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Disney’s chief corporate affairs officer Geoff Morrell posted a tweet on Tuesday about the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy attraction at Epcot in Walt Disney World. And while the tweet seemed innocent enough at first glance, Morrell may have spilled some sensitive secrets, at least by Disney standards.

Imagine a former co-worker told the world you were coming back to work with them without your knowledge. That’s apparently what happened last week to several members of the cast of the recent theatrical Star Trek films.Read more...

With all the multitudes of surprises, guest stars, and fan service found through Spider-Man: No Way Home, it’s tough to say that the movie’s last reveal (sans the post-credits scene) of Peter Parker’s new Spider-duds would make even a top 10 list of the film’s “whoa!” moments. But there’s more going on with the outfit…Read more...

Based on the Nicolas Roeg sci-fi classic, Showtime’s The Man Who Fell to Earth serves as a continuation of the film that starred David Bowie. This time Chiwetel Ejiofor arrives on Earth to complete a mission from the same home world as Thomas Jerome Newton, who arrived decades before. Bill Nighy takes over the role of…Read more...

Gun-related fatalities have surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of deaths from physical trauma, according to new research. In recent years, more lives—and years of life—were lost to firearms than to motor vehicles. The majority of these deaths involved suicide, particularly among older white men, but Black…Read more...

Peloton’s stock value is spiraling downward, it recently laid off 20% of its workforce and replaced its CEO, and demand for its products has dropped off a cliff. As if things couldn’t get worse, we’re now learning that as Peloton’s business was corroding, so were its bikes.

A Colorado web developer refusing to offer website services to a same-sex couple has found herself at the center of a national debate over the legal limits of free speech and anti-discrimination laws.Read more...

As Star Trek: Discovery’s fourth season builds up to its endgame pitching the Federation into a dangerous first contact with a mysterious, extra-galactic threat, at the heart of it all has been a mysterious, planet-wrecking anomaly known as the DMA. But as we’ve learned more about the anomaly, it’s revealed a…Read more...

If you want a digital watch that doesn’t look like a miniature smartphone on your wrist, there aren’t a lot of stylish options. One alternative to Timex and Casio’s offerings is from Girard-Perregaux, which is resurrecting a classic digital design from the ‘70s in which displaying the time almost seems like an…Read more...

New observations of the football-shaped exoplanet known as WASP-121b have revealed clues to its atmosphere and weather. Astronomers say it may have metal clouds made up of iron, corundum, and titanium.Read more...

Never underestimate the scope of fandom. That’s a lesson the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is currently learning, if we’re to believe a report from Deadline last week. The trade said that while most assumed a popular comic book movie like Spider-Man: No Way Home or Zack Snyder’s Justice League, both of…Read more...

The Marine Corps says it will need to spend $5 billion over the next 30 years to update two recruit depots for both climate resiliency and the integration of women into boot camp, the Marine Corps Times reported. This move comes as the U.S. military is pushing for better preparation for climate change-fueled…Read more...

Bad news for New York City’s mounting number of grocery apps promising super-fast deliveries. An upcoming bill from City Councilman Christopher Marte would keep the city’s delivery apps from promoting the 15-minute delivery times that have become their main selling point.Read more...

Renowned animator and film director Hayao Miyazaki’s first standalone graphic novel, Shuna’s Journey, is receiving an American release via the Macmillan graphic novel imprint, First Second. Translator Alex Dudok de Wit describes the book as an homage to the traditional emonogatrari comics of late ‘40s and ‘50s Japan,…Read more...

An apparent rip-off of Donald Trump’s social media network Truth Social has racked up downloads in the six figures on Google’s Play Store, causing confusion by MAGA types who failed to realize the distinction.Read more...

A faulty memory chip caused a problem last year with NASA’s upcoming Space Launch System megarocket—an issue the space agency says is now resolved.Read more...

Environmental activists and Native American tribes attempting to permanently shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline scored a major legal victory on Tuesday as the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from the pipeline’s developers. That rejection means the court will let stand a lower court ruling which called for…Read more...

