[ad_1] Twitch is finally letting streamers block out those viewers they’ve already banned from chat. However, these bans won’t be based on any user identifier beyond accounts, so the various kinds of insufferable Twitch-holes who are dedicated enough could still find ways to watch. How Does Gerard Pique’s New Twitch Indoor Soccer League Work? As … Read more
[ad_1] Image: Apple TV+ On Empire’s home planet of Trantor, anyone—including the Cleons—is subject to “memory audits” whenever it becomes necessary to remove certain bits of knowledge from their brains. This tinkering becomes increasingly slippery as the season continues; how will you know if someone’s messed with your memory if they remove the very memory … Read more
[ad_1] Devastating wildfires that have killed more than 100 people have also created dangerous conditions for fragile wildlife and natural ecosystems off Maui’s shores. Scientists and officials are worried that coral reefs near Maui are going to be hurt in the aftermath of these fires. Is The Great Barrier Reef Healing? Widespread fires often create … Read more
[ad_1] Image: Walt Disney Pictures An incident at Pinewood Studios during the shoot of The Little Mermaid live-action film, has left a model maker injured into early retirement. Little Mermaid Director Rob Marshall on Handling the Music of a Disney Legend | io9 Interview Deadline reports that Christine Overs, a special effects practical artist, took … Read more
[ad_1] Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following a crash Thursday night with a fire truck. The California Department of Motor Vehicles, the agency that regulates the testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles in the state, requested the reduction in operations. … Read more
[ad_1] It’s the first real day of Gen Con and I’m meeting up with Ned Donovan and Brian David Judkins in the labyrinthine upper suites of Lukas Oil Stadium. We can’t go into the Wizards of the Coast press suite, as apparently someone else louder than us called dibs, but we sneak into a suite … Read more
[ad_1] Twitter, (recently rebranded as X) appears to be taking another turn for the worse as Elon Musk claimed on Friday that he is removing the Block feature from the app. If Musk goes through with it, users will reportedly still have the option to mute other profiles from appearing on their feeds, but the … Read more
[ad_1] Image: Sideshow/Warner Bros. If there are two things I love in this world it’s The Lost Boys and wasting money. So it should be of little surprise to my friends, family, and you readers that I am salivating over Sideshow Collectables’ latest announcement: a 1/6 scale collectible of Kiefer Sutherland’s iconic character David from … Read more
[ad_1] You would think that, with as much as the Galaxy Z Fold 5 costs, Samsung would throw in a stylus for good measure. Unfortunately, the $1,800 book-like foldable that opens into a tablet has no accompanying S Pen like the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. If any device could benefit from the S Pen, it’s … Read more
[ad_1] Headlines This Week If there’s one thing you do this week it should be listening to Werner Herzog read poetry written by a chatbot. The New York Times has banned AI vendors from scraping its archives to train algorithms, and tensions between the newspaper and the tech industry seem high. More on that below. … Read more