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No matter what your level of knowledge is when it comes to The Toxic Avenger, you basically know what to expect. It's right there in the phrase The Toxic Avenger." Someone is avenging and they're toxic. Is that literal? Figurative? It doesn't matter. This isn't going to be serious. This is going to be very, very...Read more...

Twitter, recently renamed X, is shutting down its Circles feature. Circles allows users to share posts with select people rather than all of their followers but it seems Elon Musk would prefer people just put it all out there or keep it to themselves. The feature will be removed next month, just over one year after Cir...Read more...

As authors grapple with the anxiety of an impending AI takeover in the publishing world, Amazon wants you to know that it's taking those concerns very seriously. The bookstore-turned-commerce giant has revealed a new self-publishing limit that cannot exceed three books per day.Read more...

Take a listen to creepy tracks from Saw X. David Duchovny talks Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. Plus, Upload prepares for season 3 with a new trailer, and what's coming on Invasion. Spoilers now!

Amidst a massive $69 billion dollar deal by Microsoft to purchase Activision-the largest deal in video game history-the tech giant has faced a good bit of turbulence. After UK regulators initially blocked the acquisition last spring, Microsoft scrambled to tweak the agreement and it's now received preliminary approval....Read more...

Amazon has always handled its streaming video slate a little differently than the competition. Other companies have slyly introduced a cheaper ad-free option while slowly raising prices on non-ad-based subscription tiers, Prime Video is taking a different tack. The streaming service plans to hold ad-free watching...Read more...

In this, our year of 2023, NSYNC has broken the internet with a reunion and confirmation that three members of the group were in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. My 90s nerdy teeny bopper brain can't process two of my core fandoms almost crossing over: boy bands and Star Wars.Read more...

While we can't really tell what's happening in the trailer for V/H/S/85, based on the disturbing glimpses it gives-as well as our prior knowledge of the V/H/S series-we can assume it's a lot of just godawful things, made even more terrifying as they're rendered in grainy, retro-vintage formats.Read more...

Facebook users can now create multiple personal profiles with unique feeds and relevant content for each one, Meta announced in a press release on Thursday. Historically, users had to create a completely unattached profile and log in and out to toggle between the two, but that is changing with the new feature.Read more...

As more rockets liftoff into the skies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is trying to control how long those launch vehicles stay in orbit as floating space junk.Read more...

This week Shonen Jump launched one of its most anticipated new series of the season: Takeru Hokazono's contemporary Yakuza/Fantasy swordsman series Kagurabachi. But while it's already making big waves after just one chapter, the manga has become an altogether stranger hit online.

Are you thinking of buying the new iPhone 15 Pro? Take a look inside first. An unofficial teardown of the iPhone 15 Pro by PBKreviews is currently making the rounds. The ten-minute video shows a modular disassembly of components, which vibes with Apple's promises of easier repairs. Still, this look at the relative...Read more...

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission launched to space in September 2016 with a simple, albeit ambitious, objective: travel to a distant asteroid and bring back a sample of it. The spacecraft is now nearly home, and scientists spotted the it for the first time last week as it made its return.Read more...

Enoch Fryxelius, the CEO of FryxGames, took to Facebook today to defend the use of AI in the Terraforming Mars project, and announced that the company's next board game will not be including AI.Read more...

As Elon Musk threatens to charge all users with a monthly subscription to access Twitter, Snap is seeing a userbase more willing to pay to use the perks of its platform. Snap's membership service Snapchat+ has reached a whopping 5 million users, which is officially halfway to its goal of 10 million.Read more...

In new research this week, scientists say they've unearthed a viral denizen from the depths of the Mariana Trench. The virus is believed to be the deepest of its kind ever discovered and preys on certain bacteria.Read more...

All good things are doomed," warns the marketing for the final chunk of Doom Patrol episodes, but you can bet Max's DC series about a misfit team of oddly powered superheroes isn't going to say farewell without some high-stakes action-and at least one battle against an ever-growing hoard of butts."

It seems Twitter-the company now calling itself X" based on one billionaire's nostalgic whim-can't escape users' dissatisfaction with the platform, not even in its own advertising.Read more...

Even four seasons in, it's not a difficult argument to make that for all its aims of being a show with four primary characters, Lower Decks has been most focused, and at its strongest, on two of those characters in particular. But season four is working on a lot of the show's weaknesses, and this week it takes that...Read more...

Thrawn has finally arrived on Ahsoka and into live-action Star Wars media at large, and-as has become the tradition-Disney+ is marking the character's debut with a snazzy new poster. All the major new faces in Far, Far Away" got them, in fact, including some guy named Ezra Bridger.Read more...

In his new movie 57 Seconds, Josh Hutcherson discovers the ability to travel through time... sort of. While undoing just under a minute of time and space might not seem like the most useful time travel, it's still enough to blow someone's mind wide open when they discover it, as you can see in this exclusive clip.

Planescape has returned to Dungeons & Dragons. Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse includes three new books: the setting book Sigil and the Outlands;Turn of Fortune's Wheel, the campaign book; and Morte's Planar Parade, the bestiary.Read more...

As Uber continues to tout driver and rider safety as a number one priority, reports that its new spokesperson will be Robert De Niro playing Travis Bickle from 1976's Taxi Driver definitely caused some head-scratching. Lucky for us, while Robert De Niro will be involved in a new Uber campaign, he will not be reprising...Read more...

The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for 24 years, hosting crews of astronauts and running experiments in the microgravity environment. By 2030, however, the space station's reign in low Earth orbit must come to an end and NASA is figuring out exactly how to do that.Read more...

Billionaire, philanthropist, and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this week that he will invest $500 million into his campaign to shut down coal plants and halve gas use by 2030.Read more...

