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UPDATE: July 21, 2018, 5:03 p.m. EDT A spokesperson for Uber informed us that Jason Gargac’s behavior was not in line with its Community Guidelines and has been suspended from driving for Uber. The article has been updated to reflect that.

UPDATE: July 21, 2018, 10:37 p.m. EDT The article has been updated to include a comment from Twitch.

If you’re in the St. Louis area, you may be getting filmed by this guy who drives for Uber and Lyft.

Hundreds of Uber and Lyft rides have been broadcast live on Twitch by driver Jason Gargac this year, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Saturday, all of them without the passengers’ permission. Read more…

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The first trailer for Aquaman dropped during Comic-Con on Saturday, featuring everyone’s favorite fish-based superhero.

The trailer digs into the origins of Aquaman with a scene of him as a child (who at that point had the name Arthur Curry) being bullied by some older kids in an aquarium who then back off when an actual shark stands up for Arthur. It looks like after whatever (hopefully succinct) origin DC has cooked up, we get into a whole bunch of super-powered action, some stuff about Aquaman being king of Atlantis, and a whole lot of sea creatures.

Just what we expected.

Aquaman dives into theaters Dec. 21. Read more…

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With a release date of Nov. 1, 2019, Wonder Woman 1984 is sadly a long way off.

But fans lucky enough to be at Warner Bros.’ Comic-Con panel Saturday were treated to a little taste of the amazingness to come.

The exclusive Comic-Con footage opens in that most ’80s of settings – a brightly lit shopping mall – where Wonder Woman comes leaping in, landing in front of two menacing-looking men with guns.

A kid spots her: “Oh my gosh!” she says, looking delighted. Wonder Woman looks around and sends the kid sliding across the floor into an enormous teddy bear. The kid just laughs. Read more…

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Patty Jenkins chose her Wonder Woman sequel’s setting and time period for a specific reason, it turns out.

The Wonder Woman 1984 director explained some of her thinking behind the upcoming movie’s Cold War-era setting during at appearance at Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday. For Jenkins, the first and second movie both occur when they do for a purpose.

“One of my favorite things about the first movie was getting to know the era,” she explained during the show’s big Warner Bros. panel. “Really, when you dig into the era, they serve as metaphors for things that are true always.” Read more…

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Meet your next new big-screen DC superhero.

Warner Bros. has shared a first look at Shazam!, starring Asher Angel as a kid who gains the ability to transform into a grown-up superhero (Zachary Levi) by uttering a magic word. 

In contrast to the gloom and doom of the Batman and Superman movies, or even the seriousness of Wonder Woman, Shazam! looks light and funny. Because Lord knows the DC universe could use some of that right now.

Shazam! hits theaters April 5, 2019. Read more…

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Godzilla is here, he’s back, and he’s madder than ever in the new Godzilla: King of the Monsters trailer released at San Diego Comic-Con. In the sequel to 2014’s Godzilla, the king of monsters will face off against humanity alongside Mothra and King Ghidorah, while a human cast including Stranger Things‘s Millie Bobby Brown, Get Out‘s Bradley Whitford, and Bates Motel‘s Vera Farmiga watch and fight from their ant-like perspective. 

Godzilla: King of the Monsters comes out May 31, 2019. Read more…

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is not done adding Spider-People.

At Comic-Con’s Hall H Friday, Sony unveiled dazzling new footage that included our first glimpses at three new Spider-Folks: Spider-Man Noir, voiced by Nicolas Cage; Peni Parker, voiced by Kimiko Glenn; and, last but not least, Spider-Ham, voiced by John Mulaney.

In the footage, which was screened exclusively for Comic-Con, Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), Peter Parker (Jake Johnson), and Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) arrive at a mysterious building, where a smiling woman hands them “Hello my name is” stickers. Read more…

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It looks like Facebook is indeed building an internet satellite. 

The social network is working on a new satellite project that will provide broadband internet connections to “unserved and underserved areas,” according to FCC documents uncovered by Wired.

The documents, produced by a Freedom of Information Act request, detail several email exchanges between FCC officials and Facebook representatives from 2016 and 2018. In the 2018 messages, Facebook reps refer to a “small satellite experimental application for the Athena satellite.” Read more…

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M. Night Shyamalan’s latest brings together the stories of two of his movies —2000’s Unbreakable and 2016’s Split.

Following the events of Split, Glass picks up in a mental hospital with a woman (Sarah Paulson) treating Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), David Dunn (Bruce Willis) and The Horde (McAvoy). Given the title and his eponymous character, it’s safe to infer that Jackson will play a bigger role in this as his alias Mr. Glass. Anya Taylor-Joy will reprise her role as Casey Cooke, who was abducted in Split. Spencer Treat Clark and Charlayne Woodard also star. Read more…

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WhatsApp is taking its most dramatic step yet to cut down on fake news.

The app is testing a new feature that places limits on how many times a single message can be forwarded, WhatsApp announced Thursday. The update comes as Facebook scrambles to fight the messaging app’s fake news epidemic, which has lead to a number of violent incidents in India.

With the change, WhatsApp will restrict the number of times you can forward a single message. In India, the limit will be five chats; it will be 20 in other countries. The app will also remove the “quick forward” shortcut that appears alongside media messages. Read more…

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