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One of the most prominent pirated book repositories used for training AI, Books3, has been kicked out from the online nest it had been roosting in for nearly three years. Rights-holders have been at war with online pirates for decades, but artificial intelligence is like oil seeping into copyright law's water. The two...Read more...

A budget laptop has to walk a very fine line. Cut too many features, and it's going to offer disappointing performance and be annoying to use, no matter how low the price. Get too ambitious, and feature creep will drive the price up so much that it's not a budget laptop at all anymore.Read more...

In a previously recorded appearance on Josh Horowitz's podcast Happy Sad Confused promoting Gran Tourismo, the film's star David Harbour discussed the Stranger Things finale and joining James Gunn's Creature Commandos for DC Studios. Both projects are currently being paused as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue as...Read more...

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When Ahsoka begins next week, we're getting even further insight into a Star Wars galaxy at a crossroads moment in time-arguably the first major crisis of a nascent New Republic, and a galaxy still picking itself up after the fall of the Galactic Empire. But what do we actually know has happened in the run-up to the...Read more...

The Moon is so hot right now, metaphorically speaking. Several US government agencies, private space ventures, and foreign governments like China are plotting for mankind's return to the lunar surface over the next decade. Unlike the days of Apollo, the modern-day race to the Moon involves establishing a sustainable...Read more...

io9 first caught director and co-writer Laura Moss' debut birth/rebirth at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2023-read our review here-and its grisly yet deeply emotional exploration of motherhood has stuck with us for months. With the film about to hit theaters, we were excited to speak to Moss all about it.

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There's no better way to play video games than lying down. That can be hard to do when the TV is situated straight ahead. But with Samsung's new Freestyle Gen 2 projector, you can lay on your back and indulge in your favorite cozy game projected on the ceiling above.

When Draganfly launched as a small drone company in 1998, its co-founders did not predict hobbyist products like theirs would one day become, in the words of CEO Cameron Chell, bigger than the advent of the tank in World War I." Now, 25 years later, Draganfly's drones-which are credited by the Smithsonian as being...Read more...

Tal'dorei Campaign Setting Reborn is now available digitally on D&D Beyond. This is huge news, not just for Critical Role fans, but for any third-party publisher who writes with Dungeons & Dragons in mind. For years, D&D Beyond has had agreements with Wizards of the Coast to offer digital, interactive versions of...Read more...

The future is nigh, but San Francisco wants to push it off just a little farther. The Bay Area city is asking California regulators to push pause on the expansion of robotaxi services from Waymo and Cruise.Read more...

Microsoft started issuing invitations for a special event" on Thursday where it may introduce some new hardware and software, including upgrades to its Surface laptops and additional AI products. The event is scheduled to be held in New York City on Sept. 21, Microsoft announced in its email and will be the first...Read more...

When all is said and done, the biggest movies of 2023 are going to be based on a 60-year-old doll and a 40-year-old video game. Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have each, in their own unique ways, shown the best of what modern studio filmmaking can be. In an era when name brands and sequels continue to be the...Read more...

Talk about a killer campaign.Chucky (Brad Dourif) takes the stage for a run-more like a run for the lives of his next victims-to tease whats next in Chucky Season 3.Read more...

What if?" is always a fascinating question. It lets us explore our imaginations in scenarios we'll never actually see play out. Now though, you can see them play out in The Walking Dead universe and it's arguably the most intriguing thing to happen to the franchise in years.Read more...

Apple's promising several upgrades to its upcoming iPhone 15 to entice more people to upgrade, but behind the scenes, the company is reportedly expecting far fewer sales of its mainline smartphone this time around.Read more...

Archaeologists studying ancient human remains in a Spanish cave system posit that one individual's burial is the oldest Neolithic funerary site in Iberia by over 1,000 years.Read more...

A study from researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK suggests ChatGPT demonstrates liberal bias in some of its responses. Tech companies spent recent years desperately trying to prove their systems aren't part of some left-wing political conspiracy. If the study's findings are correct, ChatGPT's...Read more...

Microsoft is bringing an end to its Xbox 360 Store and Xbox 360 Marketplace starting July 29, 2024, the company announced on Thursday. The closure brings an end to Xbox 360's 18-year run of bringing video games and other content to players everywhere.Read more...

When Cosmic Fury-seemingly the last iteration of Power Rangers as fans have known it for the last 30 years as Hasbro looks to a new movie-and-TV take on the transforming teens-comes to Netflix last month, it's bringing a legend with it: the original Blue Ranger, Billy Cranston, is back in spandex.

Over the past year of using Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 4 out in public, people have told me that, while they think folding phones are cool, they seem like nothing more than an expensive party trick. I don't disagree. Life is fine with just one screen in your pocket and a smartphone that doesn't unfold into a tablet. No...Read more...

A few short weeks ago, the world was taken aback by claims of a room-temperature superconductor-a scientific finding that could redefine modern physics as we know it. Those claims turned out to be bunk, and a South Korean university is investigating a complaint made against the professor who published them in a paper.Read more...

Prey, Dan Trachtenberg's installment into the Predator franchise, is arriving on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on October 3. There will also be a collector's edition steelbook for the 4K edition, designed by Attila Szarca, exclusively available at Best Buy. Notably, Prey didn't make it to theatrical release, and was...Read more...

