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Whenever a new set of Star Wars toys is announced, fans have come to expect to see characters in some sort of armor. Be it Mandalorian armor, stormtrooper armor, or Clone Trooper armor, toy companies love it because all they have to do is make a new head and reuse an old body. It's a cheat on 99% of occasions. But,...Read more...

Reactions for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis have begun to hit the internet and they are as all over the place as the film itself seems to be. Megalopolis is a sci-fi love story between architect Cesar (Adam Driver) and socialite Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), who become caught up in the plans that Julia's powerful...Read more...

Video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy's proved unstoppable at both the box office and on Peacock, and its follow-up hopes to repeat that success when it arrives December 5, 2025. The release date for Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is the biggest calendar addition for a slew of upcoming Universal Blumhouse releases,...Read more...

It's raining space junk. Just one month after NASA admitted that a piece of trash tossed from the International Space Station (ISS) crash-landed through a home in Florida, a massive piece of space debris ended up on a farm in Canada.Read more...

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A new company just announced it's come on board and is ready to take Jason Voorhees and the Friday the 13th franchise into the future. What exactly that means though, is not quite crystal (lake) clear.Read more...

OpenAI launched its Superalignment team almost a year ago with the ultimate goal of controlling hypothetical super-intelligent AI systems and preventing them from turning against humans. Naturally, many people were concerned-why did a team like this need to exist in the first place? Now, something more concerning has...Read more...

George Miller has been directing pulse-pounding action sequences for almost 50 years. It started in the late 1970s with his first film, Mad Max, and continued through the decades, reaching a whole new level of awesome in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Next week, he takes things to yet another new level with...Read more...

This week's season finale of X-Men 97 brought an emotional, explosive climax to mutantkind's battle against Bastion and the Prime Sentinels-and the X-Men love nothing more for their soap operatic drama than a big emotional twist while everything's going bonkers. The finale delivered on that front... although as with...Read more...

Every now and then a corporation is at least a bit funny when going about their late-stage capitalism. For instance, Samsung has released an absolutely perfect diss-ad response to Apple's recent crushing PR disaster.Read more...

On September 29, 2022, NASA's Juno spacecraft made its closest flyby of Europa, coming to within 220 miles (355 kilometers) of the Jovian moon's frozen surface. The closeup view of Europa revealed incredible details of the moon's chaotic terrain, which suggest that its icy crust is not where it used to be. The images...Read more...

Scientists in the U.K. seem to have unearthed yet another benefit of exercise: It could make our bodies better at using up certain kinds of fat. In a new study out this week, researchers found that endurance athletes were much better at burning off saturated fat compared to sedentary people with type 2 diabetes-a...Read more...

When 14-year-old Harris Wolobah of Massachusetts died last fall, the boy's family suspected it could be related to a viral spicy potato chip he ate just a few hours earlier. Wolobah's family was correct, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press.

Sure, Google I/O was one massive AI-palooza focused mostly on Gemini. But for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, there are a few more AI-enhanced vision features coming to some accessibility features coming to the Look to Speak app that will let users talk by staring at pictures, symbols, and-yes-even emojis, which...Read more...

Since it aired a few weeks ago, I keep touching on what still remains the standout episode of Discovery's final season so far: Face the Strange," an incredible hour of television that used a format the series excels at to reflect on how far its central character and the series itself has come. This week, the show...Read more...

Thirty-one different Egyptian pyramids appear to have been built along a branch of the Nile River that dried up millennia ago, according to new research published today in Communications Earth & Environment.

Want a controller that looks like a box? How about one shaped like a worm? The Proteus controller, which just went up for preorder Wednesday, is made up of interconnected dice that can do both with one of the most interesting and modular accessibility controllers we've seen so far. And yet, as adaptable as it is, it's...Read more...

We've known for a while that the big twist with Netflix's Ultraman movie-beyond its sumptuous looking animated style-was that it was less of a traditional Ultra action epic, and more about its young inheritor of the heroic mantle finding himself thrust into an even greater challenge that fighting monsters: being a dad....Read more...

The cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which occurred when the universe was just 740 million years old. It's the first time astronomers have seen a merger so early in the universe's history, making it a record breaker.

It's been roughly seven weeks since Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, but nearly two dozen sailors remain on the cargo ship responsible for the disaster. The Dali was finally unstuck on Monday from a giant piece of bridge that fell on the ship's bow. However, the BBC reports that 21 Indian and Sri Lankan...Read more...

Andy Samberg is heading to Amazon for a new sci-fi comedy. The Mortal Kombat sequel has a new release date. Plus, get a look at what's to come on today's Star Trek: Discovery. To me, my spoilers!

It's time to crack open a canned margarita and whip up some candy salad: Evil is back for its fourth and final season. All signs have been pointing to an impending doomsday since early in the show's first season-and really, there's no other horror show we'd rather be watching as that happens.Read more...

France declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in its territory of New Caledonia following protests against changes to the election laws that turned violent and have left four people dead. The emergency declaration will allow police to severely restrict civil rights in a number of ways, including a ban on public...Read more...

In a turn of events that should shock no one, it turns out that the OnlyFans model who recently went viral for flashing the New York City portal" has a habit of doing outlandish things to get attention.

