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Another month, another storm in the Doctor Who fandom as truly wild speculation about the identity of the next Doctor takes hold. This time, we’ve traded former Doctor himself David Tennant for British acting icon Hugh Grant, in a move that the actor himself has already flatly denied. But does it help... that Hugh…Read more...

Everyone is looking at Disney to do better—a lot better—as cast members and allies participate in organized walkouts to represent LGBTQIA+ people and families affected by the company’s reluctance to create real change.

Proving that nothing is sacred, some asshole recently hacked the website for the National Spelling Bee and stole personal information from the site’s users.Read more...

After a day of rigorous searching, Chinese investigators are still unable to find any survivors from the aftermath of a China Eastern Airlines plane that nosedived into a mountain. The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 132 people on board.Read more...

If you’re going to spend a princely sum on a timepiece, you probably want something big, heavy, and complicated that won’t go unnoticed on your wrist. Which is why the new Bulgari Octo Finissimo Ultra is such an odd duck. It’s engineered to disappear on your wrist. The matte gray arm chronometer just claimed the…Read more...

Fennic Shand from The Mandalorian, Spike from Cowboy Bebop, and Sylens from Horizon Zero Dawn are teaming up for a new universe-hopping adventure. Not one that links those franchises, unfortunately, but for a short called Parallel Man: Infinite Pursuit. It’s about a super-soldier trying to save the universe with the…Read more...

Archaeological evidence from the ancient city of Çatalhöyük reveals a complex funerary ritual in which human bones were dug up, circulated among the community, painted, and reburied. The coloring on exhumed bones has also been matched to paintings found on building walls.

Struggling to feel connected to nature while stuck behind a computer screen all day long? The Monitree feels your pain and isolation. So, instead of encouraging you to just go outside on your lunch break, it brings the outside to you with a terrarium wrapped around your computer screen featuring real growing vines…Read more...

March 22 is not just the birthday of Star Trek icon William Shatner, but his fictional counterpart, Captain James T. Kirk. As we get ready to meet a younger version of the Starfleet legend in Strange New Worlds, and Chris Pine’s alt-timeline Kirk is set to return in a new Star Trek movie, we look back on the…Read more...

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Five years ago this month, news broke that Disney was looking to continue the Tron franchise with actor Jared Leto. Since then though, not much has happened. A few quotes possibly mentioning a script, a working title, but nothing set in stone. It would be easy to assume the project has left the Grid entirely. However,…Read more...

Banks and other financial institutions utilizing artificial intelligence may be uniquely susceptible to retaliatory Russian cyberattacks as taxing international sanctions worsen, experts warn.Read more...

The fallout from Spider-Man: No Way Home is everywhere. At the box office, where it was easily the biggest hit of the past several years. In theaters, with movies like Morbius standing on its shoulders. And almost certainly in the future Marvel Cinematic Universe too, especially with that multiverse fully part of the…Read more...

Firefighters in Texas have finally gotten the upper hand on devastating wildfires that began last week. But fires continue to blaze across areas of the state and may escalate due to dry weather, as people in some of the hardest-hit areas begin to assess the damage.

Chromebooks have come a long way from their origins as cheap, budget-friendly laptops with small displays that are meant for kids and the classroom. One user segment they haven’t yet reached, however, is gamers. That could soon change now that Google is bringing Steam to Chrome OS.

Apple’s Mac Studio is a compact desktop with beastly performance, but its lack of upgradability is a disadvantage when compared against the highly modular systems in the PC world.

There’s something strange in the neighborhood... and it could be you. Well, if you happen to be facing off against four would-be phantom exterminators in the upcoming Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed multiplayer game from Illfonic. The 4v1, asymmetric co-op game pits teams of four Ghostbusters, armed with proton packs,…Read more...

A team of physicists recently discovered a new phase of water ice, after they put ordinary ice under extraordinarily high pressure and melted it before letting it refreeze. The previously unknown phase—called Ice-VIIt—is organized differently from typical water ice. It doesn’t occur naturally on Earth’s surface, but…Read more...

As the megapixel wars have died down, the new frontier for dedicated digital cameras is multi-functionality; being able to shoot both still images and capture high-quality video at the same time. To further improve the flexibility of its hybrid digital cameras, Sony has designed a new lens it promises is as just as…Read more...

Halo’s Pablo Schreiber has an update on the series’ second season. A Suicide Squad breakout is set to join Fast and Furious 10. Elvira herself, Cassandra Peterson, discusses joining Rob Zombie’s Munsters. Plus, new looks at Moon Knight, and what’s coming on Riverdale. Spoilers, away!

Back in September of 2021, Nintendo released the 13.0.0 firmware update for the Switch that finally added native support for wireless Bluetooth headphones. It was far from perfect, however, so with the new 14.0.0 Switch update released last night, Nintendo has improved the console’s functionality with wireless…Read more...

In June, Dungeons & Dragons is releasing a new anthology of adventures, titled Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel. Located in the ethereal plane, the Citadel is one-step removed from any location in the world. Imagine a massive diamond-like moon surrounded by sheer-faced floating gemstones, a circling ring of…Read more...

Roku has announced the next version of its operating system for TVs and set-top boxes and it’s adding a range of helpful new features.Read more...

Hacker group LAPSUS$ posted screenshots Monday night claiming it had achieved administrator access to Okta, a user authentication and data management company. If that’s true, it’s potentially bad for a number of large firms that use Okta’s services, as the hackers could worm their way into other companies’ networks…Read more...

