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Even before the Disney+ series released this past December, the Percy Jackson universe seemed primed to expand with movie trilogy for the Kane Chronicles books over at Netflix. But four years after that reveal, author Rick Riordan has revealed the streamer won't be going forward with that endeavor.

Elon Musk has shared a new video on Saturday featuring Optimus, the robot Tesla has been working on since 2021. But anyone who tries to watch the video will immediately notice something weird. The clip of Optimus is so low quality and pixelated that it looks like it was shot on a flip-phone from two decades ago.

Last year's Fast X came and went with a more muted fanfare than we typically get form the long-running franchise. In the months since its release, Universal's been relatively mum on the series' next installment, Fast XI, but leading man Vin Diesel is reaffirming that the film will be a definitive end for the...Read more...

Over two years ago, DC Comics revealed a new miniseries titled Jurassic League from Daniel Warren Johnson and Juan Gedeon. The idea is right there in the title-what if the Justice League were anthropomorphic dinosaurs and fought their classic villains, who are also dinosaurs? It sounds like an idea perfect for a movie...Read more...

Since 2009, Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy has had one foot in the horror door with FX's American Horror Story. That series has since gone on for 12 seasons and birthed its own spinoff, while Murphy himself has been busier with other projects like Dahmer and The Watcher for Netflix. If that weren't enough Murphy for you,...Read more...

There are a lot of superheroes in Prime Video's adaptation of Invincible. Within the show's first season (and half of its second), Mark Grayson has brushed shoulders with Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Cory Walker's spins on classic heroes like Superman and Batman. Depending on who you ask, though, he might be...Read more...

This weeks news brought with it a whole sandworm's worth of Dune Part 2 coverage, from reviews to interviews, but that wasn't all: we've got Cate Blanchett serving in the messy-looking Borderlands movie, a very cool X-Men figure, and a critical re-appraisal: Madame Web? Good, actually! With several asterisks. Check it...Read more...

Things were looking good for Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander, which made a soft touchdown on the Moon on Thursday and became the first American lunar lander since Apollo in 1972. But on Friday evening, NASA and the private Houston-based company reported that Odie appeared to have landed askew and may be...Read more...

Intuitive Machines' private lander stumbled on its way down to the lunar surface and is possibly leaning over on a rock on the Moon. The vehicle is still operational and flight engineers are working to gather more data on its less-than-ideal position, the company said.Read more...

To celebrate the upcoming digital, Blu-ray, and DVD release of Poor Things, io9 attended a party inspired by the Emma Stone-starring film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. The cinematic soiree was delightfully twisted, just like the parties Stone's Fraken-creation Bella Baxter enjoys-complete with immersive actors...Read more...

It seems almost too comical to be true, but this is the world we live in. One year after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon that ignited a national frenzy, the military has spotted another balloon in American skies.Read more...

When The Bad Batch returned for its third and final season this week, it made clear its endgame will attempt to tie up something Star Wars has been obsessed with for nearly five years now: how, exactly, did Palpatine return? We've long had the answer, but the saga, and now Bad Batch itself, hopes to explain with two...Read more...

Astronomers found a new moon orbiting Uranus, as well as two around Neptune. The tiny satellites appeared as faint specks in the outer reaches of the solar system following hours of ground-based observations.Read more...

If Ed Brubaker is getting tired by now, he isn't showing it. Twenty-three years after he first teamed up with artist Sean Phillips (on an out-of-continuity Batman noir story called Gotham Noir), the comic writer has been around the block more than few times.Read more...

New research in mice may pinpoint how chronic stress can fuel the spread of cancer. The study found evidence that stress can induce changes to certain immune cells that inadvertently make it easier for cancer cells to metastasize and invade other parts of the body. The findings emphasize the need to manage stress...Read more...

Since Alienware first unveiled its Aurora R16 last year, I've been jonesing to see it in person. The brand had been synonymous with high-end, though strange-often polarizing designs for a while now. Previous Auroras under the so-called Legend 2" Design had a raised effect, with an odd conical front panel that seemed...Read more...

Google apologized on Friday saying its team got it wrong" with a new image generation feature for its Gemini AI chatbot after various images it created that were devoid of white people went viral. A company exec firmly denied that it purposefully wanted Gemini to refuse to create images of any particular group of...Read more...

Dune: Part Two hits theaters in one week and it instantly thrusts you back into the action. After a new character gives the briefest of recaps of what happened in the first film, co-writer and director Denis Villeneuve picks up where things left off and doesn't stop until the credits roll almost three hours later.Read more...

Despite keeping us grounded and warping light that travels through space, gravity is actually quite a weak force. The smaller the mass, the less gravity appears to have any pull, until at quantum scales it appears to have no force at all.Read more...

The Naruto movie isn't just real, it's also got an acclaimed director at the helm.Read more...

A video appearing to show MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell driving while not paying attention to the road has gone viral on X. And one user has even claimed Lindell was hammered" while driving. But the video is completely fake.

Fans will never stop discussing, or maybe lamenting, the ending of Game of Thrones. Whether you loved it, hated it, or were somewhere in between, the choices made by showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to bring their epic series to a close were famously divisive. However, it seems there was even more uncertainty...Read more...

Donald Trump delivered a speech at the National Religious Broadcasters convention Thursday night in Nashville that touched on all his greatest hits. The Democrats are evil," the U.S. is now a Communist state," and Hungary's authoritarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is a strong man" and a friend of mine." But...Read more...

As the countdown to Star Trek: Discovery's final season continues-the season five premiere is April 4 on Paramount+-we have our latest peek at how the story will wrap up. From the looks of it, and perhaps unsurprisingly, farewells" will be among the themes foregrounded in the story.Read more...

