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The last we heard from George R.R. Martin's I'm done giving updates on Winds of Winter" updates on Winds of Winter, the author believed he'd hit about 75% of the way through writing the Song of Ice and Fire novel he's been updating us about for over a decade. Now? Ehhhh.

Ever since Elon Musk took over X, formerly known as Twitter, this time last year, plenty of decisions ranging from head-scratching to plain bad have been made. As the platform has seemingly done nothing but ostracize its user base, the data appears to show that the banks that lent Musk the money to purchase Twitter...Read more...

The shadow of Peter Parker hovers over every Spider-hero, and none more than Miles Morales. Since his debut in 2011, he's gradually gone from being one of many Spider-heroes to one of the most important Spiders in the entire Marvel line, positioned as the Nightwing to Peter Parker's Batman. With Marvel's Spider-Man 2, ...Read more...

Amazon is reportedly responsible for more injuries than previously thought, according to a new study published Wednesday. The retail giant employs one of the largest numbers of warehouse workers in the U.S., boasting of a workforce exceeding 700,000 people, but recent investigations questioned the safety and health of...Read more...

On Monday, Instagram announced it's testing a feed that only shows posts from verified accounts. This new way for businesses and creators to get discovered" is part of a broader push across the social media industry, where the apps are rolling out the blue-checked carpet to encourage people to pay for a boost in the...Read more...

A few of the biggest companies pushing AI, including the legacy Silicon Valley giants Google and Microsoft alongside new blood OpenAI and Anthropic, are coming together to push their own industry body as the main bastion of AI safety. These multi-billion dollar companies' first boon to the fledgling AI forum is a new...Read more...

The Five Nights at Freddy's crew talks meeting fan expectations. Hear Chris Pine's villain song from Disney's Wish. The Simpsons sets its latest Treehouse of Horror return. Plus, what's coming up as Doom Patrol nears its end. To me, my spoilers!

FTX Trading is examining restarting the crypto exchange with three bidders, according to a Bloomberg report Tuesday. This comes nearly one year after the company filed for bankruptcy, and as founder Sam Bankman-Fried sits on trial for alleged fraud.

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Millions of Americans and their doctors are in the dark when it comes to early cognitive decline, according to new research from the University of Southern California. A study out this week suggests that most general physicians vastly under-diagnose mild cognitive impairment among their patients, following another...Read more...

Marvel's Secret Invasion was a disappointment overall, but one of its high points was Olivia Colman-a performer who elevates everything she's cast in. The Oscar winner will team up with another similarly charismatic star, Dev Patel, for a very unusual-sounding new romance movie.Read more...

Halloween in Hollywood and the surrounding Los Angeles area is a frightfully fun destination for horror haunt enthusiasts looking for more than events based on the latest scary movie franchises.Read more...

Apple, once a perpetual thorn in the side of frustrated repair technicians across the country, now says it supports federal right-to-repair legislation. The Right to Repair movement's Darth Vader is continuing its surprising redemption arch.Read more...

Over the weekend, WorldCon announced the Hugo Award Winners in Chengdu, China, this year's host city for one of the oldest genre conventions in the world.Read more...

NASA is considering alternative ways to bring back samples from Mars after its budget and schedule for the sample return mission was deemed unrealistic in a recent report by an independent review board.Read more...

Archie might be best known for the world of Riverdale and its inhabitants, but the comics company has done much more genre twisting than occasionally turning Jughead into a werewolf, or the exploring the magical escapades of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. In the days of its Red Circle imprint, the publisher was as much in...Read more...

Rumors of the metaverse's death overseas may have been a bit premature, even as headset-maker Pico seems to be in the doldrums of a rather anticlimactic year in VR. Word on the street was that ByteDance, the China-based company best known as the owner of TikTok, was looking to get out of the virtual reality game.Read more...

The California DMV suspended GM-owned Cruise driverless taxis from roadways on Tuesday. This comes weeks after a hit-and-run incident in San Francisco. Cruise's robotaxi suspension is effective immediately, and the DMV says it determined the manufacturer's vehicles are not safe for the public's operation."

Crunchyroll very recently announced a linear channel-and now, the self-described ultimate home for anime worldwide" has announced yet another convenient way to bring its programming to your eyeballs. As of today in the U.S., Crunchyroll is now available as a Prime Video Channel.Read more...

General Motors' autonomous vehicle company Cruise can't shake the safety scrutiny over its driverless robotaxis. Now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is digging into whether or not these AVs are safe for the pedestrians being forced to live with them.Read more...

The Hunger Games is coming to a stage near you. Well, near you if you live in London, England. The first book of Suzanne Collins'best-selling young adult series is getting a dramatic stage play adaptation, and is currently scheduled to premiere in fall of 2024.

A bipartisan coalition of 33 state attorney generals sued Meta for allegedly designing and deploying harmful features on Instagram and Facebook that addicted a generation of young people.

Microsoft has a few reasons to celebrate as of late thanks to a few record-breaking buyouts to put a huge swathe of the game industry under its thumb. Microsoft's big man in charge Satya Nadella shared a few of his big plans for the future, especially regarding the company's plans now that its $69 billion merger with...Read more...

Riley Reid is many things: adult film superstar, social media influencer, meme-lord, and now, buzzy tech founder. As part of her new venture, Clona.ai, Reid is helping develop AI-generated chatbots of living creators that are designed with their explicit content and personal insights front and center. You can probably...Read more...

