From casting to the cutting room, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda collaborated closely with the team behind Netflix’s live-action series adaptation of his beloved tale every step of the way.Read more...
Lees meerFor a year, a rogue tomato was missing in action on board the International Space Station (ISS), sparking rumors that an astronaut may have eaten it during a moment of weakness. It turns out that there were actually two missing tomatoes, not just on…
Lees meerWhen people think of the DC films of the past several years, they mostly think of the failures. The controversies. What they don’t usually think of are the successes, of which there were many, and none more so than Aquaman. James Wan’s 2018 film sta…
Lees meerWhat happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union’s AI Act—a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of the AI industry—is a pretty big deal. It could totally reshape how European nations’ relationsh…
Lees meerFifty years ago, Doctor Who’s 11th season began with “The Time Warrior” and brought with it a notable sea of changes. It marked the debut of the show’s iconic “diamond” logo, which has now seen a return for the modern era with Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor.…
Lees meerAmericans are increasingly calling poison control centers over semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Most of these calls appear to concern potential overdoses of semaglutide and might be tied to a rise i…
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Lees meerA new research paper out of OpenAI Thursday says a superhuman AI is coming, and the company is developing tools to ensure it doesn’t turn against humans. OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever is listed as a lead author on the paper, but not the b…
Lees meerBy all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks to institute a broad regulatory framework that w…
Lees meerIn September, fragments of a near-Earth asteroid were carefully dropped off in the Utah desert. The space rocks hold clues to the origin of the solar system and can possibly answer crucial questions about how our planet came to be, if only we can ge…
Lees meerIt’s once again time to crane our heads sideways in bafflement at all the strange ways people got sick or hurt this year.Read more...
Lees meerThat didn’t take long: just two days after livestreaming giant Twitch announced a more permissive approach to certain sexual content, including “artistic nudity,” the company has slammed on the brakes.Read more...
Lees meerApple silently fixed an exploit that let Flipper Zero devices mass-bombard nearby iPhones with popup notifications, so much so they would essentially disable users’ phones requiring a restart.Read more...
Lees meerLife comes at you fast, so I’m already recapping what we expect from Samsung’s Galaxy S24 flagship, just as this year’s release has started popping up all over holiday gift guides. But this is within Samsung’s timeline: the company launches its flag…
Lees meerJust last week, my roommate went through what no one should ever go through losing her phone’s entire data while getting it repaired after she dropped it in the toilet. Google just announced a solution for that. Well, to save your data. Not dropping…
Lees meerFans of genre movies had an absolute blast in 2023. Hollywood studios and streamers alike provided us with a seemingly never-ending slate of excellent fare. The animated films were fire. Some superhero films were super. And along the way, there were…
Lees meerIf anybody remembers the old “Can it run Crysis?” meme, the joke has long since fallen flat as more games have long exceeded the specs requirement on that 16-year-old game. On the flip side, “Can it run Doom?” has a separate connotation. It belies t…
Lees meerGoogle announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say circumvents the Constitution.Read more...
Lees meerThere’s little to no evidence suggesting that “your devices are listening to you,” but that hasn’t stopped people from believing big tech is monitoring every word they say. Now, a marketing subsidiary of Cox Media Group is throwing fuel on the fire…
Lees meerWhen Rebel Moon releases in theaters this week (and on Netflix next week) it’ll mark the end of a 10-year journey. A journey that began with a 2013 rumor that director Zack Snyder was working on some kind of Star Wars movie. That rumor, it turns out…
Lees meerGood news, everyone! Scientists discovered additional evidence suggesting the potential habitability of a peculiar icy moon orbiting Saturn, one of the planet’s 146 moons.Read more...
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