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Congress passed a bill this week that forces TikTok to be sold or face a nationwide ban. President Biden signed it into law Wednesday, starting a 270-day timer for TikTok to decide its future in the United States. There's been talk about a ban like this for years, but now it's actually happening.

No matter your composition, the lighting, and your attempts to manually set zoom or exposure, iPhone pictures all still have the same dull quality. They are not dull in the sense they're not vibrant or detailed, but by default, with the Standard" photo style, they're all using the same obtuse post-processing that...Read more...

Fans of Pixar's sleeper hit Turning Red will be happy to know that Mei and her friends have taken over both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in a big way.Read more...

Like the video games before it, Fallout is a hit. The Prime Video series is getting a second season, which means we'll get to see what's next for Ella Purnell's Lucy. After leaving the artificial confines of Vault 33, she got a crash course in surface-dwelling life in the post-apocalyptic world-as well as the sinister...Read more...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) killed net neutrality back in 2017 under former president Donald Trump, but on Thursday, it brought it back from the dead.Read more...

When The Flash launched in October 2014-the second project of the CW's bold attempt to flesh out its own superhero cinematic universe-its premiere episode ended with a bold statement: not only would the series be still going in a decade's time, it would have grown enough to tackle one of the most iconic stories in DC...Read more...

A team in the UK hasfound a new window into cancer, thanks to a novel imaging technique that allows them to take a detailed look at the fatty cargo inside a single tumor cell. The tech could make it easier to understand how different cancers respond to specific treatments, among many other insights.Read more...

Arguably the most important, game-changing event in the history of Star Wars storytelling happened 10 years ago today. On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm announced that the Star Wars Expanded Universe was being pushed aside. All future storytelling would be part of the same, cohesive canon, and the EU stories fans knew and...Read more...

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His Jekyll and Hyde moment might have evaporated with Universal's ill-fated Dark Universe, but Russell Crowe hasn't turned his back on horror: on the heels of The Pope's Exorcist, which became a surprise Netflix smash, he's got The Exorcism-an unrelated film that obviously shares some familiar themes.Read more...

Outside of Avengers: Endgame, Deadpool & Wolverine may carry the most pre-release baggage of anything in Marvel history. For Deadpool, you've got not just two movies, but also all the behind-the-scenes drama leading up to them. With Wolverine, you've got 10 X-Men movies with all manner of wild stories, including the...Read more...

Jupiter and its moons are a diverse and dynamic subdivision of our solar system's neighborhood, one that NASA's Juno spacecraft has been visiting since 2016. Besides hosting the system's largest planet, at over 300 times the mass of our own planet, the Jovian system includes 95 known moons, the largest of which are...Read more...

Update, 1:33 p.m.ET: Reddit says on its status page that a fix for the problem has been deployed and the site should be coming back up for everyone.Read more...

We've said this many times before, and will no doubt say it a least a few times before as it nears its final end this season: Star Trek: Discovery is not a subtle show. It never has been, but ever since it really found its confidence and understood where its strengths were, it has never shied away from yelling them...Read more...

One of the world's top vaccine-makers is partnering with a major AI company to advance medicine - and its chief executive is excited.Read more...

Pack the lembas bread and gather up your fellowship, we're going back to Middle-earth. Warner Bros. is releasing the extended editions of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters for one weekend only this June, and it's the first time the re-releases will feature their remastered 4K versions from 2020.Read more...

China's space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings attached to the core module, which had been damaged by space debris.

Residents in Greece were witnesses to a hellish-looking dust storm this week. The dust originated from the Sahara desert in North Africa and was blown across the Mediterranean Sea by strong winds. By Tuesday, Athens and other Greek cities were blanketed in an orange-red and potentially dangerous haze.Read more...

Ramp up your summer fandom wardrobe with Heroes & Villains' new Star Wars resort collection. This new line from the online retailer has fits perfect for May the Fourth, Mother's Day, Memorial Day weekend, Father's Day, and summer vacations at beach destinations like Niamos or Ibiza.

It would be easy to presume that airlines would spare no expense to ensure that passengers' luggage meets them at their destination, considering how lucrative the attached fees are. Airlines globally made more than $29 billion in checked bag fees in 2022. However, frequent flyers are well aware that bags can be lost...Read more...

The Steam Deck remains extra popular partly due to the stranglehold Valve's Steam has on the PC games market but also partially because it (arguably) popularized the modern rendition of the handheld console. It's not the smallest, it's not the most powerful, but damn is it appealing. More than two years after the Deck'...Read more...

From spiders struggling to make webs in orbit to bats clinging to the outside of the Space Shuttle, the history of animals in space is as fascinating as it is weird. Here are some of our favorite stories.

There is perhaps no funnier dichotomy in sci-fi fandom than Doctor Who-a show that has inherently been about the nature of change and the mutability of time for six decades-having a fandom that, by and large, does not cope well with change. But one major change coming into the show's new season has had UK audiences...Read more...

Robotic telescopes of various shapes and sizes are hitting the market these days, each promising clear views of the cosmos and ease of use-attributes not often found paired together in a single telescope. Amateur and backyard astronomers are now fully embracing this ongoing, auto-GOTO revolution, but not every...Read more...

