The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director chats with io9 about the challenges of making a prequel in the film series. | Continue reading
An engineer hacked Apple’s infamous Magic Mouse to make it more user-friendly, ergonomic, and overall less annoying. Ivan Kuleshov is the said engineer, and he has also hacked the Apple Mac Mini in the past to be powered over Ethernet.Read more... | Continue reading
Every November, there’s a fantastic event for bringing people together: that’s right, the Leonid meteor shower. It will peak in the night sky this weekend, and this is how you can optimize your view of the show.Read more... | Continue reading
The Steam Deck OLED will start shipping on November 16th, but you can pre-order it today. | Continue reading
Disney celebrates its legacy in Wish—a movie filled with the company’s own mythology that also has bold allegorical similitudes to its recent history, all weaved into a powerful fairytale.Read more... | Continue reading
A gold-capped laser transceiver attached to the asteroid probe Psyche saw its first light on Tuesday, sending and receiving data through laser beams from far beyond the Moon for the first time.Read more... | Continue reading
If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Read more... | Continue reading
The season finale of Goosebumps hits Hulu and Disney+ today, wrapping up the fun that started during spooky season with the return of Slappy in a new reboot of the seminal YA horror series inspired by R.L. Stine’s YA horror books.Read more... | Continue reading
Discord is shutting down its AI chatbot, Clyde, in December. Considering it was introduced just earlier this year, why it’s being shut down so soon is unclear.Read more... | Continue reading
Tom Hardy confirms filming has resumed on Venom 3. Eli Roth digs deep into designing Thanksgiving’s villain. Harley Quinn will return to Max for another season. Plus, get a look at Disney’s Percy Jackson series. Spoilers, assemble!Read more... | Continue reading
Gather ‘round, weary shoppers, and rest with me for a moment beneath the veil of the celestial canopy, where stars twinkle like forgotten spells and the moon casts its silvery incantations upon the world. As the world around us transforms into a realm of holidays and merriment, I … | Continue reading
Google is having a hard time catching up with OpenAI. Google’s competitor to ChatGPT will not be ready until early 2024, after previously telling some cloud customers it would get to use Gemini AI in November of this year, sources told The Information Thursday.Read more... | Continue reading
Including the unusual, hard-to-find, totally new and strangely wonderful, we’ve got a selection of gifts and games that will be appreciated by both hardcore tabletop roleplayers and people who are curious about TTRPGs but might not know where to start. Most—if not all—of these pr … | Continue reading
And there it goes. The astronaut tool bag that floated away during the most recent extravehicular activity outside the International Space Station (ISS) appears as a tiny white speck in this new astronomical image.Read more... | Continue reading
AI is the name of the game for this year’s chips, particularly for Qualcomm’s mobile processors. The chipmaker has announced the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor for mid-range Android devices with promises of improved AI performance.Read more... | Continue reading
Finally, Iman Vellani can geek out publicly about going from Marvel fan to Ms. Marvel and The Marvels star to Marvel Comics writer. Read more... | Continue reading
Well, we have our first quarter of the MCU’s Fantastic Four. Yesterday, reports broke revealing that Pedro Pascal is likely to end up playing Reed Richards in the upcoming Matt Shakman-directed film, provided Pascal isn’t too busy with other projects, namely Gladiator 2 and new s … | Continue reading
Exoplanets pushing their atmospheres away may explain a gap in exoplanet masses, according to a team of researchers that recently studied data from NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope.Read more... | Continue reading
Just when you thought his reputation couldn’t get worse, TikTok has officially canceled Osama bin Laden. Somehow, videos promoting Osama bin Laden’s letter explaining his reasoning for orchestrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks have gone viral this week and TikTok is responding wit … | Continue reading
Next week, Doctor Who turns 60, and it’s preparing for a blockbuster celebration in the days and weeks to come, with a re-colored release of one its most iconic early stories, a trio of brand new specials, and a new Doctor arriving on Christmas Day. We can’t judge just how good t … | Continue reading
The surface of the Moon is littered with defunct hardware from past missions that are now buried amongst the lunar regolith. A recent crash site left a distinct and curious mark, creating two impact craters of equal size. Scientists examining the collision believe that there may … | Continue reading
Cult-beloved cult-movie series Mystery Science Theater 3000 has big plans for its crowdfunded 14th season, with a 48-hour version of its traditional Thanksgiving marathon styled as a telethon to help it reach its goal. Ahead of next week’s “Mega Turkey Day Marathon Telethon,” io9 … | Continue reading
Here’s an AI tool you probably hadn’t considered. Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) is getting a slew of updates this December, including a feature that lets you dream up a product out of thin air with artificial intelligence, and then search the web for some … | Continue reading
At its core, Poor Things is the relatively simple story of a woman growing up and finding herself. However, in the hands of director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite), it tells that tale in the most fantastical, imaginative, disturbing, and hilarious way possible. Wor … | Continue reading
Amazon already has a stranglehold on most of the stuff people buy, and now the retail giant wants to sell you a car.Read more... | Continue reading
