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Matter really Mattered, this year.

Screenwriter Will Tracy on how he shaped the conspiracy-obsessed Teddy in Yorgos Lanthimos' sci-fi thriller.

Robotaxis, concept cars, and a massive touchscreen were just some of the automotive highlights at CES 2026.

I remember when Conformity Gate was called the Indoctrination Theory.

The small screen meets the big screen.

The awards show is teaming up with a controversial prediction marketplace that is facing growing scrutiny over insider trading concerns.

The new 4K release has an excellent, star-studded, two-hour look back at the film.

People who took both Zepbound and an anti-inflammatory drug saw a greater improvement of their psoriatic arthritis symptoms.

'KPop Demon Hunters' will make fans wait for merch and a sequel, but its breakout bop now has even more alternate versions available.

"We're in the singularity. We're at the top of the roller coaster, and it's about to go down."

Shots were fired just 40 seconds after the ICE agent left his vehicle.

The Swedish meatball restaurant now sells RGB donut-shaped lamps and bendy dimmable pendant lamps with smart home functionality.

The third season of Genndy Tartakovsky's Adult Swim animated series sees its titular caveman fighting one prehistoric battle after another-this time, as a zombie.

New films hit the public domain at the start of every year. WikiFlix is helping collect them.

'The Lord of the Rings' star turned director is currently prepping the next 'Lord of the Rings' film, due in December 2027.

Pimax's Dream Air weighs less than my iPhone 17 and somehow has a micro OLED display with an 8K resolution.

"What happened to the police body cameras?" one Uber driver in Minnesota asked a Border Patrol agent.

The silver lining is that there may be a privately funded alternative in the works.

Charlie Brooker's series will return to Netflix for another round of (inevitably) eerily timely episodes.

The fact that Crew-11 is the first to leave the International Space Station early due to a medical issue is a testament to the safety of NASA's human spaceflight program.

It's a smokescreen solution to a problem that isn't going away.

These flatworms are known to infect mammals like sea lions, but documented human cases are incredibly rare.

If you hunger for monsters and thirst for blood, 2026 is going to be an excellently gruesome year on screens both big and small.

As the Trump administration is adding rocket fuel to sanction enforcement, it's also been legitimizing crypto.

A 9,500-year-old cremation site in Malawi is rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient funerals.

Watch the trailer for Robert Stone's cinematic portrait of NASA engineer and sci-fi author Gentry Lee.

Plus, Sam Raimi's return to horror teases some genre-bending elements.

Marvel's own Kathryn Hahn is in talks to play Mother Gothel in the live-action 'Rapunzel' remake.

Let these Beatbot devices do the hard work.

Turns out the opposite was true-and those flower-headed monsters being absent from the Abyss actually became a point of contention.

Read 'Mother's Hip' by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff right here on io9.

It would be deeply embarrassing if the law has to go into effect before X acts.

'MAD' is basically what would happen if 'Alien: Earth' was a manga and its battles were on par with 'Chainsaw Man' and 'Jujutsu Kaisen.'

Those movies and stuff are too wide and long to be real content.

The fears of centralizing forces in crypto are creating a lot of skittishness.

The nostalgia-fueled prize is designed to honor shows that have made 'a profound and lasting impact' on culture.

One of the test stands was last used as a drop tower for microgravity testing.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the principal treaty for international cooperation on climate change.

Sukuna pinkies up, everyone. We're looking at all the art references sprinkled in season 3's opening sequence.

The agent has your wallet.

One X user had Grok put a bikini on an image of her dead body.

Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say.

The superpowered (and those who love and/or hate them) are poised to have a blockbuster 2026.

But you will definitely get lucky.

Rachel Talalay, director of the sixth 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movie, filmed but cut the original ending.

The iceberg could completely disintegrate within days or weeks, scientists say.

'Frankenstein,' 'Carrie,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Independence Day,' and more sci-fi, fantasy, and horror movies with big anniversaries coming up.

Heard you like inboxes. Well, you're getting an "AI Inbox" in your inbox.

An unlikely source gives us an intriguing new detail about Shawn Levy's new 'Star Wars' movie.

People taking an obesity drug typically regain weight, a new review finds, often even quicker than people who lose weight through lifestyle changes alone.