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Fandom can be a wonderful thing, but it can also be enduring through franchises that have lasted for so long, and done so many things in so many mediums, that sometimes just the most unhinged story, character, or factoid about it is all you can think about.

If we’re going to finally get to the promised land called “the metaverse,” users are apparently going to need to pony up a bit more to get us there. Meta announced Tuesday afternoon that it will be bumping up the price of both the 128GB and 256GB models of its popular Quest 2 headset by $100 “in order to continue…Read more...

Figma: The Table Museum action figure series, where have you been all my life? I am shocked and saddened to learn that I’ve been missing out on these toys based on works of important and/or fine art from the Good Smile Company’s Figma line, but utter delighted to discover their existence. But I’m even more delighted…Read more...

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Sony said it’s trying to make its Playstation VR2 experience as living room-friendly as possible, as it looks to carve out a niche for itself in a market dominated by wireless options like the Oculus Quest. In a Tuesday blog post, senior Product Manager Yasuo Takahashi expanded on just how the company’s going to…Read more...

Don’t hold your breath for Shang-Chi 2 because director Destin Daniel Cretton is about to inherit even more heroes than that. He’s reportedly been hired by Marvel Studios to direct Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, the fifth Avengers film set to co-concluse Phase 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in May 2025.Read more...

A coalition of 17 state attorney generals are pressuring Google to prevent it from limiting the search results of so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” known for masquerading as legitimate abortion clinics and persuading pregnant people away from receiving abortions.Read more...

Memory and data storage producer Micron have begun production and shipment of the world’s first 232-layer NAND in Singapore, which marks the first time a NAND manufacturer has surpassed 200 layers. This opens the door for the world’s first 200TB SSDs. For comparison, even the flashiest personal computers usually stop…Read more...

Sequels to Marvel films always have high expectations thrust upon them, but none of them have the expectations that Black Panther’s does. Wakanda Forever is an unenviable position, both as the follow up to a critical and commercial success that became the first superhero film to receive a Best Picture nomination at…Read more...

Scorching temperatures are still sweeping around the world, and this time the heat is headed to the historically temperate Pacific Northwest.Read more...

In Ti West’s X—a sleeper hit after its release earlier this year—a late-1970s porn shoot goes terribly wrong when the filmmakers decide a rural Texas farm is the perfect place to shoot their raunchy masterpiece. Now the slasher sensation is getting a prequel, and honestly, we did have some lingering questions about…Read more...

Two U.S. regulatory agencies that can’t agree who should be in charge of regulating crypto are both acting in completely different ways to try and oversee the industry. Only one of those agencies has gained the ire of the entire crypto field, specifically because it won’t back down from calling most digital asset…Read more...

While meeting with president Vladimir Putin today, Yury Borisov, the newly appointed head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, said Russia will leave the International Space Station after 2024 and attend to the construction of its own orbital outpost.Read more...

Growing up, we’ve all had a moment where something special and niche we loved officially goes mainstream and becomes a bit less cool. Maybe it’s your favorite band finally having a massive hit album. Maybe it’s an awesome little movie you discovered getting a big Hollywood remake. The sad fact is, with anything smart…Read more...

Low-profile mechanical keyboards are a relative niche in the keyboard community, but they’re becoming more common as people demand options. Low-profile keyboards have a similar look to laptop keyboards, and they might feel like they type a little faster with the shorter travel between keys, though your mileage may…Read more...

Add e-commerce behemoth Shopify to the growing list of tech companies struggling to steer through 2022 unscathed.Read more...

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You’ve got to pay up to stay primo. Amazon is increasing the cost of Prime membership for subscribers across Europe. Rate hikes are set to start in September and vary depending on country. In the United Kingdom, the annual fee for a prime membership will jump 20% from £79 to £95. But in France, the increase is even…Read more...

Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters that the internet loves and hates to obsess over, can move markets with her social media posts. Among the 360 million people following her is Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, who appeared like a genie from a lamp Tuesday morning after she voiced her displeasure…Read more...

Hey all you sexy young couples, I have bad news. Meta’s relationship-focused communication app Tuned is officially being shut down on September 19. Or, if you’re like me and 1) are single and/or 2) have never heard of this app, September 19 will just be another Monday.

Bruce Campbell says Evil Dead’s Ash could return, butin animated form. The Simpsons will spook with not one, but two Treehouse of Horror specials this year. Go behind the scenes of Westeros in a new House of the Dragon video. Plus, what’s coming on the Riverdale season finale. To me, my spoilers!

It’s one thing to buy the merchandise for your favorite band or movie or game. It’s another thing to wear a tie flooded with bitcoin tokens.Read more...

The world has gotten a little mad for chips (the kind that go in your computers, not your stomach), and the U.S. wants to take a big piece of the semiconductor pie away from countries like China. But first, it has to pass a bill, so expect a lot of last-minute wrangling, sweating, mind changing, weird additions, and…Read more...

Saudi Arabia is developing a new city, 150-stories tall and built from scratch, that will serve as a semi-enclosed environment where people can live and work without ever stepping foot outside. And while the promotional videos released Monday are likely an attempt to give the development a utopian feel that recalls so…Read more...

After last year’s (understandably) lackluster showing, it felt like San Diego Comic-Con roared back to life in 2022. Although the con was certainly bolstered by Marvel Studios’ return and its decision to announce basically everything, so many trailers, announcements, and more were revealed over the last four days. So,…Read more...

What We Do in the Shadows closed out San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H programming Sunday with a preview of this week’s “Night Market” episode and a lively discussion among the cast and creative team of what to expect this season. Showrunner Paul Simms and writer Stefani Robinson teased that not only are we getting that …Read more...

