Changes to the DoorDash and Uber Eats apps have cost food delivery workers in New York City millions of dollars in tips, according to a new report from a city agency. The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) claims the companies made design changes to their apps that made it harder […]
Dem Congressman Wants to Make ICE Agents Wear QR Codes
Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, says he’s going to introduce legislation to require that all ICE and CBP agents wear a QR code on their uniforms. The idea is that people on the street can scan the code to get information like the officer’s name, badge number, and the agency they […]
VR gaming is dying, thanks to Meta’s game studio cull – and only the Steam Frame can now save it
Meta is turning its back on VR gaming. That’s the feeling many, myself included, are feeling after the reports that Meta has shuttered Twisted Pixel, Sanzaru, and Armature, the game studios behind Marvel’s Deadpool VR, Asgard’s Wrath, and Resident Evil 4 VR, respectively (among other VR projects). In addition, Supernatural – the excellent VR fitness […]
The ‘Solar Opposites’ Team Has a New Sci-Fi Animated Series Coming
While Solar Opposites‘ cancellation was one of the sad pop culture losses of 2025, there’s fresh hope in the hellscape: two of the creative minds behind Hulu’s delightfully crass alien family have a new animated series coming to Amazon Prime Video. It’s called Odd Jobs and it looks at the gig economy through a deeply […]
‘All You Need Is Kill’ Director Felt Destined to Tackle the ‘Perfect’ Sci‑Fi Epic’s Anime Adaptation
All You Need Is Kill might sound like a punch-you-in-the-face-titled new anime film brought to the U.S. by GKids to the average moviegoer, but to those in the know, the movie is actually the latest in a long line of adaptations of its source material. Inarguably, the most popular adaptation here is Tom Cruise and Emily […]
‘Our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world’: Micron offers a different take on killing its Crucial brand in RAM crisis
Micron has defended its decision to shutter the Crucial brand of consumer RAM A marketing exec said, “Our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world. We’re just doing it through different channels.” This refers to the majority of Micron’s consumer business as being supplying RAM for OEM PCs, and the […]
Warner Bros. Heads Say ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Was Good, You Guys Are Just Mean
While the adage of “new year, new me” is one that’s often never adhered to by anyone who utters it, the dozens (dozens!) of folks who swear by Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel, Folie à Deux, are God’s hardest-working soldiers and will shout to the heat death of the universe that the DC Studios film was […]
Why Is ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Being Marketed Like This?
At last, we’ve seen the final teaser for Avengers: Doomsday. Rather than a single peek into the next MCU outing, Marvel’s been conducting a weekly rollout for the multiversal epic, giving us minute-long glimpses of ex-Captain America Steve Rogers, Thor, the X-Men, and the Wakandans and the Fantastic Four’s Ben Grimm, with each one punctuated […]
‘I’m not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero’ — Elon Musk says Grok hasn’t made any illegal images, but that’s reassuring no-one
Elon Musk defends Grok AI Insists it never created certain kinds of images The UK is not done investigating the platform Elon Musk said that he’s aware of “literally zero” naked underage images generated by Grok AI, in a Wednesday post on X. It’s the first public comments beyond emojis the X CEO has made […]
Google Gemini’s ‘Personal Intelligence’ Pulls from Your Search and YouTube History
It feels clear at this point that the next big frontier for consumer-facing artificial intelligence is personalization. OpenAI has made this central to ChatGPT by introducing memories that allow the chatbot to pull from past conversations, and now Google is taking it a step further. On Wednesday, it announced a new beta feature for its […]