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A teen girl's kitten turned out to cause much more trouble than usual. In a new case report this month, doctors in Portugal describe how the cat likely transmitted an usually mild germ that caused the girl to develop a serious and rare bone infection. Thankfully, once the infection was identified and treated, the girl...Read more...

Compasses at the bottom of the ocean wobbled as a massive solar storm hit Earth last week, giving the instruments two miles under the sea a jolt of magnetic shock and awe.Read more...

Over the past five years, new Marvel movies may have been confusing if you didn't watch the streaming shows. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness was basically a direct sequel to WandaVision. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania had its roots in Loki. And The Marvels featured main characters from Ms. Marvel and Wa...Read more...

Our galaxy stretches across 100,000 light-years and contains somewhere between 100 to 400 billion stars. It appears in our night skies as a long, hazy strip of light littered with celestial objects. Photographers worldwide have been captivated by the sight of the Milky Way from Earth, capturing its incredible details...Read more...

Star Trek just got itself another Oscar winner and Starfleet Academy just got itself a new chancellor. Holly Hunter, best known for work in films including Raising Arizona, The Incredibles, and Home for the Holidays,has just been cast as the lead in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, a new Trek show coming to Paramount+.Read more...

Minnesota legislators reached a compromise with Uber and Lyft to increase pay for drivers across the state through a newly passed bill on Sunday, according to the Star Tribune. The ridesharing companies say they will continue operating throughout the state, after threatening to leave Minneapolis in August when the...Read more...

Simon Kinberg's name is recognizable to fans of the X-Men movies-his feature directorial debut was 2019's X-Men: Dark Phoenix, but he's long been a producer and sometimes writer on the franchise, starting with 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand right up through this summer's Deadpool & Wolverine. But he's got another...Read more...

It's very possible we'll know more about UFOs soon. Due to a stipulation inside the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, the federal government is now required to share any and all internal reports on the subject of unidentified flying objects with the National Archives, which will then (eventually) share those...Read more...

While many of 2024's most anticipated horror titles are yet to come-think A Quiet Place: Day One, Longlegs, Trap, and MaXXXine-there are also plenty of must-see titles that either already wrapped their theatrical runs, or were released straight to streaming. Plan your next horror movie night at home starting with one...Read more...

In a new update to its full self-driving (FSD) mode, Tesla is reportedly removing what its drivers call steering wheel nag."Read more...

Neanderthal remains from the Altai Mountains contain human viruses, a team of researchers has found, suggesting that infectious diseases may have been transmitted between anatomically modern humans and our closest (extinct) cousins.Read more...

The unreliable haze of nostalgia, the intoxicating connection that comes from a shared obsessive fandom, and the tricks the mind plays to shield us from unbearable truths all come into play in I Saw the TV Glow, the latest psychological horror movie from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun.Read more...

Former President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social Monday afternoon referencing the creation of a unified Reich" among possible headlines that would read if he wins re-election in November. Trump deleted the video sometime around 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday after receiving stark criticism.Read more...

Imagine if you dropped your phone, and instead of bemoaning its new dented existence, you watched as the screen fixed itself before your eyes, as if watching the X-Men's Wolverine repair himself after a battle that would kill a mortal man. A new Apple patent offers something slightly less spectacular, describing a...Read more...

NASA aims to set up a long-term human presence on the Moon, but maintaining a habitat on the surface will require some innovative infrastructure. To one day transport cargo across the dusty, cratered landscape, NASA is considering a magnetic levitation railway system.Read more...

Sonos, the renowned audio company known best for its speakers, has finally revealed its first-ever pair of headphones, the Ace. We've known for some time that Sonos has been working on a pair of high-end headphones for a while now. I spent some quality time with the Sonos Ace at an NYC event recently and left...Read more...

What We Do in the Shadows teases its series finale. Jerry Bruckheimer clarifies his plans for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Plus, a new look at Alien: Romulus. To me, my spoilers!

In case you missed it, we highly recommend you go check out Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga this week. We've seen it, we loved it, we've been covering the crap out of it, and if you're as excited as we were for it, we think you'll be happy.Read more...

OpenAI asked Scarlett Johansson to provide voice acting that would be used in the company's new AI voice assistant, but the actress declined, according to a statement obtained by NPR on Monday. And after last week's demo, Johansson says she was shocked to hear a voice that was identical to her own. Especially since...Read more...

The new iPad Pro pretty much stole the show at the May 7 Apple event. An M4 chip and an OLED display are exciting upgrades. It's powerful (and expensive) enough to almost seriously compete with a Macbook. The iPad Air, on the other hand, leaves a lot to be desired, especially if you've been waiting almost two years...Read more...

Microsoft wants to convince you that a chip tuned for AI will all be worth it. Adobe, DaVinci, and CapCut are among the first apps to offer compatibility with the dedicated NPU inside the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor running on select PCs. Windows also provides built-in perks for those who adopt a...Read more...

Not only is Amandla Stenberg about to become one of the newest Force wielders in the Star Wars galaxy, they're also about to blow your mind as a musician too.Read more...

Rejoice New Yorkers. The Portal is back.

Microsoft smells blood in the water, and it seems to be exclusively gunning for Apple's latest ultra-thin laptops and iPads with devices sporting all-day batteries and ARM-based processors that boast better performance with better energy efficiency.

A new documentary following the six-year process of making Hayao Miyazaki'sOscar-winning animated film The Boy and the Heron was released at the Cannes Film Festival.Read more...