If you thought Lego's space toys for May were limited to the world of Star Wars, think again-the toymaker's latest reveals bring things back to our time and our galaxy, and they combine stunning engineering with incredible art.

io9 talked to cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli when he released his memoir in 2018. Now, the director of Phantasm I-IV, as well as Bubba Ho-Tep, The Beastmaster, and John Dies at the End, is trying something new: fiction. Or rather, Phiction-a book of short stories that explores tales from the world of Phantasm."Read more...

In about five years' time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers). During this rare encounter, Apophis will be ten times closer to Earth than the Moon and scientists want to take full advantage of its visit.

Hasbro is working with Sony on bringing Clue back to the world of film and TV. The producers of Dead Boy Detectives tease the new adaptation. Plus, Furiosa gets rated. Spoilers, away!

Garry's Mod, a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve's Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry's Mod, are in the process of removing about 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related content from the...Read more...

President Biden signed the TikTok ban into law on Wednesday, forcing China-based Bytedance to sell the app or face a ban in American app stores. TikTok tells Gizmodo it will fight the law in court, a case likely to reach the Supreme Court, saying that Biden's law tramples" First Amendment protections. In interviews...Read more...

I have always used Google Maps but never cared enough to look beyond the basic features. It wasn't until today that I made an effort to explore the app and ended up going down a rabbit hole of all the cool things it's capable of. You might already know some of these, but you might have missed a handful of interesting...Read more...

Try putting pure joy into words. The English language has plenty of worthy adjectives and beautiful metaphors but nothing quite comes close to actually, perfectly capturing what it feels like to be completely filled with happiness. To reverberate with delight. To float on cloud nine. No, to adequately capture that...Read more...

When we first met General Grievous 20 years ago this month in Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars microseries, it gave him an immediate, chilling presence. But then Revenge of the Sith, and with it the Clone Wars 3DCG series, constrained what could be done with the character. Grievous took on the air of a Saturday morning...Read more...

Steam's refund policy for games is simple: You have two hours to play the game after you buy it to decide if you want to keep it. Like all good things, some folks decided to take advantage of a loophole, and now Valve has changed its policy to close it.Read more...

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Worldcoin, the project that hands out free cryptocurrency in exchange for biometric data, is experiencing a shortage of the orbs that scan everyone's eyeballs, according to a new report from Semafor. But Tools for Humanity, the startup behind Worldcoin, seems to think that's a good sign. Apparently, 10 million people...Read more...

Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are not screwing around when it comes to their upcoming zombie film, 28 Years Later. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes are the first three actors who've joined the film, a follow-up to the cult classics 28 Weeks Later and 28 Days Later.Read more...

Food and Drug Administration officials reported this week that lab tests have found genetic material from strains of H5N1 avian influenza in samples of store-bought pasteurized milk. Officials say these samples do not appear to contain live virus and that the commercial milk supply should still be safe. But the...Read more...

The Department of Transportation announced a final rule mandating that airlines automatically give cash refunds to passengers and inform passengers of their right to a refund on Wednesday. The policy change highlights the Biden Administration's continued hardline support of consumer rights in the skies. The USDOT...Read more...

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person's political orientation by simply looking at that person's blank, expressionless face.

Many of us watch The Office more often than we care to admit. We've spent so much time with the series that, over the years, the characters and the actors who portray themhave almost become family. So when a video like this comes online, it's more than just delightful. It's cathartic.Read more...

Trump Media & Technology Group is doubling down on claims that its stock is being illegally traded - this time bringing its concerns to congressional leaders.

DARPA announced successful tests of its new autonomous vehicles on Wednesday, all part of the agency's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program. And while the tests sound impressive, we found ourselves transfixed by one little visual detail: The tank's glowing green eyes.Read more...

If you've read Blake Crouch's 2016 novel Dark Matter-and a lot of people have, considering it's a best-seller-you're probably wondering how the upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation will handle the high-concept gimmick that propels the story: a box, designed by a genius that's one version of the main character, that allows...Read more...

It took 40 years, but recently one of my toy dreams came true. After writing this article about toys that you always wanted, but could never have, I was contacted to see if I'd be interested in receiving and writing about a brand new set of Voltron toys to celebrate the franchise's 40th anniversary. The answer wasn't...Read more...

I didn't realize that Microsoft had pushed out the update that brought advertising to the Windows 11 Start menu until I started to read the news. I've had recommendations turned off this entire time. It turns out the same option hides the curated" Microsoft Store apps currently populating on systems running the KB5036...Read more...

The concept of tolerance has weighed heavily upon Disney+ seriesX-Men 97. And now as the world and what is left of mutantkind looks upon the ruins of Genosha, the series is ready to grit its teeth and show some fangs, giving us righteously bitter examination of just where the morals of that tolerance-the morals cast...Read more...

For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo'oalewa has invoked speculation over how it came to orbit the Sun in total synchrony with Earth as though it shares some special relationship with our planet. A new study of the oddball may have pinpointed where it came from: a young impact crater on the far side of...Read more...

Edit Kermit the Frog singing Rainbow Connection" over almost anything and people are going to get emotional. But when you put it over a documentary about the man who created Kermit, with footage of them both together, then it's a surefire shot to the tear ducts.Read more...

Before you leave the Vault and head to the Wasteland, you'd better pack the essentials. Water, weapons, Pip-Boy, and of course a vinyl copy of the original soundtrack to Fallout.