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Oct 01, 2023
Even before the Barbie movie became one of the biggest films of 2023, it was clear Mattel was going to use that as a jumping off point to bring more of its toys to the silver screen. The company's never been shy about what toys are getting the movie treatment, with the most well-known of the bunch being one focused on …
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Oct 01, 2023
September can sometimes be a dead month for movies, but for 2023, this month is ending with two pretty big tentpoles in the theaters.
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Oct 01, 2023
If you're behind on what's happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here's a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don't forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same topic.
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Oct 01, 2023
Spy x Family was one of the biggest anime of 2022, and audiences became delighted with the weekly exploits of Loid Forger, Yor Briar, Anya, and their dog, Bond. Fortunately, season two isn't that far out—it premieres next week exclusively on Crunchyroll starting Saturday, October 7.
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Oct 01, 2023
Once it became clear the Hollywood strikes would be going on longer than anyone initially believe, Democratic senators in California wrote up a bill to compensate workers on strike. With backing from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, the hope was that it would be passed and provide money to anyone out of work in the…
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Sep 30, 2023
Watching the Saw movies isn't for everyone—across the now 10-movie franchise, audiences have seen people mutilate themselves in order to stay alive or die trying in some pretty grisly fashion. For those who loves these movies or to see people get messed up, that's part of the appeal. But when you're the one involved…
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Sep 30, 2023
BioWare's 2003 game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is one of the most well-known video games to bear the franchise's name, and players were delighted to hear it would be coming to the current gaming generation. But much like Star Wars Eclipse, whose existence had to be reconfirmed by developer Quantic Dream…
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Sep 30, 2023
At a time when folks are tying a movie's runtime as part of their interest in seeing it in the theater, blockbuster tentpoles can sometimes run fairly long. At two hours or more, superhero flicks can run long in the the tooth. So if such a thing matters to you, you'll be pleased to hear that the upcoming The Marvels ac…
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Sep 30, 2023
In 2019, animator and illustrator Vivienne Medrano (aka VivziePop) released the pilot for her upcoming animated series Hazbin Hotel. Animation fans took the show fairly well and at time of writing, it's racked up 90 million views on YouTube. The following year, A24 opted to pick up the pilot for a full-blown show, and…
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Sep 30, 2023
There are few places in this world where dead things are offered such a promoted place among the living. If I had to arrange my mind to any, my first thought lands on the Catacombes de Paris, the old quarries turned morbid gallery for the shelves of anonymous bones. In that enormous memento mori, the skulls of…
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Sep 30, 2023
Get ready for some SuperSize collectibles from Super7, which are available as of today.
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Sep 30, 2023
The summer season has ended, but spaceflight continues to be hot, with new views of our Moon and Jupiter's moon Io, the much-anticipated return of an astronaut and an asteroid sample, and important new rocket engine tests, to name just a few of the many moments that captured our attention in September.
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Sep 30, 2023
OpenAI rolled out a number of big updates to ChatGPT this week. Those updates include "eyes, ears, and a voice" (i.e., the chatbot now boasts image recognition, speech-to-text and text-to-speech synthesization capabilities, and Siri-like vocals—so you're basically talking to the HAL 9000), as well as a new integration…Read more...
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Sep 30, 2023
OpenAI rolled out a number of big updates to ChatGPT this week. Those updates include "eyes, ears, and a voice" (i.e., the chatbot now boasts image recognition, speech-to-text and text-to-speech synthesization capabilities, and Siri-like vocals—so you're basically talking to the HAL 9000), as well as a new integration…Read more...
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Sep 30, 2023
Watching the Meta Quest 3 being announced by Meta made me realize something - the hardware available for virtual, augmented and mixed reality is finally catching up with the big idea pitches everyone had about this concept called the "metaverse" a couple of years ago.
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Sep 29, 2023
Orbit Books, an imprint of Hachette, has developed a free virtual event series for aspiring science-fiction and fantasy writers. Attendees can attend any of the 14 sessions—which are spread out over six weeks in October and early November—for free. The topics range from nitty gritty advice on worldbuilding to a panel…
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Sep 29, 2023
Universal Pictures has a long horror legacy that encompasses the original Universal Monsters films, Chucky, events like Halloween Horror Nights, and new Blumhouse terrors like M3GAN and the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's.