Longlegs looks like a supernatural Silence of the Lambs with a hint of Zodiac, and we could not be more excited. Written and directed by Osgood Perkins, it's the story of a new FBI agent (Maika Monroe) who finds herself on the trail of a cryptic serial killer who calls themselves Longlegs.Read more...

It seems that nobody-and no body part-is safe from microplastics. In a recent study, researchers found traces of plastic in the testicles of both dogs and humans. The potential health impacts of this discovery are not yet clear, but the team suggests it may help explain why men's sperm counts have declined over time.Read more...

The millennial-skewed telehealth platform Hims & Hers announced Monday that is now offering customers a compounded version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.Read more...

While the names of the three actors joining The Sandman's second season may not be immediately recognizable, the characters they'll be bringing to the Netflix show will definitely intrigue fans: the final three members of the Endless, the cosmic family that also includes Tom Sturridge's Dream.Read more...

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-funded neuroscience startup, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to implant its next patient with its experimental brain chip. This next operation will seek to fix certain issues that occurred following its first implantation operation.

Halfway to Halloween is upon us, but if it's too early to start binging your horror movie collection-why not binge a horror TV show or two instead? Netflix is a prime destination for ghosts, inter-dimensional creeps, morose high-schoolers, sinister neighbors, and other characters who go bump in the night. Here are 10...Read more...

Lenovo has announced it's joining Microsoft and Qualcomm's foray into AI-based computing with a new lineup of laptops specifically tuned for the Snapdragon X Elite architecture. For the same price as Lenovo's other laptops, you get to be the first to foray into the world with an ARM-based chip tuned specifically for...Read more...

New research could point to a hidden risk of fluoride in early development. The study found a link between higher fluoride exposure in pregnant women and a greater risk of their children later being diagnosed with neurobehavioral problems by age 3. The findings do not confirm a cause-and-effect link, but they do...Read more...

Tickets are now on sale for the summer's most anticipated movie and its stars aren't saying anything about it. Deadpool & Wolverine is out July 26 and, to promote the fact tickets are available, stars Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds did a new interview and released some new footage, none of which spoils anything, but...Read more...

This is a free country, or so I'm told. While that doesn't mean you're entitled to lifesaving healthcare without going bankrupt, it does mean that if you own a hot dog bar in Las Vegas, Nevada, you can host an unofficial meet-and-greet with world famous cartoon pup Bluey and piss off hundreds of children and their...Read more...

OpenAI is reportedly taking away ChatGPT-4o's Scarlett Johansson-like voice that it says is not meant to be an imitation of the actress.Read more...

Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia's (Delainey Hayles) arrival in Paris incites curiosity among the city's local vampire coven, which is run by Armand (Assad Zaman). The pair try to fit in despite still running away from their past to start fresh with a new story in this week's Interview With the Vampire.Read more...

Julian Assange can file an appeal by Friday to fight his extradition to the United States, according to a new ruling from a British court on Monday. The decision, first reported by the New York Times, comes as Assange sits in a London prison over computer hacking and espionage charges first brought by the U.S....Read more...

According to the latest reports, Apple is preparing to unleash an AI avalanche on iPhones at its upcoming WWDC 2024. This will include some cloud-based as well as on-device AI models, but it will be through the lens of easily the most well-known and widest-reaching AI developers around today, OpenAI.Read more...

Everyone's parents tell stories of how their world was different from ours. When it came to media, my parents told me how they only had a handful of TV channels. Their parents told them they didn't even have TV. For me, I'll tell kids that I truly discovered not just the internet, but myself, because of Star Wars. And,...Read more...

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There are a certain amount of expectations when you say the words a Steven Moffat episode of Doctor Who." Over his tenure as a regular writer and then as the series' showrunner for the best part of seven years, Moffat developed a house style-to his detractors, a preponderance for questionable mysteries and twists, to...Read more...

On May 22, 2010, a man in Florida paid 10,000 Bitcoin for pizza.Read more...

Jerry Bruckheimer teases a new course for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The Insidious franchise creeps forward with a sixth sequel. Plus, find out which live-action Spider-Man project is canceled at Amazon. The spoilers must flow!

Although most view tic-tac-toe as a kid's game, puzzle designers see it as a canvas. I think the game's simplicity almost taunts people-is a 3x3 grid with only two possible symbols really going to stump you? Yet members of the puzzle community continue to devise ingenious little twists to keep the game fresh and...Read more...

Many of us will spend a lot of hours working in a browser window when sitting in front of a computer-and for two-thirds of people, that browser will be Google Chrome. To put it another way, Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts have the potential to save a lot of users a lot of time, meaning they can jump around the web...Read more...

Last year, a new horror franchise took flight with Pooh: Blood & Honey. With the iconic bear now in the public domain, the film turned Winnie and Piglet into a pair of grim slasher villains carving up a post-grad Christopher Robin and several university students. It went over about as well as expected, but did well...Read more...

The age of Krakoa is over in the X-Men comics-or rather, it will be in another month. Come July, the mutants are off the island and back on Earth fighting the old fight of being hated and feared. Over the last few weeks, Marvel's gradually pulled back the curtain on what's to come with the From the Ashes" line of...Read more...

The new season of Doctor Who is in full swing, and it's already making some big moves early into its run. This week's episode, Boom," puts the Doctor and Ruby on the planet of Kastarion 3, which is currently in the midst of a war the pair are unable to escape from after the Doctor is trapped by an active landmine....Read more...

Unionization was in full force throughout the entertainment industry in 2023, particularly over at Disney. VFX artists across several in-house teams-including those for the MCU and the Avatar franchise-successfully unionized, a trend that's now continuing in the corporation's theme park business.