President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump are scheduled to square off tonight in the first of two presidential debates for the 2024 election season. But this week has seen a number of conspiracy theories go viral on social media, with many people claiming there are sh … | Continue reading
These days, movie theater owners will do nearly anything to lure fans back to the big screen—and elaborately themed popcorn buckets have become an important part of that strategy. Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine excitedly revealed its bucket in May, and while it’s sufficiently luri … | Continue reading
Thousands of satellites are currently parked in low Earth orbit, with some that will eventually become defunct and fall back towards our planet’s atmosphere. As they reenter the atmosphere, satellites leave behind a trail of chemicals that eat away at the ozone layer. A new study … | Continue reading
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Nerd Christmas is less than a month away: San Diego Comic-Con 2024. It takes place July 25-28 and all your favorite things from every facet of pop culture are sure to have a presence. We’re talking franchises like Star Wars, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and, of course, Marvel. Read mo … | Continue reading
European regulation is surely doing a number on Apple’s product line. It mandated the company to adopt USB-C on the iPhone and then RCS so that Messages could more easily communicate with Android users worldwide. According to The Information, Apple may be working on a removable i … | Continue reading
With a swing of a wrist gauntlet, and the head-butt of a sinister helmet, The Acolyte’s mysterious dark Stranger carved a path into Star Wars history this week with a single, shocking move: strikes that sent the laser blades of his Jedi foes sputtering out of existence. But while … | Continue reading
It’s been a long while since we saw any Valve branding on a controller that didn’t have a screen attached to it. Then, out of the blue, Valve’s helping a Japanese gaming hardware company, Hori, stick a Steam button on a brand new controller. At the same time, why is arguably the … | Continue reading
Warner Bros. has released the incredible ending credit sequence of its new Suicide Squad anime series, and whatever you feel about the DC team’s morally dubious director,Amanda Waller, you owe it to yourself to give it a watch. Read more... | Continue reading
Fragments from a defunct Russian satellite have formed a large cloud of debris in low Earth orbit, posing a potential threat to the International Space Station (ISS) and with the crew having to take shelter while mission control checked for the chances of collision. Read more... | Continue reading
A Quiet Place: Day One admirably tells a brand new story in a world where aliens with incredibly sensitive hearing have invaded and killed anything that makes a sound. It follows two new characters with a simple, relatable goal, each of whom finds a small slice of humanity in an … | Continue reading
We already had word that Tom Bombadil, noted merry fellow, was going to be heading to Amazon’s take on Middle-earth when The Rings of Power returns for season two. But it looks like he’ll be bringing a few frightful figures often associated with his material in Lord of the Rings— … | Continue reading
I still remember Uno nights with my family and how my red-green colorblind grandfather always needed help distinguishing his cards. I always attributed it to the nature of the game and never really saw it as inaccessibility. It wasn’t until Mattel announced it would make Uno and … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, we noticed that a Harris Stingray was for sale on eBay for a cool $100k. Police have historically used these notably creepy surveillance devices to grab mobile traffic out of the air via cell tower emulation. Yes, someone was selling one of these suckers for lo … | Continue reading
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Are you a fan of robots but just think they should have human-like skin and smile more? Well, you’re in luck, weirdo. Read more... | Continue reading
Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood rings up Ghostbusters for their latest haunted house announcement. The annual Halloween events kick off Friday, August 30 at Universal Studios Orlando, and Thursday, September 5 … | Continue reading
Supernatural’s Jared Padelecki confirmed he’s finally ready to make an appearance on The Boys following the CW’s recent cancelation of the Walker, Texas Ranger reboot. Read more... | Continue reading
A prominent identity verification firm that has contracted with TikTok, Uber, X, and other large platforms, left a set of administrative login credentials exposed to the internet for more than a year, according to a report from 404 Media. The credentials could have allowed a bad … | Continue reading
The largest AI chatbot companies are sprinting around, trying to make multi-million dollar deals with news networks and Reddit to train their AI models with human-made content—legally. Now, Google-owned YouTube wants to ink similar deals for its existing AI music replication soft … | Continue reading
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The last mammoths to walk the Earth did not succumb to inbreeding after hundreds of generations, despite being stuck on a remote island off the coast of Siberia. That’s the finding of research published today in Cell which interrogated 21 woolly mammoth genomes to understand how … | Continue reading
At some point, Aspyr will run out of classic Star Wars games to polish and re-release—but there’s a lot of them, and we still haven’t gotten the Rogue Squadron games, god dammit—but today is not that day. This morning, the developer announced it had locked eyes on its next bounty … | Continue reading
The Street Fighter movie may not have directors, but it does have a release date. The Freaky Friday sequel has officially entered production. Kevin Feige teases the unexpected with Marvel’s Wonder Man series. Plus, what’s coming on Evil, and a new look at Bluey’s brief return. Sp … | Continue reading
Amazon plans to launch a new store that will allow U.S.-based shoppers to buy low-cost, unbranded items delivered directly from China, according to new reports from CNBC and The Information. The plan is widely seen as an attempt to compete with China-based competitors like Temu a … | Continue reading