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Sep 29, 2023
Nowhere is safe from microplastics. Tiny plastic pieces are in waterways, in our bodies, and now researchers have found microplastics in clouds on top of Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama.
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Sep 29, 2023
From its new headquarters in the U.S., Tokyo-based startup ispace will develop its Apex 1.0 lunar lander to transport NASA payloads to the Moon in 2026.
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Sep 29, 2023
Nocturne, the new successor series to Netflix's excellent animated Castlevania adaptations, plays with its legacy in some truly smart ways—both as a successor show metatextually, and narratively as its heroes navigate being part of a generational supernatural conflict. But one of its greatest moments is a fascinating…
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Sep 29, 2023
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope launched from Earth on July 1 and has since been getting set up to begin its investigation of the dark universe. But the instrument commissioning hasn't been rainbows and butterflies, as the telescope's engineers and scientists have worked to untangle several issues…
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Sep 29, 2023
BeReal's active users appear to be exiting the platform in droves, with the number of active users dropping by 18% since it peaked in November of last year. The app gained a substantial number of active users in 2022 but now has a shrinking userbase that's far smaller than its social media counterparts, according to a…
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Sep 29, 2023
A new era of Doctor Who means a new version of the 60-year-old series' legendary theme song, and before fans hear it across the trio of anniversary specials set to broadcast in November, they'll get to experience it in style... if they turn their radio on, that is.
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Sep 29, 2023
A week before it was set to launch to a distant metal rich asteroid, NASA's Psyche spacecraft is forced to remain grounded until the space agency resolves an issue with its thrusters.
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Sep 29, 2023
The kids are not all right and are being subject to a firehouse of pinging in the thick of the Information Age. A new report reveals that children are getting upwards of 4,500 notifications a day and have some predictable favorite (and least favorite) apps.
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Sep 29, 2023
The feast and famine of Lego releases continues as, after last month's Star Wars blowout, October is looking like a quieter month in terms of sheer volume of sets to tempt your wallet. But that doesn't mean there aren't heavy hitters among those to come!
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Sep 29, 2023
On Wednesday, the organized workers of board game bar/cafe Hex & Co. delivered a letter to one of the owners, Dr. Jon Freeman, asserting their right to collectively bargain, and asking him—and co-owner Greg May—to voluntarily recognize the union. They have given Freeman and May until the end of the month to respond.
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Sep 29, 2023
Once among the star companies championing a deal to create a private successor to the International Space Station, talks between Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Sierra Space regarding the Orbital Reef project now appear to be souring.
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Sep 29, 2023
Letterboxd owners sold a majority stake in their social film discussion and discovery platform to Tiny for a whopping $50 million, the company announced on Friday. Tiny, a Canadian technology investment and holding company, acquired a 60% stake in the platform, but the owners noted in a press release that they'll…
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Sep 29, 2023
The Disney Lorcana trading card game arrived with a massive splash at Gen Con this year, with people staying in line overnight to get booster packs. The high demand continued after the convention, and now a Ravensburger spokesperson tells io9 that "additional booster product" will be arriving at local gaming stores in…
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Sep 29, 2023
If you love genre films, there truly is nothing like Fantastic Fest. While most festivals play a more balanced slate of films covering all genres, this Austin, Texas-based fest plays only the good shit. Other festivals sometimes refer to them as "Midnight Movies," but it's always midnight at Fantastic Fest. Horror,…
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Sep 29, 2023
The mutants are coming! The mutants are coming! A new report suggests that now, with the writers' strike over, Marvel Studios has put the wheels in motion to start taking meetings about an upcoming X-Men movie. This is the absolute earliest stage of the process—but it is the start of the process, and that's saying…
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Sep 29, 2023
Break out the mops, throw on the tutus, and slide that eye down to your cheek. The first trailer for the remake of The Toxic Avenger is here and it perfectly portrays the film's irreverent tone and gory tendencies.
