All the Fictional Characters Who Helped Us Survive 2023

It’s been a year of ups and downs, so in 2023 we’re particularly grateful for one source of reliable joy: sci-fi, horror, and fantasy entertainment. Here are the fictional characters—be they live-action, animation, made of plastic, or from galaxies far, far away—that helped guide … | Continue reading


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Anthropic Could Be Headed for an OpenAI-Style Showdown

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $750 million from Menlo Ventures, which values the startup at $15 billion, according to The Information. Like OpenAI, Anthropic also has a complicated board structure with misaligned values, and this recent influx of cash begs the questio … | Continue reading


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SpaceX Falls Short of Elon Musk’s 2023 Goal for 100 Falcon 9 Launches

With just 11 days left in the year, it’s clear that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will not reach his stated goal of achieving 100 Falcon 9 launches in 2023. Nonetheless, the company’s achievements during the calendar year are damn impressive, with 2024 poised to be even more remarkable.Re … | Continue reading


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Anxious and Joyless? You Might Just Be Sleep Deprived

Not getting enough sleep is bad for both your physical health and your emotional well-being, as new research shows. The study, a review of existing data from clinical trials, found that even short bouts of sleep deprivation can reduce people’s positive emotions and make them more … | Continue reading


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Lego's Latest Technic Set Will Let You Move Heaven and Earth

Lego’s Technic line of mechanical construction sets mostly sticks to vehicles—lots of cars, trucks, bikes, even the occasional plane. But while it has dipped into the world of science and space exploration before, its latest addition is one of its best ideas outside of its typica … | Continue reading


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The Most Disappointing Gadgets of 2023

While 2023 was a big year in consumer tech and had some clever innovations to show off, not everything was a smash hit, to say the least. Whether it was subpar performance, a troubled launch, or a glaring design flaw, these products disappointed us the most. This year’s picks, li … | Continue reading


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Last-Minute Pop Culture Holiday Shopping Guide for Procrastinators

Time’s just about up for holiday shopping, and the pressure is on for anyone doing last-minute runs to the mall or searching online for the quickest delivery. If you’re looking for that perfect Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, One Piece, Wonka, or Disney100 gift—don’t worry, io9's g … | Continue reading


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California Could Solve Its Water Woes by Flooding Its Best Farmland

Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland are fighting both flooding and drought. Their fate rests with California’s powerful farmers. | Continue reading


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Gizmodo’s Top Five Gadgets of 2023

Gizmodo highlights some of our favorite tech products to come out this year. | Continue reading


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Jupiter 3 Satellite Pushes SpaceX Rival Closer to Starlink Internet Speeds

Following the launch of its next-generation satellite, Hughes Network Systems is now starting to offer faster internet speeds to compete with its main industry rival SpaceX.Read more... | Continue reading


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The Best Laptops In 2023

Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is independent of commerce, affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content.The best tablets are more capable than ever, bu … | Continue reading


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Finally, a Telescope Named 'Einstein' Is Heading to Space

The Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be ready to launch next month. The probe will look for transient events in X-ray light and try to answer some fundamental questions about black holes and gravitational waves.Read more... | Continue reading


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Godzilla Minus One's Director Is Open to a Sequel

Doctor Who’s Millie Gibson introduces her new companion, Ruby Sunday. Snowpiercer’s unaired final season will appear... somewhere. Time is up for Shining Vale. Plus, Frank Darabont could direct some of Stranger Things’ final season, and a new look at What If? season two. Spoilers … | Continue reading


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LG's Latest OLED Can Go from a Mere 240Hz to a Blistering 480Hz With Just a Click

Just when we thought gaming monitors were already going a little too hard on high refresh rates, LG shared Thursday details on a few of next year’s pro gamer monitors that put too much stress on the “pro.” The company’s upcoming display is yet another 4K OLED that can hit 4K reso … | Continue reading


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Logitech Astro A50 X Review: Ditching All Your Dongles Means Dealing with a Mess of Wires

The initial pitch for the $380 Logitech Astro A50 X Lightspeed headset sounds like an infomercial. It’s as if a revived, gamer-ified Billy Mays made a 30-second TV pitch sounding off: “Are you tired of shoving all those dongles in your consoles? Do you hate that it’s so hard to u … | Continue reading


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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Has Its Moments, But Mostly Fizzles

At one moment in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, characters are running through a mutated jungle, chased by lion-sized cockroaches while avoiding violent, human-eating plants. In another moment, multiple characters are standing around, their hair flowing wildly, delivering wooden d … | Continue reading


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Users Flock to Threads as X Suffers Largest Outage Since Musk Takeover

