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It's been over a year since we lost legendary voice actor Kevin Conroy, but his most famous role will live on a little bit longer. The man who voiced Batman in Batman: The Animated Seriesand beyond passed in 2022, leading many to wonder what would be the the final time we'd hear him voicing the Caped Crusader....Read more...

A recent leak on the Samsung UAE website revealed quite a lot of information on the company's upcoming fitness tracker, the Galaxy Fit 3. The info that was apparently accidentally posted by Samsung is still up on the site in the form of a web cache. Samsung Community and Gadgets & Wearables quickly spotted the leak...Read more...

The U.S. has a big syphilis problem on its hands. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that reported cases of the sexually transmitted infection once again climbed in 2022, reaching a total not seen in over 70 years. In slightly better news, reported cases of gonorrhea have taken a slight...Read more...

For a while, #DeleteFacebook would trend every couple of months on social media. Countless people were fed up with Facebook's endless parade of scandals, they claimed, and this time they were finally pulling the plug. Some people did, but Facebook's user base continues to grow years later. Now Amazon is experiencing a...Read more...

If you've been to a movie theater in the past few months, odds are very high that you saw the trailer for Argylle. The latest film from director Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman, Kick-Ass) has been promoted so much, it's become meme-worthy, especially the question of Who is the real agent Argylle?" Well, I'm happy to report...Read more...

Fresh off of its first asteroid encounter that revealed a bonus space rock, Lucy is now ready for the big leagues. The NASA spacecraft began maneuvering its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, traveling to a farther orbit in deep space in order to reach the Jovian system.Read more...

There's good news for steroid fans: juicers will finally get their day on the field. A who's who of extremely online investors pitched in to fund a series of events called the Enhanced Games, which describes itself as the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing." The list includes Christian Angermayer, venture...Read more...

China is planning to send its next lander to the lunar surface, this time targeting an impact crater with a sun-lit rim that could hold precious resources for long-duration stays on the Moon.Read more...

Jason Blum really wants Godzilla Minus One's director to make a movie with him. Sony's weirdest Spider-Man spinoff yet, El Muerto, may be back on (sans Bad Bunny). Dune Part 2 teases the fierceness of Florence Pugh. Plus, when to expect X-Men 97. To me, my spoilers!

Philips announced on Tuesday that it won't sell sleep apnea machines in the US after a global recall over concerns that its devices could cause cancer risks and other health problems for hapless sleepers.Read more...

Eutelsat, a leading satellite operator based in France, is encountering troubling delays in the deployment of its OneWeb satellite constellation that affect its plans to offer global-scale broadband coverage. The disruption to potential revenues is also a...minor factor.

Samsung has a family of new devices on sale this week. The Galaxy S24 series includes the smaller Galaxy S24, the larger Galaxy S24+, and the ginormous Galaxy S24 Ultra. Most people don't need the Ultra to get the benefits of wielding a Samsung-made Android device. The Ultra also has the highest starting price at $1,30...Read more...

I know the headline says classic phones, and you're probably expecting some vintage tech here. I also know you will hate me for making you feel old by making the 2000s sound like prehistoric times. So, before we start, I'd like to clarify that, as a 1997-born, these phones are my earliest memory of cell phones in...Read more...

January was pretty busy for consumer tech. We saw some impressive stuff revealed at CES 2024 and also reviewed a handful of big releases in the following weeks. Let's take a gander at the best gadgets that stood out this month.Read more...

During Kurt Russell's acting retrospective for GQ, the famed actor gave his thoughts on the ever-constant debate of which survivor is the Thing at the end of John Carpenter's The Thing. During the shoot, what would be shown of the divisive ending was a matter of contention even for Carpenter himself, who now swears he'...Read more...

Beware any sinister party game pilfered from a dusty hiding place by smirking teens who couldn't be less concerned with following rules" that might protect them from supernatural harm. Many a horror movie has launched with that premise-and Tarot, which dropped its first trailer today, is the latest.Read more...

In the world of Transformers, Optimus Prime is the guy. The traditional leader of the Autobots is the most popular character in the entire franchise and for good reason. He rules. You'd imagine it couldn't get much bigger than him, but thanks to Hasbro, Prime is about to get a lot bigger.Read more...