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Sep 29, 2023
Behold a galactic onion: the shell galaxy NGC 3923, spotted by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory's Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at a distance of about 70 million light-years from Earth.
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Sep 29, 2023
The days may be getting shorter, but October's list of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books is as long as ever, with a seasonally appropriate emphasis on "horror." There are witches, haunted houses, monsters, and more—plus celebrity cameos, like Star Trek icon Patrick Stewart, and a host of new anthologies, including…
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Sep 29, 2023
The GOP's biggest gripes with big tech content moderation will have their day in the United States' highest court. On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments for Florida and Texas' big bills that have tried to stop big tech companies from moderating disinformation or other speech. The outcome has the…
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Sep 29, 2023
The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 4 hits a couple of my soft spots. It's a hybrid PC with an inventive, risk-taking design, and it includes an E Ink display. And not just any E Ink display, but one of the only color E Ink displays I've seen in the real world. The other side of the display is a 13-inch OLED panel, which…
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Sep 29, 2023
Anyone disappointed that they didn't get to see last year's awesome Predator-prequel Prey in theaters will soon get the next best thing. The streaming title is getting its very own 4K/Blu-ray release next week and io9 has an exclusive clip from the special features.
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Sep 29, 2023
French authorities reportedly raided Nvidia's local offices this week to investigate the company's suspected anti-competitive practices. The raid was based on a final opinion report by the Autorité de la concurrence which published a market study on cloud sector competition in June.
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Sep 29, 2023
NASA's groundbreaking Parker Solar Probe continues to set new milestones, diving continuously deeper towards the Sun, and offering insights into the star's enigmatic atmosphere and how it affects space weather.
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Sep 29, 2023
A new Fall of the House of Usher clip introduces us to its world. Chucky makes a threat in new footage from season 3. Samara Weaving's new sci-fi action movie finds a home.. Plus, teases for Luca Guadagnino's take on Lord of the Flies, and even more footage from Saw X and Exorcist: Believer. Spoilers now!
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Sep 29, 2023
France may finally allow Apple to sell iPhone 12s in the country again after Apple has seemingly met the country's electromagnetic radiation standards.
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Sep 29, 2023
As Google faces a massive antitrust lawsuit, revelations surrounding the case have presented us with a glimpse into an alternate reality. Microsoft reportedly discussed selling Bing to Apple just a few years ago, and if the deal went through, Google would have no longer been the default search engine on iPhone.
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Sep 29, 2023
A team of researchers from around the world, led by Ohio State University, will be gathering data to create artificial intelligence-informed models to better understand the long-term impact of the climate crisis on biodiversity.
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Sep 28, 2023
Filmmaker David Gordon Green's Disneyland biopic centering on Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney is currently being held up... for now.
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Sep 28, 2023
We may not ever see the end of Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman series on film, but his next movie looks like it fits right in. This February, the man who directed Kingsman, Kick-Ass, Layer Cake, and X-Men: First Class returns with his latest spy film, Argylle, and the trailer has to be seen to be believed.
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Sep 28, 2023
Balancing the need to bring a new but familiar sound to Star Wars while also playing in the footsteps of John Williams' legendary music for the saga is a challenge for every composer who joins the franchise. Few have faced it as often as the Kiner family—composer and father Kevin, alongside his children Deana and…
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Sep 28, 2023
The Department of Agriculture (DOA) has confirmed that a local sighting of the invasive spotted lanternfly was reported on Sept. 16, marking yet another state it's migrated to since the colorful insect was first sighted in the U.S. nearly a decade ago. The Department of Agriculture did not disclose the lanternfly's…
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Sep 28, 2023
Blue Beetle delivered a solid DC superhero adventure with Jaime Reyes' origin story, and you can now watch the beginning of the film on YouTube.
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Sep 28, 2023
Iran claims it has successfully placed a third imaging satellite in orbit, a move that will likely garner more criticism from the Western world over fears that the Islamic republic is bolstering its ballistic missile technology.
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Sep 28, 2023
It's only been about a year since Uber Eats began deploying food delivery robots throughout select parts of Los Angeles and, already, concerns have been raised that the squat little automatons could become a police surveillance tool.
