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The parents of a child ritually sacrificed in pre-contact Mexico were likely close relatives. Like, really close relatives. Sounds like something out of Game of Thrones (RIP Princess Shireen Baratheon), but DNA analysis indicates it happened at least once in a pre-contact Mexican community. Paquimé is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mexican state

The big guest stars of Deadpool & Wolverine got revealed basically the night the movie hit theaters, and none were quite as surprising as Gambit. Seeing Channing Tatum get to live out his very, very long dreams of playing ol’ Remy LeBeau was honestly kind of endearing (and hilarious, given that accent), to say nothing of how well he

It’s been a few months since Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga came into the world as a pretty rad Fury Road prequel that not a lot of folks saw. If you missed it or waited to catch it in the comfort of your own home, good news: you can do eiher (or both) in just a few days.

I’ve been a longtime Verizon subscriber—a little too long, if I’m being honest, as I’ve been with the company since it was GTE Wireless. My phone number is an original relic from the ’90s boom of mobile technology. You can understand, then, why I’d convince myself to allow Verizon to roam for me while galivanting

We’ve known for a few years now that Disney was cooking up a live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch, and it’s always been a question of how they’d handle our titular Experiment 626. Would he be CG or some hybrid between that and a puppet? Would he look good? The answer to that second question is…actually kind

Anaheim, California turned into the Grid Friday night as the stars of 2025’s Tron Ares debuted not just the first footage from the sequel, but a huge piece of news too. Coming off of 2010’s Tron Legacy, which had an all-timer of a soundtrack by Daft Punk, everyone was curious who would be doing the

There’s long been an overlap between fans of heavy metal and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, with Lord of the Rings providing direct inspiration for Black Sabbath, Rush, Led Zeppelin, and many other bands. Prime Video’s series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is leaning into this connection wholeheartedly, with a new

I find budget TVs to be a great refresher if you’re like me and you’ve spent too long agonizing over the QLEDs, OLEDs , and all that high-falutin, high-end picture technology. Even still, the $1,000 Vizio 86-inch Smart TV pushes the boundaries of size and capabilities. If budget TVs are all about tradeoffs, then this

When you woke up this morning, Christopher Nolan’s film Interstellar was probably the last thing on your mind. However, by the end of Wednesday, fans of the film had gone on a ride worthy of the space travel adventure with an ending that’s equally as happy. It’s coming back to theaters in 70mm IMAX, just

If you haven’t sanitized your microwave in a while, you may want to get on that. A new study has revealed that these kitchen appliances can harbor some of the most resilient microbes yet discovered. The researchers examined 30 microwaves and found that nearly 750 different species of bacteria call these appliances home, including some

Seven years ago, a clip of Hugh Jackman performing—what we all thought was for the final time—ADR tracks for Logan went viral, and everyone was very normal about getting to hear an attractive man angrily growl and grunt as he thrust his fists towards a microphone. Well, excellent news, everyone: Deadpool & Wolverine has provided us

Federal authorities are investigating after a Cybertruck crashed and burst into flames earlier this week, leaving the driver of the vehicle dead. While there have been a number of crashes involving Tesla’s unconventional vehicle, this is said to be the first one that involves a fatality. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that it

Much of the conflict in The Rings of Power so far has focused on Sauron’s machinations with his oldest foes in Middle-earth, as he schemes his way into the undoing of the Elven kingdoms. But alongside his rise and return, we’ve also had a glimpse of another major power on Arda coming to the fore: the

Update 08/05/24 at 11:10 a.m. ET: This post was updated to include a statement from an OpenAI spokesperson and more information from a Sunday blog post. ChatGPT maker OpenAI has new search and voice features on the way, but it also has a tool at its disposal that’s reportedly pretty good at catching all those

The end of House of the Dragon season two is here, and while most storylines were left unresolved—season three is coming!—the episode, “The Queen Who Ever Was,” did an admirable job focusing on its characters, with surprising evolutions, long-repressed emotional outbursts and confrontations, and deep soul-searching all coming to the fore. There wasn’t a ton

It’s hard to contain all the weekend’s Elon Musk news in one post, but let’s try. The tech mogul had a busy two days of posting and fending off investigations. He said a civil war in Britain was inevitable, faces accusations in Michigan of misappropriating voter data, and is awaiting a letter from five Secretaries

We’re in an age where any and everything old can just stage a comeback, often completely out of the blue. If you need an idea of how wide that net goes, it looks like the Darksiders franchise is returning to video games? On Friday afternoon, THQ Nordic put out trailers for its slate of upcoming games.

Google’s attempt to funnel Olympics excitement into its chatbot, Gemini, “tested well before airing,” the company said. Upon its debut, however, the ad repelled viewers by making artificial intelligence seem like a weak substitute for parenting and human creativity. The negative response to “Dear Sydney,” which features a dad using Gemini to help his daughter

An older sibling of the popular diabetes and weight loss drug semaglutide may help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. In clinical trial data released this week, UK scientists have found evidence that liraglutide can reduce brain shrinkage and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients. Semaglutide is already being tested out in larger Phase III trials

The tussle over TikTok continues. The U.S. Justice Department has launched a new legal attack on the social media company, accusing it of illegally harvesting data on children. In a lawsuit filed Friday, the government accused the platform of breaching a previous legal settlement and “collecting and using young children’s private information without any parental

No matter what we might find at Galaxy’s Edge, Star Tours will always be the ultimate crossover between Disney’s parks and Star Wars. Smugglers Run and Rise of the Resistance may offer higher-tech glitz and glamor, but there’s something about the endless evolution of Disney and Lucasfilm’s first major collaboration at the parks that still has it

The best thing about Trap is the idea of Trap. In the film, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, a man who brings his daughter to a concert realizes the entire event is an elaborate trap to capture him. This man, who is by all appearances a normal father named Cooper, is actually a

During awards season, the hottest fashion statement came from Takashi Yamazaki and the Godzilla Minus One team, who took every opportunity they could, even during the Oscars’ red carpet, to show off amazing custom shoes with Godzilla-claw heels. Well good news: now you can emulate being a history-making Oscar winner in one very specific way, if you’re

Etsy announced a new membership program for buyers called Etsy Insider. The program aims to increase sales on the platform and offer certain buyers exclusive benefits. The American e-commerce company is considering rolling the program out this September as an “invite-only closed beta to a select group of buyers in the US,” or at least

After numerous unsuccessful reboots and sequels, the Terminator franchise is finally getting animated. Next month, on Judgment Day, Netflix will debut Terminator Zero, a brand new anime set in the world of James Cameron’s iconic franchise. We’ve seen a few glimpses so far but a new trailer is our best look yet. Created by Mattson

