The Umbrella Academy is getting a fourth and final season on Netflix. It will add Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, and David Cross to its ensemble cast. We knew all of this already, and today’s Geeked Week release regarding the series doesn’t reveal much more. But it’s been such a … | Continue reading
Next to Castlevania, one of Netflix’s most well-known animated properties has to be Arcane. The 2021 series was so popular and beloved it took on a life of its own beyond its source material League of Legends, winning multiple awards and, as of last month, becoming part of the ga … | Continue reading
The Expanse book series ended in 2021 with ninth entry Leviathan Falls, and the TV series adaptation wrapped up after six seasons in 2022. And while Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck—who write together as James S.A. Corey—have nixed any return to the world of The Expanse, they’re stil … | Continue reading
Doctors made medical history by successfully transplanting a whole eye. The donated eye has reportedly survived inside the patient for six months with no major issues so far and shows signs of good health. At this point, however, the patient has not regained any functional sight … | Continue reading
The trusty Falcon 9 is packed with 6,504 pounds of supplies destined for the International Space Station, including experiments like NASA’s ILLUMA-T project, which will test laser communications from space, and the Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE), which will explore atmospheri … | Continue reading
Marvel director Nia DaCosta chats with io9 about the film’s themes, collaborating with the main actors, and teasing an epic ending. | Continue reading
Apple’s cofounder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized on Wednesday after suffering a possible stroke in Mexico City, according to local news outlet Reforma. The 73-year-old technology legend, who was in Mexico to speak at the World Business Forum, was admitted to ABC Hospital in the c … | Continue reading
Do we need to say more than here’s a bunch of dogs wearing cute little Loungefly backpacks and accessories inspired by Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney animation?Read more... | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s rocket company won a court order to block the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit that accused SpaceX of hiring discrimination against refugees and asylum seekers.Read more... | Continue reading
This past year was a weird time for Apple. The company revealed two new MacBook Pros within ten months. It showed off the massive gamble that is its $3,500 Vision Pro headset. Its latest Apple Watches were a very bare refresh. Plus, the company didn’t reveal any new version of it … | Continue reading
It’s not yet December, but NASA is already in a festive mood: the Webb and Hubble space telescopes recently imaged MACS0416, a pair of colliding galaxy clusters 4.3 billion light-years from Earth that is bedecked in sparkling lights.Read more... | Continue reading
It may come as something of a surprise but Marc Andreessen—co-founder of mega-venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and longtime rich guy—is pretty worried about the creator economy.Read more... | Continue reading
A major new card game launching is always interesting, but few launches have managed to capture a buzz like Lorcana. Disney and Ravensburger’s hot new card game launched to frenzy and sold out decks over the summer, and is about to come back for round two with its first expansion … | Continue reading
The best way to describe Valve’s new Steam Deck OLED is that it’s the Steam Deck you’ve always wanted. It’s got a better display, a better battery, and, hell, a better everything. After spending some time with a new, updated handheld gaming console, I found it hard to go back to … | Continue reading
Valve is back on the Steam Deck design train, and the latest version of its handheld console is getting more than a new coat of paint. The studio’s newly revealed refreshed Steam Deck isn’t promising any better in-game performance, but the new deck is lighter, prettier, and more … | Continue reading
Fossilized feces from the Pleistocene epoch have divulged the mitochondrial DNA of a woolly rhinoceros, whose genome had never previously been assembled. The ancient poop was not excreted by an ancient rhino but by a hyena—an animal that evidently ate the massive herbivore before … | Continue reading
A new 3D tour of ancient Rome allows you to explore the imperial city as it appeared in the 4th century CE. The tour, produced by the education technology company Flyover Zone, is the fourth iteration of the 3D model.Read more... | Continue reading
Working long hours outdoors is a skin cancer hazard, and new research estimates that about one in three deaths caused by non-melanoma cancers annually can be attributed to occupational exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. As of the latest available data, this amounted to nearl … | Continue reading
io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The CRISPR Cookbook (Chapter Two): A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Eggs into Weapons of Destruction, to Be Forcibly Implanted into … | Continue reading
For those who like their turkey on the table and on the tube, Mystery Science Theater 3000 has your Thanksgiving viewing figured out. The series all about riffing on cheesy movies will launch its first “Mega Turkey Day Marathon Telethon,” this year, and the event doubles as a boo … | Continue reading
Need help figuring out how to program smart lights to turn on at dusk? You can ask AI for help with that. Google’s generative AI-powered feature called the “Help me script” started rolling out to beta testers this week. It can help you figure out robust home automation. All you h … | Continue reading
Disney and Pixar have released the first teaser for their follow up to Inside Out, and the world of emotions is about to get much bigger—and panic-induced.Read more... | Continue reading
After wrapping up a lengthy mission in Earth orbit nearly a year ago, Space Force’s spaceplane is ready to take off again for the seventh flight of the Shuttlesque test vehicle.Read more... | Continue reading
Microsoft being annoying about ads, forced surveys, or pushy polls is nothing new. You might remember when they started rolling out ads in the Windows 11 Start menu. These appeared in the guise of ‘notifications’ repeatedly convincing users to start using Microsoft’s services suc … | Continue reading
