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You'll soon be able to raise a glass to the memory of the defunct Fantasmic dragon on the Rivers of America at Disneyland.

It's fitting that the X-Men as an idea are as similarly cyclical as one of the franchise's most iconic figures. Hear me, X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am Fire and Life incarnate!" cries Jean Grey, now the Phoenix, in X-Men #101, beginning a cycle of fated death and rebirth for her similar to the one...Read more...

There are a lot of things that make Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem stand out from the rest of the Turtles movies. The main characters are voiced by teens, for one. The unique, purposefully messy animated style is another. And the fact that the Turtles' most commonvillain, Shredder, is nowhere to be seen...Read more...

Try walking outside on a midsummer day in New York City. You're sweating buckets. You can smell garbage rotting by the side of the road. The sunlight and heat seem to reflect from the steaming pavement, which is so hot to the touch it burns your skin.

Rachel Smythe is now on hiatus, but she had one important stop to make before her break: San Diego Comic-Con, where she was a special guest and was also awarded her second Eisnerfor her hit Webtoon series Lore Olympus.Read more...

What We Do in the Shadows is back for season five, and the hilarious vampire sitcom is funnier and weirder than ever. In honor of all the quirky vampires out there and those of us who love them, I've got 21 tabletop roleplaying games to recommend.

On Thursday, the Artifact news app announced it was adding speech-to-text features that will allow users to listen to articles with an AI voice powered by Speechify. The update should be available free for all iOS users, and the feature should be out on Android sometime in the near future.Read more...

UK regulators are investigating the Ozempic and Saxenda weight loss drugs over reports that patients experienced suicidal and self-harming thoughts while taking the medications. The drugs skyrocketed in popularity in the U.S. as doctors began prescribing them to people who struggled with obesity, but new reports are...Read more...

The aftermath of a tropical storm can bring along some nasty waterborne germs, a recent study from Columbia University researchers found. The study shows that tropical cyclones in the U.S. over the past two decades have been linked to an increase in several infectious diseases afterward, including Legionnaires'...Read more...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' fondness for exploring old ideas and structures doesn't just rely on an affection for the original Star Trek. It's willing to take on tones, ideas, and experiments from across the franchise's history-and even its most recent past, as is the case this week, as the show takes on Discovery...Read more...

Oh, the Hugh manatee. A long-time fixture at the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, the 38-year-old manatee named Hugh died under unknown circumstances back in April. This week, new, graphic details about his demise are pitting federal agencies against the Florida aquarium about how best to preserve the vulnerable...Read more...

Two new studies associated with the James Webb Space Telescope's Early Release Science program have been published, and both have to do with Jupiter's moons, namely Ganymede and Io.

Variety has released a report on what's going on behind the scenes between the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the two guilds that are striking for fair pay, AI protections, and other existential issues. It seems, however, that the AMPTP isn't coming back to the table precisely because the...Read more...

As NASA shifts its gaze back to the Moon and sets its sights on Mars and beyond in the coming decades, the agency is rethinking the means by which we'll get there. After previously announcing a collaboration between NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a nuclear-powered rocket intended...Read more...

Tesla reportedly created a secretive Diversion Team" tasked with trying to quickly divert and cancel as many appointments for range-related issues as possible. The unit, according to a Reuters investigation, was reportedly responsible for closing hundreds of cases per week of upset Tesla owners complaining about...Read more...

As SAG-AFTRA enters its third week on strike alongside the WGA (which has been on strike since May 2), some performers are doing everything they can to make the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers pay attention. One such actor, Mike Massa-who is also a prolific stunt double and stunt...Read more...

Remember when Marvel's shows on Disney+, like WandaVision and Loki, had everyone talking? Well, those days are long gone as its most recent show, Secret Invasion, came and went rather quietly. Many, many Marvel fans either started the show and gave up, or didn't watch it at all. That's why now seems like a good time...Read more...

At a certain point about halfway through watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, something was wrong with my face. It just didn't feel right. There was unexpected discomfort. A second later, I figured it out. What I was watching on screen made me smile so wide for so long that the muscles creating a...Read more...

Big Tech companies are facing possible federal regulations from Congress after two senators released a proposal on Thursday to sue or force platforms to stop operating if they violate consumer privacy and spread harmful content online. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)...Read more...

Although the main Castlevania series ended after four seasons, Netflix and Powerhouse Animation announced they weren't done with the IP. The sequel series, Castlevania: Nocturne, will follow Richter Belmont, a descendent of the vampire slayer Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades, and one of the main characters of the ...Read more...

It's a sad story that just keeps getting sadder. Boeing's CST-100 Starliner program, in development for NASA since 2014, has now crossed a grim threshold, with total losses now in excess of $1 billion.

After Twitter banned the account of Qanon influencer Dom Lucre for posting child exploitation pictures," Elon Musk stepped in to reinstate him.

New code released by Apple as part of its beta program hints the next version of the Mute switch on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max could become a button for quickly accessinga bevy of tools and accessibility features.Read more...

Ben Wheatley hopes The Meg 2 is his ticket to directing Godzilla some day. Saw X has its eyes on you in a creepy new poster. The Scooby gang prepares to enter the DC multiverse. Plus, what's coming on Riverdale. Spoilers away!Read more...

Just when all that pre-release Barbie buzz was starting to make hot pink feel monotonous, the movie opened-and delivered thatsought-after blend of critical praise, audiences of both lovers and haters (which brought even more buzz), and massive box office success. Mattel executives might not have quite understood...Read more...

