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Disney and Charter Communications have finally reached an agreement after a two-week blackout that stopped Spectrum subscribers from watching Disney Channel on the streaming service starting on Aug. 31. The companies announced the agreement on Monday, only hours before the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills football game...Read more...

As artificial intelligence is increasingly developing and data centers are erected to further this tech, it's becoming clear that AI has a water usage problem.Read more...

Nishimura (2023 P1), a comet discovered just last month, is set to make its nearest approach to Earth in the next 400 years during tomorrow's predawn sky.

A common ingredient in over-the-counter cold and cough medicines might not be long for this world. The Food and Drug Administration is about to decide whether oral phenylephrine should remain in OTC nasal decongestant drugs. Outside experts will deliberate the topic and offer their recommendations this week, but FDA...Read more...

Usually when we're talking about a new Hot Toys figure, it's often to gush about how the company has managed to create another eerily accurate little Hollywood homunculus. This time, the eerie vibes are still there, but perhaps for... other reasons.

If I have to see one more variation of why didn't anybody tell me Interview With the Vampire was this good?" on social media I might lose it. Because, bestie, we tried! So many of us-journalists, fans, everyone-tried to tell you to watch this show. The AMC production, which aired to incredibly high ratings, critical...Read more...

Sir Ian Wilmut, the British scientist who led the team which cloned Dolly the sheep, has died, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland confirmed in a statement on Monday. He was 79 years old.Read more...

Audiences have been floored by Starfield, the new Bethesda game with seemingly no limits. Players on PC, however, have been noticing issues while whipping around the Settled Systems and hunting down alien artifacts, with those on Nvidia and Intel having an especially difficult time.Read more...

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has apparently shadowbanned The New York Times, preventing users from seeing tweets that link to the newspaper's coverage. The move smacks of a particular irony, given that the Times is one of X's major advertisers and is currently running campaigns to promote its new sports...Read more...

Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell is has long sought to connect his own spiritual journey with the worlds that inspired him to become a comic artist in the first place-and while he got to do the former in Heart to Heart, a cartooning collaboration with the Dalai Lama, his next graphic novel comes at it from a more...Read more...

When astronaut Frank Rubio launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in September 2022, he was scheduled to return back to Earth in six months' time. Rubio's ride to his home planet, however, suffered a malfunction that left him stranded in low Earth orbit. As a result of the mishap, Rubio is set to spend more...Read more...

Sure, you might have a Disney+ subscription, but we all know that Disney is playing fast and loose with what they're putting on that streaming service. If you're feeling antsy you might not be able to watch your favorite Disney (and select Pixar) films whenever you want, can Disney interest you in a limited edition...Read more...

The crypto landscape has seen better days. Vitalik Buterin, the inventor of Ethereum, was apparently the subject of a hack that targeted his Twitter account and promoted a less-than-authentic scheme to drain people's crypto wallets.Read more...

Meta is reportedly building an advanced AI model equating to the efficiency of OpenAI's language model, GPT-4. The AI tool will reportedly produce text and analysis that will target businesses, in the the company's latest bid to compete with the flood of new AI models, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing...Read more...

Get a look at Disney's new Goosebumps show. Chucky heads to the White House in new pictures. Plus, another teaser for The Strangers Trilogy, and what's coming on Quantum Leap and FLCL Grunge. Spoilers, away!

Apple is hell-bent on becoming a closed ecosystem unto itself by designing the chips inside its own devices. With the upcoming iPhone 15 moving toward the A17 Bionic chip, the company's first 3nm processor, and Apple's desktop and laptops gunning for an M3 chip, the company headquartered at the end of 1 Infinity Loop...Read more...

If you're behind on what's happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here's a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don't forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same topic.

This week, superhero fans are finally going to return under the sea. Warner Bros. has just announced that Thursday, September 14 will bring the first trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the long-awaited follow-up to James Wan's 2018 billion-dollar hit, Aquaman. But you don't have to wait that long to see a...Read more...

Franchises have been the name of the game in Hollywood for years, and Warner Bros. has been franchise-heavy more than most. Between various DC movies, the different Conjuring films, and whatever else, the studio has had a big franchise push over the last decade. But for current CEO David Zaslav, the company hasn't...Read more...

Throughout the decades, various writers have taken Wolverine for one ride after another. And if there's one writer whose legacy looms large over the X-Men character, it'd certainly be Chris Claremont, who helped launch the character into being one of Marvel's key characters and a larger brand unto himself.

Back in July, Disney released its remake of Haunted Mansion, which didn't really light the world on spectral fire when it came out. Part of it was due to other big movies releasing in late July at the time and stealing whatever thunder it could've possibly had. (Not to mention, it was one of the first movies to hit...Read more...

There've been so many Batman movies over the last several decades, but Tim Burton's titular 1989 film holds a special place in the history of superhero films. It was the first Batman movie-or well, one of them-seen by many a generation, and its impact can be felt across future live-action takes on the character, Batman...Read more...

Burning Man, the transient bacchanal that attracts more than 70,000 partygoers to the remote Nevada desert for eight days every August, prides itself on its environmental bona fides. One of the festival's main operational tenets is leave no trace," an essentially impossible feat for an event of its size. The Burning...Read more...

Like other big Disney shows before it, Star Wars: Ahsoka has been the big point of TV discussion for the last several weeks. And now that it's hit the halfway mark of its story, Disney's taking an extra step to make the show feel more of a big event series than it already was.Read more...

