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The Biden Administration announced plans on Wednesday to invest $3.46 billion to reinforce the nation's electric grid.

Just ahead of the launch of OnePlus's big flagship foldable, Oppo is horning in on the spotlight with the announcement of the latest foldable in its Find series, the Find N3. There are four main areas in which the phone prides itself: a slim body, an algorithm-powered smart camera, a well-thought-out efficient design...Read more...

The U.S. is officially saying goodbye to 21 species that have been feared gone for years. These animals, which include many birds and marine mammals, have been delisted from the Endangered Species Act because they are now declared extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said this week. One famous bird, the ivory-bi...Read more...

AI is too dumb to regulate now, according to Meta's head of artificial intelligence research in an interview with the Financial Times. Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, tried to dismiss the most overblown fears of AI while offering a libertarian take against any real attempt to regulate the rapidly expanding...Read more...

Michael Giacchino talks about Werewolf by Night's future. Chucky gets knives out in a trailer for his midseason finale. Plus, another new look at The Boy and the Heron. Plus, see some Ubisoft cameos in Captain Laserhawk's new posters. To me, my spoilers!

As AI-generated songs run rampant across the internet, YouTube looks to get in front of it by legally licensing out artist voices. The platform developed a tool powered by artificial intelligence that would reproduce the vocals of musical artists, allowing fans to have them sing whatever they want, but talks with...Read more...

The annual Orionid meteor shower, known for its bright and swift meteors, is set to peak on October 22, 2023. These meteors create a celestial display that you won't want to miss, and our guide will prepare you for this astronomical display.

We're gonna go out on a limb here and say not everything is what it seems in the new show Beacon 23. Call it a hunch. Call it intuition. But from the looks of this trailer, there's some foul play afoot, and when that type of thing happens on a space station far, far away from Earth, we can't help but love it.Read more...

As the SAG-AFTRA strike continues, and working-class actors are still onthe picket line, A-list stars are navigating their movements almost too cautiously, callingfor contentious talks with the AMPTP to resume as we head into the winter months.Read more...

A small town in England celebrates the Harvest Festival every year, electing a Harvest Angel who helps throw out the evil spirit, Gallowgog. But when Rebecca Holland's (Tuppence Middleton) daughter disappears after the festival, she finds herself in over her head, fighting against the townspeople and supernatural...Read more...

Threads search is blocking terms like Covid," vaccines," long Covid," and others, but it is reportedly only temporary according to Instagram's head, Adam Mosseri. This comes a week after he said the app would not amplify news."Read more...

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's an Amazon delivery drone. The online marketplace's lackluster road to deliveries via the sky is still full-steam ahead-customers in Texas can now receive their medication from Amazon via drone.Read more...

Apple TV+'s adaptation of Victor LaValle's novel The Changeling wrapped up last week with Battle of the Island." The episode ended the season-overall, a fascinating exploration of parenthood, grief, folklore, and the hidden realms of New York City-with several gigantic question marks.Read more...

Looks like that password sharing crackdown worked: Netflix has reported adding nearly nine million new customers this quarter, bringing its total number of subscribers to 247.2 million as of September 30. Some customers, however, will find their plans are about to go up in price.Read more...

Government-backed hackers from Russia and China exploited a known vulnerability in outdated versions of WinRAR, the world's most popular compression tool with over 500 million users. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said Wednesday it observed a number of government-backed hacking campaigns utilizing the WinRAR bug...Read more...

On the heels of Netflix trimming its own animation division in favor of bringing in third-party content-as reported by Variety on October 11-we now know one of the new sources joining the fold: Skydance Animation, which was previously partnered with Apple TV+ and released Luck on the streamer in 2022.Read more...

With a fully stacked Starship on the pad awaiting a license to launch, SpaceX has seemingly lost its patience with the regulatory process governing its rockets. The company is calling on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to increase its efficiency in issuing launch licenses, according to media reports.Read more...

When Marvel's Spider-Man 2 hits the PS5 at the end of the week, Spidey fans will catch up a little while into Peter Parker and Miles Morales' tenure as the Spider-Men of New York. But even with that time difference, a lot has happened to these versions of these characters you might have forgotten about since the...Read more...

Two movies, both about the apocalypse, both comedies, both hitting theaters in the summer of 2013. Looking back on it now, Edgar Wright's The World's End and Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg's This Is the End couldn't be more different. But before release, at least one person wasn't so sure, and the story of what happened...Read more...

Convicted Fugees rapper Prakazrel Pras" Michel said his former lawyer bungled his trial with a closing argument written by AI. It's another bizarre twist in a sprawling case that saw the hip hop icon charged with conspiracy, acting as a foreign agent of China, and illegal attempts to influence two US presidential...Read more...

Erik Wernquist is recognized, and rightly blamed, for unleashing the animated sensation Crazy Frog to an unsuspecting world in 2009. A frenetic frog zipping through cityscapes has become an iconic visual of that time (how was that 14 years ago!?), but Wernquist's latest venture is a far cry from his previous...Read more...

Get those spooky season viral outfits, accessories, and treats, or throw something together for a cozy costume from retailers like BoxLunch, Hot Topic, ShopDisney, RSVLTS, and more for those boo baskets before October 31.

It's been a tumultuous decade but Rick Riordan is finally all in again on Percy Jackson and Hollywood. The creator of the popular book franchise was famously unimpressed about how Fox treated his characters with its two movie adaptations, 2010's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and 2013's Percy...Read more...

YouTube introduced a dedicated news-watching experience to help viewers across 40 countries find the latest stories from reputable sources, the company announced on Wednesday. The aim is to make reliable news more readily accessible with two added features including a watch page and a Shorts Innovation Program."Read more...