Over 90,000 users on X experienced an outage on Thursday morning, marking the platform’s most severe outage since Elon Musk’s takeover in October of 2022, according to Bloomberg. Data from Google Trends shows that many users rushed to Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads during the outage.R … | Continue reading


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Behold the Mega Lake: Earth's Largest Lake in History Lands in Guinness Book of Records

The largest lake in Earth’s history is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Paratethys—or Lake Paratethys, if you will—and contained 10 times more water than all of Earth’s modern lakes. In other words, it’s long overdo for its place in the Guinness Book.Read more... | Continue reading


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Not Being Able to Burp Actually Sounds Pretty Horrific

A life without burps might sound like a blessing, but a new study shows it’s anything but. Researchers interviewed patients with the rare condition retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD), which makes them unable to burp or belch, about how it affected their daily life. No … | Continue reading


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The Coolest Dinosaur-Age Discoveries of 2023

Dinosaurs’ reign on Earth ended explosively (and then dustily, as we’ll mention in this story) when an asteroid slammed into Earth some 66 million years ago. But the dinosaurs—and the diverse ancient creatures they shared the planet with—have kept many secrets locked away in thei … | Continue reading


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The People's Joker Will Finally Get a Theatrical Release in 2024

Last year the Toronto International Film Festival played host to The People’s Joker, a queer, comedic re-imagining of Batman’s legendary foil in a Gotham City where crime was outlawed. Warner Bros, naturally, immediately did not care for this, and the film looked like it was dest … | Continue reading


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How a Balloon Over Antarctica Will Help NASA Study the Mysterious Space Between Stars

A new NASA experiment will take to the skies on a balloon, scanning the space between the stars of our galaxy and listening for cosmic ingredients to understand how the Milky Way evolved over time.Read more... | Continue reading


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A Potential Warner Bros and Paramount Merger Could Be Hollywood's Next Megacorp

All eyes are on Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Pictures after the CEOs of each company met Tuesday in New York City to explore a possible merger. According to Axios, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav met with Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish and Shari Redstone, who own … | Continue reading


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Donkey Meat From Amazon Is Off the Dinner Table in California

Amazon is done making an ass of itself, and making snacks out of ass, as the digital marketplace will no longer sell edible donkey meat in California. The online retailer will not allow Californians to buy hundreds of donkey-based snacks listed on the platform as part of a settle … | Continue reading


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Ahsoka's Zombie Stormtroopers Are Getting the Lavish Toys They Deserve

If you thought it’d be Hasbro who first got its hands on Ahsoka’s trooper repurposing, think again: Hot Toys is giving us our first actual look at Thrawn and the Great Mothers’ unholy matrimony of Imperial Remnant and Nightsister witchery in action figure form... although there s … | Continue reading


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Robert De Niro Says Apple Asked Him to 'Dial Down' Anti-Trump Remarks, He Didn't Get the Message

Things we know for certain about Robert De Niro: he’s an acclaimed actor whose career is still going strong after over 50 years—and his outspoken personality means he’s no stranger to controversy. His feelings on Donald Trump are well-documented, but apparently Killers of the Flo … | Continue reading


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I'd Buy That for a Dollar: Chevy Dealership's AI Chatbot Goes Rogue

AI is still working out its kinks. As chatbots embed in enterprise services we're getting a better idea of just how worthless they are at this point. | Continue reading


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50 Most Memorable Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror TV Moments of 2023

With a dizzying array of streaming services available, there was no shortage of great TV this year—and while io9 has already shared our top 20 shows of 2023, today we’re revealing our top TV moments... all 50 of them. These are the moments when we laughed, cheered, shed a tear, s … | Continue reading


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How to Make Artificial Intelligence More Human in 2024

In the last year, computers started acting strangely human. As OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever put it, you can think of AI as a “digital brain”, one that’s directly modeled after that of a human. Just like a young child, AI has incentives and learns from those around it. If ChatGPT was a … | Continue reading


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Researchers Test 2,400-Year-Old Leather and Realize It's Made of Human Skin

Scythians in modern-day Ukraine made leather out of human skin, a team of researchers has determined, likely as a macabre trophy item. The discovery affirms a claim by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote extensively on the Scythian way of life.Read more... | Continue reading


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The Amazing Art and Toys We Loved at DesignerCon 2023

Every year, there are a few dates I immediately look forward to on the calendar. My birthday, of course. My wedding anniversary. Christmas. Super Bowl. San Diego Comic-Con. And, maybe above all others, DesignerCon.Read more... | Continue reading


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Covid-19 Paralyzed a Teen Girl's Vocal Cords, Doctors Say

We’re still discovering new ways covid-19 can harm us, some four years after the emergence of this complicated viral disease. In a recent report, doctors in Massachusetts describe a teen girl whose vocal cords became paralyzed soon after a bout of covid-19. The girl required a tr … | Continue reading


