A few short weeks ago, the world was taken aback by claims of a room-temperature superconductor—a scientific finding that could redefine modern physics as we know it. Those claims turned out to be bunk, and a South Korean university is investigating a complaint made against the professor who published them in a paper.
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Prey, Released Exclusively on Hulu, Will Get a Physical Release
Prey, Dan Trachtenberg’s installment into the Predator franchise, is arriving on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on October 3. There will also be a collector’s edition steelbook for the 4K edition, designed by Attila Szarca, exclusively available at Best Buy. Notably, Prey didn’t make it to theatrical release, and was…
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High Winds, Heavy Rain, and Tumultuous Waves Are Headed to California This Weekend
Tropical storm Hilary in the Pacific Ocean has strengthened to officially become a hurricane.
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Razer Launches Its First Hot-Swappable Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Razer has done an impressive job with its mechanical gaming keyboards. Since launching the DeathStalker V2 Pro in 2021, it’s cut back on the physical bloat and opted for simpler designs so that the boards have become like blank canvasses. I’m still not on board with the decidedly masculine “esport” aesthetic, but at…
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New York Times Reportedly Considering Lawsuit That Could Throw OpenAI Into Chaos
OpenAI is facing a potential lawsuit from The New York Times for an intellectual property debate over alleged copyright violations, sources told NPR on Wednesday. The news outlet claims OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, is using the Times’ content to train its chatbot.
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Leaked Images Show Lenovo's Legion Go Is a Switch and a Steam Deck Rolled Into One
The handheld console market is about to go full-circle. Leaked images of Lenovo’s upcoming Legion Go gaming device show that the company has taken inspiration from Nintendo and Valve for its next product, with the silhouette and controls of the Steam Deck plus the snappable, swappable controllers of the Nintendo…
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Apple TV+'s Monsterverse Series Has a Title and a Hello From Godzilla
Something big, furious, and ready to fight is coming to Apple TV+, and with any luck, it’ll be bringing like-minded friends along. The streamer has just lifted the lid on its 10-episode series continuing the story of Legendary’s Monsterverse, revealing the title—Monarch: Legacy of Monsters—and some first images.
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Alleged Stalking Victims Accuse Tile of Advertising Its Devices as Women Trackers
Two alleged stalking victims filed a class-action lawsuit against Tile and its parent company Life360 Monday accusing the companies of failing to implement useful safety features and of mounting advertising campaigns that encouraged stalking. They also accuse the company of tanking the case against their alleged…
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The Worst YouTube Apology Videos of All Time
One of the most maligned tropes of the social media age is the infamous apology video. Whether it be blackface, showing a dead body to children, posting racist tweets, a convention gone wrong, or texting minors, there have been plenty of apology videos posted in the last decade of YouTube’s popularity.

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‘Race Records’ to AI Drake: How Tech Produced Key Moments in Hip-Hop
This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary.

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Elemental's VFX Crew on How to Make a Hero Out of Water
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Hulu's The Other Black Girl Looks Like a Solid Entry in the Office Dystopia Trend
When editorial assistant Nella (Sinclair Daniel) meets her new co-worker Hazel (Ashleigh Murray), she’s thrilled that her otherwise jarringly all-white company has hired another Black person. But as the trailer for new Hulu series The Other Black Girl reveals, sometimes it’s better to be careful what you wish for.

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James Gunn Keeps Sending DC Comics to Amazon's Bestseller Lists
“How do you sell a superhero comic these days?” is a question a lot of publishers and comics retailers are grappling with, but apparently at least in some very specific cases, the answer is “have James Gunn tweet about it.”

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Sparked an Exodus of Climate Voices, Researchers Find
Accounts that used to regularly engage and tweet about climate-related issues have been dropping like flies on Twitter, less than a year after Elon Musk’s purchase of the company. A report published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution this week found that almost 50% of over 300,000 “environmentally oriented”…
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Amazon Now Punishes Merchants Who Ship Their Own Products
Third-party merchants on Amazon who ship their own packages will see an additional fee for each product sold starting on Oct. 1st. Sellers could previously choose to ship their products without contributing to Amazon, but the new feemeans members of Amazon’s Seller Fulfilled Prime program will be required to pay the…
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NYC Bans TikTok on City Devices
The Big Apple is joining the TikTok ban bandwagon. New York City issued a new directive on Wednesday banning TikTok from city-owned devices and forcing local agencies to remove the app from its phones and tablets within 30 days. Starting today, anyone using a city-owned device or network is prohibited from downloading …
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Coraline Just Made a Box Office Killing, 14 Years Later
Coraline, the 2009 stop-motion animated film by The Nightmare Before Christmas directorHenry Selick, was a beloved hit from the instant it was released. It had box office success, critical acclaim, award recognition, and audience adoration. What few could have predicted though was the film’s staying power, which was…
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Space Force Forms New Intelligence Unit to Target Enemy Satellites
The United States Space Force has launched a unit dedicated to warding off threats from other countries in space.
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Self-Driving Car in San Francisco Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete
Self-driving cars are one of the funniest broken promises of the modern age. Far are we from the fantasy of The Jetsons and Total Recall, self-driving vehicles may be some of the dumbest creatures to roll across planet Earth. One such car found itself stuck in wet cement while cruising through San Francisco on Tuesday.
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AP Shares Guidelines Prohibiting Staff From Using AI to Write Publishable Content
The Associated Press is putting its foot down on journalists using any kind of AI program to write articles, though that isn’t stopping the company itself from making a quick buck in exchange for training generative AI on older AP content.
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