In a new interview, the cast of Netflix's upcoming adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender revealed a crucial change from the animated show, one that makes sense on the surface, but maybe not in context.Read more...

A cyberattack has impacted Fulton County, Georgia, where former President Donald Trump is currently being prosecuted on charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election.Read more...

The Asa Zoological Park in Hiroshima, Japan, held what might be the cutest emergency drill ever this past Sunday. The zoo had a worker cosplay as a bear on the loose to simulate an animal escape. The faux ursine was successfully corralled by the large group of employees, who went through the motions of bringing it...Read more...

You won't need to pay for Samsung's latest Galaxy S24 AI features-at least not for another two years. Samsung's head mobile exec confirmed that users might be asked to pay for more premium AI features in two years' time, though not even the company itself knows what a paid version of Galaxy AI will look like.Read more...

Netflix has horror movies galore-and is currently on a sci-fi high thanks to Zach Snyder's Rebel Moon duology. It's got dystopias covered, too, with Squid Game's second season coming later this year. But the streamer also has plenty to offer in the way of the fantasy genre, including a current Oscar hopeful.Read more...

The race to implant smartphone technology directly into your brain stem heated up when Neuralink implanted a chip into its first human brain on Sunday. To rival this new step in technology, China set a timeline to develop its own brain-computer interface" on Monday with products arriving as early as 2025.Read more...

The Browser Company recently released an AI browser for iOS called Arc Search, and this is the quickest I have ever switched to a browser on my personal phone. I am not the biggest fan of AI and am critical of forcing AI into everything that comes out now. But this browser was quite good and might actually replace...Read more...

The highly anticipated Epic Universe at the Universal Studios Orlando Resort has officially announced its franchise worlds. Universal's fourth theme park will feature portals to a new Super Nintendo World, the Universal Monsters' Dark Universe (it lives!), the Wizarding World of Harry Potter's Ministry of Magic, and...Read more...

Scaly, feathered, toothed, or beaked-long-necked, spike-tailed, tiny, or gargantuan-dinosaurs are a wildly diverse group. But certain dinos stand above the rest, both literally and on the plinth of our imagination. Here's my definitive ranking of the best dinosaurs; I'll be mightily impressed if you've heard of every...Read more...

Did you hear the big news? The team behind the once ultra-popular pop culture company Mondo has formed a brand new company called Mutant. Now under the umbrella of Elijah Wood's SpectreVision, Mutant will pick up where Mondo left off after being completely decimated by Funko.

Our mouths and guts are teeming with mysterious somethings that are unknown to science, new research suggests. A team says they've discovered distinct virus-like structures hanging out among the bacteria that live in our bodies. The researchers have coined these structures obelisks," and they might further redefine...Read more...

NASA's Endeavour orbiter made its way to the top of a 20-story-tall vertical display of the retired Space Shuttle, completing a legendary ready-for-launch stack that makes it look as though it's ready to soar to the skies once more.Read more...

The next Star Trek movie is upon us, and no, it's not got anything to do with Chris Pine or Jean-Luc Picard: Michelle Yeoh is back in sneaky action for Star Trek: Section 31, and Paramount has found her co-stars.

In 1999, Star Wars changed the world all over again with the start of the prequel trilogy in The Phantom Menace-and changed the toy world all over again too. Not just with its own action figures though: 1999 saw Lego reveal its very first licensed subset in Lego Star Wars, and has been pillaging our savings with awesom...Read more...

Apple's Vision Pro is set to make landfall from the company's Cupertino spaceship headquarters Friday. Still, those who got to spend time with it early could finally break their silence Tuesday morning. From the fore, reviewers have walked away impressed with the VR headset's strong displays, best-in-class...Read more...

The little helicopter touched down with the Perseverance rover in 2021. On January 25, NASA announced that the flying vehicle had to perform an emergency landing which damaged one of its rotors and ended its mission.

