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Amazon Kills ‘Just Walk Out’ Development, Source Says
Amazon pulled Just Walk Out technology from its grocery stores earlier this week. Amazon says 130 convenience stores, and some Amazon Go locations, will keep using the technology, but a source close to the team told Gizmodo that Amazon has killed off much of the internal development. “Nearly all” of the engineers…
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James Mangold's Star Wars Jedi Movie Has Tapped an Andor Writer
Of the many Star Wars film ideas floating around right now, it’s one of the most intriguing: James Mangold’s plans to take us back tens of thousands of years before the films, before almost everything we’ve ever known about Star Wars, to explore the origins of the earliest wielders of the Force. And now it’s found a…
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Roku’s New Idea to Show You Ads When You Pause Your Video Game Is Horr
As a company that wants to make money, Roku wants you to watch as many ads as possible. That’s not currently possible when you exit Roku’s streaming player and do something like play a game on the Nintendo Switch or watch a show on your Apple TV. But if the company gets its way, this may cease to be a problem one day,…
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We've Seen About 10 Minutes of Deadpool & Wolverine
There’s exactly one Marvel Studios movie coming to theaters this year, but it’s one of the biggest to date. Deadpool & Wolverine is scheduled for release on July 26 and it won’t only be the first MCU film for Ryan Reynolds’ wisecracking killer, but also the MCU debut of Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman.
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The Comics History Behind Genosha, Marvel's Fallen Mutant Haven
Few singular words in the long canon of the X-Men’s comic book history evoke the weight of mutantkind’s story of survival and extinction than “Genosha.” The island nation is a fundamental turning point in the comics’ long exploration of mutant statehood and the metaphor at large—one that has resonated throughout…
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We Used the Force and Tried Future Star Wars Tech at Disney Imagineeri
Hidden deep in a California valley near Walt Disney Animation Studios is the testing ground for all the technology seen at Disney Parks and experiences around the world. It’s a top secret area, but io9 and other members of the press were recently invited in for an up-close look at the animatronics for Tiana’s Bayou…
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Giancarlo Esposito Talks About the Coppola Movie You Might Never See,
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Apple Will Allow You to Fix Your iPhone with Used Parts After All
Apple has announced that it’s relaxing its policy on used parts for iPhone repairs. This makes it easier to fix your broken iPhone and save some cash along the way.
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Dune, the Broadway Musical and 8 Other Brain-Dead Songs From Udio's AI
The tech industry is trying to automate art. Be it visual art, filmmaking, novel-writing, or music, Silicon Valley “innovators” seem convinced that consumers just can’t tell the difference between work created by a passionate, human creative, and automated content delivered via soulless algorithm. It’s a terrible…
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A Reimagined 'Willy's Chocolate Experience' Is Coming to America
A recreation of “Willy’s Chocolate Experience,” the AI-generated Willy Wonka fiasco in Glasgow that left kids crying and forced the police to be called, appears to be selling tickets for its American debut. For $44, attendees will allegedly be offered “two complimentary jelly beans” and the chance to meet the mother…
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Transformers One Does Not Look Like What You're Expecting
As a massive fan of Transformers: The Movie, few films on the upcoming calendar fill me with as much excitement as Transformers One. Directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4), the first animated theatrical Transformers film since that 1986 masterpiece is coming September 13 and, at CinemaCon, Paramount revealed footage…
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Dbrand's Social Media Goes Off the Deep End, Offers $10K as an Apology
Dbrand, a prominent maker of skins for mobile devices and faceplates for consoles, got into some hot water the past few days on social media. What started as making fun of a customer’s last name in the most cringe (and arguably racist) way possible, ended up with the company forking over $10,000 to make amends.
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New Jersey Library Apologizes After Handing Out Knockoff Eclipse Glass
A library in New Jersey issued an urgent statement after learning that the eclipse glasses handed out to its patrons may have been fake.
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Apple's Hidden iOS Puzzle Game Is Designed to Infuriate You Back to Wo
The next rendition of iOS 17 is right around the corner, and it’s bearing gifts we want and a few better left on the drawing-room table. The latest iOS 17.5 beta includes a hidden game for Apple News+ subscribers called Quartiles. The game features word snippets in five-by-five tiles that players must match to create…
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Star Trek: Discovery Would Really Like You to Know What It's About
Star Trek: Discovery has always been about one thing: at the end of it all, the only thing that matters, the only thing that will bring light in dark times, and save the day, is a connection and understanding forged between people, regardless of who they are or what they’ve done. Sometimes, it’s more subtle about…
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