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The inaugural launch of Space One's Kairos rocket ended in failure, with the launch vehicle exploding mere seconds after clearing the tower in Wakayama prefecture. It's a setback for Japan's space sector, which is striving for competitiveness in the burgeoning aerospace industry, but commercial ventures rarely achieve...Read more...

Jared leto paces in new Tron: Ares set footage. At least one of the men behind Din Djarin isn't sure of The Mandalorian's future after the movie. Chucky teases its creepily aging doll in new season 3 pictures. Plus, what's coming when Invincible returns for round two. Spoilers now!

OpenAI's Sora, the startup's hyperrealistic AI video generator, is definitely" going to be released in 2024, according to Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati in an interview with the Wall Street Journal Wednesday. Nude videos are not off the table, according to Murati, who says OpenAI is working with creators" to...Read more...

The first teaser for Netflix's Atlas is giving major Titanfall vibes... except starring Jennifer Lopez. Directed by Brad Peyton, the sci-fi action film brings us Lopez in bombastic badass mode-clad in a mech suit as she jumps right into battle against the futuristic, war-torn backdrop of an unknown dystopia. It's very...Read more...

Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, managed to turn the world on its head in recent days by posting a badly Photoshopped photo of her and her kids. The picture fueled conspiracy theories about her whereabouts after a nearly two-month-long public absence-had she been replaced by a body double? Was she in a coma?-and...Read more...

We've all been there before. You forget to cancel a subscription and it auto-renews, charging you for something you don't even use anymore. But what happens when you know you canceled the subscription and still get charged? That's what some 23andMe customers allege. And many say the genetics testing company still...Read more...

An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers hunt sheep on private ranches. But these weren't just any old sheep. They were massive hybrid sheep" created by illegally importing animal parts from central Asia, cloning the sheep, and then...Read more...

When you think of the most important people in Star Trek history, in terms of actors at least you might look to the legacies of people like William Shatner or Patrick Stewart. But the real answer to that question is probably Jonathan Frakes, who has been a part of pretty much all televised Trek since the 70s-and when ...Read more...

A medical team at Cromwell Hospital in London strapped on the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro during two spinal surgeries. Doctor's are calling the device a game-changing" tool, beefing up Apple's claims that the headset has a future as a medical device.

Netflix's 3 Body Problem-an adaptation of the first book in Liu Cixin's highly acclaimed sci-fi trilogy-asks a lot of big questions and puts its characters through some agonizing decisions. But at its core, the show grapples with one big dilemma: whether or not humanity is worth saving from a threat that feels both...Read more...

The lawyers for a Boeing whistleblower who was recently found dead say they need more information" about what happened to him.Read more...

While fans of Tim Burton's 1989 supernatural comedy classic Beetlejuice wait for the long-anticipated sequel-Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, arriving September 6-at least one of the stars is feeling awfully confident about the Ghost With the Most's return. Of course Michael Keaton is going to be excited about getting to...Read more...

Andrew Tate, the social media influencer with a huge following of teenage boys, has found himself in legal trouble again, and it's for the dumbest reason.Read more...

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Several years back, Kickstarter tried to revive its ailing brand by pivoting to the blockchain. At the time, web3" was still a relatively new and exciting concept, and company leaders seemed to hope that a new direction might rejuvenate its business. In December of 2021, the company announced that it would be ...Read more...

Marvel is having its fair share of behind-the-scenes drama as of late, and one of its most anticipated new releases is no exception. Just over a week before X-Men 97, the continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series, hits Disney+, Marvel Studios has abruptly fired its creator, Beau DeMayo.

The world got an uncomfortable reminder about the need to scrutinize air travel last January when a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines flight 16,000 feet over Portland, OR. The culprit was a Boeing 737, and in the days that followed, it was soon clear that catastrophic failure wasn't a freak accident but the result...Read more...

Foldable phones have managed to create their own niche in the smartphone market. They're some of the most expensive mobile devices you can buy, but at the very least, they've put on their big boy swim trunks and now, at least, can doggy paddle around with the rest of the mature smartphones. Foldable PCs, on the other...Read more...

Republican politicians in Alabama expressed outrage about an employee of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville on Monday. What did the employee do wrong? Nothing, as far as anyone can tell. They're just angry the employee is trans.Read more...

Hello, Sidney! While Scream fans have had a bumpy ride as of late, with reboot star Melissa Barrera's abrupt departure from the series, followed by newly hired Scream 7 director Christopher Landon, there's finally some good news to sink a butcher knife into. Neve Campbell, who passed on Scream 6 following a pay disputeRead more...

We'll be seeing Superman again before Batman. Warner Bros. just announced that The Batman Part II, Matt Reeves' sequel to his 2022 film The Batman, has been delayed a full year, from October 2025 to October 2026.Read more...

Elon Musk spoke out against the United States' potential ban on TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, in a tweet on Tuesday, saying the law is all about censorship and government control." Musk has previously expressed discomfort with TikTok's addictive algorithm, but this stance fits with his free speech...Read more...

When you think of streaming services, MGM+ doesn't come to mind until you've already listed the likes of Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, and Peacock. But that doesn't mean you should overlook this arm of Amazon MGM Studios, which offers original programming and live TV option, as well as a small but intriguing...Read more...

It's Day 12 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and we may have a new frontrunner. With over 77 percent of yesterday's vote, Flashlight left Tinder dead in a ditch. Today we have what was once the king of note-taking apps going up against the pioneer of on-demand music...Read more...

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Hot off its win for Best Animated Feature at this year's Oscars, Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron will soon stream on Max. Distributor Gkids has penned another deal with the streamer to continue on as the exclusive home to Studio Ghibli's catalogue of films.Read more...

