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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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Despite a heap of rumors and speculation, Tuesday came and went without any new iPad news. Apple usually waits a few weeks after releasing its latest smartphones to share news about its tablets. Apple fans have been waiting for a fair bit to see the next tablet, but according to some reliable Apple leakers, we might...Read more...

Google announced Tuesday a slew of new ways to help those with a wide range of disabilities use its products.

Gunmakers reveled in the success of major first-person shooters as it gave them the chance to market guns to a market that was escaping them, namely kids. New documents show Activision Blizzard signed a deal with gunmaker Remington Arms more than a decade ago to feature its guns in gaming megahits like Call of Duty:...Read more...

Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender made a big impression back in 2005 and continues to be fondly remembered to this day. Fans of the show love the larger cast of characters, and they definitely have their favorites-particularly when it comes to the members of the Fire Nation.

Quiz time: If you or your friends were given the following string of text during a party, would anyone in the room confidently be able to guess or infer any personal attributes of the text's author? Give yourself a few seconds.Read more...

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The animated, mega-cameo-filled short film Once Upon a Studio is now streaming on Disney+ to celebrate Disney's 100-year anniversary.Read more...

A man accused of murdering a 6-year-old Palestinian boy and grievously wounding his mother in Illinois on Saturday was motivated by misinformation surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, officials say.Read more...

Netflix is touting its new series The Netflix Cup as its first-ever live sports event," which sounds at first like a retreat of sorts from the streamer's assurance in late 2022 that it wouldn't be adding sports packages to its offerings. But if you look a little closer, this is more of a celebrity golf...Read more...

Frank Herbert's sci-fi classicDune ends with an intense showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha, two sides of an epic war that'll decide the fate of a trade, a planet, and a galaxy. In the film adaptation, Dune: Part Two, Atreides is once again played by Timothee Chalamet, and Feyd-Rautha, the heir-apparent to...Read more...

After a more widespread rollout this week of its tirade against ad blockers, YouTube began its roll out of dozens of new features for its mobile app Tuesday.Read more...

This weekend, SAG-AFTRA and NAVA-the National Association for Voice Actors-teamed up for a panel at New York Comic Con about AI in entertainment. Moderator Lindsay Rousseau, who is also a voice actress, introduced the panel by explaining that right now there are no legal or legislative protections for our voices, and...Read more...

Around 11 miles above Earth's surface, leftover bits from rockets and spacecraft are lingering in our planet's atmosphere that could potentially have a lasting effect on the climate.Read more...

Snapchat introduced two new features Tuesday for users to embed content on their profiles or stories into a website. The social media platform added web embeds for its Lenses, Spotlight videos, public stories and public profiles for users to share an article or website with their followers easily.Read more...

The probably-not-so final film from the legendary Hayao Miyazaki has just shared its stellar English voice dub cast.Read more...

The Biden administration laid out new restrictions on Tuesday to limit the primary and secondary sale of United States-made chips to China, according to a CNBC report. The move is an effort to limit the nation's technological and military progress.Read more...

Like all big superheroes, Spider-Man has been played and voiced by a variety of different people over the decades. There's a certain art to the wallcrawler that a number of voice actors have managed to perfect in recent years, and among those is longtime performer Yuri Lowenthal. Known for a number of roles during the...Read more...

Blue Origin revealed plans for a new spacecraft platform with the potential to reshape in-space logistics, offering unprecedented maneuverability and a host of advanced capabilities.Read more...

Nearly 60 years to the day that Doctor Who began airing, next month, the BBC will launch an unprecedented collection of over 800 episodes from the show's distant and not-so-distant past on its streaming platform, iPlayer-the first of its kind from the corporation. But it turns out that the very first story that kicked...Read more...

The days of Terminator and The Matrix could be closer to reality as the artificial intelligence wave continues to crash. A U.S. think tank released a report arguing that the AI that guides the likes of ChatGPT and those dystopian influencers from Meta could be used to create a new bioweapon.Read more...

