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After what certainly feels like a long wait—with tumultuous times for its star and a regime change for its studio in the meantime—DC’s The Flash, directed by Andy Muschietti (the It series), has finally screened for an audience at CinemaCon. How did Barry Allen’s big-screen solo sojourn (“solo,” but with assists from…Read more...

A new Flash trailer is here, and with it, a better picture of what to expect from this multiversal mashup meant to close out the current phase of the DCEU before its new chapter begins. And what should we expect? A lot of Batman and Kryptonians, apparently. Here’s everything we spotted in the manic new trailer.Read more...

While the world is still basking in the glory of the Barbie trailers that are out in the world, the stars and filmmakers took the stage at CinemaCon 2023 and made things even wilder. Co-writer and director Greta Gerwig was joined by stars Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and America Ferrara to show new footage from this…Read more...

ChatGPT introduced a new privacy feature on Tuesday to protect users’ information. The new feature will allow users to turn off their chat history and disable its ability to use their data to train and improve the AI models.Read more...

In the second half of Frank Herbert’s Dune, there’s a moment that changes everything: when Paul Atreides, the left-for-dead son of a Duke, finally proves himself to the Fremen, the native people of the planet Arrakis who have been protecting him and his mother.Read more...

If you’re one of the many thousands of customers from bankrupt crypto company Voyager Digital, you’re going to have to wait even longer to see your locked funds as hopes for a Binance.US buyout have been squashed flat.Read more...

From Republican smear campaigns against Biden to a collaboration between The Weeknd and Drake going viral, it feels like AI is coming for every part of our lives. Now, it appears that some products on Amazon are being reviewed with AI chatbots.Read more...

Nima Momeni, the suspect accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death on April 4, will plead not guilty to murder, according to multiple reports. Momeni’s lawyer, Paula Canny, told journalists outside the San Francisco state court on Tuesday that, in the defense’s view, a premeditated murder charge isn’t…Read more...

In case you missed it, conservatives deeply care about whales and the oceans now.Read more...

Right now, meticulous details about your life are for sale on the internet. It can be details about your children, your yearly income, your medical conditions, hopes, fears, exercise habits, race, religion, sexuality—all this and more is available, sometimes for fractions of a cent. Companies called data brokers buy…Read more...

Scientists are making a provocative case in a new paper out this month: Sex in space is going to happen sooner rather than later, and it’s about time people started preparing for it. They contend that space sex could happen even within the next decade. The industry needs to discuss how to handle the issue now, they…Read more...

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Yelp reviewers will finally be able to add videos to their posts, creating a new opportunity to fully share their experience and atmosphere. The company announced the newest feature will be available for the majority of iOS users on Tuesday and will be made available on Android devices in the coming months.Read more...

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...