Major newspapers are trying to carve out a deal with AI firms, as an argument brews over the copyrighted material that said firms have used to train their content-generating algorithms. Read more... | Continue reading
Anyone who’s spent a moment observing US political chatter in recent months has probably encountered the following prediction: 2024 will yield the world’s first deepfake election. Rapidly evolving AI video and audio generators powered by large language models have already been us … | Continue reading
Over 45 years ago, Stephen King released The Stand, his post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel about a virus that wiped out much of the human race. To this day, it remains an acclaimed book and is highly regarded as one of his best novels period. Like other King books, there’s an ex … | 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. Also, don’t forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same … | Continue reading
On July 13, 2023, SAG-AFTRA confirmed that its members would indeed go on strike. Much like with the WGA months prior, the organization’s discussions with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) failed to result in an acceptable contract regarding streamin … | Continue reading
With the newly released Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Insomniac Games introduces Venom to its superhero gaming franchise. The classic Spider-Man nemesis is voiced by Tony Todd and a pretty big dude who’s been featured heavily in the game’s marketing. And given the nature of superhero me … | Continue reading
Despite being delayed a number of times due to the pandemic and a general pre-release skepticism surrounding it, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune ended up being a well-liked film when it dropped in 2021. And even with a same day release on then-HBO Max, it ended up making a $402 million i … | Continue reading
Halloween is just over a week away, with parties for the annual holiday likely hitting next weekend. Normally, this year’s festivities would be like any other year: you dress up with your friends as your favorite characters and hang out or watch some horror movies, or you watch o … | Continue reading
The trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried reached its halfway point, and a flurry of incriminating evidence, emotional testimonies, and odd tales have surfaced in the last three weeks.Read more... | Continue reading
The ongoing saga of The Walt Disney Company versus Ron Desantis and his hapless oversight board continues. Read more... | Continue reading
The year is 1994. I head to the theater, buy a ticket for Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m not ready for what happens next. The year is 2023. I flip over to Max, press play on Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m still not ready for what happens next. Read more... | Continue reading
Robert Kirkman tells io9 how his character became part of the arcade-fighter game Mortal Kombat 1. | Continue reading
Discord revealed Teen Safety Assist, a new safety initiative to promote a safer environment for younger users to hang out in. The initiative includes default enabled safety features for teenagers on the app, such as proactive filters and alerts.Read more... | Continue reading
Calling up an IT department for help can be a frustrating experience—the only thing more frustrating is getting scammed out of money. Microsoft, Amazon, and Indian law enforcement identified a potential fraud ring with a ton of tech confiscated during searches in the country. Rea … | Continue reading
Ever since the release of the original Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune in 2007, PlayStation’s first-party lineup has gradually evolved into flashy cinematic affairs. Like tentpole blockbusters or the HBO original series of old, you’re meant to feel the effort that went into these prod … | Continue reading
Like more than half of adult Americans, I need a little noise to go to sleep. Some use a white noise machine or their TV, but my preference is podcasts playing on my phone. At least that was my preferred method until iOS 17 came along and messed things up. Read more... | Continue reading
New research might complicate our understanding of ketamine as a potential treatment for depression. The study found that people with depression who were either given saline or ketamine before undergoing anesthesia for a surgery experienced a similar improvement in their symptoms … | Continue reading
Colorado’s Supreme Court this week had the opportunity to hand down a historic judgment on the constitutionality of “reverse keyword search warrants,” a powerful new surveillance technique that grants law enforcement the ability to identify potential criminal suspects based on br … | Continue reading
Much like the previous two Spider-games, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is all about the suits. Whether you play more as Peter Parker or Miles Morales, the farther you get in the game, the more suits you can unlock. The suits can change the way the entire game looks and feels, and often a … | Continue reading
When it came to making the stars of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza come to life, Blumhouse and Universal brought out the big puppeteering guns from the Jim Henson Company.Read more... | Continue reading
In July 2022, the Webb Space Telescope detected an intense jet shooting across the equator of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. The jet is traveling at about 320 miles per hour (515 kilometers per hour) and is about 25 miles (40 km) in altitude, corresponding to Ju … | Continue reading
In a continued effort to make a dying platform profitable, Elon Musk unveiled two subscription tiers for X, formerly known as Twitter. At the same time, Musk continues his vendetta against news publishers by stripping The New York Times’ official account of its gold verification … | Continue reading
It’s no surprise that the climate crisis is fueling more intense weather, but new research shows how warming ocean temperatures are boosting tropical storms, causing hurricanes to become bigger and stronger at faster rates. A study published this week in the journal Scientific Re … | Continue reading
