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Move over OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s Prometheus—there’s yet another large language model-powered artificial intelligence in town. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, introduced its own AI today, called LLaMA.

Right now, if you want to know about Kang’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the person to talk to is Jeff Loveness. Loveness, best known for his work on Rick & Morty, not only wrote Marvel’s current hit Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, he’s also writing Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, the fifth Avengers film…Read more...

United Launch Alliance is hoping that the Force will be with them on May 4, a date the company is hoping to launch its Vulcan heavy-lift rocket for the very first time.Read more...

Late last year, the Pokémon Company shocked the world with the announcement that Satoshi—better known in the west as Ash Ketchum—would be bowing out as the enduring star of the long-running Pokémon anime. The company has started rolling out details about the anime’s new heroes... and by revealing that Pokémon could…Read more...

The hits keep on coming for Alex Jones, the disgraced radio host who peddled lies and conspiracy theories on his show Infowars following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Now having declared bankruptcy following his repeated trials for his misinformation about the mass shooting, Jones is sounding the alarm…Read more...

No matter what you may have thought of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, you have to admit the first end-credit scene, in particular, was awesome. It beautifully put into motion not just the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but tied up a few loose ends that had been set up in the film itself. When both of…Read more...

Google’s reliance on commonly used messaging systems that automatically delete conversations after a day has landed the company in hot water with the Department of Justice.Read more...

Last night when more Lord of the Rings movies were announced, everyone was deeply interested in what they could possibly be planning. After the beloved trilogy of films in the early 2000s and the less-than-beloved Hobbit trilogy, what more can be done? (Well, there’s War of the Rohirrim, but still!)

TikTok is pushing back against the European Union for not informing the company that they were banning the app on all government devices. The EU also took steps to ban the Chinese-owned app on staff’s personal devices with corporate access, amid concerns that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is accessing user data.Read more...

io9 has shared the work of Delilah S. Dawson before (check out an excerpt from her 2021 dystopian thriller The Violence), and we’ve got another unsettling exclusive for you today: a first look at Bloom, the tale of two women whose powerful attraction evolves into something that’s supernaturally toxic.

An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has reportedly died after contracting H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, while her father has also tested positive for the virus. It appears to be the second confirmed human death linked to a surge in cases among birds and mammals since 2020, and this is the first documented…Read more...

As Apple continues to position its phones and watches as life-saving devices, the most compelling reason to upgrade to the iPhone 14 or 14 Pro is the Emergency SOS service that uses satellite communications when wifi or cellular are MIA. It’s not a feature that’s coming to older iPhones, however, so for those not…Read more...

The saga of Apple’s supposed mixed reality headset is starting to feel more like a ‘90s sitcom than a major tech release. Every time there’s a new episode, there’s a promise of real change to our beloved characters, and by the end of the episode it’s all undone. We return to where we began, and it starts all over…Read more...

New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys tease the mutants of Mutant Mayhem. Shazam: Fury of the Gods gets a bumper runtime. Plus, what’s coming on Kung Fu and La Brea’s season finale. To me, my spoilers!

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Facebook jail is about to get less crowded. Under a new set of policies revealed this Thursday, parent company Meta says it’s now harder for users to wind up with their Facebook accounts suspended for lesser violations of its rules. Those changes come after years of pushback from civil society groups and Meta’s…Read more...

When Kris Kashtanova attempted to copyright their comic book Zarya of the Dawn, the United States Copyright Office originally granted them the rights. Later, the agency put the book under review because of Kashtanova’s social media, where they said that they had produced the images using the AI-image generator …Read more...

Pedro Pascal is currently starring as two of television’s most prominent father figures, but The Mandalorian star has a confession to make: he feels uncomfortable using his Mando daddy voice when asked to in public.Read more...

Kodansha’s formerly Japanese-exclusive trio of manga using DC Comics characters are getting their first official English-language releases this year—excellent news for anyone who’s ever wanted to watch the Joker raise a baby Bruce Wayne.

On Thursday, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen spoke to a national organization that convenes investors, telling them that Meta was an unwise place to put their money —specifically the version of Meta under the direction of Mark Zuckerberg.Read more...

After securing a launch license, Relativity Space is eager to see its Terran 1 rocket get off the ground. The California-based company opted to skip a final engine test and set a launch date for the inaugural flight of its groundbreaking 3D-printed rocket.Read more...

Those of you who who sit up at night fretting about how American financial institutions are getting too damn woke, don’t worry: Your champion has arrived, and he’s gunning for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. On Tuesday, investor Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been called the “The CEO of Anti-Woke, Inc.” by The New…Read more...

During an investors’ call earlier today, Warner Bros. announced that it will be making more Lord of the Rings movies. No details have been released at this time, but wowie zowie.

Soon, you too can do this all day. Watch Rogers the Musical over and over we mean. The Disney Parks blog just teased that the fake Avengers musical that appeared in the Disney+ show Hawkeye will debut as “a short one-act musical” later this summer at Disney’s California Adventure, for a limited time only.Read more...

