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As the streaming bubble began to burst, Warner Bros. Discovery's plan for its streaming service CNN+ crumbled as well. Now, it appears that those plans have been repurposed into a new CNN hub, which will have a home on the company's streaming service Max.Read more...

Online content farms are using AI chatbots to scramble and rewrite" thousands of news stories from major publications like The New York Times and republish them to earn advertising revenue, according to a new report from misinformation monitor NewsGuard. The stories, which often repurposed entire lines directly from...Read more...

The neighborhood of Hollywood, California has two levels of immortality. The first is a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which itself is an incredible, amazing achievement. Then there's an even cooler, more personal, way to be part of Hollywood history, and that's to have one's hands imprinted outside the TCL...Read more...

Right on cue, Meta has shared its latest AI drop with the world, and this time, the company is letting anybody get their hands on a bot that will write, debug, and describe code in a multitude of coding languages.Read more...

After Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland was dropped by Adult Swim in light of domestic abuse allegations, the network said the titular roles would be recast with a new actor. The recasting coincides with the show's upcoming seventh season, and we've finally got a release date... but-as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA...Read more...

This week, Apple announced its support for a California bill to allow consumers to repair or modify their devices independently. The bill, called SB 244 or the Right to Repair Act, was passed by the state senate in May with a 38-0 vote, requiring manufacturers to provide owners and repair shops with the necessary...Read more...

Futurama's Hulu revival has seen the show continue its love of stories that comment on current events, while also incorporating Easter eggs and callbacks that reference its nearly 25 years of history. But while this week's episode took on Amazon, the next installment offers a pure slice of Planet Express nostalgia,...Read more...

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Demian Rugna's next supernatural horror is heading to Shudder-and the channel is already in full spooky season swing with a new look at the next V/H/S. Plus, what's coming on the American Horror Story: Delicate premier. To me, my spoilers!

In the wake of the onslaught of the covid-19, employees across the world grew chummy with a perfectly appropriate remote work schedule that allows them to work from home. However, one of the companies that carried pandemic digital infrastructure on its back, Zoom, isn't too keen on keeping remote workers away from the...Read more...

Google is pinky-swearing it will be more transparent in the future about how and why you keep seeing the same ads that seem to know you much better than you know yourself, though only if you live in the European Union.Read more...

Job listings geared towards artificial intelligence roles have gone up for film and television studios despite the continued protests from their writers and actors against the use of AI. Disney, Netflix, and Sony were among the entertainment companies that listed AI-centric roles, offering between $200,000 and more...Read more...

Barbie is still going strong at the box office but it's already taking the next steps. We already heard about the digital release coming in a few short weeks-and now, on September 22, it'll be playing on IMAX screens for one week only in North America. With some brand-new bonus footage too.Read more...

In a sad case of debris-on-debris crime, a defunct payload adapter that was chosen as the subject of a space debris cleanup mission was itself hit by a piece of space junk.Read more...

World Princess Week is upon us and Disney is celebrating through collections inspired by its royal slate.Read more...

It's official: a band of British teenagers managed to hack some of the biggest companies on the planet last year, and they did it all using fairly basic hacking techniques.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but someone in the new Star Wars needs to find a map to somewhere before someone else does. Yes, same as it ever was, even Ahsoka cannot escape the mapification of Star Wars storytelling-from the map to Luke Skywalker to Wayfinders and unknown regions of the galaxy, the franchise...Read more...

A few months ago I started the thankless task of recapping Secret Invasion, and now, a month after the series ended, I'm still deeply underwhelmed by the predictable blandness of the entire thing. Then, because I was hit by a fit of nostalgia and because I find Hayley Atwell absurdly attractive, I started a re-watch...Read more...

Two of the original developers of the crypto mixer Tornado Cash are caught up in a whole new shitstorm of a federal indictment. On Wednesday, the U.S. alleged that two of the original devs, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, helped crypto criminals launder millions of crypto at a time helping to emphasize the anonymous"...Read more...

The CW is no stranger to shows with some very odd elevator pitches, but Riverdaleisdefinitely in its own league. Updating the Archie Comics characters into modern day sexed-up teens turned heads back in 2017, but that first season had way more going for it beyond that. The end result was definitely absurd, but also...Read more...

When you think about all things pop culture, few people check as many boxes as Todd McFarlane. The iconic comic book artist best known for his work on Spider-Man and creating Spawn not only keeps a high profile in that field, but he's got his own toy line, while also dabbling in TV, movies, video games, you name it.Read more...

He's been on boats and he's been in caves. He's been on planes, trains, rafts, tanks, bikes, and more. But one place fans had never seen Indiana Jones was underwater, which is why director James Mangold made that a priority in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.Read more...

It doesn't matter how old you get. Planting your butt into a faux NASA cockpit is bound to excite the senses and imagination of any who once put a checkmark next to astronaut" when asked what they want to be when they grow up. Now, Xbox and Tempur have their own fake cockpit setup that's giving select players the...Read more...

Researchers studying the remains of six individuals from Pompeii concluded they asphyxiated during the volcanic eruption that doomed the town nearly 2,000 years ago.Read more...

Researchers recently dated charcoal drawings in Borneo's Gua Sireh Cave to around the 18th century CE, giving a colonial context to the artwork.Read more...