Tropical storm Hilary in the Pacific Ocean has strengthened to officially become a hurricane.Read more...

Razer has done an impressive job with its mechanical gaming keyboards. Since launching the DeathStalker V2 Pro in 2021, it's cut back on the physical bloat and opted for simpler designs so that the boards have become like blank canvasses. I'm still not on board with the decidedly masculine esport" aesthetic, but at...Read more...

OpenAI is facing a potential lawsuit from The New York Times for an intellectual property debate over alleged copyright violations, sources told NPR on Wednesday. The news outlet claims OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, is using the Times' content to train its chatbot.Read more...

The handheld console market is about to go full-circle. Leaked images of Lenovo's upcoming Legion Go gaming device show that the company has taken inspiration from Nintendo and Valve for its next product, with the silhouette and controls of the Steam Deck plus the snappable, swappable controllers of the Nintendo...Read more...

Something big, furious, and ready to fight is coming to Apple TV+, and with any luck, it'll be bringing like-minded friends along. The streamer has just lifted the lid on its 10-episode series continuing the story of Legendary's Monsterverse, revealing the title-Monarch: Legacy of Monsters-and some first images.Read more...

Two alleged stalking victims filed a class-action lawsuit against Tile and its parent company Life360 Monday accusing the companies of failing to implement useful safety features and of mounting advertising campaigns that encouraged stalking. They also accuse the company of tanking the case against their alleged...Read more...

One of the most maligned tropes of the social media age is the infamous apology video. Whether it be blackface, showing a dead body to children, posting racist tweets, a convention gone wrong, or texting minors, there have been plenty of apology videos posted in the last decade of YouTube's popularity.

This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: '73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre's 50th anniversary.

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When editorial assistant Nella (Sinclair Daniel) meets her new co-worker Hazel (Ashleigh Murray), she's thrilled that her otherwise jarringly all-white company has hired another Black person. But as the trailer for new Hulu series The Other Black Girl reveals, sometimes it's better to be careful what you wish for.

How do you sell a superhero comic these days?" is a question a lot of publishers and comics retailers are grappling with, but apparently at least in some very specific cases, the answer is have James Gunn tweet about it."

Accounts that used to regularly engage and tweet about climate-related issues have been dropping like flies on Twitter, less than a year after Elon Musk's purchase of the company. A report published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution this week found that almost 50% of over 300,000 environmentally oriented"...Read more...

Third-party merchants on Amazon who ship their own packages will see an additional fee for each product sold starting on Oct. 1st. Sellers could previously choose to ship their products without contributing to Amazon, but the new feemeans members of Amazon's Seller Fulfilled Prime program will be required to pay the...Read more...

The Big Apple is joining the TikTok ban bandwagon. New York City issued a new directive on Wednesday banning TikTok from city-owned devices and forcing local agencies to remove the app from its phones and tablets within 30 days. Starting today, anyone using a city-owned device or network is prohibited from downloading ...Read more...

Coraline, the 2009 stop-motion animated film by The Nightmare Before Christmas directorHenry Selick, was a beloved hit from the instant it was released. It had box office success, critical acclaim, award recognition, and audience adoration. What few could have predicted though was the film's staying power, which was...Read more...

The United States Space Force has launched a unit dedicated to warding off threats from other countries in space.Read more...

Self-driving cars are one of the funniest broken promises of the modern age. Far are we from the fantasy of The Jetsons and Total Recall, self-driving vehicles may be some of the dumbest creatures to roll across planet Earth. One such car found itself stuck in wet cement while cruising through San Francisco on Tuesday.Read more...

The Associated Press is putting its foot down on journalists using any kind of AI program to write articles, though that isn't stopping the company itself from making a quick buck in exchange for training generative AI on older AP content.Read more...

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Star Wars is a franchise with a lot of characters, but all of them all feel rooted in a particular place in time. You can feel that the Skywalker twins and Han Solo are products of the late 1970s to some degree or another. Similarly, you can see that someone like Din Djarin or Mace Windu is born out of the late 2010s...Read more...

What is this, a game controller for ants? The company that brought you wireless versions of the classic NEOGEO CD controller and an upgrade kit to turn an N64 controller into a wireless gamepad now has a controller so compact it seems purpose-built for getting lost between the couch cushions.Read more...

As we all know, with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA currently on strike, the production of major TV shows and movies has been put on pause. One of the biggest ones impacted is The Last of Us, the hit HBO adaptation of the PlayStation game which was gearing up for season two. Co-showrunner Craig Mazin said that before the...Read more...

New York University professor and Kara Swisher's podcasting buddyScott Galloway voiced his outrage at being banned from posting on Twitter in a Threads post on Tuesday. Galloway claims he's been locked out of Twitter (aka X) two days after allegedly declining an invitation to meet with the chief Twit himself.Read more...

The Wheel of Time returns to Prime Video on September 1, when the first three episodes of season two will reunite us with characters who went through a lot in season one-and introduce some new faces too. Get a glimpse of everyone in these new character posters that tease what's to come in the upcoming episodes.Read more...

Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought.Read more...

Newly unsealed court filings following a federal indictment accusing Donald Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 elections show the lengths Twitter lawyers went to try and notify the former president of the government's inquiry and delay investigators from obtaining detailed information from the former president's...Read more...