How to Train Your Dragon Director Justifies the Live-Action Film’s Existence

Yesterday, Universal Pictures released the first official teaser trailer for the live-action How to Train Your Dragon film. Although the trailer hit all the referential high marks moviegoers have come to expect of Hollywood’s trend of making live-action remakes of beloved animated classics, a very vocal majority of folks online rebuffed the film’s entire existence. … Read more

Snowflake snaps up data management company Datavolo

Cloud giant Snowflake has agreed to acquire Datavolo, a data pipeline management company, for an undisclosed sum. Snowflake unveiled the deal at the close of the market bell on Wednesday, when it also announced its Q3 2025 earnings. The purchase hasn’t yet closed, and it’s subject to customary closing conditions, Snowflake noted in a release. … Read more

Beef Up Your Home Security and Get Up to 77% Off With These Arlo Black Friday Deals

Home security systems are getting more inexpensive and easier than ever for anyone to install. These humble systems can help you feel safer, especially if you have kids at home or tend to order packages often. Arlo makes some of our favorite home security gear, and despite their relative affordability, Black Friday deals at Amazon … Read more

Solar power magnate Gautam Adani and others indicted over alleged $250M bribery scheme

Billionaire Gautam Adani and several executives at his company, the Indian conglomerate Adani Group, have been indicted over an alleged scheme to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian officials in exchange for contracts to a 12 gigawatt solar power project. The indictment, unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, charges Adani, his … Read more

The 15 best gifts for dads

I’ve loved Withings’ hybrid watches, which put all the health tech you need into an analog watch body, for more than a decade. The ScanWatch Nova crams the ScanWatch 2’s hardware into a diver’s watch body and looks far more luxurious than it actually costs. And, of course, it’s got all the fancy health and … Read more

Researchers Claim to Pinpoint Exact Date When Elon’s X Started Boosting the Right

For a while now, researchers have been trying to prove that X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) has an algorithmic bias for conservative content. Indeed, ever since Elon Musk bought the platform in 2022, right-wing accounts have run rampant on the site—so much so that onlookers suspect those accounts are being actively promoted. A … Read more

‘PDF to Brainrot’ study tools are a strange iteration on a TikTok trend

Several AI-based study tools are capitalizing on a “PDF to Brainrot” trend, which will read the text of a document you upload over “oddly satisfying” videos, like ASMR clips of mixing paint and cutting soap, or gameplay footage from Minecraft and Subway Surfers. Then, students can listen to an automated voice read their textbooks to … Read more