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Sep 28, 2023
Big tech companies want to put big, driverless trucks on the road, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is ready to help them reach that goal. Now the Democratic mainstay is taking a beating from unions who say he's allowed unsafe 10,000 -pound vehicles onto the road without drivers.
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Sep 28, 2023
The last time Lower Decks truly surprised me was in season two's remarkable tri-perspective episode "wej Duj," a compelling experimental story that examined the plights of lower deckers across all sorts of Star Trek vessels, not just Starfleet. It's fitting then perhaps that in surprising me this week, it does so by…
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Sep 28, 2023
In December 2020, the Arecibo Observatory's radio telescope was destroyed when a catastrophic cable failure caused its 900-ton platform to collapse onto the iconic dish below. Now, the National Science Foundation has named the stewards of the site's future as an education center, marking the probable end of Arecibo's…
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Sep 28, 2023
Star Trek: Picard ended earlier this year, and though the series could be messy at times, leading man Patrick Stewart always made it work. While the future of Jean-Luc and other Next Generation cast members is still up in the air after the show wrapped its three-season run, Stewart's now reminiscing on how the show…
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Sep 28, 2023
The video game company behind the massive battle royale game Fortnite is also fighting for its life. Epic Games is reportedly laying off 870 employees as well as selling some of its previous acquisitions.
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Sep 28, 2023
Just like people, some elephants might have more of a knack for puzzles than others, new research this week suggests. The study of wild Asian elephants at an animal sanctuary found that only some were willing and able to solve a puzzle box that offered food as a reward, and even fewer cracked all three types of…
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Sep 28, 2023
Anyone who has used H&R Block's tax return preparation services in recent years may have unintentionally helped line Meta and Google's pockets. That's according to a new class action lawsuit which alleges the three companies "jointly schemed" to install trackers on the H&R Block site to scan and transmit tax data back…
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Sep 28, 2023
Anyone who has used H&R Block's tax return preparation services in recent years may have unintentionally helped line Meta and Google's pockets. That's according to a new class action lawsuit which alleges the three companies "jointly schemed" to install trackers on the H&R Block site to scan and transmit tax data back…
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Sep 28, 2023
In a year that already saw a rather entertaining Evil Dead universe entry in the form of Evil Dead Rise, there's more good news for fans of the Sam Raimi-created cult horror classic: all three seasons of the late, great Starz series Ash vs. Evil Dead are coming to Hulu October 1.
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Sep 28, 2023
If you're an extremely online Apple user, you've probably heard the collective disappointment over the company's new FineWoven cases for the iPhone 15/15 Pro series. Everyone from Reddit to The Verge to Digital Trends has reasons why you shouldn't spend $60 on Apple's case made of recycled materials. It's a scratch…
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Sep 28, 2023
Whether it's sinking the Titanic, inventing new technology to make Avatar, or making VFX history with Terminator 2, filmmaking is never easy for James Cameron. Almost every film he makes raises the bar in some way, usually with wildly successful results. And yet, when that happens no one making the movie is ever…
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Sep 28, 2023
Amazon stalled the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) requirements by claiming it isn't a very large online platform, according to a court ruling on Wednesday. In April, the EU ordered the tech company to abide by DSA rules to regulate its content moderation policies and provide ad-transparency data.
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Sep 28, 2023
After reports last year indicated that Russell T. Davies' plan to pretty much what he did the first time on Doctor Who but, well, again, would include another returning favorite in a behind-the-scenes companion series, the BBC has confirmed that when Doctor Who returns in November, it won't be alone.
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Sep 28, 2023
58-year-old Lawrence Faucette has become a medical milestone this month, being only the second living person in the world to have received a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig.
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Sep 28, 2023
Since before the iPhone 15 first hit the market, there have been concerns about the new titanium frame and A17 processor causing it to get hot. After its release, some users have hammered Apple with complaints the new iPhone 15 Pro gets hot, like really hot. Are we looking at a quality control disaster or just a speed…
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Sep 28, 2023
The Chandra X-ray Observatory didn't exist in 1838, when the Eta Carinae star system started to brighten as it ejected material in an event named the "Great Eruption." But traces of the eruption remain, and a timelapse has now been created by compiling 20 years of the space telescope's data to showcase the dynamic…
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Sep 28, 2023
Elon Musk's SpaceX has secured a Pentagon contract for its military satellite network, Starshield. This news, first reported by Bloomberg, marks the Pentagon's first confirmed Starshield contract with SpaceX.
