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James Gunn Teases What He Wants Out of the DCU’s Batman

Peacemaker teases where its big Superman connection will take it. Get a look at Netflix’s dreamy new animated movie, In Your Dreams. Plus, what’s coming on Outlander: Blood of My Blood. Spoilers, away! Edge of Tomorrow 2 The latest issue of Production Weekly suggests Edge of Tomorrow 2 will finally begin filming sometime in “late” 2026, with both Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt set to return. The Brave and the Bold During his recent appearance on the podcast 2 Bears, 1 Cave (via CBR), James Gunn

AllTrails Hiking App Review: Outdoor Planning and Navigation

Very few things let you anticipate adventure like poring over paper maps scattered across the kitchen table. This seldom happens anymore. These days, most of us plan what we're going to do and how we're going to get there using online tools, like AllTrails. There's something to be said for having room to eat breakfast while you plan next summer's adventures, but I do miss those old USGS topo quadrants. There are at least a dozen mapping apps to help plan your routes through the wilderness, whet

Wolverine looks bloody good in first gameplay trailer

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s been a long wait, but we finally got to see Insomniac’s take on Wolverine in action. The studio released a new trailer showing some of the surprisingly bloody superhero gameplay at Sony’s most-recent State of Play showcase. There’s no date yet,

Here’s a first look at Kojima’s OD Xbox game

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hideo Kojima first announced he was teaming up with Xbox for a new game in 2022, before a teaser revealed the OD name and some cast last year. We’re now getting a better look at exactly what OD is, in a new three-minute teaser trailer that holds true to Kojima’s promise that the game will b

A first look at Kojima’s OD Xbox game

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hideo Kojima first announced he was teaming up with Xbox for a new game in 2022, before a teaser revealed the OD name and some cast last year. We’re now getting a better look at exactly what OD is, in a new three-minute teaser trailer that holds true to Kojima’s promise that the game will b

How reliable are portable batteries for road trips? My verdict after testing with 3 kids

EcoFlow Trail 300 DC ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow Trail 300 DC is now available for $159. This compact portable battery can power electronic devices such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, and more. It doesn't have any extra features (there's no light), and there are only five DC ports View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My kids ooh and ahh over portable batteries. They're young, ranging from four to nine, so they're not EcoFlow's or Anker Solix's tar

Rails Needs New Governance

The title card of Tom Stuart’s presentation, The DHH Problem. Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name. The DHH Problem Back in 2014, Tom Stuart delivered a pithy yet salient lightning talk at the Scottish Ruby Conference titled The DHH Pr

This RPG series does everything wrong, and it’s working

In case it wasn’t clear, The Last of Us made it obvious: at their very best, big-budget video games should be comparable to prestige television, so much so that adapting one for HBO is a relatively straightforward affair. This bar-setting exercise is further exemplified by other PlayStation franchises marching toward adaptation: Ghost of Tsushima is set to be a film and anime, God of War has Prime Video aspirations, and Horizon Zero Dawn, previously on its way to becoming a Netflix series, is no

Finally, a portable battery that keeps all three of my kids' tablets powered up

EcoFlow Trail 300 DC ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow Trail 300 DC is now available for $159. This compact portable battery can power electronic devices such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, and more. It doesn't have any extra features (there's no light), and there are only five DC ports View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My kids ooh and ahh over portable batteries. They're young, ranging from four to nine, so they're not EcoFlow's or Anker Solix's tar

Grade 2 Braille

Tactile writing system for English English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille,[1] is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters (phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Braille letters, such as ⠿ ⟨for⟩,[2] correspond to more than one letter in print. There are three levels of complexity in English Braille. Grade 1 is a nearly one-to-one transcription of printed English and is restricted to

Jack Black and Paul Rudd’s Meta ‘Anaconda’ Trailer Goes Full ‘Tropic Thunder’

Sony Pictures Entertainment finally released the official trailer for a new Anaconda remake, starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black, transforming the creature feature into a full-on comedy. The first time we heard of an Anaconda remake was last December. In it, Rudd and Black essentially gave us a vibe check that their remake of the film would lean heavily into the campy nature of the 1997 flick starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and Jon Voight. Before that, all we knew about the plot was that it wo

