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In a tense moment for space safety, two satellites-NASA's TIMED spacecraft and the defunct Russian Cosmos 2221-came alarmingly close to smashing into each other above Earth, prompting concerns about the risks of space debris.Read more...

If you hadn't already done it after Arrival or Sicario or Blade Runner 2049, we think it's time to officially declare that Denis Villeneuve is one of the best filmmakers working today. He cements that and more with Dune: Part Two, a thrilling, engaging conclusion to Villeneuve's vision of adapting Frank Herbert's Dune....Read more...

Coinbase users' accounts showed a zero balance" on Wednesday afternoon. Coinbase confirmed the problem on its status page at 12:40 p.m. ET but claims customer cryptocurrency funds are safe. The cryptocurrency exchange blames the outage on increased traffic, as Bitcoin's price surged past $60,000.Read more...

Your dog's poop might be a dangerous source of bacterial superbugs. In a new study, researchers in China detail evidence that dogs experiencing diarrhea are commonly carrying multi-drug resistant strains of Escherichia coli-around 50%, in their study.Read more...

Last year brought us lots of fantastic animated films and while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was the outlier in terms ofOscar nominations, it might be the first to get a sequel.Read more...

Bitcoin's price surged past $63,000 and then receded just a bit under on Wednesday, reaching a level the crypto coin hasn't seen since November 2021. While it still has a little way to climb to reach an all-time high of $68,000, that level feels comfortably within reach. And if you're feeling uneasy about the rally,...Read more...

Parents, children, and now disgruntled actors are in an uproar over a catastrophic Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland that went viral over the weekend. The Willy's Chocolate Experience" ended with police sirens when families enticed by fantastical AI-generated images arrived to find a filthy, barely decorated...Read more...

Almost 30 years to the day after The Crow hit theaters in 1994, a new version of the grim revenge tale is arriving-this time around, directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) and starring Bill Skarsgard. Whatever feelings one might have about the remake, the first images of Skarsgard in character are...Read more...

If I could, and if physics would let me, I would happily fly away on my Zephyr(us). From the time I opened the box on the newly-redesigned ROG Zephyrus G14 to finally sitting down to write this review, I was constantly surprised by all the ways I liked the Asus-owned brand's pint-sized gaming laptop. For somebody who...Read more...

The crew of the Falkor (too) research vessel is at it again: In January, the team discovered four underwater mountains off the coast of Chile. The vessel has now identified 29 seamounts, hills, and trenches since 2012.

Tech bros were vocal with stories about why they were returning their Apple Vision Pros earlier in February. However, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo found that nearly a third of returns were because users couldn't figure out how to set up the $3,500 newfangled technology.

Much-loved sci-fi TV series The Expanse had so much going for it, with memorable characters navigating high-stakes space action as well as often tense personal relationships. But the one thing it didn't have, besides a seventh season (sigh), was a set of action figures. Beltalowda, that's all about to change.

Jane Schoenbrun's new queer horror was one thing to watch at this year's Sundance-if you were there in person, that is. Now, everyone else can actually get a look behind the buzz, and this coming of age creepshow certainly lives up to it all.

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski bragged on Tuesday that his company's new OpenAI-powered customer service chatbot was doing the work of 700 people-nearly two years after Klarna laid off about 700 people.Read more...

Juno Temple gives an update on Venom 3. Sam Rockwell says a Galaxy Quest follow up could happen, with a little help from Simon Pegg. Plus, new looks at Imaginary and Immaculate, and what's next on Resident Alien. To me, my spoilers!

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The internet had its own never-frozen beef with Wendy's when it discovered the fast food chain was planning surge pricing for 2025. Wendy's clarified in an updated statement on Tuesday night that it has no plans" for surge pricing.Read more...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is not happy about what's been going on with the company's Gemini AI chatbot, calling viral and historically inaccurate errors from its image generator unacceptable" in an internal memo to employees on Tuesday.Read more...

The OnePlus Buds 3 offers a lot for its price. They're a decent budget-friendly pick unless you're a big bass fan. The sound feels nicely layered, and the ANC is powerful enough to silence everyone on the subway. Unless I'm to blame for having extraordinarily small ears (which isn't true), I wish they fit more snugly....Read more...

Back in the early 20th century, food and cigarette companies would sometimes include collectible cards with their products. And that's exactly what happened around 1910 when Wills's Cigarettes included cards about the history of flying with their smokes.Read more...

If you like vaporware and looking at phones and gadgets you'll never own, then Barcelona's Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the trade show for you. This week's annual menagerie revealed new devices like the TCL Nxtpaper 14 and a working model of Motorola's rolling phone display. Other brands-namely Samsung-used the...Read more...

The secret's out of the bag for Mean Girls musical star and original voice of Disney's Moana, Auli'i Cravalho. After much speculation among fans, the actress confirmed she will be reprising the role that launched her into stardom for Moana 2.Read more...

Ever since a passenger plane's door blew off in early January, plane-maker Boeing has been under increased scrutiny. Now, a new report from the Federal Aviation Administration calls into question the aircraft manufacturer's safety procedures, calling them inadequate."Read more...

Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series is officially a success. The new series debuted on the streamer's English-language TV list with 21.2 million views and reached the top 10 in 92 countries,according to Netflix's released rankings.Read more...

Dune: Part Two star Josh Brolin's resume is peppered with mega-blockbusters (see: his run as Thanos in the Avengers movies), but he hasn't lost his quirkiness. Things like his Dune poetry and his mastery of the Dune space guitar" have roots in his love of sci-fi, which he's carried since childhood.Read more...

