YA Author Loses Book Deal After Blaming Star Wars Fans for Bizarre Review-Bombing Scheme

Late last week, the YA fantasy/sci-fi book scene found itself in disarray following allegations of an author review bombing several other authors in the community. The end result has seen writer Cait Corrain lose her deal with Del Rey Publishing, and other partnerships she had in … | Continue reading


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Ready to Upgrade? Rumors Suggest PlayStation 5 Pro Arriving Late in 2024

A wave of rumors has engulfed Sony’s premiere fish tail-shaped console, with speculation centering on an upcoming PS5 Pro next year with a beefed-up CPU and GPU supposed to help it swim above any of the other prominent consoles currently on the market.Read more... | Continue reading


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NASA Asteroid Probe Snaps First Image, Revealing a Field of Stars

It departed our planet just over two months ago, but NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is already 16 million miles from Earth, well on its way to its main destination: the asteroid Psyche. Eager to prove its readiness, the spacecraft recently beamed back the first images captured by both … | Continue reading


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Rick and Morty's Cast and Crew Talk Season 7's Triumphs—and What's Next

With just one episode remaining in Rick and Morty season seven, it’s officially time to celebrate: fans need not have worried about the show’s future after the high-profile departure of co-creator and key voice actor Justin Roiland. Though every episode wasn’t solid gold, there w … | Continue reading


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Not Even James Mangold Noticed Indiana Jones 5's Wild Disney Animation Deep Cut

So I’m watching Oliver and Company, the 1988 Disney animated film featuring the voices of Billy Joel and Bette Midler, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. As Oliver, Dodger, and the crew are being chased through New York City, they head into the subway and jump on the tracks. “Th … | Continue reading


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Something Unearthly Could Switch Train Signals From Red to Green

Some train track circuits are at the mercy of distant storms on the Sun’s surface, researchers found, which could cause train signals to jump from red to green and vice versa as a result of extreme space weather.Read more... | Continue reading


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Doctor Who Saved Its Biggest Gift for Itself

For a show that is often so optimistically forward thinking—and where change is baked into its hearts—Doctor Who often has a bittersweet view of its own past. Heroes and friends come and go, goodbyes are frequent and brief, and a lot of them are permanent, especially when part of … | Continue reading


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Microsoft Forms Alliance to Help Union Workers Stop Worrying and Learn to Love AI

Microsoft announced an alliance with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) to ensure that artificial intelligence serves the interests of workers, according to a blog post Monday. Labor leaders called the collaboration “historic” as M … | Continue reading


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Taylor Swift Is Shadowbanned From Google's 2023 Year In Trending Searches List

Taylor Swift is so popular that seismologists measured recent tour dates in Seattle as a magnitude 2.3 earthquake. You wouldn’t know if from the latest edition of Google’s annual annual “Year In Search” roundup, though. Every December, the company publishes a list of the year’s m … | Continue reading


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Three Satellites From SpaceX's Latest Rideshare Mission Are Missing in Action

Among the over 100 satellites that launched on board SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission, three failed to deploy and their current whereabouts are unknown.Read more... | Continue reading


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Showtime's Cable Channel Is Changing Its Name to... Paramount+ With Showtime

As of January 8, linear Showtime will be no more. Instead, it’ll be rebranded as “Paramount+ With Showtime,” an arrangement spurred by the fact Showtime content is now available on the Paramount+ streaming service and executives just have to change things to justify their salarie … | Continue reading


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Our Favorite Toys of 2023

We love toys here at io9, and when we’re not writing about them, we’re probably playing with them. It’s been a killer year for cool nerdy collectibles, so here’s just a few of our favorite things we picked up in the proverbial toy aisle this past year.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Google's Project Ellmann Shows Your Life in Photos

In a recent internal summit, Google proposed its next big idea: an AI-powered feature titled ‘Project Ellmann’ that would provide users with a snapshot or, as they’re calling it, a “bird’s eye view” of their entire lives.Read more... | Continue reading


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Watch James Cameron Film an Actual Jet in This True Lies Clip

This week True Lies, along with several other James Cameron films, is being released on 4K for the first time. Unlike Titanic, Aliens, and Avatar though, True Lies (like The Abyss) hasn’t been on physical media since DVD. It literally got remade on TV before getting a proper, hig … | Continue reading


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How Jason Momoa Got a 'Story By' Credit on Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Director James Wan lights up when talking about his Aquaman star Jason Momoa. Back in 2018, the two had an unexpected box office smash with the first film and are hoping to top even that with this month’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, out December 22. This time around, that relat … | Continue reading


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Tucker Carlson Launches Subscription Streamer, Because X Reportedly Couldn’t Do the Job