A sweeping analysis of European and Asian genomes over the last 40,000 years reveals when and how some genetic exchange occurred between Homo sapiens and our closest cousins, Homo neanderthalensis. It also shows how the Neanderthals' genetic footprint depended on later exchanges between members of our own species.Read more...

The Internal Revenue Service will offer a pilot run of its free, electronic tax filing service, called Direct File, in thirteen states for the 2024 tax season.Read more...

After rumors began to swirl that Sam Altman's OpenAI tapped Jony Ive on a secret piece of hardware, the company's wunderkind CEO says he has no plans to compete with the smartphone market.

When The Hunger Gamesmoviecame out in 2012, the world was set on fire. Jennifer Lawrence became a superstar, the books stayed on bestseller lists for months, and another three films were quickly announced. The prequel story based on the newly released book of the same name, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds...Read more...

An experimental gene therapy that uses a modified herpes virus shows promise as a brain cancer treatment, according to new research. The Phase I study found evidence that the virus could safely induce an immune response that attacked the often-fatal cancer. It also seemed to extend the length of survival in those who...Read more...

The best time-travel movie you haven't seen yet is coming in early 2024. io9 can confirm that the North American rights to River, Junta Yamaguchi's follow-up to the 2021 hit Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, have been picked up by Cineverse with the aim to release the film on its streaming service AsianCrush in early...Read more...

Earlier this year Netflix revealed that the second season of Dead End: Paranormal Park-the long-in-the-works adaptation of Hamish Steele's supernatural comic series DeadEndia-would be its last, leaving the story of Barney, Norma, and their friends at Phoenix Parks unfinished. But now fans will see at least one version...Read more...

Everyone knows (or may have had experience being) the colleague or classmate who's taken the easy route on an assignment knowing someone else will swoop in to save the day. New research suggests that the same phenomena, which psychologists call social loafing," may also apply when a teammate is made of software and...Read more...

Our quickly warming world is losing many signs of winter-once snowy mountain tops aren't as frosty tipped, glaciers are disappearing, and sea ice at the poles is melting at alarming rates. But new research outlines a small reason for optimism. Scientists project that even though climate change will make the world...Read more...

Those hoping to see some of Activision Blizzard's biggest titles make their way to Xbox Game Pass will have to wait just a little while longer.

An Austin-based startup called Blackdot wants to bring modern robotics to an ancient practice: Tattooing. The company plans to begin piercing customers' skin with ink soon using what they are calling the world's first automatic tattooing device." The company believes its highly precise tattoo robot, which took a team...Read more...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Foxconn CEO Young Liu unveiled AI factories at the fourth annual Hon Hai Tech Day Tuesday. These data centers will not only build Foxconn's newest electric vehicles but also design the software that powers the fleet of self-driving cars.Read more...

One of the most exciting aspects of a new Indiana Jones film being released was the realization there would be new merch. Over the years, Indy has had plenty of merch, from toys and props to sleeping bags and bed sheets, but he hasn't had anything major in 15 years. In that time, since the release of his last film in...Read more...

According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, a new, higher-end iMac with a mini-LED 32-inch display is likely going to be released in 2025.

New research appears to provide a long-sought answer about the mysterious cicadas that emerge after years in the ground: do they eat during the brief time they spend as adults before dying? The study found evidence of plant DNA in the guts of some adult cicadas, but not in the guts of those that freshly reached the...Read more...

X, formerly called Twitter, launched its Not a Bot" beta Tuesday, which charges new accounts a $1 annual fee to tweet and retweet. The initial test applies to new accounts created in New Zealand and the Philippines to allegedly combat bots and scammers on X," the company said on its Help Center page.

Hear a little more from Rick and Morty's new stars in another teaser for the latest episode. Get a look at Marvel's Werewolf By Night, now... in color! Plus, What's coming on Krapopolis, and more. Spoilers, away!

OpenAI's world-famous chatbot is free to rummage through the internet's darkest corners. The company declared Tuesday that the Browse with Bing" feature is ready for prime time for those ChatGPT users paying for Plus or Enterprise editions. This lets ChatGPT access up-to-date information, rather than being limited to...Read more...

Hitting the snooze button on your wake-up alarm might just be fine, new research out this week suggests. In a pair of studies, scientists found evidence that a majority of people regularly hit snooze and that the habit doesn't seem to noticeably harm our sleep. It could even help make some people more alert in the...Read more...

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Ridley Scott is no stranger to seeing new talent step into franchises he created-he did it with Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049, a movie he recently said he regretted not directing himself. The veteran filmmaker is still going strong at 85 withNapoleonand Gladiator 2 on the way, but he still made time to watch ...Read more...

There is nothing weirder than going to a feature panel at New York Comic Con focusing on a single actor and hearing them talk about... well... nothing. From Ewan McGregor evaluating the relative merits of New York bagels, to David Tennant discussing Shakespeare, to Chris Evans only spending 20 minutes on stage, most of it...Read more...

Tesla issued yet another recall for thousands of its Model X vehicles following a safety issue report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The report found that 54,676 of Tesla's 2021-2023 Model X cars may fail to detect low brake fluid and will not display a warning light.Read more...

There's very little that's surprising about Elon Musk's flailing X anymore. Now, a year after he finally purchased the platform, the data is in and the outcome is to be expected: X is not doing so hot.Read more...

The Lucy spacecraft is on a 12-year journey to visit eight different asteroids, and it's almost caught up with the first space rock on its checklist.Read more...

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