Sorry, but this news is going everywhere, and everyone's going to use a cat pun like "Batman Gets a Purr-fect Companion!" and I just wanted to have something slightly different before everything went to hell. Anyways, there's a new Batman: ...

Craig Brewer has made a deal for the TARZAN film which will now be a trilogy of films.  Warner Brothers has locked the writer/director in for three films to bring back the ape man. Brewer himself is hoping his next film ...

Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures has bought the rights to DC's THE MIGHTY. This is the comic book series that is written by Peter J. Tomasi and Keith Champagne. A good- bad guy kind of story, sounds kind of familiar. Plot: The story ...

BuzzSkyline writes "A few minutes in a high magnetic field (1.3 Tesla) is enough to thin blood by 30%, potentially leading to a new drug-free therapy to prevent heart attacks. The powerful field causes blood cells to line up in ...

Well any JLA fan should be wearing these, right? These Justice League of America briefs are for comic book fans, geeks, nerds or maybe even super heroes. There are images of Superman, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern and Batman, completely for DC ...

This is a 37-minute zombie musical about two dead people in love (nasty!) called Rigamortis: A Zombie Love Story. If I told you I watched all 37-minutes of it I'd be lying, and if there's one thing I pride ...

Dachannien writes "Patently-O and Ars Technica report that Lodsys has filed suit [here's the complaint] in the Eastern District of Texas against seven iPhone developers, asserting that the defendants are infringing two patents. Apple had previously indicated their belief that ...

Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. ...

siliconbits writes "We've learnt that AMD will open a new research and development center in Israel in the Tel-Aviv area, one which will be built around Graphic Remedy, the small startup they purchased in September 2010 and which specialises in ...

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our ...

An anonymous reader writes "Given that this year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Linux kernel, it is hardly surprising that anyone digging into their media collection might pull out something interesting, such as video tutorials on how to install ...

bazzalunatic writes "It turns out great white sharks can be lured underwater to cages by playing hits from AC/DC — specifically 'Shook me all night long'. Matt Waller, a shark diving tour operator in Australia, has found this curious fact. ...

ZOMG. Apparently police officers in Tennessee, having trapped an armed fugitive in his mobile home after a high-speed chase, were reluctant to enter the domicile themselves, and instead opted to use a gas-grenade launching robot to smoke the perp out. ...

Did Congressman Anthony Weiner really tweet a photo of his, well, wiener? It's possible, but he also might have been "hacked" via an image ...

Specifically, I want to go to this Indianapolis Mall in 1986 and its incredibly fucking awesome Masters of the Universe toy display/event/thing. If I had seen it when I was 9, I would have lost my mind. I'm kind of ...

mikejuk writes "Google WebRTC, all open source, is part of the web revolution that allows one browser to talk directly to another without the need for a server getting involved. WebRTC is an API that used the new P2P web ...

Tennessee governor Bill Haslam has signed legislation that for the first time makes the theft of subscription entertainment services like Netflix a crime on ...

I'm not going to say this any better than Vince at FilmDrunk already did, but I do feel it's my duty to also present this behind-the-scenes video from Transformers 3: Turn Off the Moon regarding the film's vaguely heralded wingsuit ...

itwbennett writes "Gennette Cordova knows first-hand how impossible it is to erase yourself from the Internet. The 21-year-old college student was the hapless recipient of a photo of a Congressman Anthony Weiner bulging in his boxers. Ms. Cordova then 'watched ...

"The past three weeks have been the longest weeks of my life with the PlayStation. I really appreciate the support you have given us," ...

​Disney just unveiled their new line of Disney-exclusive Star Wars Muppets figures, due this November when The Muppets movie comes out. They'll be sold in two-packs for the upsettingly high price of $19, but supposedly, they're more articulated than the ...

coder4hire writes "Released during the early days of the Web, in 1995, JavaScript has come a long way: Initially a client-side scripting language typically (mis)used for decorative effects, it is now an essential part of countless major websites. Its increasing ...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is set to debut June 8 exclusively at Best Buy's Union Square store in New York City, Samsung announced ...

Remember the two high school seniors that were suspended for 10 days and threatened with not being able to walk during their graduation ceremony after holding a mock lightsaber duel in the school's cafeteria? Well their principal, who will ...

The Security Update 2011-003 that Apple released on Tuesday directly addressed the Mac Defender malware threat in two ways: it changed the way malware ...

I give Tekken and its fans a lot of shit on Topless Robot, but I will admit you guys didn't deserve the live-action Tekken movie. I mean, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li was awful, and Capcom just remained ...

A number of malware-encumbered applications were found in the Android Market back in March, but the infestation was brought to a swift end when ...

an anonymously submitted article says, "For the first time, scientists have found complex, multi-celled creatures living a mile and more below the planet’s surface, raising new possibilities about the spread of life on Earth and potential subsurface life on other planets ...

Okay. An elaborate video for a very simple -- maybe even stupid -- idea, which happens to be the nerdiest corncob holder in existence. That's the way you're going to play it, Thursday? All right. Well, you asked for it. ...

Meet Roy Olmstead and Charles Katz—one was a Prohibition era bootlegger, the other a '60s gambler. Neither did anything earthshaking ...

An anonymous reader writes "A few weeks ago, Slashdot had a post about the new bill in Congress to make streaming infringing videos a felony, punishable by up to 5 years in jail if just 10 people watch the video. ...

I'd ask you how you feel about this, Krystal K., but it's written all over your face.[bowing]Uh thank you. Thankyouverramuch. Like this? Check out the the originating blog - they're sure to have a lot more content ...

durianwool writes "To avoid a defamation suit, a man in Malaysia has settled with lawyers saying he will tweet 100 times over the next 3 days that he's sorry for defaming a magazine company. Realizing the mistake in an original ...

Matthew Inman never wanted to be a hardass. He just wanted to write his unique webcomic, The Oatmeal, but only ...

quipalicious writes "A Michigan school super asks the state governor to make his school district a prison, highlighting the various rights and privileges that prisoners get and public schooling students don't." Read ...