Anonymous video chat app Omegle, known for pairing strangers and weirdos together in a kind of raw, extended social experiment, finally threw in the towel after years of abuse. The site was forced to shut down due to a settlement from a recent lawsuit alleging the site gave free … | Continue reading
The Boys sets the stage for its 2024. Netflix teases the arrival of its live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series. Eddie Murphy gets on the bad side of an elf in his new Christmas movie for Amazon. Plus, Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson will headline an apocalyptic music movie. … | Continue reading
OpenAI’s global outages for ChatGPT and its API yesterday were due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DD0S) attack, according to a post on the company’s outage page Wednesday evening. CEO Sam Altman said the company was planning to go live with GPTs, its new customizable chatbot … | Continue reading
After nearly four months of striking and negotiations, the actors have secured a potential deal with studios and the AMPTP. | Continue reading
Even as audiences gobble up salacious rumors about purported crises at Marvel, and perhaps an end to the dominance that superhero media has had on blockbuster moviemaking in the wake of a string critical and financial misfires, people love reading about people talking about comic … | Continue reading
Have you ever seen AirPods that look exactly like Apple’s, but the box would say something like ‘Abble AirPods?’ Sometimes, manufacturers of counterfeit products don’t even change the company’s name on the box in an attempt to trick the consumers into thinking that they are genui … | Continue reading
A new payload has been added to Firefly’s upcoming mission to the far side of the Moon, one that will explore the lunar subsurface to find out if it can support future infrastructure.Read more... | Continue reading
Nextdoor, a popular neighborhood app, is prioritizing its “commitment to shareholders” over its commitment to employees by eliminating a quarter of its staff to meet shareholder expectations, the company said in a 2023 Q3 report Tuesday. The layoffs are reportedly part of an effo … | Continue reading
No matter what you think about the House of Mouse, the Force, or Marvel’s many assorted heroes and villains, there’s no denying Disney+ has might behind it. According to today’s quarterly report, which you can read here, the streamer now has more than 150 million subscribers worl … | Continue reading
Many people are carrying potentially harmful genes, research out this week has found. Scientists analyzed the genes of people living in Iceland and found that one in 25 people appear to have genetic variations linked to a shorter lifespan. The most dangerous variants were those t … | Continue reading
Google’s AI ecosystem continues to grow as the company expands its partnership with Anthropic, which will now run on Google Cloud’s fastest AI-accelerating chips. This comes on the same day Google rolled out generative AI search capabilities worldwide, powered by PaLM2, putting A … | Continue reading
Barbie wielded a lot of box-office power this year, raking in over a billion dollars at the global box office and making history as Warner Bros.’ highest-grossing film of all time. But one monster hit wasn’t enough to bring Warner Bros. Discovery into the realm of profitability, … | Continue reading
First responders are fighting the chemical fire and are working to keep those living in the nearby area updated on potential health risks. | Continue reading
We knew earlier this year that Lucasfilm had cooled off on working with Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige for a Star Wars movie project, in the studio’s latest shakeup of killing most of the upcoming movies it announces these days. But now, as The Marvels takes to the big screen, Feige … | Continue reading
It takes a whole lot of power and data to both train and run the AI models that have big tech so enamored. To support its AI ambitions on Bing Search, Microsoft leaped into the welcoming arms of cloud computing giant Oracle, all the better to help feed the ever-hungry multi-heade … | Continue reading
A hiker was rescued from a cliff edge on Saturday after allegedly following a Google Maps trail that didn’t actually exist, making him one of several hikers who followed the same trail to get stranded. A search and rescue team responded to reports of a hiker stranded on Mount Fro … | Continue reading
Who among us hasn’t dreamed about Nicolas Cage? What might it be like to hang out with the Oscar winner, to watch him work or see how he chooses his incredible array of movies? From The Rock, National Treasure, and Renfield, to Adaptation, Wild at Heart, and Mandy, Cage is one of … | Continue reading
We’ve barely upgraded our Apple devices to the new versions of their operating systems, and already, there’s a delay on next year’s software updates. But it’s for a good reason, according to sources familiar with the pause.Read more... | Continue reading
There’s officially a new and fierce competitor for Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) when it comes to weight loss. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug tirzepatide, developed by Eli Lilly, as a treatment for obesity. The weekly injectable drug will b … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Nintendo and Sony Pictures teamed up to deliver the shocking news that they were working on a live action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. Even more so, they’d found their director already in Maze Runner and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Wes Ball. But it turns o … | Continue reading
Social media might be addictive, but it turns out quitting is complicated. A study out Wednesday from the UK’s Durham University asked 51 moderate to heavy social media users to stay off the apps for one week. Participants had a decrease in negative emotions and feelings includin … | Continue reading
Rick and Morty’s currently in its seventh season, but it was much earlier in the Adult Swim show’s run that people started realizing how involved its fan base really was—remember 2017's Szechuan sauce kerfluffle?Read more... | Continue reading
If you were in charge of selecting the Lego minifigures for a massive celebration of a decade of Marvel Cinematic Universe films and beyond, you’d have plenty of priorities on your list. Heroes, villains, Earth’s mightiest movie stars. Lego decided it had so many options, it coul … | Continue reading
The Marvel Cinematic Universe gets the team-up we’ve been waiting for since Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel with The Marvels.Read more... | Continue reading