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You can take that latest Star Wars rumor and throw it in the sarlacc pit. Earlier this week, rumors surfaced that the upcoming Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Star Wars film featuring the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey had been delayed indefinitely. The reason? Creative differences with the film’s writer, Steven Knight.Well, that’s not true, according to Lucasfilm. A source at the company told io9 the report is inaccurate and Knight continues to write and be a part of the process. In fact, the company is waiting on his latest draft…

When Adam Greenbaum started buying NFTs in 2021, pretty much as soon as he learned of their existence. “I always wanted to be an art collector,” he says, “and this seemed like a cool thing to get into that wasn’t as expensive as being a fine art collector.”Greenbaum, who works as the CMO of veterinarian SaaS startup Petvisor, says he’s always been an early adopter of new technologies, and with NFTs and crypto he was keen to join a craze he saw as thrilling and lucrative. He bought Alien Frens art pieces, some real estate…

Rapper Ice-T has offered the reasons why he thinks that the fighting game series Def Jam isn’t on modern platforms. Ice-T posted on X (formerly Twitter) in response to a fan, saying that “so many people ask me why this game hasn’t been brought back for the newer consoles” and that he thinks the reason the console hasn’t been released on more modern platforms is that developer EA would have to “pay for voice and music rights again”. The rapper continued in another post, writing that he doesn’t think that “they paid any…

There are many Christmas stories, and while the holiday itself is largely about how warm magic and kindness overcome darkness, some holiday stories, unfortunately, do not seem entirely joyful. More precisely, the general happy mood is sometimes overshadowed by some ‘fly in the ointment.’For example, the user u/Kfcdeliveryguy12234, the author of this story in the AskUK community on Reddit, recently had a great time at a friend’s Christmas party, but after it all ended, they were faced with the need to chip in on food and…

Steven Yeun was one of the most exciting new castings in the Marvel Cinematic Universe at a time when more and more actors seem to be turning away from superhero films. Naturally, the news that he was dropping out of Thunderbolts was a bitter pill to swallow for Marvel aficionados on the heels of a frustrating 2023. Still, there’s hope yet. The Nope actor isn’t completely done with the MCU — or at least, not if he has any say in the matter. Yeun told Variety he still wants to do a Marvel movie, but scheduling conflicts…

Dec. 15, 2023 11:00 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)At a 2018 meeting with a senior General Motors team, Chief Executive Mary Barrastunned the room with a sharp U-turn. She killed plans for a new high-end Cadillac that already had gushing reviews from the automotive press. Her reason: the car’s gas-guzzling V-8 engine. Barra, deep into her quest to turn GM into an electric-car powerhouse, decided it would send the wrong message to showcase another splashy Cadillac—the GM brand known for innovation—that leans on…

Twitter is officially dead. Since Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of it late last year, people have been saying it’s dead or dying or will die. Musk ended the argument when he renamed the app “X.” And now, so many people seem to pine for the days when Twitter was good. But let me tell you, it was never good. It was a place of sadness and attention farming; a place for enemies and humiliation. It was, in short, shit.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedAfter renaming and subsuming Jack Dorsey’s…

The last time carbon dioxide in the atmosphere consistently matched today's human-driven levels was 14 million years ago, according to a large new study Thursday that paints a grim picture of where Earth's climate is headed.Published in the journal Science, the paper covers the period from 66 million years ago until the present, analyzing biological and geochemical signatures from the deep past to reconstruct the historic CO2 record with greater precision than ever before."It really brings it home to us that what we are…

Too Long; Didn't ReadSolana has long been considered an underdog blockchain, grappling with its outage problems and the FTX-related reputational damage. So why did its coin $SOL recently gain a mind-blowing 175%, leaving the market leader Etehreum so far behind? To answer this question, we look at the state of Solana's technology, user activity, and tokenomics. Too Long; Didn't ReadSolana has long been considered an underdog blockchain, grappling with its outage problems and the FTX-related reputational damage. So why…

Nothing, a company founded by Carl Pei, the man who co-founded OnePlus before it, today announced that it "made iMessage for Android," releasing a video with a faux interview with a journalist to back it up. Except, it didn't. But don't worry, we'll get to why that is soon enough.First, let's look into the announcement itself because it sounds pretty great if you're an iPhone owner looking to ditch Apple and go all-in on Android. Or more specifically, Nothing because that's where the app is. It isn't available to…