CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. It’s the end of the Stranger Things debut long weekend, ...

For some science fiction fans, this Thanksgiving not only marked a celebration of fall food and turkey. The holiday coincided this year with the release of the first part of "Stranger Things" Season 5 ...

Spoiler alert! The following contains details from Season 5, Episode 2 of "Stranger Things," "The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler." Can you hear the demogorgan, Fernando? "Stranger Things" is known for ...

ChatGPT is about to become faster and more conversational as OpenAI upgrades its flagship model GPT-5 to GPT-5.1. OpenAI announced two updates to the GPT-5 series: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking ...

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could ...

A Reddit post featuring a 5-year-old’s homework assignment has gone viral for baffling not just the child’s parents, but the wider internet too. The image, shared by user boarshead12 on the subreddit ...

For any newcomers joining us, here’s how to play Quordle: Just start typing in words. You have four five-letter words to guess and nine attempts to find them all. The catch is that you play all four ...

The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality of it. Yet that’s not ultimately the reason “Nineteen Eighty-Four” remains ...

The first three episodes of Only Murders in the Building Season 5 are available now with a Hulu subscription, meaning it’s time for Charles, Oliver and Mabel to solve another murder. It also means ...