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will be Mario's next crack at the big screen

Nintendo just dropped a trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the sequel to the immensely popular The Super Mario Bros. Movie. This is good timing, given that tomorrow is officially the mustached plumber's 40th birthday. It hits theaters on April TK, 2026. We've known this movie was coming for a while now, and even had an approximate release date. Now we have a trailer and it's a doozy. Shared during today's Nintendo Direct livestream event, the footage shows several deep-cut characters and

California’s High-Speed Rail Fiasco Keeps Getting Worse

Seventeen years ago, Californians bet on a grand vision of the future. They narrowly approved a $10 billion bond issue to build a high-speed rail line that would zip between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours. This technological marvel would slash emissions, revitalize the state’s Central Valley, and, with some financial help from the feds and private sector, provide the fast, efficient, and convenient travel Asia and Europe have long enjoyed. State officials promised to deliver

Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves

Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism . Keep up with LAist. If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. Sign Up On a recent Thursday evening, traffic was slow on the 10 Freeway as cars crawled into th

The New ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Finally Has a Release Date

James Gunn provides an update on Man of Tomorrow, Fall literally flips on its side for Fall 2, and Bigfoot ruins a dating contest. It’s morning spoilers! The Earthling Deadline reports Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein are attached to direct The Earthling, an adaptation of Jonathan Marty’s unpublished short story at Columbia Pictures. The plot is firmly under wraps, but the “survival sci-fi story” is said to contain “shades of The Martian and Edge of Tomorrow.” Patri

‘Marvel Zombies’ Teases a High-Energy Undead Adventure

The zombie apocalypse hits the Marvel Cinematic Universe, at least in 2D, just in time for spooky season. The trailer for Marvel Zombies shows us a timeline where the assembled Avengers aren’t showing up to save the day—they’re the threat after being hit with the zombie virus. The latest trailer for the Disney+ animated series reveals that the likes of Okoye, Hawkeye, the Scarlett Witch, and Captain America are now the brain-munching undead. And the unlikeliest of heroes will need to rise up to

The Backbone Pro controller is $20 off for a limited time

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. If you’ve ever thought “it’d sure be nice to have just one controller to use between my phone, tablet, and TV,” then the Backbone Pro might be made for you. Backbone’s newest gamepad has the same phone-hugging design as its 2020 predecessor, but comes with a handful of distinct features — the most notable being that it can be paired via

The Mortal Kombat II movie is postponed to a spring 2026 release

We'll have to wait until May to discover the fate of Earthrealm and Johnny Cage. Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to 2021's reboot of the video game adaptation, will be pushed back from its original October 24 release date to May 15, 2026. According to a post on X from the movie's official account, the "tournament demands a new time and place, worthy of its spectacle." The delay goes against the trailer and promotional images that Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema already put out, but the studios ma

Ride1Up TrailRush Electric Mountain Bike Review: Quality Components, Bargain Price

Buying a direct-to-consumer bike can be almost as big a gamble as investing in cryptocurrency. While a customer is not likely to lose their shirt investing in a new electric bike, buying a poorly made one may result in a serious crash or catch the garage on fire. For these reasons and more, it’s wise to do some research before clicking on the Add to Cart button. The highest-end legacy-brand e-MTBs retail for upwards of $14,000. So what do you get for $2,095, the price of Ride1Up’s first-ever el

Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

The new Deathstalker gets a trailer, Bugonia gets a poster, and Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season two—just as another $100 million dollar musical gets an “R” rating. After Folie a Deux, is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride a Xanadu or a Xanadon’t? Transformers Speaking with The Direct, Josh Duhamel revealed he has “not heard” about Michael Bay reportedly returning to direct another installment in the Transformers franchise, but, Duhamel said, he would “love to do it.” I have not heard that. But ye

Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Join ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

The new Deathstalker gets a trailer, Bugonia gets a poster, and Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season two—just as another $100 million dollar musical gets an “R” rating. After Folie a Deux, is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride a Xanadu or a Xanadon’t? Transformers Speaking with The Direct, Josh Duhamel revealed he has “not heard” about Michael Bay reportedly returning to direct another installment in the Transformers franchise, but, Duhamel said, he would “love to do it.” I have not heard that. But ye