Over the weekend Marvel Studios reclaimed its crown as the king of summer blockbusters with the instantly successful release of Deadpool & Wolverine and a massive return to its kingdom of San Diego Comic-Con. At the studio’s annual Hall H panel, Marvel boss Kevin Feige announced the Russo Brothers are officially coming back to helm

Fans of Apple TV+’s show For All Mankind got some very good news earlier this year. Not only would the show be coming back for a fifth season, a spinoff show called Star City was in the works, which tells the story from the Russian point of view. It was an intriguing, but very curious

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Oranges are synonymous with Florida. The zesty fruit can be spotted adorning everything from license plates to kitschy memorabilia. Ask any Floridian and they’ll tell you that the crop is a hallmark of the Sunshine State. Jay Clark would be quick

Transformers x Knight Rider. Kamala Harris x The Simpsons. Robert Downey Jr. x Marvel, but again and different and way weirder this time. It’s been a year of crossovers at San Diego Comic-Con, but one that’s, perhaps suitably paradoxically, both not happening yet and already happening is Doctor Who and Star Trek, thanks to a delightful panel at the

There’s a ton of talent behind DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming release The Wild Robot, including writer-director Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon) and stars Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal. But one of the supporting characters is voiced by an actor of particular interest to the San Diego Comic-Con crowd, which was thrilled

In a U.S. election year, even as one as quickly weird as this one has become in recent weeks, you expect candidates (and presumptive candidates) to appear all over the place as they launch their campaigns to help shape the impending future of the nation. Rarely are those campaigns at Comic-Con, and rarely are they

During SDCC 2024, DC Studios revealed a new look at its DC Elseworlds slate with The Penguin.  Elseworlds where The Batman universe of projects will exist alternatively, in a slate of films that don’t have to be interconnected, including Todd Phillips’ Joker films. They will not intersect with the upcoming DC Studios canon in projects

It’s been a long road, but after years of rumors and speculation, Marvel is getting back to the past to give us the Fantastic Four in all their glory. But to do so, their movie’s name is getting a bit of a tweak. Tonight during the blockbuster Marvel panel in Hall H at San Diego

If there are three things I like it’s collecting toys, Comic-Con, and Marvel Studios. That’s why I jumped at the chance for a very cool opportunity blending all three. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Deadpool & Wolverine opens this weekend, one of the biggest Marvel movies in years. And to celebrate that

Disneyland and Deadpool. Yes, you read that right! Wade Wilson has managed to make his way to the mouse house and Avengers Campus to play nice for the usually very naughty Marvel comics superhero. Starting today you can meet him at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort–with Wolverine along for the ride, to keep

Earlier this year, Lego launched its first ever Dungeons & Dragons set to celebrate the game’s 50th anniversary. It was very good, but had room for some improvements, except one universally great thing about it was its handful of D&D minifigures. Now, the great news is we’re about to get even more of just those. Revealed

At San Diego Comic-Con today, Paramount gave us one last major look at Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, its interquel animated series meant to bridge the gap between Mutant Mayhem and its upcoming theatrical sequel. Set to launch in a few weeks, Tales of the TMNT will follow Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael (with Mutant Mayhem‘s young

According to a new report from Game Developer, The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has just confirmed over 500 employees at Blizzard Entertainment have formed a “wall-to-wall” union calling itself the World of Warcraft Game Makers Guild(or ‘WoWGG-CWA’, for short). Comprising over 500 members making up the entire team that develops the legendary MMORPG, including

What do you do when you fuck up on a global scale, throwing airports, tech companies, and government agencies into chaos, and spurring the Blue Screen of Death on devices throughout the world? Well, if you’re cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, you apparently offer your impacted partners a free coffee. CrowdStrike brought mayhem to the digital world

The Force works in mysterious ways—manners that we don’t always understand, or even have to. Sometimes new Star Wars material uses it for things we’ve never seen it been used to do before; sometimes it draws on elements of Star Wars history from both current continuity and years of Expanded Universe content. The Acolyte gave us

A team of scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California announced today that it created livermorium, or element 116, using a titanium particle beam for the first time. The achievement puts scientists close to the island of stability, a theorized point at which superheavy elements may be long-lived, making them easier to study.

The Dance of the Dragons is fully underway on House of the Dragon, and the show’s main characters are feeling the horrors of war hit home. There’s been death, agonizing injuries, and (possibly even more agonizing) major betrayals and power shifts. But in amid all the bleakness, there are a few lights—including a new couple

It’s San Diego Comic-Con week, and that means news, it means cosplay, and it means—whether you’re on the convention floor or not—oodles of fancy exclusive toys and merch to tempt your wallet with. There’s a lot on offer this year, both at SDCC itself and online during the event, so here’s our annual round ups

A recent rat-brain study offers insight into how the brain tells time, and its lead researcher believes the findings have practical applications for how we can cope with unpleasant things in life, or make the most of a good time. By monitoring the brain wave activity of rats as they repeated behaviors over the course

When the time comes to upgrade your phone, it can be both exciting and daunting: A brand new handset awaits, but which one? Dozens of new models are launched yearly to complement the older ones still on sale, which might (and often do) offer better value for money. Even if you think you’ve found the

If you’ve ever been to In-N-Out, you probably know there’s a secret menu that allows you to order customized burgers and fries that don’t appear on the official menu. But thanks to the internet, there are social media users who are a little confused about what’s actually available on the secret menu. In fact, influencers

The Acolyte has come to an end with big reveals, big connections, and a new status quo beginning to ripple its way across the galaxy far, far away. But while io9 has already sat down with one of the dark agents shaping that status quo, it’s only fair that we speak to their apprentice, too

The first part of the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai debuted on Netflix this week and, yes, you are going to have to wait four months to see what’s next. In the meantime though, io9 concludes our series of interviews with show creators Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald, and Hayden Schlossberg with some spoiler

The galaxy far, far away has been rocked by the arrival of a new agent of the dark side in the last month, as The Acolyte lifted the lid on its mysterious Stranger—Manny Jacinto’s not-so-shady smuggler Qimir secretly being the dark Master pulling the strings behind its titular Acolyte. But now that the Star Wars streaming

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 Last Lucid Day” by Dominique Dickey. Enjoy! (You can also listen to the story here). THE LAST LUCID DAY by Dominique Dickey You’re asleep in dreams of your father holding

