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Let’s say you want to listen to high-quality surround sound without a sound bar orheadphones. Or maybe you want to annoy someone trying to enjoy a book on the couch next to you? Perhaps you were looking for one of the most awkward gaming setups involving wired connections to your … | Continue reading
Universal Studios would not be the premiere cinematic experience theme park without the Universal Monsters. Influencing filmmakers from Spielberg to Peele, they are the blueprint of thrills and it’s about damn time that the almost century-old fandom will finally get its due with … | Continue reading
Now it can be told: Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass) will voice Batman in Bruce Timm’s latest animated series, Batman: Caped Crusader, taking over for late Batman: The Animated Series star Kevin Conroy. You can hear a tease of Linklater’s performance in the below video. Read more … | Continue reading
In 1665, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini observed a massive storm raging on Jupiter. It became known as the Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds that’s almost twice as wide as Earth. New research, however, suggests that the red-hued feature spotted by Cassini is not the … | Continue reading
A new home security system that uses AI-driven smart tracking to shoot potential intruders with paintballs might sound like something out of a Home Alone reboot set in the future. But it could be a reality soon if folks on Kickstarter get their way. The big question that’s still … | Continue reading
In two dimensions, it’s the Reuleaux triangle: an equilateral triangle with curved arcs connecting each corner, creating a shape with a constant width but a smaller area than a circle. Now, a team of mathematicians say they’ve scaled up the shape into the third dimension and beyo … | Continue reading
Donald Sutherland, the veteran actor whose career stretched back to the late 1960s and included an array of classics across a wide variety of genres (The Dirty Dozen, MASH, The Day of the Locust, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Ordinary People... … | Continue reading
Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web standard, the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape parts of the web that operators don … | Continue reading
Despite the best efforts of “anti-woke” trolls who are just now realizing The Boys is satire—something series showrunner Eric Kripke has repeatedly expressed astonishment at—the show’s fourth season, its penultimate, has pulled in impressive ratings since its June 13 release. Rea … | Continue reading
Forbes has recently reported on a new Wi-Fi vulnerability for Windows that can let hackers take over your Windows device and infect it with malware by just being on the same Wi-Fi network as you. Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability and advised all users to update their Wind … | Continue reading
There’s definitely a certain song that could be sung about the road Star Trek: Prodigy’s second season will have taken to our eyeballs by the time we get to watch it on July 1. But now we have our first extended look at Prodigy’s sophomore season, I mostly just find myself whistl … | Continue reading
Max has released a second trailer for The Penguin, its upcoming spinoff of Matt Reeves’ The Batman starring Colin Farrell as crime lord Oswald Cobblepott. Take a look! Read more... | Continue reading
Friday is when the Shadow of the Erdtree drops, and it’s already shaping up to be some of the best DLC ever released for a game. In preparation for the big release, Elden Ring received a new update with a variety of changes, but the big one is adding your bestie to the fight with … | Continue reading
We know as much about Apple’s AI, dubbed “Apple Intelligence,” as we’re about to, at least until we get some hands-on time with it (which likely won’t be until next year). Still, you can only experience a better Siri and “semantic” AI if you have an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro … | Continue reading
Last year, Valiant Entertainment teamed up with publisher Alien Books in an attempt to expand its superhero universe to new heights. Now, after a year of cooking on and off the page, this are ready to explode in Resurgence of the Valiant Universe, a new status quo that will lead … | Continue reading
Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Thursday, which the AI startup says outperforms its previous AI models and OpenAI’s recently launched GPT-4 Omni on several metrics. The company also released Artifacts, a new dynamic workspace within Claude where users can edit and build u … | Continue reading
White men can’t jump, but terrestrial leeches can. This is now a scientific fact; after centuries of anecdotal reports, the parasites have been caught on video leaping from leaves in the Madagascan rainforest. Read more... | Continue reading
Kit Harington gets hairy in a trailer for The Beast Within. Get to know A Quiet Place: Day One’s feline star in a new featurette. Resident Alien will return for season 4, but at a new residence. Plus, what’s coming on Orphan Black: Echoes. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading
Lenovo’s latest Android tablet might seem overt for its price point, but it also sounds like something I want to travel with this summer. The Lenovo Tab Plus has eight boomy speakers to blast music and movies everywhere. The speakers are specially tuned to work with Dolby Atmos, … | Continue reading
Here at io9, we love Godzilla Minus One. We also love very cool art. And we especially love very cool Godzilla Minus One art. So it’s a good job Toho is getting ready to release some of the film’s most glorious official posters for us to plaster our walls with—and we’ve got your … | Continue reading
The Bluey moment has reached a fever pitch as the hit animated series about a family of Heeler dogs has attracted fans across generations. Even among those without kids, the endearing and clever show has gained a considerably powerful fandom that wants more. Read more... | Continue reading
In 2006, a NASA spacecraft flew by Saturn’s largest moon and found evidence of large bodies of liquid on the surface of the bizarre world. The shocking discovery meant that Titan’s landscape is eerily similar to that of Earth’s; the two worlds are the only ones known to have rive … | Continue reading
For the most part, The Acolyte has set itself apart from the rest of Star Wars—both in terms of its placement in the timeline, a hundred years before the prequel trilogy, and in its desire to focus on new characters and explorations, rather than the familiar. But that doesn’t mea … | Continue reading
