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‘Queenie’s powerful ending reminds us that feeling uncomfortable is crucial
In the TV adaptation of Candice Carty-Williams’ novel, Queenie Jenkins is reaching new audiences in all her glorious messiness.
Fisker failed because it wasn’t ready to be a car company
Two years ago, an employee at Fisker Inc. told me that the most pressing concern inside the EV startup was not whether its Ocean SUV would get built. […]
30 Minutes With Monster Hunter Wilds: A Big, Beautiful World
It’s been six years since Monster Hunter: World showed what the beloved action series could accomplish when it made the jump from Nintendo’s consoles back to more powerful hardware. As fun as 2021’s Monster Hunter Rise was, it was built for the Switch and pulled back in many ways from the ambition of its PlayStation 4…
Wuthering Waves Is A Promising Rival To Genshin Impact
There’s nothing definitively wrong with being an iterative clone of something else people already love. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that. So I don’t really mind that on the surface, the new gacha open-world RPG Wuthering Waves looks to be a flattering copy of HoYoverse’s widely popular Genshin…
Genshin Impact’s Next Big Region Is Giving Major Pokémon Vibes
With the imminent release of Genshin Impact version 4.7, which will down the story of Fontaine and its inhabitants, players are starting to look toward the future. Developer HoYoverse is doing the same, as the company gave us a surprise first look at the action RPG’s next location. Like past major updates that move…
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the “edge lords” at OpenAI
Meredith Whittaker has had it with the “frat house” contingent of the tech industry. I sat down with the CEO of Signal at VivaTech in Paris to go […]
‘Babes’ red-band trailer: Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau grapple with pregnancy in gross-out comedy
The red-band trailer for gross-out comedy ‘Babes’ has Michelle Buteau and Ilana Glazer grappling with the weirdness of pregnancy.
Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview
Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon’s AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language […]
Gen Z mostly doesn’t care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows
A new study finds that Gen Z may value AI and authenticity on social media differently than older generations.