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It's a sad day for fans of Netflix' Shadow and Bone. The seriesadaptation of Leigh Bardugo's fantasy novels-which was developed by Arrival's Eric Heisserer and gobbled up by passionate viewers-will not return for a third season. This cancellation was just one of many announced by Netflix today.Read more...

Marvel Studios might have found its next leading man in a very familiar face: Pedro Pascal has reportedly joined Fantastic Four as Reed Richards.Read more...

For astronauts living aboard the International Space Station (ISS), space germs are bad news. The confined environment, plus a weakened immunity system, and more aggressive bacteria, means that catching a cold in space is way worse than on Earth. In order to help stop the spread of viruses in space, Boeing developed...Read more...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized its environmental assessment of SpaceX's new water deluge system, concluding that it's no more dangerous than a seasonal rain shower. With that assessment out of the way, and with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also satisfied with its own evaluation, the...Read more...

Good news, iPhone users. A year after introducing the feature to its walled garden, Apple has extended free access to Emergency SOS via satellite to the iPhone 14/14 Pro for another year. Now you get three years of Emergency SOS via satellite services instead of two.Read more...

OpenAI halted new signups for its premium service, ChatGPT Plus, as demand for its services exceeded capacity, according to CEO Sam Altman. The jump in demand comes days after the company's first-ever DevDay. This is the latest speedbump in the week since OpenAI's massive release of new features, following widespread...Read more...

Microsoft will now make its own chips to power Azure, Copilot, and ChatGPT, CEO Satya Nadella announced at the Microsoft Ignite conference Wednesday. The Maia 100 can be used to train AI models and will start rolling out into Azure data centers early next year, reducing the company's reliance on Nvidia GPUs.

The current Warner Bros. Discovery regime is making headlines with its take-backsies on the James Gunn-produced Looney Tunes feature Coyote vs. Acme, which was briefly shelved before thankfully getting shopped around instead. As the WB strips away its legacy in its 100th year, head honcho David Zaslav is out...Read more...

There are only a handful of trusted end-to-end encrypted email providers. Of those, Tuta (which has long been known as Tutanota" but recently rebranded ) is one of the more well-known. This week, the company found itself on the defensive after being labeled a front" for law enforcement and intelligence services. In...Read more...

The evolution of MoviePass continues, with today's announcement that the subscription movie theater service (which has quite the tumultuous past) will now offer a virtual card-hopefully making online ticket purchases easier, including at theaters offering increasingly popular premium formats like IMAX.

With so many things in flux at Marvel Studios, there's news that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has departed the director's chair of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. A move that leaves us speculating about the crossover film's future, if anything.

The gamma-ray burst, affectionately dubbed BOAT' (Brightest of All Time), has been found to emit gamma-rays with energies reaching up to 13 teraelectronvolts, as revealed by a collaboration of scientists who have studied these emissions.Read more...

The first trailer for Sony's Madame Web movie weaves a very peculiar tale out of an even more peculiar choice for the studio's next Spider-Man spinoff film. But part of that peculiarity is in the host of Marvel Comics characters the film wants to bring to the big screen-and we've got a quick rundown on who's who if...Read more...

Amazon just released a questionable-looking robot for patrolling businesses. Taking a page out of Wall-E's design, Amazon's new Astro for Business looks almost comical.

The world of fandom has not been the same since Loungefly took the pop culture product world by storm with its signature mini-backpacks.Read more...

What if Marvel had a holiday present for us all? Nine straight days of brand new stories set in an alternate reality to the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Well, that's not a hypothetical. It's actually happening.Read more...

Celebrate the lasting legacy of Harlan Ellison-the highly influential, sometimes spicy Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Award winner-with Greatest Hits, a short-story collection (including some that have been out of print) arriving next year. It's edited by J. Michael Straczynski and features a foreword by Neil Gaiman,...Read more...

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Update: Asus acknowledged its mistake and confessed that a typo like this on a $700 motherboard is enough to warrant replacement at no additional cost to the customer. It announced that anyone who finds the typo unacceptable can contact Asus support for guidance on how to go about the replacement process. Asus...Read more...

Here's some good news if Thanksgiving doesn't feel right without spending quality time with Charlie Brown: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, will stream free on Apple TV+ this weekend, following the streamer's tradition of making vintage Peanuts specials available to...Read more...

It seems like Amazon is currently developing its own operating system for its Fire TV devices and Smart TVs that run on Android. This was reported last week in Janko Roettgers' Lowpass newsletter and hasn't been corroborated with an official statement from Amazon yet.

The Webb Space Telescope has revealed a world quite alien compared to our own: WASP-107b, a Neptune-like gas giant that orbits a star some 211 light-years from Earth. Webb has now detected water vapor and sulfur dioxide in the planet's atmosphere, as well as sand-like silicate clouds.Read more...

Dwayne The Rock" Johnson confirms the live-action Moana is his next project. Cobra Kai brings back a familiar name for its final season. Plus, a new look at the anime adaptation of Go! Go! Loser Ranger!. To me, my spoilers!

NASA has produced thousands of images over its illustrious 65-year history, but some images have had a far greater impact than others. Among this vast portfolio, certain images stand out for having reshaped our understanding of space and our place within it, capturing moments that have both ignited the collective...Read more...

In the realm of home entertainment, one of the longest-running burning questions has always been When is James Cameron going to release all his movies in 4K?" For years, there hasn't been an answer-but finally, it's here.Read more...

