While Warner Bros. finds itself increasingly torn between two potential new owners in Netflix and Paramount, one of Hollywood’s most powerful proponents of preserving the big-screen experience has spoken up (again). Director James Cameron‘s long list of box-office hits includes the smash-hit Avatar series, and he’s already made it clear that he’s here to keep...

President Donald Trump held a press conference on Friday to discuss his administration’s surprise defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court on tariffs. To sum it up, Trump is angry at the Supreme Court justices he installed during his first term, who nonetheless voted against him. And he’s going to impose his tariffs anyway, just using...

SpaceX has pursued its founder’s dream of reaching Mars for decades, but now that Elon Musk has shifted the company’s focus to the Moon, another aerospace firm appears prepared to take the lead in the race to the Red Planet. Rocket Lab—a California-based aerospace firm—isn’t directly competing with SpaceX yet, but it has come a...

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...

Since day one, shot one, moment one, Star Wars has been about fascism. It’s not some hidden message. A group of Rebels fights an evil Empire that has taken over the galaxy, using masked Stormtroopers and by committing genocide. It’s right there in the text. Over the past few years, that story was given even...

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...

Donating blood is a lifesaving gift, but it’s not always the easiest one to give. I should know—I’ve been doing it for over 15 years. The national blood supply is currently in dire straits. Last month, the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies, America’s Blood Centers, and the American Red Cross jointly and...

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...