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Sep 28, 2023
The Castlevania video game series has always been about the legacy of its heroes and vampiric villains—a battle between good and evil that plays out across generations of slayers as they battle the returning evil of Dracula and his allies. After a few years away from Netflix, Powerhouse's animated adaptation is taking…
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Sep 28, 2023
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed its investigation into Blue Origin's New Shepard failed launch in September 2022, but the suborbital rocket remains grounded.
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Sep 28, 2023
This is why we can't have nice things. Following Netflix's recent attempts at forbidding password sharing, Disney is now taking a page from its book. Disney is kicking off its own ban on account sharing by cracking down on users in Canada.
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Sep 28, 2023
A group of kids join forces to uncover the lore of New Orleans through spooky supernatural adventures in Eli Roth's Fright Crewe.
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Sep 28, 2023
Extreme heat is deadly. Exposure to high temperatures can make people sick and eventually lead to heat exhaustion and heat stroke. But new research shows that rising temperatures come with other compounding dangers. This week, A study published in the journal Communications Medicine found that higher temperatures are…
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Sep 28, 2023
A week before Google debuts the next-generation Pixel Watch, Fitbit is introducing the Charge 6 fitness band. The wellness-centered wearable launches in conjunction with the revamped Fitbit app. It's billed as the "only fitness track with Google smarts." Depending on who you are, that'll either make you very happy or…
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Sep 28, 2023
Few shows have enjoyed the kind of immediate, deeply invested fanbase that Our Flag Means Death garnered in 2022. This silly, tender, queer pirate show reimagined the legends of notorious pirates Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) and Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) in an anachronistic Caribbean. David Jenkins, the beloved director…
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Sep 28, 2023
At a conference on Wednesday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino contradicted Elon Musk's claims that the platform's election monitoring team has been eliminated. Yaccarino disputed these claims, saying the team is "growing" and will continue to monitor political misinformation on the platform.
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Sep 28, 2023
Four more Exorcist: Believer clips tease a returning nightmare. Wolf Like Me season 2's new trailer shows troubled times ahead for the werewolf romance. he cast of The Boys welcomes the cast of Gen V in a new featurette. Plus, what's coming on Star Trek: Lower Decks. Spoilers now!
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Sep 28, 2023
Reddit said it was "simplifying" its ad privacy options by removing the ability to ignore targeted ads based on what communities you join, which posts you upvote or downvote, and how you spend your time on the platform.
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Sep 28, 2023
After rumors began to swirl that Apple alum Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were having collaborative talks on a mysterious piece of AI hardware, it appears that the pair are indeed trying to corner the smartphone market. The two are reportedly discussing a collaboration on a new kind of smartphone device with $1…
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Sep 28, 2023
Today, tabletop roleplaying game publisher Evil Genius filed a lawsuit against Netflix for Breach of Contract. Evil Genius was hired to create a franchise TTRPG for Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon, and alleges that after working alongside Netflix and Snyder, Netflix unceremoniously terminated its contract.
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Sep 27, 2023
Recovering a password has never been as elaborate or entertaining as it is in Riddle of Fire, which had its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest 2023 this week. In the film, a trio of badass kids steal a yet-to-be-released video game console, get it home, but run into a problem. Mom has password-protected the TV. All they…
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Sep 27, 2023
Netflix's new Castlevania show, Nocturne, is set hundreds of years after the events of the original series, with a long-line descendant of heroes Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades, Richter, headlining the cast. What better way to connect the Belmont Clan bloodline across shows than immediately giving the poor young…
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Sep 27, 2023
As if life isn't hard enough already: rabid otters are apparently a thing. Florida health officials reported this week that a 74-year-old man and a dog were bitten by an aggressive otter, one that later tested positive for the usually fatal viral infection. Both victims have reportedly received treatment and the otter…
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Sep 27, 2023
After blasting beams of energy through the clouds for the past 17 years, NASA's lidar satellite mission came to an end this past August, the agency has revealed.
