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The $3,500 Apple Vision Pro hasn't yet really found its footing. It had some of the best visuals and hand tracking in the VR space, but the hype around it has practically dried up in just the first few months since its release. Part of that is certainly due to that astronomical price. So, what will it take to cut that...Read more...

After that wrenchingly grim end to episode one, episode two, Rhaenyra the Cruel," is here to remind us that all actions have consequences-while also extolling the ways tragedy can be exploited in unexpectedly positive ways. But of course, even the best-laid plans can go awry on House of the Dragon.Read more...

Ebon Moss-Bachrach is reading comics and looking at rocks for The Fantastic Four. House of the Dragon prepares for war in new footage. Plus, a tiny look at Superman & Lois' final season, and a new clip from the Rick & Morty anime. Spoilers away!

Puzzles and dystopian fiction have a recurring theme in common: those in power forcing their subjects to play twisted games for entertainment. Crack the spine of any brainteaser book, and it reads like The Hunger Games-prisoners vying for their lives and monarchs sacrificing their servants in the name of logic.

During WWDC 2024, Apple showed off a bunch of shiny new features heading to iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia (and its other software platforms) later this year-but if you don't want to wait around for these features to arrive, you can get a lot of them right now.

If you read comics, you know the market is partially built on issues with variant covers drawn by different artists to entice collectors to snatch up any issue they can. This is particularly true for Marvel and DC Comics, and it's now that latter that's found itself pulling some of those variants entirely.

Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to get Megalopolis into people's eyes for decades. It's only recently that fate's gone Coppola's way with a theatrical US release in September (and its eventual physical release) courtesy of Lionsgate, but if you thought all's well that ends well, you'd be mistaken.

With its floral aroma and sweet, deep-crimson flesh, the blood orange is an indisputably cool fruit. Yet, a recent University of Florida study measures how literally cooling blood oranges for months post-harvest could make them healthier by boosting antioxidant levels, while yielding deeper hues.

Warner Bros. and DC Comics have been riding the high of Batman for decades, both in the comics and expanded media like TV, games, and film. That last one is where the character seems to do particularly well, and whose existence is plenty formative for many a viewer. But whichever Bat-actor one grew up with, or...Read more...

Every time the BBC brings in a new actor to portray the Doctor, their inaugural Doctor Who season (and any holiday specials that precede it) carry weight behind them.

Weeks ago, The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke talked about his hope to get Supernatural star Jared Padalecki on the superhero show. Just days afterward, The CW went and canceled Walker-which the actor had been starring in and producing for four seasons, and whose end now opened up an opportunity to make good on those...Read more...

It sounds like the jig is up for YouTube users who snagged cheaper Premium memberships by obscuring their location with virtual private networks (VPNs).Read more...

In 2020, English author Susanna Clarke published her second-ever novel, Piranesi. Given that it'd been over 15 years since her Hugo Award-winning debut Jonathan Strange & Mr. Morrell, the book's arrival had been a big deal at the time-and like how Strange was later adapted to TV, Piranesi is coming to film.Read more...

Democrats' attempts to woo content creators and their fans reached a natural conclusion on Friday, when the Democratic National Convention Committee opened up media credentials to influencers for its big convention this summer.Read more...

Ever since the Suicide Squad came crashing into theaters back in 2016, Warner Bros. has been doing whatever it can to keep them around in the public eye. Games, animated movies, popping up in other characters' shows: the DC antiheroes are going to feature in whatever they can. Their next onscreen venture is Suicide...Read more...

Some actors come into a superhero role fairly early in their careers. Others do so in the middle, which can carry some extra weight if this comes as their star profile is growing. And sometimes you have the ones that are fighting to be cast in something because they're pretty confident they'd be an ace at it.

Last month, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes came to theaters, bringing with it a new set of characters positioned to continue the human/ape war established in Caesar's reboot trilogy. If you somehow managed to miss it in theaters over the last six weeks-where it's kept making money!- or were just waiting to watch it...Read more...