It's that time of year where Disney uses its Destination23 showcase to unveil the array of changes that'll be coming to its theme parks within the next couple of years, and several of those will highlight some of the company's current (and biggest) releases. According to Disney Parks chairman Josh D'Amaro, these...Read more...

Since the death of manga creator Kentaro Miura in 2021, there've been questions about what would happen with his ongoing series Berserk. Last year, it was reported the manga would continue through the late artist's assistant team at Studio Gaga and his close friend Kouji Mori (who is said to know the full story from...Read more...

Throughout the Hollywood strikes happening this summer, the WGA has been frank in giving updates on its attempted negotiations with studios and the AMPTP. Said talks haven't really gone well on account of the AMPTP reportedly not operating in good faith or only wanting to meet some (but not all) of the WGA's demands....Read more...

On April 20, 2021, the spiritedly-named MOXIE experiment on Mars extracted 5 grams of oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, demonstrating a potential future capability of an established human presence on the Red Planet-and in other atmospheres besides Earth's, for that matter.Read more...

As the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue with seemingly no end in sight, members of those unions-as well as workers in adjacent entertainment fields-are feeling the sting of being without incomes. Fortunately, some of Hollywood's highest-paid figures have stepped up to help, including showrunner Greg Berlanti, archite...Read more...

At Halloween Horror Nights Orlando, Eddie Munson fans can eat their hearts out with Stranger Things treats, while The Last of Us survivalists can collect their FEDRA rations.Read more...

Tens of thousands of Burning Man attendees in Nevada's Black Rock Desert had to trudge through rain and mud last Friday and into last weekend after an unusual bout of rain in the region.

Just four hero" X-Wings were created by ILM to film Star Wars' climactic battle over Yavin IV against the Death Star-primary models detailed enough to be used for close-up shots and major action sequences. Now one of them, believed to have been missing for over 40 years, has been found-and is going up for auction.

Twilight of the Dead is coming, and the long-promised last zombie movie to come from the mind of horror legend George A. Romero, who died in 2017, now has a director: Brad Anderson, whose genre bona fides include 2001 creepfest Session 9.Read more...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is adding artificial intelligence tools to crack down on potential tax violations, the agency announced on Friday. The IRS claims it will be focusing on wealthy taxpayers who have used sophisticated schemes to avoid taxes," instead of burdening average people with no-change" audits.

Ready to meet all the new Apple products? Apple will announce its next generation of mobile products at next week's Wonderlust event. We'll know all about the new iPhone 15 onSeptember 12th. We'll also learn more about its companion accessory, the Apple Watch, which remains the best-selling smartwatchamongst the...Read more...

If you've ever had the privilege (or curse) of listening in on a corporate earnings call, you probably noticed that the executives behave a little mechanically. According to a new study that compared ChatGPT and other AIs to the human robots working in the C-Suite, sometimes that's a good thing.Read more...

This week's episode of Ahsoka, Fallen Jedi," had a lot of Jedi in it. Perhaps even more than you might have first noticed! But did it have fallen Jedi, as promised by the title? Actually, yes! In fact, so many of the Jedi in Fallen Jedi" could ostensibly be described as Jedi that have Fallen we've decided to run the...Read more...

It might be time for Americans to start eating more fiber. The U.S. is experiencing a shortage of laxative products, according to a report this week from the Wall Street Journal. One alleged reason for the short supply is extra demand from younger people-an interest apparently fueled by TikTok influencers touting the...Read more...

Today marks 57 years since The Man Trap," the first episode of Star Trek to be broadcast on TV, hit screens-and to celebrate, Kid Cudi is going where many others have gone before: a very peculiar brand deal.Read more...

NASA has come under heat for the increasing cost of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which space agency officials have finally admitted to being unsustainable and unaffordable, a new report revealed.Read more...

At the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of The Boy and the Heron, news broke that Hayao Miyazaki's retirement plans may have been announced too soon.Read more...

More than 50 years ago, the Apollo program was crafted as a result of rising political tensions between two competing nations. As a new group of countries and emerging space companies set their eyes on the Moon once more, they aren't going back for national pride but rather to further their space ambitions beyond the...Read more...

The new era of space exploration is opening entirely new possibilities, including the tantalizing prospect of mining for resources on the Moon and asteroids. Sounds exciting-and potentially very profitable-but the reality of the situation is that space mining is completely uncharted territory. Plenty of prospecting...Read more...

After nearly 800 days of political deadlock, the Senate finally voted this week to confirm Anna Gomez to fill a long-vacant commissioner seat at the new Federal Communications Commission. When the Democratic telecommunications lawyer assumes the role, it will give the party a 3-2 majority in the FCC for the first time...Read more...

Last week, Netflix's One Piece live-action show landed massive praise across the board from old fans and new viewers alike. As someone who hasn't ever encountered One Piece, and has not, in fact, ever felt any desire to pick up either the manga or any part of the anime (the manga, it must be stated, began serialized...Read more...

Spotify will offer subscribers a free audiobook trial for a limited time as part of its efforts to break into the market, according to people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported. Subscribers will reportedly have access to up to 20 hours of listening time per month without having to pay an...Read more...

On June 22, 2022, NASA's Swift Observatory spotted something curious in a galaxy over 500 million light-years away. It was a routine outburst of gas that a team studying the data now believes is evidence of a black hole intermittently gobbling up a star each time the latter draws near.Read more...

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Starfield is the hotly-anticipated, recently-released video game from Bethesda Game Studios, the company behind the likes of other open-world titles like Fallout 4 and Skyrim. Todd Howard's latest behemoth is a space exploration game in which you play as a planetary miner who stumbles upon an alien artifact, launching...Read more...