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Ironheart might have found some intriguing guest stars. A new documentary goes behind George Romero's unmade Resident Evil movie. Plus, what's coming on American Horror Stories, Krapopolis, and more. Spoilers now!

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt around Alameda Research's relationship with his FTX cryptocurrency exchange caused Sam Bankman-Fried to consider shuttering the trading platform in 2022, according to an unpublished tweet thread revealed in his trial on Monday.Read more...

It's all too easily done-you tap in the wrong place or on the wrong thumbnail, and suddenly that special photo has disappeared from your gallery. Even worse, you might not even notice straight away, which means that at some point further down the line you're going to be frantically looking for a picture that you know...Read more...

Despite a rough start to its six year mission, the Euclid space telescope is ending its commissioning phase on a high after finally being able to find its guide stars again.Read more...

As streaming subscriptions continue to increase in price, viewers who don't mind ad breaks are fortunately also seeing an increase in binge-worthy entertainment options. The latest free, ad-supported streaming TV (or FAST) channels to arrive come courtesy of BBC Studios and Amazon Freevee.Read more...

After being dropped off on Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, pieces of asteroid Bennu will be revealed to the public for the first time on Wednesday.Read more...

Horrorthon movie nights in and Halloween shindig season is upon us so here's a list of Amazon Prime day deals to pump up the party this spooky season.

Silicon Valley has bet big on generative AI but it's not totally clear whether that bet will pay off. A new report from the Wall Street Journal claims that, despite the endless hype around large language models and the automated platforms they power, tech companies are struggling to turn a profit when it comes to AI.Read more...

London's Natural History Museum has revealed the winners of its annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, and this year's collection is absolutely stupendous. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. Chosen from nearly 50,000 entries (49,957 to be...Read more...

Peacock's upcoming anthology Suburban Screams has an episode centering on the true-crime account of a woman's experience with a phone stalker, which was interesting enough to draw in 75-year-old legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter to direct an episode. He also produced the series and composed its theme.Read more...

As ill-conceived and poor-quality AI content continues to flood the internet, designating that content as ill-conceived and poor quality is a paramount concern. To aid in that goal, Adobe and other companies have unveiled a new symbol to tag imagery created with artificial intelligence, informing viewers that all is...Read more...

Paramount+ has drawn horror eyeballs to its streaming wares thanks to its exclusive release of prequel film Pet Sematary: Bloodlines last week. (The service also has the 2019 Pet Sematary remake, but not the original adaptation, alas.) Once you've finished learning valuable lessons about letting the dead stay dead,...Read more...

Google is re-adding features to its Google Home ecosystem that were taken away due to a patent lawsuit involving Sonos. It's a win for Nest users, but it shows that while big tech continues to bicker about ownership, customers are being stiffed on features they've come to expect from their products.Read more...

Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh is telling consumers to wear their jeans in the shower when they're in dire need of being washed, or better yet he says, just a spot clean will do. Bergh reasons that circumventing the washing machine will benefit the environment and make your Levi's last longer.

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When Lucasfilm first announced Young Jedi Adventures, an animated series about Jedi Padawans focused at young audiences, Star Wars fans were quick to make gags about Anakin Skywalker slaughtering its cutesy heroes during Order 66-and other Star Wars fans were quick to go actually this is 200 years before that!" in a...Read more...

Amazon's second Prime Day of 2023 is here, and it runs October 10-11. Yes, that's right before the holiday shopping season really kicks off in November, but if you shop early, there are some good deals to be found on TVs, audio gear, laptops and especially Amazon's own branded items.Read more...

Hell hath no fury like a customer scorned, and Microsoft is now learning that. After the tech company recently imposed storage limits for photos in a user's OneDrive account, Microsoft has now reversed course after receiving a barrage of backlash.Read more...

So this is a little odd. Over the weekend, I saw a new TV spot for The Marvels and was struck by something: it was almost completely devoid of Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), both of whom were massive, massive parts of the previous two trailers released for the film. Instead, this clip...Read more...

See the clock in the background? At first glance it looks fine; maybe it even fits into the out-of-this-plane oddness associated with Loki and the Time Variance Authority. But take a closer look-disconnected lines, strange digital artifacts, symbols that seem to be utterly formless, and... the Roman numeral IIII."...Read more...

Amazon workers in the UK are staging a strike over four days in November, including Black Friday, as they seek higher wages and safer working conditions. The GMB Union, which represents Amazon workers announced the strike on Monday, demanding that the company urgently reconsider its priorities," and saying the...Read more...

At long last, you may now finally be able to fit a new PlayStation 5 onto your TV cabinet's shelf. On Tuesday, Sony's PlayStation division revealed the new skinny form factor for the PS5, coming both with and without a disc drive and for the same price as the previous models.

The latest data release from the European Space Agency's Gaia observatory just dropped, and it's a massive one: the spacecraft has identified half a million stars in a nearby cluster, nearly 400 gravitational lenses, and the orbits of some 156,000-odd asteroids.Read more...

Lego's latest collaboration with Nintendo isn't part of its digitally enhanced Mario line or its pricey collector-series display kits. It's an honest-to-god plain and simple Lego line-and it takes us away from the Mushroom Kingdom and to the faraway islands of Animal Crossing without enacting too heavy of a toll on...Read more...

Private Spanish firm PLD Space launched its Miura 1 rocket this past Friday on a suborbital flight that lasted for five minutes, marking a significant milestone for Europe's nascent spaceflight industry.

