How One Piece Creator Eiichiro Oda Gave Notes for the Netflix Show
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.
We Finally Saw That Missing Space Tomato and Wish We Hadnt
For 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 one, found squished in a tiny ziplock bag, and they’re looking a little…
Everything You Need to Remember About Aquaman Before The Lost Kingdom
When 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.
Grok Gets Some Competition, ChatGPT Gets Depressed, and More of the Top AI News Stories This Week
What 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’ relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if no less weird…
50 Years Ago Today, Sarah Jane Smith Changed Doctor Who Forever
Fifty 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. It added an immediately iconic creature to the show’s monster canon
People Are Overdosing on Wegovy, Poison Control Data Shows
Americans 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 in compounded versions of the drug, which aren’t tested for their…
Ilya Sutskever’s Team at OpenAI Built Tools to Control a Superhuman AI
A 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 blog post that went with it, and his role at the company remains…
It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By 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 would tackle the harms posed by the new technology. In its current…
Are Rebel Moon and Army of the Dead Now the One True Snyderverse?
“Snyderverse.” Whether you know the word or not, odds are you’ve heard it. And, for several years, it very clearly referred to the series of DC films director Zack Snyder directed and produced at Warner Bros. The world where Henry Cavill is Superman, Ben Affleck is Batman, and a legion of fans convinced a studio to…
Its Been 2 Months. Why Cant NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?
In 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 get to them first.
The Weirdest Medical Cases of 2023
It’s once again time to crane our heads sideways in bafflement at all the strange ways people got sick or hurt this year.
Twitch Reverses Policy on ‘Artistic Nudity’ After Just Two Days
That 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.
Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones
Apple 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.
Everything We Know About the Samsung Galaxy S24
Life 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 flagship first thing in the year before following up with something more…
Google Just Made Repairing Your Pixel Phone Much Easier
Just 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 your phone in the toilet.
The 20 Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Films of 2023
Fans 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 lots and l
30 Years After Doom’s Release, These Are the 30 Best-Worst Ways to Play the Game That Started It All
If 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 the ingenuity of tinkerers and DIYers trying to find the most unique…
Google Finally Stops Handing Your Location Data to Cops
Google 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.
Ad Company Claims It’s True. Your Devices Are Listening to You
There’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 with claims that it can deploy “active listening” through your…