.Read more...

What started as a 36-hour hackathon project last weekend could empower the open-source community to upend the smart glasses industry. Five team members built a $20 pair of smart glasses, dubbed Open Glass, that connects what you see and hear to an AI chatbot, such as Meta's Llama 3.Read more...

As usual, Google I/O 2024 is an absolute whirlwind of news and announcements. This year, rather than focusing on hardware, Android, or Chrome, Google spent most of this year's developers' conference convincing us that its AI features are worth prioritizing. One of those projects is Project Astra, a multimodal AI...Read more...

Paul Walter Hauser teases his mystery Fantastic Four character. Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Tomb Raider series is a go at Amazon. Plus, what's coming in Evil's final season. To me, my spoilers!

A 24/7 livestream Portal" that connects New York City and the Irish capital of Dublin was temporarily deactivated on Tuesday as technicians sought to solve a critical flaw in the project's fun premise: How to stop so many people from sharing inappropriate material-like dick pics, videos of 9/11, or boobs.Read more...

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist, announced he was leaving the company on Tuesday. OpenAI confirmed the departure in a press release. Sutskever's official exit comes nearly six months after he helped lead an effort with other board members to fire CEO Sam Altman, the move backfired days later.Read more...

DC and its Kryptonians are now set to rule over two summers in a row. James Gunn's Superman is currently filming aimed at a July 11, 2025 release, and it'll now be joined the following year when Supergirl: World of Tomorrow comes to theaters June 26, 2026.Read more...

Conspiracy theorists on social media have been busy at work peddling their latest conclusion: The magnificent auroras seen over swaths of four different continents over the weekend were caused by a University of Alaska program that studies the ionosphere. Which, of course, is pure nonsense.

Agatha All Along was, of course, Agatha all along. Tuesday, Marvel Studios finally finished its multi-year magic trick, changing the title of the upcoming Agatha Harkness show every few months, and landed on its official title. And it's the one we expected all along: Agatha All Along. The show will debut with a...Read more...

Disney Parks has revealed the opening date for its highly anticipated Tiana's Bayou Adventure attraction based on the world of Disney Animation's The Princess and the Frog. Starting June 28, visitors to Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL can finally ride the water flume boats on a new adventure that will take you down...Read more...

Google's latest I/O conference was an absolute slurry of AI promises. The company took so many stabs with new AI models, showing off new AI capabilities that integrate Gemini into every single Google product or service under the sun. But take enough shots, and the law of averages says at least one will hit the mark....Read more...

Just yesterday, I was talking about how Apple's new AI-powered transcription and summarization feature for voice memos on iPhone is one of the features Rabbit promised on the R1 for later this year, and that gives us one less reason to buy the device.

Sales of raw milk in the U.S. have risen 21% since bird flu was first confirmed in dairy cattle in late March, according to a report from PBS Newshour, citing new data from research firm NielsenIQ. Why on Earth would people drink raw milk at a time when pasteurization has been shown to kill the virus? Because some...Read more...

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The meme stock rally triggered by the return of Roaring Kitty" to social media has cost GameStop stock short-sellers more than $2 billion in just two days, according to data firm S3 Partners.Read more...

One of the best filmmakers of all time, Francis Ford Coppola, hasn't had a major theatrical release in almost 30 years. Instead, the man behind The Godfather, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now has been making weird art films and his very own wine. And you know what? That sounds amazing. Good for you, Mr. Coppola.Read more...

Scientists are inching closer to making telepathy a reality. In a new study published this week, researchers claim to have created a device that can read and translate a person's internal speech. The findings only show modest success so far, however, and there are still many hurdles remaining before such devices can...Read more...

Some stars in our very own Milky Way are some of the earliest ever seen, according to researchpublished today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.Read more...

Google made a big mistake recently. The company accidentally erased the private Google Cloud account of a $125 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper.

It's deja vu all over again. Boeing's long-anticipated Starliner mission has been postponed for a second time due to a newly discovered issue with the spacecraft's service module.Read more...

Comcast plans to launch a streaming bundle later this month that will include Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, according to a new report from Variety. Reportedly called StreamSaver, the bundle will be discounted but only available to subscribers of Comcast TV or internet service.Read more...

This morning Amazon's Prime Videogave us our first look at Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's second season, and it's leaning all in on Sauron. Times are dark in Middle-earth, and it needs a returned Dark Lord just to make everything a little more ominous. And maybe some statement jewelry? Here's all that, and...Read more...

Google's best new Android feature in years is Circle to Search, which is why it took center stage at today's Google I/O opening keynote. Google announced new updates to Gemini, the AI that powers the Android operating system. Most of the new features sound helpful, though they might seem more subtle than you were...Read more...

The 2024 summer movie season is now in full swing. Already we've seen flying stuntmen and talking apes invade local theaters-but that's merely the tip of the iceberg for what promises to be a very unique few months to come. This summer, the number of mega franchises is way down, the number of superhero movies is way...Read more...