Early on in The Acolyte‘s final episode, a couple of seconds completely comes out of nowhere to hit you like a ton of bricks. It’s not a moment of high drama, or a particularly shocking reveal about the story we’re watching unfold. If anything, it’s seemingly almost entirely disconnected from everything else in the finale. And

When an astronaut goes missing on his first space mission, his family thinks they’ve lost him forever—until his sister starts getting mysterious messages from him. It’s at first endearing but quickly turns sinister as the sister realizes communication is only possible because her brother has been kidnapped, and the aliens who have him want something

Silicon Valley has officially gone MAGA. For evidence, you need look no further than the fact that the co-founders of one of the tech industry’s most influential venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz, have quietly announced they will be sending large gobs of cash to the Trump team. Marc Andreessen, and his long-time business partner, Ben

The end of The Acolyte is upon us—but just how will Osha and Mae’s story come to a close? We’re about to find out. Need a place to talk spoilers as the episode happens? io9’s here to help with our Acolyte finale spoiler discussion zone! It’s been a long road to get here, of course—it was

House of the Dragon‘s most memorable moments tend to be flashy, (quite literally) fiery, and shot through with agonizing violence. There was plenty of that in last week’s episode, but episode five, “Regent,” which aired last night, gave us one of the most powerful reactions we’ve ever seen on the show—and also one of the

Due to debut this year, James Gunn’s Creature Commandos marks DC Studios’ first shared universe animated series with characters set to be introduced in both the series and live action projects. That promise makes the premise unique, with an ensemble that includes David Harbour (Stranger Things), Indira Varma (Doctor Who), and Frank Grillo (who’s confirmed

Like with other awards ceremonies, Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards sometimes feature a look at upcoming movies to draw in more viewers. This year’s get was a clip for Transformers One, Paramount’s upcoming CG prequel to the live-action movies and whatever’s next for the series’ big-screen dreams. Transformers One’s big hook is that it introduces young versions of

The Acolyte is wrapping up on Tuesday night, in what creator Leslye Hedland hopes is the first of more seasons to come. As the show’s played out over the past month and change, one part of the show has been consisently great: its costumes. This has always been an area where Star Wars has shined, but Acolyte’s costuming stands out as

After weeks of creepy trailers and very good pre-release buzz, Neon’s long-awaited Longlegs finally hit theaters this weekend. Directed by Osgood Perkins, attention on the Maika Monore and Nicolas Cage-led horror thriller has built up a lot of goodwill, and that appears to have paid off big time at the theater. Despite some mixed impressions, Deadline

This year’s Samsung Unpacked was a pretty loaded event. We saw the release of the Galaxy Fold 6 , a successor to the best folding phone . The new Samsung Galaxy Ring reminded Flo of why she hates rings, and the Galaxy Watch Ultra impressed us to the point where we thought it was essentially

Despicable Me 4 is currently playing in theaters, but Illumination’s already looking ahead to the future. The franchise’s scene-stealing Minions will come back to theaters in another solo movie officially dated for June 30, 2027. Crazy to think it’s one of the first movies dated that far ahead, huh. Per Deadline, the threequel will have some

While the Marvel world eagerly anticipates the arrival of Deadpool & Wolverine later this month, the studio itself is already looking to what’s next–and what’s next is flying high as Sam Wilson finally takes on the Captain America mantle for good in our first look at Brave New World. Set after the events of Sam’s streaming TV

Six motorcyclists rode into Death Valley National Park on July 6. Only five came out alive. With temperatures reaching 128 degrees Fahrenheit in California, the cyclists faced extreme heat exposure that killed one and sent another to a local hospital, according to the National Park Service. When there’s a medical emergency like this, helicopters are

I mean, just look at that little fella. You’d do anything for him, right? Anything to protect him, make him happy, and maybe even follow him to the ends of the world and back if that’s what was needed. That’s Quiet and he’s the star of Quiet: Level One, a new graphic novel from Jonah

This week’s episode of The Acolyte took us back to the planet Brendok to learn the truth about what happened the night Osha and Mae’s lives changed forever. In doing so, it brought with it even more mysteries shrouded in darkness—not just about all the characters at play during those events, but the very nature of

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Bluey fever join horror classics and spooky lore-inspired collections at major home decor retailers and seasonal pop-up giants Spirit Halloween and Party City. Halloween’s niche in horror fandom has expanded way beyond October 31, so it makes sense that home decor and goods inspired by scary movies, classic monsters, and supernatural legends are

Update July 9, 3:30 p.m. ET: The Ariane 6 rocket blasted off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana at 3:00 p.m. ET. Stage separation went well, as did the ignition of the Vinci upper stage engine, which worked in space for the first time. The Ariane 6 booster falling away during stage separation. Credit: ESA

This year marked the 10-year anniversary of Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s excellent sci-fi action film co-starring Emily Blunt and directed by Doug Liman. It’s a film that didn’t set the world on fire upon release, but has continued to gain new fans, and is constantly mentioned for a possible sequel. And while there’s still

It’s happened before and it’ll happen again. As beloved IPs are scraped for additional content, studios pore over every line of the source material for inspiration. In the right hands, each reference or seemingly innocuous statement uttered by a Bryce Dallas Howard could potentially launch the next Jurassic World trilogy. Just a few years ago

Longlegs hasn’t yet hit theaters—July 12 is the big day—but the creatively creepy marketing alone is enough to give a person nightmares. The latest trick in Neon’s big book of scare tactics is to release audio charting Maika Monroe’s actual heartbeat from the first time she saw Nicolas Cage in character as the titular serial

Last month, WB revealed a sequel to its 2018 movie Batman  Ninja was in the works. With the intriguing title of Batman Ninja vs. the Yakuza League, you had to wonder what the Dark Knight would be up to next–and the answer is, fight the Justice League. Yep, our premise this time is that Batman and Robin

Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters in a few weeks, and it’s been a bit of a longer than expected wait for Wade Wilson to come back in theaters. If you haven’t seen the previous movies in a minute, or just want to watch Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman do some cut back and forth banter, they’ve

A high-resolution camera system aboard the Mars Express Orbiter has returned stunning images of “snaking” gashes across the foot of Arsia Mons, one of the red planet’s massive volcanoes. The European Space Agency (ESA) clocked Mars’ deep, uneven scar at roughly 373 miles long (600 km) — making it around one-and-a-third times the length of

Last month, Rooster Teeth was shut down by Warner Bros. after a pretty long 21-year run. Before and after its end, there were questions about what would happen with R ed vs. Blue and RWBY, its two flagship animated shows. The former officially wrapped things up with a feature-length movie back in May, while RWBY was in a weird