Speculative new research outlines a method for detecting extraterrestrial civilizations: by catching the gravitational waves produced by the collapse, or failure, of their warp drives. Sounds wild, but the concept is grounded in the principles of Einstein's general relativity.

This week, Star Trek: Prodigy dropped the first trailer for its second season, and it's full of all the sort of good Star Trek action you'd want-even more so if, like me, you're a Voyager fan. But as a Voyager fan, there was one shot in particular that called to me: Admiral Janeway, her uniform jacket removed, down to...Read more...

With things in motion on theMarvel Studios slate, actor Benedict Cumberbatch is once again talking about his role in the franchise as Doctor Strange.Read more...

The secret's out: The Boys is a satire that lives to skewer the sorts of right-wing nightmares that unfortunately are part of our real world these days. The current fourth season's election plot has been a highly fertile one for the show's signature sense of humor, with one new character in particular making a big...Read more...

A major revamp of the Alexa platform is on the horizon, and it looks as if it's going to cost you. Eight current and former anonymous employees who worked on Alexa told Reuters that the project is known internally as Banyan," referring to a type of fig tree with propagation roots that grow upwards and outwards. It...Read more...

Earlier this week during Nintendo's latest Direct livestream, Capcom shocked the fighting game world with the surprise reveal of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, an unprecedented collection of seven iconic crossover games between the comics and video games publishers-including one of the most bel...Read more...

There's a new swamp treat at Universal Studios Orlando's newly opened Dreamworks Land and it pays homage to Shrek in the weirdest, most unhinged way. It's a pretzel in the shape of Mike Myers' ogre face inspired by the hit fairytale parody franchise-a Shrekzel," as it's become known online by theme park foodies-and...Read more...

The United States announced it is banning the sale of antivirus software from the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs on Thursday, according to a release from the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security. Kaspersky's alleged close ties to the Russian government were found to pose a critical risk....Read more...

Last week, we reported that Elon Musk has 11 children, which seemed like a lot at the time. Unfortunately, that number appears to be incorrect. In fact, he has yet another previously unreported kid, according to a report published Friday by Bloomberg. The total number of kids (that we know of) now appears to be 12.Read more...

As excitement ramps up for Osgood Perkins' Longlegs with growing word of mouth of how darkly grim and scary the Nicolas Cage-starring feature is, the director's next project, Stephen King adaptationThe Monkey, is starting to gain more and more attention.

Flat Earth conspiracy theories have run rampant in recent years, despite fairly conclusive proof that our planet is shaped like an orb (William Shatner wouldn't lie to us would he?). Yes, for some reason, a substantial demographic of America's more internet-addled folks have taken it upon themselves to prove that if...Read more...

Heritage Auctions-the same outfit that just sold an extremely rare rocket-firing" Boba Fett toy for half a million bucks-is back with more Star Wars treasures, this time offering over 100 pieces of concept art created by John Gallagher for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted five men who operated Jetflicks, a subscription TV and movie service that streamed pirated content, according to a press release Thursday from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Jetflicks offered more than 118,000 television episodes and 10,000 movies, making it larger than the...Read more...

Tonight, Doctor Who's latest season comes to an end, as the Doctor and Ruby prepare to battle an almighty foe from the Time Lord's past. But it also means there's one last chance to see the most constant of factors in what has been a very up-and-down season-one more appearance from guest actress Susan Twist, who's...Read more...

The Perseverance rover has been toiling on the Martian surface for over three years, collecting rock samples that will eventually be brought to Earth if all goes according to plan. But the rover has also picked up hitchhikers, in the form of traces of Martian atmosphere that are squeezed into the headspace" of the...Read more...

According to a new report from the Wrap, the Jim Henson Company is selling its Los Angeles studio lot at 1416 La Brea Avenue as part of a much longer-term strategy" to merge an undisclosed future location with its Jim Henson Creature Shop in Burbank, California. The building has headquartered the company since 2000,...Read more...