Tidal waves of controversy are once again rising in the world of Aquaman 2 and it's not because of a war in Atlantis. A new report is filled with claims regarding Amber Heard's treatment on the set of the film, and it involves people such as star Jason Momoa, director James Wan, and Heard's former flame Elon Musk,...Read more...

It's become somewhat of a cliche in recent months for AI researchers and engineers to claim they simply don't really know or understand how advanced new artificial intelligence models are coming to their conclusions. When it comes to designing walking robots from scratch, at least one new AI model has some...Read more...

Google announced a small update Tuesday that could usher in the biggest change in the history of cybersecurity: the death of the password. Going forward, so-called passkeys will replace passwords as Google's default sign-in tool. The company says its plan is to make passwords a rarity, and eventually obsolete."Read more...

Adobe just shared a full public release of its Firefly AI tools last month, but the company isn't nearly done giving the AI hype train a big push down the tracks. During its Adobe Max conference, the company said that the original Firefly AI model is already old hat after just five months in beta. Now we have the AI...Read more...

After nearly nine years of ruining the reputation of what was once one of the most popular open game engines in the world, Unity President and CEO John Riccitiello announced he was stepping down from his role as the most hated man in gaming.Read more...

In 2024, the Roku Channel will debut The Spiderwick Chronicles, an eight-episode children's fantasy show that was unceremoniously cancelled two years into production. Disney axed the seriesbased on the bestselling series of books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black in an effort to claim a tax break before the show...Read more...

Russia's Nauka module sprung a leak on Monday in the latest incident of faulty hardware on board the International Space Station (ISS).Read more...

Amazon is hosting Prime Day 2.0 today and tomorrow (October 10 and 11). They're calling it Prime Big Deal Days, and are offering a number of pretty good deals.

For the first time ever, the BBC will be the streaming home of as much of Doctor Who history as it possibly can be next month in celebration of the show's 60th anniversary, as over 800 episodes from across 60 years of adventures in time and space head to its streaming platform, iPlayer.Read more...

X, formerly called Twitter, now allows users to block unverified accounts from replying to their posts as Elon Musk strives to make paying for a subscription worth the money. The company announced the change in a post on Monday, telling users they can now limit replies to verified users."Read more...

No one wants toexplain away the whims of a megalomaniac, and Linda Yaccarino has been having such a rough go of it. The X/Twitter CEO has reportedly dropped out of the Wall Street Journal's upcoming Tech Live conference following a widely criticized interview less than two weeks ago.Read more...

As of this past weekend, the live-streaming sports selection on Max is a lot more robust-just in time for the MLB post-season and the NBA pre-season, and also good news for hockey and soccer fans, too.Read more...

After a tentative fair deal between writers and studios was reached on September 24, you can now remove tentative" from that: the WGA strike, which began May 2 and put the state of Hollywood production under a microscope, is over-over. The acting union, SAG-AFTRA, has been on strike since July 13 and remains so.Read more...

Get ready for 2024 to be the year of Tiana. Not only is the new Disney Parks attraction based on The Princess and the Frog, Tiana's Bayou Adventure, slated to open next year, the long-awaited Disney+ series focusing on the movie's culinarily gifted heroine is finally making big strides forward.Read more...

In the nearly 25 years since the release of Brad Bird's The Iron Giant, the film's history has become legend. Though it's now considered a classic, when it came out the film bombed at the box office largely because the studio releasing it, Warner Bros., didn't quite know what it had. That narrative has changed in...Read more...

Disney has a new film-Wish, out November 22-that celebrates its 100-year history by dramatizing thefairy-tale dream of wishing upon a star." But the company is also dipping into its vast library in honor of this landmark year, including bringing a 4K restoration of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, its first...Read more...

Aberrance is the first Mongolian horror feature to get a theatrical release in the U.S.-a landmark moment for director and co-writer Baatar Batsukh, especially since this is his first feature. The film runs just 75 minutes, but fills that slender space with a suspenseful mystery that changes shape more than once.Read more...

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To all the space probes we've loved before: sorry! You fell into Saturn, drifted into deep space, suffocated in Martian dust-all for the greater good of science. Today, we're memorializing the space explorers that met dramatic endings far, far from Earth.

The first trailer for Invincible season two packed in so much news, watching it felt like being punched by a superhero. So many new actors are joining the show it's, frankly, a little unfathomable and damned near impossible to pick out your favorite. Tim Robinson! Calista Flockhart! Chloe Bennet! Rhea Seehorn! Daveed...Read more...

Congrats, ye hearties: a new survey polling over 2,000 streaming customers has found that Max-home of popular series like House of the Dragon, The Last of Us, and Our Flag Means Death-is tops when it comes to overall viewer satisfaction. Hulu came in second, followed by Disney+, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Netflix, Prime...Read more...

It's undeniable that in HBO Max's pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, Edward Teach (Taika Waititi) and Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) are in love with each other. But in season two, David Jenkins is giving jilted first mate Izzy Hands (Con O'Neill) a chance to compete for the hearts of the two captains. Or at least, mess...Read more...

Yes, Amazon is having a second Prime Day event, this time in the middle of October. The company did the same thing last year, positioning itself right before the holiday shopping season really kicks off in November.Read more...

Ahsoka is over (for now, at least it seems), and many questions remain. What are Thrawn's plans? What will our heroes do to stop him? Just what great mysteries are out there for our other foes left to uncover? But an even sillier question lingers, too: what is up with the eyeballs on this show?

That's right, we almost got a standalone Jabba the Hutt Star Wars film from Guillermo del Toro.Read more...