Tesla reversed course on its initial claims to sue Cybertruck resellers if they flipped their car within the first year of purchase. The first Cybertrucks, which start shipping out on Nov. 30th, will no longer have the strict penalties tied to reselling that they once did.Read more...

Sony's plans to expand its live-action Spider-Man universe has already given us some bizarre oddities like Morbius, and it looks like we're not stopping any time soon. Our first look at the Madame Web movie is here, and it's not just bringing one of comics' most peculiar Spidey supports to the big screen, but a whole...Read more...

New research this week is the latest to show that microplastics have polluted just about everywhere on Earth. Scientists discovered plastic particles in cloud samples collected from atop a mountain in Eastern China. The team also found evidence from lab experiments that these microplastics could potentially affect...Read more...

New research this week suggests that humanity's war against insectkind has had some unintended consequences: declining sperm counts. The study, a review of the existing data, found a clear association between increased exposure to insecticides and lower sperm concentrations in adult men. The authors say that the...Read more...

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is bringing Godzilla to Apple TV+ this week, and sci-fi fans who show up for Kurt Russell and giant monsters will want to stick around after. The streamer is one of the very best around for original content, particularly of the genre variety. Here are 10 sci-fi (and horror) shows to check...Read more...

Even before Miles Morales got brought over to the main Marvel universe by way of Secret Wars to hang out with Peter Parker more easily, it was a given that the two Spider-Men would eventually team up on adventures. And while they've saved New York and the world several times in various comic events or certain other...Read more...

There's an important update on the James Gunn era of DC Studios films, with a new name stepping into the ring to script Warner Bros.'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.Read more...

Earth's orbit can be a chaotic place, with defunct spacecraft darting aimlessly across the dark skies. In order to tackle the growing issue of space debris, Airbus created a new device designed to keep satellites from tumbling around after they're no longer of use.Read more...

Uber is testing out its own version of TaskRabbit called Uber Tasks in select markets, as first reported by Bloomberg Monday. The service will let users hire people to complete household tasks, expanding beyond ride-sharing and food delivery currently supported on the platform.Read more...

After much teasing earlier this year, Netflix and Dwarf Studios' stop motion series set in the world of Pokemon is finally ready to open its doors to the world-and it looks so adorable you might just want to reach through your screen and hug every Pokemon you can see.Read more...

The mobile class divide between the iPhone blue bubble and the Android green bubble might need regulators to settle things in the future, but Nothing has another solution coming soon.Read more...

Less than two years after it launched, Donald Trump's social media site, Truth Social, might be headed for the internet graveyard. New federal filings show that Truth, like a lot of Trump businesses, has lost massive amounts of money ($73 million, in this case) and is drifting, inevitably, toward insolvency. The...Read more...

Remember when you saw the epic, awesome trailer for The Creator and thought Oh, that's cool, I'd like to see that" but then didn't? Well, now you can change that because The Creator is finally available at home.Read more...

A recent deep field image from the Webb Space Telescope, showcasing a region of space known as Pandora's Cluster, or Abell 2744, features two galaxies. These galaxies are remarkable for their distance from Earth, being the second and fourth most distant galaxies ever observed, according to a team of researchers that...Read more...

It's still kind of wild to us that last year brought a new Predator movie, and a good one at that. After decades of the franchise flopping around unable to figure out what it wanted to be, director Dan Trachtenberg stepped up to the plate with Prey, a standalone prequel that gave us the kind of emotion and thrills the...Read more...

TikTok's cultural dominance just gained another weapon, and it's an awfully convenient one: a new feature that will easily allow users to add songs they hear on TikTok to a streaming service likeAmazon Music, Apple Music, and Spotify. Add to Music App" is available in the U.S. and the UK starting today, with plans...Read more...

Bitcoin wallets older than 2016 could have a vulnerability that puts over $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency at risk, according to a report in the Washington Post.

It doesn't have to be the case that a monster movie has great action and truly turgid human drama between the setpieces, but that's largely been the case for Legendary's Godzilla reboot, the Monsterverse." Sometimes the action being so fun can tip the odds against some truly stupid human beings-see King of the...Read more...

The day has arrived to gather your party and venture forth to Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures, Hasbro's free, 24-hour ad-supported channel celebrating the wildly popular tabletop roleplaying game. Launching today on Amazon Freevee and Plex (with more to come), the channel will debut three original series this week-and...Read more...

It's a bummer being a kid whose parents get called to work on Christmas Eve-but that trouble is amplified about a billion when Dad is Batman. Damian Wayne is familiar with the burdens of being part of a superhero family, but as the trailer for Prime Video's Merry Little Batman shows, he's also capable of stepping up...Read more...

Zelle, a payments app owned by seven of America's largest banks, began reimbursing victims of imposter scams on the platform, according to an emailed statement from the company. Early Warning Services, the network operator of Zelle, says it will process refunds for scams dating back to June, which is a change of...Read more...

I struggle to look at any other Samsung smartphone now that I've been living with its foldable. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 has effectively changed how I use Android. Most of the time, I'll only bother with my Google Pixel 7 if someone is calling the number linked to that phone. Otherwise, you'll see me primarily on...Read more...

The world of Android looks different than when I started focusing on this platform over ten years ago. Gone are the days of Google focusing on its developer-centric devices, allowing other manufacturers to compete for the top spot. If you look around the U.S. market, Android seems to have developed a homogeny akin to...Read more...

Before we get into this, you should know that this is my first time reviewing an iPhone. I've long established myself as the Android girl," because I started my smartphone journey with that mobile platform and eventually grew to prefer it over my initial experience with the iPhone. The last time I wielded one of...Read more...