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U.S. automotive giant Ford’s bringing more driver assistance features to U.S. roads, whether drivers are ready for them or not.Read more...

The wonderful worlds of Disney and all of its franchises were well represented at the D23 Expo 2022 by cosplayers donning their fandom best. Check out these amazing looks that covered the various universes of Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and Disney, plus some fun mash-ups.Read more...

Hundreds of students have signed an open letter condemning Carnegie Mellon University for publicly throwing professor Uju Anya under the bus after tweeting that she wished the late Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating pain” in death for serving as the head of a “thieving raping genocidal empire.” Coincidentally, Carnegie…Read more...

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The Inflation Reduction Act has been widely described as the largest piece of climate legislation ever passed in the U.S. It contains “the most substantial federal investment in history to fight climate change,” wrote the Associated Press on the day President Joe Biden signed the bill. Biden himself called it “the…Read more...

Apple’s iOS 16 is out today and that means new features. If you’re an iPhone user and want to customize the settings to better protect your digital privacy, there are a couple new options worth checking out.Read more...

It is the year of our lord Emma Frost 2022—and readers, somehow it has taken Marvel Comics this long to team up its two most iconic clones.

It’s not a stretch to say that Tinder revolutionized what it means to date online. While the shift to online dating was already in full swing, it was relegated to web browsers, with websites like Plenty of Fish and eHarmony taking the reign as the one-stop-shop for people looking for love amongst the digital…Read more...

There’s more than one reason to avoid dropping your phone in the water. Not only is it catastrophic for devices that aren’t properly waterproofed, but your device will also lose most of its wireless connectivity when submerged, leaving you unable to text message friends who’ve gone overboard too, unless you download…Read more...

If you type the phrase “the Merge” into Google today, you’ll be treated with a countdown: It’s coming in a little over two days, as of this writing. The countdown is ticking off the time until one of the biggest shifts the crypto world has ever seen.Read more...

Now that the Apple fanfare is nearing its end, we can start focusing our sights on what might be next from Google. The company is hosting a Pixel event next month in Brooklyn, N.Y., and there are rumblings that Google may also debut its next Chromecast device there.

If you couldn’t keep up with all the news Disney dropped at its D23 Expo this past weekend, we don’t blame you. There were so many trailers dropped, so much footage released, and so much news announced for shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Star Wars franchise, Disney proper, and more that it got…Read more...

If you’ve ever walked out of a Starbucks, infant-sized latte in hand, and thought, “Geez, this coffee’s really lacking some Silicon Valley-inspired innovation,” then good news. The brand that once tried to cash in on a dying CD industry is now leaning into the struggling Web3 marketing ecosystem in an attempt to…Read more...

Disney’s doing more than expanding its increasingly voluminous empire into all aspects of media, it’s now thinking of getting into the gambling game. Strap some beers to your Mickey Mouse ears hat and start chugging, because nothing says “Disney” like a debilitating sports gambling addiction.Read more...

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An uncrewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket ended in failure shortly after liftoff on Monday morning from Launch Site One in West Texas. The capsule, packed with scientific and technological payloads, managed to survive an apparent booster malfunction, with the launch escape system successfully…Read more...

Trying to describe the Locked Tomb series is an exercise in asking yourself where to start. Tamsyn Muir’s breakout books are brutally absurd and lyrical, strangely evading these kinds of explanations, but I’ll give it a go.

Torrential rains this weekend flooded roadways and basements around Chicago, with some neighborhoods seeing up to 5 inches of rain, NBC News reported. Water reached up to car bumpers around the city’s Lincoln Square neighborhood, and part of the Eisenhower Expressway had to shut down.Read more...

In Sydney, Australia, man and bird are waging a fierce battle over the most precious of resources: garbage. Over the past several years, a team of scientists has studied sulphur-crested cockatoo parrots in the area that have learned—and even taught other parrots—how to rob garbage bins. And in new research Monday, the…Read more...

