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Lex Luthor and Supergirl Make Their Entrance in My Adventures With Superman Season 2

While DC Comics fans wait longingly for next summer’s James Gunn Superman movie, there’s a tasty treat coming much sooner for the Man of Steel faithful. My Adventures With Superman kicks off its second season May 25 on Adult Swim, and from the looks of…

Apple’s Safari Browser May Let You Erase Ads Completely With New AI Makeover

Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are already being drowned in new AI features, so we suppose it was inevitable that Apple would also try to shove some AI activities into its default browser. With Apple reportedly jumping on the AI hype train for iOS 18…

Microsoft confirms its next Xbox Game Showcase is on June 9 at 1PM ET

Microsoft has officially announced the next Xbox Games Showcase. In a blog post, the company said the summer version will be on Sunday, June 9, at 10AM PT / 1PM ET.
The event will be followed by a cryptic “[REDACTED] Direct” that probably isn’t much of…

The second-gen Apple Pencil falls back to $79 ahead of next week’s iPad event

Apple’s second-generation Pencil stylus is back on sale for $79, which matches its lowest price to date. We’ve seen this deal a few times over the course of 2024, but it’s still about $35 off the device’s usual street price on Amazon outside of those s…

Tesla is reportedly getting ‘absolutely hard core’ about more layoffs, according to Elon Musk

It’s only been two weeks since Tesla began reducing its workforce by ten percent, a move that impacted at least 14,000 staffers. Now, even more pink slips are coming. The company let go of two senior executives today and plans to lay off hundreds more …

Powerful New Chatbot Disappears as Mysteriously as It Arrived

A mysterious new AI chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” turned heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came from, but many consider it to have roughly the same capabilities…

The Instax mini 99 could pass for a real Fujifilm camera

Fujifilm’s Instax cameras have been around for a while. They offer instant photo printouts in cute frames, taking over where Polaroid left. Over the years, the company has experimented with pastel colorways, retro styles, hybrid digital and manual phot…

Return-to-Office Mandates Could Get in the Way of Some Supposedly Important Corporate Goals

When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during Covid-19 lockdowns, many began questioning those hours they had spent commuting to work. All those rushed mornings stuck in traffic could have…

Chris Hemsworth Keeps Blaming Himself For Thor: Love & Thunder

Absurd as it is as there’s anyone to particularly take “blame” for a popcorn superhero blockbuster that raked in $761 million during its theatrical run—few studios would see that, critical drubbing or otherwise, as something to find blame in—Chris Hems…

SCUF’s High-End Controller for PC Will Prove How Bad You Are at Games

SCUF’s Envision Pro controller feels so good, so clicky, so responsive, it makes me hate it. I know it’s not the controller, it’s my dumb thumbs, and yet SCUF’s $180 device feels like a memento mori for all the years I spent trying and failing in onlin…