The epic, sprawling, story of Horizon Forbidden West is one of the many reasons the game is so addictive. When we last saw the daring warrior Aloy at the end of 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, she’d defeated the evil program HADES and, she thought, saved the world. But questions still lingered. How did HADES get awakened?…Read more...

Aaron Taylor-Johnson won’t be playing the only Spider-Man villain in next year’s Kraven the Hunter. His character’s half-brother—Chameleon—is coming along for the ride, too.Read more...

German officials said Tuesday that they would block the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, an enormous project that would double the flow of Russian natural gas into the country. The announcement comes in response to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.Read more...

Based on the trailers and the fact that producer Taika Waititi co-stars as Blackbeard, we were already extremely pumped for HBO Max’s new pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death. But then we got a chance to see the first few episodes, and our enthusiasm has reached outrageous heights—a sentiment shared by the show’s own…Read more...

Tonga residents began to finally see some lights at the end of the tunnel on Tuesday, with internet services jumping back online for the first time in five weeks after a massive volcanic eruption ripped apart the country’s sole subsea fiber optic cable. The repair marks a significant recovery milestone for the country,…Read more...

Scientists in Australia thought they had developed an innovative new tracking device to help them monitor magpies, but these crafty birds had other ideas.

Despite the fact that nearly every device I rely on now has the capability to play or stream digital audio files, I would still happily embrace the inconvenience of carrying around a standalone MP3 player if it put Winamp, one of the earliest MP3 players for PCs, in my pocket.Read more...

If you watched last Thursday’s first season finale of Peacemaker, you know that the show ended on some very special, yet extremely unexpected, cameos by a few DC Comics characters. But they’re more than just mere cameos, which star James Cena is well aware of—and it turns out there may have been more to these cameos…Read more...

Sony has finally given us our first look at the PlayStation VR2 along with more detailed shots of the Sense 2 controllers. The headset looks similar to the previous model but adds some noteworthy enhancements, including a lens adjustment dial and a new vent design.

Last May, Panasonic renewed its commitment to Micro Four Thirds cameras by announcing the Lumix GH5 II and teasing the GH6 which missed its 2021 arrival but is finally here in early 2022 with the largest megapixel count on a Micro Four Thirds sensor to date and some impressively upgraded video capabilities.Read more...

John Carpenter also talks about bringing an end to the Michael Myers saga again with Halloween Ends. Get a first haunting glimpse at new pictures from Robert Eggers’ The Northman. Tom Welling thinks that Smallville animated series might still happen. Plus, what’s coming on Snowpiercer. Spoilers go!

Google Messages is now the default messaging and texting app for both Pixel handsets and Samsung phones, and it’s also available as a free download for anyone else with an Android device. If you’ve been using Android for awhile, there’s a good chance you rely on Google Messages. While it might seem like a basic…Read more...

An NFT trader from Texas has filed a lawsuit against trading platform OpenSea, saying the company was responsible when his Bored Ape image was stolen from his crypto wallet. The trader is asking for the return of his ape and $1 million in damages.

Dr. Paul Farmer, a widely respected figure in the world of public health, died on Monday at the age of 62, according to a statement from the charity he cofounded, Partners in Health. Farmer passed away in his sleep in Butaro, Rwanda, though a cause hasn’t been announced.Read more...

Truth Social, a new social media app that claims to be “free from political discrimination” from former President Donald Trump, made its public debut on Apple’s App Store on Monday in honor of President’s Day. Like many things in Trumpland, including the Trump himself, the app was messy and full of errors.Read more...

The Power Rangers have been around for 29 years now, giving generations of superhero fans nearly three decades of giant robot fighting, evil moon witch cackling, and the inherent joy of color-coded superhero transformation sequences. But they’d be in a very different place without, of course, the series that helped…Read more...

Yes, yes, we might all still be waiting for The Winds of Winter to get finished sometime this decade, but that doesn’t mean more George R.R. Martin content isn’t on the way. There’s of course HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones TV spin-off House of the Dragon, but now the author’s other novelized passion project is jumping…Read more...

