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Seeing book authors beam with pride is one thing. When those authors are two of the main creatives behind not just the book, but its subject as well, it's something else. That's what we've got with Josh Brolin and Greig Fraser, co-authors of Dune: Exposures, a new book combining the former's poetry and the latter's...Read more...

It's a big day for Star Wars' prequel-prequel era. As The Acolyte prepares to drop on Disney+ today, it's not the only big event for the High Republic era to deal with this, as the transmedia publishing initiative's latest novel prepares to hit shelves-and we've got a look inside.

This summer, director Fede Alvarez is ready to give the world a great big face hug. His new movie, Alien: Romulus hits theaters August 16 and it promises another great battle between humanity and those face-hugging, chest-bursting, acid-filled little devils called Xenomorphs.

For the past few years, Star Wars has been fascinated with the question of how we came to the status quo of its original trilogy of movies. Across books, comics, games, and shows we have seen the franchise engage with the road that brought us from the time of Revenge of the Sith to the start of A New Hope-and a little...Read more...

Injuring people, bricking after going through a carwash. Multiple off-road embarrassments-the Cybertruck has had a rough first year. And here we are again showing you another example of why the Cybertruck is potentially dangerous to drive.Read more...

The company made famous by pandemic video chatting has a new vision for the future of work. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told The Verge that AI avatars will one day do your job on your behalf. According to Yuan, the avatar will speak in your Zoom meetings for you, answer emails, and take phone calls, supposedly freeing you up...Read more...

Suppose you've been biting your bottom lip for years waiting for the Game Boy-like Analogue Pockets to return in stock. In that case, there's another company set to release another handheld to play your old cartridges natively without any emulation hassle. ModRetro now has its $200 Chromatic not-Game Boy available for...Read more...

Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during its first crewed flight in two years, in which one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate.Read more...

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I enjoy a massive, sloping maw of a gaming-first, curved display as much as any screen-obsessed gamer. However, Samsung's latest flat-paneled Odyssey OLEDs have some of the most exciting features behind the display. I had the opportunity to spend about an hour in front of Samsung's latest Odyssey monitors, including...Read more...

If you're on the hunt for your next (or first) pair of wireless buds, you may be in for quite a bit of work. With dozens of options to choose from, choice paralysis is only natural.Read more...

After a short visit to the Moon's far side, a Chinese spacecraft loaded with lunar rock and dust has started its return trip to Earth to deliver these precious samples.Read more...

Get a look at Willem Dafoe's mysterious character in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The Boys returns in the first photos from season four's premiere episodes. Plus, Snowpiercer prepares for the end in a new teaser. To me, my spoilers!

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The banking industry took its time to transition from paper bills to plastic cards. Now it's in the midst of a more rapid transformation: going digital.Read more...

An internal Google database containing six years' worth of potential privacy breaches and security issues was recently obtained, and reveals-among many other things-that a Google employee used their access to watch a private YouTube video uploaded by Nintendo and leaked the details online.Read more...

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Keith Gill, the popular investor who sparked the skyrocketing of GameStop's stock back in 2021 and appears to be back at it again, might have his E*Trade account shut down, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Monday. The stock trading platform and its owner Morgan Stanley reportedly have concerns about...Read more...

Mixing your long plane ride with alcohol could be a dangerous cocktail for your heart, new research out Monday suggests. The small trial found that healthy volunteers experienced a greater drop in their blood oxygen level and corresponding rise in heart rate after drinking alcohol while sleeping in high-altitude...Read more...

Sci-fi and fantasy entertainment has finally seen a shift toward more diverse casting-a move that not only better reflects our world, but also brings joy to fans who've longed to see people who look like them represented onscreen. (It can also, as we've seen especially with Star Wars, bring out toxic fans.) In a press...Read more...

Meta is testing unskippable Instagram ads, first reported by TechCrunch on Monday, alongside the patience of every user who has to put up with the feature. The unskippable ads, which some users shared their experience with on other social media platforms this weekend, force users to sit through a timed ad before they...Read more...

Disney Jr, Disney Channel, and Disney+ will roll out the first two Bluey minisodes over the Fourth of July weekend with a Red, White and Bluey" marathon.Read more...

President Joe Biden vetoed a resolution late Friday that passed through both the U.S. House and Senate and was widely supported by the cryptocurrency industry. And it's just the latest move from a president who's put himself firmly in the crosshairs of powerful crypto forces who are dumping millions of dollars into...Read more...

The Theatre des Vampires debuts a new show for Claudia (Delainey Hayles), while tensions brew among them after Armand (Assad Zaman) went off the script and did not kill Louis (Jacob Anderson) in last week's episode of Interview With the Vampire.

Doctor Who, like all science fiction, has always rooted its storytelling in allegory-raising ideas to challenge its contemporary audience through stories of the past, the future, of monsters, and running down hallways. It always makes the moments the show wants to step away from an allegorical message and explicitly...Read more...

What's the new word of the day, kids? It's ceraluminum," a real nonsense nomenclature combining ceramic and aluminum. That's the new word to describe the next-gen Asus Zenbook S16 powered with the new AMD Ryzen 300 AI CPUs. But let's ignore that for a second because some much more interesting ProArt PCs are coming...Read more...

