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Though the future of the DC movie universe was revealed in full months ago, there’s still some remnants of the DCEU lingering. Next up is The Flash, which Warner Bros. has been trying to make for basically a decade, and is finally about come out. With CinemaCon underway, Warner Bros. has revealed a fresh new trailer.

A military-occupied laboratory in Sudan poses a “high risk of biological hazard” and a “huge biological risk,” according to the World Health Organization’s representative in the East African country, Nima Saaed Abid. The medical doctor and WHO rep expressed big concerns surrounding Sudan’s National Public Health Lab…Read more...

The Mississippi River is overflowing and flooding riverbanks and roads in states across the Midwest, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.Read more...

A common and sometimes dangerous respiratory germ might also raise the risk of asthma if encountered early in life, new research this month suggests. The study found that children were more likely to develop asthma if they caught a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection before the age of 1. The findings might…Read more...

Netflix is working to replicate its success with the widely popular series Squid Game in a new partnership with South Korea. The company’s co-chief executive Ted Sarandos announced Netflix will invest $2.5 billion in South Korean TV shows and films over the next four years after meeting with the country’s president…Read more...

Universal is ringing in Jurassic Park’s big 30th anniversary a colossal collection inspired by the dinosaur franchise’s classic look as we head into Jurassic June, which promises a line-up of events and releases celebrating the milestone globally.Read more...

Tokyo-based company ispace is hoping to make history on Tuesday by landing the first private mission to the Moon’s surface and deliver its many payloads.Read more...

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The growing list of companies incorporating AI into their apps and platforms have had to create and continuously tweak their own workarounds for dealing with AI’s propensity to lie, cheat, style, borrow, or barter. Now, Nvidia is looking to give more developers an easier way to tell the AI to shut its trap.Read more...

If you’re reading this, chances are it’s because of Nimona. You want more info about the long-in-development, often-doomed adaptation of ND Stevenson’s webcomic-turned-graphic novel, if only so you can be reassured that the movie is still finally coming out. There’s good news on that front, as we not only have two new…Read more...

Tokyo-based company ispace appears to have failed in its attempt to land its lunar lander on the surface of the Moon, which would have made it the first private mission to land on the dusty lunar surface.Read more...

“What if the weakest president we’ve ever had were re-elected?” the video poses right off the bat. Apparently we’d see a lot more cliche AI-generated art. Republicans have waged a full-on attack against President Joe Biden—who just announced his re-election campaign for 2024 today—with a scrapbook video of…Read more...

After many years of fighting, Bo-Katan is at last the Mand’alor she’s always wanted to be. Sure, she might not have the Darksaber any more (again), but hey! At least she’s got some shiny new Star Wars toys to play with.

Sony and Spider-Man love CinemaCon. The Las Vegas-based event is where Sony announced the title “Homecoming” for its first Tom Holland movie, where the first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home was screened, and in 2022, where the first 15 minutes of this summer’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse were revealed.

Twitter has suspended an account tied to disgraced “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli just days after the release of his new ChatGPT-inspired “Dr. Gupta” medical chatbot. Though it remains unclear which tweets, if any, ultimately landed Shkreli in Twitter jail this time, the former pharmaceutical villain-turned-…Read more...

Marvel and Clover Press are collaborating to support the crowdfunding efforts of The Marvel Art Of... books. Artists David Mack and Alex Maleev will be the first two comic artists to have a collectible edition that celebrates their time drawing for Marvel. Mack is well known for his work on Brian Michael Bendis’ run…Read more...

About a year ago, China’s Zhurong rover hunkered down on the Martian surface to avoid the harsh winter season on the dusty planet. Regrettably, Zhurong has so far failed to revive itself from hibernation mode. A mission designer recently revealed that an accumulation of dust on the rover’s solar panels may be the…Read more...

Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is no stranger to U.S. courts, federal investigations, or lawsuits. But usually, the crypto company is defending itself, not filing the legal complaints. In a rare twist on the classic, Coinbase has sued the Securities and Exchange Commission. And,…Read more...

Facebook’s advertising system went haywire starting around 2 am on Sunday morning, apparently charging marketers extra money for ads that no one saw. Reports suggest Meta, the social network’s parent company, charged some advertisers more than double what they agreed to pay, ranging from hundreds to hundreds of…Read more...

“Kraven the Hunter is a Marvel movie grounded heavily in the real world,” said star Aaron Taylor-Johnson. “And anyone who is familiar with the comics and the character of Kraven, they know that he’s a fierce hunter with the skill of a highly trained killer. So, I figure now’s a good time to answer the Internet’s…Read more...

The Judas and the Black Messiah writers’ next movie brings zombies to Paris Fashion Week. Terminator’s Mackenzie Davis is joining James McAvoy in the Gæsterne remake Speak No Evil. Plus, a few more looks at Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. To me, my spoilers!

As AI hysteria continues to pick up steam, OpenAI seems to be feeling the heat from its competitors. After appealing to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to speed up the process of trademarking “GPT,” the office denied the company’s request just last week.

A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object that they believe could look like a black hole to Earth-based observers but is actually a star.Read more...

The crypto avalanche caused by the collapse of the Terra (not-so-stable) stablecoin last year has yet to recede. The fallout has been so rocky that even former execs at the company are now ensnared in prosecutors’ grasp. On Tuesday, South Korean prosecutors announced they had indicted nine former Terra staff along…Read more...