Longtime film producer Jon Landau passed away at 63 years old. Per TheWrap, sources explained that he’d been battling cancer. Landau is best known for being the producer on a number of films at 20th Century Fox like the Avatar movies and Titanic. Born July 30, 1960, he was the son of Ely and Edie Landau, who

Ask any comic book fan what the holy grail of comics is and they’ll all give the same answer. It’s Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman. Even in not great condition, the comic is so culturally important and rare, when copies become available, they often sell for millions of dollars. Action Comics #1

The longstanding rivalry between space billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk continues, with Blue Origin filing a complaint against SpaceX to raise concerns about the company’s massive Starship rocket. Blue Origin issued a public comment to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), suggesting that the regulatory body limit the number of launches of SpaceX’s Starship rocket

New clock just dropped, but it’ll only drop a second every 30 billion years while in operation. That’s right: It’s the most precise, accurate clock yet built. The timekeeping device was developed by scientists at JILA, a joint institution of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder. It

This article was originally published on November 29, 2021. People say weed makes things taste better. I never got that—all weed ever did for me was drain the world of joy or purpose and recast all my past interactions as testaments to my utter fraudulence. In any case, I mention the weed thing here to

President Joe Biden delivered an embarrassingly bad debate performance last week that’s sent Democrats into a panic about whether the 81-year-old should be replaced with a new candidate. Any change this late in the campaign would be tricky and fraught with risk, but one person has emerged as the most likely replacement. And the internet

Over the past few days Disney fans who have managed to ride Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World have been among the first to experience the continuation of Tiana’s fairytale after the events 2009’s The Princess and the Frog. The ride itself serves as a sequel in attraction form, where guests follow Tiana and

Scientists are working hard to solve one of life’s greatest problems: a house cat with a bad habit of tearing up the furniture. Suggested Reading The New Beats Pills Are Finally Here Suggested Reading In a new study Wednesday, researchers have identified several key factors that appear to predict unwanted cat scratching. These include having

“It’s always an honor to get to witness anything or anyone transform into the Force,” young padawan Jecki Lon tells Osha in The Acolyte’s fourth episode, perhaps preparing us all for the carnage that was to come just a week later in its fifth, leaving a lot of people transforming into the Force. But even

Leave it up to Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) to give Louis’ (Jacob Anderson) interview a final definitive disruption that leads to marital woes for Armand (Assad Zaman). Suggested Reading How Has Louis Changed Since Season 1 of Interview with a Vampire? Suggested Reading Call it a vendetta writ large for our entertainment while Molloy plays

With three episodes left in the first season of The Acolyte, show creator Leslye Headland admits she isn’t quite done incorporating pieces of old-school Star Wars mythology from the Expanded Universe, aka Legends. Suggested Reading Suggested Reading Legends, of course, is the name for Star Wars stories written before Disney bought the franchise and put

Image: Paramount One of the stars of A Quiet Place: Day One is Frodo the cat, the service animal companion to Lupita Nyong’o’s Sam, who steals the movie from even Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things). It turns out the feline’s future might be more important than we think, and that its journey in the Quiet Place

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle is coming to theaters. Image: Crunchyroll Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is coming to an end in the biggest way imaginable. Crunchyroll just announced it acquired the rights to the upcoming Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle and will release it as a trilogy of theatrical films

The “Doctor-lite” has become a common parlance in contemporary Doctor Who —an episode that, born out of scheduling or the general rigors of a season of television show where the lead actor is in almost all of it, all the time, where the Doctor is largely absent for an episode. But Ncuti Gatwa’s first season

Screenshot: Lucas Ropek/onemillioncheckboxes.com Those of you hunting for a new way to idle away the hours while you pretend to be productive at work are in luck. A new game has hit the internet that is the definition of a giant waste of time. Suggested Reading Florida Family Takes NASA to Court Over Home Damaged

If you’re going down the bayou to ride Walt Disney World’s Tiana’s Bayou Adventure , there’s a few things you need to know to make sure you’ll be able to experience the Magic Kingdom’s newest exciting attraction. It won’t have a traditional “wake up early and rush to the line” queue, but rather an online

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and President Joe Biden will debate tonight starting at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT. Hosted by CNN in Atlanta, it will be the earliest presidential head-to-head in modern U.S. history, given the fact that debates typically happen after the summer political conventions, and it will mark the first

Image: Sony Music Soundtracks The golden age of superhero movies led by Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films was like no other, the webbing on which every Marvel movie that followed bounced into the stratosphere off of. They gave us Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker with Kirsten Dunst as MJ, facing off with nefarious foes like the

The shimmery towers of cosmic dust and gas at the heart of the Eagle Nebula have inspired awe for decades since they were first captured by the Hubble telescope. Now, NASA released the most detailed visualization of the iconic celestial structure, revealing all of its dreamy features across multiple wavelengths of light. Suggested Reading Webb

Image: Funko With the upcoming release of Funko Fusion—the video game from 10:10 games, where you play as iconic figures across various fandom universes—the first line of tie-in Funko Pops has been unveiled. With Masters of the Universe, M3GAN , Jurassic World, and Hot Fuzz all represented, the release offers a taste of some of

Image: Lucasfilm/Hasbro While The Acolyte fans might look at the battered mask of the dark side villain formerly lovingly known as Darth Teeth, now slightly less lovingly known as the Stranger, and be a bit traumatized after the horrors of this week’s episode, we can all still acknowledge that it’s an amazing bit of design.

The future of weight loss is fast approaching. At a recent scientific conference, drug companies showed off a variety of next-generation drugs for both obesity and type 2 diabetes. Some of these treatments might help people lose even more weight than current forerunners like Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide—the active ingredient in popular drugs Ozempic and Wegovy—while

The east coast of the U.S. has been experiencing a punishing heat wave over the past week, with cities like Washington D.C. hitting 100 degrees and breaking all kinds of heat-related records. Combine that with the very real possibility that Donald Trump could be president again, and there’s perhaps no better symbol of the peril

The $3,500 Apple Vision Pro hasn’t yet really found its footing. It had some of the best visuals and hand tracking in the VR space, but the hype around it has practically dried up in just the first few months since its release. Part of that is certainly due to that astronomical price. So, what

Screenshot: Focus Universal Pictures and Focus Features have finally released a trailer for Robert Eggers’ long-awaited remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 horror film, Nosferatu. Take a look: As you may have noticed, the trailer is deliberately withholding of Bill Skarsgård’s Count Orlok, with various characters simply intoning he’s “coming”—and this Christmas, no less. Suggested Reading

Image: Bloomsbury In 2020, English author Susanna Clarke published her second-ever novel, Piranesi . Given that it’d been over 15 years since her Hugo Award-winning debut Jonathan Strange & Mr. Morrell, the book’s arrival had been a big deal at the time—and like how Strange was later adapted to TV, Piranesi is coming to film.

