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Here's a spark of joy for your Tuesday: a new Futurama trailer for the new season we still can't quite believe we're getting! As you can see, Futurama's long-awaited return will take on massive disruptions in the flow of time, the pandemic, cryptocurrency, AI home assistants, manscaping, and the perils of having a...Read more...

SpaceX's launch facility in South Texas saw some fiery action last night as the upper stage of the company's upcoming Starship prototype let out its first engine roar during a static fire test.Read more...

Zoom isn't the same as it used to be. Without a wide-ranging pandemic keeping everybody at home, and with more companies demanding their workers slog to the office, the video conference company is trying to angle its software to increasingly hybridized workplaces. Now, the company is adding features to ensure...Read more...

Well, that didn't last long. Less than nine months after its initial release, TikTok is calling it quits on its BeRealcompetitor TikTok Now. The apparent reprioritization at TikTok comes as BeReal, once the hottest app on the market, continues to struggle with declining users. At the same time, the app is adding...Read more...

Think Chucky E. Cheese meets Child's Play. Those are the vibes blasting through the first trailer for Five Nights at Freddy's, Blumhouse's big screen adaptation of the popular video game franchise. It opens in theaters, and on Peacock, October 27.

Today is the day. Paramount+ featuring Showtime has officially been unleashed to the masses, and it will cost you $11.99 per month.

A janitor accidentally destroyed more than two decades of research when he turned off a freezer containing invaluable cell cultures that had the potential to be groundbreaking," according to a new lawsuit filed by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York.Read more...

Mosquito season is in full swing across the U.S., and this year's annual boom of summertime blood suckers comes with some additional bad news. For the first time since 2003, malaria is spreading in the states. Both Florida and Texas have confirmed locally acquired cases of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness.

On its face, the motivation of the invading Skrulls seems quite clear in Secret Invasion: Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) promised to find the aliens a new planet to live on. After 30 years, Fury had still failed to keep his promise. As a result, some of the Skrulls decided to take the Earth for themselves-and only...Read more...

Microsoft's head is already in the clouds for artificial intelligence, but in order to sell even more people on its AI services the company is reportedly working toward allowing the entire Windows 11 operating system to be streamed from the cloud for its user-end consumers.Read more...

Maintaining a comfortable body temperature is a perpetual challenge for runners who want to stay warm at the start of an early morning run, but not overheat as their body warms up, requiring them to stop to strip off layers. The new Nike Aerogami Jacket is designed for that conundrum, meant to both warm and cool an...Read more...

As Reddit users protested the company's sweeping changes to its application programming interface (API), big wigs at Google noticed that the online blackout caused collateral damage to Google Search.

Meet the kids of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Doctor Who set pictures reunite the Doctor with an old friend. Plus, get a look at this week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. To me, my Spoilers!

AI-generated text has the potential to sap the very lifeblood of the internet's ad-dominated ecosystem. Just how much is the main question, but a new report says it's a growing issue that major ad companies like Google have yet to fully grapple with.Read more...

There are several challengers to the GoPro throne hoping to unseat the gold standard of action cameras through unique designs and features. A new one enters the arena today: The Insta360 GO 3, whose incredibly tiny camera can be separated and used all on its own, while still wirelessly streaming live video previews to...Read more...

Everything is in place to begin dumping treated radioactive wastewater from Japan's destroyed Fukushima Daiichi power plant into the ocean, according to the plant's operator. The plan to do so has been in the works for years, as irradiated water has accumulated in the aftermath of 2011's earthquake, tsunami, and...Read more...

Meta has unveiled a suite of new safety tools intended to give parents more oversight of their teen's activity on Messenger and Instagram DMs. Starting today, parents and guardians can view how much time their teen spends on Messenger, receive updates on changes to their contact lists and privacy settings, and receive...Read more...

Prepare to be hosted by Ken if you manage to nab a booking of the Barbie Dreamhouse in Malibu, CA through Airbnb. Even though Ryan Gosling is presumably not part of the deal,Ken's version of the Barbie Dreamhousedoes include an exclusive stay with your own skates and surfboard-all the better to live your best ...Read more...

By the end of the week, we may have a new Superman and Lois Lane. That's what the Hollywood Reporter is saying in a detailed update on the casting for James Gunn's 2025 film, Superman Legacy.Read more...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' response to Disney's lawsuit against the governor and his Reedy Creek Oversight Board-the area in Florida that contains Disney World-is to claim immunity from litigation. As reported by Deadline, DeSantis filed a motion against Disney's claim in his effort to strip to the company of control...Read more...

A surprising remake of one of the best zombie films ofall time (which you may or may not have heard of) is coming to theaters next month-and its trailer has finally arrived.Read more...

The internet convinced Disney Parks to make Rogers: The Musical a reality-and its limited run starts this week at Disney California Adventure, just in time for Fourth of July weekend. If you're traveling to Las Vegas, AREA15 lights up immersive fantasy realms with Secret Garden, complete with Meow Wolf's Omega Mart...Read more...

Fast fashion giant Shein paid for influencers to take a tour of part of its Chinese manufacturing operation several weeks ago, and the lucky Instagram and TikTok stars filled social media with videos from their recent trip last Tuesday. The videos showed off clean, pleasant factories, smiling workers, and a stalwart...Read more...

An Uber passenger has been charged with murder for shooting and killing her driver in El Paso, Texas. Phoebe D. Copas, 48, allegedly shot her driver, Daniel Piedra Garcia, 52, several times in the head, while in the backseat of his Nissan Maxima, according to a City of El Paso news release.Read more...

A scorching heat wave that has roasted the Gulf for much of June is likely to head upwards to Northern Texas and other nearby states. Oklahoma, a lot of the Mississippi Valley, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle are going to be especially hot this week, Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, told...Read more...