Firefly Aerospace is gearing up for another go at launching its Alpha rocket, hoping that the small-lift launch vehicle makes it to orbit this time after a fiery first attempt last year.Read more...

I loved Cobra Kai season 5. Let’s just get that out of the way. Yes, in this article I’m gonna talk about things I both liked and didn’t about the brand new season but, even the things I didn’t like aren’t “bad.” They’re just not as good as the good stuff.Read more...

Chick-fil-A is the ultimate morality test for millennials and Gen Z. While their waffles fries are easily the best fast food fries in existence and their chicken sandwiches are second to none, the company does orchestrate a well known financial relationship with anti-LGBTQ+ groups. With this elephant in the room, some…Read more...

As Apple is set to roll out a major iOS update today, which makes digital distractions available on the iPhone’s lock screen without even having to unlock the device, Astrohaus’ distraction-free digital typewriters seem like even more of a must-have for those who write for a living. The latest model, the Alpha,…Read more...

NASA’s CAPSTONE probe has nearly completed its four-month-long journey to the Moon, where it will test a unique halo orbit in preparation for a future space station. Late last week, however, as the probe was performing a course correction maneuver, CAPSTONE entered into safe mode from which it has yet to emerge.Read more...

Another set of leaks for the Meta Quest Pro hit over the weekend, showing off a wildly redesigned headset. Even leaked videos can’t get me too excited about “the metaverse,” but what’s with all these tech companies leaving prototypes around where others can find them?Read more...

As the maxim goes: If at first you don’t succeed, try again. And again. Elon Musk made a third attempt to back out of his messy, ongoing $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on Friday. The company turned around and denied the claim on Monday.

David Harbour teases a new look for Red Guardian in Thunderbolts. There’s bad news for Amazon’s Paper Girls. Plus, Susan Sarandon talks Blue Beetle, what’s coming on Primal, and a new look at Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Club. To me, my spoilers!

The government of Japan is planning to fully reopen the country to international tourism, perhaps as early as October, according to reports from Nikkei Asia and the Fuji News Network, despite the fact Japan saw a record number of covid-19 cases over the summer.

When House of the Dragon premiered, I said that it was a show that was unsure whether it wanted to live in or out of Game of Thrones’ shadow. Four weeks later, I feel Dragon is already striding away, confident in where it wants to go—and where it wants to go is a different type of game of thrones.

The biggest news out of the Disney Parks, Experiences and Products panel at D23 Expo (outside of the Avengers Campus Multiverse ride) revealed a “Blue Sky” presentation (likely code for, just pitched at the audience) to let us know Disney Animation and Disney Imagineering have been in talks to bring recent hit films…Read more...

Much like Harley Quinn and Doom Patrol, Titans has managed to avoid the recent DC culling at HBO Max, as it was already confirmed for a fourth season last year. The gritty, often silly take on the Teen Titans has never been afraid of digging into the parents of its emotionally stunted superhero cast, and season four…Read more...

The Assassin’s Creed franchise has been going for so long that a good amount of its fanbase has literally grown up with it. Ever since it first stealthed its way to audiences’ hearts in 2007, the games have used its sci-fi memory hopping framing device to jump around from time period to time period. Those time periods…Read more...

To cap off D23 Expo with a bang, the Disney Parks, Experiences and Products panel announced that Disneyland’s Avengers Campus will be getting a new attraction that will expand the Marvel Studios-themed resort area with a new multiversal e-ticket ride. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige was on hand to announce third…Read more...

Marvel’s D23 presentation yesterday gave us our first look at what appears to be the full team headlining 2024's Thunderbolts film. Though it sports previous MCU antagonists like Ghost from Ant-Man & the Wasp and Black Widow’s Taskmaster, it’s not exactly what you’d call “villainous”: from Falcon & Winter Soldier’s US…Read more...

