License plates from states long-forgotten, vintage Coca-Cola signs that predate the New Coke debacle, and mid-century furniture that would make Don Draper feel right at home beckon from the windows, ...

RoboCop is a weird, wild flick, so much so that one of its stranger moments convinced a major film critic that a reel from ...

Engineers have developed a robot that can detect whether people are wearing a mask to guard against COVID-19 and, if not, politely remind them to put one on.

Stories like "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" -- which was adapted into the film "Blade Runner" -- have become iconic ...

On an initial glance, a video that’s going viral on social media looks like a typical 1990s TV commercial for a children’s toy set of a tropical island: there are palm trees, a waterfall, and — wait a ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...

Golf is a sport that is rooted in tradition. And when it comes to the Ryder Cup, that means complaints about what many viewers feel is an excessive amount of commercials on the event’s broadcast.

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

In the fall of 2025, a rumor began to spread online that the state of New York was issuing "no name given" commercial driver's licenses. The claim began to circulate after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a ...

A decade before George Lucas flew off to a galaxy far, far away, International Rescue introduced a generation to the coolest toys on the planet. "5… 4… 3… 2 ...

Television commercials from the 1980s and 1990s weren’t just advertising breaks – they were miniature cultural phenomena that shaped our memories and influenced popular culture. These brief snippets ...

Looking back, it’s easy to laugh at the abysmal reviews and early experiments in digital VFX. But us ’90s kids didn’t care: all we wanted was to be transported into a future of floating cities, ...