Just a few days ago, Tesla announced their new Version 10 software update, which included such things as the ability to play Cuphead and watch Netflix while in park, as well as their new Smart Summon feature, which frees humanity from the brutal indignity of short walks to their cars…
This Friday is perhaps the most important date in a Star Wars fan’s calendar this year outside, of, well, you know… December 19, 2019. Because who wants to just see a new Star Wars movie when you can buy all the toys from it months in advance, too? That’s what…
The iPhone 11 family is here, repping bigger batteries, more cameras, and far too many plan options. If you want to get your iPhone 11 through a telco, the decision isn’t exactly easy. There are three models, each available in three different storage variants. That’s nine different phones, with at…
It looks like Google’s dessert-themed naming scheme isn’t the only thing getting replaced with Android 10. YouTube Music is kicking Google Play Music aside as Android’s prepackaged music player, YouTube announced Saturday. The app will come bundled with all devices launching with Android 10.
We’re drawing nearer to Joker’s theatrical release, and as we do we’re seeing more theatres across the country respond to the possibility, credible or otherwise, of the film being a possible flashpoint for incel violence.
Oh, dear me, it’s the aliens.
Love them or hate them, AirPods have quickly become an iconic flex among the millennial and Gen Z crowds. Apple’s wireless earbuds are a not-so-subtle way to broadcast you have money to burn on their high sticker price and any subsequent replacements after you inevitably lose one of the ridiculously…
Why send one robot to explore a world when you can send a whole bunch all at once? Such is the thinking behind NASA’s highly conceptual Shapeshifter — a modular, morphing, self-assembling robot capable of deploying several smaller machines.
In what might be a first, doctors in Germany think that a too-gentle washing machine helped spread a superbug to more than a dozen newborns and children in the same hospital — though thankfully, no one was hurt.
While you wait for more Birds of Prey movie news, or even Birds of Prey(ish) TV news, here’s the Birds of Prey news you didn’t even know you wanted. Thanks to the CW’s Crisis crossover event, the Huntress of the early aughts is back in action.
Vimeo is in some hot water thanks to a class-action lawsuit that says the video streamer ran afoul of an Illinois law regulating the collection and storage of biometric information.
A month after that much-anticipated announcement that Ewan McGregor would be reprising his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi — not in a film, but in a series for streamer Disney+ — the project has a director, and the studio didn’t have to look far to find her: It’s Deborah Chow, whose…
Last Friday, an estimated four million people turned out for a global climate strike. This week, millions more are at it again.
If you’re a cool person, the kind that listens to albums on cassette for authenticity, then no doubt you’re already ahead of the game in building a 1990s gaming PC to relive the glory days of Windows 95 – just like this fella. There’s a heady mix of nostalgia in…
When it comes to finding a place to park in a crowded parking lot, people tend to employ different strategies. Is it better to search for a spot closest to where you want to get to, or should you spend less time looking and just take whatever spot is open,…
It’s an undeniable truth: Disney villains are hot. There’s a reason we have so much fan fiction dedicated to the romantic exploits of Walt’s animated baddies. And it’s why one author has created her own erotica saga that looks at what would happen if some of Disney’s classic villains had…
For thousands of years, Siberia’s Denisova Cave was home to various bands of Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans. But as new research shows, animals occupied this cave more frequently than not, showcasing the pains, perils, and complexities of paleolithic life.
Officials at Galápagos National Park are considering a substantial rate hike for visitors, a move that could make the islands a lot more inaccessible — which is exactly their goal.
Even at its most subversive, Star Trek still has to have a few certain kernels of established tropes to really feel like Star Trek — one of those being a ship for our captain and crew to boldly go in. Deep Space Nine, of course, naturally subverted both of these…
While it started off as a smartphone maker, OnePlus has since moved into other categories including wireless headphones, car chargers and even backpacks. But now, OnePlus is making a major push into a brand new segment with its first TV.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a bizarre speech on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly that included plenty of dire warning about the future, including everything from the rise of killer robots to “limbless chickens” on the kitchen table. And as strange as it sounds, Johnson may have been…
Don’t let the title fool you. There are no wolves in The True Adventures of Wolfboy. There are adventures, though — lots of them, as a young man with a unique affliction finds out that the world may be terrible, but good people can make it OK.
Australia just became the first country in the world to have Facebook likes hidden.
The U.S. Justice Department is reportedly planning on joining the growing cluster of agencies investigating Facebook for antitrust violations.
Production has wrapped on the Quiet Place sequel. Ruben Fleischer teases the zombie types of Zombieland: Double Tap. Keanu Reeves teases the plans for Matrix 4. Plus, get another spooky glimpse of the CW’s Nancy Drew, and more familiar faces could return for Crisis on Infinite Earths. Spoilers, away!
One of the biggest advantages of electric vehicles is that they can potentially have far more packaging flexibility than combustion-engine cars. Companies have been taking advantage of this, as you can see in Tesla’s twin-trunk designs and Volkswagen’s volume-maximising reborn electric Microbus. A startup called Canoo is taking a similar…
Among a sea of rubber-necking passersby, a woman from Bulgaria stops dead in her tracks, and some Polish men in a van slow to crawl. Eventually a dark-coloured Porsche Cayenne rolls up and its windows rolls down slowly, revealing a young man originally from Moscow with many questions. All approach…
Spider-Man and the Daily Bugle go together like Superman and the Daily Planet or Iron Man and Stark Industries. It’s simply the place the hero always works. Well, considering digital media, YouTube and so on are all the rage now, our “new” live-action J. Jonah Jameson had to get with…
While the simplest way to describe the new film Sea Fever is “Alien on the ocean,” let’s get something out of the way. It is not Alien on the ocean. OK, yes, Sea Fever is about a group of people on a ship who begin to be picked off by…
Facebook claims to be doing a lot to fight hate speech. But Facebook has also cashed nearly $2 million in ad money from organisations designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Centre between May 2018 and September 17, 2019, according to a Wednesday report by Sludge.
The so-called “transcript” of a July 25 phone call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart serves as a poignant reminder of how absurd conspiracy theories — even ones widely and thoroughly debunked for many years — have come to influence daily life in the Oval Office.
Come away from the haunting, dad-issue-laden sci-fi drama of Ad Astra looking for something else in that vein? Well, say hi to Proxima, where the daddy issues are now mummy issues.
A chemical analysis of pottery feeding vessels from the Bronze and Iron Ages suggests prehistoric European babies and toddlers had diets supplemented with, and possibly replaced by, animal milk, in what’s potentially the earliest archaeological evidence of infant weaning.