A mosquito-borne disease best known for causing severe cranial deformities in babies may someday become humanity's ally. Duke University scientists and others have created a weakened version of the Zika virus that could potentially be repurposed into a treatment for often fatal brain cancer. In lab experiments, their...Read more...

SpaceX works under an iterative testing philosophy, using each mission to improve upon the next. Accordingly, the Elon Musk-led company is aiming to push its experimental megarocket, Starship, even further during its third test flight, which could happen later this week.Read more...

For almost three decades, one of the most famous pieces of furniture in Star Trek history was lost. The Captain's chair of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D, introduced in The Next Generation's second season and seen on-screen all the way through to the series' conclusion in 1994, by the time the Enterprise set was refreshed...Read more...

Samara Weaving wants in on a new Nightmare on Elm Street. Get a new look at Dev Patel's ferocious action movie Monkey Man. The Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey sequel has a gross new clip. Plus, another creepy new look at The First Omen. Spoilers, away!

A first-edition iPhone with 4GB of storage would run you about $499 back in 2007, but nowadays they cost around $190,000. An auction house is selling one of these rare iPhones, sealed in its original packaging from 16 years ago, but the last one it sold had a 38,000% markup from its original price.Read more...

Never let it be said that an impending national app ban and swarming billionaire vultures ever stopped TikTok from plowing ahead. But if a fresh leak is true, TikTok may want to rethink the logo for its new app.

If I had to think of the tech I've used most often in my day-to-day, I wouldn't usually consider my phone first. If I ruminate long and hard enough, considering the number of person-hours that go into my work, I would consider my 13-inch M1-powered MacBook Air as my go-to device, like my oft-beleaguered, put-upon...Read more...

Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the early morning hours of Tuesday to opine on the state of his race to win back the White House this November. And while that's not unusual, Trump's decision to coin a new nickname for himself certainly is. The new name? Honest Don, if you can believe it.

John Barnett, a former quality control engineer at Boeing who-just last week-testified against the company as part of a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, has been found dead, the BBC reports.Read more...

David Lynch's 1984 Dune was the eccentric auteur's take on Frank Herbert's unfilmable" classic science fiction book series. It was divisive but became a cult film nonetheless, and stars Kyle Machlachlan, Patrick Stewart, Max von Sydow, and Linda Hunt.

With the goldfish memory I have, I leave my iPhone in the strangest places and forget where I saw it last. I've recovered my phone from the kitchen cabinets, inside dressing table drawers, and the closet. Thankfully, I've never had it stolen, but I'd want to be prepared for that, too.

Great news if you missed The Boy and the Heron during its initial theatrical run, and felt serious FOMO when it picked up an Oscar for Best Animated Feature last night: Hayao Miyazaki's (possibly final?) movie is coming back to North American theaters soon.Read more...

Earlier this year, author Ernst Cline announced that he would be launching a metaverse company. What made this deeply ironic was that Cline famously wrote Ready Player One, the popular science fiction novel about a dystopia where people escape the harsh realities of their world by plugging into a metaverse-like...Read more...

Just when you thought Morbin' Time couldn't get better, Michael Keaton has put a cherry on top. At the end of Morbius, 2022's campy Spider-Man adjacent film, the iconic actor makes a brief, seemingly non-sensical cameo, reprising his role from 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming. The implication was some kind of integration...Read more...

On Friday, March 8, a pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station (ISS) reentered Earth's atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico following an unpredictable journey through orbit.Read more...

Now that Godzilla Minus One is the first Godzilla film to have an Academy Award, it sure would be nice to watch it, right? Well, you can't. At least right now. And for that you can blame Godzilla. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, to be more specific.Read more...

You've probably noticed that your wi-fi slows down when more people or devices use the network. The same goes for larger systems. If you get too many people congregating in one area, the cell phone towers can't handle the influx. With the number of connected devices growing exponentially and the coming wave of AI...Read more...

Apple TV+ is the last major streaming service that doesn't have an ad-supported tier, but that seems poised to change. Apple just hired a 14-year ad executive from NBCUniversal, Joseph Cady, to further beef up its growing video advertising team, according to a report from Business Insider Monday.Read more...

A Florida man's agonizing migraines turned out to have a terrifying cause: actual brainworms. In a recent case study, his doctors describe how he developed a parasitic infestation of tapeworm eggs in his brain, possibly caught from eating undercooked bacon. Thankfully, the man was successfully treated.Read more...

Remember the 90s? The X-Men certainly do, and for good reason. In the world of comics, after Chris Claremont's foundational run on the characters unceremoniously came to an end at the beginning of the decade, X-Books found themselves even more ascendant than ever, and X-Men: The Animated Series catapulted mutantkind...Read more...

NASA's Europa Clipper is launching in October, and it's set to unveil the secrets of one of the most intriguing celestial bodies in our solar system. Coming along for the ride is a commemorative plate that symbolizes humanity's fascination with Jupiter's mysterious moon Europa and our relentless quest to find...Read more...

Airbnb is banning all indoor security cameras at properties worldwide, according to an announcement published online Monday. The change comes after years of horror stories circulating online about secret hidden security cameras, which have long been banned on the platform, though still pop up frequently around the...Read more...

James Cameron fans have been eagerly anticipating this week, when collector's editions of The Abyss, True Lies, and Aliens hit 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time, joining recently released special collector's editions of Cameron's mega-blockbusters Titanic, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water. io9 has an...Read more...

The specter of naked Sydney Sweeney, a rom-com actress whose boobs recently joined the culture war, is getting the horniest (and dumbest) members of X-the website formerly known as Twitter-to click malicious links.