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It seems like not as many people took the chance to see The Marvels in theaters as Disney and Marvel may have liked, given how the studio quietly stopped publicly updating its box office and then very publicly decided on who it could blame for that. But now, people will get a chance to see what Carol, Monica, and...Read more...

Over the weekend, Apple users finally began receiving their piece of the batterygate' settlement in the form of $92 payments, as first reported by MacRumors. Apple admitted to slowing down old iPhones back in 2017 without notifying users, saying it was part of delivering the best experience for customers."Read more...

Update: January 8, 10:41 a.m. ET: Vulcan Centaur took off right on schedule, successfully blasting off from the Cape Canaveral launch pad and delivering Peregrine on its historic mission to the Moon.Read more...

Emma Stone offers a vague Cruella 2 update. Get a look at Ghosts' return. Echo prepares for a showdown with the Kingpin. Plus, what's coming on For All Mankind, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and more. Spoilers get!

I don't usually opt for white tech, mostly because I have the nasty tendency to stick my expensive stuff where it's dustiest. But HP's new Omen Transcend 14 and 16 gaming laptop might push me over the edge. Its bright-as-hell rainbow LED keyboard does something for me against that pearly white scheme, but ignore the...Read more...

This week in trends, Big Tech bros could not stop talking about the woke mind virus. Many Silicon Valley leaders crowed that the ousting of Harvard's President was the beginning of the end for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, which they described as immoral" and illegal."Read more...

Tis the season for New Year's resolutions. As we all sign up for gym memberships or invest in a Peloton that will just gather dust by March, I resolve to work out your brain this year. January 1, 2024 is a Monday. So what day was January 1 last year? Because of the regularities in how we slice and organize time, you...Read more...

The winter nights may be long, but they don't have to be dull, even for folks with small apartments who don't have room for an extra big telescope. Unistellar's latest telescope, the Odyssey, is half the size and less than half the weight of the company's last big release from 2023. However, with a few taps on your...Read more...

Since Everything Everywhere All at Once came out and cleaned up during awards season, Ke Huy Quan's been gradually rebuilding his career after taking a 20-year acting break. Having already done supporting roles in Disney+'s Loki and American Born Chinese last year, Quan's next project will have him front and center as...Read more...

Every other year or so, Todd McFarlane has promised that no, really, the new Spawn movie's totally going to happen! And each time, it's started to feel less and less like a sure thing, even as Hollywood's been more than willing get adaptations for literally anything else to the big or small screen in a timelier manner.

Last night saw the Creative Arts Emmy Awards show, during which The Last of Us came away the breadwinner with eight wins under its belt.Read more...

The path to Universal and Blumhouse's Wolfman reboot-known here as Wolf Man-has been slow going. But on Friday, the movie added a new star to its cast in Ozark's Julia Garner.Read more...

An upcoming launch will usher in a new era of commercial payloads being dropped off to deep space destinations like the Moon. As we gain greater access to space, things are going to start getting weird.

Every year I attend CES, I often regret leaving something behind. The thing is, I'm not a heavy packer; I've been at this work travel game long enough that I figured out how to fit a week's worth of clothing, amenities, and comforts in a suitcase that fits in the overhead bin. But I need a ton of stuff to make the six...Read more...

Nearly five years ago, acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola talked about his plans to finally create a movie he's had cooking in his head since the 80s. He even tried to make it during the early 2000s, but 9/11 made that impossible, since he felt it would be in bad taste. But twenty years later, he's finally made ...Read more...

Firaxis and 2K's Marvel's Midnight Suns was one of my favorite games of 2022, but it ended up falling by the wayside in 2023. Amid a deluge of great games and an busy year, it was hard to carve time out for the tactical RPG. But as 2023 wound down and with 2024 just days into being, I've come back to the game and...Read more...

Dreamworks' live-action remake of How to Train Your Train Dragon has added an old new face to its cast. Gerard Butler, who voiced the viking chief Stoick the Brave across the animated films, will reprise his role as the remake's flesh-and-blood version.

NASA's supersonic experimental plane-the linchpin of the agency's Quesst mission-is set to roll out of its warehouse in the California desert next week. We're gassed for the big moment: the X-59 has been in development for six years, and, if successful, it will demonstrate supersonic flight without sonic booms. -...Read more...

During the first season of Netflix's Arcane, audiences were gradually introduced to a number of League of Legends characters like Jinx, Vi, Cait, and Ekko. But while those characters were the show's primary cast, there were nudges that other members of the popular MOBA's roster could appear in the future and have...Read more...

The first week of 2024 is over, and we celebrated by looking ahead-with what to read, what to watch, and what Lego to buy, of course, as well as a celebrating just how weird 2024 is in Star Trek's timeline. There's all that, Doctor Who continuing to ride its current high, and what to expect out of a public domain...Read more...

As the Consumer Tech team prepares to head to Las Vegas for CES 2024 next week, we cannot stop thinking about LG's adorable 4K projector while also wondering what an Xbox-inspired BLT would taste like. Oh, and we also rounded up the top product stories of the week.Read more...

Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google's years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people. By the end of the year, cookies will be gone in Chrome forever-sort of. - Thomas Germain Read MoreRead more...

As 2024 begins, there has been plenty of speculation about what lies ahead for artificial intelligence. AI was the hottest industry in the world last year and it will likely continue to be so throughout 2024-and maybe the rest of your godforsaken life. That said, many of the concerns about this startling new...Read more...

