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YouTube is testing out two generative AI features for Premium users that will answer user questions about the video they're watching and summarize a video's comment section, Google announced Monday.Read more...

A lot has happened in Star Wars: The High Republic since we last left big bad Marchion Ro-the Eye of the Nihil, and the biggest threat the Jedi and the Republic had faced in generations-triumphant. A whole phase of the transmedia initiative, in fact, as it jumped back in time to set the stage for a climactic third...Read more...

The S Pen Creator Edition was announced in July when the Galaxy Tab S9 was released. Well, now you can finally buy it for $99 in the US.

In space, misplacing a bag of tools is hard to recover from. A tiny mishap during a recent spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) has led to a new object in the night sky, with a tool bag now orbiting Earth ahead of the space station, temporarily taunting the astronauts who dropped it.Read more...

Interview With the Vampire attracted plenty of fans during its first season on AMC-but the Anne Rice adaptation saw its audience grow exponentially when the show recently enjoyed a two-month showcase on Max. It might go without saying, but you can expect collaborations of this sort to become even more prevalent in the...Read more...

Marvel Studios is tapping into the majorly cosmic powers of Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers (Brie Larson); Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani); and Photon, Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) by fueling them with the power of family.Read more...

ByteDance, the China-based company that owns TikTok as well as one of the biggest overseas VR makers, Pico, is taking a long look at its VR headset business, finding that all those metaverse champions were way too optimistic" in their estimation that virtual reality would take over the world.Read more...

Earlier this morning, ESA released the Euclid space telescope's first scientific images, offering a glimpse into its mission to explore the dark universe"-the mysterious 95% of the cosmos made up of dark matter and dark energy.Read more...

WeWork filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, listing nearly $19 billion in debts, according to Bloomberg. The coworking space, once the largest office space tenant in Manhattan, will keep existing offices open, according to its bankruptcy filing.Read more...

Chad Stahleski wants to keep Queen's Highlander music in his reboot. Get new looks at Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon and Godzilla Minus One in new posters. Plus, what's to come on Fear the Walking Dead, and even more sneak peeks at Doctor Who's return. Spoilers, away!

The American Ornithological Society announced this week that, next year, North American birds named for people will no longer be, as the society seeks to instead name the birds for themselves-and remove any negative human connotations from the domain of avifauna.

The first Marvels trailer dropped all the way back in April, giving us our first good glimpse of the movie's superhero-switcheroo hijinks. Now, of course, we know a lot more about the Captain Marvel sequel-but of course Marvel can't resist one last tease before the movie itself arrives Friday.Read more...

Things just keep getting worse for Cruise, the troubled robotaxi company that once dreamed of being a leader in the autonomous driving industry. Only a month after a violent collision forced the company to ground all of its fleets nationwide, multiple news outlets have reported that the company's self driving" cars...Read more...

There's a slight update on Snow, Kit Harrington's Jon Snow Game of Thrones spin-off that was being talked about at Max.Read more...

Marvel's upcoming Blade movie will introduce the beloved vampire hunter to the MCU and mark his first theatrical appearance since Wesley Snipes bowed out of the role with 2007's Blade Trinity. Much has been made about what the movie is or isn't, but for director Yann Demange, the film will be a great showcase for star...Read more...

This past weekend at BlizzCon, fresh off the news that Blizzard-and the rest of Activision-would be joining Microsoft officially, the video game developer lifted the lid on the future of its longest-running game, World of Warcraft, in a big way. And in doing so, it reminded us in quite a stark way just how much time...Read more...

It's nearing the end of the year, which means once holiday shopping and sales are over, we'll be talking about the next generation of new smartphones. Samsung typically starts us off for the year with the Galaxy flagship lineup. And next year, it could be accompanied by new fancy jargon to compete with the iPhone 15...Read more...

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OpenAI revealed a lot of significant innovations during its first-ever developer conference on Monday. The company reported it currently has two million developers and 100 million weekly active users, with 92% of Fortune 500 companies building on its products. OpenAI is the most advanced and widely used AI platform...Read more...

Truth Social founder, failed businessman, and flop POTUS Donald Trump has been attempting to shitpost his way through an avalanche of legal troubles. Beset by as many as four separate court cases, Trump's solution has mostly been to whine about it a lot on social media-often taking aim at prosecutors and judges...Read more...

Step into a slice of New Orleans at Tiana's Palace, a new themed dining concept at Disneyland inspired by The Princess and the Frog.Read more...

Tweeting out your latest PlayStation platinum trophy on a PS5 is going to get a little tricky. PS4 and PS5 owners received a message Monday saying the integration of X, formerly known as Twitter, will be coming to an end next week, as first spotted by users on X.Read more...

Fantasies of immortality and extended life preservation are likely as old as humanity itself, but new advances in robotics and advanced artificial intelligence models are inching those transhumanist tales closer to reality at a rapid pace. AI researchers and entrepreneurs eager to cash in on our deepest-rooted anxiety...Read more...

Ahead of Rick and Morty's seventh season, all anyone cared about was the new voice actors replacing Justin Roiland. Four episodes in, the show itself has reclaimed the spotlight, with last night's standout That's Amorte" offering some particularly poignant and gross food for thought with its storyline.Read more...

The European Space Agency's $1.4 billion Euclid space telescope is charged with revealing the dark universe-the 95% of the cosmos we don't see. On Tuesday, the telescope's first images will be revealed live.Read more...

The Marvels finally hits theaters this week with the cosmic team-up between Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris).Read more...