The arms race over the next generation of obesity drugs is continuing to heat up. This week, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced it was suing several pharmacies, spas, and wellness centers in the U.S. for allegedly selling unauthorized copycats of its blockbuster drug tirzepatide, which is expected to be...Read more...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced he is stepping down as chairman of News Corp. and Fox in a memo to staff on Thursday. He will officially retire in November and will pass the torch to his son, Lachlan Murdoch, who will also remain as CEO and executive chairman of Fox Corporation.

How many times have you watched a TikTok or YouTube short and thought This is fun, but what if there were some strange pandas desperately trying to shove coffee from a morphing teacup into their nose or maw?" Great news.Read more...

Vizio's has built up television brand on trying to offer relatively strong picture display quality on a budget, and the company isn't breaking away from that mold with its latest displays. Vizio announced its new Quantum and Quantum Pro Smart TVs on Thursday, promising relatively good picture quality at all angles for...Read more...

Keeping the Fall new product pipeline going, Microsoft is following Apple, Amazon, and others in announcing a series of new Surface hardware products and new software/AI initiatives.

Few directors seem better suited to a galaxy far, far, away than Guillermo del Toro. The Oscar-winning director of The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Pacific Rim, and so many others, thrives on practical creatures, sweeping romance, and large-scale adventure. He'd be perfect for Star Wars so, surely he'd...Read more...

Ballerina director Len Wiseman teases Ana de Armas' turn in the John Wick spinoff. The cast and crew of Saw X talk about bringing back a horror legend. Netflix teams up with Takeshi Miike for a new Onimusha anime. Plus, what's coming on the last episodes of Fear the Walking Dead. Spoilers, away!

MGM Resorts says it resumed full operations on Wednesday, a full 10 days after hackers took over its system. The cyberattack caused mayhem at several of its locations across the country, affecting hotel reservations, and credit card processing, while guests complained they lost access to their hotel rooms when their...Read more...

Amazon is under fire in a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission over the company's alleged workflow to trick customers into signing up for a Prime membership. Now, the FTC is amending that June lawsuit with additional information that three company executives were aware of the plan and were reportedly okay...Read more...

Studio Ghibli, the animation studio co-founded by famed director Hayao Miyazaki, has been sold. According to AP, the studio will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. This deal was reportedly discussed last year when producer Toshio Suzuki approached a Nippon TV executive in an effort to preserve...Read more...

As part of its efforts to create a space-based cellular broadband network, AST SpaceMobile made the first ever 5G phone call between its prototype satellite and a Samsung Galaxy S22.

In July 2022, TikTok introduced a tool called Filter Video Keywords to let users block videos with words or hashtags they did not want to see. Cormac Keenan, Head of Trust and Safety at TikTok, described it as an important safety feature to help viewers customize their viewing preferences and continue to have a safe...Read more...

The latest RSVLTS spooky season drop celebrates the Sanderson sisters in a big, boo-tiful way.Read more...

A soul-eating demon haunts a pair of first generation Indian American girls in a suburban town they already don't quite fit into in Bishal Dutta's horror debut It Lives Inside.

When Paramount launched very Short Treks a few weeks ago, it did so with a short that trod a very fine line between being crass and flexing someknowingly Trek humor. But as it's progressed, things have only gotten a closer to the former.

In a new assessment of several major social media platforms, X, formerly known as Twitter, came in dead last in managing climate misinformation.Read more...

Even before it turned 30, NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat franchise had one eye on its past. After 2011's reboot retold the original three games, Mortal Kombat 11used time travel to have older characters interact with their younger selves, while those who died in the reboot or Mortal Kombat X were brought back in the...Read more...

A North Carolina man's family filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, claiming the company was grossly negligent in allowing its Maps application to direct the man to drive off a collapsed bridge where he plunged to his death. Philip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two was driving home from his daughter's ninth...Read more...

Everyone's favorite squishable pest-the spotted lanternfly-might be less of a nuisance than we thought, new research suggests. The four-year-long study found that the insects caused little to no long-term damage to a variety of different tree species. The authors say the invasive bugs should still be carefully managed...Read more...

Far, Far Away," the sixth episode of Ahsoka, took the series, and us, to a whole new galaxy full of potential and new mysteries. But in doing so, it touched on a fascinating piece of old Star Wars history in the Nightsisters of Dathomir-one that ties several of Star Wars' prior investigations of extragalactic entitiesRead more...

Despite the repeated reports of doom, gloom, and reorganization inside Amazon's hardware division, that hasn't stopped the company from moving forward with its vision for the ambient home." At its streamed live event in Virginia today, Amazon announced a bevy of new connected products for its Echo lineup, including...Read more...

When Robin leads the Teen Titans and a bunch of classic animation characters from The Looney Tunes to Cartoon Network to more DC animated faves on a tour around the Warner Bros. Studios lot, it's just as unhinged as you'd imagine it to be.

As Big Tech continues to jam every half-baked piece of artificial intelligence into every other over-baked piece of software, OpenAI has come full circle. The AI company behind ChatGPT is placing the wildly popular chatbot into the next version of its image generation tool.Read more...

At Amazon's Fall Devices Event, the pressure was on to come up with a hit product that would stun the world the way Alexa and the Echo speaker did a decade ago. The event, held at Amazon's HQ2 in Arlington, VA was Amazon's first in-person event since before Covid and the first chance the company has had to have the...Read more...

NASA released a new mosaic of an impact crater that perpetually lies in the shadows of the lunar south pole. By combining the light sensitivity of NASA's ShadowCam with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's ability to view shadowed regions, scientists put together a rare image of the Shackleton Crater as it appears in...Read more...