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is here, and with it, another entry into the great long history of adaptations of one of Spidey’s greatest foes-turned-frenemies in Venom. But do Marvel’s Spider-Man fans really care about examining this latest take on the iconic character, or are they... in … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, at New York Comic Con, Bryan Lee O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski sat down with io9 and a roundtable of journalists to discuss the upcoming anime, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. Based off O’Malley’s graphic novels and reinventing the story that people fell in love wi … | Continue reading
Instagram users reported last week that their bios including the word “Palestinian” and the Arabic phrase “Alhamdulillah”, which means “praise be to God”, were auto-translated to say “Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom.” Read more... | Continue reading
Published last week, this patent outlines how this controller will be able to store, charge, and pair your earbuds for a simpler overall user experience. | Continue reading
All three contemporary showrunners behind the return of Doctor Who—Russell T. Davies, Steven Moffat, and Chris Chibnall—have apparently not been in a room together until recently since 2009. It’s perhaps easy to see why, because the sheer amount of Doctor Who nerdery contained be … | Continue reading
Charlie Brooker created Black Mirror for Channel 4 in the U.K. before it was snapped up by Netflix for streaming. The first two seasons (plus one special) were extremely dark, and Brooker admitted during a chat at SXSW Sydney that the general lightening of tone once the show was … | Continue reading
Jon Stewart is best known for pissing the right people off with his nuanced political takes on his Apple TV show The Problem with Jon Stewart, and it appears he’s also pissed off his employer. Stewart’s The Problem has officially been canceled, and the reason why may lie in his v … | Continue reading
Get another new look at Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving. Hear a song from the Bollywood take on Archie Comics. A new featurette goes behind the scenes on the Hunger Games prequel. Plus, more footage from Poor Things, and when to expect the return of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Spoilers, away … | Continue reading
Slack says it is shutting down its SlackStatus account on X, which alerted users of incidents and outages on the platform, Thursday night. The office messaging platform will move its incident status alerts to its website.Read more... | Continue reading
iOS 17 is now with us, and it comes with a range of upgrades, tweaks, and improvements—including new ways to share your whereabouts with other people. Whether you’re meeting friends in town or keeping an eye on the kids at school, you’ve now got more options for doing it on the i … | Continue reading
A pair of spacecraft is undergoing final testing before a roughly 230 million mile journey to explore the Red Planet.Read more... | Continue reading
Yes, we’re all recovering from some con or anotther, but don’t let your guard down yet, dice warrior. Essen Speil awarded Dorfromantik: The Board Game (adapted from the video game of the same name) game of the year. We’ve also got Candela Obscura (from Critical Role) coming out i … | Continue reading
Everything you love about the films of Hayao Miyazaki is on full display in his new film, The Boy and the Heron. The way the legendary animator creates the most evocative, gorgeous, and goofy worlds, then turns them into something poignant and meaningful. Characters that defy ima … | Continue reading
The Boys' newest spinoff is coming back for sophomore year...once the actors strike is over. | Continue reading
You may not know Onmyoji, but you’ve definitely seen its affect on popular culture. If you’ve ever played Pokémon, congrats! You’ve been introduced to the basics of Yin-Yang Mastery. Now, the popular Japanese novels by Baku Yumemakura are being turned into an anime for the very f … | Continue reading
Arianespace’s latest Vega mission failed to deploy two of its payloads to orbit, likely due to a failure with the release mechanism with the rocket’s upper stage.Read more... | Continue reading
All that metaverse tech — whatever that term means at this point — will get a big connectivity boost thanks to federal regulators.Read more... | Continue reading
Star Trek loves itself a cave episode. You can do a bunch of different stories in similar looking sets, you can restrict which members of the cast are the focus, you can thrust unlikely pairings together and force them to bounce off each other. Caves are good! Lower Decks not onl … | Continue reading
New research links the rare neurological condition Guillain-Barré syndrome to covid-19. The study tracked millions of people in Israel, finding that those with a recent history of covid-19 infection were noticeably more likely to develop Guillain-Barré than those without one. Con … | Continue reading
A forensic accountant at Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial tried piecing together where $9 billion of missing FTX customer funds went on Wednesday. “Oh, yes,” said the accountant when asked if FTX ever misused customer funds.Read more... | Continue reading
In recent updates on NASA’s Artemis program, all four core stage engines have been installed onto the booster of the second Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, but a production issue has temporarily slowed work on the third. Read more... | Continue reading
Yesterday’s under wraps talk between SAG-AFTRA leadership and Hollywood’s elite actors has been revealed to be an offer to lend a hand to working class talent within the union from those in the limelight.Read more... | Continue reading
Nothing can travel faster than light, or 299,792,458 meters per second. But a certain group of particles acts as if it can, a team of physicists recently concluded, potentially paving the way for a powerful light source that could reveal new kinds of science.Read more... | Continue reading
Millions of 23andMe users had their info leaked once again after being hacked earlier this month, according to a report by TechCrunch Thursday. The hacker, who goes by the name “Golem” on multiple dark web forums, published user information containing records of over four million … | Continue reading
Slayers: A Buffyverse Story stars Charisma Carpenter and Amber Benson chat with io9 about their new Audible series. | Continue reading