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As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon as part of the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, the space agency still needs to resolve a few lingering issues with its Orion capsule that could jeopardize the safety of the crew on board, according to a new report.Read more...

Last week Hot Toys surprised Star Wars fans with a two-for-one reveal that the toymaker would start to dip into the world of Star Wars Legends"-the contemporary name for the galaxy far, far away's former canon in the Expanded Universe. Now, it's somehow topping that surprise even further, with this: Dark Empire...Read more...

It's been over a decade since the final Twilight movie, so the timing feels just right for Kristen Stewart to enter her second vampire era with Flesh of the Gods. Things are going to be quite a bit different this time around though, with Oscar Isaac as her co-star and Mandy director Panos Cosmatos at the helm.Read more...

A team of researchers used a flattened skull of a female Neanderthal who lived some 75,000 years ago to reconstruct the woman's likeness, providing an uncannily vision of her appearance in life.

Two years ago, Star Wars stepped into a new animated format with Tales of the Jedi, examining the stories of two characters ostracized by the titular order in Dooku and Ahsoka Tano. Now, in celebration of Star Wars Day this weekend, it's trying again-this time with a touch of the Dark Side. But while Tales of the...Read more...

Starlink satellite internet terminals are reportedly still operating in unlicensed places, despite the company's warning last month that the service would be shut down by May 1 in those areas.Read more...

Ashley Madison, the dating website devoted to cheating on your partner, was hacked in 2015, exposing the private data of 37 million users in more than 40 countries. And a new documentary series from Netflix explores the fallout from that historic data breach.

Chubb, the insurer of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, is reportedly preparing to make a $350 million payout to Maryland a little more than a month after it collapsed.Read more...

Elon Musk said he wanted to be absolutely hardcore" about reducing Tesla's headcount earlier this week, and it looks like he's entered full demon mode," as his biographer calls it. Now, an unlikely cohort is feeling his wrath: Tesla's summer interns. College students shared how Musk's cost-cutting efforts imploded...Read more...

The recent total solar eclipse on April 8 provided a rare glimpse of the Sun's roiling corona, including some eye-grabbing prominences. Those views were neat, but a new video captured by Europe's Sun-buzzing probe is providing some of the best close-up views of our host star that we've ever seen.Read more...

Oppenheimer may have been named the Best Picture of 2023, but io9 reserves that honor for its spiritual sequel. We're talking about Godzilla Minus One, the creature feature from the legends at Toho, which follows a monster born from the technology Oppenheimer helped create. io9 said it's the best film of the year and...Read more...

The sixth and final season of Cobra Kai is coming this July. And this November. And next year. Netflix just revealed a first look at the popular show's sixth season and with it, news that it'll feature 15 episodes spread over three unique release dates. Part one will arrive on July 18, part two on November 28, and the...Read more...

If you were born early enough to come into semi-adulthood in 1999, you used to have a Nokia 3210. OK, maybe you didn't, but your friend or a family member had one, or they had a slightly later model. Maybe you forgot about it completely because, for hell's sake, it's been 25 years. But you'd recognize the silhouette,...Read more...

The reviews for Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin are here, and they're bad. These AI-enabled devices promised to reduce our dependency on smartphones, but now everyone is wondering why they're not apps to begin with. I have no idea if we'll be using Rabbits and AI Pins five years from now (if so, I hope they can set alarms...Read more...

Terrifier 3 will terrify you a little earlier than planned. Warner Bros Animation lifts the lid on Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 3. Barriss Offee returns in a new clip from Tales of the Empire. Plus, a new look at Furiosa. Spoilers get!

Good news: A legislative push to save AM radio is almost certain to succeed, which means that America's weirdest auditory wavelength will continue to survive for the foreseeable future.Read more...

Things are about to get powered up: today, Universal Orlando Resort revealed more details about theSuper Nintendo World coming to its new Epic Universe theme park, hot on the heels of revealing more about one of the other portals,How to Train Your Dragon's Isle of Berk. And yes, it's better than the one at Universal...Read more...

I've spent a day with the Rabbit R1, and to say that I was underwhelmed would be an understatement. In fact, I was surprised at how little it offers at the moment, and even from what it offers, what a poor job it does at that. According to the CEO Jesse Lyu, the R1 is the worst this technology will ever be," which...Read more...

The fossil shark Ptychodus was first identified 190 years ago, but in the intervening centuries of paleontological inquiry, a comprehensive look at the ancient fish has been hard to come by. Until now. In a paper published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of researchers describe an...Read more...

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Mad Max franchise auteur George Miller knew even before Fury Road, that by creating an extensive outline for the 2015 hit, he might have more stories to tell. But that wasn't always the case for Miller, who co-created the concept with Byron Kennedy in Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond...Read more...

The Department of Transportation announced a new final rule last week that would require airlines to automatically refund passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed. There are some exceptions, but in general, it's a huge win for passengers who are tired of airlines giving them the runaround. As...Read more...

It was inevitable, really: as soon as beloved childhood characters became fair game under public domain, they'd be seized upon by horror filmmakers... and eventually, the biggest headliners would square off. The world may not be ready for Mickey vs. Winnie, but it's coming, and its creators promise gore galore.Read more...

Just in case you'd like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a recent paper, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female's uterus-a tactic not documented with any other mammal species to date.Read more...

While fans of Futurama-who've learned to be very patient and eternally hopeful-await the show's next season, premiering July 29 on Hulu, here's a fun nugget to chew on: The Art of Futurama, an art book timed to the show's 25th anniversary, is on the way. The book's not arriving until October, but a first look did drop...Read more...

Nearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat phoned home for the first time as it prepares to embark on its mission of sailing through low Earth orbit.Read more...