It’s been over two years since Apple released its all-in-one desktop after skipping the entire M2 generation of chips, leaving us wondering when the iMac would make its dramatic return. The iMac comes in seven fun colors, is powered by Apple’s fancy new M3, and even promises to m … | Continue reading
Are you watching For All Mankind? If not, you should be. Apple TV+’s phenomenal sci-fi drama just returned for season four, and io9 has an exclusive clip from its second episode which debuts Friday. But even if you’re not watching the show, this clip, as simple as it may be, is a … | Continue reading
Yesterday, the folks at Cambridge Dictionary named “Hallucination” the word of the year and, Jesus, they really hit the nail on the head. Like, wow. Frankly, this could be the word of the decade, not merely just the last twelve months. By that I mean, the world has gotten so weir … | Continue reading
As SpaceX gears up for its second Starship test flight, scheduled for Friday, excitement and anticipation are high, but so too is a sense of dread. Indeed, this ambitious venture is not without its share of risks. Here are 10 major challenges and uncertainties that could impact t … | Continue reading
This is not your average coffee gear list. I grew up around coffee, working at my uncle’s coffee shop starting at age 14. Since then, I’ve gathered roughly 10 years of experience working in specialty coffee shops. Coffee is a personal and professional obsession of mine, and I’ve … | Continue reading
Gift ideas for enthusiasts to experimentalists, starting at just $6. | Continue reading
The holidays are coming, and no matter your age, that can often mean sitting down after all your gifts are unwrapped, surrounding yourself with bags of plastic bricks, and building a new Lego set. To help you become the most popular gift giver of 2023, we’ve rounded up our favori … | Continue reading
Climate-related disasters can trap people in their homes, leave them without power for extended periods, trigger mass evacuations, and many other disruptions to the safety and conveniences most of us are accustomed to. As these events become more frequent and more extreme, it’s n … | Continue reading
In Star Wars’ current canon, we stand on the precipice of a return years in the making: at the end of Ahsoka’s first season, Grand Admiral Thrawn had made his way back from a galaxy even further away to restore a remnant Empire to glory and imperil the New Republic. But what happ … | Continue reading
Doctor Who fans who don’t live in the UK or Ireland have had to be exceptionally organized when keeping track of where to watch the long-running sci-fi series. But the BBC Studios show’s classic era (up to and including the Seventh Doctor) finally has a free resource: Tubi, which … | Continue reading
The teddy bears are coming! The teddy bears are coming! Dear God watch out, the teddy bears are coming!Read more... | Continue reading
For years, some people with the unlucky habit of paying too much attention to Elon Musk have complained the man is a racist. He’s posted countless dog whistles, liked disturbing tweets, and used his platform to boost white nationalists, but he’s always managed to walk right up to … | Continue reading
The Samsung Galaxy Buds FE is marketed as a pocket-book-friendly option and makes for a pretty decent gift. They don’t offer all the bells and whistles you like the Galaxy Buds2 Pro, but for the price, I think I am ok with that. Read more... | Continue reading
The Moon is about to be a busy place, with a series of crewed missions planned by NASA as part of its Artemis program, as well as an influx of upcoming commercial landers eyeing a spot on the lunar surface. Before it sends a fleet of spacecraft to the Moon, however, NASA first wa … | Continue reading
On September 7, 2022, the Zwicky Transient Facility detected a new transient object in deep space, about one billion light-years from Earth. The object was very bright, and now, a team of astronomers believes it’s a star that’s come back from the dead.Read more... | Continue reading
Apple may have found a solution to the iPhone 15’s overheating problems by using a graphene heat sink in its newer models, according to a leak reported by 9to5Mac Thursday. The solution, if true, should keep the iPhone 16 cool, especially with early word that the next Apple flags … | Continue reading
With both the Writer’s strike at an end and SAG-AFTRA’s suspend as it heads to vote on its next contract, Hollywood is getting back into the swing of things: announcing things, way, way, way ahead of time for absolutely no rhyme or reason. Read more... | Continue reading
It finally happened—and it was as spectacular as we hoped. SpaceX’s Starship megarocket blasted off from the Boca Chica, Texas, launch pad just after 9:30 a.m. ET this morning, lifted upwards by a record-breaking amount of thrust.Read more... | Continue reading
Russell T. Davies teases a more human Doctor for David Tennant’s latest Doctor Who incarnation. Scarlett Johansson has an update on her Tower of Terror movie. Has The Last of Us found its Abby? Plus, what’s coming on Quantum Leap. Spoilers, away!Read more... | Continue reading
You know about Qi charging, the open wireless charging standard that charges up your phone when you lay it on a special charge pad. But wait until you meet Qi2. It’s faster at charging your phone, and its use of magnets will allow Android phones and iPhones to live in relative ha … | Continue reading
YouTube is licensing out the voices and styles of popular artists with its first set of AI music experiments, announced Google in a blog post Thursday. Dream Track will allow creators to make short, AI-generated songs, using the voices of artists like Charlie Puth, T-Pain, and Jo … | Continue reading
Analogue has just relaunched the Pocket in some new, charming colors. It brought back the OG colors of the Game Boy Advance and Pocket to its new Classic Limited Edition consoles. These colors are blue, green, indigo, spice orange, pink, red, silver, and yellow.Read more... | Continue reading
The Lord of the Rings actor talks to io9 about his favorite parts of going to conventions. | Continue reading