Tucker Carlson launched his streaming service on Monday, charging users $9 a month for five original shows starring the former Fox News host. Carlson explored launching the subscription service on X, where he’s been hosting a show for several months, but Elon Musk’s platform coul … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Barbie Scores Big In the 2024 Golden Globe Nominees

The 2024 Golden Globe nominees are here, and this year everybody is still living in a Barbie world. Pipping its biggest rival at the ceremony this year, Oppenheimer, to take most nominations, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling are the vanguard when it comes to all thin … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Updates From Deadpool 3, Doctor Who, and More

James Wan wants to return to horror again after Aquaman 2. Jennifer Love Hewitt would be down for more I Know What You Did Last Summer. Plus, what’s coming on Rick & Morty’s season finale, and the last episode of Archer. To me, my spoilers!Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Freewrite Alpha Review: Can This Minimalistic E-Typewriter Cure My Writer’s Block?

The curse of all writing is not necessarily a distraction, but the anxiety stemming from creating something you know is awful. Writing is undoubtedly a painful, twisted joy until you read your work and wonder if you ever had a bare ounce of creativity. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Apple Quashes Beeper Mini App to Lord Over the Blue Bubbles

Apple isn’t keen to let just any peasant enter its hallowed and gloried domain of iMessage. The company officially declared it had blocked the Beeper Mini app, which let Android users send blue bubble messages to their friends and family on iPhone by reverse engineering the iMess … | Continue reading


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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Do Your Coworkers Make More Money Than You?

We all keep secrets. It’s easy to do once you’ve committed to it. Just don’t say anything. But it can be harder when you want to share a little bit of information, without your confidante inferring tea that you didn’t intend to spill. Computer scientists often draw this distincti … | Continue reading


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Alex Jones is Back on X, Thanks to Elon Musk

Half a decade after he was kicked off Twitter by the platform’s safety team, professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been welcomed back to the site, which is now called X. Read more... | Continue reading


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The Boy & the Heron Flies to Break a North American Box Office Record

Up to release, Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s newest film The Boy & the Heron has had a lot of discussion centering around what it’s potentially meant to be. Is it actually Miyazaki’s for real, final film? Was it really the best idea to not really promote it or even give any … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Doctor Who is So Thrilled Ncuti Gatwa's Finally Here

For Doctor Who fans, the introduction of a new Doctor is always an event in and of itself. After months of teasing and set photos, yesterday’s third and final 60th anniversary special formally introduced the world to Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Solo Leveling Gets Anime Ready to Start Off 2024

In 2016, South Korean writer Chugong released the video game-like web novel Solo Leveling, which has grown in popularity over the years. An anime adaptation of the series is now in the works, during its Jump Festa panel, Crunchyroll and Aniplex revealed the show will be dropping … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Staz Nair Is a Beast(Master) in New Rebel Moon Clip

Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is a Star Wars-alike ensemble film featuring a who’s who of actors you’ve seen pop in and out of genre fair over the last few years. In addition to Sofia Boutella as leading woman Kora, the cast also consists of Djimon Honsou, Doona Bae, and Ray Fisher. I … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Silk's Show Still Exists, Writers Room to Spin Back Up Next Month

All the way back in 2020, it was reported that Sony and Marvel were teaming up to create a TV show for Silk, one of the more recent heroes to spin from Spider-Man’s (Peter Parker’s) supporting cast. In the years since, news on the show has been hard to come by: after an announcem … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Your Browser Has a Hidden Setting That Will Speed Up the Web

A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser—and for that time to be spent as productively as possible, the browser in question needs to run swiftly and smoothly. There’s actually an integrated browser setting to help with this, too … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Mace Windu Shatters The Glass Abyss in New Star Wars Novel

The prequel trilogy of Star Wars films (and similar material set in the same time period) introduced audiences to plenty of new Jedi, with one of the most striking being Samuel L. Jackson’s Mace Windu. Though he’s one of the most important players of that era, he hasn’t always go … | Continue reading


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Stranger Things Gets Back In Production This January

With the Hollywood strikes now having wrapped in full, productions are able to start back up again. Stranger Things, according to Deadline, is set to get back to work in early January.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Fortnite Festival Brings an Ounce of That Old Rock Band Magic Back From the Dead

Is Rock Band back? Well, kinda, maybe, eventually. Epic Games revealed the new Fortnite experience Fortnite Festival, a new update that lets players take their persona out of the battle royale and stuff a guitar or pair of drumsticks in their hands in rhythm game action familiar … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

The Marvels' Box Office, Deadpool Leaks, and More Top Pop Culture News of the Week

It’s been a bit of an up-and-down week for the House of Ideas, as Marvel both pulled out of reporting any further on The Marvels’ box office performance and Ryan Reynolds bit back against Deadpool 3 set leaks. All this, more Doctor Who, and even Star Wars’ 2024 made the list of o … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Why 2024 Will Be an Epic Year in Spaceflight