Urban Outfitters is no stranger to selling ancient tech. The clothing and furniture brand went from pushing vinyl back into the mainstream to selling $350 refurbished iPods on behalf of the tech's 22nd anniversary.Read more...

From the earliest days of his career as a superhero, Peter Parker has made taking pictures-pictures of Spider-Man-as vital as webslinging and crimefighting. Photojournalism is as important a part of Spider-Man's legacy as any other aspect, and with the release of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, there's plenty of opportunities...Read more...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will look to add child psychologists to its staff to advise its efforts on regulating the internet. Democratic Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said the FTC plans to add a psychologist to its staff by next fall, if not sooner, and said he is embarrassed he hasn't previously focused on how...Read more...

It's an inescapable fact that genre fiction is littered with tropes. Tropes provide something of a backbone to almost any story you will ever read, particularly in science fiction and fantasy. They are the thing we writers use to ground our stories before drenching them in weird locals and unfathomable magic. From the...Read more...

An encouraging new study has found that the interference from exoplanets-planets that orbit stars outside our solar system-has been overestimated in searches for extraterrestrial signals.

Ever wondered where the creepy clowns-the most unsettling part of Stephen Cognetti's Hell House LLC found-footage horror series-came from? Enter Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, the fourth film in the series, which follows an internet sleuth whose cold-case digging unearths fresh frights.Read more...

Boo! Apple has a not-so-surprising surprise in store for fans on October 30th. The Cupertino company announced Tuesday its set to reveal its second fall event of 2023. Titled Scary Fast," the online event is where Apple is expected to reveal new Mac products that could include a new iMac desktop or MacBook laptop.

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Apple Maps has flipped the switch on live traffic data in Israel and Gaza at the request of the Israeli Defense Forces, according to The Hill. The move follows Google and Waze who did the same yesterday, eliminating any options in the region to track traffic jams or source crowding information.Read more...

Amazon is doing more than just selling you things you don't need and producing some gruesome TV-now, they want to get into the veterinary business.Read more...

In order to be able to carry heavier payloads through deep space, NASA designed a lightweight rocket engine nozzle made of aluminum that can still withstand the heat of launches.Read more...

Lego is already coming for your 2024 savings-especially if you're waiting for Dune: Part Two after its delay. Its latest Icons" set is a 1,369-piece take on the quad-wing Ornithopters from the film, but the real star of the show might be its minifigure collection.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) issued a subpoena to Tesla in relation to its Autopilot and FSD (full self-driving) features, the company revealed in an SEC filing on Monday. The subpoena follows the DoJ's request for documents and additional information about Tesla's driver assistance systems earlier this year.Read more...

Binance is once again fighting off regulators, claiming the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) lawsuit is an overreach of U.S. law. The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world says the agency is trying to regulate foreign individuals and corporations operating outside the US.Read more...

Global climate extremes are adding up, and scientists are warning with renewed urgency that both natural and human systems are at risk of collapse. In a new report published in the journal BioScience, researchers analyze what they describe as 35 planetary vital signs used to track climate change. They found that 20 of...Read more...

Amid announcing one of its biggest iPhone releases of the last few years, Apple dedicated a big part of last month's Wonderlust product announcement to its supposedly sweeping environmental initiatives. The company even included a cringey featurette with actor Octavia Spencer talking down to CEO Tim Cook. Europe's...Read more...

Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 2 is getting a year long delay. Get a few more looks at Godzilla Minus One. Halloween comes to the White House in new Chucky season 3 pictures. Plus, what's coming on Star Trek: Lower Decks' penultimate episode of the season. Spoilers get!Read more...

Android 14 is already available for Pixel phone owners and is rolling out to other handsets as we speak-and while it doesn't include a plethora of new features, there are some cool upgrades for your handset that are worth making use of. We've picked out 5 of our favorites that you should try out as soon as Android 14...Read more...

SpaceX has reached a deal to launch four Galileo satellites next year in coordination with the European Space Agency, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Two launches on Elon Musk's Falcon 9 rockets will add to the 28 satellites currently orbiting Earth in Europe's global navigation system.Read more...

After shoving a Threads carousel into Facebook and Instagram, Meta gets that users might not likeit. Meta posted Monday on its platform's official account that it was collecting feedback on the new feature, but it almost certainly won't do anything to make it any better.Read more...

How can artists hope to fight back against the whims of tech companies wanting to use their work to train AI? One group of researchers has a novel idea: slip a subtle poison into the art itself to kill the AI art generator from the inside out.Read more...

The Moon's crater-covered countenance was previously thought to be a youthful 4.42 billion years old, give or take about 10 million years. But now, samples of crystals taken from the rocky satellite half a century ago indicate that the Moon is about 40 million years older than we knew.Read more...

Cosplay looks for your pets are here from Loungefly, with a new line of backpacks and other accessories from some of your favorite fandoms.

They did it, they really did it. The Freddy Fazbear Pizza band from Five Nights at Freddy's has been made real, and of course Blumhouse got the Jim Henson Creature Shop to do it.

Stranger Things-which premiered in the summer of 2016, and last dropped new episodes on Netflix in July 2022-will end its blockbuster run with a fifth season that's not coming anytime soon. Over the years, we've seen the young cast grow up in real time, something the team behind the series has obviously taken into...Read more...

The natural world is filled with dramas that play out on the macro- and microscopic scales, in our cities and in remote wilderness alike. In the British Ecological Society's annual photo competition, Capturing Ecology,' those activities take center stage as flora and fauna of all sorts find a way to persist in every...Read more...