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All that metaverse tech - whatever that term means at this point - will get a big connectivity boost thanks to federal regulators.Read more...

Star Trek loves itself a cave episode. You can do a bunch of different stories in similar looking sets, you can restrict which members of the cast are the focus, you can thrust unlikely pairings together and force them to bounce off each other. Caves are good! Lower Decks not only agrees with this, but uses what is...Read more...

New research links the rare neurological condition Guillain-Barre syndrome to covid-19. The study tracked millions of people in Israel, finding that those with a recent history of covid-19 infection were noticeably more likely to develop Guillain-Barre than those without one. Conversely, covid-19 vaccination appeared...Read more...

A forensic accountant at Sam Bankman-Fried's trial tried piecing together where $9 billion of missing FTX customer funds went on Wednesday. Oh, yes," said the accountant when asked if FTX ever misused customer funds.Read more...

In recent updates on NASA's Artemis program, all four core stage engines have been installed onto the booster of the second Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, but a production issue has temporarily slowed work on the third.

Yesterday's under wraps talk between SAG-AFTRA leadership and Hollywood's elite actors has been revealed to be an offer to lend a hand to working class talent within the union from those in the limelight.Read more...

Nothing can travel faster than light, or 299,792,458 meters per second. But a certain group of particles acts as if it can, a team of physicists recently concluded, potentially paving the way for a powerful light source that could reveal new kinds of science.Read more...

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Don't buy those tickets for Deadpool 3 just yet. With the actor's strike still ongoing, it seems as if Merc with the Mouth may not make his original, May 3, 2024 release date.Read more...

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday in favor of restoring open internet protections for consumers and businesses, also referred to as net neutrality.Read more...

In June 2022, a radio telescope in Western Australia detected a fleeting radio signal from a galaxy over 10 billion light-years from Earth. Now, a team of astronomers that studied the blast have confirmed it's the most distant of its kind yet seen.Read more...

For years, Marc Andreessen has had so much money he's barely known what to do with himself. After striking it rich with the founding of Netscape during the 90s, he built himself into a mega-investor in a pantheon of Silicon Valley success stories, becoming a kingmaker in the upper echelons of tech. Now, after years...Read more...

Writer-director Matthew Vaughn is well known for turning giving franchises a good kick in the ass. He did that with a movie literally called Kick-Ass, but also by rebooting the X-Men franchise with First Class, and updating the spy franchise with Kingsman. In between, Vaughn has been attached to, or at least...Read more...

In a press conference last week, Greg Tito, senior communications manager for Wizards of the Coast, discussed the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons product The Deck of Many Things alongside lead designer Jason Tondro and game designer Makenzie De Armas.Read more...

Threads was a unicorn in the vacuum left behind by a Musk-infested Twitter turned X. But as the excitement for the sterile and lifeless platform inevitably waned for users, Meta's newest trick to give the illusion of Threads' growth is to just jam its posts into Facebook feeds.Read more...

Peacock streams new episodes of Chucky the day after they premiere on Syfy and USA-and any fans who've been lurking round those parts have probably noticed the streamer has an excellent library of horror movies. Here are 10 to get you started at the height of Halloween season.

After years of capturing the massive world of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft has recently turned its attention to its Jovian moons. During a close flyby of Jupiter's spookiest moon, Juno imaged the charred surface of a volcanic world caught in a haunting gravitational tug.

They're just little guys. Little spider-guys.Read more...

Compared to a few of my coworkers, I've been a real Debbie Downer regarding foldables. Huddled for drinks or games with friends, I'd receive the usual oohs" and ahhs" every time I took out a new foldable I was reviewing. Then I would tell them the price. They'd grimace and say some variation of No way I'm spending...Read more...

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...