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2023 is a big year for superhero movies, as it's when many of them from years past are hitting big milestones. Along with the MCU overall, the original Iron Man turned 15 this year, and it's not the only one-The Incredible Hulk, which released months later, is similarly a decade and a half old. But unlike Tony Stark,...Read more...

By now, just about everyone has seen the digital artand prose of generative AI models like Midjounrey and ChatGPT. In a reversal of the text-to-image format of Midjourney, a New York-based technologist and artist has released a new app that flips those concepts on their head, having AI models conjure up poems based...Read more...

Magic: The Gathering has been going hard on the brand crossovers through its Universes Beyond" line this year with the likes of Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings. Over the next few years, that expansion is set to continue, with more big-name franchises added to the line-namely video games.

Kaiju stories often live and die not just on the monster itself, but whoever's fighting against (or with) it. Whether it's the military, other monsters, or giant robots, part of the fun can be seeing what's able to go blow-for-blow with a massive beast that shoots fire out of its eyes or some such.

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Warner Bros.' plans for its DC movies have shifted enough times that even Mystique would tell the company to chill, and last year's Black Adam only served to further complicate things. Prior to release, its claim to fame was that Dwayne Johnson would finally play a comic book superhero (that he had an iron grip on for...Read more...

Christopher Nolan's new movie Oppenheimer, eponymously named after the creator of the atomic bomb, has renewed public interest in America's dark history with nuclear weapons. Nolan's movie focuses primarily on the Trinity" test-the first test of an nuclear bomb to occur in the U.S. But for years after Trinity, the...Read more...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a delight for many reasons: the energetic teens who voice the Turtles, its fun embrace of 90s culture, its unique animation style, and the way it both honors and advances TMNT lore. But the movie's more than just a light-hearted nostalgic trip.Read more...

A social media influencer's event spun wildly out of control in downtown Manhattan on Friday. For some reason, thousands of people who had turned out to Union Square park to to see Youtube star and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat began rioting, obstructing traffic, and antagonizing police. The unruly crowd eventually...Read more...

There's a lot of monsters ready to be let out of their crypts for Halloween haunt season.Read more...

Need something Witcher to sink your teeth to now that Henry Cavill has bid his farewell to the Netflix show? Well, there's good news: series author Andrzej Sapkowski has revealed he's working on a new novel set in the world of his fantasy creation.Read more...

A group of engineers is testing an air conditioning system in space, seeing how two basic processes work in an environment with less gravity than Earth in order to design a system for future habitats on the Moon and Mars.Read more...

Futurama's new season continues its examination of 3023 by way of 2023 with next week's How the West Was 1010001," which sees the gang heading to, ahem, Doge City to cash in on the bitcoin mining craze. Like most places they visit, they encounter absurdities, even more puns, and some very shady robot...Read more...

Google is trying to lure employees back to the office by offering a special for its on-campus hotel in Mountain View, California. The special will run through Sept. 30 and is serving as another attempt for Google to establish the new norm of a hybrid work-from-home schedule.Read more...

Widespread wildfires across Canada have broken a carbon pollution record this year, a European climate monitoring agency said this week.Read more...

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Samsung isn't the only phone maker expanding its quick-fix repair network. 9to5Google reports that Google will set up Pixel repair kiosks within select Best Buy locations to rival the Korean electronics giant's new line of repair shops and Apple's Genius Bar.

The time has come-after six years of waiting, and three of those spent in early access, Baldur's Gate 3 has finally released on PC. If you've already started gathering your party and venturing forth, we want to see the characters you've come up with to venture into this latest D&D adventure.

A disease spread by fleas is becoming more common and deadlier in Los Angeles, California. In a new report this week, health officials say that recorded cases of flea-borne typhus have steadily risen in LA since 2010, with the highest tally seen last year. Additionally, three people are thought to have died from...Read more...

Strange New Worlds' musical episode dropped this week, giving us a wonderful, all-singing all-dancing hour of Star Trek. But now that we've had a chance to give the Enterprise crew's showtunes a few repeat listens, we're ready to declare which hit the high notes and which should've been left on the cutting room floor.

An older woman with steel gray hair, wearing a tiara and a stylish red dress-suit combo, sits at the front of the Lorcana line at Gen Con 2023, explaining to a group of four younger men what happened that morning. She has a diagram. This is Esther Emerald. That's not her real name; that's her character's name for a ...Read more...

Players jumping into the hotly anticipated Dungeons & Dragons RPG Baldur's Gate 3 will likely want to skip through the intensely rambling licensing agreement. But for those players who actually decide to stay awhile and listen-er, sorry, wrong game-I mean read the mountainous EULA agreement, developer Larian has a...Read more...

Axiom Space will fly a fourth crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as NASA once again selects the private space venture for another mission to low Earth orbit.Read more...

A failed state attorney general candidate endorsed by Donald Trump, a former Republican Michigan state representative, and a Trump sympathetic election denying attorney have all been criminally charged with attempting to tamper with voting machines, according to charging documents first spotted by The Detroit News....Read more...

We're only a month out since Meta released its Instagram-tied Twitter-killer app Threads. Since then, the time users spent on the app has tanked. Now, two separate data analysis firms say that the number of users logging in each day on the app has similarly flatlined just a month after its release.Read more...

