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A still from ‘Twisted Metal’  | Photo Credit: @peacock/YouTube First things first—Twisted Metal, based on the eponymous videogame, is no The Last of Us, and that is not at all a bad thing. Twisted Metal, working as a prequel to the…

Prabhas, Deepika Padukone in ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ The title of Nag Ashwin’s Project K has been officially revealed as Kalki 2898 AD. Starring a massive Pan-Indian cast of Prabhas, Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan and Disha…

Nothing quite compels you to buy into a game's stakes like happening upon the decaying carcass of a dog who's starved to death. This is the first of several emotional moments in After Us. The surrealistic…

A whole book? No. I changed “Freeforall” to make it more succinct. But to redo a novel, no. I don’t think you need to redo any of your novels, by the way. They are a snapshot in time. They are of their age. So, much to my surprise, The…

“From engineering point of view, it’s very interesting to work with: It’s very difficult,” he says. After the release of FindFace, NTechLab began selling its face recognition tech to small businesses, such as shopping malls that could use…

The Chinese Communist Party’s reversal of the draconian “zero Covid” policy in December sparked an unprecedented epidemic across the country. But while the surging cases caused them a lot of worry, the end of brutal…

Right now, I'm so interested in architecture and fashion and design from the standpoint of new technologies, like 3D printing, and new concerns like environmental conservatism and how to be more intelligent about using resources. I think…

The year is 2034. You’re the owner of a new diner smack dab in nowhere, Midwestern America. Something sinister lurks beyond the confines of your restaurant. Instead of steak in your burgers, you’ve got something called Zoid meat. On its…

Raffiella Chapman stars as Vesper, a 13-year-old bio-hacker.…

When M.T. Anderson published the young adult novel Feed in 2002, there were no social media feeds to scroll in real life. Debuting two years before Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his dorm room and four years before he unveiled the…