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Congress reauthorized America's warrantless wiretapping program last month after some successful fearmongering by national security hawks on Capitol Hill. But an internal FBI email, leaked to Wired on Wednesday, may accidentally reveal how the federal law enforcement agency plans to overstep the spirit of the law,...Read more...

Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake hasn't aired a single episode and it already has a body count. The series, set for streaming on Peacock through A24, will no longer have Bryan Fuller-the Hannibal creator who's no stranger to leaving projects early, including American Gods and Star Trek: Discovery-guiding...Read more...

There are certainly things to like about Avengers: Age of Ultron. There are certainly things that are... less likely for you to like, that have certainly aged in the last nine years. But one thing that will be forever burned in the minds of Marvel fans? That slow-mo shot from the opening as the assembled Avengers leap...Read more...

Marvel's mutants are locked in a world of fighting-fighting to survive, fighting to push back against hate. But they're also just as often fighting among themselves, and this week's penultimate episode of X-Men 97 is no exception... except mutantdom's two biggest drama queens couldn't have picked a worst time for...Read more...

If you don't mind commercials-and frankly, most streaming services these days have them-Tubi has one of the most vast libraries of genre films and TV, including horror, cult favorites, and sci-fi. Here are 10 picks to get you started, including all-time classics and more recent releases.

After spending a whole year not making a peep about iPads, Apple still managed to make us all excited about tablets again with new, more powerful iPad Pros and iPad Airs at this week's big announcement event. As if to emphasize the FOMO, Apple has put all its products up for sale already, and we've heard from some...Read more...

A constant feeling of strange tingling and numbness along a person's legs might be much more common than assumed in some parts of the U.S., new research out Wednesday suggests. Researchers have found evidence that a substantial majority of older adults in Flint, Michigan are experiencing neuropathy, an uncomfortable...Read more...

Tesla is a massive company, employing 140,000 people as of late last year. But over the past month, layoffs have torn through the electric vehicle maker - and now a hiring freeze appears to be in effect in North America.Read more...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bid for the White House has had its ups and downs. Well, lately it's had a lot of downs. Last week, one of Kennedy's key" operatives was arrested and charged with assaulting a woman in an upscale New York bar. This week, the political candidate garnered a less than stellar endorsement from...Read more...

This year is a very important one for Star Wars, as it looks to its future in shows like The Acolyte and its plans to return to the big screen, and as it reflects on its past with the anniversary of prequel trilogy kickoff The Phantom Menace. But 2024 is also important for one of Star Wars' other great loves: the...Read more...

Donald Trump will host a dinner at his Florida club (and residence) Mar-a-Lago tonight, according to a report from Axios. And while the place is often crawling with the dumbest people on the planet, the air will be even more thick with nonsense this evening. The crowd will be purchasers of Trump's mugshot-themed NFT...Read more...

Android's best new feature in years is Circle to Search. So it's no wonder iPhone users are happy to learn there's a way to replicate it.

Almost a decade has passed since we last visited George Miller's Wasteland and now it's almost time to return. In just two short weeks, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, will be here and it'll be a lovely day indeed.

The future of space travel depends on our ability to reach celestial pit stops faster and more efficiently. As such, NASA is working with a technology development company on a new propulsion system that could drop off humans on Mars in a relatively speedy two months' time rather than the current nine month journey...Read more...

Let's face it: while some of the best headphones we've tested sound incredible, they don't come cheap. Believe it or not, there are plenty of affordable options out there that sound good and don't require you to spend hundreds of dollars.

Star Trek has been an important fixture of sci-fi TV for decades, and alongside its continued existence, movies have helped further flesh out the characters. But in both the movies and TV, the early 2000s weren't kind to the franchise: 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis was a critical and commercial disaster, and Star Trek:...Read more...

Just like having to jump away every time the Cylons show up, Battlestar Galactica has long had a bit of a rough time having a stable home on streaming-perhaps all too thematically potent a reminder of the pitfalls of streaming's dominance over physical media in the last few years. But if you haven't snagged a good...Read more...

Twisters is gathering strength ahead of dumping rain, wind, fire, deadly debris, and banter-filled dialogue on audiences this summer, and today brings a new, country-soundtracked trailer that shows us all of that and more-giving us a fresh peek at the dynamic between egghead storm survivor Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and...Read more...

Amazon is set to add even more ads to Prime Video in the form of pause ads built entirely to leverage your Prime subscription and sell you stuff. This comes after the online retail monolith just got done forcing ads on Prime Video subscribers unless they paid an extra $3 a month.Read more...

Microsoft's multi-billion dollar bet on artificial intelligence keeps growing - this time with a data center in Wisconsin.Read more...

After a social media video circulated showing the Tesla Cybertruck's frunk chopping veggies, we went through a week of idiots posting videos online to prove that the frunk was actually safe. Only then we saw that it wasn't after one owner damn near got his finger broken trying to prove a point. Now, just over a day...Read more...

Scientists have spotted a rocky exoplanet with a possible atmosphere, which they believe may be burbling out from a magma ocean on the distant world.Read more...

A potential depression treatment might someday come from trip-inducing toad venom. In a new study Wednesday, researchers appear to have deciphered the structural workings of a psychedelic compound derived from the Colorado River toad (Incilius alvarius). The team also tested a modified version of the compound in mice,...Read more...

Director Wes Ball and the team behind Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes had massive paws to fill with the latest installment in this long-running franchise, and we're happy to report they've done just that. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes isn't as tight or focused as the previous films, but it offers a bigger, more...Read more...

