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PlayStation confirmed on Instagram last night that the PlayStation VR2 will launch in early 2023. That marks a six year gap since the original PS VR’s release in 2016. That VR set was only compatible with PS4 and PS5 consoles and used an adapter, while the VR2 will only work with PlayStation 5 consoles and operates…Read more...

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Although most consumer-oriented drones are able to land themselves, their automated landing systems require a flat landing site, minimal winds, and low speeds to safely touch down. That’s not always available, so researchers have developed a new landing system that allows drones to land in rougher conditions, even on…Read more...

Creator Neil Gaiman sounds a little peevish that Netflix hasn’t renewed The Sandman TV series for another season yet. The bloodbath at HBO Max continues, including Bruce Timm and J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Batman animated series. Plus, showrunner Erik Kripke teases the first episode of the fourth season of The Boys. Watch…Read more...

Although the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon debuted just this past Sunday night, Amazon Studios has decided not to let HBO’s mega-fantasy series dominate the headlines for long. A new trailer has arrived for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and it seems like Middle-Earth might be going to make…Read more...

Meta, big tech’s biggest copycat, is at it again. According to well-known leaker and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, Meta-owned Instagram is testing out its own version of BeReal, one of the buzziest new social media apps of the moment.Read more...

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Does it feel like there are dragons everywhere you look today? That’s because probably most everyone you know tuned in to House of the Dragon last night, which brought in “the largest audience for any new original series in the history of HBO,” according to a press release from the network.Read more...

In general, it’s a very poor idea for any company to upset the artistic online community. If enough regular internet users were able to drag the Sonic the Hedgehog movie’s old design through the proverbial mud enough so that the studio completely redesigned it, how do you think you’ll get on when the people behind the…Read more...

When fans look at the box office results on Monday morning, most of the time we know what to expect. Big superhero or genre film on top, the big superhero or genre film from the previous week below that, and so on and so forth. But every once in a while there’s something different. Something... Super.Read more...

The history of water on Mars flows a lot deeper than scientists once believed. A new project has mapped hundreds of thousands of rock formations on the Red Planet that may have been altered by large amounts of water in the past.Read more...

Apple will now let you do some DIY laptop repairs at home, for a cost. The company is expanding its self-service repair program from just certain iPhones to include its MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops with M1 chips starting tomorrow, according to a press statement.

Last night, House of the Dragon took us back to the world of Game of Thrones, and the impending royal feud amongst the messiest family in all of Westeros—the House of the Dragon and its platinum-blonde Targaryens. With the inability of King Viserys (Paddy Considine) to produce a male heir and his refusal to let his…Read more...

What if we could copy how plants create their own energy—and use it to power our world?Read more...

Birds of Prey’s Cathy Yan will executive produce and direct Paprika, a live-action series based on the Yasutaka Tsutsui novel of the same name. The series will be a collaboration between Amazon Studios and Hivemind, according to Deadline.

Researchers say they’ve discovered a large impact crater on the Atlantic seafloor that appears to be 66 million years old. That means whatever made this crater would have hit Earth around the same time as the rock that famously slammed into the Yucatán Peninsula, ending the reign of the dinosaurs.Read more...

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The Webb Space Telescope is capturing Jupiter as it’s never been seen before. The gas giant is glowing in the latest batch of Webb images, which show bright auroras at its north and south poles, huge storms that have been raging for centuries, extremely faint rings, and two of the planet’s 79 known moons.Read more...

MoviePass is the ex who routinely texts you long after you think that you were finally done with them. The film ticket subscription platform that once promised users unlimited movies for less than $10 a month is now trying to slither its way into your DMs, promising, pinky swearing, and pleading on hands and knees…Read more...

This sentence may have been crazy to imagine just a few short months ago but alas, here it is. If you missed Thor: Love and Thunder in theaters, you’ll get a chance to stream it at home on September 8.Read more...

Long-time public health official Anthony Fauci is set to retire from government soon. Fauci said Monday that he will leave his current roles as an advisor to the White House and a leading official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) come this December.Read more...

Bad news for fans of photo sharing: Instagram is more into videos these days, and not necessarily videos made by anyone you know or care about. If you’re looking for somewhere else to share your pictures, then we’ve got suggestions—there are actually plenty of alternatives out there if you’re primarily looking for…Read more...

Two fathers, one in San Francisco and another in Houston, were separately investigated by the police on suspicion of child abuse and exploitation after using Android phones (owned by Google) to take photos of their sons’ genitals for medical purposes. Though in both cases the police determined that the parents had…Read more...

Three Thousand Year of Longing, George Miller’s newest film starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, attempts to do the impossible. Skipping across three millennia, Miller’s romantic fantasy is a chamber play, an homage to the fable of Scheherazade, and a meditation on curiosity and storytelling. It’s a romance about…Read more...

In the middle of hurricane season, Republicans in Louisiana are blocking funding that would bolster flood protection in New Orleans—all because the city is resisting efforts to criminalize abortion.Read more...

The studio did it (a few times) for The Mandalorian, did it again for The Book of Boba Fett, and now is doing it for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Disney just announced a behind-the-scenes documentary is coming for the most recent Star Wars show and it’s arriving on the biggest of days.

If your Chromecast with Google TV has been feeling sluggish on startup lately (mine has), there’s good news on the horizon. Google has made a flurry of “under the hood” changes to Google TV to help it feel faster and more responsive. The changes are relatively minor, like dialing down the memory requirement for…Read more...

New research from scientists in Japan affirms a common suspicion held by dog owners: that their pets also deeply miss them when they’re away. The researchers found that dogs’ eyes well up with more tears after being reunited with their owners than with familiar non-owners or when the owners stayed at home. This…Read more...