It will be nearly the end of the year before we see Apple’s next phone in person, but the rumor mill started churning pretty early on for the iPhone 15. This week, we’re looking at leaked three-dimensional CAD files rendered at 9to5Mac that supposedly show what the iPhone 15 will look like. Unsurprisingly, it looks…Read more...

Wizards of the Coast’s recent track record for tinkering with Dungeons & Dragons hasn’t exactly been stellar, but credit to the company, it hasn’t stopped trying. Of course, trying to improve the Druid character class is a lot less controversial than attempting to erase D&D’s beloved Open Gaming License, but these…Read more...

Behold the limitless, crowded cosmos. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Survey has put out its latest data release, increasing the size of the largest 2D sky map.Read more...

ClearSpace, a Swiss space company, has secured clearance from the European Space Agency after the company’s first program review of its efforts to clear junk from Earth orbit by using a giant, four-armed robotic satellite to capture debris.

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How do you make Marvel’s next mega team-up movie that ends a phase even more exciting? Adding Steven Yeun sure works. The Oscar-nominated star who rose to fame playing Glenn on The Walking Dead (and was recently seen in Jordan Peele’s Nope) is joining Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts in a mystery role.Read more...

The milk wars may soon come to an end. In draft guidelines released this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said that soy and other plant-based milk substitutes can continue to be labeled milk. The agency found that customers in general aren’t confused by the current nomenclature and could easily tell…Read more...

Google’s Workspace apps are getting yet another facelift, though this time the Alphabet-owned company seems to be focused on trying to “collapse the boundaries” between its various apps.Read more...

Pennywise is coming back and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. After about a year of speculation, HBO Max has just officially ordered to series Welcome to Derry, the working title for a prequel show set in the world of Stephen King’s It.Read more...

Balloons are so hot right now, and not just the ones getting shot down by military jets. A startup in Japan wants to send people to the edge of space using a helium-filled balloon, and to do so affordably, but the chosen passenger cabin leaves much to be desired.Read more...

Users with certain models of Cosori-brand air fryers should immediately put any plans to make crispy chicken wings or that infamous air fryer cheesecake on hold. On Thursday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall for around 2 million air fryer models made by Cosori, saying these devices are liable to…Read more...

Google’s dominance in the mapping space is facing a probe by the U.S. Department of Justice. Officials are reportedly looking into whether the tech giant is breaking antitrust laws on its Google Maps app. The DOJ started scrutinizing Alphabet, Inc., Google’s parent company, for how it bundles the services it offers…Read more...

Last week’s season three premiere of Star Trek: Picard navigated the show into a nostalgia-laden examination of the weight behind our heroes’ long lives—the impact they’ve had, and what’s remained as Starfleet and the galaxy at large have grown beyond them. If that was a more esoteric examination of this theme, this…Read more...

Google is following the Facebook playbook and threatening to cut off access to news in Canada unless lawmakers agree to gut legislation aimed at making tech companies pay publishers for their content.Read more...

At least year’s CES, Lenovo revealed a behemoth of a laptop sporting an enormous 17.3-inch screen with an ultra-wide 21:10 aspect ratio. Believe it or not, even larger laptops predate it, including a 21-inch monster that Acer put out back in 2017. Plus, Razer just released its own 18 inch laptop. But none can measure…Read more...

Weird weather has swarmed the U.S. this week, creating widespread travel delays and blackouts for communities across the country.Read more...

They made Dark, they made 1899, and now Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese have not only signed a brand new deal with Netflix, they’ve got their next show lined up too. The German sci-fi creators have now been tasked by the streamer to adapt Boom Studios’ popular horror comic Something Is Killing the Children by James…Read more...

An uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft is set for its journey to the International Space Station, where it will replace a damaged Soyuz capsule that sprung a coolant leak this past December. You can catch the action live right here.

Bing won’t talk about its feelings anymore, and it seems that its alter ego Sydney is dead.Read more...

Before his spectacular downfall and the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX, former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried covertly and illicitly funneled millions of dollars of customer and company funds to political campaigns, according to a newly filed federal indictment.

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Creeping out of the grave, oozing ectoplasm, rattling chains, seeking vengeance—ghosts are classified as “terrifying” for a lot of very good reasons. But sometimes, you encounter a movie ghost who’s just, like, really bad at being scary and is therefore incapable of haunting anyone.Read more...

This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could upend the way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the internet. Both Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh ask the court to reconsider how the law interprets Section 230, a regulation that protects companies from legal liability for…Read more...

Google is bringing some of Pixel’s until now exclusive AI photo editing features to more Android devices, but also the iPhone. The caveat is that you must subscribe to Google One to access capabilities previously limited to Pixel 6/7 owners.

Although some fantasize about their everyday gadget load being one day miniaturized to nothing more than a wearable contact lens, all I want is to be able to say goodbye to battery life anxiety. There’s no permanent solution to being perpetually stressed about charging on the horizon just yet, but there are ways to…Read more...

Google, a company once known for its lavish and borderline absurd in-office perks like endless free meals and snacks, massages, yoga classes, and designated recreation areas, has fallen on hard times. Now, the most standard of office equipment will apparently be in short supply for some of the tech giant’s workers.