ICQ is shutting down on June 26

ICQ, which used to be a very popular messaging app for a short period in the 90s and the early aughts, only has a month left before it joins the other apps and software of old in the great big farm ...

Blumhouse Invites My Bloody Valentine to Make a Return

Image: ParamountThere’s been a number of dormant horror franchises that’ve been revived in the past few years—your Alien, Halloween, Strangers, and so on. (Sorry, Jason.) Several of these have come ...

Elon Musk is reportedly planning an xAI supercomputer to power a better version of Grok

Elon Musk told investors this month that his startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer by the fall of 2025 that would power a future, smarter iteration of its Grok chatbot, The Information ...

George Miller Wants Mad Max to Take Another Ride Into Video Games

The newly released Furiosa has the world blazing with Mad Max fever. Some are celebrating the occasion by rewatching 2015's Fury Road, if not all four movies. Others are thinking about what could’ve ...

Over a million Switch owners have bought the worst mainline Resident Evil game ever

Resident Evil 6 has sold surprisingly well on the Nintendo Switch since it was ported to the console in 2019, despite it being almost universally panned by fans of the series. As spotted by Nintendo ...

WB’s Green Lantern Show Has Enlisted Damon Lindelof to Write It

Image: DC ComicsWarner Bros. has had a Green Lantern TV series in the works for nearly five years now, with slices of new information for its original iteration coming out once or twice a year. Our ...

Meta and Activision face lawsuit by families of Uvalde school shooting victims

The families of the shooting victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas have sued Call of Duty publisher Activision and Meta. They alleged that the companies "knowingly exposed the shooter to ...

Ghost in the Shell Returns With a New Anime in 2026

Image: Production IG/BandaiGhost in the Shell is making a comeback, courtesy of a brand-new anime by Scott Pilgrim Takes Off studio Science SARU and longtime franchise studio Production I.G (Kaiju ...

SpaceX Raptor engine test ends in a fiery explosion

A SpaceX testing stand at the company's McGregor, Texas facilities went up in flames during a test of its Raptor 2 engines on the afternoon of May 23. According to NASASpaceflight, the engine had an ...

Spin of Supermassive Black Hole Measured at a Quarter the Speed of Light

This week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a supermassive black hole, and a fascinating experimental archaeology experiment in which marines ...