First off, I highly recommend the movie. Great story, fine acting - Big Bang's Sheldon as you've never seen him before - and a fascinating dollop of computer history. The 7090 was one of IBM's first ...

Assumptions. I resonated strongly with a scene in the movie in which mathematician Katherine Johnson was assumed to be in the room to empty the trash rather than crunch numbers for NASA. Both ...

There is a reason Hidden Figures has been the top-grossing film for the last two weeks: beyond great performances, this is a story of empowerment, of black women overcoming the double barriers of race ...

Among all the awards, honors, and accolades the stars of music and film can receive in the modern era, one of the most unique and highly coveted remains the Madame Tussauds wax figure. As we looked at ...

From classic comics to exciting films and TV shows to thrilling video games, Batman has made an impact just about everywhere. No matter if you grew up with the character or jumped on the bandwagon ...

Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen and streaming. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene ...

Shomari Figures, the Black Democrat running in an Alabama congressional district redrawn last year by a court order, has won the seat over Republican Caroleene Dobson, NBC News projects. With 84% of ...

Artificial intelligence-generated action figures permeated social media feeds last week as people fed images of themselves to ChatGPT and asked it to package them into miniature toys. The resulting ...

In homes across Dhaka, glowing display cases packed with action figures have become modern-day memory boxes — symbols of nostalgia, identity and a rapidly changing pop culture landscape ...

We might think we know the important basics about world history. But think again. Misunderstood historical figures are everywhere in the pages of our past. Some have been celebrated for things they ...

David Greene talks to Manisha Sinha, professor of American history at the University of Connecticut, about the recent toppling of non-Confederate statues like those of George Washington. Here in ...