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Sep 27, 2023
Most modern disaster movies are rather cheesy—big, special effects spectacles that are an excuse to showcase lots of destruction and action. Concrete Utopia, a South Korean disaster movie, has some of that, but really focuses more on what comes in the immediate aftermath. First, the film grabs your attention with a…
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Sep 27, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a lawsuit against eBay, Inc. in a Brooklyn Court on Wednesday for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws and for permitting users to sell harmful products that don't align with automobile pollution controls.
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Sep 27, 2023
Every tech company in existence is currently racing to cram as much AI into their product base as possible, so it's not at all surprising that Meta's annual Connect event was flush with such developments this year. In addition to a number of new VR and "metaverse"-adjacent products and features, Meta's pale commander…
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Sep 27, 2023
Following a nearly three-year journey through space, the canister containing samples from asteroid Bennu has finally been opened.
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Sep 27, 2023
The much-anticipated seventh season of Rick and Morty arrives in just a few weeks; a few days ago, we got a trailer revealing the show's new "soundalike" voices for its lead characters after Justin Roiland's departure. It's been a weird ride for Rick and Morty fans—and now, in a new interview, Roiland's co-creator Dan…
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Sep 27, 2023
Here's something to chew on: a fossilized trilobite from the Ordovician Period, which is so well preserved that a team of paleontologists was able to identify its last meal, now mineralized in the creature's fossil stomach.
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Sep 27, 2023
As the Writers Guild of America comes to an agreement with movie and television studios over the use of AI in Hollywood, it would appear that the music industry is in for a reckoning too. CEO of Warner Music Group Robert Kyncl thinks AI is a really good thing for the music industry, actually. TechCrunch reported on…
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Sep 27, 2023
Men looking for a better sex life might someday own their thanks to a spider. A Brazilian pharmaceutical company is developing a topical treatment for erectile dysfunction derived from the venom of Phoneutria nigriventer, aka the Brazilian wandering spider. The treatment has already cleared an early human trial and…
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Sep 27, 2023
After nearly 150 days on strike, the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers have finally reached an agreement. The unit members celebrated across the country, and now the WGA has released a Memorandum of Agreement, as well as some additional documents to inform members…
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Sep 27, 2023
Smart glasses seem to be having a resurgence lately. First, Amazon reminded us they still make them with Alexa built in. Now, Meta is launching a new lineup with a slight rebrand. They're no longer called Stories. Instead, they're called the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and they are so much more stylish than the…
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Sep 27, 2023
A new battle is brewing between states and the federal government. This time the fight isn't over taxes or immigration but rather the limits of regulating advanced artificial intelligence systems. Political disagreements around AI's role in healthcare, in particular, could be the tip of the spear in that emerging…
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Sep 27, 2023
Mammals are halfway through their era on this planet. We've existed about 250 million years since mammals evolved on earth and we only have another 250 million left before most of the world is no longer habitable.
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Sep 27, 2023
It all starts with a classic "wish upon a star" in Disney's centennial animated release Wish.
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Sep 27, 2023
Meta's been questing around for a new vision for its VR, and it's finally arrived. At Meta's 2023 Connect conference, the company introduced the Meta Quest 3, a mixed-reality VR headset. It starts at $500 and you can pre-order it now, with devices shipping beginning Oct. 10. But before you do, let's talk about how it…
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Sep 27, 2023
He-Man returns to Netflix next year for more of Kevin Smith's epic animated series—this time titled Masters of the Universe: Revolution. A new clip featuring terrifying, fiendishly taunting adversary Scare Glow is here to get you pumped for battle.
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Sep 27, 2023
During its "Drop 01" livestream event, Netflix unveiled the first official look at its Tomb Raider anime, The Legend of Lara Croft. The show was originally announced back in 2021 and marks the first new piece of Tomb Raider media since the 2018 reboot movie starring Alicia Vikander.
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