The World Health Organization is warning the public to stay away from counterfeit Ozempic, or fauxzempic." The agency has recently received reports of medication falsified to appear like the diabetes and off-label weight loss drug Ozempic in at least three countries, including the U.S.

A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of Israel has stumbled upon a 3,300-year-old ship on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, its cargo still intact. The wreck was found about 56 miles (90 kilometers) from the coast, a surprising distance from land for such an ancient vessel.

Elon Musk's social media business X, formerly Twitter, took a turn for the worse in November 2023 when he told advertisers to go f**k yourselves" on stage with the New York Times. At the time, Musk said he refused to be blackmailed" into censorship," responding to a few big brands who cut their ad deals with X...Read more...

Donald Sutherland has departed at the age of 88, but the acting powerhouse will forever live on thanks to his iconic array of performances. While a lot of his best-known works are not in the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror realms (think MASH, National Lampoon's Animal House, JFK, Pride & Prejudice, and many more)-he did ve...Read more...

We're encroaching on 25 years since Sony first unveiled the PlayStation 2, yet current-day PS5 owners don't have much to be excited about in 2024. We're on the short road to the expected release of the PlayStation 5 Pro. Despite it likely being the company's biggest hardware release of the last four years, you...Read more...

Boeing has been having serious problems all year but it's beginning to look like the company may be in pretty deep shit. After lawmakers humiliatingly yelled at the embattled plane maker's CEO during a disastrous Congressional hearing earlier this week, lawyers for the families of victims of the notorious 737 Max...Read more...

Get another look at Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum's Apollo 11 rom-com, Fly Me to the Moon. Bryce Dallas Howard is directing another episode of Star Wars TV. Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman promises answers in its season finale. Plus, Superman and Supergirl share their pasts in a new clip from My...Read more...

Donald Trump, a convicted felon who's promised to be a dictator on day one if he retakes the White House, made an appearance on the All-In Podcast on Thursday. And Trump's ramblings would almost be funny if he wasn't running neck-and-neck to become the next president of the United States.Read more...

The bizarre marketing for Longlegs has raised the intrigue level for the summer horror movie sky-high. But one thing audiences have yet to catch a good glimpse of is its biggest star: Nicolas Cage, who plays the title character. And there's a careful reason behind that.Read more...

The scariest horror movies are often the ones that present a version of reality where madness feels like it's just part of the atmosphere, and evil is slowly infecting everything in the frame. These 10 picks from Shudder all have the power to make your skin crawl-and push your imagination to very dark places.Read more...

Done Global, the online healthcare company that saw two executives arrested last week, issued a statement this week assuring patients it will do its best to continue operations despite the federal indictments by the U.S. Department of Justice. The executives were charged with providing easy access" to Adderall and ...Read more...

Since early 2020, many of Marvel's primary Star Wars comics-the main Star Wars series, Darth Vader, and the already concluded Doctor Aphra and Bounty Hunters-shifted to a new period in the timeline of the original movies: the immediate days and weeks after the events of The Empire Strikes Back. Like the first renewed...Read more...

If you're a diehard Android user who can't wait a couple of more months for Android 15, now is the best time to check out the beta. The third beta of Android 15 started rolling out several days ago and officially hit Platform Stability. That means that developers can code their apps to this version of Android without...Read more...

There's a new eerily lifelike android coming from the same tech universe that created M3GAN-but this one's aimed squarely at adults. Fans of the Blumhouse killer AI doll movie will recall that the invention's files slipped out of company HQ, which could be the thread leading to the plot of the upcoming spin-off Soulm8t...Read more...

Scientists have discovered a new, very cool-looking dinosaur. The intricately horned beast is a relative of the famous Triceratops and has been named Lokiceratops rangiformis. It's thought to have roamed around the western half of North America over 78 million years ago, back when the continent was split into several...Read more...

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Let's say you want to listen to high-quality surround sound without a sound bar or headphones. Or maybe you want to annoy someone trying to enjoy a book on the couch next to you? Perhaps you were looking for one of the most awkward gaming setups involving wired connections to your PlayStation 5 controller to console...Read more...