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Erik Wernquist is recognized, and rightly blamed, for unleashing the animated sensation Crazy Frog to an unsuspecting world in 2009. A frenetic frog zipping through cityscapes has become an iconic visual of that time (ho...

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is opening a research center in New York City dedicated to developing new techniques for early disease detection and treatment. CZ Biohub NY, as it's being called, will work with Columbia, ...

Apple TV+'s adaptation of Victor LaValle's novel The Changeling wrapped up last week with "Battle of the Island." The episode ended the season--overall, a fascinating exploration of parenthood, grief, folklore, and the h...

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's an Amazon delivery drone. The online marketplace's lackluster road to deliveries via the sky is still full-steam ahead--customers in Texas can now receive their medication from Amazon via ...

Looks like that password sharing crackdown worked: Netflix has reported adding nearly nine million new customers this quarter, bringing its total number of subscribers to 247.2 million as of September 30. Some customers,...

After slogging through years of delays and redesigns, the Tesla Cybertruck can finally be seen on public roads this holiday season, the company announced. Deliveries of the long-awaited luxury EV SUV will begin to select...

Government-backed hackers from Russia and China exploited a known vulnerability in outdated versions of WinRAR, the world's most popular compression tool with over 500 million users. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) ...

On the heels of Netflix trimming its own animation division in favor of bringing in third-party content--as reported by Variety on October 11--we now know one of the new sources joining the fold: Skydance Animation, whic...

When Marvel's Spider-Man 2 hits the PS5 at the end of the week, Spidey fans will catch up a little while into Peter Parker and Miles Morales' tenure as the Spider-Men of New York. But even with that time difference, a lo...

Netflix announced price hikes on two of its plans today. As the company relayed its quarterly earnings, tit said it's increasing rates for its Basic and Premium plans. The Basic plan, which Netflix killed earlier this ye...

Meet a rock-and-roll-inspired Bluetooth speaker that merges vintage aesthetics with cutting-edge sound technology. The Marshall Stanmore III resembles a mini-amp and packs a punch in both style and audio quality.   - Ic...

Two movies, both about the apocalypse, both comedies, both hitting theaters in the summer of 2013. Looking back on it now, Edgar Wright's The World's End and Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg's This Is the End couldn't be more di...

Amazon has some big plans for its drone delivery program, including an international expansion to the UK and Italy in 2024. The company also aims to start drone operations in a third US city next year, following existing...

Get those spooky season viral outfits, accessories, and treats, or throw something together for a cozy costume from retailers like BoxLunch, Hot Topic, ShopDisney, RSVLTS, and more for those boo baskets before October 31...

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Virtual private networks (VPNs) have become an essential tool for many web surfers, for a wide variety of reasons, and one of the most popular services is offering a great deal to entice new customers. NordVPN is selling...

Sideloaded app installs can be delayed by a fullscreen virus-scanner interface.

Meta is temporarily changing users' default comment settings on Facebook as part of its response to the Israel-Hamas war. The company said in an update it was making the change in an effort to "protect people in the regi...

OpenAI has brought live web browsing out of beta. The company launched the feature earlier this year before pulling it after the plugin kept gleaning data from paywalled content. In addition, the next-generation image ge...

Leaked internal data claims Windows 11 is running on 400 million active PCs.

It's been a tumultuous decade but Rick Riordan is finally all in again on Percy Jackson and Hollywood. The creator of the popular book franchise was famously unimpressed about how Fox treated his characters with its two ...