When Paramount launched very Short Treks a few weeks ago, it did so with a short that trod a very fine line between being crass and flexing some knowingly Trek humor. But as it’s progressed, things have only gotten a closer to the former.Read more... | Continue reading
In a new assessment of several major social media platforms, X, formerly known as Twitter, came in dead last in managing climate misinformation.Read more... | Continue reading
Even before it turned 30, NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat franchise had one eye on its past. After 2011's reboot retold the original three games, Mortal Kombat 11 used time travel to have older characters interact with their younger selves, while those who died in the reboot or Morta … | Continue reading
A North Carolina man’s family filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, claiming the company was grossly negligent in allowing its Maps application to direct the man to drive off a collapsed bridge where he plunged to his death. Philip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two was dri … | Continue reading
Everyone’s favorite squishable pest—the spotted lanternfly—might be less of a nuisance than we thought, new research suggests. The four-year-long study found that the insects caused little to no long-term damage to a variety of different tree species. The authors say the invasive … | Continue reading
“Far, Far Away,” the sixth episode of Ahsoka, took the series, and us, to a whole new galaxy full of potential and new mysteries. But in doing so, it touched on a fascinating piece of old Star Wars history in the Nightsisters of Dathomir—one that ties several of Star Wars’ prior … | Continue reading
Despite the repeated reports of doom, gloom, and reorganization inside Amazon’s hardware division, that hasn’t stopped the company from moving forward with its vision for the “ambient home.” At its streamed live event in Virginia today, Amazon announced a bevy of new connected pr … | Continue reading
When Robin leads the Teen Titans and a bunch of classic animation characters from The Looney Tunes to Cartoon Network to more DC animated faves on a tour around the Warner Bros. Studios lot, it’s just as unhinged as you’d imagine it to be.Read more... | Continue reading
As Big Tech continues to jam every half-baked piece of artificial intelligence into every other over-baked piece of software, OpenAI has come full circle. The AI company behind ChatGPT is placing the wildly popular chatbot into the next version of its image generation tool.Read m … | Continue reading
At Amazon’s Fall Devices Event, the pressure was on to come up with a hit product that would stun the world the way Alexa and the Echo speaker did a decade ago. The event, held at Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington, VA was Amazon’s first in-person event since before Covid and the first ch … | Continue reading
NASA released a new mosaic of an impact crater that perpetually lies in the shadows of the lunar south pole. By combining the light sensitivity of NASA’s ShadowCam with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s ability to view shadowed regions, scientists put together a rare image of th … | Continue reading
We can tell you just how fun and surprising the new Hulu alien film No One Will Save You is, but leave it to the film’s writer and director, Brian Duffield, to really sell it. “By the time we get to the end of our first act, hopefully people will just have no idea where this movi … | Continue reading
Did you know that if you just slightly rename a show, it’s still considered a totally new show, and the production company gets to renegotiate contracts? Usually crew members who are with IATSE get full benefits, including vacation, after a show hits its third season. Disney is p … | Continue reading
A group of common cold viruses may be able to cause a life-threatening, if rare, blood clotting condition, recent research suggests. A team of scientists in the U.S. and Canada have recently found evidence linking the viruses to two cases of the condition, in a child and an adult … | Continue reading
The last time we saw movie star Chris MacNeil, she’d just been through quite an ordeal in Georgetown involving a demon and her tweenage daughter. That was back in 1973—so what’s she been up to since then? That’s a question Ellen Burstyn asked herself when reprising the character … | Continue reading
Fortnite will pay out millions of users as part of a settlement it reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), it announced on Tuesday. The FTC claimed Fortnite’s parent company, Epic, used deceptive tactics to get users to make unwanted purchases, in some cases, withou … | Continue reading
Look what she made us do. Ahead of the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) next month, one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Taylor Swift, began teasing the album’s bonus tracks with one the biggest tech companies in the world, Google. Read more... | Continue reading
After last week’s unforgettable, Ahsoka-heavy episode, this week’s “Far, Far Away” flipped the script. Ahsoka is on her way to that galaxy even further away and in the meantime, things pick up with the villains. Do they make it to this alternate galaxy? Is Thrawn there? Is Ezra t … | Continue reading
Despite holding the title for the longest stint in space by a NASA astronaut, Frank Rubio would have rather not spent all that extra time in low Earth orbit and away from his family. In a recent interview, the astronaut revealed that he would have likely turned down the mission h … | Continue reading
In an attempt to explain dystopia, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes continues to dig itself deeper into the political and moral knots that the original trilogy presented in 2008. The film trilogy began in 2012, and now we’ve got another addition to the franchise … | Continue reading
A hacker appears to have briefly gained access to Donald Trump Jr.‘s account on Twitter (now named X) and falsely claimed that daddy Donald had died. The bogus post, which was retweeted around 400 times before it was deleted, claimed Trump Jr. would run for president in his fathe … | Continue reading
Archaeologists investigating cut logs and other wooden tools at a site near Zambia’s Kalambo Falls have found the settlement to be far more ancient than previously thought: the logs date back to nearly half a million years ago, before our species (Homo sapiens) appeared on Earth. … | Continue reading
In February, io9 shared an excerpt from That Self-Same Metal, the debut fantasy novel from Brittany N. Williams—who drew upon her background as a classically trained actor to weave its Shakespearean tale. Things are even more perilous for her uniquely gifted metal-working heroine … | Continue reading
The Jaime Reyes DC era continues to blast off with Blue Beetle getting a digital release next week.Read more... | Continue reading