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a noted fan of bringing New York City stories to the stage and screen (Hamilton lyrics call it the greatest city in the world," after all), and he'll be tackling a new tale set in his hometown for his next project: a stage musical adapting Sol Yurick's 1965 novel The Warriors-previously the...Read more...

Like every other tech company, Tinder is bringing artificial intelligence to its operations in an attempt to create a better user experience, its parent company Matchgroup said in its Q2 earnings letter on Wednesday. The company says it plans to create new features around the needs of Gen Z users.Read more...

The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit's controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called John Oliver rules" which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits. It marks the end of months of fighting, which included site-wide blackouts. Now...Read more...

When I was 19 years old, I stood outside a Toys R" Us for hours, waiting for midnight so I could buy toys from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. It was mere weeks before the movie was released, the hype was at an all-time high, and I spent a lot of money because of it.Read more...

Scientists and conservationists are working to observe and save coral reefs off the coast of Florida after a year of heat waves and alarming ocean temperatures.Read more...

Dark rises, and light to meet it-so when Ahsoka Tano finds out these god damn Imperials won't stay gone, it's a good job she's got plenty of friends on her Rebels rolodex to call in some favors.Read more...

On Thursday, Heather Morgan, a.k.a. Razzlekhan, and her husband pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive money laundering scheme. Morganand Ilya Lichtenstein became known as the modern-day Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde" after they were linked to the 2016 theft of $4.5 billion in crypto from the Hong Kong-based exchange...Read more...

Strange New Worlds' musical episode was a great episode of Star Trek, but it was also a humdinger of a musical-a soundtrack laden with a frankly distressing number of earworms. And now you can listen to it without having to queue up Paramount+.Read more...

In the latest chapter of Elon Musk's saga to take over the world with corporations named after the letter X," the billionaire tech tycoon just snagged a coveted URL: AI.com.

Final Destination's Jeffrey Reddick says the sixth film is ready to enter production-as soon as the SAG-AFTRA strike comes to an end. Dracula strikes in even more footage from Last Voyage of the Demeter. Plus, you're not ready for the first details about Riverdale's final episode. To me, my spoilers!

Security breaches rose by a shocking 156% globally from the first quarter of 2023 to quarter two, according to a report published by VPN service SurfShark on Tuesday. As hacking and security leaks become more prevalent so too does the rate at which the breaches occur.Read more...

When io9 interviewed Danny and Michael Philippou-the siblings behind Talk to Me, the summer's scariest movie-they described the mythology bible" they assembled to keep track of the story's many creepy spirits. Now, it seems they also picked up their cameras to create additional contextual material.Read more...

Rom-com Elemental-initially a disappointment for Pixar and Disney-has continued to rack up money at the box office, and now the sleeper hit has a new income stream in its near future: home viewers. Peter Sohn's animated tale will soon arrive on digital, followed by a physical release, and it's bringing tons of extras...Read more...

When mutantkind established its own sovereign nation on Krakoa, it established three new tenants for the newly-unified species to live by: Make More Mutants, Murder No Man, and Respect This Sacred Land. For the most part, give or take a few loopholes, the Krakoan Age was defined by these tenets until last week's ...Read more...

Jack Quaid is not going flame on!" any time soon.Read more...

Nothing, the company behind the second-gen, see-through,light-up smartphone that's generated positive user reviews since its debut last month, has announced a new brand called CMF by Nothing. In a quarterly community update video, Nothing's co-founder and CEO, Carl Pei, explains that CMF by Nothing will be focused on...Read more...

It's peak summer in the U.S. and spotted lanternflies have graduated into full-grown adults that are flapping about in all their spotty glory. Another year of sighting these winged insects means another year for us to do our part in squishing lanternflies and eliminating them from our ecosystems.Read more...

What's the point of an app if you can't make money on it? Such is the thought process of Twitter owner Elon Musk, as the first part of his grand plan to turn the bird app into the everything app" will start with transforming the site into yet another stock trading platform.Read more...

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Legendary Warner Bros. icons get reimagined by 10 global artists in a new collection for WB 100, marking the studio's 100th anniversary.Read more...

As with many inquiries to Apple's helper bot, asking Siri to read my lips," comes back with a I'm not sure I understand" message. After all, Apple has so far eschewed talking much about modern AI systems. Why would the voice recognition service also want to be staring at me like HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey?Read more...

You don't become one of the largest tech companies on the planet without leaving a trail of artifacts in your wake. While many of Apple's former products and ventures may have been lost to time, others have been scrounged up by antique collectors and enthusiasts to be auctioned off for some huge returns. Everything...Read more...

Will this work/Who can say?/We're gonna sing it/anyway!" An interlude in the climactic song of Star Trek's first ever musical episode-and an underlying thesis that guides it as it swings for one of the boldest ideas the franchise has ever tried... and by god, does it nail it.

Remember when the company once called Facebook tried to convince the world to spend $300 on a pair of camera-equipped Ray-Bans capable of snapping photos of people while they weren't looking? Neither did we, really, but that hasn't stopped Meta from moving forward with a pricey multi-year plan to roll out new...Read more...

The makers of two popular but off-label weight loss drugs are now being sued over complications allegedly linked to their use. This week, a Louisiana woman filed a complaint against the companies Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, arguing that they have misled patients about the risk of severe gastrointestinal side effects...Read more...