They don’t always agree, and they’ve endured tragedies that would be enough to fracture any marriage, much less one between two of Westeros’ most powerful families. But Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) and Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) still somehow have the most en … | Continue reading
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After last week’s episode of The Acolyte took us into the past for a fascinating story of the Force and perspective alike, things get back to the bigger mysteries of the season in “Day”. But the gift of last week’s context allows the show to re-examine its central figures in new … | Continue reading
Project Hail Mary continues to expand its cast. An Uncharted sequel is actually happening. The Street Fighter movie has lost its directors. Plus, Jordan Peele’s next mystery project has a release date, and more familiar faces are confirmed for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Ma … | Continue reading
Convicted felon Donald Trump staged another rally in Racine, Wisconsin on Tuesday, where he played all his classic hits, from xenophobia to fake news. But it was Trump’s attempt to smear President Joe Biden as senile that really went off the rails. Trump rambled for several minut … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, a team of scientists garnered a wave of media attention with their provocative report: They claimed to have found two cases of a rare but fatal prion disease in hunters that could have plausibly been caused by them eating contaminated deer meat—a frightening re … | Continue reading
I love EDM and have briefly tried my hand at DJing before to, let’s say, mixed results. So when I found out that I could make music with a pair of balls instead of a turntable or digital mixer, I thought, who knows—maybe this will be the start of my career as a juggling DJ. Here’ … | Continue reading
The elevator description for Fede Alvarez’s 2009 sci-fi short, Panic Attack!, is as follows: “Giant robots invade Montevideo!” Frankly, the future director of Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe, and Alien: Romulus would have had us at “giant robots,” but it’s even cooler now that the short … | Continue reading
The creature work in Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s The Acolyte has expanded the Star Wars universe with new species and droids. Following fellas like Pip, Grogu, Babu Frik (my personal fave), and more is no easy task, but the creatives sure pull it off. On tonight’s episode, fans of ot … | Continue reading
The Boys season four has gotten some disparaging ratings on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to some of the most hilarious self-owns coming from a certain small demographic of fans who didn’t realize the show was a satire. Somehow it escaped them until now that yes—it’s always been about t … | Continue reading
Last week, Josh Gad teased sci-fi fans with an excited but cryptic social media post referencing a script “based on characters created by Mel Brooks” that opens on a “star field.” Now, a new report confirms what everyone suspected: it’s a Spaceballs sequel, coming from Amazon MGM … | Continue reading
Just months away from being banned in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be putting some salt in TikTok’s wound. The agency has issued a bizarre message about referring a complaint about the social media app to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Read more... | Continue reading
At this point, modern Doctor Who has been around for almost as long as classic Doctor Who was—which means the opportunity for returning legendary baddies that the series hasn’t already taken is running rather thin. But this week, Doctor Who finally played one more familiar ace up … | Continue reading
Two NASA astronauts won’t be returning back from the International Space Station (ISS) for an additional four days, the latest in a series of delays that has marred the Starliner program for years. Read more... | Continue reading
A team of deep sea scientists has made one mother of a find. In recent research, they detail the discovery of a female squid performing an unusual behavior for its kind: protecting and carrying around a clutch of giant eggs. The mama squid likely belongs to a previously unknown s … | Continue reading
A new report suggests Apple is halting work on a second-generation Vision Pro and will instead focus on a budget model due in 2025. Read more... | Continue reading
As part of its solicitations for the month of September 2024, DC has unveiled I Know What You Did Last Crisis, a superbly titled horror anthology featuring in-continuity stories “set during the events of crises past”—DC’s catch-all term for cataclysmic events meant to streamline … | Continue reading
The 911 emergency phone system is down in the entire state of Massachusetts, according to an advisory published online Tuesday by the MA State Police. And there’s no word yet on how long the outage might last. Read more... | Continue reading
House of the Dragon is back (with a third season now on the way, too), and it’s roared onto HBO and Max with the commanding presence of Vhagar, King’s Landing’s fire-breathing new bodyguard. But while the season two premiere was a triumph, it came up short compared to the Game of … | Continue reading
There was once a time when you had to call a restaurant on the phone to book a reservation. You might spend five minutes going through the whole process only to be told no tables were available. The internet and apps like Resy made all of this much more simple. Then the bots came … | Continue reading
Sorry, but you were never going to get any Nintendo Switch 2 news at Tuesday’s 40-minute Nintendo Direct. However, Nintendo wasn’t just laying out the big titles to hit the original Switch for 2024; it was showcasing what games would keep us satiated just before and just after it … | Continue reading
Donald Trump recently called himself the “crypto president,” pulling a complete 180 from the days when he referred to crypto as a scam. And it’s causing quite a lot of confusion in an already hectic presidential race where the former president is neck-and-neck in the polls with P … | Continue reading
In May, we learned that creator Bryan Fuller had departed the much-anticipated Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake, a project produced by edgy studio A24 for Peacock. At the time, Fuller posted on social media that “for reasons beyond our control, A24 has elected to go a … | Continue reading
WWDC 2024 was a pretty loaded event, and perhaps owing to time restraints, Apple might have skipped out on a seemingly small but crucial update for the Apple Watch coming to WatchOS 11. Read more... | Continue reading