Automattic, the parent company of sites like WordPress and Tumblr, is in talks to sell content from its platforms to AI companies like MidJourney and OpenAI for training purposes, according to a new report from 404 Media Tuesday. And while the details of the deal are still sketchy, Automattic is trying to reassure...Read more...

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Google swears it's not trying to kill journalism, but many of its latest projects seem geared toward that end. Google is paying five-figure sums to small publishers asking them to test out a generative AI platform geared toward newsrooms. News outlets are asked to publish three of these AI-assisted articles a day, in...Read more...

When Tenet released in 2020, it did so under the worst of circumstances. The context of the pandemic made the film a lightning rod when writer-director Christopher Nolan encouraged people to see it in theaters. Compared to his other recent movies, the time-bending spy thriller saw a more muted reaction. It made $365...Read more...

The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement and claims that the influential tech startup used its journalistic material to train its chatbot, ChatGPT, without paying the proper licensing fees. But Sam Altman's company is fighting back against these accusations with some accusations of its...Read more...

Do you never want to go back into the office again? We created a list that would make anybody's work-from-home setup so ergonomic, comfortable, and so convenient it will make you want to avoid ever stepping into an office again. Those currently in an office can instead stare at this list with a burning jealousy.Read more...

There appears to be another Netflix price increase just around the corner. Wall Street analysts are expecting Netflix to raise prices across its streaming service in 2024, first reported by Variety.Read more...

As Dune: Part Twodraws closer and closer, one thing has been on everyone's mind as the cast and crew open up about their experiences filming the next chapter of Frank Herbert's spicy sci-fi saga: what about that popcorn bucket though?

Apple's long-anticipated (and much delayed) project to build an electric car is going to that junkyard heap in the sky, according to a new report from Bloomberg. And much of the team will transition to working on generative AI, though it's unclear how many people might be laid off.Read more...

Apparently making super creepy mystery movies for major movie studios just runs in the Shyamalan family. M. Night Shyamalan, of course, is well-known for movies like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. He's been freaking us out and making us guess for decades. But now, his daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan is...Read more...

Stellan Skarsgard has always been a talented, well-respected actor, but the last few years have put him into a whole other stratosphere, especially in sci-fi. For starters, he's the game-changing Star Wars hero Luthen Rael on Andor. As Erik Selvig, he helped Thor across multiple Marvel movies. He danced across Greece...Read more...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course. The mission was a success in testing an asteroid deflection method that may come in handy one day, but rather than leaving behind an impact crater, the orbital collision changed the shape of the target asteroid...Read more...

Police were called to the scene of Willy's Chocolate Experience In Glasgow, Scotland" as children burst into tears when the immersive experience" promised in AI advertisements turned out to be a sparsely decorated warehouse.Read more...

YouTube restored an attack ad against Katie Porter that's running ad nauseam for users in California right now after it was pulled Sunday for violating the video-sharing site's policies. The ad, purchased by a political action committee called Fairshake, is being bankrolled by several prominent names in the world of...Read more...

For the past few years, toymaker Sentinel's Fighting Armor" toyline has transformed Marvel heroes from across the comics into mechanized warriors better than even the actual Marvel Comics crossovers to do so. While its forays into the worlds of Mutantkind have been few and far between, its latest turns an X-Men...Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has closed its investigation into the second Starship test flight, which SpaceX performed on November 18, 2023. With the inquiry concluded, SpaceX is now on track to advance its program, pending the necessary fixes.

Wendy's will start experimenting with surge pricing, much like Uber and Lyft, as the company rolls out digital menus to all its United States restaurants by 2025, according to the company's February earnings call. Under the test, burgers, Frosties, and other menu items will have dynamic prices," costing more during...Read more...

Microsoft announced a new partnership with Mistral AI on Monday, a French startup whose advanced large language models rival OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Mistral also released Mistral Large, its most advanced language model to date, and le Chat," a chat interface built on top of Mistral's models.Read more...

Ebon Moss-Bachrach discusses how he'll become The Thing for Fantastic Four. Doug Bradley wants one last outing as Pinhead. Get a look at Krysten Ritter in Orphan Black: Echoes. Rachel Brosnahan teases David Corenswet's Superman suit in Legacy, plus, Kung Fu Panda 4 riffs on Dune. Spoilers, away!

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub and other adult entertainment sites, for failing to enforce the state's new age verification laws, first reported by 404 Media on Monday.Read more...

This morning, Sony revealed that it is adding to the ever-growing pile of industry layoffs. In official posts, the company announced it had initiated a reduction" in workforce. These cuts will impact a variety of PlayStation's first-party studios including Insomniac Games, Guerrilla, Naughty Dog, Firesprite, and...Read more...

Physical media is the best. Maybe it's the fact that the internet has taken over our lives and is now swiftly being enshittified. Maybe it's the nostalgia factor. Maybe it's the fact that streaming offers reduced quality and no actual ownership. Maybe it's the fun and the community that comes with collecting. Or,...Read more...

Elon Musk's Tesla is famous for its electric cars, but the company is also a world leader in robotics. Musk considers Tesla's AI to be severely underrated-a claim that's not entirely baseless. While Tesla attracts world-class talent to build robots and artificial intelligence, these areas are much less talked about...Read more...

Imagine splurging $3,500 on a new Apple Vision Pro headset only to discover a few weeks later that your very expensive device now has a crack on the front of the screen-one you're sure isn't your fault.Read more...

A reliable way to keep appendages safe from the ravages of the cold is finally here. This month, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment meant to prevent limb amputation from severe frostbite, Eicos Sciences' Aurlumyn. Compared to standard care, the intravenous drug was shown to significantly...Read more...