Is the government hiding alien bodies in a vault under the Pentagon? Have Americans been killed to protect our weirdest extraterrestrial secrets? Nothing was off the table at Congress's much anticipated hearing on UFOs Wednesday, making for quite the show. The House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and...Read more...

VKontakte (VK), Russia's homegrown Facebook clone and its biggest social network, saw a whopping 30-fold increase in censorship requests from government officials during the eight-month period following the Russian military's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to a new report. The findings, revealed in a...Read more...

While the San Diego Comic-Con 2023 exclusives are pretty much all gone, here are some of our favorite debuts that dropped this past weekend that you will be able to buy in stores.Read more...

Women are more at risk of losing their jobs to AI tools like ChatGPT compared to men according to a study that showed a disproportionate number of jobs filled by women will be eliminated by 2030. The study, published by the McKinsey Global Institute found that nearly eight in ten women will be forced to move to...Read more...

Many have tried to bring the Batman to the big screen, and many have done well-but few have come close to doing it quite so perfectly as Mask of the Phantasm, which took the strengths of the already legendary Batman: The Animated Series and sharpened them to a fine, emotional point. And now, we're about to get the...Read more...

The summer of foldable phones is still going strong. Samsung announced its latest foldable smartphones Wednesday: the clamshell Galaxy Z Flip 5 and the book-like Galaxy Z Fold 5. Both devices are slight upgrades compared to the last generation's releases, though Samsung has improved the hinge on both the Flip and the...Read more...

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Federal prosecutors want to once again take hold of the frizzy-haired ex-FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried and put him back in jail. Reports from inside pre-trial court hearings say the Department of Justice has had it up to here with the once-crypto kingpin leaking sensitive material to the press, alleging he's trying to...Read more...

Secret Invasion released its sixth and final episode today, closing out the latest chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this one featuring Nick Fury and the Skrulls. And while you can read all about the episode itself in io9's recap, I wanted to add a little more about something I can't quite shake. And that's...Read more...

When theoretical physicists like myself say that we're studying why the universe exists, we sound like philosophers. But new data collected by researchers using Japan's Subaru telescope has revealed insights into that very question.

Your hands are probably heavier than you think, a new study suggests. In a series of experiments, researchers showed that people consistently underestimated the weight of their hands. The findings might one day help us better design prosthetics that feel more comfortable for their users to wear, the authors say.Read more...

Apple is responsible for an ever-growing number of truly intriguing (re: nonsensical) patent applications. These usually cause Apple fans' heads to turn like a dog hearing the quiet skittering of a nearby squirrel. However, the latest approved patent from the Cupertino, California-based company may take the prize as...Read more...

Whatever you think about the movies individually, the best thing to come out of Fox's X-Men films has always been Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. He stepped in for Dougray Scott due to Scott's scheduling conflicts with Mission: Impossible 2, andthe Australian actor turned out to be a great fit for the part-something Fox...Read more...

On Tuesday, July 25, a power outage occurred at NASA's Mission Control in Houston, leading to a temporary disruption in communication with the International Space Station.Read more...

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts may not have been the box office beast Paramount wanted it to be, but those who saw it surely won't forget its ending. It's an ending that required lots of planning and even more approvals, with one in particular being the most difficult to get: producer Michael Bay.Read more...

Elon Musk's rebrand of Twitter to X" faces yet another setback this week after it was blocked in Indonesia for violating local pornography and gambling laws. Musk informed X" users in a tweet on Sunday that X.com will now redirect users to Twitter.com, but Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Informatics said...Read more...

Secret Invasion's finale was released today, and man, did it land flat on all points. After a lackluster five episodes, I didn't have high expectations for the Marvel Disney+ series' sixth, but the circular ending and failure to meaningfully engage in any emotional beats truly left me cold.Read more...

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It took all of five days, but 8,000 people pledged $500 each and made it certain that Hasbro would be making its mega version of the Ghost from Star Wars Rebels and Ahsoka. The project, which was announced last week at San Diego Comic-Con, is the latest in Hasbro's Haslab series. It's the company's version of...Read more...

As covid vaccines started to roll out in February 2021, misinformation and conspiracy theories surrounding the shot were on the rise-as were the deaths of Republican voters.Read more...

A new generation of the heroes in a half-shell is nearly upon us as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem gets ready to hit theaters in a few weeks. But that generation is going to continue-not just on the big screen, but on smaller ones too.

With vibes that are part District Nine, part Arrival, and part Annihilation, Apple TV+'s Invasion takes a very restrained view of what a first contact might look like. While the first season of the show established the stakes and provided a global backdrop to what was happening as various countries and cultures came...Read more...

While U.S. east coasters were still scrambling out of bed and west coasters were sound asleep, Samsung unveiled its latest, now-flattenable foldable phones from Seoul. Samsung didn't debut many major innovations, instead offering new performance improvements and small enhancements at similar price points to previous...Read more...

The Exorcist: Believer's sequel has already set its release date. Thomas Hayden Church talks up his Twisted Metal character. Plus, the Secret Invasion finale is heralded with a new clip. To me, my Spoilers!

If you're not Google (or, to a much lesser extent, Apple), map apps are damned hard to make. Last year, several major heavy hitters in tech, including the likes of Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon, decided to lay down their arms and meet under a flag of parlay held aloft by the Linux Foundation to make mapping just...Read more...