What, you thought Tiffany Valentine, queen of tawdry glam, would drab herself down like any other inmate? Relish her jailhouse style in this exclusive clip from Chucky's third episode, which sees Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind) visiting Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), hoping she'll provide some desperately needed information.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday he is rolling out an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan in light of the growing risks" of the technology. Adams said at a press conference that he hopes to use AI responsibly to improve quality of life for New Yorkers."Read more...

Still on a high from launching back-to-back missions to the Moon and Sun, India is now ready to test its ability to send astronauts to space.Read more...

President Joe Biden's presidential campaign launched its account on former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform on Monday. The reason? They thought it would be funny, according to an X post.Read more...

Apple's Newsroom announced the new Apple Pencil on Tuesday. It's more affordable than its predecessors and offers some new features.

Get another new look at The Boy and The Heron. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters teases Godzilla's return in a new poster. Plus, American Horror Stories returns in a new teaser for its four-part event series. Spoilers now!

The wait is almost over for the release of Universal Pictures and Blumhouse's Five Nights at Freddy's.Read more...

New York Comic Con 2023 is at an end, and with it the book is closed on one of the most peculiar versions of the show in a long while-with the long shadow of Hollywood's summer of labor reckonings and the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike making for an event with some severely constrained splashiness.

One of Disney's darkest shows may soon get a live-action revival. James Wan, the man who helped reinvent horror with Saw and Insidious (and made the mega-blockbusters Furious 7 and Aquaman) is teaming up with frequent collaborator Gary Dauberman to turn the 1990s Disney cartoon Gargoyles into a live-action series for...Read more...

Critical Role's panel at New York Comic Con was full of questions about the popular web series-including its guest stars, recurring villains, and Matt Mercer's uncanny ability to bring NPCs back from the dead. Or out of the shadows, whatever suits the story at any given time.Read more...

Back in August, Netflix announced it would be continuing to build out its gaming realm-introduced with 2021's rollout of mobile games-by testing bringing games to any device where people watch Netflix, including TVs and computers. Now, that plan is inching closer to reality.

It's a rough day for tech workers, with layoffs at both LinkedIn and the recently-sold Bandcamp. Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A forum for programmers, says it's cutting about 28% of its staff.Read more...

LinkedIn, the business social networking platform owned by Microsoft, announced Monday it is laying off 668 employees, amounting to more than 3% of its staff, as part of its alleged organizational restructuring efforts. The decision marks the second round of mass layoffs at LinkedIn this year and will impact employee...Read more...

Goosebumps is back, and it's offering a fresh take on R.L. Stine's collection of YA horror for a new age.Read more...

Over the weekend, rumors circulated that Signal, one of the most trusted encrypted chat apps on the web, had a pretty bad zero-day vulnerability. The claims, which have now been all but debunked, swiftly caused a panic in the infosec community.Read more...

Twitch users may start receiving some potentially annoying push notifications from their Twitch subscriptions. Streamers on the streaming mobile app now have access to the Twitch Stories feature, letting creators share short content and promote their channels much like they can on Snapchat and Instagram.Read more...

Sam Bankman-Fried's defense team requested a higher, longer-lasting dose of Adderall on Sunday night, so their client can meaningfully participate in his ongoing trial.Read more...

Construction and gas trade groups have filed a lawsuit to block a law passed by New York officials that would ban furnaces and gas stoves in newly constructed buildings.

Russian doctors have stumbled upon a remarkable tale of survival. They detail finding a needle that has been lodged inside an 80-year-old woman's brain her entire life. The needle seems to be the result of a botched infanticide, but it has apparently caused no major health issues and will not be removed.Read more...

Another year, anotherNew York Comic Con is in the books. NYCC always brings out the best and brightest in terms of cosplay so we just had to grace you with one more heaping helping of amazing photos. You saw day one, you saw day two, you may have even seen day three, and here's the big finale.