Even if you haven’t yet watched the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms“In the Name of the Mother,” it’s not a spoiler to say the Trial of Seven was excruciating. Dunk (Peter Claffey) and the other characters get put through hell fighting each other on the battlefield, and the viewer is...

30 years ago, Doctor Who put a brief pause on its years of hiatus in style with the release of the TV movie, an attempt to revive the franchise for the then-modern age and American audiences. Although its legacy would endure in more ways off screen than on, the film itself has been a bit...

If there’s one thing Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of the Toy Story toys should accept by now, it’s the inevitability of change. Facing the unfamiliar has been a running theme since the first film, all the way back in 1995, when the Tom Hanks-voiced cowboy grappled with the arrival of the Tim Allen-voiced...

Most people become an expert in something by putting in their 10,000 hours. But what a waste that is when you can just trick ChatGPT into telling everyone you are an expert in about 20 minutes. BBC reporter Thomas Germain laid out how he got ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini AI to recognize his hot dog-eating...

Ryan Coogler walked so Phil Lord and Chris Miller could… get shaken around and sprayed with water, apparently. Last year, the Sinners director did a very excellent video breaking down all the different formats his film was being released in. Now, Lord and Miller are doing the same for their upcoming filmProject Hail Marybut with...

In the last year, AI agents have become all the rage. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic all launched public-facing agents designed to take on multi-step tasks handed to them by humans. In the last month, an open-source AI agent called OpenClaw took the web by storm thanks to its impressive autonomous capabilities (and major security concerns)....

As carbon emissions push Earth’s temperature higher and higher, Antarctica is taking the brunt of the impact. This frozen continent is warming nearly twice as fast as the rest of the world, threatening its ecosystems, driving sea level rise, and destabilizing global food chains. Humanity’s choices over the next decade will determine Antarctica’s fate, according...

Following an investigation into the Starliner mishap that left NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore stuck on the International Space Station for nine months, the agency says its own leadership is largely to blame. During a Thursday press briefing, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that while Williams and Wilmore were aboard the ISS and...

In 1994, Russian archaeologists unearthed a tiny cemetery with a grave holding a mummified woman wearing a wig. More than 30 years later, researchers revisited the long-dead body—exposing what appears to be a primitive prosthetic in her jaw. In a statementarchaeologists at Novosibirsk State University in Russia announced that a recent analysis of a 2,500-year-old skull...

If there’s one bet that will always hit on one of the various “prediction markets” that are now apparently undergirding our economyit’s that America will take the wrong lesson from a crisis. One of the starkest bits of evidence for this truism is what remains changed in our society post-COVID lockdown. Our all-too-brief tastes of...