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Oreo has dropped a collaboration with Lucasfilm featuring special edition Star Wars sandwich cookies. Fans will be able to buy packs of the classic treat representing either the light side or dark side of the Force.Read more...

Donnie Yen's character Caine was at the center of John Wick: Chapter 4's end credit scene and now we know that's exactly where the franchise will continue.

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When news broke that Warner Bros. was making a new Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum, directed by Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, and produced by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh, we instantly wanted someone to pick their brains about it. Why come back? Why this story? Who will return? Now, someone has.Read more...

We're officially going to get some answers to the burning questions we had after watching Netflix's 3 Body Problem: the streamer is bringing back the sci-fi series-which explores what happens as humanity prepares for a slow-moving but inevitably arriving alien invasion-for more.Read more...

Avian influenza has come for New York City's birds. In a new study Wednesday, scientists report traces of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a small number of NYC's wild bird population. Though this discovery may not be directly related to the ongoing outbreaks of H5N1 in U.S. dairy cattle, it's another sign that these viruses...Read more...

To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you'd expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the brittle star was cloning itself, regenerating three of its arms as it died.Read more...

For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have been traveling through the solar system to reach the innermost planet Mercury and observe its extreme conditions. During its complex journey, the BepiColombo mission ran into a problem that's preventing its thrusters from operating at full power, potentially...Read more...

If you think of Mad Max: Fury Road as The Hobbit, Furiosa is its Lord of the Rings. They're two stories set in the same world, with the same characters, taking place at different periods of time. One is a little more singular and focused while the other is larger and more expansive. They're two stories that stand...Read more...

The next live-action Star Wars series, The Acolyte, arrives in less than a month-and a new video released today shares fresh footage from the much-anticipated show, with a focus on key character Master Sol, played by Emmy-winning Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae.Read more...

For the first time in a long while, America's drug overdose crisis has not gotten worse. New preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that total overdose deaths took a slight dip in 2023, including deaths tied to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Deaths tied to certain other...Read more...

And so, X-Men 97's largely successful first season has come to an end. What does it have to say about the state of mutantdom in the face of the overwhelming threat our heroes have thrown down against these past three episodes in Bastion? Honestly, not all that much. But it does have a lot to say about Charles Xavier,...Read more...

In a world of cinematic universes, it makes no sense that IF exists. You may think we mean that becauseIF is an original, big-budget Hollywood release, the likes of which we don't see much anymore. But that's not it at all. What we mean is in a sea of films that are beholden to strict rules of canon and storytelling, ...Read more...

Google is rolling out Android 15's second public beta in tandem with the second day of the Google I/O developer conference. Google announced that many new features, fixes, and tweaks are coming to the operating system, including Private Space and Theft Detection Lock, which are designed to help protect your stuff. A...Read more...

You only need two letters to describe best the latest iteration of Google's big yearly developer shebang: AI. That's right; Google I/O has touched on a slew of new features coming to the Mountainview company's software ecosystem, specifically what could be coming to the still-in-betaAndroid 15. A big chunk of these...Read more...

Star Wars and merchandise have been hand in hand since the very beginning. But there was still something unlike anything the galaxy had ever seen when, 25 years ago this coming weekend, The Phantom Menace launched: a brand new Star Wars saga, completely backed by an overwhelming, frequently insane merchandising push...Read more...

Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is currently working on a bid to buy TikTok, according to reports from several reputable news outlets. And while it remains to be seen whether TikTok's parent company ByteDance will agree to a sale to anyone, McCourt's...Read more...

Just how far would you be willing to go to avoid the dreaded hangover? Researchers in Switzerland have developed an oral gel meant to prevent booze from breaking down into the toxic compounds most responsible for a hangover. In mice, it appeared to work as intended.

Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch's Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades. The New York Times reports that the arcade-pizzeria franchise will soon power down the bands at all but two of the chain's more than 400...Read more...

Boeing may be subject to criminal prosecution after the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused it of violating the terms of a 2021 settlement agreement.Read more...

The most recent Terminator film-2019's Dark Fate-wasn't quite a return to blockbuster form. But the franchise James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off in 1984 (and were back" with in 1991) is, much like its titular killer robots, never going to die. Today, we have our first look at Netflix's long-teased...Read more...

OpenAI and Google showcased their latest and greatest AI technology this week. For the last two years, tech companies have raced to make AI models smarter, but now a new focus has emerged: make them multimodal. OpenAI and Google are zeroing in on AI that can seamlessly switch between its robotic mouth, eyes, and ears.

The first full trailer for Universal Pictures' Wicked is finally here and is bursting with the star power of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. It also offers a fresh glimpse at Oz through the story of two friends: Elphaba (Ervivo), a powerful green-skinned outcast, and the popular, fairy-like Galinda (Grande). They're...Read more...

Engineers are cooking up a new clean energy solution: charging up crystals with solar energy to temperatures of 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius), potentially making them a greener substitute for the carbon-intensive processes that smelt steel and cook cement.Read more...

Today, Apple announced a host of new accessibility features, such as eye tracking and vocal shortcuts, that should arrive on iPhones, iPads, and Apple Vision Pros later this year.