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Online poker faces a cheating crisis. The AI revolution has imperiled the multi-billion dollar industry as computers continue to outshine humans at their own games. Poker-playing bots can now routinely thrash human experts, and it can be difficult to detect when anonymous online players are using real-time assistance…Read more...

Adaptations of popular books are all the rage these days, and Apple TV+’s newest entry into that space is the upcoming series Silo. It still feels like the show is flying under the radar, but Apple TV’s recently begun to show more of the dystopian show ahead of its release in May, and that includes releasing a new…Read more...

One of the big video games of the spring is Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The game released this weekend and has largely garnered glowing praise across the board, which isn’t entirely surprising, given how successful 2019'’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was and Respawn’s general output. But in addition to being…Read more...

The Super Mario Bros. Movie didn’t just hit make $1 billion dollars, it also had the honor of being uploaded to Twitter for several hours. And it wasn’t the only one—James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water got the same treatment.

Over the last few years, Sony has made it quite clear it wants its PlayStation games to pull double duty as TV/movie successes. So far, that’s given us the Tom Holland-led Uncharted from 2022, and the recent HBO adaptation of The Last of Us. But there’s plenty more adaptations on the horizon (Zero Dawn), from recent…Read more...

With Superman: Legacy, the first true film in James Gunn’s new DC Universe, beginning to come together for a 2025 release, one might assume all other takes on that character are as gone as Krypton. However, io9 has learned that’s not the case.Read more...

Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts – even to the point of clicking on ads for products you don’t need or want – according to our recent experiments on how social media affects behavior.

A.I. marketing is at a fever pitch, promising that this new wave of generative AI tools, powered by large language models, can help us do everything from navigating legal contracts to saving hundreds on our phone bills. When a leader like Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai calls AI “more profound than fire or electricity,”…Read more...

On November 30 2022, OpenAI launched the AI chatbot ChatGPT, making the latest generation of AI technologies widely available. In the few months since then, we have seen Italy ban ChatGTP over privacy concerns, leading technology luminaries calling for a pause on AI systems development, and even prominent researchers…Read more...

All the way back in 2019, Marvel Studios announced that it was working on a new solo movie for its famous vampire hunter Blade, with Mahershala Ali stepping into the shades once inhabited by Wesley Snipes. Since then, it’s been a bit of an ordeal trying to get the movie made. Now, as the film’s started to build out…Read more...

Star Wars is a famously inconsistent franchise with high highs and low lows, a trend that continues to this day. Last year’s Andor served as one of the bright spots of the entire enterprise, garnering not just critical acclaim, but some ardent fans and award nominations for its 12-episode debut season. The show seemed…Read more...

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Illumination’s Super Mario Bros. Movie has been out for three weeks, and has pretty much hit the $1 billion milestone.

In a little over a month, Capcom will have everyone’s attention with the release of Street Fighter 6. The game has spoken for itself since its grand reveal last year, and it’s looking more and more like Capcom’s got another hit on its hands between that and the Resident Evil 4 remake. But the fight doesn’t end there,…Read more...

Dr. Robot will see you now. A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine Friday suggests that ChatGPT will do a better job at answering emails than your human doctor. The study pulled questions from Reddit’s r/AskDocs and compared real doctors’ answers to responses from the AI. When a panel of medical experts reviewed…Read more...

Like me, you might have been seeing and hearing Jack Black-as-Bowser’s “Peaches” song from The Super Mario Bros. Movie all over the place. There are more than 500,000 videos using the official song on TikTok alone, and that’s not counting the folks who have adapted the song to express their devotion to the other…Read more...

To celebrate the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 on May 5, merch worthy of a collector’s fortress is out there for the hunting. Now is the perfect time to find space loot featuring your favorite misfit heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Read more...

It started so simply. In 2001’s The Fast and the Furious, Dom Toretto’s crew of street racers/thieves were stealing combination DVD/VCR players. In 2021’s F9: The Fast Saga, Dom and his friends—excuse me, Dom and his family—had to save the world by recovering a device that could hack into every computer on the planet.…Read more...

In a highly anticipated report on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the Federal Reserve admits that it should’ve been paying slightly closer attention to the tech-centric bank before it unceremoniously collapsed last month. At the same time, the Fed’s report also reveals what everybody already could’ve guessed: SVB…Read more...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is something of a rarity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While several heroes have gotten film trilogies in the saga, with the exception of Spider-Man, none of those trilogies have felt like one complete story. Stories with endings. Stories where, if the filmmaker wanted, they…Read more...

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The JUICE mission is at the very beginning of its eight-year journey to Jupiter and its moons, but one of its science instruments is already misbehaving.Read more...

A consistent theme in horror is that—no matter how desperate you may be—it’s almost never a good idea to summon a demon to fix your problems. Still, characters keep giving it a try, including the protagonist of From Black, who decides to put herself through hell as a way to escape the hell she’s already in.Read more...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson downplayed concerns regarding Starship’s ability to deliver astronauts to the surface of the Moon in two years in light of the SpaceX launch vehicle exploding minutes into its first test flight.Read more...

Tech companies have reportedly found a loophole in the highly coveted H1-B visa lottery system for prospective employees. The Biden Administration says they’ve found evidence that a small number of companies have joined together to exploit the H1-B lottery by entering foreign employees’ names numerous times to…Read more...

Damon Lindelof has revealed a bit more about his recent departure from the galaxy far, far away in a new interview with Esquire. Lindelof turned in a script to Star Wars earlier this year and departed the project (alongside co-writer Justin Britt-Gibson) at nearly the same time. “I joined the Star Wars universe and…Read more...

