Tenet occupies an odd place in Christopher Nolan’s filmography. It became one of the big tentpole movies during the early days of the pandemic, and Warner Bros. simultaneous streamer/theatrical release of its movies led to him jumping ship over to Universal. Ahead of the movie’s … | Continue reading
After being put on ice with 2018's The Predator, the sci-fi horror franchise came back to life with Prey. The 2022 movie wound back the clock to 1719 in the Great Plains to focus on a Comanche woman named Naru, and it took off big with audiences. Not only was it graced with a phy … | Continue reading
Last October, a new Goosebumps TV show was released on Disney+. Like many, we thought it was a pretty solid adaptation of R.L. Stine’s beloved series, so it’s glad to hear it’ll be coming back with another season. Read more... | Continue reading
Since 2013, Warner Bros.’ Conjuring movies has been going along with mainline installments and spinoffs for various villains of the Warren family. But all scary things must come to some kind of end, and the upcoming The Conjuring 4 is aiming to bring the mothership series to some … | Continue reading
Flying from Tokyo, Japan back to the U.S. to get to the Super Bowl and watch her boyfriend Travis Kelce play was very important to pop superstar Taylor Swift—so important that she apparently had a second private jet on standby.Read more... | Continue reading
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse did a lot of things right, and one of them was its music. That movie had a really good original soundtrack, and its obvious standout is Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower.” Releasing a few months before the film came out helped a lot, and it’s … | Continue reading
Come April 2, Funimation is going the way of the dodo. Earlier in the week, Sony revealed it’ll be sunsetting Funimation’s app and website in order to unify both it and Crunchyroll...something the company first revealed all the way back in 2022.Read more... | Continue reading
Earlier this week, it was reported that Jurassic World 4 had potentially found a director in Bullet Train’s David Leitch. Smash cut to now, and Leitch is no longer attached to the project.Read more... | Continue reading
The Star Wars fandom got into a tizzy earlier this week when Empire Magazine teased something. Rather than being a look at the future of the franchise—like say, The Acolyte, Andor, or Bad Batch—it was all about the past. Thanks to Empire, we’re going back to the Prequels, babyyyy … | Continue reading
This week AI showed it can destroy the world for the sake of peace, but if you train correctly, it can also help you find love. Also, happening this past week is Taylor Swift not happy her private jet is being tracked, TikTok showing signs of sucking more than usual, and some peo … | Continue reading
Now that the Apple Vision Pro is finally out, these headset owners are finding, let’s say, pretty unique ways of using their $3,500 mixed reality headset. That’s not the only Apple news either; the Cupertino giant is rumored to be working on not one but two foldable iPhones.Click … | Continue reading
The 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is on the fritz again, and this time it may be critical. As one engineer said, “this is, by far, the most serious since I’ve been project manager.” Here are our top science stories from this week.Read more... | Continue reading
As Dune: Part Two approaches, io9 took a look at an amazing tie-in Lego set—and asked the cast and crew what they thought (they love it, too). We also recommended some books to read (other than Dune) for upcoming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror adaptations; debuted a cool mutant-movi … | Continue reading
This week, Tucker Carlson conducted an interview with Vladimir Putin for his show on X. The interview, which is over two hours long, was ostensibly an attempt to interview the Russian leader about the war in Ukraine. Instead of doing that, however, Putin instead launched into a l … | Continue reading
Just like the bad guy out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, real life cartoon villain David Zaslav has revealed his nefarious plot: based on a damning investigative report from the Wrap, it seems the Warner Bros. head honcho planned to delete Coyote vs. Acmeall along. Apparently, he ne … | Continue reading
Gizmodo Staff Writer Florence Ion tells us what she likes and dislikes about Samsung’s new flagship phone. | Continue reading
Las Vegas becomes the destination of choice this weekend with the Super Bowl taking place in Sin City. With that comes a slew of interactive pop-ups, including a Cheetos-themed wedding chapel, the Paramount+ mountain, and of course staples like Area15 and spooky escape room fun w … | Continue reading
There’s a new Apple image editor, if you know where to look. The iPhone kings teamed up with researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara to build a tool that lets you edit photos and images with text-based instructions. It doesn’t have an official release, but th … | Continue reading
It’s not uncommon to see multiple adaptations of popular books, but this is hardly a “David Lynch’s Dune versus Denis Villeneuve’s Dune” situation. Weeks before Netflix is set to roll out its high-profile adaptation of Chinese author Liu Cixin’s award-winning sci-fi novel The Thr … | Continue reading
During mating season, male seals usually have one thing on their mind. For about three months, the seals conserve all their energy to mate, or at least try to, with nearby females at the beach. But not all heroes wear capes, some of them weigh two tons made of blubber, and are wi … | Continue reading
Another week, another study finding that Ozempic/Wegovy and similar drugs may do a lot more than just help people lose weight. New research has found that patients who start taking GLP-1 drugs are less likely to be diagnosed with depression and anxiety afterward, compared to simi … | Continue reading
A striking set of gigantic sunspots, first spotted from Mars and now designated AR3576, is currently facing Earth, capturing the attention of astronomers, space enthusiasts, and concerned space weather forecasters.Read more... | Continue reading
In more ways than you realize, sports and movies are the exact same thing. On the simplest level, each consists of a group of highly trained, sometimes well-paid, professionals doing various specific jobs all with a singular purpose: telling a story, usually for profit. The main … | Continue reading