On Monday, January 8, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur is scheduled for its inaugural flight, a mission that will send a wide range of payloads to the Moon. Although not as advanced as SpaceX's rockets, this expendable rocket boasts features that could make it a cornerstone vehicle in the industry.Read more...

After around 30 years of existence, WordPad is finally saying goodbye. In the Windows 11 Build 26020 Insider Preview's Canary Channel, Microsoft announced that WordPad will not be auto-installed after installing the new OS build and will officially be removed in the future update. It clarified that the text editor...Read more...

Well, it's a new year, but the game in Silicon Valley remains very much the same. That game, in essence, involves doing anything and everything to convince you-the global consumer-that whatever hair-brained product Bay Area billionaires have cooked up is a must-have. Unfortunately, the tech industry has bet its money...Read more...

News of Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail developing a new version of Battlestar Galactica broke almost five years ago. In that time, there haven't been many updates, but now, finally, there's a huge one and we're hoping this is the news that pushes the project into reality.Read more...

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As io9 has noted before, Peacock has an excellent array of horror films. While you can find recent releases like Five Nights at Freddy's, The Exorcist: Believer, and Sick, why not dig a little deeper into the vault? Here are 10 to get you started, and there's a lot more to discover once you're ready for more.

Margot Robbie was already a massive star when she first took on the role of Harley Quinn. Now, almost 10 years later, she's only become more famous and popular, especially after starring in and producing the biggest movie of 2023, Barbie. She certainly doesn't need to come back to the role, especially with the DC...Read more...

Regular exercise is linked to a lower risk of developing certain cancers, such as those of the head, neck and the lungs, according to a new study. The researchers also found that people who were diagnosed with cancer but exercised still tended to live longer than those who didn't exercise.Read more...

The city of Lexington, Kentucky, appears so tired of being overlooked by humankind that it has sent a formal invitation to the next-best thing: alien life that may or may not exist in a nearby star system.Read more...

On Monday, January 8, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur could finally perform its first flight. ULA has been a rock in the spaceflight industry since its founding in 2006, and with this pending launch, the company is ready to take its next bold step into space. Here's how America's new powerhouse rocket could...Read more...

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Ever since Star Trek: Picard came to a final end with its third season, Patrick Stewart has been seemingly unwilling to say goodbye to a character that he's spent the past few years saying goodbye to. And now, he might not have to: according to the good admiral himself, a Picard-focused movie is in the works.

In the comics, there's a reason why Maya Lopez is named Echo." It's because her main superpower is the ability to copy and recreate any physical action she sees. An echo," if you must. But as we've seen on a previous Marvel Studios show, this Maya Lopez doesn't have that power yet. Nor, do we think, will she get it...Read more...

The psychedelic drug ibogaine may be able to give brain injury sufferers some much needed help. A new, small study found that military veterans with a history of traumatic brain injury experienced a significant improvement in their symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD following treatment with ibogaine and...Read more...

ChatGPT gained the ability to listen and talk back in September, allowing users to speak with generative AI. Soon, ChatGPT could replace digital assistants like Siri and Google Assistant altogether.Read more...

The Orville's third season finale, which sure felt like it could be a series finale, warned you right in its title: Future Unknown." But though there've been no new Orville episodes since 2022, the Hulu show's passionate fan base has been keeping the faith on social media. And now, creator and star Seth MacFarlane...Read more...

The Japanese space agency JAXA has released the first test images from its X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM). The images show a galaxy cluster and a supernova remnant, and offer insight into the chemical cocktail that composes the supernova.

SpaceX is clearly not open to criticism. After receiving a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for allegedly firing employees who dared to criticize Elon Musk's behavior, SpaceX decided to double down by suing the labor board behind the complaint.Read more...

I have a lot of questions about how the future might look, and I don't want an algorithm to draw them. So let's do it instead." With that sentence, artist Scott Listfield tasked a group of artists with digging into their imaginations, finding their vision of the future, and putting in the present for all of us to see.Read more...

NASA, in its relentless pursuit of space innovation, announced on Thursday the selection of 13 new projects for its 2024 Phase I awards under the Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. These awards, totaling up to $175,000 each, are granted to teams proposing advanced and unconventional space technologies.

On Thursday, Google announced a new Robot Constitution" that will govern the AI that runs its upcoming army of intelligent machines. Based on Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics," these safety instructions are meant to steer the devices' decision-making process. First among them: A robot may not injure a human...Read more...

It feels like Daredevil has been fighting to be recognized as part of the wider Marvel universe since it first began nearly a decade ago-a fight that it's had the upper hand in in fits and starts over those long years. But perhaps now, that war is finally over, and somehow wasn't the case already with each consecutive...Read more...

Teslas have always sounded a little too good to be true, and Elon Musk is in the dog house again for his latest expression of free speech." It seems Teslas can't drive as far as once claimed and still don't truly drive themselves.Read more...

The next Razer Blades are really trying to push just how beautiful, blistering, and big gaming laptops can get. The company shared a preview of the displays for its upcoming Razer Blade 16 and a brand new 18-inch model, but the smaller version is already looking like the real glory hound. The next Razer will push...Read more...

Get a suitably unhinged look at the return of Evil. Echo really, really wants you to know it has that Daredevil vibe. Plus, Robot Dreams teases its US theater debut. To me, my spoilers!

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. This story was produced by Grist and co-published with El Pais. A Spanish-language version can be read here. Reporting was supported by the Joan Konner Program in the Journalism of Ideas.Read more...

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