Sam Altman, OpenAI cofounder and CEO, revealed Chat GPT-4 Turbo at the company's first-ever developer conference called DevDay in San Francisco Monday. The new model supports 128,000 tokens of context, equivalent to a 300-page book and sixteen times ChatGPT-4's context limits.Read more...

After teasing the return of Doctor Who's traditionalChristmas special, the BBC and Disney have confirmed that Ncuti Gatwa's debut episode as the Doctor will air on Christmas Day 2023-the series' first holiday broadcast in six years.

If you are Apple Watch has recently had issues with its battery life, there may be some relief on its way. Sort of. Apple recently sent an internal memo with a few Apple Authorized Service Providers saying that a fix for some Apple Watches suffering from excessive battery drain after updating to WatchOS 10.1. was...Read more...

If you have an anime fan on your holiday gift list-or even someone you think might want to get into anime-Crunchyroll, which just launched a linear channel and a Prime Video channel, would like to help you out. The anime purveyor is launching Crunchyroll Fan Shops in over 2,400 Walmart stores across the U.S.Read more...

Amid a sea of salacious reports about the current hectic state of Marvel Studios in a report by Hollywood trade Variety last week-including rumors that the studio could attempt to reunite its original Avengers stars for a new film-one unexpected detail that sparked a swirl of commentary wasn't really about Marvel at...Read more...

Young people are breaking up with dating apps, according to a new poll from Axios, showing that 79% of college students don't use any dating apps. A decline in interest from dating apps' core demographic is wreaking havoc across the industry, as Bumble's CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd steps down a day before the...Read more...

SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship rocket for the second time, aiming for mid-November for another flight test of its launch vehicle after the first one didn't go so well.Read more...

Stranger Things is still charting the long and winding path to its final season, between the Hollywood strikes, and the not-so-simple prospect of bringing an end to what is arguably Netflix's most defining original series. An unexpected melding of those two issues? A West End play depicting the origin story of big bad...Read more...

What began as a jovial conference celebrating crypto culture and flashy nonfungible tokens this weekend ended with multiple attendees in a hospital believing they were going blind.

Tyson Foods announced that it is voluntarily recalling almost 30,000 pounds of its famous (and delicious) dinosaur-shaped nuggets this weekend after some consumers reported finding little bits of metal in their patties.Read more...

Rebecca Sugar is open to returning to Steven Universe. J.J. Abrams' Constantine series for DC and Max is no more. Plus, what's to come as Fear the Walking Dead nears its end. To me, my spoilers!

Elon Musk unveiled Grok' Saturday, a snarky, anti-woke AI chatbot that has access to all tweets, giving real-time knowledge about the world - if you can call everything on X knowledge'. It's built on Grok-1, the first large language model from the billionaire's artificial intelligence company, xAI.Read more...

You may think Nebraska and China have little in common, but the two places definitely share one ancient similarity: the presence of a 30-million-year-old primate lineage which headed to North America millions of years before modern human ancestors would evolve.

It's been over two years since Apple has updated its colorful line of all-in-one desktops. While it's nice to see the return of the iMac, now sporting Apple's fancy new M3 chip, you'd be surprised at how much it feels like we're walking on familiar ground.

I'm just going to say it. Black looks good on a MacBook. Silver is nice, and so is white, but the new M3- and M3 Max-powered MacBook Pros have that machined sleekness that feels very Apple. Plus, I can say that in the days since I've gotten my grubby little paws on the massive 16-inch MacBook, the anodized material on...Read more...

Want to buy invasive personal details about an active-duty service member who works on a specific military base? You better have $0.12, because according to a new study that's all it costs. The good news is the unregulated data brokers who sell that information probably won't ask you any pesky questions about your...Read more...

This week's lovely puzzle was brought to my attention by one of our readers, Nicolas Audet. Nicolas says it was used as a brain teaser for a finance job interview. I have to hand it to Wall Street on this one-it's a delightful little puzzle. Thanks for sharing, Nicolas!

Earlier this week, Prime Video's Gen V ended its debut season. The college-bound spinoff of the streamer's popular series The Boys has managed to make its own separate name for itself with audiences, but the question was always going to be in what way it linked up with the main show. And the way it did so...Read more...

Since 1998, Makoto Shinkai has grown to become one of Japan's most celebrated creators in the animation space thanks to works like Weathering With You, Your Name, and 2022's Suzume (which released earlier this year for international audiences). After last week's news that Suzume would be returning to theaters for a...Read more...

Just a few days ago, Marvel Studios revealed the first footage its upcoming series Echo. Previously meant for 2023 before getting knocked to 2024 in order to space things out, the Hawkeye spinoff sees Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) return home after having just violently turned in her resignation as Kingpin's enforcer and...Read more...

These days, it doesn't take much for a Hollywood star to become a meme and have it hang over their career for several years. Nicholas Cage is perhaps the perfect embodiment of this: over the decades, there've been so many memes made of his various roles-from Con Air and National Treasure to Face/Off and Ghost Rider....Read more...

During this weekend's Toronto Animation Industry Conference, Invincible company Skybound Entertainment revealed it's acquired the rights to Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation.

The Biden administration is betting on hydrogen to power the country, create well-paying jobs, and lower climate-warming emissions. Last month, the president announced that $7 billion will be invested to create seven regional hydrogen-producing hubs across the U.S., promising to work with unions and disadvantaged...Read more...

Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon movies were well-liked hidden gems during the 2010s, and it seemed inevitable that the series would eventually return in some form. (In film, at least, because the series has been chugging along with various TV spinoffs.) Earlier this year, we learned that would be the case...Read more...