After waiting two and a half years for more episodes of Invincible, we only have to wait two more months for it to continue. Season two of Prime Video’s animated adaptation of the Robert Kirkman comic debuted in November with the first half of the season’s eight-episode arc. Thos … | Continue reading
It takes time to review a smartphone, especially one as beefed up and feature-filled as the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra purports to be. Instead of keeping you waiting for weeks as I test out the hardware and explore its offerings, I’m taking a gradual approach. Journey with me as I … | Continue reading
The aluminum canister containing bits of an ancient space rock has finally been opened, revealing the bulk of the asteroid Bennu sample in all its glory.Read more... | Continue reading
Hazbin Hotel creator Vivienne Medrano talks to io9 about what influenced her animated Amazon Prime Video series. | Continue reading
Japan’s space agency, JAXA, achieved a historic soft landing with SLIM on Friday morning, but the lander ran into instant trouble by not being able to collect solar energy and generate electricity. Hopeful for some westerly sunshine, JAXA is cautiously optimistic that SLIM could … | Continue reading
Now that Tron 3 certainly has taken its best step forward in looking like it’s actually happening, we’re now getting some actually exciting casting news about the film, which just got a big, big headliner for nerds already excited about a Tron threequel.Read more... | Continue reading
Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who often sounds like an AI chatbot, dropped out of the 2024 Presidential Election on Sunday, just a week after OpenAI banned ChatGPT for political campaigns. It begs the question, was Ron Desantis running on ChatGPT this whole time?Read more... | Continue reading
The Apple Vision Pro finally became available for pre-order on Friday last week, and while the first weekend did extremely well, to the point of being sold out, chances are that the demand may not continue to go up the same way. Here’s why.Read more... | Continue reading
The Minecraft movie cast continues to grow weirder and weirder. Get a look at the stars of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender in new posters. Halo teases the fight for Reach in a new trailer. Plus, James Gunn talks Superman: Legacy’s addition of The Authority. Spoilers get!Read … | Continue reading
NASA’s diligent lunar orbiter transmitted a laser beam to a dome-shaped aluminum device the size of a billiard ball on India’s Vikram lander, pinging its location on the Moon. This laser-enabled technique could one day help NASA astronauts find their way on the lunar surface.Read … | Continue reading
This month, OpenAI launched what it calls the GPT Store, a platform where developers can sell custom-built AI apps and tools. The millions of GPTs on offer include games, productivity helpers, graphic design tools, tools for specific writing projects, and more. One thing OpenAI d … | Continue reading
Tech companies are infamous for torturing career hopefuls with mind-melters during interviews. This week, you’ll try your hand at one without the stress of job prospects on your shoulders. Google is rumored to have used this puzzle over the years, although it has since retired th … | Continue reading
Big Tech’s trend of the week is the incessant talk about AI subscriptions. Silicon Valley cannot stop throwing money into AI, but they’re a bit stuck figuring out how AI will throw money back at them. Now, Big Tech thinks it found a solution: they’re betting you will pay a monthl … | Continue reading
A new year means new movies to watch in theaters or at home. And while we’ve got an idea of the bigger franchise tentpoles, some films are building up their presence the old-fashioned way: with some pretty effective marketing that sells you on the movie’s vibe first and foremost. … | Continue reading
Just a few months ago, actor Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream 7 over her pro-Palestinian stance in the Israel-Hamas conflict. The shockwave of that firing has basically upended that franchise in various ways, while Barrera herself has been focused on doing promo for her next … | Continue reading
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One finally came to theaters last year after a longer than expected wait due to COVID. If you decided to wait for it to hit streaming, good news: it’s hitting Paramount+ next Friday, January 25.Read more... | Continue reading
Like with Tron 3, the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again is getting back into production starting next week. The series, which was originally slated to come out this spring, found itself in need of a creative reboot with new hands behind the wheel, and it seems Disney’s liked what wr … | Continue reading
Longtime horror alum Greg Nicotero, of The Walking Dead and Creepshow fame, has found his next project to tackle: a TV adaptation of Robert McCammon’s Swan Song.Read more... | Continue reading
Scientists scrutinizing the fine dust covering the Moon have identified a handful of boulders on the lunar surface that they believe may be covered with uniquely magnetized dust.Read more... | Continue reading
Meet the dorado octopus, a newly described deep sea cephalopod with some seriously alien features. A remotely operated vehicle took incredible images of this species and its habitat, including just-hatched babies and a field brooding females. Click through for our top science sto … | Continue reading
As Ncuti Gatwa’s just beginning his tenure on Doctor Who, his newest companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) won’t be along for his full ride. Per Variety, Gibson will be on the show after a single season, after which she’ll be replaced by Verada Sethu, last seen as Cinta Kaz over … | Continue reading
Ever since Sony revealed it was working on a solo movie for Madame Web, folks have had questions. Why her? How is this going to connect to whichever Spider-Man is swinging around now?Read more... | Continue reading
Now that we’re a few weeks into 2024 and the Hollywood strikes are in the rearview, the upcoming Tron: Ares has just started filming. Read more... | Continue reading
2024 is barely a few weeks old and already the future of Star Wars is driving people mad with speculation and rumormongering. io9 got you the scoop of the week with what’s really up with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daisy Ridley’s Rey movie, but here’s the rest of our big hits you m … | Continue reading
