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While there were many new sights to be seen and announcements to be made at this year’s DC Fandome, the Harley Quinn’s creative team sent their animated headline to the digital expo to let the everyone know that while she appreciates everyone being excited for the show’s upcoming third season, animation takes time,…Read more...

Though Naomi McDuffie’s only been kicking around in DC’s comics for a few years now, the young heroine’s already making the jump over to the small screen in the CW’s upcoming Naomi series set to debut this fall. With this year’s DC Fandome comes a new clip from Naomi introducing Kaci Walfall as the show’s titular…Read more...

With each season of Young Justice, the young heroes of the DC Universe have found themselves embroiled in larger and larger conflicts that span their entire galaxy. The upcoming fourth season, subtitled Phantoms, may go bigger than ever before by putting the crimefighters in the middle of a battle that’ll determine…Read more...

Titans sure is a strange show. Initially billed as a mature version of the Teen Titans characters most of us have grown up with, the HBO Max (and sometimes TNT) series messily existed for two seasons. Its current third season has been a noticeable step up for many, and now it’s coming back for a fourth round. The…Read more...

Between The Batman, The Flash, and the Aquaman sequel, Warner Bros. has been a little coyer about its Batgirl movie, which makes sense as it’s not due until late 2022. But thanks to the DC Fandome event, WB gave us a tiny, tiny glimpse of Barbara’s new movie, and we’re absolutely down to see this Batgirl kick…Read more...

The next video game out of Gotham City is missing its former hero, at the worse possible time. So it’s probably for the best Bruce Wayne left some very trusty friends behind—because they’re going to need each other to go up against a familiar threat from DC’s comics.

Aquaman used to be the butt of so many superhero jokes for so long, but that pretty much changed the minute Game of Thrones’ badass Jason Mamoa put on Arthur Curry’s scaled, skin-tight armor for Warner Bros. It’ll be great to see Mamoa speed-swimming through the seven seas when Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom releases…Read more...

We finally have our first look at Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer as she’ll appear on Netflix’s The Sandman, and she’s looking decidedly more glam—and certainly more menacing—than she did in her breakthrough role as Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones. But we love Christie in anything, to tell the truth, and we are…Read more...

Barry Allen, the fastest fan of hot dogs alive, is about to race head-first into the most important question of DC’s upcoming movie multiverse: just how many Bat-Dads does one person need?

Clark Kent has fought for “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” for the best part of seventy years of his career as a comic book icon, a career that spans even longer than that. But while there have been times he’s moved away from it momentarily, and its origins worded it a little differently, now, Superman has a new…Read more...

With Peacemaker, director and writer James Gunn hopes you loved John Cena’s comically stupid killer from The Suicide Squad enough to follow him through eight episodes of a spinoff for HBO Max. In the show’s first trailer from DC Fandome, it looks like Gunn may have another winner on his hands, provided you can groove…Read more...

In a Friday update, Twitch downplayed the severity of this month’s massive security incident assuring users that “the customer impact is minimal” after a 125GB cache of its internal data was leaked online.Read more...

I mean, if you’re going to make a DC video game about what could only be imagined as one hell of a suicide mission, you might as well bring along the Suicide Squad, right?Read more...

After years of being tied up in comics publishing limbo, the heroes of Milestone Comics finally began making their triumphant return to the world in 2021 as a part of DC Comics’ new initiative to revitalize the Milestone brand, and bring classic characters like Static, Icon, and Rocket into the 21st century for a new…Read more...

It’s official: Black Adam is indeed a real movie, it does indeed star Dwayne Johnson, and thanks to today’s DC Fandome event, we finally have our first look at actual proof of this cinematic fact beyond concept art!

Mike Flanagan, the man behind some scary Netflix shows like Midnight Mass and the upcoming Midnight Club, loves himself some horror. In Mass and his Haunting shows, that horror starts slow before getting violent and ending poignantly. But for his upcoming series The Fall of the House of Usher, his adaptation of Edgar…Read more...