Comic-Con’s first in-person event since 2019 is over, and we’re had so much news to sift through, trailers to watch, and cosplay to delight in. After all the hype is said and done, who came out the cream of the nerd crop in San Diego this weekend? Who got lost in the crowds and con-crud? Here’s our picks for the…Read more...

The Asian giant hornet, popularly known as the murder hornet, is getting a new moniker. This week, the Entomological Society of America announced that it will officially adopt the term “northern giant hornet” as the common name for Vespa mandarinia. The change was implemented to avoid the use of a potentially…Read more...

We’ve gotten our first look at Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and now it’s time to break down the trailer! Honestly, Marvel should just send me second-by-second frames at this point, but I’ve taken a million screenshots and I have a dozen wikis open, so let’s get into what we learned about the superhero sequel.

Elon Musk’s private space company broke its own record for most launches in a single calendar year—and 2022 isn’t even close to being over yet. The company completed its 32nd successful launch of the year, beating its 31 successful launches in 2021.

A new wildfire exploded in Mariposa County, California on Friday and quickly spread over the weekend. The damage caused by what is now being called the Oak Fire has shut off power for about 2,000 homes and businesses.Read more...

China’s space agency performed a successful launch of a Long March 5B rocket on Sunday, delivering a new module to its fledgling space station. Similar to previous launches, however, the rocket’s core stage remained in orbit and is now set to perform an uncontrolled reentry.Read more...

The call for climate action is coming from the inside the House. More than a dozen congressional staffers occupied the Washington D.C. office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer today, in a protest demanding that Congress pass policy to combat climate change. Less than an hour after the demonstration began,…Read more...

With the Ms. Marvel show on Disney+ bringing Kamala Khan to new audiences worldwide (and hopefully encouraging them to check out her comics), it has been a landmark moment for Muslim, Pakistani, and South Asian representation in popular media. Muslim and South Asian superheroes remain scarce across the landscape; Ms.…Read more...

You gotta hand it to some people for being impetuous even in the face of extraordinary odds. Imagine looking for a single hard drive amidst a literal heap of trash. Well, that’s been one UK man’s goal for nearly a decade after he accidentally lost the chance of being an early crypto millionaire by chucking the wrong…Read more...

The latest news from the parched West is unsurprising but still shockingly bad: One of the region’s most important rivers is running dry in places where water is usually plentiful. Following a period of incredibly hot days in July, a stretch of the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque, New Mexico is nothing more than a…Read more...

For students at a boarding school in Switzerland, the curriculum now includes extraterrestrial architecture. The school has installed a 23-foot-tall, 3D-printed prototype of a space habitat that was designed with SpaceX rockets in mind.

San Diego Comic-Con is over, but cosplay is forever! If you’re experiencing withdrawals now that Comic-Con has closed its doors for the year, we’ve got you covered with one last hit of cosplay awesomeness from the last day of the convention.

If there’s one thing we can trust Martin Shkreli to do, it’s revolutionize the healthcare industry. The disgraced pharmaceutical executive is now behind a Web3 based drug discovery platform called Druglike, that seeks to increase the accessibility of drug discovery through decentralized computing.

The 2022 San Diego Comic-Con was held in person last week for the first time since 2019, and exhibitors made up for the long time away with a huge number of new movie and TV show trailers. The big comic book movie news came when Marvel returned to Hall H and debuted trailers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and She…Read more...

Years ago, I wouldn’t consider a mid-range smartphone, because I knew the concessions I’d have to make. It used to be that you could only find one flagship-level feature on a smartphone under the $500 price point. Fortunately, things have grown exponentially in the past five years.

Tech and manufacturing workers will once again be barred from leaving their employers’ facilities for a period of time in a Chinese city, in an attempt to keep production going, while stymying the spread of covid-19, according to a report from Bloomberg News. The newest round of lockdowns is in Shenzhen, where the…Read more...

The batteries in your mobile devices continue to be disappointingly limiting, but at least the technology in chargers continues to rapidly evolve so you can quickly top up your gear when you find a power outlet. Anker’s new GaNPrime chargers now promise up to 150W of power delivery from a relatively small brick,…Read more...

Here’s a life lesson I never thought I’d write about: Beware of robots when playing chess. Seriously. Take it from one 7-year-old chess player in Moscow, who learned (the hard way) that robot chess players can get testy and lash out.Read more...

Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie has been receiving a steady drip feed of information in recent years. This weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con gave us our first extensive look at the film, which stars Chris Pine as a bard leading an adventuring party who find themselves tasked with saving the world…Read more...

It’s one of the most horrifying representations of the 9/11 terror attacks, and somebody thought it could make them a quick buck. Users on GameStop’s fledgling NFT marketplace were flabbergasted over the weekend when they saw somebody was selling a non-fungible token evoking The Falling Man, a photo of a man jumping…Read more...

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2022 may be remembered as a turning point for social media regulation, or maybe more aptly, failed social media regulation. Though Texas and Florida managed to dominate headlines recently for their constitutionally questionable deplatforming laws, they’re far from the only states trying to get creative with managing…Read more...

David Warner, a British acting icon who’s genre roles are almost innumerable to count, has passed away at the age of 80. He passed from a cancer-related illness, according to the BBC.Read more...

The cast of Netflix’s Spy Kids reboot expands. Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham is getting an animated adaptation. Chukwudi Iwuji teases Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3's High Evolutionary. Plus, a look at Dan Harmon’s next animated series, and a new trailer for See’s final season. Spoilers away!