Political intrigue, magical monsters, and more “Hm”s than you can shake a sword at, the first teaser trailer for The Witcher, season 3, is out now. We don’t see much (it is a teaser trailer,) but the focus on the Geralt/Yennifer/Ciri family unit means that we’re going to have a ton of drama. Take a peek below.Read more...

For more than two years, the UAE’s Hope probe has been orbiting Mars to gain new insights about the planet’s atmosphere. But a slight change to its orbit placed the Emirati mission closer to Mars’ moon Deimos, revealing a possible planetary origin to the awkwardly shaped space rock.Read more...

In the ’80s, multiplayer video games required you and your friends to crowd around a single TV and fight over who got to use one of two controllers. Modern consoles let you compete against gamers all around the world, but a new cartridge is bringing that same online functionality to the NES, 40 years later.Read more...

Elon Musk accidentally revealed he had an alternate Twitter account on Monday and that more than 24,700 of his followers pay $4 per month for access to his subscriber-only content on the social media site, providing Musk with a monthly haul of nearly $100,000.Read more...

If you clicked on this article, you have probably read reviews or watched videos about AMD’s latest CPU release, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Typically, we would have pushed our review out alongside the masses at launch. However, we needed to take a beat with this one.

Originally debuting back in late 2021, the DJI Mavic 3 got a new lease on life a year later with the Mavic 3 Classic which was $450 cheaper but sacrificed one of its dual cameras for the price cut. With the new Mavic 3 Pro, DJI is going the other way by upgrading the Mavic 3 drone with a third camera, offering more…Read more...

An Instacart delivery driver and his girlfriend were shot at while trying to deliver groceries in South Florida. According to police reports, Waldes Thomas Jr., 19, and his girlfriend, Diamond Darville, 18, pulled into the wrong driveway while trying to find a customer’s address.Read more...

Star Trek: Picard’s final season felt as much like a hello as it did a farewell, as Picard and his friends handed the torch to a new generation of Starfleet heroes. It’s felt much the same off screen too, as showrunner Terry Matalas and his cast have told anyone who will listen to them that they really really really wantRead more...

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Amazon has a lot of rules for its delivery drivers: clipped nails, no body odor, clean ears, etc... These strict requirements govern everything from personal grooming to online activity (couriers wearing the Amazon uniform are barred from posting anything obscene). The company also sets its drivers’ wage minimums,…Read more...

Recently, HBO Max officially announced it will be reviving the Harry Potter series as a multi-season television show. During a Warner Bros. Discovery press event, the initiative was described as a “decade-long” project to bring the novels to the small screen, hoping to create a faithful interpretation of the…Read more...

A federal judge is hearing arguments today in a Montana lawsuit that seeks to curb the U.S. Forest Service’s use of aerial fire retardant over concerns that the chemical mix is polluting waterways.Read more...

Just because NFTs have lost much of their mainstream appeal, doesn’t mean the token creators are done fighting tooth and nail for the last scraps of past boom times. Late last week, a California judge decreed that those silly, derivative, and disturbing Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens have trademark…Read more...

Harrison Ford is ready to put Indiana Jones’ whip and fedora away for good, it seems. After Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premieres in June, the actor has said he’s done with playing the adventuring archaeologist—which means don’t expect him to make an appearance on the Indiana Jones TV series currently in the…Read more...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two First Amendment rights cases this fall after San Diego board members blocked parents for raising concerns on their social media accounts. A second case was filed against the city manager in Port Huron, Michigan for blocking a resident who raised Covid-19 concerns on his Facebook…Read more...

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On Monday, several outlets broke the story that the Biden administration is planning to release a plan to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. And even though the rule isn’t public yet, if history is any indication, conservative forces are already getting ready to take the EPA to court.Read more...

Russell T. Davies really is bringing everyone back now that he’s in charge of Doctor Who again, apparently.

SpaceX’s Starship launch was a success in some ways and a failure in others. The largest rocket ever built blasted off the launch pad with record-breaking thrust and flew for four minutes straight. But also, multiple engines failed in flight, it didn’t achieve stage separation, and it exploded dramatically in a “rapid…Read more...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University say they’ve developed a gel-based treatment that might be incredibly effective at treating an often-fatal brain cancer. In a study of mice released this week, the gel in combination with surgery was found to eradicate 100% of glioblastoma tumors. It will take more research and…Read more...

“Thrawn’s return... as Heir to the Empire.” In just seven words, Ahsoka’s first trailer made clear the desires fans have yearned for since a blue-skinned man in a white admiral’s uniform first stepped out of the shadows six years prior: Thrawn is here, and Heir to the Empire, the novel that started it all decades…Read more...

Scientists have detected sound waves moving through Mars’ core for the first time, offering new clues to the composition of the fourth planet from the Sun.Read more...

Filming of the sophomore season of House of the Dragon has begun, but new members of the cast are still being announced. Four additional actors have just come aboard the extremely popular Game of Thrones prequel, and none of them will be forced to put on platinum blonde wigs.

Pop singer-songwriter Grimes has an interesting proposition: You can use her AI-generated voice to make a song, but you’ll owe her 50% of the royalties.

Mars is a lonely place, and it just got a little lonelier for one rover. NASA’s Perseverance has parted ways with a lumpy stone that has been its companion for more than a year.Read more...

Magic: The Gathering leaks are nothing new. Whether by accident or on purpose, reviewers and gamers with early access to new sets of card packs have, pretty regularly, shown off card pulls before they were allowed to do so. Usually the consequences for leakers are simple and effective: Wizards of the Coast, which…Read more...