Did the Peacemaker cast have fun together making the show? Did they flub their lines? Did they do silly little dances on camera? Did John Cena laugh so much a member of the set crew had to come over and dab away Cena’s tears from his face because it was during the scene where Judomaster had Peacemaker tied up? As this…Read more...

Henry Cavill has made something of a habit out of turning his geekiest passions into dreams come true—from playing the Man of Steel to getting to embody his love of the Witcher games as Netflix’s own Geralt of Rivia. Now the actor has taken his passion for Warhammer 40,000, and leveraged it get hands-on at the home of…Read more...

Almost 40 years after its release, David Cronenberg’s Videodrome still rings true. A sci-fi horror thriller about a TV channel that might just be murdering people as a way to corrupt perverted Americans somehow now, in an era of streaming, social media, and 24/7 news, feels more modern an ever. And while the film has…Read more...

The year is 2034.

Set over 7000 years and starring almost a dozen new heroes, it’s no surprise making Marvel Studios’ Eternals was an epic task. The film is now on Blu-ray and to celebrate, Disney dropped a surprise episode of their fun Disney+ series Assembled, documenting huge parts of the process. Usually, these Assembled episodes,…Read more...

Brie Larson talks the madness of The Marvels. The cast of The Batman tease the latest Dark Knight, via the medium of Little Caesars. The CW rounds out more cast for its Nancy Drew spinoff, Tom Swift. Plus, what’s coming on Star Trek: Discovery. Spoilers, away!

Those inclined to think apocalyptically know that tech, in its purest form, spells civilizational disaster. It is true that we might never see a world filled with violent hypertrophic CRISPR babies, and uncontrollable self-driving cars, and AI intent on twisting humans into paperclips. Our tech-hastened end, if and…Read more...

Even though this is The Walking Dead’s final season, it doesn’t seem to be building up to anything particularly spectacular. Sure, there’s very likely going to be a battle between Alexandria and the faux Stormtroopers of the fascist Commonwealth, but it’s clearly not going to drag on like the series’ other wars. Maybe…Read more...

A hacker carried out a phishing attack to steal potentially hundreds of NFTs from users of OpenSea, one of the largest NFT marketplaces on the internet, worth a total of $1.7 million on Saturday. Company officials on Sunday tried to reassure users that it was safe to mint, buy, list, and sell NFTs on OpenSea, although…Read more...

Peacemaker came to an end this week, and with it, the redemption story of John Cena’s DC antihero has come to a close. (Well, for now.) With this and The Suicide Squad, director/writer James Gunn has done for DC what he did for Marvel back in 2014 with the Guardians of the Galaxy: focus on one or more unlikable jerks…Read more...

2021 was a big year for superhero movies, particularly for Marvel and its webheads. In addition to the massive, nostalgia-fueled juggernaut Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tom Hardy and his massive chompers chewed up Venom: Let There Be Carnage to sizable box office success. The conversation surrounding both films was if…Read more...

Earlier this week, James Gunn’s Peacemaker brought its story to a violent, emotionally fulfilling conclusion. That may not have been surprising, given Gunn’s track record, particularly Guardians of the Galaxy 2's stunning ending. What was surprising—well, in addition to the Big Thing, but we’ll get to that—was how…Read more...

You can tell that Apple is absolutely thrilled with its record-breaking six Oscar nominations this year for CODA and The Tragedy of Macbeth. To celebrate, it is re-releasing CODA, which premiered last August in theaters and on Apple TV+, for free in major cities across the U.S. and London from Feb. 25 to Feb. 27.Read more...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, after being accused by Tesla CEO Elon Musk this week of conducting a “harassment campaign” against him, has responded with a reminder to Musk that this level of federal scrutiny was part of the deal he agreed to after his shitposting landed him in hot water.Read more...

This fall, you may be able to get a second covid-19 booster shot along with your annual flu vaccine.Read more...