Photo: photosince (Shutterstock) It sounds like the jig is up for YouTube users who snagged cheaper Premium memberships by obscuring their location with virtual private networks (VPNs). Suggested Reading Will The MSI Claw Scratch Your Handheld Gaming Itch? Suggested Reading In the U.S., Google charges individual users $14 per month for YouTube Premium, which limits

Image: Prime Video The secret’s out: The Boys is a satire that lives to skewer the sorts of right-wing nightmares that unfortunately are part of our real world these days. The current fourth season’s election plot has been a highly fertile one for the show’s signature sense of humor, with one new character in particular

Image: Marvel Studios With things in motion on the Marvel Studios slate, actor Benedict Cumberbatch is once again talking about his role in the franchise as Doctor Strange. Suggested Reading Will The MSI Claw Scratch Your Handheld Gaming Itch? Suggested Reading In a new video interview with Netflix, Cumberbatch reflects on his career to date, including

This week, Star Trek: Prodigy dropped the first trailer for its second season, and it’s full of all the sort of good Star Trek action you’d want—even more so if, like me, you’re a Voyager fan. But as a Voyager fan, there was one shot in particular that called to me: Admiral Janeway, her uniform

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 beyond, finding it resolves a math problem that’s been

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 unanswered is whether it’s legal. Suggested

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 same storm we see today. Suggested Reading Hurricanes

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 though, who knows—maybe this will be the start of my career as a juggling DJ.

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 reminder of the mad cow crisis over 30 years

In the “Like The Light By Which God Made The World Before He Had Made Light”, the revelations from the last episode come bubbling to the surface. Even in Louis’ narrative of the past Armand’s (Assad Zaman) actions begin to get colored a little differently right before the fire at the Theatre des Vampires. Suggested

Image: Nest It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Google about the smart home, but a recent new FCC listing related to the company suggests something on the horizon. Suggested Reading No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Suggested Reading 9to5Google reports on an FCC listing submitted

Last night’s second season premiere of Game of Thrones’ spinoff House of the Dragon tackled one of George R.R. Martin’s most infamous deaths—in a new way that surprised the fandom. Suggested Reading You Should Really Watch The Last of Us Suggested Reading In an interview with Variety, showrunner Ryan Condal explained the reasoning for the

Image: Disney/Pixar After several years where most of their movies launched on Disney+ (and not without controversy), Pixar’s back in theaters with  Inside Out 2 . The sequel’s big hook is a trio of new Emotions that’ve emerged from Riley’s growth into puberty, and it’s got a lot audiences who’ve seen it jumping for joy. Suggested

When night fell on Uganda’s second-largest national park in early February, Jacob, a three-legged African lion, made several attempts to cross a dangerous channel with his brother, Tibu. Automation Never Tasted So Good They seemed to do so in retreat. Earlier, the siblings had strayed into the “established territory of several other male coalitions” in

In some parts of the country (mainly the hot, humid parts), humanity’s relationship with the friendly insect known as the mosquito can be quite contentious. Not only do these wonderful little pests swarm you, suck your blood, and leave unattractive splotches all over your skin, but they’re also known to transport many of the viruses

The modern battery has come a long way in its 224-year history. In the place of Alessandro Volta’s piles of metal disks and brine-soaked cloth, we now have batteries the dimensions of a graham cracker that can last days before needing a recharge. But what is the ceiling of the devices currently on the market?

Kimberly Gasuras doesn’t use AI. “I don’t need it,” she said. “I’ve been a news reporter for 24 years. How do you think I did all that work?” That logic wasn’t enough to save her job. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech As a local journalist in Bucyrus, Ohio, Gasuras relies on

Screenshot: Florence Ion / Gizmodo If you own a Pixel, make sure it’s up to date right now. Google just quietly announced patches for as many as 50 different software vulnerabilities in its Pixel line, many of which are listed as being “critical” or “high” in severity. The company said that there are indications that

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue (Getty Images) Name any genre and chances are Emily Blunt has it on her resume—horror, action, rom-com, thriller, mystery, musical, historical drama—and not only that, the movies she stars in overwhelmingly tend to be blockbusters. One arena she’s especially succeeded in is science fiction—and now the star

Image: Sony Pictures Is Madame Web a good movie? Still a tough question, frankly, but as someone who has aggressively admired its commitment to a very specific bit since it first released earlier this year, I’ve always been a little disappointed that so few people gave Cassie Webb a chance because of paltry things like

You cranky, bub? Image: Hot Toys We’ve seen Logan’s look in Deadpool & Wolverine in the movie’s trailers and marketing—and courtesy of that boundary-pushing popcorn bucket. But a new Hot Toys figure gives us our best view yet of Wolverine clad in his full suit, including the cowl. Hot Toys’ first collectible announced and inspired

If you watched season one of House of the Dragon , you have an idea of what Lord Larys Strong (Matthew Needham) is capable of. For instance, he arranged to have his own father and brother murdered to curry favor with Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke), and showed not one lick of remorse. In season two

Image: Netflix If the quantity of Rebel Moon we already have wasn’t somehow enough, as he is wont to do, Zack Snyder has found room for more. Today, the director confirmed that both extended editions of his Netflix sci-fi duology will release on the same day this summer, all the better to numb your lower

On August 24 in 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over three cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. According to most modern accounts, the story pretty much ends there: Both cities were

Image: Department of Defense (AP) Japan has formed a task force to investigate UFOs after the country was dubbed a “hotspot” for strange aerial sightings by a Pentagon report published last year. Sonos First Ever Headphones Are Too Expensive For What They Offer CBS reports that the group in question, which is known officially as

Image: Warner Bros./New Line Cinema It’s only been about a month since Warner Bros. revealed it was working on a new Lord of the Rings movie. With Andy Serkis in the director’s chair and mocap suit, the studio’s fully set to get the Hunt for Gollum prequel film in theaters by 2026, and that’s naturally

Image: MachineGames/Lucasfilm Earlier this year, we got our first real look at Indiana Jones & the Great Circle . The game, coming from Wolfenstein developer MachineGames, puts players in Indy’s hat between Raiders and Last Crusade, and has the adventurer hunting for mysterious sites around the globe that form a perfect circle. How Rahul Kohli

Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws puts players in the boots of Kay Vess, a young crook trying to make a name for herself in the galaxy’s criminal underworld in the gap between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Doing that means pulling off some small jobs to psych youself up for the Big

Image: Atlus/Guerilla Games/Paramount/Funcom/Digital Eclipse E3 may be dead, but its spirit lives on in the Summer Game Awards. Geoff Keighley’s annual showcase was light on big blockbusters, by his own admission, but it was made up for with a variety of double-A and indie titles that caught everyone’s attention. Here’s the best of what we

Image: Prime Video Hoo-boy, it’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the Legend of Vox Machina , hasn’t it? If you’ve been itching for some more Dungeons & Dragons fun courtesy of Critical Role’s animated adaptation, you’re in luck: the show is coming back starting October 3. Gillian Jacobs Reacting to Her D&D

If there’s one thing Tom Cruise knows how to do, it’s be a movie star. Over the years, he’s achieved a mythic stature as the last of a dying breed, from a time when leading actors mattered more than the characters they’d inhabit or the costumes they’d wear. However true that is or not, there’s

What are all these awesome images from? Check out our slideshow to find out. Image: Netflix Image: Netflix We love the Terminator franchise so while we were already very excited about the new show Terminator Zero, we’re over the moon that we now know it’ll be released on Judgment Day, August 29, and that none

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 Waking Sleep of a Seething Wound” by dave ring. Enjoy! Sonos First Ever Headphones Are Too Expensive For What They Offer THE WAKING SLEEP OF A SEETHING WOUNDby dave

One very good thing about a new Star Wars project means that you’re always going to get a modicum of Funny Little Guys. Your glup shittos, your merchandisable new droids, your Bell Guys, your Blurrgs, things of that nature. Star Wars worldbuilding is built on the backs of not its heroes and villains, but a

Image: United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) For no reason at all—the reason was last month’s Eurovision Song Contest—I have been lurking around Gen Z spaces and noticed a return to the old form of gadgetry. It started with wired headphones, and now it seems like the lust for single-feature gadgets has been wholly

Producer M. Night Shyamalan—a name all horror fans are familiar with—presents The Watchers , directed by a name they’ll soon learn: Ishana Night Shyamalan. The feature from the Servant filmmaker is based on the book by A.M. Shine; it follows Dakota Fanning as Mina, an artist who gets lost in a mysterious, untouched Irish woodland.

Sci-fi and fantasy entertainment has finally seen a shift toward more diverse casting—a move that not only better reflects our world, but also brings joy to fans who’ve longed to see people who look like them represented onscreen. (It can also, as we’ve seen especially with Star Wars , bring out toxic fans.) In a

Mixing your long plane ride with alcohol could be a dangerous cocktail for your heart, new research out Monday suggests. The small trial found that healthy volunteers experienced a greater drop in their blood oxygen level and corresponding rise in heart rate after drinking alcohol while sleeping in high-altitude conditions than they did without having

Keith Gill better known as Roaring Kitty. Photo: STRMX (AP) Keith Gill, the popular investor who sparked the skyrocketing of GameStop’s stock back in 2021 and appears to be back at it again, might have his E*Trade account shut down, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Monday. The stock trading platform and

Over the last few weeks, there’s been plenty of digital ink spilled online about the box office. Movies like Furiosa and The Fall Guy had barely made their initial projections, if they did at all, and it’s caused many to wonder about the state of movies this year. After 2023 being filled with banger after

Image: Warner Bros./DC Comics Back in 2018, WB released the CG movie Batman Ninja , its first real foray into anime from production company YamtoWorks and Kamikaze Douga. In the years since, there’s been a lot of animated Batman movies, and you’d be fair in thinking Ninja was just an interesting one-off to have in

Just when you thought you had a moment away from any more AI-focused hardware news, AMD is leaping into the “AI PC” arena with its latest mobile laptop chips. The new Ryzen AI 300 series boasts better performance than either Intel or Qualcomm, plus neural processing capabilities. Should You Flip Out for This Samsung Phone?

Image: Netflix Before the month of May ended, Netflix revealed it’d renewed 3 Body Problem for more seasons. At the time, it wasn’t entirely clear just how long the show would go on, but the streamer has now officially revealed that fittingly enough, it’ll cap things off after two more seasons. Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t

Image: Powerhouse Animation/Netflix Crystal Dynamics’ Tomb Raider franchise is taking two interesting roads as it’s got a brand new game in the works. On one side of things, the live-action series courtesy of Phoebe Waller-Bridge has recently moved forward over at Prime Video. And on the other, more immediate end, there’s Netflix’s Tomb Raider: The

Jurors found Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts in the former President’s hush money trial in New York on Thursday, according to The New York Times. He is the first American president to become a felon. The 12 Manhattan residents who sit on the jury reached a verdict after their second day of deliberations. “This

Image: io9/Gizmodo Niche interactive activations are now more mainstream than ever before—and the result is an uphill battle of art vs. profit. Things don’t always work out in the long run, as seen with Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser , but still create some of the most incredible forms of art you’ll ever be able to

Image: Warner Bros. It and It: Chapter Two star Bill Skarsgård ( Nosferatu ) has officially signed back on to reprise the role of sewer-dwelling, child-eating clown Pennywise for Max’s Welcome to Derry series. The returning Pennywise joins castmates Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, and James Remar. Evil’s Michael Emerson on Working Opposite a Giant

Photo: James Whitbrook/Gizmodo Last year, Lego returned after years away to the realm of Middle-earth, delivering one of the most remarkable sets it’s ever made in in Rivendell, a gorgeous tribute to The Lord of the Rings. Now, it’s headed there and back again, with a darker bent—but does heading to the land of Mordor

I have spent the past few weeks with Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Motorola’s Razr+. These foldables were released in late 2023 and share the same $1000 price tag. However, the Razr+ is currently retailing at a discounted price of $700, and you’re likely also to find the Z Flip 5 on sale. We

We’re sorry to disappoint Star Trek fans, but the exoplanet often compared to Mr. Spock’s fictional world has turned out to be nothing more than star flickers masquerading as a super-Earth. Will We See More of Uhura’s Relationship with Spock? | io9 Interview The discovery of the planet was first announced in 2018, much to

Influencer Image: Shudder You can certainly comb through the big streaming services—Netflix, Peacock, Prime Video, Max—to get your horror-movie fix. But if horror is all you want, Shudder should top your list of subscriptions. It has an excellent library spanning many sub-genres, with classics and new releases alike. If you’re looking for a weird, wild

Everyone knows the magic of George Miller is his practical effects. The Max Max filmmaker loves to do actual stunts and capture them in-camera, and the results are masterful. But what maybe not everyone knows is that Miller’s films, in particular Mad Max: Fury Road and the new Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, have a

In “No Pain,” the third episode of Interview With the Vampire season two, Armand (Assad Zaman) shares the story of the Theatre des Vampires as Louis (Jacob Anderson) expresses reluctance to join—something that doesn’t stop Claudia (Delainey Hayles) from eagerly wanting to be a part of it. Why Are Vampires Associated With Queerness? This week

Image: Warner Bros. Nearly 10 years ago, George Miller brought the Mad Max franchise blasting back to relevance with Fury Road . The film wasn’t just well-liked, it was basically a game changer for plenty of moviegoers and delivered them something they’d never really seen at the time. And of the many things to love

As old horror franchises have gotten new leases on life in recent years, more and more people have just wanted to know why Friday the 13th can’t get the same treatment. While the series was kept semi-alive with a video game not too long ago, there hasn’t been a new movie since the 2009 reboot.

