Lord of the Rings Team Teases Plot and Characters for The Hunt for Gollum
When news broke that Warner Bros. was making a new Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum, directed by Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, and produced by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens,…
3 Body Problem Has Been Renewed at Netflix
We’re officially going to get some answers to the burning questions we had after watching Netflix’s 3 Body Problem: the streamer is bringing back the sci-fi series—which explores what happens…
Bird Flu Has Made It to the Big Apple
Avian influenza has come for New York City’s birds. In a new study Wednesday, scientists report traces of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a small number of NYC’s wild bird population.…
Stunning 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows a Brittle Star Cloning Itself
The ancient brittle star.Photo: Günter Schweigert To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you’d expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite…
Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots
It’s nothing new for computers to mimic human social etiquette, emotion, or humor. We just aren’t used to them doing it very well. OpenAI’s presentation of an all-new version of…
Twin Probes Suffer Thruster Glitch on the Way to Mercury
For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have been traveling through the solar system to reach the innermost planet Mercury and observe its extreme conditions. During its complex…
Furiosa Is Every Bit the Mad Max Masterpiece You’re Hoping For
If you think of Mad Max: Fury Road as The Hobbit, Furiosa is its Lord of the Rings. They’re two stories set in the same world, with the same characters,…
The Acolyte’s Lee Jung-jae Could Be the Coolest Jedi Ever
Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) in The Acolyte.Image: Lucasfilm The next live-action Star Wars series, The Acolyte, arrives in less than a month—and a new video released today shares fresh footage…
Firefox 126 is out – and it’ll make a huge difference to the quality of videos in the browser, for those with the right hardware
Mozilla just powered up its Firefox browser by bringing on board a new tech from Nvidia to provide better-quality video playback. The release of Firefox v126 introduces RTX Video, one…
Samsung’s fiercest rival unveils mobile storage chip that will make phones and laptops faster — SK Hynix claims that its ZUFS tech will boost local AI inference without consuming more resources
SK Hynix, one of the biggest rivals to Samsung, has been making some major announcements recently, including plans to construct the world’s largest chip factory, and a tie up with…