The New York tri-state area is poised to have some large eight-legged tourists this summer. Experts are warning that the invasive Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) could soon touch down in parts of New York and New Jersey. Striking in color and size as they may be, however, the arachnids aren't a danger to humans.Read more...

The Predator franchise is back once again, and now it's got its new leading lady. Director Dan Trachtenberg, whose 2022 film Prey pumped new life into the sci-fi franchise, is making another standalone Predator film and Elle Fanning has now joined its cast.Read more...

It's not surprising that a pristine example of Kenner's notoriously rare Boba Fett action figure with rocket-firing" action-never released to the public after being deemed a choking hazard-commanded a jaw-dropping sum at a recent auction. But $525,000 is quite the handsome bounty.Read more...

Have you seen clips from a new documentary narrated by Tom Cruise called Olympics Has Fallen, a play on the title of the 2013 movie Olympus Has Fallen? The new film claims to document the corruption in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, France. But it's fake. Cruise's narration was created with artificial...Read more...

One of the most prominent villains from Marvel's past just appeared in Marvel's future and it's a little bit confusing. Monday, Sony released the first trailer for Venom: The Last Dance, the third, and final, film in the Venom trilogy. In it, we see a character played by actor Chiwetel Ejiofor who, not so long ago,...Read more...

The PlayStation VR2 headset is finally being liberated from the confines of the PlayStation 5. Sony now has a $60 adapter that lets your $550 VR headset work with any of their Steam-based VR games. But hold off from slamming the buy button just yet. There are a few tradeoffs for taking your VR2 to PC, some of which...Read more...

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it was investigating a technical issue on Monday morning that caused roughly a dozen stocks, including Chipotle and GameStop, to experience volatility halts, according to Bloomberg. Berkshire Hathaway and the Bank of Montreal appeared to briefly trade at a 99% discount to their...Read more...

Lego has been making Minecraft sets for years at this point, and of course, kids and adult fans of the crafting game megahit will have inevitably enjoyed all those sets. But it's still interesting that it's taken so long for Lego to bring the franchise to its 18+ range of pricier, collector-focused offerings... and...Read more...

STEVE, a strange ribbon of purple and green haze discovered by citizen scientists in 2016, just got even weirder. While looking through archival data, a team of scientists discovered that the aurora-like phenomenon has a secret twin moving in the opposite direction.Read more...

Spotify released today announced it would raise U.S. prices again next month. The music streaming platform's last price hike was in July of 2023, so it's not even been a whole year to that.Read more...

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An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which went extinct about 45,000 years ago. Based on bones of Genyornisnewtoni found in South Australia's Lake Callabonna, the animal weighed about 500 pounds (230...Read more...

What an absurd journey Star Trek: Prodigy has been on. The promising Trek animated series suffered an unjust and abrupt removal from Paramount+ last summer, leaving its second season in the lurch, until Netflix announced it would pick up the series... and only for that sophomore season 2 to accidentally show up on...Read more...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) refused to release an audio recording of President Biden's interview with former special counsel Robert Hur in a court filing on Friday, obtained by Politico. The department cited fears that publicizing the audio could lead to deceptive AI deepfakes of the sitting President.Read more...

The first clip from Netflix's Ultraman: Rising movie teases an adorable kaiju baby. Lois Lane's dad is up to no good in a new clip from My Adventures With Superman. The Boys sets the stage for its return with new character posters. Plus, go behind the scenes on A Quiet Place: Day One. Spoilers, away!

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The inexorable march toward the grave continues for all of us, though at the very least, we don't have a capricious deity named Apple deciding our fate. For those still holding on to your iPhone 5S, you should know Apple has officially put the old phone out to pasture by sticking it in its official obsolete list....Read more...

There's a lot going on in our first look at Venom: The Last Dance. Buddy cop routines with a giant goopy monster, alien invasions, diabolical threats to Eddie Brock's life. But there's also a Symbiote Horse, and that's just rather wonderful.

Rumors about Sonos releasing its first-ever headphones emerged last year when they acquired the T2 software, a Bluetooth audio startup. That wasn't the company's first time trying its hand at headphones. It's been trying to sneak into the headphone market since 2019 and has created a number of product iterations...Read more...

GameStop stock skyrocketed more than 100% on Monday before giving back just some of those huge gains, the latest meme stock rally fueled by the investor and social media personality known as Roaring Kitty."Read more...

This post was updated 6/3/2024 at 8:21 a.m. ET to include more information about OEMs who will sport the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 series chips.Read more...

It's official, the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks will face off in the NBA Finals. The best-of-seven series tips off this Thursday and will run through June, until one team achieves the four wins required to be crowned champion.

When web browsers first began to support apps and interactivity, the functionality was basic and slow-but now online apps can do almost as much as desktop apps can, and, more importantly, these online tools are free.

Back in 2018, WB released the CG movie Batman Ninja, its first real foray into anime from production company YamtoWorks and Kamikaze Douga. In the years since, there's been a lot of animated Batman movies, and you'd be fair in thinking Ninja was just an interesting one-off to have in the Bat-library. And you would end...Read more...