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Much-loved sci-fi TV series The Expanse had so much going for it, with memorable characters navigating high-stakes space action as well as often tense personal relationships. But the one thing it didn't have, besides a seventh season (sigh), was a set of action figures. Beltalowda, that's all about to change.

Jane Schoenbrun's new queer horror was one thing to watch at this year's Sundance-if you were there in person, that is. Now, everyone else can actually get a look behind the buzz, and this coming of age creepshow certainly lives up to it all.

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski bragged on Tuesday that his company's new OpenAI-powered customer service chatbot was doing the work of 700 people-nearly two years after Klarna laid off about 700 people.Read more...

Juno Temple gives an update on Venom 3. Sam Rockwell says a Galaxy Quest follow up could happen, with a little help from Simon Pegg. Plus, new looks at Imaginary and Immaculate, and what's next on Resident Alien. To me, my spoilers!

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The internet had its own never-frozen beef with Wendy's when it discovered the fast food chain was planning surge pricing for 2025. Wendy's clarified in an updated statement on Tuesday night that it has no plans" for surge pricing.Read more...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is not happy about what's been going on with the company's Gemini AI chatbot, calling viral and historically inaccurate errors from its image generator unacceptable" in an internal memo to employees on Tuesday.Read more...

The OnePlus Buds 3 offers a lot for its price. They're a decent budget-friendly pick unless you're a big bass fan. The sound feels nicely layered, and the ANC is powerful enough to silence everyone on the subway. Unless I'm to blame for having extraordinarily small ears (which isn't true), I wish they fit more snugly....Read more...

Back in the early 20th century, food and cigarette companies would sometimes include collectible cards with their products. And that's exactly what happened around 1910 when Wills's Cigarettes included cards about the history of flying with their smokes.Read more...

If you like vaporware and looking at phones and gadgets you'll never own, then Barcelona's Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the trade show for you. This week's annual menagerie revealed new devices like the TCL Nxtpaper 14 and a working model of Motorola's rolling phone display. Other brands-namely Samsung-used the...Read more...

The secret's out of the bag for Mean Girls musical star and original voice of Disney's Moana, Auli'i Cravalho. After much speculation among fans, the actress confirmed she will be reprising the role that launched her into stardom for Moana 2.Read more...

Ever since a passenger plane's door blew off in early January, plane-maker Boeing has been under increased scrutiny. Now, a new report from the Federal Aviation Administration calls into question the aircraft manufacturer's safety procedures, calling them inadequate."Read more...

Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series is officially a success. The new series debuted on the streamer's English-language TV list with 21.2 million views and reached the top 10 in 92 countries,according to Netflix's released rankings.Read more...

Dune: Part Two star Josh Brolin's resume is peppered with mega-blockbusters (see: his run as Thanos in the Avengers movies), but he hasn't lost his quirkiness. Things like his Dune poetry and his mastery of the Dune space guitar" have roots in his love of sci-fi, which he's carried since childhood.Read more...

Automattic, the parent company of sites like WordPress and Tumblr, is in talks to sell content from its platforms to AI companies like MidJourney and OpenAI for training purposes, according to a new report from 404 Media Tuesday. And while the details of the deal are still sketchy, Automattic is trying to reassure...Read more...

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Google swears it's not trying to kill journalism, but many of its latest projects seem geared toward that end. Google is paying five-figure sums to small publishers asking them to test out a generative AI platform geared toward newsrooms. News outlets are asked to publish three of these AI-assisted articles a day, in...Read more...

When Tenet released in 2020, it did so under the worst of circumstances. The context of the pandemic made the film a lightning rod when writer-director Christopher Nolan encouraged people to see it in theaters. Compared to his other recent movies, the time-bending spy thriller saw a more muted reaction. It made $365...Read more...

The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement and claims that the influential tech startup used its journalistic material to train its chatbot, ChatGPT, without paying the proper licensing fees. But Sam Altman's company is fighting back against these accusations with some accusations of its...Read more...

Do you never want to go back into the office again? We created a list that would make anybody's work-from-home setup so ergonomic, comfortable, and so convenient it will make you want to avoid ever stepping into an office again. Those currently in an office can instead stare at this list with a burning jealousy.Read more...

There appears to be another Netflix price increase just around the corner. Wall Street analysts are expecting Netflix to raise prices across its streaming service in 2024, first reported by Variety.Read more...

As Dune: Part Twodraws closer and closer, one thing has been on everyone's mind as the cast and crew open up about their experiences filming the next chapter of Frank Herbert's spicy sci-fi saga: what about that popcorn bucket though?

Apple's long-anticipated (and much delayed) project to build an electric car is going to that junkyard heap in the sky, according to a new report from Bloomberg. And much of the team will transition to working on generative AI, though it's unclear how many people might be laid off.Read more...

Apparently making super creepy mystery movies for major movie studios just runs in the Shyamalan family. M. Night Shyamalan, of course, is well-known for movies like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. He's been freaking us out and making us guess for decades. But now, his daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan is...Read more...

Stellan Skarsgard has always been a talented, well-respected actor, but the last few years have put him into a whole other stratosphere, especially in sci-fi. For starters, he's the game-changing Star Wars hero Luthen Rael on Andor. As Erik Selvig, he helped Thor across multiple Marvel movies. He danced across Greece...Read more...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course. The mission was a success in testing an asteroid deflection method that may come in handy one day, but rather than leaving behind an impact crater, the orbital collision changed the shape of the target asteroid...Read more...

Police were called to the scene of Willy's Chocolate Experience In Glasgow, Scotland" as children burst into tears when the immersive experience" promised in AI advertisements turned out to be a sparsely decorated warehouse.Read more...