Dark Forces is a classic game for a reason-not just a great licensed game that told a new, original story in a beloved franchise, but because it helped begin to revolutionize the first-person shooter genre as we know it, setting the stage for iconic luminaries in the field. And now, it's back with a fresh coat of...Read more...

On Tuesday, Hawaiian officials urged family members to provide DNA samples that might help identify relatives missing from the wildfires. There are still more than 1,000 people missing after the United States deadliest wildfire in more than a century swept through Maui.Read more...

The Walking Dead was on TV for so long, most viewers knew what to expect from it. Lots of zombies, humans betraying each other, everyone coming together, a few people dying, then a happy ending and it all starts up again. So with the show's spinoffs, each needs to be something different and Norman Reedus thinks his...Read more...

Sony is finally sharing new details on its upcoming PlayStation-branded wireless earbuds. In a blog post, the company said the premium headphones are called the Pulse Explore and will cost gamers $200, as much as the PlayStation Portal mobile gaming device, also announced Wednesday.Read more...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre turns 50 in 2024, but there's no reason you can't start your celebration early by watching the movie (and its sequel; you can, uh, skip all the others) as often as possible, and adding The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Slaughterhouse to your collection of horror-themed board games.Read more...

The company behind everyone's favorite pandemic purchase, the Peloton, is facing subscriber and financial backlash. Subscribers are pausing their memberships with the cycling tech amidst a recall over bicycle seats. And now the company has to answer to Wall Street.Read more...

Sony's big DualSense controller with a screen, originally dubbed Project Q," wasn't the next-gen handheld console we originally hoped for, but new details on what's now being called the PlayStation Portal" show the device is going to be a Wi-Fi streaming-only device used to remote play your PlayStation 5, and you...Read more...

Fifteen years after the character was first introduced and five years after her story came to a standstill, Ahsoka Tano is back with her very own Star Wars show, Ahsoka. The first two episodes are now on Disney+; every week until the October finale, we're going to run down what happens, what's important, and just...Read more...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed on the Moon on Wednesday, marking a huge feat for the nation's growing space program.Read more...

After a week of back-and-forth between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the public got a look at the latest offer from the AMPTP. However, it was released yesterday to industry trades after about ten days of push and pullwith the guild-who say the tactic was...Read more...

A reticulated giraffe was born without spots at a Tennessee Zoo on July 31, making it a rare, one-of-a-kind mammal. The Brights Zoo in Limestone announced it had welcomed the female giraffe and said experts believe she is the only solid-colored reticulated giraffe living anywhere on the planet."

The crumbling crypto empire that tech bros everywhere once hyped up has now claimed another victim. Nathaniel Chastain, former Head of Product at leading NFT marketplace OpenSea, has been sentenced to three months in prison for insider trading.Read more...

Netflix has released a new look at the Chicken Run sequel, as well as another new look at One Piece. Get ready for the return of Upload with new images. Plus, what's coming on the series finale of Nancy Drew.

Microsoft is on a bit of an AI kick, but its efforts to shove generative capabilities into its Bing browser and Windows 11 itself have only helped emphasize how its forgotten apps like Paint have remained stranded in time. However, far from adding Ferrari-level AI capability to its old jalopy of a scribble tool,...Read more...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission is aiming for a landing spot on the lunar south pole, hoping to make history as the nation's first successful touchdown on the cratered surface.Read more...

What's become one of the internet's go-to companies for creating realistic enough visual deepfakes now has the ability to clone your voice and force it to speak in a growing variety of tongues. ElevenLabs announced Tuesday its new voice cloning now supports 22 more languages than it did previously, including...Read more...

Google's experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google gave cooking tips for Amanita ocreata, a poisonous mushroom known as the angel of death." The...Read more...

As Dave Filoni's The Mandalorian universe expands, more Star Wars canon icons get their chance to shine-and it's finally time for Ahsoka. It's time for her new era and BoxLunch has a stellar unisex collection drop you've got to check out.

It's impossible to watch or even think about David Lynch's Dune and not want to know more about it. Everything about the movie-its adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel, incredible cast, groundbreaking visual effects, out-of-this-world costumes, and controversial legacy-screams for an equally epic dissection. And now...Read more...

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The trailer for Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire dropped today giving us our first look at the upcoming Netflix space odyssey.Read more...

Oh, won't you look at the time? It's Make-You-Feel-Old-O'Clock. Yes, it's one of those days we write about something that feels like it was yesterday, but was almost certainly not yesterday. And today that something is Ben Affleck's casting as Batman.Read more...

It's time to start believing in the lore your family passes down-it might just give you a chance to survive the demons of myth when they rear their heads. In the latest look at director Bishal Dutta's It Lives Inside, a teen girl learns just that.Read more...

The Pixel Watch isn't Google's only wearable darling. According to a recent FCC filing, a new Fitbit band may be in the works, albeit with the Google branding plastered all over it.Read more...

Summer is nearly over-and as we already start looking to autumnal vibes and the annual extension of spooky season even further and further before October-but DC's sending off this year's blistering season with a little heat of its own in G'nort's Swimsuit Edition, a love letter to classic superheroic cheesecake.Read more...