Google just released its long-awaited ChatGPT killer, Gemini, an ultra-smart AI chatbot that can finally match OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Early reviews of Google’s chatbot are slowly rolling out, and everyone is impressed. However, some can’t shake this eerie feeling that Gemini has more … | Continue reading
Even before its 2022 finale, the world of AMC’s The Walking Dead was expanding. Fear the Walking Dead kicked off the spinoff trend, and shows like Daryl Dixon, World Beyond, Dead City, and Tales of the Walking Dead followed. Now, the most highly anticipated of those shows, The Wa … | Continue reading
Great news for fans of the Predator franchise, particularly standalone prequel entry Prey: the director of that 2022 film, Dan Trachtenberg (who also made 10 Cloverfield Lane), is returning to the universe. While Prey 2 still might happen, that’s not what this new project is; rat … | Continue reading
Some scientists say Category 5 is not enough to describe the monster storms that have battered us in recent years. | Continue reading
Details about SpaceX’s proposed land swap deal with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission (TPWC) keep getting uglier. After an overwhelming majority voted against the land exchange, the decision was delayed to March. Recent reports, however, suggest that the acres in question w … | Continue reading
Mike Lindell is an entrepreneur. Unsatisfied with the MyPillow empire built on a product he literally invented in a dream, Lindell set out for political fame during the Trump administration. He’s spent years hawking bogus cures for COVID-19 and promoting feverish conspiracy theor … | Continue reading
I told you. It appears that the government of Canada is going to ban the Flipper Zero, the tiny, modular hacking device that’s become popular with techies for its deviant digital powers. On Thursday, following a summit that focused on “the growing challenge of auto theft in Canad … | Continue reading
Amid AI chip scarcity, the OpenAI CEO aims to build his own semiconductor factories | Continue reading
While Spider-Man and the Sinister Six have yet to share the big screen together, they can soon have a major meet-up in your home. Sideshow Collectibles just revealed a stunning new Spidey statue that shows the character with the threat of the supergroup looming large over him, an … | Continue reading
Nintendo Switch sequel speculation has hit a fever pitch despite just how little information there is about the long-expected update to Nintendo’s most popular console ever created. However, in recent months, the ocean of disconnected rumors has started to coagulate into somethin … | Continue reading
A new, feature-length Wynonna Earp film is in the works for discerning Tubi subscribers, and Rebel Moon part two has its rating. It’s spoilerin’ time!Read more... | Continue reading
Apple engineers deal with a lot of confidential information, but leaking those secrets could land you in jail. Xiaolang Zhang was sentenced to 120 days in prison this week after being convicted of stealing Apple’s self-driving car technology, according to California court filings … | Continue reading
Back when the Pokémon anime first premiered in the ‘90s, nearly every kid had a Pokédex—the renowned red device that identified the delightful creatures—on their wish list. Nearly three decades later, a YouTuber has created a real-life version of the Pokédex using ChatGPT—and it … | Continue reading
NASA’s Space Shuttle operated in low-Earth orbit for 30 years before its retirement in 2011. However, the US space agency’s replacement for this vehicle, Orion, returned to the conical capsule design familiar from the Apollo missions. This was because NASA intended that this newe … | Continue reading
The world is being ripped apart by AI-generated deepfakes, and the latest half-assed attempts to stop them aren’t doing a thing. Federal regulators outlawed deepfake robocalls on Thursday, like the ones impersonating President Biden in New Hampshire’s primary election. Meanwhile, … | Continue reading
Elon Musk is still trying to make X audio and video calls happen, even though, like the infamous “fetch,” we all know it’s not going to happen. His latest tactic: Giving up his phone number and using X exclusively for calls and texts.Read more... | Continue reading
Walt Disney Imagineering’s theme-park innovations go back to the audio animatronics and mystical floating heads that blew minds when Disneyland first opened, and have continued with expansions at Walt Disney World and internationally. These days, we can venture into a galaxy far, … | Continue reading
The answer is: No, but you’d be forgiven for having believed that was the case since a viral news story made the rounds earlier this week claiming it was so. Read more... | Continue reading
Directed by Thomas Cailley, the film opens in theaters and arrives on VOD March 15. | Continue reading
Game of Thrones is likely to go back in time yet again. While several other spinoffs of the hit HBO fantasy series are at various stages of rumor and development, one has just taken a giant step forward. A previously discussed prequel show following Aegon’s Conquest of Westeros, … | Continue reading
We’re still bummed that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem—one of io9's favorites of 2023—didn’t snag a Best Animated Film nomination, but this teaser showcasing spin-off series Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a mighty fine tonic.Read more... | Continue reading
OpenAI is reportedly developing “agent software,” that will effectively take over your device and complete complex tasks on your behalf, according to The Information. OpenAI’s agent would work between multiple apps on your computer, performing clicks, cursor movements, and text t … | Continue reading
An odd little moon that orbits closely to Saturn just revealed its biggest mystery: a hidden ocean that lies beneath its heavily cratered surface. Read more... | Continue reading
Last year, io9 took at look at Hollywood’s upcoming calendar and assembled a reading list of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books tapped for movie and TV adaptations—some of which, like The Changeling and The Fall of the House of Usher, have since been released. We’re still waiting … | Continue reading
It’s natural to feel a bit of regret when you miss a loved one’s birthday. Here at Gizmodo, we’re saying happy belated 30th birthday to Yahoo, the website that most of us haven’t logged into since we got real jobs after the Great Recession. Even though Yahoo is a shell of what it … | Continue reading