Tech is having a moment where everyone is wondering if it’s all that great. AI is the hot trend right now, but Big Tech wants you to pay for something that hasn’t really been shown to make your life easier. Don’t worry though, the Silicon Valley billionaires are planning their ow … | Continue reading
Fresh off the heels of CES 2024 comes another huge January tech event, in which Samsung officially launched its highly anticipated Galaxy S24 AI-powered smartphone. Ubisoft turned some heads this week when the French gaming publisher said gamers should be more comfortable not own … | Continue reading
Boeing, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, has been in the news a lot lately but not in a good way. Safety incidents involving the company’s planes keep cropping up and this week brought yet another example of that unfortunate trend. On Thursday, an Atlas Air 747 … | Continue reading
A cult animated short with over 92 million views made a dark darling out of Hazbin Hotel, and its popularity inspired a legion of fans to raise a little hell so it could get picked up to series. It’s now a Prime Video animated (and very adult) musical comedy, and io9 got a chance … | Continue reading
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.Read more... | Continue reading
OpenAI’s mission is to develop a god-like artificial intelligence, but it might never get there without the help of Microsoft. U.S. regulators are reportedly clamoring over who can investigate OpenAI and Microsoft’s relationship over antitrust concerns, according to Politico on F … | Continue reading
If I ever happened to direct a really great Godzilla movie that also happened to become a record-breaking blockbuster of international kaiju cinema along the way, I would personally be pretty content. But I’m very glad that Takashi Yamazaki, who did exactly that with Godzilla Min … | Continue reading
The Bill & Ted fan favorite chats with io9 about his work on the comedy horror film Destroy All Neighbors, available now on Shudder. | Continue reading
The new Samsung Galaxy S24 is all in on AI, so much so that the phone maker made a big deal about how its new AI watermark is meant to dissuade users from spreading AI-altered or purely faked images online. The problem is that the S24 boasts so many AI capabilities that a simple … | Continue reading
Astrobotic bid farewell to its Peregrine lunar lander on Thursday as the spacecraft plunged through Earth’s atmosphere, thereby preventing the failed mission from colliding into other spacecraft. Read more... | Continue reading
Even before The Last of Us became one of HBO’s biggest hits in recent memory, fans of the source material all wondered the same thing: would a potential second season follow the plot of the game? It seems like an obvious question with an obvious answer... unless you know the stor … | Continue reading
Welcome to the first installment of Gizmodo’s Animal Crime of the Week, a regular exploration of animals and their bad behavior (but hey, it’s only natural). And what better place to start than by highlighting an animal crime ring so notorious that it’s now being intensively stud … | Continue reading
Since CES 2024, we have seen this adorable little bright orange (Leuchtorange, to be exact) device everywhere. Despite all the hype, many are still confused about what it is, who it’s for, and why it couldn’t have just been an app.Read more... | Continue reading
After finding success with its 2021 Fear Street trilogy, Netflix is plotting its next R.L. Stine adaptation, taking on the prolific author’s 1992 YA release The Prom Queen. The book’s plot and setting evoke one of horror’s favorite traditions: turning high-school dances into bloo … | Continue reading
Once upon a time, I became a meme and didn’t even know it. It was the summer of 2016 and I was hanging out with friends after a long day of work. A few drinks in, we’re joking around and my friend Mike said to me, in an odd, cheeky way I didn’t quite understand—almost like he did … | Continue reading
Uze, a brand that primarily makes power banks, sent me its first-ever graphene-heated jacket this winter. After wearing it for a couple of days, I’ll admit I was left wanting for way more. Read more... | Continue reading
Japan’s SLIM is on the Moon and is sending data to Earth, but the situation looks grim. Officials with Japanese space agency JAXA say the lander’s solar cells are not generating sufficient amounts of electricity, raising uncertainties about the mission’s future.Read more... | Continue reading
Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan are getting ready to make their fifth movie together and, for the first time ever, this one is going to suck. That’s because it’s about vampires. Or so the rumors say.Read more... | Continue reading
In April 2023, SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off for the first time, sending chunks of debris thousands of feet across the South Texas landscape and sparking a fire in a nearby state park. It was an environmental nightmare; the launchpad is surrounded by a wildlife habi … | Continue reading
Tired of dealing with popups begging you to accept cookies? Blame the EU. In 2018, Europe unleashed a groundbreaking privacy law called the GDPR that, among a billion other things, makes websites ask permission before tracking you with cookies. A lot of companies switched their w … | Continue reading
Star Trek’s idyllic utopia might try to move past it, but it is defined by conflict. From the long moral question of whether or not Starfleet is a military or scientific organization at its core, to the deadly wars that have pushed it to defend its greatest ideals, Star Trek as w … | Continue reading
Those diving into Apple’s new mixed reality headset might be missing a few of their favorite apps as they navigate the Cupertino company’s new “spatial” environment. Pre-orders for the Vision Pro go live Friday, but if you’re considering dropping $3,500 on this big-budget headset … | Continue reading
Another year, another round of inscrutable price increases for many prescription drugs. Over 700 medicines are seeing their list prices shoot up this January, according to an analysis by the organization 46brooklyn Research. The average price increase is slightly below the trend … | Continue reading
Christopher Landon next film after exiting Scream 7 is a werewolf horror. Get a look at Slimer’s return in Ghostbusters: The Frozen Empire. Schmigadoon is no more. Plus, Clone High returns for round two of its revival. To me, my spoilers!Read more... | Continue reading