There are still no specific details on when Analogue’s highly-anticipated but now thrice-delayed Pocket will officially start shipping to those who pre-ordered one, but the company has revealed some more details about the console’s new operating system, which sounds like it will be as much about exploring and learning…Read more...

The past 18 months have been, to put it lightly, have not been great. The covid-19 pandemic has and continues to warp our lives in ways big and small. But for me personally, I’ve been able to find joy and avoid burnout through something I never thought I’d indulge in: the critically acclaimed and much memed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV.Read more...

Let me preface this by saying that I don’t dislike Tinder. I’ve used it before to chat with singles in my area and even went on a nice date with someone from the app. You know, normal dating app things. Yet, people are apparently going on Tinder with a very different goal in mind: finding a wedding date. And I can’t…Read more...

Ransomware gangs targeted multiple water facilities in the U.S. this year, a new government report claims. The news represents a frightening escalation in cybercrime—showing that hackers are increasingly willing to put people’s lives at risk for the sake of money.Read more...

Sometimes it seems like millennia have passed since Marvel Studios first announced that the little-known Eternals would star in their own movie. But that movie is finally less than a month away, right around the proverbial corner—yet there’s still hyping to be done. There’s a new clip to check out, an extremely…Read more...

The end is in sight for Jodie Whittaker’s groundbreaking run as the title star of the Doctor Who—but it’s not time to bid farewell just yet. We’ve got quite a fight to get through first!

Apple hasn’t given up on its HomePod smart speaker. According to a new Bloomberg report, the company has hired a new software head for the device in a bid to make a speaker that can compete with Google and Amazon’s. But the HomePod needs a lot more than new leadership (though that might help) to be a smart speaker…Read more...

After two years of offering car insurance to drivers across California, Tesla’s officially bringing a similar offering to clientele in its new home state of Texas. As Electrek first reported, the big difference between the two is how drivers’ premiums are calculated: in California, the prices were largely determined…Read more...

On Thursday, a strange scene unfolded at the International Conference Centre in Edinburgh. Shell CEO Ben van Beurden took the stage with a prominent climate scientist and Christiana Figueres, the woman who negotiated the Paris Agreement, at a TED Countdown conference. Van Beurden was there to ostensibly talk up the…Read more...

Encouraging results from a computer simulation point to the use of nuclear devices as a viable defense against Earth-threatening asteroids that suddenly appear out of the blue.

What’s more Christmassy than tickets to a Broadway show, family LARP events, or even a new friend to meet? The chance to shoot exploding arrows at truckloads of goons for punching you about, of course.

Engineers at Stanford University have attempted to improve the standard white cane, used to help visually impaired people move around independently and safely. In a new study this week, their design, simply named the Augmented Cane, seemed to improve the walking speed and navigation skills of both sighted and visually…Read more...

Hot Toys has revealed its uncanny action figures of the two true stars of Marvel and Disney+’s Loki TV series: Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino). But if you’ve seen the show, you know she’s a variant of Loki just like the Cosmic Cube-stealing version from Avengers: Endgame, so she’s earned the name…Read more...

I don’t know much about teenagers at this point in my life, but I do know that they love photos. From scrupulously documenting their adventures on visual platforms like Instagram and VSCO to setting their chillest summer memories to music for 15-second clips on TikTok, the teens love to wax nostalgic about their very…Read more...

Through the myriad twists and turns of Locke & Key’s first season—and all the magical keys that led to said twists and turns—we’ve gotten glimpses of Scot Cavendish (Petrice Jones) making his a cinematic masterpiece. It’s a horror film (because of course it is) starring Kinsey Locke (Emilia Jones) and as Netflix’s…Read more...

Palm probably wasn’t a name you were expecting to hear from again, but to the surprise of many, the company recently posted some teasers on Twitter foreshadowing a new gadget coming out later this month.Read more...

