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Microsoft's multi-billion dollar bet on artificial intelligence keeps growing - this time with a data center in Wisconsin.Read more...

After a social media video circulated showing the Tesla Cybertruck's frunk chopping veggies, we went through a week of idiots posting videos online to prove that the frunk was actually safe. Only then we saw that it wasn't after one owner damn near got his finger broken trying to prove a point. Now, just over a day...Read more...

Scientists have spotted a rocky exoplanet with a possible atmosphere, which they believe may be burbling out from a magma ocean on the distant world.Read more...

A potential depression treatment might someday come from trip-inducing toad venom. In a new study Wednesday, researchers appear to have deciphered the structural workings of a psychedelic compound derived from the Colorado River toad (Incilius alvarius). The team also tested a modified version of the compound in mice,...Read more...

Director Wes Ball and the team behind Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes had massive paws to fill with the latest installment in this long-running franchise, and we're happy to report they've done just that. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes isn't as tight or focused as the previous films, but it offers a bigger, more...Read more...

Tesla is reportedly under federal investigation again for claims made about its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems.Read more...

For Marvel Studios, a company used to dominating the box office and igniting pop culture, 2023 was kind of a bummer. Amid mutters about superhero fatigue," Marvel's releases (especially Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; The Marvels; and Disney+ series Secret Invasion) made less of an impact than the company, and...Read more...

Nearly all of FTX's former customers will get back almost 100% of the money they lost at the time of the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse - if not more.

Update: Wednesday, May 8, 9:08 a.m. ET: NASA has rescheduled the Starliner Crew Flight Test mission for no earlier than Friday, May 17 at 6:16 p.m. ET, as SpaceNews reports. The delay will allow United Launch Alliance to return the rocket to its Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) near the launch pad to replace a...Read more...

Get a look at the next episode of Star Trek: Discovery. The Suicide Squad adds a new member in a new clip from My Adventures With Superman season 2. Plus, the final season of Snowpiercer gets a release date. Spoilers, away!

New York Governor Kathy Hochul managed to put her foot in her mouth this week when, amidst a business conference in California, she claimed that there are children in the Bronx who don't know what a computer is."Read more...

In March, a software bug threatened to derail large swaths of the web. XZ utils, an open-source compression tool embedded in myriad software products and operating systems, was found to have been implanted with a backdoor.Read more...

I'm a bad son when it comes to gifting. Maybe you've also struggled to do more for your mom every Mother's Day since it was no longer acceptable to offer her your scribbled crayon drawings. Or maybe your wife, the mother of your children, is expecting something more than just a nice dinner this year.Read more...

As Tales of the Empire digs its way through the story of Barriss Offee-and her quest to survive the rise of the Empire, at any cost-there comes a moment that climaxes a decade-plus wait for fans who've wanted to see what happened to the former Jedi Padawan after the shocking conclusion of her story in Clone Wars. It's...Read more...

The wait is almost over.X-Men 97's three-part finale continues tomorrow when Tolerance Is Extinction, Pt. 2" drops on Disney+.Read more...

Rejoice, Wordle lovers. The game's owner, the New York Times, has announced that paying subscribers will now be able to go back into an archive of over a thousand previous Wordle puzzles to play them at their leisure. Previous to this, the game's puzzles were very much like an episode of television in the early days:...Read more...

Russell T Davies may have already returned to Doctor Who with its 60th anniversary specials, but a new, full season of the show brings with it myriad opportunities. Doctor Who's latest relaunch is no exception: a new Doctor, a new companion, new adventures, and perhaps in the biggest change of all, a new home beyond...Read more...

Here's our first look inside Rapunzel's Lantern Festival, a new dark ride at Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs based on Disney Animation's Tangled. The attraction is a boat ride not unlike Pirates of the Caribbean that takes you through the story of Rapunzel's dream to see the floating lanterns glow-and discover that...Read more...

Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure, it's believed that both planets likely began with similar amounts of water. Today, however, Venus is a hellish world with intense heat and crushing...Read more...

The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the Swiss Army Knife" of whatever category they're a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuff, file stuff, in some cases download...Read more...

This past weekend, Lucasfilm dropped Tales of the Empire, the second entry in its animated anthology series exploring the dual stories of characters in the galaxy far, far away. But what worked and what didn't in getting to explore the stories of Morgan Elsbeth and Barriss Offee during the time of the Empire? Click...Read more...

Microsoft deployed a generative AI model on Thursday for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret information, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft announced the AI offering at the 2024 SCSP AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The GPT-4-based model was created to be entirely divorced...Read more...

As part of a special screening of Furiosa at IMAX Headquarters in Los Angeles, George Miller chatted with press about the highly anticipated prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. The film, long in development hell during multiple WB regime changes, will finally open on May 24-and it's worth the wait.Read more...

On Tuesday, TikTok fired back against the U.S. government over a law that could put an end to the social video platform.

Tesla has less than two months to respond to inquires from U.S. auto safety regulators about its December recall of more than 2 million electric vehicles.Read more...

The U.S. military has been using drones to shoot down enemy drones in the Middle East, according to a new report from Forbes, which cites the U.S. Army. And while it's been public knowledge that lasers have been deployed on U.S. ships and used in tests overseas during the past decade, this appears to be the first...Read more...