Tesla is reportedly under federal investigation again for claims made about its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems.Read more...

For Marvel Studios, a company used to dominating the box office and igniting pop culture, 2023 was kind of a bummer. Amid mutters about superhero fatigue," Marvel's releases (especially Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; The Marvels; and Disney+ series Secret Invasion) made less of an impact than the company, and...Read more...

Nearly all of FTX's former customers will get back almost 100% of the money they lost at the time of the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse - if not more.

Update: Wednesday, May 8, 9:08 a.m. ET: NASA has rescheduled the Starliner Crew Flight Test mission for no earlier than Friday, May 17 at 6:16 p.m. ET, as SpaceNews reports. The delay will allow United Launch Alliance to return the rocket to its Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) near the launch pad to replace a...Read more...

Get a look at the next episode of Star Trek: Discovery. The Suicide Squad adds a new member in a new clip from My Adventures With Superman season 2. Plus, the final season of Snowpiercer gets a release date. Spoilers, away!

New York Governor Kathy Hochul managed to put her foot in her mouth this week when, amidst a business conference in California, she claimed that there are children in the Bronx who don't know what a computer is."Read more...

In March, a software bug threatened to derail large swaths of the web. XZ utils, an open-source compression tool embedded in myriad software products and operating systems, was found to have been implanted with a backdoor.Read more...

I'm a bad son when it comes to gifting. Maybe you've also struggled to do more for your mom every Mother's Day since it was no longer acceptable to offer her your scribbled crayon drawings. Or maybe your wife, the mother of your children, is expecting something more than just a nice dinner this year.Read more...

As Tales of the Empire digs its way through the story of Barriss Offee-and her quest to survive the rise of the Empire, at any cost-there comes a moment that climaxes a decade-plus wait for fans who've wanted to see what happened to the former Jedi Padawan after the shocking conclusion of her story in Clone Wars. It's...Read more...

The wait is almost over.X-Men 97's three-part finale continues tomorrow when Tolerance Is Extinction, Pt. 2" drops on Disney+.Read more...

Rejoice, Wordle lovers. The game's owner, the New York Times, has announced that paying subscribers will now be able to go back into an archive of over a thousand previous Wordle puzzles to play them at their leisure. Previous to this, the game's puzzles were very much like an episode of television in the early days:...Read more...

Russell T Davies may have already returned to Doctor Who with its 60th anniversary specials, but a new, full season of the show brings with it myriad opportunities. Doctor Who's latest relaunch is no exception: a new Doctor, a new companion, new adventures, and perhaps in the biggest change of all, a new home beyond...Read more...

Here's our first look inside Rapunzel's Lantern Festival, a new dark ride at Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs based on Disney Animation's Tangled. The attraction is a boat ride not unlike Pirates of the Caribbean that takes you through the story of Rapunzel's dream to see the floating lanterns glow-and discover that...Read more...

Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure, it's believed that both planets likely began with similar amounts of water. Today, however, Venus is a hellish world with intense heat and crushing...Read more...

The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the Swiss Army Knife" of whatever category they're a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuff, file stuff, in some cases download...Read more...

This past weekend, Lucasfilm dropped Tales of the Empire, the second entry in its animated anthology series exploring the dual stories of characters in the galaxy far, far away. But what worked and what didn't in getting to explore the stories of Morgan Elsbeth and Barriss Offee during the time of the Empire? Click...Read more...

Microsoft deployed a generative AI model on Thursday for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret information, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft announced the AI offering at the 2024 SCSP AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The GPT-4-based model was created to be entirely divorced...Read more...

As part of a special screening of Furiosa at IMAX Headquarters in Los Angeles, George Miller chatted with press about the highly anticipated prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. The film, long in development hell during multiple WB regime changes, will finally open on May 24-and it's worth the wait.Read more...

On Tuesday, TikTok fired back against the U.S. government over a law that could put an end to the social video platform.

Tesla has less than two months to respond to inquires from U.S. auto safety regulators about its December recall of more than 2 million electric vehicles.Read more...

The U.S. military has been using drones to shoot down enemy drones in the Middle East, according to a new report from Forbes, which cites the U.S. Army. And while it's been public knowledge that lasers have been deployed on U.S. ships and used in tests overseas during the past decade, this appears to be the first...Read more...

We've long anticipated this new OLED iPad Pro, growing almost bored with the wait, and yet the new tablet announcement was weighty enough that it still managed to leave us winded. Sure, the updated iPad Air with M2 and a 13-inch variation would be par for the course for Apple's standard refreshes, but the iPad Pro now...Read more...

Living creatures don't live forever but ideas can. They may shift, change, or get misinterpreted along the way, but ideas remain long after the people who had them are gone. That's a central theme in the new film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, especially when it comes to the franchise's most important character,...Read more...

A physics professor with a pretty great life-cool Chicago brownstone, cool wife, cool teenage son-is nonetheless bothered by a voice in his head that wonders what his life might have been, if he'd only he'd made different choices along the way. It's something everyone has thought about, but in Dark Matter, that what...Read more...

You officially know everything there is to know about the Pixel 8a-and this time, it's not based on rumors! Google revealed the details behind its next mid-tier smartphone, the $500 Pixel 8a. It features plenty of bells and whistles you've seen before, including the Tensor G3 CPU and Google's very own camera...Read more...

If you like affordable, stylish smartphones, you'll like what the Google Pixel 8a is all about. Once again, Google's mid-year mid-range offering is a revised reprise of the previous fall flagship. It comes in a batch of new colors, with most of the same camera and performance features, and it remains one of the...Read more...