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NASA-Funded Space Ventures Set for Back-to-Back Moon Landings in Early 2024

Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are all set with their Moon landers. Now they just need their rockets prepped and the launch windows to swing open. But once underway, these NASA-funded missions, slated for early 2024, will chart a new course for the future of private space expl … | Continue reading


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Why Xbox Game Pass Will Help Microsoft Win the Console Wars

This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.Read more... | Continue reading


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The Most Captivating Spaceflight Images of 2023

Experimental rockets, Moon landers, planetary flybys, breathtaking spacewalks, and vintage boosters—these are just a few of the many stories that contributed to the most striking and memorable images of 2023.Read more... | Continue reading


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NASA's Moon-Bound Astronauts Prepare for Emergency Ahead of 2024 Launch

Four astronauts are getting ready to travel to the Moon and back for NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, and the space agency is making sure that the crew is well-prepared in case things go wrong during the 10-day journey through space.Read more... | Continue reading


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Ryan Gosling Brings Major Holiday Flair to Barbie's 'I'm Just Ken'

When the sunglasses go on, Ryan Gosling disappears and becomes just Ken. Read more... | Continue reading


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With AI Advertising, Nothing Is Real | AI Unlocked

An ad exec explains how AI is building a surreal new marketing landscape. | Continue reading


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Here's How to Get a Piece of the $25 Million Apple Family Sharing Settlement

If you ever enrolled in the Apple Family Sharing with a family member between 2015 and 2019, you may entitled to a cut from the $25 million legal settlement Apple agreed to pay. MacRumors did some math and claims you could get between $30 to $50 if you qualify.Read more... | Continue reading


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Godzilla Minus One Is Getting a Glorious Black and White Re-Release

The best sci-fi movie of 2023 is already making an early play for the best sci-fi movie of 2024 on a technicality. After its unprecedented international success, Godzilla Minus One is returning to Japanese theaters for a special release in black and white.Read more... | Continue reading


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Flightless Bird: E-Scooter Company Bird Declares Bankruptcy

Electric scooter company Bird is flying south for the winter, and it might be a very different kind of fowl by the time it returns. The Miami, Florida-based micro-mobility company known for allowing rambunctious, helmetless e-scooterists to fly down city streets declared bankrupt … | Continue reading


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Disney+ Sets Its Star Wars and Marvel Slate for 2024

Mutant Mayhem’s Jeff Rowe talks keeping Shredder back for the sequel. Wyatt Russell discusses’ Thunderbolts filming schedule. Get a look at Jadis’ return for Walking Dead: Ones Who Live. Plus, get a look at Adam Sandler’s new sci-fi movie for Netflix, Spaceman. To me, my spoilers … | Continue reading


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Here's Why You'll Hear About a Lot More Data Breaches in 2024

Cybersecurity incidents are constantly in the news these days, but you’ll soon be hearing about a lot more of them. That’s because a new rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission went into effect on Monday, requiring all public companies to report data breaches in just fou … | Continue reading


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Adorable Cat Video Reaches Earth After 16-Million-Mile Journey from Deep Space

NASA just combined all of my favorite things: space, lasers, and cats. In a first-of-its-kind demonstration of deep space optical communication, the space agency streamed a high-definition video from 19 million miles away from Earth. And as it turns out, NASA is just as obsessed … | Continue reading


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Elon Musk Draws the Ire of the Tesla Hoe

This week, Tesla made an abrupt change to its in-vehicle entertainment system interface, appearing to cut Disney+ out of the rotation of apps that could be accessed by users. Teslarati initially reported that the car company appeared “to have axed Disney+ from its vehicles.” The … | Continue reading


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Magic: The Gathering Formally Bans the Use of Generative AI in 'Final' Products

An error in judgement earlier this year—when a D&D artist confirmed they had used generative AI programs to finish several pieces of art included in the sourcebook Glory of the Giants—saw Wizards of the Coast publicly ban the use of AI tools in the process of creating art for the … | Continue reading


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10 Movies to Stream Tonight If You Can't Stand Christmas

Christmas horror movies are never not popular—but what about those holiday-themed dramas, film noirs, and action comedies that never seem to surface on festive watch lists? We’ve gathered 10 movies to stream if all the traditional titles make you want to gouge your eyes out with … | Continue reading


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INTERPOL Arrests 3,500 Suspects in Sweeping Cybercrime Operation

Interpol, an international police organization, has arrested nearly 3,500 people allegedly connected to cybercrime in a sweeping operation announced on Tuesday. $300 million worth of assets across 34 countries were reportedly seized. The operation, Haechi IV, blocked over 80,000 … | Continue reading


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