Still catching up on the last major wifi standard to be announced? Sorry, but the next one is here. Wi-Fi 6E routers are beginning to pop up, and you should know that the new standard is a more substantial jump up from Wi-Fi 6 than that ‘E’ might suggest.

Yes, friends, there’s another Apple event ahead of us. It kicks off Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, to be exact. And while we saw new iPhones, the Apple Watch Series 7, and two iPads last month, there are still a few things Apple has in store for its next event, which offers the vague tagline: “Unleashed.”Read more...

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a tentative and halfhearted approval to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin on Thursday, signaling that it’s something he may accept as a legitimate payment option in the future. Perhaps the very distant future, if we’re being honest.

Roughly 6,900 Specialized brand bicycles sold in the U.S. have been recalled because the bike’s frame can crack, according to a new announcement from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

As Facebook weathers an ongoing PR shitstorm composed of various interlocking crises, a number of public advocacy groups have launched a website that asks Americans to help put the screws to the tech giant.

We just got a trailer for the new Scream movie, and here’s another horror trailer involving a ringing telephone that’s perfectly timed for spooky season (even if the movie itself isn’t out until next year): The Black Phone. It’s the latest from Scott Derrickson, whose biggest credit is 2016's Doctor Strange but whose…Read more...

From the makers of Star Wars: The Theme Park: The Comic Book, now comes Star Wars: The Theme Park: The Hotel: The Comic Book!

Driving can be infuriating. As more people get back into the groove of commuting, popular navigation app Waze is teaming up with meditation app Headspace to help you calm the hell down while you’re on the road. Or at least that’s the goal.

A huge owl named Gladys escaped from the Minnesota Zoo earlier this month, and zoo officials need help tracking her down.

Even if you put aside its decidedly bug-eyed appearance, the leaked HTC Vive Flow is a baffling headset. By all accounts, it’s supposed to be a standalone consumer VR device that’s made for activities like meditating and streaming media. It also will allegedly come with its own take on the metaverse. In a somewhat…Read more...

Microsoft basically invented the detachable 2-in-1 with the Surface RT and the original Surface Pro, and over the years, the company has been steadily iterating on the Surface’s design, while being cautious not to make any radical changes that make scare away longtime owners or picky enterprise customers. With the…Read more...

Boeing will require all 125,000 of its U.S.-based employees to be vaccinated against covid-19, according to a new statement from the company and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Boeing employees will need to show proof of vaccination by December 8, when President Joe Biden’s executive order for vaccine requirements at…Read more...

The U.S. will open its land borders to nonessential travel from Canada and Mexico in November, according to a new announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But there’s one catch: Only people who are fully vaccinated against covid-19 will be allowed into the U.S.Read more...

If you love gadgets, next week is going to be a pretty big deal. Samsung just announced that its next event, Galaxy Unpacked part two, is on Wednesday, Oct. 20. Apple’s second fall event, where we expect to see new MacBooks and AirPods, is Monday, Oct. 18, and Google will officially launch the Pixel 6 on Tuesday, Oct.…Read more...

If you use an Android phone and are (rightfully!) worried about digital privacy, you’ve probably taken care of the basics already. You’ve deleted the snoopiest of the snoopy apps, opted out of tracking whenever possible, and taken all of the other precautions the popular how-to privacy guides have told you to. The bad…Read more...

Early into FX’s Y: The Last Man series, it’s clear that there wasn’t all that much that made Yorick Brown particularly interesting in the time before the entire planet’s mammalian population born with a Y chromosome—aside from Yorick and his pet monkey—suddenly succumbed to an unknown disease.Read more...

Google’s Pixel 6 smartphone is amassing a ton of buzz over its design and features ahead of next week’s event, but the launch might also bring the official debut of Android’s digital car key support.

Peter Parker’s had a famously rough life, but if he’s had it any easier than his clone Ben Reilly, it’s only because Ben hasn’t been around as long. Since he came to prominence during the Clone Saga of the mid-’90s, he’s died, been resurrected, tortured, murdered, resurrected, tortured, again, rinse, repeat. He’s…Read more...