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The new 28 Years Later saga may have tapped The Marvels' Nia DaCosta. Paramount wants to reboot Scary Movie. Plus, get another look at If, and more details about Smile 2 from Cinemacon. Spoilers, away!

X will no longer allow users to hide their blue checks, regardless of whether they paid for premium or not. On Thursday, the app began notifying users that "the hide your checkmark feature of X Premium is going away soon...

Ubisoft's online-only racing game The Crew stopped being operable on April 1. Some users are reporting, however, that things have gone a bit further. They say that the company actually reached into Ubisoft Connect accoun...

As Threads has grown to more than 130 million users, one of the major remaining "missing" features users often complain about is the lack of direct messaging abilities. But those missing out on DMs may soon have a new op...

It's been a big week for Marvel's mutants. X-Men '97 blew the doors wide open with a haunting, epic episode that has everyone talking, while at CinemaCon, Kevin Feige introduced a rip-roaring batch of Deadpool & Wolverin...

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Bob Iger and Josh D'Amaro were serious when they said they were "turbo-charging" progress at Disney Parks as Disneyland Paris sets out to reinvent its second park into Disney's Adventure World. This new park transformati...

Back in December, Epic Games won an antitrust case against Google. A jury found that Google held an illegal monopoly on in-app billing and app distribution on Android devices, and that it engaged in anticompetitive pract...

The U.S. Space Force is partnering with two companies to launch a demonstration mission of how the military branch would respond to an orbital adversary.

We already had an inkling that Andor's Varada Sethu would be joining Doctor Who in the second season for Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor--and now it's official, with the group photo to prove it. Though an earlier report s...

Good news and bad news, Trek fans. The good is that the excellent Strange New Worlds will continue to boldly go for at least more more season beyond its currently filming third. The bad news: another member of Paramount'...

Being based on a hugely popular video game gives Prime Video's Fallout series a big boost: there's already built-in fan base. But there's also pressure that comes with adapting a beloved property, and in a new interview,...

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A nifty HDD disassembly tool, sure, but we also have a larger global need for magnets.

Google began blocking access to California news outlets for some users in the state, according to an announcement from the tech giant on Friday. And it's all because Google is upset about proposed legislation that would ...

Google, the search giant that brought in more than $73 billion in profit last year, is protesting a California bill that would require it and other platforms to pay media outlets. The company announced that it was beginn...

The highly anticipated first flight of Ariane 6 may finally take place this summer after years of delays. But before we can get too excited, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher is already setting the ...

When making an Alien movie three things are a must. First, Facehuggers. Without them, you can't have the other two. Second, a Chestburster. This is just a smaller version of the third but still absolutely crucial. Then, ...

In October 2022, an extremely bright flash caught the attention of the Gemini South telescope in Chile. It was quickly determined to be the brightest ever seen, hence its nickname: the Brightest Of All Time (the BOAT).

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Roku has disclosed a second data breach in as many months. While it was looking into a previous incident in which 15,000 accounts were affected, the company learned that another 576,000 accounts had been compromised. In ...