The moment mutantkind has been dreading has come-and after the ashes of Genosha taught our heroes to expect the worst, not even the little preparation they have is going to be enough to stem the tide. But as X-Men 97 sets the stage for its grand finale, whether or not the X-Men will survive the experience isn't the...Read more...

Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides flying off mid air and engine failures plaguing several planes in recent months. But what happens if the power in your plane actually does go out? That's an issue that nobody...Read more...

Early crypto investor Roger Ver, a.k.a. Bitcoin Jesus,' has been charged with a tax fraud, with the Department of Justice saying he evaded nearly $50 million in taxes.Read more...

New themed stays are coming to Airbnb with Icons, a new category of lodging featuring unique experiences inspired by major icons in music, film, television, art, sports, and more.

T-Mobile officially finalized the $1.35 billion deal to acquire Mint Mobile, according to a press release from the telecom company. The deal was first announced in March 2023 but had to clear regulatory approval.

Samsung teased the Galaxy Ring earlier this year when it introduced the Galaxy S24 series of smartphones. Naturally, this sparked a flurry of rumors about what's to come and what the wearable could be like. But Samsung is still making smartwatches, too. Based on the hearsay, 2024 may be the year the company pulls out...Read more...

May is always a huge month for Lego-thanks to its annual celebration of all things Star Wars on May 4. This year's even more special, with the 25th anniversary of both The Phantom Menace and Lego's Star Wars line, but while the galaxy far, far away is a big part of this month's releases, galaxies closer to home have...Read more...

The California Forever project is one step closer to becoming a reality. This week, the ambitious project's backers announced that they had received enough local support to trigger a ballot initiative. Local voters will now decide the fate of the project during the November election.Read more...

Ashley Madison promotes itself as a dating site that helps people cheat on their partners. But newly released consumer complaints filed with the FTC, obtained exclusively by Gizmodo, should probably give any potential cheaters pause. The site is lousy with extortion attempts, to put it mildly.Read more...

There's tackling a beloved franchise... and then there's tackling The Legend of Zelda. Wes Ball has done the former a few times, most recently with his foray into the world of Planet of the Apes with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Soon though, he'll take that to a whole new level as the first director to make a...Read more...

Just when we thought we'd already seen all of what 2024's mini-LED TVs had to offer, Hisense finally gave us the chance to look at the new pinnacle of its ULED displays, the U9N. It's a TV that's desperately trying to thread that fine needle between ultra-premium and upper mid-tier, but all wrapped up with a bow...Read more...

After more than a decade of delays and failures, Boeing is finally ready to launch its first crew of NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff of the Starliner CST-100 spacecraft is scheduled for May 6-and it's going to be a true nail-biter.Read more...

May I interest you in some new streaming movies? Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. (And sometimes, just the...Read more...

A woman's blindness in her right eye turned out to have an unexpected and frightening cause: metastatic lung cancer. Doctors in India reported the strange occurrence last month-seemingly the first of its kind ever documented.Read more...

Across three seasons, The Bad Batch laid out a vast swath of plot threads around the rise of the Empire era beyond its titular squad of renegade clones. From Rex's resistance to the rise of the stormtrooper, from the dark arts of cloning to Project Necromancer, a lot remained on the table coming into its final...Read more...

Anthropic takes the fight to OpenAI on Wednesday with a new iOS app for itspowerful Claude AI. The app will put Claude into more hands and try to take some space in the AI marketplace that ChatGPT already dominates.Read more...

The Rabbit R1 doesn't have a lot of capabilities that your phone already has. It doesn't send emails for you. It can't set calendar reminders or alarms. It can't connect to any apps outside a select four thatincludes Spotify, Uber, DoorDash, and Midjourney. All those features may be coming in the future, but if...Read more...

May has a little bit of everything for genre fans spread across its dozens of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror book releases: space operas, doomsday cults, apocalyptic mysteries, fantastical romances, haunted mansions, dimensionally displaced vampires, badass wasteland motorcycle couriers, and more!Read more...

Tesla announced Tuesday that it will lay off everyone who works on both the new vehicle and Supercharger teams. At this point, no one has any idea what CEO Elon Musk was thinking or what's going to happen going forward. Including other automakers that recently switched to NACS. Maybe Musk is just looking to get out of...Read more...

An experimental satellite that launched in 1974 disappeared from ground-based sensors in the 1990s, only to be found again this week. Some defunct satellites or debris can often go missing for years, presenting hazards within an increasingly crowded Earth orbit. But, how exactly do objects disappear in space?

Even more Captain America: Brave New World marketing gives us a glimpse at its new super-suits. Bitsie Tulloch bids farewell to Superman & Lois. Jurassic World's Camp Cretaceous follow-up teases a wild murder mystery. Plus, what's coming on Chucky. To me, my spoilers!

Challengers, a movie where Zendaya plays a tennis star who has a threesome, came out last week and, while I haven't seen it yet, I sure do plan to. Director Luca Guadagnino's new romantic tennis thriller/drama is getting pretty good reviews, has a fun premise, and would seem to harken back to the days when fun, pulpy...Read more...

Keeping track of medications is vital in most cases, but it can be hard to do without alarms and an extra nudge to make it a habit. I've personally had difficulty staying on schedule since I started taking daily medications decades ago. But these last few years, as more smartphones began to have the ability built-in,...Read more...

Star Wars loves nothing more than understanding a villain. Part of the reason the franchise's greatest evils are also some of its most compelling characters is because it loves to dive deep into understanding why these figures are the way they are. The time has come for Morgan Elsbeth's turn-and for us and the actress...Read more...