A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket successfully delivered two national security satellites to orbit earlier this month but suffered an anomaly that caused one of the boosters to emit an unusual plume of debris. Now, the U.S. Space Force has paused all military launches aboard the rocket until the issue is resolved. The...

Apple TV has proven itself as the streamer to beat for sci-fi series, producing the likes of To many, Severance, Silo, Sugar, Dark Matter, Invasion, Foundation, Monarch: Legacy of Monstersand For All Mankind. And now it’s breaking containment by launching spin-offs of some of those shows, the first of which, the For All Mankind expansion...

The parent company of brands like Jeep, Ram, and Alfa Romeo already reported it would spend billions to reboot its electric vehicle strategy amid dismal sales and a new regulatory environment. Now, however, it’s reporting just how much that transition weighed down the company last year. Stellantis reported on Thursday a net loss of $26.3...

It’s not easy to find silver linings amid the rapid, human-driven destabilization of Earth’s climate—though that hasn’t stopped researchers from trying. One longstanding theory suggests that glacial melt could actually help slow climate change by feeding algae, but a new study just dumped cold water on the idea. The findings, published in the journal Nature...

Anthropic is holding the line. At least for now. The Pentagon approached Anthropic this week with a demand that it remove guardrails in its AI model Claude to prohibit mass domestic surveillance and fully automated weapons. But Anthropic is refusing to do that, according to a new statement from CEO Dario Amodei, who writes, “we...

The tide has seemingly turned on one of the biggest Hollywood deals in recent memory. While Netflix had been positioned as the most likely company to take over Warner Bros., the persistence of Paramount has apparently paid off. On the heels of Paramount submitting a higher bid—one that the Warner Bros. Discovery board deemed a...

Ser Duncan the Tall emerged bruised but victorious from his Trial of Seven, but HBO might have been the real winner. A Knight of the Seven Kingdomsthe six-episode Game of Thrones spin-off that just wrapped up its delightful first season, scored its largest audience to date with its finale, “The Morrow.” The Hollywood Reporter writes...

Instagram will soon notify parents if their teens repeatedly search for terms related to suicide or self-harm within a short period of time. The social media platform announced the new safety feature on Thursday and said it will begin rolling out in the coming weeks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada....

Worldcoin, aka World Network, aka World, is trying to take over the… well, the world. Up until now, the creepy verification tool that requires people to scan their eyeballs to confirm their identity has mostly toiled on the very outer edges of mainstream awareness. But, according to the Wall Street Journal, the Sam Altman project...

You can’t just remake Faces of Death in the traditional sense. The 1978 original lurched out of the shadows at the tail end of the mondo film craze and was presented to audiences as a series of authentic clips depicting gruesome footage of real human and animal deaths. Of course, those claims were later debunked,...