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AT&T partnered with Microsoft and OpenAI to develop Ask AT&T, a ChatGPT-like tool that will contribute to coding software. The tool is meant to help AT&T's own employees, including coders and software developers to become more productive in the workplace.Read more...

Federal investigators from five different agencies have formed a new task force to try and catch criminals using cryptocurrencies and the Dark Web to carry out illegal activity. The new Avengers-style crossover team includes agents from the Department of Homeland Security, federal prosecutors, the IRS' Criminal...Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is looking to limit the disruptions caused by rocket launches from Florida's space coast, significantly reducing the amount of airspace closed off during liftoffs.

If you hopped on Disney+ this morning to see what Nick Fury and his frenemies were up to in Marvel's Secret Invasion, you might have noticed something a little off about the series' opening title sequence. It looks strange to your mind's eye, and for good reason: it's one of the first major shows to use AI-generated...Read more...

The most popular side-scrolling video game of all time is once again returning to a two-dimensional world. Today Nintendo gave us a first look at Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which carries forward a lot of gameplay mechanics from previous Mario side-scrollers (yay, Yoshi!) while introducing some interesting new ones....Read more...

After a union drive at an Apple Store in the World Trade Center failed, a National Labor Relations Board judge ordered the tech corporation to leave its employees alone after Apple illegally interrogated some of the unionizing workers. NLRB attorneys allege

Around 420 million years or so ago, shifting land masses pushed the pre-historic Iapetus Ocean under the mountains of Appalachia, trapping all of its salty brine underneath. Although it's only the barest fraction today, in the 19th century, the West Virginia salt industry produced 3.2 million bushels at its height, or...Read more...

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The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Amazon Wednesday, alleging the company duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in Amazon Prime," and used so-called dark patterns to sabotage attempts to cancel those subscriptions.Read more...

Sonic 3 will start filming this summer. Zach Cregger's sci-fi horror Companion recruits an Obi-Wan Kenobi star. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds prepares for its day in court. Plus, two words: Mega. Ape. Spoilers, away!

As humanity looks to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, we might need a team of robots to redirect incoming sunlight to shadowed regions that would otherwise never see the light of day.Read more...

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders launched an investigation into what he calls dangerous and illegal conditions" running rampant in Amazon's warehouse facilities. In a fiery letter addressed to CEO Andy Jassy Tuesday, Sanders accused Amazon of putting profits over people and creating a corporate culture that treats...Read more...

Twitter owner Elon Musk is still making big decisions on the social media platform, even if he's no longer CEO. Overnight, Musk decreed that the words cis" and cisgender," denoting the alignment of a person's birth sex and their gender identity, were now considered slurs on Twitter and that users who engaged in...Read more...

Roblox, the build-your-own gaming platform that's wildly popular among kids, is making a push to grow its audience beyond the bounds of childhood. The company will now allow content intended for people aged 17 or older, as announced in a Tuesday press release.

What's the first thing you think of when you think of Disney? No, not Mickey Mouse, though he's probably second. It's a castle. Maybe you see a physical castle like the ones at Disneyland or Walt Disney World, or maybe it's one in the studio logo seen before most of its films. But either way, Disney and castles are...Read more...

Investigators are currently racing against time in order to find the Titan, a small commercial submarine that went missing in the North Atlantic on Sunday with five people aboard. Now, new reporting reveals that the company behind the ill-fated underwater tour previously fired an employee after he expressed concern...Read more...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a great movie, plain and simple. That it's filled with so many Easter eggs and callbacks only adds to the incredible story and characters that inhabit the film. Some of those were revealed in promotional materials, but others were expertly kept secret so fans could experience...Read more...

In November of 2019, less than a month before the covid-19 pandemic took off and spread to nations all over the world, several scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China fell seriously ill from an unknown virus. One of the researchers was Ben Hu, a scientist who had received significant funding...Read more...

This year's San Diego Comic-Con was just dealt a major blow, as it seems Marvel Studios will not be presenting its upcoming slate in Hall H this year.Read more...

Steve Rogers will really find out if he could do this all daaaaaay" in Rogers: The Musical, the previously announced special one-act show coming to Disney California Adventure. Its limited run will be June 30-August 31.Read more...

For a long while, Netflix has decided the popularity of its most-watched TV series and movies should be determined by how many hours the streaming service's customers watched it. So, for instance, if you rewatched a season of Stranger Things, you'd be boosting its ratings just even though you'd already seen it. Now...Read more...

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Incarcerated people in Ohio have an easier time getting their hands on the book that founded Nazism than computer coding literature due to a series of bizarre, unequally enforced policies restricting access to certain reading materials. Nonprofits and authors speaking with The Marshall Project say the state's...Read more...

Dan Stevens has joined the cast of Solar Opposites, replacing the embattled Justin Roiland-and the Hulu series, which has announced an August return, already has the voice-change plotline worked out. Check out the first clip from season four below to hear for yourself!Read more...

Although Picard's third and final season was touted explicitly as the last hurrah of not just Patrick Stewart's iconic tenure as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, but the whole of the Next Generation cast, ever since it ended-hell, even before that-Stewart and his colleagues have repeatedly expressed a desire for a little more...Read more...

A frantic search is underway for a submersible that disappeared while on a $250,000-per-person dive carrying five tourists to view the historic Titanic shipwreck on Sunday. The 21-foot submarine, named the Titan, which was operated with a video game controller, carried the CEO of the company in charge and four...Read more...

WhatsApp introduced a new automatic call-silencing feature intent on targeting potential spam calls this week. The feature, plainly dubbed silence unknown callers" in the WhatsApp settings menu, is bringing another layer of protection to calls and messages from unknown numbers to combat an increase in unwanted calls.Read more...