Neuralink announced it is recruiting for human clinical trials to test and assess the safety of its brain chip implants in a news release on Tuesday. The neural interface technology company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, said it received approval from an independent institution … | Continue reading
In a world of increasing demand for labor rights, Apple store employees in France are looking to join in on the movement. Ahead of the launch of the iPhone 15 this week, French Apple staff have officially called for a strike to begin this Friday.Read more... | Continue reading
Australian authorities declared the arrival of El Niño, amid dangerous heat waves that are raising the country’s risk of widespread bushfires.Read more... | Continue reading
It’s Tuesday night, and that means one thing and one thing only for Star Wars fans right now: Ahsoka is about to take us on the extragalactic adventure we’ve been waiting all season for. But whatever will we find there?Read more... | Continue reading
Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels is almost here, and the Marvel Studios film starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, and Iman Vellani will soon bring us the cosmic triple threat team-up we’ve been waiting for. Read more... | Continue reading
Fans of In Search of, Unsolved Mysteries, Airport ‘77, and other media investigating a very particular cult phenomena, rejoice: the Bermuda Triangle is finally getting a splashy Hollywood revival. Director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, plus Disney’s upcoming l … | Continue reading
Star Wars fans love to argue about every little thing in the sequel trilogy but there’s one place we can all agree it falls short: its posters. Over 45 years ago, George Lucas and his team hired artists such as Drew Struzan, Greg Hildebrandt, Roger Kastel, and Kazuhiko Sano to pa … | Continue reading
Fitbit’s much-anticipated app redesign is officially rolling out today. You can grab the update directly from the Google Play Store if you’re on a Google Pixel Watch or Fitbit wearable.Read more... | Continue reading
Gamers who shoved Elon Musk into a garbage can in Cyberpunk 2077 may have done so at the billionaire’s behest. That’s according to a brief portion of Walter Isaacson’s recent Musk biography which described Musk charging his way into a voice recording session during the game’s dev … | Continue reading
H&M has joined a growing list of retail stores that have begun charging customers to return their online purchases by taking the cost out of their total refund. The retailer started testing charging for returned items in September of last year in the U.S. but has now branched out … | Continue reading
In main-character game news, Terraforming Mars is using AI artwork, and that fucking sucks, especially considering it raised over a million dollars on its recent Kickstarter—you’d think it would be able to hire an artist or two to take care of those illustrations, but no. Read th … | Continue reading
Parasitic worms that zombify ants to do their bidding might be even more clever than we knew. Recent research has found that these parasites can not only compel ants to climb up blades of grass but also to climb back down when the weather gets too hot—all as part of their devious … | Continue reading
In a little over two weeks since its launch, India’s Aditya-L1 mission started collecting data to help analyze the behavior of particles that surround Earth.Read more... | Continue reading
So you finally checked out AMC’s Interview With the Vampire thanks to Max (we told you!), and now you’re in the mood to devour more streaming horror. io9 has you covered with this list of 10 picks from Max’s selection of frightful flicks.Read more... | Continue reading
The covid19 pandemic in 2020 ushered in a new era of working. Office spaces and other indoor collective areas had to shut down as the world attempted to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Workers did their duties remotely from home offices. And though the initial transition … | Continue reading
Barbara Fried, the 71-year-old mother of disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) once described herself as her son’s “partner in crime of the noncriminal sort.” A new lawsuit filed by FTX, now bankrupt and under control of a new CEO, however, alleges Fried and her husband w … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s future plans for its Xbox gaming platform were exposed in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) legal filings on Monday evening. The FTC claimed on Tuesday that it is not responsible for releasing the documents, which revealed the timeline for Microsoft’s Xbox consoles … | Continue reading
The last known thylacine—the largest marsupial carnivore in recent times—died in Tasmania’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. But the animal has recently been the target of de-extinction efforts, and now, a team of researchers has managed to recover RNA from the creature—the first time such … | Continue reading
Odds are, when you saw the first trailer for The Creator, you immediately knew you’d be watching the film. The latest from Rogue One and Godzilla director Gareth Edwards looks like everything we love about sci-fi movies. It’s original, it’s beautiful, it’s got cool robots, weapon … | Continue reading
SpaceX’s plans for a second launch of its Starship megarocket could face new delays, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) launches a review of environmental impacts and potential threats to endangered species in the Boca Chica region.Read more... | Continue reading
It’s that time of year again. io9 is about to head down to Austin, Texas for a week of fun, fucked-up films at Fantastic Fest, one of the coolest, most unique genre film festivals in the entire world. For a full week, the fest shows only the weirdest, most out-there, totally bada … | Continue reading
MIT scientists might be one step closer to making insulin injections a thing of the past. In a new study this week, they’ve shown that it’s possible to implant a medical device inside mice that produces its own supply of insulin for up to a month. More research will be needed bef … | Continue reading
YouTube has cut off the flow of money to Russell Brand’s account after the Times of London reported that four women had accused the actor and comedian of rape and sexual assault. The move comes just after the BBC pulled a variety of programming featuring the disgraced star. Read … | Continue reading
“Am I a troubled kid? Yeah, you could say that,” Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell) narrates in the new teaser trailer for Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Sure, it’s tough road, coming of age as a magic kid in a magical world—but it also means a lot of exciting advent … | Continue reading