A set of dinosaur tracks were recently found in the aptly named Dinosaur Valley State Park, which is situated in the ‘Dinosaur Capital of Texas,’ also known as Glen Rose, Texas. The city is nicknamed so because 113 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the area. The proof is in the dinosaur footprints that have been and…Read more...

Anya Corazon, also known as Araña, is one of the many Spider-People currently webslinging around New York City. Now, however, writer Alex Segura takes her on a new adventure that strands her in the future, causing her to team up with Spider-Man 2099, billionaire CEO Miguel O’Hara... and the two discover they have…Read more...

If you would prefer not to wait a full two weeks until the season six premiere of Rick and Morty, you don’t have to—it turns out a new episode, the much-teased “Wormageddon,” has come out today! It’s just not an episode you can watch, exactly.

Like many employers dreaming of better times, Apple wants its workers back at their office desks, clacking away at keyboards all the live-long day (where they can be watched over with the hawk-like eyes of middle management). Workers, on the other hand, don’t see much nostalgia from that time, and don’t see much or…Read more...

Neil Gaiman confirms that The Sandman has not been renewed for a second season... yet. Yellowjackets has cast Elijah Wood as a “citizen detective.” The Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot has been put on ice, and Primal leans into the supernatural. Spoilers ahead!

There’s something particularly apt about the first episode of House of the Dragon, the much-anticipated prequel series to Game of Thrones, being about the indecisiveness of King Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine) regarding who will succeed him on the Iron Throne. Like its lead character, House of the Dragon is…Read more...

For years, DC has been teasing that the Justice Society of America would make a big return to comics after having been thoroughly wiped away by the New 52. They’ve popped up in some comics in the recent past, but have primarily lived on through expanded media for the last few years: the CW featured two versions of the…Read more...

The Warner Bros. Discovery merger has thus far been a train wreck in slow motion. Earlier in the week, a variety of shows, including animated series like Infinity Train and Summer Camp Island, were suddenly yanked off of HBO Max, and the reaction thus far has been overwhelmingly negative. Even as still airing shows…Read more...

It’s been three years since One-Punch Man released its second season. In that time, we’ve heard nary a word on if the adventures of the ultra-powerful Saitama would continue in anime form, even as its live-action film adaptation is slowly starting to ramp up. But hey, turns out that a third season is on the way after…Read more...

Back in 2018 when Insomniac Games released the first Marvel’s Spider-Man game, it felt like a breath of fresh air after a pretty inconsistent, years-long run of Spider-Man games, and Marvel more broadly. In the last few years, it’s been proven that the PlayStation-exclusive sandbox game wasn’t a fluke. Whether it’s…Read more...

For those who play video games, 2007 is often considered one of the best years of the medium. It was a year of bangers: Microsoft had Crackdown and Halo 3, Nintendo took Super Mario to the Galaxy, Call of Duty blew the world open by going modern, and so on. It cannot be understated how much that year just kicked ass …Read more...

It’s never a boring day in the world of Marvel Comics. As the publisher’s solicitations for the winter draw closer, they’ve already revealed some of the events in store for their various heroes in a couple of months. And for both the Fantastic Four and Iron Man specifically, they’re going in some interesting…Read more...

In 2019, Vic Mignogna, a voice actor whose credits include Dragon Ball Z, RWBY, and Fullmetal Alchemist, was accused of sexual harassment by multiple parties said to stretch back multiple years.

2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order wound up being a way bigger success than anyone would’ve expected, and years later, remains notable for being one of the few recent Star Wars games to not have any real baggage attached to it. Its sequel, Jedi Survivor, is hitting in 2023, and now that it’s a known success,…Read more...

Since the sudden cancellation of the Batgirl and Scoob films back in July, both of which were basically done, the newly rechristened Warner Bros. Discovery has been mired in questionable business choices. In addition to maintaining a pretty transparent desire to use The Flash as a cinematic reset despite Ezra Miller’s…Read more...

If you play video games and own a PlayStation (or a PC), you may remember Days Gone, a 2019 game from Sony Bend where you played a biker fighting hordes of zombies in Oregon. Even with a mixed reception at launch, the game went on to sell several million copies in its lifetime, but not enough for Sony to approve a…Read more...

The trickle of trick-or-treat time goods has continued at popular retailers. Warner Bros. horror is making a big stamp at places like Hot Topic and Lowes. Spirit Halloween has debuted new exclusives as more of its locations open up. And kids are back in school, so those creepy Target aisles should be upon us soon.Read more...

Spider-Man: No Way Home is coming back to theaters next month, and if it makes another $100 million, it would be only the sixth movie in cinema history to cross $2 billion worldwide. What could possibly get people to come back and see the Marvel mega-hit? How about 11 minutes of new footage?Read more...

It’s been 20 years since someone first held up their phone to a speaker playing a vaguely familiar tune and wondered, “wait, who sings this?” The music recognition app Shazam celebrated its 20th anniversary by releasing a playlist of the most searched songs over the past two decades.Read more...

There’s more Star Trek now than there’s ever been in the franchise’s history. Legendary shows, new hits, and more Trek appealing to more people than ever before. It can make jumping on board really hard—but the beauty of Star Trek is that you can kind of start anywhere. Here’s the best places to warp into Star Trek,…Read more...

The House of Representatives approved changes to next year’s military budget requiring the Department of Defense to start disclosing any purchases of smartphone or web browsing data for which a warrant would ordinarily be required last month.

NASA is going back to the Moon, but first the space agency needs to decide where it’s going to park. On Friday, it revealed 13 candidate landing regions near the Moon’s south pole for the upcoming Artemis 3 mission, which aims to land a man and a woman on the lunar surface.Read more...