A Martian moons mission, a plethora of private lunar landers, probes to Venus and Jupiter, and reusable heavy-lift rocket tests are among the many highlights we’ll be watching in the coming 12 months, in what looks to be an extraordinary year in spaceflight. Here’s your 2024 cale … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Scientists Created Tiny VR Goggles for Lab Mice, With Adorable Results

At last, researchers say they’ve found a way for lab mice to easily use virtual reality goggles. The unusual set-up does have practical applications, since it should make it easier for scientists to study how mice respond to things commonly encountered in the wild, like predatory … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Google Gemini AI, M3-Powered Apple iPads, and More Top Product News of the Week

Gemini, Google’s ambitious new AI for phones, will make its way to Pixel 8 Pros next week. On the Apple side, we might begin to see M3-powered iPads and MacBook Airs hitting store shelves a lot sooner than we expected. Gizmodo’s consumer tech team has all the latest news and more … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

MRI Shoots Woman, a Betelgeuse Eclipse, and More Top Science News of the Week

Our most-read science stories this week contain a few timeless life lessons. One, don’t go into an MRI room carrying metal, particularly if that metal is a loaded gun. Two, don’t cross a killer whale, even if you’re a great white shark. And finally, never judge a sea cucumber by … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Google's Gemini, Grok Goes Premium, and More of the Top AI News of the Week

There were a few AI product launches this week. Google released Gemini, it’s newest AI platform, while Grok, Elon Musk’s annoying chatbot, rolled out to X Premium users. Apple, meanwhile, tried to keep up by releasing...an open-source machine learning framework. Not quite as exci … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Sam Altman Accused of 'Psychologically Abusive' Behavior

Ever since Sam Altman was fired by the OpenAI board two weeks ago, questions have swirled about what precipitated the drama. The fact of the matter is this: We still don’t really know what happened or why Altman was forced out. Altman himself has said he won’t be talking about it … | Continue reading


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Poor Things and 22 Other Frankenstein Adaptations in Pop Culture

There’d be no science fiction without a 19-year-old Mary Shelley in 1816 writing the tale of a scientist who their undead creature to life. Ever since, her tale of creation has inspired adaptations that have propelled the evolution of genre in film, television, and even music.Rea … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

James Gunn Has Found His DC Universe's Mandatory Sean Gunn Role

Sean Gunn, actor and brother of DC head James Gunn, is set to collaborate within the WB family too. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Should Section 230 Protect AI Companies From Being Sued Out of Existence?

This week, there’ve been rumblings that a bipartisan bill that would ban AI platforms from protection under Section 230 is getting fast-tracked. The landmark internet law protects websites from legal liability for the content they host and its implications for the fate of AI are … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Beeper Mini Rules, But It Doesn't Solve Android's Messaging Problem

Note: As I was getting ready to publish this piece, Beeper’s servers began faltering. TechCrunch reports that Beeper Mini had lost access to Apple’s servers, though I’m still able to send text-based messages with a bit of delay. This piece covers the experience before this breaki … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

The Shocking Ending of Indiana Jones 5 Wasn't Always What's in the Movie

Indiana Jones movies always end with the impossible. Ghosts coming out of an ark, a rock healing a village, a cup granting immortality, aliens with crystal skulls. So, when Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gets to its big third-act moment, it’s shocking, but also fits right … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

The Secret Behind AI Drive-Thrus? It’s Humans Doing the Work.

Presto, the self-acclaimed “leader in drive-thru voice automation” wants artificial intelligence to take your order. The drive-thru AI company works with Carls Jr, Chili’s, and Del Taco, and it runs on ChatGPT. However, SEC filings from November reveal that Presto’s AI may not be … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Developing the Character of Lee Shaw Together in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell chat with io9 about their character from the Apple TV+ series. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

How to Watch SpaceX Launch Space Force’s Spaceplane for the First Time

For the first time, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will attempt to deliver the Pentagon’s spaceplane to low Earth orbit. The mission marks the seventh for the mysterious spacecraft, aiming to expand the Space Force’s knowledge of the space environment and test new technologies.Read more.. … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

Godzilla Minus One Is Now the Biggest Live-Action Japanese Film in U.S. Box Office History

Godzilla Minus One’s critical and public acclaim has skyrocketed it to box-office heights—heights so worthy of such a titanic being that Toho has had to dash its plans to bring the film’s theatrical run to an end and extend screenings. But now the King of All Monsters is now also … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 10 months ago

10 Sci-Fi Movies to Watch on Paramount+ (That Aren't Star Trek)

If you want a Star Trek or Transformers fix, Paramount+ is your go-to. But once you’ve landed on the streamer, you’ll find plenty of sci-fi options beyond just those big franchises. Here are 10 sci-fi tales to get keep you going after you’ve finished watching Bumblebee or binging … | Continue reading


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