Follow-up data from a Phase III trial is the latest to suggest that MDMA—also known as ecstasy—could improve mental health when combined with therapy. The study found that MDMA-assisted therapy was better than talk therapy alone in relieving the symptoms of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, and that this…Read more...

When you talk about the all-time most valuable comics, a few instantly come to mind. Superman’s first appearance in 1938's Action Comics #1, Batman’s first appearance in 1939's Detective Comics #27, and Spider-Man’s first appearance in 1962's Amazing Fantasy #15 are probably the most well-known. But a lesser-known but…Read more...

Grammy- and Latin Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper Residente’s latest song, “This is Not America,’’ is an anthem for people who understand that imperialism and forced immigration cannot be separated from environmental issues.

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Companies looking to trade on Wall Street may soon have to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and other climate-related risks to prospective investors.Read more...

Let the Riccissance continue! After dazzling in Yellowjackets and scene-stealing in The Matrix Resurrections, Christina Ricci has finally joined a project she all but made possible. Ricci has joined the cast of Netflix’s upcoming Tim Burton series Wednesday, which stars Scream’s Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, a…Read more...

Though the upcoming film Morbius has been delayed more times than you probably remember, it might actually be coming out at the perfect time. The film opens April 1 (which seems like an April Fools’ joke but actually isn’t), making it the first Spider-Man universe film to open after the wild success of Spider-Man: No…Read more...

Leonard will not be making its next 80,000-year-long journey around the Sun, as the mile-wide comet appears to have disintegrated in late February.

Microsoft may be the latest victim of a hacking group that has infiltrated some of the world’s largest tech companies in recent months.

Riverdale has a long history of being A Whole Ass Lot, but somehow the series has managed to even top “hey we’re just creating an Archie multiverse now” with its recent horror-tinged event crossover with Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. If you thought last night’s episode would be a return to... what’s considered normal…Read more...

Facebook owner Meta has officially become “extremist organization” in the Russian government’s eyes after a judge upheld a lawsuit by state prosecutors.Read more...

The whole journey of Supernatural began with Dean and Sam, played by Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, learning about their parents. And though things went way beyond that over the subsequent decade, a new show, The Winchesters, is bringing Supernatural back to those roots, and now the two actors playing those roles…Read more...

The opening of the ice-free corridor that linked Beringia to the North American interior happened potentially thousands of years after the first human migrations to the continent, according to new evidence. Scientists say this finding should bolster the idea that ancient humans traveled to the Americas along a coastal…Read more...

Google wants you to know that Android is so secure, it has a Men In Black-style memory eraser for your search queries.

All they had to say was “Betty Gilpin (Glow, The Tomorrow War) is back in fighting mode” and we were in, but it gets better from there. Peacock has announced that in Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof’s Mrs. Davis, Gilpin is set to play a nun who takes on a powerful artificial intelligence. Yes, we’ll take the Liberty…Read more...

Apple is experiencing massive technical difficulties, and widespread reports of outages for its various services are flooding the internet.Read more...

Awards season hit a high note this weekend as multiple guilds and groups gave awards leading up to the grand finale, the Oscars, which happen this coming Sunday. One of the biggest to do so was the Writers Guild of America—and apparently one specific category literally saved the world, at least according to a certain …Read more...

Writing last week’s list of Irish horror movies, timed for St. Patrick’s Day viewing, made me realize just how many of those films are fascinated with changeling folklore. New release You Are Not My Mother is no exception, though it elevates itself by enveloping its characters in some particularly potent real-world…Read more...

Medical debt is an albatross hung around the necks of Americans—but some relief is on the way. Over the weekend, three of the country’s major credit reporting agencies announced they would soon remove most medical debt from their calculation of credit reports, along with other reforms. The decision was preceded by a…Read more...

Although 12 astronauts have walked on the moon, there are still lots of places to explore on our nearest celestial neighbor. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has developed a lunar lander for an upcoming mission that will deploy a rover that was jointly developed with TakaraTomy: a company best known for creating…Read more...

When it comes to powerful photo editing software developed by Adobe, Photoshop isn’t your only option: There’s also Photoshop Elements, the stripped-down, simpler, and more affordable version of the same software. Photoshop will set you back $10 a month, but Photoshop Elements is available for a one time purchase of…Read more...

Oscar Isaac’s multilayered role on Moon Knight requires him to be many things—the vengeful titular hero, hardboiled mercenary Marc Spector, and then perhaps most challengingly of all, a British Man. But it turns out that last aspect wasn’t always the case. Well, at least in terms of where he came from.

It’s been a long time since I’ve handled an iPhone—ten years, to be exact. So much has changed within the walled garden ecosystem, but so much has improved, too.

The Apple TV app on both Google TV and Android TV no longer has an option to purchase or rent movies or TV shows, fueling speculation that Apple has intentionally removed the function to avoid Google’s 30% commission fees.

The Barbie movie continues to expand its cast. Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk discusses some surprising ideas for season two. Plus, more info on the Gremlins animated series, and what’s coming on Outlander and Charmed. Spoilers now!

Encountering a self-playing piano for the first time is enough to blow a six-year-old’s mind. But as Mark Rober demonstrates, Chopstix, a self-playing piano featuring more modern upgrades, can do things like actually speak words just like a human can, which is enough to blow an adult’s mind too.