It’s now been five years since Disney bought 20th Century Fox, and we’re finally seeing that really pay off on the movie side. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is hitting theaters next week, Alien: Romulus and Deadpool & Wolverine are later this summer. What Fox movies are due next for a comeback? The Maze Runner seri…Read more... Read more ›
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It’s May 4th, which doesn’t just make it Star Wars Day. We’re also one month out from The Acolyte, our first-ever show set in the High Republic era, and which also had a special preview playing with Phantom Menace screenings this weekend. Along with that clip, the show’s got a brand new trailer that teases the…Read more... Read more ›
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At the start of the year, it was reported that Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited sci-fi flick Megalopolis might finally see the light of day. That day appears to be pretty soon, because Coppola’s production banner American Zoetrope released first-ever footage of the film that gives an idea of its scope.Read more... Read more ›
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Nintendo’s Pokémon series has had a powerful grip on pop culture for decades, and it’s doubtful to change anytime soon. The bulk of that power comes from the video and trading card games, along with the eternally ongoing anime and the movies and shows that’ve spun out of that. So how do you make one of the biggest…Read more... Read more ›
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Summer’s almost here, and that means it’s time for the return of everyone’s favorite superhero show The Boys. With season four set to kick off in a little over a month, Prime Video released a new trailer that’s got everything you expect from the show now: Supes being chaotic freaks, pointed political imagery, and a lot…Read more... Read more ›
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May the 4th be with you! But if you’d like to read some things that aren’t about Star Wars this Star Wars Day, our most-read stories of the week have you covered, from Captain America merchandise to critical reflections (and not quite so critical ones) behind the scenes of Marvel, our continued look back at the Planet…Read more... Read more ›
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If you thought the less-than-stellar launch of the highly anticipated Rabbit R1 AI device was all that happened in gadget news this week, we understand. Everyone in the tech industry was talking about this thing and no one particularly likes it. Our full review is still forthcoming, but our first impressions were very…Read more... Read more ›
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This week saw a blast from the past as we told the tales of numerous fraud victims who were targeted by scammers on the cheating site, Ashley Madison. A new chatbot came and went leaving so many people with questions.And then there’s Elon Musk who went “hardcore” with layoffs he even got rid of those pesky interns…Read more... Read more ›
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Elon Musk became the butt of more than a few jokes after internet users pointed out Tesla’s robot demo wasn’t all it appeared to be. As it turns out, a video the billionaire posted of Optimus, the company’s much-hyped humanoid robot, was actually being controlled by a human slightly off-screen. And it’s interesting to…Read more... Read more ›
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In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes the rediscovery of a satellite lost in the 1990s and why we sometimes lose sight of our orbital property. Researchers have discovered what they claim is the world’s deepest blue hole, the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay, and have yet to…Read more... Read more ›
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The X-Men find themselves, perhaps almost always, on the precipice of great change. But right now they really do feel like they’re on the edge of something new again. In the comics, after years rejuvenated by the Krakoan Age, they’re ready to rise from the ashes of tragedy once more. On the big screen, we’re ready to…Read more... Read more ›
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Elon Musk says Grok’s real-time news feature, which is going about as well as you’d expect so far, will get information purely from “summarizing what people say on X,” in an email to the Big Technology newsletter Friday. Musk says each Grok summary aims to combine breaking news and social commentary by analyzing “tens…Read more... Read more ›
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This year is a big one for Star Wars on the small screen. We’ve already had Young Jedi Adventuresand The Bad Batch, and Tales of the Empire and The Acolyte are coming very soon. Now we have a release window for Disney+’s Skeleton Crew, coming to the streamer this winter. Read more... Read more ›
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No one deserves their much-delayed accolades as part of the Star Wars franchise more than Ahmed Best, who portrayed Jar Jar Binks in George Lucas’ prequel trilogy. The actor was met with the first very public show of vitriol from Star Wars’ toxic fandom, which is something we’re unfortunately much more used to seeing…Read more... Read more ›
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The pairing of Deadpool and Wolverine in their own full-fledged action comedy always somehow felt inevitable—despite Wolverine’s grand send-off in Logan, Ryan Reynolds seemingly willed his re-teaming with Hugh Jackman into existence. But enthusiasm is only the first step, and in a new interview, the star and Marvel’s…Read more... Read more ›
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Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu defended the Rabbit R1 for the last week, telling Gizmodo and other outlets that it’s “not an Android app.” Now, he may have to defend the next fatal claim for an AI device: that it’s not just a ChatGPT wrapper. The push-to-talk feature on Rabbit R1s experienced a brief outage on Thursday night, …Read more... Read more ›
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A Florida woman’s serious pneumonia that landed her in the hospital turned out to have a very strange culprit: deer meat tainted by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Though it took some time for the woman’s doctors to discover the true cause of her worsening illness, they were able to treat her in time once they did.Read more... Read more ›
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Barriss Offee is a rare character for Star Wars. Not just because she was a Jedi so horrified by the part the Order had to play in the Clone War that she took extreme action to try and stop it, but simply because the next step of her story was left untold for over a decade. Now, at long last, it’s time to tell it, and…Read more... Read more ›
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Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed in March after it was struck by an enormous container ship that lost power while exiting the city’s port. The collision left the stricken Dali container ship stuck under the remnants of the bridge and made entry and exit of the Port of Baltimore nearly impossible. Now,…Read more... Read more ›
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As Peacock preps for this summer’s Olympics (and a price increase), the streamer’s genre movie library remains as robust (and as weird) as ever. Here are 10 fantasy and horror movies to check out, including a pair of Jim Henson favorites and some very recent titles that you might have missed in the theater.Read more... Read more ›
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The Transportation and Security Administration plans to vastly expand its use of facial recognition technology in the U.S., going from 25 airports with the tech to over 430 by this July. And a group of 14 senators from both parties are not happy, arguing in a new letter that, “this powerful surveillance technology as…Read more... Read more ›
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Microsoft shared its responsible artificial intelligence practices from the past year in an inaugural report, including releasing 30 responsible AI tools that have over 100 features to support AI developed by its customers. Read more... Read more ›
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‘Twas the afternoon before Star Wars Day, and all through the internet, Hasbro was stirring our wallets with yet another big stream of reveals from the galaxy far, far away. Appropriately, given that 2024's Star Wars Day coincides with the 25th anniversary of The Phantom Menace, many of these goodies are celebrations…Read more... Read more ›
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Physical media is very popular these days. Nostalgia, fandom, and streaming burnout have caused certain segments of American society to switch off their Amazon Prime accounts and fire up their Blu-ray players. One of the many advertised benefits of physical media is that it offers a more permanent, definitive form of…Read more... Read more ›
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