Toxic Avenger gets grindhouse-style trailer

The Toxic Avenger, a semi-reboot of the 1984 superhero splatter-fest, made the rounds of the festival circuit back in 2023. But all the violence and gore scared off most distributors, so the film—starring Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) in the title role—has been languishing in the vault for much of the last two years. Thanks to Cineverse, The Toxic Avenger is finally coming to select theaters this weekend. And thanks to the folks at Bloody Disgusting (a Cineverse subsidiary), we've got a trai

A bubble that knows it's a bubble

The four words that precede every crash: “This time is different.” Except this time, the person warning about a bubble is Sam Altman, the CEO most responsible for creating it. When OpenAI’s chief executive warned last week that investors were “overexcited” about AI, markets reacted immediately. Nvidia fell 3.5%, Palantir dropped nearly 10%, and the selloff spread globally. The warning came amid a cascade of seemingly supporting data. That same week, MIT researchers published findings that 95%

Five Years Ago, ‘The Batman’ Made Its Brutal, Moody Debut

On August 22, 2020, Warner Bros. held its first-ever DC FanDome, a weekend-long virtual event meant to make up for that year’s San Diego Comic-Con, which was canceled due to the pandemic. If you’ve ever followed big industry events like the Game Awards or… well, Comic-Con, you know they often come with a big trailer or two that’s meant to make it all worth it. And for WB, the big showcase for its inaugural, short-lived event was the very first look at Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Trailers for super

Netflix's Splinter Cell: Deathwatch animated series arrives on October 14

Ubisoft still isn’t giving us a new Splinter Cell game, but Sam Fisher fans are at least getting an animated TV adaptation very soon. At this week’s Anime NYC convention, Netflix revealed a new teaser trailer for the upcoming Splinter Cell: Deathwatch and confirmed that the series will come to the service on October 14. Written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad and starring Liev Schreiber as an older — but still decidedly badass — Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch was first announced back

Pokémon looks scary again in the new Z-A trailer

One of the most brilliant things about Pokémon Legends: Arceus was the way it dropped you into the wilderness to fend for yourself as wild monsters tried to kill you. It was a surprising deviation from the franchise’s typically chill vibe that complimented the game’s story about how humans once lived in constant fear of pokémon. Arceus’ mild horror elements felt like something that might not carry over to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, but the new game’s latest trailer makes it seem like Nintendo wants t

Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)

Sergei is a veteran of the early days of the computing industry as it was developing in the Soviet Union. I had the pleasure of working and learning from him over the past year, and in that time I picked up more important lessons about both life and embedded programming than any amount of school could ever teach. The most striking lesson is the story of how and why, in late summer of 1986, Sergei decided to move his family out of the Soviet Union. In the 1980s, my mentor Sergei was writing soft

Apple TV+ reveals darker, cutthroat return of The Morning Show in new trailer

One of the longest running hits for Apple TV+, The Morning Show, is returning soon with season 4. And the new trailer reveals a darker turn coming for the series. The Morning Show season 4 trailer debuts ahead of September return When Apple TV+ launched in 2019, its biggest flagship series was The Morning Show, headlined by stars Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carrell. Now six years later, The Morning Show remains one of Apple’s most popular series, and its star-studded cast k

Why we still build with Ruby in 2025

When we started Lago, we picked Ruby on Rails for our core API. The choice was obvious because our founding team had decade of Rails experience. Rails was the fastest way we could build an API product. Today, we’ve receive millions of API calls a day. We’ve upgraded through multiple Ruby/Rails versions. Maybe that sounds silly in a world where young, Python/Go/JS-wielding entitlements have never even heard of Ruby. We do admit that we’ve added Go and Rust where it makes sense. But if we were

Gamescom 2025 Opening Night Live: Black Myth Wukong Sequel, Resident Evil 9 and More

Europe's major gaming event of the year, Gamescom 2025, has kicked off in Cologne, Germany, with Opening Night Live, an extensive trailer showcase giving early looks at the biggest games coming later this year and into 2026. Last year's Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live had a ton of reveals, including Mafia: The Old Country and trailers for then-upcoming games like Marvel Rivals, Dune Awakening and more. This year's showcase had some big reveals and some tantalizingly short teases -- like around