Ayo Edebiri is the latest star to leave Marvel's Thunderbolts. New Dune Part 2 pictures tease Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen's arrival. Duncan Jones' Rogue Trooper movie reveals its cast. Plus, Adam Scott starts running as Severance season 2 enters production. Spoilers now!

Elon Musk's X halted searches for Taylor Swift this weekend after AI-generated, sexually explicit photos of the international pop superstar went viral on the platform. This is one of the few times X has meaningfully blocked controversial content on the platform, which has largely hidden behind claims of being a free...Read more...

Black holes. Despite their names, the enigmatic objects are opposite of vacuous. They are some of the universe's densest objects, with masses ranging from the size of stars to several hundred million stars. Their gravitational fields are so intense that not even light can escape them at a certain point, leaving us...Read more...

I love Circle to Search on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. It has added multitasking to Android that I have not felt in a long time. At its core, Circle to Search is not an entirely groundbreaking feature. It snaps a screenshot and then transcribes any words or pictures you highlight into a Google Search. But that's...Read more...

For anyone who ever wondered where Andy's mom might've gotten Buzz and Woody in Toy Story-it turns out one particular San Francisco toy shop sparked the imaginations of Pixar creatives. Now, after 86 years in business, it's closing its doors.Read more...

There's a glimmer of hope if you're looking for last-ditch strategies to save your child from the halls of stupidity. A study published this week in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that good ol' cursive handwriting seems better at promoting learning than typing, and if we want to pump smarter kids out of our...Read more...

Elon Musk says that the first person has received a neural implant from his controversial brain chip startup Neuralink. Musk revealed the information in a tweet posted on his social media platform, X (formerly Twitter). The tweet reads merely:Read more...

James Gunn's new DC Universe has found its Supergirl, and she already knows how to fly. Milly Alcock, who played the young dragon-riding Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen on HBO's House of the Dragon, has been cast as the Kryptonian, beating out several other actresses for the role.Read more...

Twenty-eight years ago, Star Trek asked a daring question, one fitting of a franchise that triumphs boldly going and facing the unknown: should experimental FTL travel culminate in a captain and her helmsman turning into amphibians and doing the scaly deed? The answer is unequivocally no, but it has given us a...Read more...

Earth orbit is getting its own space doctor in the form of a small cyborg arm reaching out for the scalpel. A surgical robot is launching to the International Space Station (ISS) to test its ability to slice through human flesh in a microgravity environment.Read more...

TikTok has grabbed the world's attention in recent years, averaging 73 million American users every month. The app knows exactly what you like, and now it's rolling out phase two: selling you something with every single video. TikTok is testing out a new feature that will identify objects in a video automatically, and...Read more...

A single man is responsible for leaking the tax information belonging to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and others. Trump's tax information was leaked to the New York Times and became the basis for a big story, while Bezos and Musk had their financial information handed over to ProPublica, which similarly reporte...Read more...

There are lots of reasons to re-watch movies-the obvious being you love them so much, you just want to enjoy them again. There are also situations where a movie has so much going on, or whips out a big third-act reveal that upends all of act one, that you just soak in more when you go back for seconds.Read more...

Amelia Earhart was declared dead in January of 1939, two years after her around-the-world flight in her Lockheed Electra 10E Special ended in an unsolved disappearance. Earhart was the world's most accomplished and famed female pilot in 1937, and her ill-fated flight is still the kind of thing that haunts a person. Rea...Read more...

Shall I compare thee to the Webb Space Telescope's latest image drop? Well, for starters, thou art less ancient and far less spectacular. The new collection of 19 images reveal face-on spiral galaxies, meaning they are oriented toward Webb's perceptive gaze. The shots were taken as part of the Physics at High Angular...Read more...

Last year, Witch From Mercury radically improved the already pretty great world of Gundam by adding an amount of lesbianism that not even its parent company could deny. Alas, sapphics have yet to see a successor to the gay mecha throne yet, but lovers of men and giant robots may have found their own show to claim this...Read more...

A medical treatment given to children in the UK may have led to some developing Alzheimer's disease decades later, new research out Monday suggests. The study presents evidence that at least five people contracted the neurodegenerative disorder from having received human growth hormones contaminated with rogue amyloid...Read more...