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FX’s Alien: Earth — Pictured: Sydney Chandler as Wendy. CR: Patrick Brown/FX | FX
While the monsters in each of the nine Alien movies have been a little bit different, the nefarious corporate forces have remained the same. Ridley Scott's original Alien didn't need to mention Weyland-Yutani by name for it to be clear that a singular mega-company had cornered the market on space exploration....
The smart home can be scary. It seems like every other month, we hear about another smart home company going out of business, leaving you scrambling for a new way to turn on your lights. Why is it so hard for smart home manufacturers to keep the lights on? And what can they do to stay in business, so we can continue to enjoy the benefits of home automation?
This week on The Vergecast,...
Don’t compare AI bunnies to phone camera processing, Sam.
I'm annoyed, not for the first time, by something Sam Altman has said. But this time it's because I'm annoyed at how much I agree with what he's saying - even though I think his statement is kind of bullshit.
In a recent interview, journalist Cleo Abram asked Altman how people will be able to tell what's real and what's not in an age...
There’s a sore loser in this popularity contest.
Elon Musk says that his artificial intelligence company xAI “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store rankings to the advantage of rival AI apps. In a series of X posts on Monday night, Musk suggested that Apple was “playing politics” by not placing either X or xAI’s Grok chatbot in the App...
Microsoft is starting to roll out lightweight taskbar apps for Microsoft 365 users on Windows 11. These taskbar apps will automatically launch at startup and provide quick access to contacts, file search, and calendar straight from the Windows taskbar.
The Microsoft 365 companion apps, as Microsoft calls them, are starting to roll out to business users of Microsoft 365 this month. The...
Taylor Swift at NFL Game.
Taylor Swift leaned into her love for symbolism with the announcement of her dozenth album, titled The Life of a Showgirl.
TS12 was introduced in a teaser — already viewed over 65 million times — for the next episode of the New Heights podcast airing Wednesday, hosted by boyfriend Travis Kelce and his big brother Jason. Tay extracted the $29.99 album from a...
On Monday, Ford introduced an innovative new manufacturing process that it says will help make its EVs more sustainable, more desirable, and more importantly, more affordable. The timing couldn't have been worse.
EV tax credits were set to expire at the end of September. President Trump's trade war was tilting the balance in favor of China's EVs. And automakers are beginning to delay and...
Rockstar Games is adding Nvidia’s DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support to Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced today. Nvidia is also releasing a new Game Ready driver today that will improve Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced performance, as well as support the enhanced version of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II that’s available today.
The DLSS 4 upgrade to GTA V complements the game’s existing ray tracing...
Epic Games has announced that it’s bringing Fortnite back to iOS in Australia, after the country’s federal court ruled that Apple and Google’s app marketplaces are anticompetitive. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said on X that Fortnite will be made available on iPhones via the Epic Games Store “at a date to be determined,” while the company navigates the complexities of Australia’s antitrust ruling...
Did Tesla remotely deactivate a Cybertruck in the middle of a highway because the owner featured it in an unauthorized music video? The story already seemed highly unlikely, and on Monday afternoon, Tesla tweeted about the video, saying, “This is fake – that’s not our screen. Tesla does NOT disable vehicles remotely.”
On Sunday, Instagram user @bighuey313 posted a video of his supposed...