Image: Tim Sale/DC Comics Batman fans have their favorites miniseries, and among the most beloved is The Long Halloween . The original miniseries from Jeph Loeb and the late Tim Sale saw widepsread acclaim when it released in 1996 and spawned two sequels and a film adaptation. And much like Frank Miller with his  Dark

Image: Humane, Microsoft, Adobe, Photo: Mehmet Futsi (Getty Images), Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Microsoft, Dua Rashid / Gizmodo, Microsoft, Dua Rashid / Gizmodo This week, the company behind the wearable chatbot AI Pin is already looking to sell for upwards of a billion dollars just one month after its rough product launch. Speaking of AI

Photo: Kevin Mazur (Getty Images), oby Sessions/T3 Magazine/Future (Getty Images), Win McNamee (Getty Images), Mark Peterson – Pool (Getty Images), Gregorio Borgia (AP), Manuel Balce Ceneta (AP), Screenshot: FOX5 / Kotaku, Image: OsakaWayne Studios (Getty Images), Drew Angerer (Getty Images) The federal government made some interesting moves by making private jets owned by celebrities such

It turns out that killer wales do not like boats. They really don’t like them, in fact, and have made it their mission to sink them all to the bottom of the ocean in recent years. Now, instead of letting the orca have their fun with boats sailing the seven seas, one New Zealander has

The Juice and his wife, Delores. Image: Warner Bros. There’s a lot to be excited about when it comes to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice . Tim Burton finally returning to this wild world he created all those years ago. Michael Keaton hopping back into one of his most iconic characters. Finding out what’s happened in the years

California is another state lining up to pass a law requiring adult sites to verify the ages of porn watchers. The TikTok Ban is Law. What Now? The California State Assembly passed the Parent’s Accountability and Child Protection Act that will require porn companies doing business in the state to verify that users are 18

Top Secret! Screenshot: Paramount Pictures Alex Cox directs Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton in this 1984 tale of a punk rock kid who takes a job repossessing cars, only to get mixed up with a Chevy Malibu that’s literally out of this world. Endlessly quotable, with a killer soundtrack too. Watch on Netflix. Here’s

Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images (Getty Images) If you think your T-Mobile phone bill is already pricey, there could be some bad news coming. The mobile carrier plans to increase prices on some plans as soon as June. How Will Time-Travel Change Perry in Season 2 of Outer Range T-Mobile customers on Simple Choice, ONE, or

New Snapdragon X chips promise intense performance on the new ARM-based PCs, but they also promise better than-ever AI performance. Photo: Microsoft If you missed out on everything Microsoft announced before and during its big Build developer conference, let me catch you up. There are AI agents, new AI models, AI real-time translations, AI transcriptions

New research this month is the latest to link the use of Ozempic, Wegovy, and other GLP-1 drugs to a greater risk of gastroparesis, a potentially serious medical condition. So what exactly is gastroparesis and how worried should you be about it if you’re on or thinking about taking these medications? How Will Time-Travel Change

Hidden right above Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean, the ride that started the Disney Parks attraction-to-movie pipeline, is the members-only Club 33, an exclusive destination for industry professionals, insiders, the rich and the famous, and their lucky friends. There’s plenty of mystique built into Club 33, something a just-announced mystery film aims to take advantage

It seems that nobody—and no body part—is safe from microplastics. In a recent study, researchers found traces of plastic in the testicles of both dogs and humans. The potential health impacts of this discovery are not yet clear, but the team suggests it may help explain why men’s sperm counts have declined over time. Mississippi’s

Maika Monroe in Longlegs. Screenshot: Neon Longlegs looks like a supernatural Silence of the Lambs with a hint of Zodiac, and we could not be more excited. Written and directed by Osgood Perkins, it’s the story of a new FBI agent (Maika Monroe) who finds herself on the trail of a cryptic serial killer who

Unionization was in full force throughout the entertainment industry in 2023, particularly over at Disney. VFX artists across several in-house teams—including those for the MCU and the Avatar franchise—successfully unionized, a trend that’s now continuing in the corporation’s theme park business. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Director on the Film’s Opening On late

The new season of Doctor Who is in full swing, and it’s already making some big moves early into its run. This week’s episode, “Boom,” puts the Doctor and Ruby on the planet of Kastarion 3, which is currently in the midst of a war the pair are unable to escape from after the Doctor

In more than ways than one, The Acolyte is being poisitioned as a different Star Wars show than the other live-action offerings. Not only is it winding back the clock to the High Republic era, it’s also doing something different on the action front with some Force-powered martial arts similar to wuxia films. Now we

Ask anyone who plays video games extensively, and they more than likely have at least two studios they go to bat for. We all have developers who, in our eyes, can’t really do any wrong (even though they can and sometimes do); maybe it’s because they were responsible for a life-changing gaming experience, or maybe

Alkaline water will improve your metabolism, boost your liver health, and even help you fight off cancer—at least according to its fans. The actual truth, however, is far more mundane. There is little good evidence for these and many other health claims attached to alkaline water, and the only thing that it’s clearly better at

Hertz gambled and lost when it placed its big EV bet on Tesla a few years ago. It was a chance for the rental car company to shake up the industry, instead the company bought 30,000 Teslas, got scared away by depreciation and expensive repairs and now wants to get rid of them. While all

This week’s season finale of X-Men ‘97 brought an emotional, explosive climax to mutantkind’s battle against Bastion and the Prime Sentinels—and the X-Men love nothing more for their soap operatic drama than a big emotional twist while everything’s going bonkers. The finale delivered on that front… although as with a lot of the X-Men’s problems

