A CES 2024 preview, 23andMe victim blaming and MIT’s obesity-fighting pill
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech that was. Hope the holidays were restful for those who...
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is Finally Coming Out
Nearly five years ago, acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola talked about his plans to finally create a movie he’s had cooking in his head since the...
Survey: AI experts’ minds were blown by last year’s pace of AI development
It’s not just your imagination. AI researchers themselves are having their minds blown by the sheer pace of AI development, too, a new survey has found....
Midnight Suns Is Marvel Messiness Worth Coming Back To
Firaxis and 2K’s Marvel’s Midnight Suns was one of my favorite games of 2022, but it ended up falling by the wayside in 2023. Amid a...
Letterboxd announces TV series reviews coming in 2024; apparently regrets saying so
Letterboxd, the movie cataloguing and review platform, will be adding television series to its roster in 2024. That news comes courtesy of the platform’s official X...
How to Train Your Dragon Remake Adds Series Alum Gerard Butler
Dreamworks’ live-action remake of How to Train Your Train Dragon has added an old new face to its cast. Gerard Butler, who voiced the viking chief...
What if the metaverse had legs?
I would be lying if I said that mixed reality and generative AI were two of my favorite things. And yet, a Christmas Day TV special...
How to Find the Best Deal on a New Phone
Buying a new phone at launch may be exciting, but it’s rarely a good financial decision if it means paying full price for the device. With...
On Threads, users say they’re flooded with pro-life and transphobic posts
I haven’t opened Threads, Meta’s hopeful rival to X/Twitter, for months. But I did on the first day of 2024, and the app looked nothing like...
NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Plane Preps for Flight and More Top Science News of the Week
NASA’s supersonic experimental plane—the linchpin of the agency’s Quesst mission—is set to roll out of its warehouse in the California desert next week. We’re gassed for...