Save for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and—obviously—Star Trek: The Lower Decks, most of the action for Star Trek takes place upon the fabled bridge. Over the course of Star Trek’s over-five decade runtime, there have been more than one fan who has imagined themselves working under lights at their station. You can close…Read more...

It’s so dry in Spain, communities in the Catalan region asking for divine intervention.Read more...

The summer of 2023 has not even started at your local theater, but CinemaCon audiences got a glimpse at what’s in store for next summer. One movie in particular seems very mysterious: it’s called IF. It’s written and directed by John Krasinski and stars Ryan Reynolds, and is currently set for release May 24, 2024.Read more...

Season three of The Mandalorian has finished telling its tale, and boy it’s been a bumpy ride. After the dizzying highs of Andor and the mixed bags of The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi, I clicked on the Disney+ app each week with a strange mix of excitement and dread.

China’s Zhurong rover has found evidence of liquid water on present-day Mars, according to a team that reviewed data from the rover’s cameras.Read more...

April’s often a tough month to swallow, starting with that awful holiday, April Fools, and then countless teases of warmer Summer temperatures before thermometers plunge and remind us it’s still Spring. April’s only saving grace is all the fun gadgets that debuted this past month, including many you may have missed.Read more...

Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix horror anthology Cabinet of Curiosities debuted last year with eight sinister, spooky tales that ran the gamut from gothic to fantastic and explored the components that make up contemporary horror. Lakeshore Records is now offering the soundtrack, which includes the work of 10 composers,…Read more...

The use of AI like ChatGPT is the way of the future according to a recent survey that found 91% of companies that are hiring want to bring on employees with ChatGPT experience. Resume Builder surveyed 1,187 business leaders and found that not only are candidates with a knowledge and understanding of ChatGPT considered…Read more...

Colorado Senator and failed Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet introduced a new bill Friday to create an “AI Task Force” of government experts who could identify risks and reduce potential civil liberties and privacy drawbacks from the disruptive tech. The proposed legislation marks one of the first AI…Read more...

What’s your favorite Marvel movie? For me, it’s 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn’s first foray into blockbuster superhero filmmaking. A film no one expected to work, with characters no one really knew or cared about, which ended up being so beautiful, exciting, and vibrant, it made those characters into…Read more...

U.S. adults continue to swap smoke for clouds. Rates of cigarette use among over 18 Americans dropped to a new low last year, as just about one in nine adults now identify as smokers, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s compared to more than one in eight in 2018…Read more...

Once known for bringing flowers after April’s showers, May is now better known for May the Fourth, a.k.a. Star Wars day, when fans are encouraged to empty their pockets for even more merchandise—including eight new Star Wars sets debuting with the rest of all the new Lego sets that are finally available to purchase in…Read more...

Russia has agreed to keep its cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) until 2028 despite earlier threats to withdraw from the orbiting lab.Read more...

IDW, generally considered the fifth-largest comic book publisher, has laid off 39% of its workforce this week. Editorial has also been gutted, and “half” remain. This move was done in an effort to “preserve capital, and put the Company in the strongest position possible to unlock value from its assets, including its…Read more...

AI may not replace your doctor anytime soon, but it will probably be answering their emails. A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine Friday examined questions from patients and found that ChatGPT provided better answers than human doctors four out of five times. A panel of medical professionals evaluated the…Read more...

When it was announced at Star Wars Celebration earlier this month, Dave Filoni’s “New Republic vs. Imperial Remnant” movie was teased as a culmination of plot threads woven throughout the “universe” of The Mandalorian and its connected TV series. But it seems like the director and producing partner Jonathan Favreau…Read more...

The Commodities Futures Trading Commission patted itself on the back for winning one of the largest civil cases against a crypto crook, even if most—or any—of those affected will see any of their money returned. On Thursday, a Texas judge issued a default judgment in a multi-billion fraud case against a man accused of…Read more...

Sony and Peacock reveal a first look at their Twisted Metal show. Get a look at the new title card for Saw X. A sequel to Black Phone could be on the way. Plus, Riverdale gets back to basics, and The Flash previews the return of Reverse-Flash. Spoilers now!

As the music industry struggles with AI’s role in the creative and copyright process, it looks like the retail industry might be ready to welcome artificial intelligence with open arms. Walmart is apparently using AI to bargain with suppliers for the best prices on some of its necessities—and the suppliers seem to …Read more...

Having seemingly exhausted 40 years worth of games starring a certain heroic plumber, Lego is now looking to draw inspiration from other adjacent Nintendo franchises for new sets to add to the Lego Super Mario collection, starting with Donkey Kong and all of his Kong kin.Read more...

Twitter became less useful on Thursday after New York City’s transit operator said it would stop tweeting about service outages because “the reliability of the platform can no longer be guaranteed.” It’s the latest in a growing number of government agencies ditching Elon Musk’s social network.Read more...

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I don’t know why we’re seeing a flood of Android tablets this season. It could be because the operating system can finally handle the scale of all sorts of screen sizes. Or it’s the long-awaited arrival of the Pixel Tablet that’s made every other manufacturer feel like it needs to follow in its still-unreleased…Read more...

Do you miss the pre-streaming days of clicking through a TV guide? What about stumbling upon three-quarters of an action flick or the last 15 minutes of My Cousin Vinny in a delightful channel-browsing haze? Well Google TV has a remedy for your nostalgia. The smart TV operating system is moving forward into the…Read more...