We've long anticipated this new OLED iPad Pro, growing almost bored with the wait, and yet the new tablet announcement was weighty enough that it still managed to leave us winded. Sure, the updated iPad Air with M2 and a 13-inch variation would be par for the course for Apple's standard refreshes, but the iPad Pro now...Read more...

Living creatures don't live forever but ideas can. They may shift, change, or get misinterpreted along the way, but ideas remain long after the people who had them are gone. That's a central theme in the new film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, especially when it comes to the franchise's most important character,...Read more...

A physics professor with a pretty great life-cool Chicago brownstone, cool wife, cool teenage son-is nonetheless bothered by a voice in his head that wonders what his life might have been, if he'd only he'd made different choices along the way. It's something everyone has thought about, but in Dark Matter, that what...Read more...

You officially know everything there is to know about the Pixel 8a-and this time, it's not based on rumors! Google revealed the details behind its next mid-tier smartphone, the $500 Pixel 8a. It features plenty of bells and whistles you've seen before, including the Tensor G3 CPU and Google's very own camera...Read more...

If you like affordable, stylish smartphones, you'll like what the Google Pixel 8a is all about. Once again, Google's mid-year mid-range offering is a revised reprise of the previous fall flagship. It comes in a batch of new colors, with most of the same camera and performance features, and it remains one of the...Read more...

A team of scientists seems to have discovered a previously hidden genetic cause of Alzheimer's. In a new study Monday, the researchers found strong evidence that people carrying two copies of a genetic variation already tied to Alzheimer's risk are practically destined to develop the neurodegenerative disorder as they...Read more...

The wait is finally over. Apple just announced two brand-new iPad Pros-an 11-inch and a 13-inch model-at its Let Loose event today, confirming our months-long speculation about them. The event also revealed two new 11 and 13-inch iPad Air models.

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Sperm whales' clicking communiques include context and combination structures that make their messaging more akin to language than previously known, according to a team of researchers at MIT.Read more...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said social media dominated the narrative around Israel's war in Gaza on Friday, sitting for an interview with Senator Mitt Romney at the McCain Institute's 2024 Sedona Forum. Blinken's statement on social media, which did not reference TikTok by name, was in response to Romney...Read more...

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once academy award-winner, Star Trek star, and action queen of our hearts Michelle Yeoh is coming to the world of Blade Runner.

Dogs have been humanity's stalwart companions for tens of thousands of years. Unfortunately, not every dog is as genetically healthy as they deserve to be, thanks largely to our meddling. Over the past few centuries, human-guided breeding has split dogs into hundreds of distinct breeds, based on specifically desired...Read more...

The mysterious AI chatbot, gpt2-chatbot," returned to the major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org, on Monday night roughly a week after it abruptly disappeared. But now, there are two: im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot" and im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot." These models exhibited the same GPT-4 level capabilities,...Read more...

Light famously cannot escape the event horizon of a black hole, leaving astrophysicists to theorize and speculate what it's like beyond the limits of human perception. Now, NASA researchers take that theorization a step further, in the form of an animation that takes you (the viewer) into the black hole.Read more...

It's not all that much longer before we get to return to George Miller's madcap vision of the post-apocalypse in his long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa. But while we wait, at least some people have managed to witness her already: and found a film that, while perhaps not as revelatory as Fury Road before...Read more...

NASA plays nicely with privately owned SpaceX, but is that something to be concerned about? In an interview with NPR, NASA director Bill Nelson assuages any fears of an unsupervised Elon Musk running a space agency by reminding us that SpaceX is actually run by its president Gwynne Shotwell. Nelson trusts Shotwell to...Read more...

Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie is definitely not bitter about how things went down with the JetBlue Airways merger that was halted by the Justice Department before eventually being abandoned.Read more...

The Nintendo Switch 2 is real. Realer than real. It is so real that only the most precious select insiders, accessory-makers, and publishers have been able to see it or, in some cases, merely touch it. But Nintendo Japan's big boss has finally offered us the measliest of official morsels. The Nintendo Switch sequel...Read more...

GOP operative Brad Parscale is credited with using technology-specifically social media-to help get a certain former reality TV star elected President. Now, Parscale is back and he wants to use tech again to disrupt America's political game. This time, the tech he's excited about is artificial intelligence.Read more...

What happens when you stick your finger in the closing trunk-or, in this case, the frunk"-of a Tesla Cybertruck? It's a question that way too many Cybertruck owners are asking themselves these days. And a new video posted to YouTube appears to show the most grotesque answer to date.

Update: May 7, 7:10 a.m. ET: In an emailed statement, ULA says it is now targeting a launch of Starliner for no earlier than Friday, May 10, saying the team needs additional time to complete a full assessment." The launch was scrubbed due to an observation on a liquid oxygen self-regulating solenoid relief valve on...Read more...

Late Sunday evening, I logged onto Fortnite to enjoy all the newly added Star Wars content, solo-queuing up for a No Build quads match right away. As I waited for the battle bus to pick me up, I could hear one of my teammates loudly playing Canadian actor-turned-rapper Aubrey Drake" Graham's song, The Heart Part 6,"...Read more...

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It's been over a decade since we last caught up with Vin Diesel's sci-fi antihero Richard B. Riddick-Diesel's been spending most of his time voicing Marvel's Groot and doing Fast & Furious movies-but it's time to dig those goggles out of storage. The fourth film in the series, titled Riddick: Furya, is officially on...Read more...