Often when you talk about Nickelodeon, the conversation tends to be about its many live action comedies like iCarly or Big Time Rush, or its animated ventures like Avatar or Spongebob. One show that gets talked about a lot but not all the time is Danny Phantom. was on at the same time that creator Butch Hartman’s…Read more...

There’ve been a lot of kids books that have been announced to be getting their own TV adaptations, but few are quite so anticipated as Disney’s upcoming Percy Jackson series. Based on Rick Riordan’s five-book series that later became an entire media franchise called Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, the show cast its three…Read more...

Leave it to James Cameron to turn the D23 Expo into a Dolby-powered 3D theater. The legendary director didn’t have a new trailer for fans, but he did bring Pandora to them by way of a curated selection of scenes from Avatar: The Way of Water in state of the art 3D. No really, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen and…Read more...

You thought there was a lot of Star Wars and Marvel news and footage today? You haven’t seen anything yet. The D23 Expo was just getting started.Read more...

You don’t even realize it but you’ve already seen footage from The Marvels. At D23 Expo Saturday, Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios broke news and showed footage for over an hour straight, culminating with the first ever footage from the Captain Marvel sequel, which also features Monica Rambeau and Ms. Marvel.Read more...

Mutants and fantastic families didn’t grace Saturday’s D23 presentation, though Kevin Feige had other snippets of information to reveal for the various Marvel projects in production. With the slate of Phases 5 and 6 still fresh in our minds from San Diego Comic-Con, Feige took the time to pull back the curtain a…Read more...

The Disney D23 Expo has had a solid amount of reveals and footage for various Marvel films and shows in production. Kevin Feige revealed the main roster for the upcoming Thunderbolts film. That cast is:

The Comic-Con trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was a somber, mournful affair that couldn’t be anything but after the sudden passing of Chadwick Boseman. And though much of the film will be about the film’s returning characters (and their real life stars) grieving, Wakanda Forever is going to show the wider …Read more...

Well, we still have to call it “Indiana Jones 5.” Today at the D23 Expo, Disney and Lucasfilm did not reveal the title of the upcoming film, but we did see a ton of amazing footage.Read more...

The last season of The Mandalorian ended with Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) sending his son Grogu away to learn the ways of the Force by Luke Skywalker. But after being reunited in Book of Boba Fett, the duo are back to doing what they do best: making money in the galaxy, and occasionally getting pulled into situations…Read more...

During the Lucasfilm presentation, actor Warwick Davis was on hand to present the trailer for the Willow series coming to Disney+. The actor reprises his role as Willow Ulfgood from the 1988 film. Joining him are a new ensemble of faces, which include Ellie Bamber, Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter…Read more...

At Saturday’s D23 Expo, the joint presentation for Lucasfilm, Marvel, and 20th Century Studios began with a look at the upcoming Star Wars: Andor series. Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor from 2016's Rogue One takes center stage in a prequel that details his life up to joining the Rebellion and eventually giving his life to…Read more...

Last night at Disney’s D23 Expo 2022, we got our first look at the new Haunted Mansion movie, directed by filmmaker Justin Simien (Bad Hair). Simien was on hand to show attendees a teaser of what to expect from his happy haunt adaptation of Disney Parks’ beloved ride.

Stephen King is one of the most famous living authors today, and whose bibliography feels like it’s never not being adapted by a streamer or film company. Throughout the decades, those many adaptations have run the gamut of being good, with some caveats, or bad despite the glimpses of potential you can see in the…Read more...

Over the last several years, Marvel has managed to have a run of solid, mostly single player games starring heavy hitter comic book characters like Spider-Man, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and so on. Last year, the news broke that Marvel had another game in the works from Skydance New Media, run by Amy Hennig, the…Read more...

I’m not saying that Apple’s newest smartphone lifted elements directly from the mass of phones already floating around in the Android space, but I noticed some similarities during the Far Out keynote that I couldn’t ignore. The iPhone 14’s new features, like the always-on display and ProRAW mode, seemed similar to…Read more...