If you’re reading this, someone you know watches a crime show on CBS. You might not be aware that person watches the show, but numbers don’t lie. Shows like NCIS, CSI, Criminal Minds, FBI, SWAT, Blue Bloods, and others have been a gold mine for the network and now its latest one … | Continue reading
While The Acolyte fans might look at the battered mask of the dark side villain formerly lovingly known as Darth Teeth, now slightly less lovingly known as the Stranger, and be a bit traumatized after the horrors of this week’s episode, we can all still acknowledge that it’s an a … | Continue reading
With the upcoming release of Funko Fusion—the video game from 10:10 games, where you play as iconic figures across various fandom universes—the first line of tie-in Funko Pops has been unveiled. With Masters of the Universe, M3GAN, Jurassic World, and Hot Fuzz all represented, th … | Continue reading
The shimmery towers of cosmic dust and gas at the heart of the Eagle Nebula have inspired awe for decades since they were first captured by the Hubble telescope. Now, NASA released the most detailed visualization of the iconic celestial structure, revealing all of its dreamy feat … | Continue reading
The Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, has been out for almost a week, and it’s been receiving mixed reviews. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s hard. Developer FromSoftware heard the pleas from those who can’t hang with the game’s difficulty and added a new update to mak … | Continue reading
Gotham City’s most notorious vigilante is also its most despised citizen, according to the new trailer for Batman: Caped Crusader. The animated series from executive producers J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Bruce Timm hits Prime Video August 1, but you can catch a glimpse of a cer … | Continue reading
Scientists in South Africa are now injecting the horns of live rhinos with non-toxic radioactive isotopes to make the horns unfit for human consumption and allow for easier tracking at international border crossings, according to a press release from the University of the Witwate … | Continue reading
If you’re running the iOS 18 developer beta, you may have noticed your Android friends aren’t the same green bubbles as they used to be. Carriers have been steadily rolling out RCS support on the backend, and plenty of iPhone-wielding folks have already reported decade-long feuds … | Continue reading
So, uh, that happened. And that happened. And THAT happened as well. The fifth episode of The Acolyte brought a whole new level of action and chaos to the Star Wars universe, something one of the show’s stars rightfully points outdoesn’t happen enough in modern franchises. Read m … | Continue reading
It’s been 20 years since director Robert Zemeckis unleashed a nightmarish CGI Tom Hanks on the world in The Polar Express. Now he’s back with a new cinematic abomination. Read more... | Continue reading
Three years ago, DC blew the lid off the comics industry with the launch of The Nice House on the Lake—a tense, gripping tale of isolation as a group of friends found themselves brought together to ride out the end of life as we know it, guided by an alien being masquerading as o … | Continue reading
The live-action Transformers movies aren’t really what you’d “beloved.” Despite making a lot of money, most of them aren’t especially well-regarded critically, and fans of the original property don’t exactly take to them well. They occupy a weird space in Hollywood wherein those … | Continue reading
The Fantastic Four, Marvel’s most iconic superhero team, is finally coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and with them come a bunch of questions. Questions like “Where the hell have they been for the last two decades as heroes like Iron Man and Black Widow dealt with Thanos an … | Continue reading
Two NASA astronauts were preparing to exit the International Space Station (ISS) for a second attempt at a spacewalk, but it was once again called off due to a concerning malfunction with the spacesuit. Read more... | Continue reading
AMC has officially renewed Interview With the Vampire for a third season just days ahead of its ominously titled season two finale, “And That’s the End of It. There’s Nothing Else.” The Anne Rice adaptation’s third season will finally see Lestat enter his Queen of the Damnedphase … | Continue reading
Julian Assange became a free man on Wednesday Australia time (late Tuesday U.S. mainland time) after pleading guilty to espionage charges brought by the U.S. government in exchange for his freedom. And while it’s unclear whether the WikiLeaks co-founder will restart his work publ … | Continue reading
There’s a lot of violence in Star Wars. But a lot of Star Wars’ violence, and its approach to it, is rooted in the abstract—whole planets gone in the blink of an eye, grand battles in space and on the ground; even on smaller scales, its duels are less about the act of violence, a … | Continue reading
In a 6-3 decision on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration didn’t do anything wrong when asking social media companies to remove posts full of misinformation. Read more... | Continue reading
People will do anything for attention. In the case of one guy, it appears that stiffing service workers all over Los Angeles is his thing. Yes, an anonymous influencer, who operates under the Instagram account @zerodollarstip, and the TikTok handle @idontip, has made it his entir … | Continue reading
If you’re not already backlogged on reading all the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books that are in line to be adapted (past io9 lists here, here, here, and here), get ready: we’re about to add to the pile. Here are 10 more genre books coming to screens soon, a mix of familiar clas … | Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago has affected women’s contraceptive use for the worse, new research suggests. The study found that prescriptions of birth control and emergency contraception have declined significantly more in the states that passe … | Continue reading
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Leslye Headland discussed her process conceiving this week’s shockingly violent episode of The Acolyte: “I think a good twist is telegraphing what’s going to happen, and then once it does, executing it without an ounce of p … | Continue reading
That $200, blazing orange, minimalist AI doohickey called the Rabbit R1 promised it would become your go-to AI companion. Instead, it proved it was a malformed and half-baked machine that couldn’t match up to any of its lofty promises. Now, according to a group of white hat hacke … | Continue reading