A probe is familiarizing itself with the closest planet to the Sun, gearing up to explore Mercury's heavily cratered surface. The BepiColombo mission recently captured stunning new images of Mercury during a close flyby, which resulted in the naming of an impact crater after a pioneering Jamaican artist.Read more...

Anyone who keeps up with The Mandalorian can surely agree that season three had as many highs as it did lows. And those lows could be pretty low. But the highs? Well, they could also be pretty high, and by far one of the best moments of the season was when Grogu took the body of his old friend IG-12 for a joyride. It...Read more...

With artificial intelligence hype leaving venture capitalist firms foaming at the mouth, ready to buy into any new company that sticks an A" and I" in its name, we sure as hell need a new way of defining what constitutes an AI. The Turing Test fails to define real intelligence in today's world of large language...Read more...

Although satnavs and smartphones with GPS have made work easier for pizza delivery drivers, Domino's wants to make sure they're earning their minimum wage with a new app feature allowing pizzas to be ordered from almost anywhere customers can get a GPS signal, and no longer just specific addresses.Read more...

We all know and love when Harrison Ford is a curmudgeon, especially when he cuts an interview short or gives a curt, hilarious answer to a question. But he's also an incredible actor, and after decades spent portraying some of the most beloved characters in cinema history, you have to think part of him is playing...Read more...

AI proved just how talented it can be at ripping off major artists after a computer-generated song based on The Weeknd and Drake went viral in April. Now, the Recording Academy-the body that votes on and manages the annual Grammy Awards-is setting new rules for AI's role in the coveted accolade.

It is hot as hell in Texas at the moment, and the sky-high temperatures are straining the state's grid. Excessive heat warnings and heat advisories are in effect for most of the state today, according to the National Weather Service.

A 3-alarm fire in lower Manhattan killed four people and left two others in critical condition in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Lithium-ion e-bike batteries are to blame, according to the New York City Fire Department. The blaze, which began in an e-bike shop on the first floor of a multi-story, mixed-use...Read more...

Michael Shannon reprises his role as the Superman villain General Zod in the recently released swan song of the DCEU, The Flash. He has previously admitted he was confused by Zod's return to the silver screen given that Superman murdered the shit out of him in Man of Steel. Now he says, quite pointedly, that big...Read more...

About 40 light-years from Earth, a set of seven Earth-sized planets are orbiting a star called TRAPPIST-1. Now, scientists studying the system with the Webb Space Telescope have found one of them, TRAPPIST-1 c, either lacks an atmosphere or has a very thin one, indicating that habitable planets may be fewer and...Read more...

New research this month adds more fuel to the debate over gas stoves. The study found that gas and propane stoves emitted detectable amounts of benzene, a common air pollutant and carcinogen. Benzene levels were often above recommended safety thresholds and could linger for hours after the stoves were turned off in...Read more...

The niche but beloved web browser Opera got an artificially intelligent makeover Tuesday, with new and useful-looking AI features, as well as other tools to streamline your portal to the internet. So far, most of the AI web browsing options we've seen from companies like OpenAI and Microsoft offer a gimmicky...Read more...

Though remakes have been a part of our media landscape for decades, the backlash and distaste for them really began to escalate in the late 2010s. It isn't just the public's reflexive dislike for redoing something that's already been done-and often with dubious merit-it's also the how" of those of remakes. Of the...Read more...

Those hugging close to the latest Apple products for fear of any scuff, scrape, or damage can breathe a little easier, so long as you have the cash to pay the tech giant for repairs. Apple announced on Monday its self-repair kits are now available for the iPhone 14 lineup and more recent MacBook products.Read more...

Spotify users biting their nails for over two years waiting for a once-heralded HiFi audio feature might be down to their cuticles at this point, but the music streaming app could finally deliver this year. Well, you will have some access to CD-quality audio as long as you're willing to pay the Supremium" toll.Read more...

The largest newspaper publisher in the U.S. is taking on one of the world's largest tech corporations in court. USA Today's parent company Gannett filed a lawsuit against Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday over alleged anti-competition tactics in digital advertising.

Opening weekend for The Flash was certainly not what many people involved expected it to be. The box office was much less than anticipated. Complaints about visual effects and more were rampant. And yet, if you step back and look at The Flash's Rotten Tomatoes audience score, it's over 80%, which suggests many fans...Read more...

Multiple tornadoes formed and swept through Mississippi on Sunday night, into Monday morning. The twisters left behind a trail of extensive property damage, and injuries for affected residents, the Associated Press reported.Read more...

The music of John Williams is so well known, we tend to take it for granted. In Star Wars or Jurassic Park or Superman,the music is such an integral part of the story youdon't always think about how it's guiding your emotional responses to what's on screen. That is, until, you watch a new Star Wars or Jurassic Park...Read more...

As Emmy award For Your Consideration" season heats up, Star Trek is going in phasers blazing with a bevy of insights into the making of Picard's final season. And hey, maybe we don't decide what does and doesn't get an Emmy, but we can at least reap the benefits of access to all this rad behind-the-scenes material,...Read more...

Adobe's pending purchase of Figma, the popular online graphics editing and interface design application, is facing yet another challenge. The European Union Commission plans to begin an in-depth investigation into the acquisition, according to a report from The Financial Times, attributed to four sources familiar...Read more...

On Tuesday, that other video hosting site, Vimeo, said it will introduce a new suite of generative AI features into its video editing tools for paying users with the aim of shortening the scripting and editing process from hours to minutes. Vimeo has steadily backed off from challenging YouTube for amateur content in...Read more...

The easiest way to avoid a costly repair job on your vehicle is to take it in as soon as warning lights pop up on your dashboard, but that assumes you understand what each dashboard symbol means-and when your car is reaching out for help. You can do one of two things to ensure you know what your car is saying: read...Read more...