George Miller has been directing pulse-pounding action sequences for almost 50 years. It started in the late 1970s with his first film, Mad Max, and continued through the decades, reaching a whole new level of awesome in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road . Next week, he takes things to yet another new level with Furiosa:

Avian influenza has come for New York City’s birds. In a new study Wednesday, scientists report traces of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a small number of NYC’s wild bird population. Though this discovery may not be directly related to the ongoing outbreaks of H5N1 in U.S. dairy cattle, it’s another sign that these viruses are

We’re officially going to get some answers to the burning questions we had after watching Netflix’s 3 Body Problem : the streamer is bringing back the sci-fi series—which explores what happens as humanity prepares for a slow-moving but inevitably arriving alien invasion—for more. Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor

Disney Parks has revealed the opening date for its highly anticipated Tiana’s Bayou Adventure attraction based on the world of Disney Animation’s The Princess and the Frog. Starting June 28, visitors to Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL can finally ride the water flume boats on a new adventure that will take you “down the

Google’s latest I/O conference was an absolute slurry of AI promises. The company took so many stabs with new AI models, showing off new AI capabilities that integrate Gemini into every single Google product or service under the sun. But take enough shots, and the law of averages says at least one will hit the

Image: John Gress Media Inc (Shutterstock) I often use the iPhone’s Voice Memos at product briefings for interviews. As you can imagine, transcribing a 20-minute recording could be tedious. Thankfully, AppleInsider has learned of an AI-powered update coming to the Voice Memos and Notes apps on iPhone that will soon be able to transcribe and

The summer movie season is here—and, before we dive into what’s in store for 2024, let’s turn the clock back 40 years to one of the best summers of all time: 1984. *Jumps in Time Machine* Will We See More of Uhura’s Relationship with Spock? | io9 Interview What’s up radical dudes and dudettes? It’s

Image: Marvel Studios The second season of Peacemaker is currently filming, and James Gunn is now starting to slowly peel back the curtain on what to expect from the Max series’ return. In the first real bit of casting news, it’s been revealed that Frank Grillo will appear as Rick Flag, Sr. Spoilers of the

Each Planet of the Apes reboot has featured a central human in the conflict between the hyperintelligent apes and what remains of the human race. For the newly released Kingdom , our human proxy is Mae, played by The Witcher’s Freya Allan. Though she initially seems like a regular feral human—who can’t speak, as previously

Image: BBC New seasons of Doctor Who have always been a big deal, but this one has had even more anticipation behind it. Between Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor and the return of Russell T. Davies, there’s been the promise of a bold, new era for the sci-fi series, which started on Friday with the two-episode

Image: Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures It’s been over a month since Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire came out, and once the credits rolled, discussion pivoted to what was coming next. Were Warner Bros. and Legendary going to split the two monsters off into their own isolated adventures, or would they do another straight crossover? Rebecca

Jack Dorsey reemerged on Elon Musk’s X recently, calling it a “freedom technology” last week as he stepped down from Bluesky’s board. In an interview with Pirate Wires Thursday, the founder of Twitter says he never really left the platform, he just was posting less. Dorsey also shed light on his departure from Bluesky, saying

Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse for Boeing’s attempt at launching a crew to orbit, in comes a longstanding industry feud over rocket valves for a shocking third act. Lego’s New UCS TIE Interceptor Was Worth the 24 Year Wait A rival space company has come out of the woodwork to warn

All the way back in 2011, Rise of the Planet of the Apes seemed like it’d be an unremarkable but potentially solid movie. No one really knew what to make of Fox doing a prequel/reboot of the classic sci-fi series, especially since it’d already tried a decade prior with Tim Burton’s divisive 2001 remake. That

The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast approaching, and a giant dark spot on the surface of the Sun keeps growing while spewing radiation out to space in the process. Approaching Queerness in Doctor Who Sunspot R3664 now stretches across nearly 124,300 miles (200,000 kilometers), almost as big as the

Possessor Image: Neon If you don’t mind commercials—and frankly, most streaming services these days have them—Tubi has one of the most vast libraries of genre films and TV, including horror, cult favorites, and sci-fi. Here are 10 picks to get you started, including all-time classics and more recent releases. The legacy of this 1976 classic

Marvel’s mutants are locked in a world of fighting—fighting to survive, fighting to push back against hate. But they’re also just as often fighting among themselves, and this week’s penultimate episode of X-Men ‘97 is no exception… except mutantdom’s two biggest drama queens couldn’t have picked a worst time for their latest squabble. Who Should

Russell T Davies may have already returned to Doctor Who with its 60th anniversary specials, but a new, full season of the show brings with it myriad opportunities. Doctor Who’s latest relaunch is no exception: a new Doctor, a new companion, new adventures, and perhaps in the biggest change of all, a new home beyond

Photo: Mike Kemp/In Pictures (Getty Images) Rejoice, Wordle lovers. The game’s owner, the New York Times, has announced that paying subscribers will now be able to go back into an archive of over a thousand previous Wordle puzzles to play them at their leisure. Previous to this, the game’s puzzles were very much like an

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said social media dominated the narrative around Israel’s war in Gaza on Friday, sitting for an interview with Senator Mitt Romney at the McCain Institute’s 2024 Sedona Forum. Blinken’s statement on social media, which did not reference TikTok by name, was in response to Romney asking him: “Why has the

Riddick (2013) Image: Universal Pictures It’s been over a decade since we last caught up with Vin Diesel’s sci-fi antihero Richard B. Riddick—Diesel’s been spending most of his time voicing Marvel’s Groot and doing Fast & Furious movies—but it’s time to dig those goggles out of storage. The fourth film in the series, titled Riddick:

Like the original series, X-Men ‘97 has been adapting a variety of comic book storylines from the 90s. Thus far, the likes of Inferno , The Trial of Magneto, and Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly’s New X-Men run have been brought to life, with varying levels of time and success. The show has a lot

Image: Universal Pictures Last summer was pretty packed with big movies, from the likes of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to Across the Spider-Verse and Barbie . 2024’s summer movie season began this weekend with The Fall Guy and a re-release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace . With two throwback movies coming out

At the start of the year, it was reported that Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited sci-fi flick Megalopolis might finally see the light of day. That day appears to be pretty soon, because Coppola’s production banner American Zoetrope released first-ever footage of the film that gives an idea of its scope. Giancarlo Esposito Talks About the

Nintendo’s Pokémon series has had a powerful grip on pop culture for decades, and it’s doubtful to change anytime soon. The bulk of that power comes from the video and trading card games, along with the eternally ongoing anime and the movies and shows that’ve spun out of that. So how do you make one