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Stars very close to the center of our galaxy could be fueled by dark matter in perpetuity, according to a team of astronomers who recently studied the distant light sources.Read more...

Empire Magazine has released a new look at the upcoming WandaVision spinoff, Agatha All Along (formerly titled The Darkhold Diaries, originally titled Coven of Chaos) focusing, naturally, on Agatha Harkness, the series' breakout villain played by Kathryn Hahn.

We're only 12 days awayfrom Samsung's next big Unpacked event. While we already expected a big foldables release with new versions of the Galaxy Z Flip and Fold phones, there's apparently loads more in store.One notorious leaker sharedall-new renders for a Galaxy Watch Ultra and some real AirPods-aping Galaxy Buds.

Mobile wireless service providers have consumers stuck in a trap at the moment. They've deliberately made switching to another carrier an extremely difficult process that usually involves paying off the phone and fulfilling other contractual obligations. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission released a pro...Read more...

A rosy, flushed face can be a sign of embarrassment, allergies, or even drinking alcohol for people especially sensitive to it. But for many people, it may be an indication of rosacea. Scientists have made important breakthroughs in studying and treating rosacea in recent years, but there remain many questions...Read more...

I'll never forget where I was June 30, 1999. That was the night I made the unfortunate decision to see Will Smith's Wild Wild West on its opening night- while on a screen next door, one of my soon-to-be favorite movies had also just been released. Smith's movie was terrible, but the next night, I righted that wrong...Read more...

Ancient Egyptian scribes held high-status jobs, making up some of the 1% of Egyptians who could read and write at that time. But the scribes suffered for it: New research published in Scientific Reports reveals that the ancient documentarians suffered from osteoarthritis as a consequence of their labors.Read more...

A new trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine teases what promises to be a knock-down, drag-out fight between Wolverine and his long-absent arch nemesis, Sabretooth. Take a look:

It prequel Welcome to Derry rounds out its cast. Get a look at the second season of Hit Monkey in action. Joseph Quinn teases that he might not be done with Stranger Things yet. Plus, get a new look at the final season of The Umbrella Academy. Spoilers now!

Sony is pushing its mini-LED TVs hard, harder than one might expect when it has its Bravia 8 OLED TV up for sale simultaneously with last year's A95L QD-OLED. Sony positioned that ultimate high-end OLED in the same flagship tier alongside the Bravia 9 mini-LED with its incredible new driver technology. OLED is an...Read more...

In the 5th Avenue Lego store in Manhattan, in the back toward the stairs going to the second level, there's a small gray brick spinning lethargically on a thin pedestal. According to the Danish brickmaker and European Space Agency, that Lego piece was crafted from meteorite dust. While you won't see astronauts going...Read more...

Life on Earth is unforgiving, as any nature documentary will tell you. But sometimes, the constant battle to survive is interrupted by an excuse to smile, or even laugh. Enter the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards, which allows photographers from all over the world to capture moments of levity presented by Mother Nature...Read more...

For many of us, getting up can be a chore most mornings, as a peaceful slumber or a serene dream is interrupted by the shrill chimes of a smartphone alarm. It's all too easy to keep hitting that snooze button until the last possible momentto stay where it's comfortable and warm and avoid the responsibilities of the...Read more...

The golden age of superhero movies led by Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films was like no other, the webbing on which every Marvel movie that followed bounced into the stratosphere off of. They gave us Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker with Kirsten Dunst as MJ, facing off with nefarious foes like the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe)...Read more...

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and President Joe Biden will debate tonight starting at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT. Hosted by CNN in Atlanta, it will be the earliest presidential head-to-head in modern U.S. history, given the fact that debates typically happen after the summer political conventions, and...Read more...

It's been a minute since we last saw Hit-Monkey in action-season one aired in late 2021-but the animated Hulu series, which has branched out from its original Marvel branding, isn't one you have to do much catching up on. There are two main characters; one's a monkey assassin, one's the ghost of a human assassin, and...Read more...

Thought cortosis was the only thing with roots from Star Wars' expanded universe that showed up on The Acolyte this week? Turns out, another old concept was hiding in plain sight... well, from a certain point of view.

President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump are scheduled to square off tonight in the first of two presidential debates for the 2024 election season. But this week has seen a number of conspiracy theories go viral on social media, with many people claiming there are shadowy forces conspiring to help Biden...Read more...

These days, movie theater owners will do nearly anything to lure fans back to the big screen-and elaborately themed popcorn buckets have become an important part of that strategy. Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine excitedly revealed its bucket in May, and while it's sufficiently lurid, it's still not quite as startlingly...Read more...

Thousands of satellites are currently parked in low Earth orbit, with some that will eventually become defunct and fall back towards our planet's atmosphere. As they reenter the atmosphere, satellites leave behind a trail of chemicals that eat away at the ozone layer. A new study warns against the growing number of...Read more...

Another day, another Boeing whistleblower.Read more...

Nerd Christmas is less than a month away: San Diego Comic-Con 2024. It takes place July 25-28 and all your favorite things from every facet of pop culture are sure to have a presence. We're talking franchises like Star Wars, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and, of course, Marvel.

European regulation is surely doing a number on Apple's product line. It mandated the company to adopt USB-C on the iPhone and then RCS so that Messages could more easily communicate with Android users worldwide. According to The Information, Apple may be working on a removable iPhone battery to comply with global...Read more...

With a swing of a wrist gauntlet, and the head-butt of a sinister helmet, The Acolyte's mysterious dark Stranger carved a path into Star Wars history this week with a single, shocking move: strikes that sent the laser blades of his Jedi foes sputtering out of existence. But while we've seen lightsaber-resistant...Read more...