YouTube restored an attack ad against Katie Porter that's running ad nauseam for users in California right now after it was pulled Sunday for violating the video-sharing site's policies. The ad, purchased by a political action committee called Fairshake, is being bankrolled by several prominent names in the world of...Read more...

For the past few years, toymaker Sentinel's Fighting Armor" toyline has transformed Marvel heroes from across the comics into mechanized warriors better than even the actual Marvel Comics crossovers to do so. While its forays into the worlds of Mutantkind have been few and far between, its latest turns an X-Men...Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has closed its investigation into the second Starship test flight, which SpaceX performed on November 18, 2023. With the inquiry concluded, SpaceX is now on track to advance its program, pending the necessary fixes.

Wendy's will start experimenting with surge pricing, much like Uber and Lyft, as the company rolls out digital menus to all its United States restaurants by 2025, according to the company's February earnings call. Under the test, burgers, Frosties, and other menu items will have dynamic prices," costing more during...Read more...

Microsoft announced a new partnership with Mistral AI on Monday, a French startup whose advanced large language models rival OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Mistral also released Mistral Large, its most advanced language model to date, and le Chat," a chat interface built on top of Mistral's models.Read more...

Ebon Moss-Bachrach discusses how he'll become The Thing for Fantastic Four. Doug Bradley wants one last outing as Pinhead. Get a look at Krysten Ritter in Orphan Black: Echoes. Rachel Brosnahan teases David Corenswet's Superman suit in Legacy, plus, Kung Fu Panda 4 riffs on Dune. Spoilers, away!

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub and other adult entertainment sites, for failing to enforce the state's new age verification laws, first reported by 404 Media on Monday.Read more...

This morning, Sony revealed that it is adding to the ever-growing pile of industry layoffs. In official posts, the company announced it had initiated a reduction" in workforce. These cuts will impact a variety of PlayStation's first-party studios including Insomniac Games, Guerrilla, Naughty Dog, Firesprite, and...Read more...

Physical media is the best. Maybe it's the fact that the internet has taken over our lives and is now swiftly being enshittified. Maybe it's the nostalgia factor. Maybe it's the fact that streaming offers reduced quality and no actual ownership. Maybe it's the fun and the community that comes with collecting. Or,...Read more...

Elon Musk's Tesla is famous for its electric cars, but the company is also a world leader in robotics. Musk considers Tesla's AI to be severely underrated-a claim that's not entirely baseless. While Tesla attracts world-class talent to build robots and artificial intelligence, these areas are much less talked about...Read more...

Imagine splurging $3,500 on a new Apple Vision Pro headset only to discover a few weeks later that your very expensive device now has a crack on the front of the screen-one you're sure isn't your fault.Read more...

A reliable way to keep appendages safe from the ravages of the cold is finally here. This month, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment meant to prevent limb amputation from severe frostbite, Eicos Sciences' Aurlumyn. Compared to standard care, the intravenous drug was shown to significantly...Read more...

You can't really go too far when it comes to phone security, considering everything of importance we put on these compact devices-from bank account apps to our most intimate conversations-and while lock screen protections can keep most people out, they're not always enough.

I tried to wear the OnePlus Watch 2 for a short weekend workout but couldn't. The watch is too big for me and too dense. It's not just me, either; I asked my partner if his wrists would be interested in trying on the smartwatch, and he rejected it after seeing the relatively ginormous 47mm display. That's way too big...Read more...

When Star Wars first arrived in the world-back when it was just the original trilogy, mountains of toys, and one peculiar holiday special-fans knew where things stood. The Jedi were the good guys; Darth Vader and his pals were the baddies. But in the decades since, things have gotten a lot murkier across both sides of...Read more...

This is shaping up to be a huge year for Magic: The Gathering, and over the weekend Wizards of the Coast took to Chicago for MagicCon, revealing a look at a ton of new cards on the horizon-including big crossovers like Fallout and Assassin's Creed, and brand new worlds in the Magic multiverse.Read more...

If you've been wondering when our military would start deploying artificial intelligence on the battlefield, the answer is that it appears to be already happening. The Pentagon has been using computer vision algorithms to help identify targets for airstrikes, according to a report from Bloomberg News. Just recently,...Read more...

Nick Offerman already picked up an Emmy for his guest-starring role on HBO's The Last of Us-and considering how acclaimed his turn in Long, Long Time" has been since the episode aired, it's no surprise he also won an Independent Spirit Award, this time for supporting performance.Read more...

Elon Musk's underground tunnel-digging enterprise, officially known as The Boring Company, has faced scrutiny over alleged worker safety violations in Nevada in recent years, according to a new report from Bloomberg Businessweek. And while no Boring Company workers have died in the state, the report highlights a...Read more...

Following a less-than-perfect touchdown, the Odysseus lander has been spotted from lunar orbit while lying on its side on the surface of the Moon. The lunar lander also beamed back its first images from the Moon as it fights to stay alive before it runs out of power.Read more...

Billionaires: They're just like us. That's what Elon Musk reminded uswhen he started using X, the social media network that he bought for $44 billion, to resolve his personal tech support problems.

When you look at Dave Bautista, the last thing you think of is failure. Even if he wasn't a former wrestling superstar turned mega movie star, if you saw this tall, muscular, tattoo-covered man walking down the street, you'd instantly think he's got it figured out. But in Dune: Part Two, Bautista's character doesn't...Read more...

The Supreme Court is hearing two cases on Monday that could set new precedents around free speech on social media platforms. The cases challenge two similar laws from Florida and Texas, respectively, which aim to reduce Silicon Valley censorship" on social media, much like Elon Musk has done at X in the last year.Read more...