Security researchers recently discovered a trojanized version of Mario Forever that will make you wish you'd never been born.Read more...

My goal is that there should be a Star Trek something on all the time on All Access," CBS TV Studios president David Stapf told Deadline in 2018, when the return of Captain Jean-Luc Picard for a new Star Trek series was a glimmer in the mind's eye. Five years and a name change later, Paramount+ achieved that for a...Read more...

Gary Hairston worked as an electrician in an underground coal mine for almost 30 years. It was hard, often grimy work. When a big machine called a continuous miner dug into the hard earth, it kicked up all kinds of dust. Slowly, Hairston began to notice that daily tasks wiped him out.Read more...

Whether you live in a magical mystical world, or just post on the internet, one rule is always the same: don't feed the trolls. In internet terminology, trolls are people who purposefully stir up shit. They say things hoping to get a reaction. And, the best way to deal with them, is to ignore them. But last year, one...Read more...

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If you, Magic: The Gathering neophyte or otherwise, sat down and cracked open a bunch of the card game's grand new Lord of the Rings crossover, Tales of Middle-earth, this past weekend and thought you were done? Good news/bad news: there's even more very cool cards coming soon.Read more...

It's been quite the summer if you're a fan of amazing animation. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is still blowing minds at the box office. Nimona is ready to make your heart melt on Netflix this week-and soon after that, you truly aren't ready for the awesome that is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.Read more...

Gamma-ray bursts are extremely energetic explosions caused by some of the cosmos' most remarkable objects: black holes, neutron stars, and the violent deaths of stars. Now, astronomers have found evidence of gamma-ray bursts emerging from the collisions of stars.Read more...

On Friday, a Texas airline worker was ingested into an engine and killed at San Antonio International Airport. The employee, whose name has not yet been released, was working on the runway at 10:25 p.m. when he was ingested" into the engine of an Airbus A319 aircraft, which had just arrived from Los Angeles...Read more...

Paramount apparently couldn't wait more than a weekend after its shocking decision to both renege on the season two greenlight for Star Trek: Prodigy and remove its entire first season from its Paramount+ streaming service: the animated Trek series, barely a year old, has now been removed from the home of Star Trek."...Read more...

Even with a $3,500 price tag for the Vision Pro headset, Meta now still has to consider Apple one of its competitors in the VR space, so today the company announced another reason for consumers to opt for its more affordable Quest hardware with a new subscription service delivering two new titles every month.Read more...

The largest rocket to ever take flight requires a substantial number of upgrades ahead of its second test flight, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed this past weekend.

I've long been skeptical of foldable phones. I've had to bite my tongue to stop myself going as far to call them an expensive gimmick. Then Google's $1,800 Pixel Fold comes into my life, and suddenly I'm enamored by the thought of dual screens. Google's entry into the foldables category is pitched as combining the...Read more...

We've already had a small tease of the more-than-slightly anticipated Walking Dead spin-off so imaginatively titled Daryl Dixon, where the eponymous hero can be seen floating unconscious on a boat in what is presumably the Atlantic ocean on his way to France. Now, AMC has released a two-minute preview... and if you...Read more...

A bridge that crosses over the Yellowstone River in Montana collapsed on Saturday morning, dropping parts of a freight train into the river below, authorities said.Read more...

You might see an Amazon package next time you visit the bodega, the florist, the coffee shop, or any one thousands of other small businesses that will deliver packages in 23 US states as part of an effort by the company to beef up its Amazon Hub Delivery" program. The expansion is the latest attempt by Amazon to turn...Read more...

A chapter of internet history has come to a close. One of the cybercriminals behind 2020's major Twitter hack was sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison on Friday. Joseph O'Connor (AKA PlugwalkJoe"), a 24-year-old British citizen, previously pleaded guilty to seven charges associated with the digital attack....Read more...

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There's very little the Flash can't outrun, but it seems audience interest is one of those things. The Flash movie, which opened to a significantly less-than-expected box office of $55 million, way down from Warner Bros.' expected/optimistically hoped-for $75 million. But if that was the Flash stumbling, the hero has...Read more...

There's bound to be a few extra emergency calls when 80,000 people descend upon your city for a weekend music and arts festival, but according to authorities in Coffee County, Tennessee, the iPhone 14's automatic crash detection was responsible for a spike in false 911 calls at Bonnaroo as it mistook revelers'...Read more...

Netflix announced that Canadian users will no longer have access to its cheapest streaming subscription tier that doesn't include ads. Netflix's help page now notes Canadians looking to get Netflix or switch plans will no longer have access to the $9.99 Basic option. Their choices now are to accept ads into their...Read more...

In 1970, the renowned paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found an ancient, nondescript leg bone sitting on the ground in Ileret, Kenya. Now, 53 years on, a research team has found marks on the bone they believe could be evidence of systematic cannibalism" in the hominin fossil record.Read more...

Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, and Anna Kendrick are all set to join the new French sci-fi drama The Assessment. The cast and crew of Disney's Haunted Mansion discuss the classic ride. Plus, John Hamm experiences the concept of Tea in a new Good Omens season 2 clip. Spoilers now!

It's now consensus that Neanderthals were complex, social cousins of Homo sapiens that disappeared from the Earth around 40,000 years ago. But our lost relatives just became more complex, with the discovery of ancient cave engravings in France that appear to be their handiwork.

If you've got a road trip planned this summer, you've no doubt got Apple Maps or Google Maps ready and waiting to get you from place to place, as well as a music, podcast, or audiobook app to provide audio accompaniment for the journey. However, there are plenty more apps out there that can make your traveling a whole...Read more...