It's been a long while since we saw any Valve branding on a controller that didn't have a screen attached to it. Then, out of the blue, Valve's helping a Japanese gaming hardware company, Hori, stick a Steam button on a brand new controller. At the same time, why is arguably the most influential company in PC gaming p...Read more...

Warner Bros. has released the incredible ending credit sequence of its new Suicide Squad anime series, and whatever you feel about the DC team's morally dubious director,Amanda Waller, you owe it to yourself to give it a watch.

Fragments from a defunct Russian satellite have formed a large cloud of debris in low Earth orbit, posing a potential threat to the International Space Station (ISS) and with the crew having to take shelter while mission control checked for the chances of collision.Read more...

A Quiet Place: Day One admirably tells a brand new story in a world where aliens with incredibly sensitive hearing have invaded and killed anything that makes a sound. It follows two new characters with a simple, relatable goal, each of whom finds a small slice of humanity in an unfathomable, inevitable situation....Read more...

We already had word that Tom Bombadil, noted merry fellow, was going to be heading to Amazon's take on Middle-earth when The Rings of Power returns for season two. But it looks like he'll be bringing a few frightful figures often associated with his material in Lord of the Rings-the ghoulish Barrow-wights.

I still remember Uno nights with my family and how my red-green colorblind grandfather always needed help distinguishing his cards. I always attributed it to the nature of the game and never really saw it as inaccessibility. It wasn't until Mattel announced it would make Uno and a few of its other most popular games...Read more...

Earlier this week, we noticed that a Harris Stingray was for sale on eBay for a cool $100k. Police have historically used these notably creepy surveillance devices to grab mobile traffic out of the air via cell tower emulation. Yes, someone was selling one of these suckers for lots of money, and it had garnered a...Read more...

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Are you a fan of robots but just think they should have human-like skin and smile more? Well, you're in luck, weirdo.Read more...

Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood rings up Ghostbusters for their latest haunted house announcement. The annual Halloween events kick off Friday, August 30 at Universal Studios Orlando, and Thursday, September 5 at Universal Studios Hollywood.Read more...

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Supernatural's Jared Padelecki confirmed he's finally ready to make an appearance on The Boys following the CW's recent cancelation of the Walker, Texas Ranger reboot.

A prominent identity verification firm that has contracted with TikTok, Uber, X, and other large platforms, left a set of administrative login credentials exposed to the internet for more than a year, according to a report from 404 Media. The credentials could have allowed a bad actor to access sensitive user...Read more...

The largest AI chatbot companies are sprinting around, trying to make multi-million dollar deals with news networks and Reddit to train their AI models with human-made content-legally. Now, Google-owned YouTube wants to ink similar deals for its existing AI music replication software-a new report details how the ...Read more...

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The last mammoths to walk the Earth did not succumb to inbreeding after hundreds of generations, despite being stuck on a remote island off the coast of Siberia. That's the finding of research published today in Cell which interrogated 21 woolly mammoth genomes to understand how the population's genetic diversity may...Read more...

At some point, Aspyr will run out of classic Star Wars games to polish and re-release-but there's a lot of them, and we still haven't gotten the Rogue Squadron games, god dammit-but today is not that day. This morning, the developer announced it had locked eyes on its next bounty: Jango Fett's origin story shooter, Bou...Read more...

The Street Fighter movie may not have directors, but it does have a release date. The Freaky Friday sequel has officially entered production. Kevin Feige teases the unexpected with Marvel's Wonder Man series. Plus, what's coming on Evil, and a new look at Bluey's brief return. Spoilers away!

Amazon plans to launch a new store that will allow U.S.-based shoppers to buy low-cost, unbranded items delivered directly from China, according to new reports from CNBC and The Information. The plan is widely seen as an attempt to compete with China-based competitors like Temu and Shein.Read more...

If you're reading this, someone you know watches a crime show on CBS. You might not be aware that person watches the show, but numbers don't lie. Shows like NCIS, CSI, Criminal Minds, FBI, SWAT, Blue Bloods, and others have been a gold mine for the network and now its latest one is getting a little more bloody.Read more...

While The Acolyte fans might look at the battered mask of the dark side villain formerly lovingly known as Darth Teeth, now slightly less lovingly known as the Stranger, and be a bit traumatized after the horrors of this week's episode, we can all still acknowledge that it's an amazing bit of design. So much so, we...Read more...

With the upcoming release of Funko Fusion-the video game from 10:10 games, where you play as iconic figures across various fandom universes-the first line of tie-in Funko Pops has been unveiled. With Masters of the Universe, M3GAN, Jurassic World, and Hot Fuzz all represented, the release offers a taste of some of...Read more...

The shimmery towers of cosmic dust and gas at the heart of the Eagle Nebula have inspired awe for decades since they were first captured by the Hubble telescope. Now, NASA released the most detailed visualization of the iconic celestial structure, revealing all of its dreamy features across multiple wavelengths of...Read more...

The Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, has been out for almost a week, and it's been receiving mixed reviews. Not because it's bad, but because it's hard. Developer FromSoftware heard the pleas from those who can't hang with the game's difficulty and added a new update to make it a little easier for the whiners.Read more...

Gotham City's most notorious vigilante is also its most despised citizen, according to the new trailer for Batman: Caped Crusader. The animated series from executive producers J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Bruce Timm hits Prime Video August 1, but you can catch a glimpse of a certain troublemaking hero who dresses up...Read more...

Scientists in South Africa are now injecting the horns of live rhinos with non-toxic radioactive isotopes to make the horns unfit for human consumption and allow for easier tracking at international border crossings, according to a press release from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.Read more...