The News" tab has been a staple of Google Search for over 20 years, so when it disappeared on Wednesday, you can imagine how confused some users were. It turns out, Google was testing out a version of Search that did not include a News" filter. The unannounced test caught many by surprise.

Charlotte the mysteriously pregnant stingray may already be my favorite animal of 2024. Charlotte's handlers at a North Carolina aquarium recently revealed that she was carrying several pups, despite her only male company being a pair of sharks. While there was early speculation of some interspecies mingling being to...Read more...

Psychological horror films love digging into the minds of artists-a pursuit that becomes self-reflexive when the troubled character is a filmmaker. Stopmotion explores that trope from a visually dynamic point of view, following a young stop-motion animator on a dangerous downward spiral.Read more...

Beyond the surprise of Ariana Greenblatt showing up during Ahsoka as a live-action interpretation of the Star Wars character's animated youth was a really stark reminder Clone Wars never truly sold: holy hell, that is a little kid they gave a pair of glowsticks to and stuck on the front lines of the deadliest war the...Read more...

For weeks, Google has been warning users it's getting ready to redesign its login page, an interface that billions of people use every day to access Gmail and countless websites across the internet. As of this week, the revamp is rolling out, and users are getting a first look.Read more...

Beware the apes, Reddit told the world in its IPO documents, though not in such explicit terms. Put simply, the company warned potential investors that one of its subreddits, the infamous r/WallStreetBets, could make its stock price and volume extremely volatile-and there's little Reddit can do about it.Read more...

AI chatbots made headlines this week with a range of glaring flubs that were hard to look past. Tech companies are rushing to show off their non-offensive, error-free AI chatbots. They're hoping to show investors that the billions of dollars spent on this technology was a good investment. This week, AI chatbots showed...Read more...

Wireless customers with AT&T, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, and Verizon all reported outages across the country this morning. And just like clockwork, some folks online pounced on the disruption as evidence of a global conspiracy.Read more...

AT&T issued a statement Thursday night to explain that the telecom's widespread network outage earlier in the day wasn't caused by a cyberattack. Countless conspiracy theories emerged online Thursday morning as people naturally wondered why they'd lost service-theories that will hopefully be put to rest as AT&T...Read more...

For the past several months, Tesla has been locked in a battle of wills with the labor unions of Sweden. The company's refusal to ratify a collective bargaining agreement with a small number of workers associated with the Swedish union IF Metall has led to boycotts by other regional unions, turning what should have...Read more...

Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the Moon on Thursday at 6:23 p.m. ET, becoming the first private company to pull off a soft landing on the lunar surface.Read more...

Thanksgiving is killing it on Netflix-it's currently ranked among the streamer's top flicks. When one horror film does well, that's great news for the genre at large, so if you head to the streamer for John Carver's merry Massachusetts massacre, why not stick around and feast on these other titles, too?

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What is the most brutal battlefront in Star Wars history-the sands of Geonosis? The harsh icewinds of Hoth? The teddy bear-infused terror of Endor's forests? The dark nights of Umbara? The answer we're looking for was delivered 20 years ago in one of the all-time classic Star Wars games: this bridge.Read more...

Have you seen a claim on social media that Google is sunsetting" Gmail this coming August? What appears to be a screenshot from an official Google announcement has gone viral on X, but it's completely fake.Read more...

The news that Gareth Edwards was scooped up by Universal to direct the upcoming Jurassic World feature shook the internet just a few days ago. During a Q&A after a recent screening of The Creator hosted by Collider, the filmmaker dished a bit on his new gig in theJurassic franchise.Read more...

Match Group, the international conglomerate that owns Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and almost every other popular dating app, just inked a major partnership with OpenAI. The company shared only a few hazy details, saying AI will help employees with work-related tasks." The dating giant says it long term plan is to squeeze...Read more...

Captain Kirk has one. Captain Janeway has one. If Star Trek fans are going to insist on slowly but surely getting every major character a landmark in their hometown-to-be, Jonathan Frakes' legendary Will Riker is certainly up there as a priority-especially one that celebrates his most iconic tactical maneuver.

Spring break is almost upon us-so here's what's going on at theme parks and major tourist destinations as we go into the new year of vacation travel.Read more...

A trove of Neanderthal tools made between 120,000 and 40,000 years ago were forged with glue, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the objects.Read more...

Over 70,000 AT&T customers across the United States reported cellular outages on Thursday morning, according to Downdetector. Thousands of AT&T customers reported that their phones displayed SOS" in the status bar, indicating they had no service but could still make emergency calls. It's currently unknown what the...Read more...

After an eight-day journey through space, Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission is ready to attempt a potentially historic landing on the surface of the Moon. Odysseus will try for a lunar touchdown on Thursday at 6:24 p.m. ET near the Malapert A crater in the Moon's South Pole region.Read more...

Nimona went from being a movie that was almost certainly lost to the ether to an Oscar nominee-a story as miraculous as the sumptuous, wildly inventive, and queer as hell film turned out to be when we finally got to see it on Netflix. But it was only allowed to do so when Annapurna helped bring the project out of the...Read more...

Bill Skarsgard came to mainstream attention playing Pennywise in the It movies, and he'll soon be seen as The Crow's undead hero as well as Nosferatu's vampire. But he's clearly not casting aside roles that don't involve prosthetics and make-up, as this beefy first look at Boy Kills World reveals.Read more...

We might be soon on the verge of having a super snake antivenom. In new research, a team of scientists says they've created a lab-made antibody geared to counteract toxic bites from a wide variety of snakes. In early tests with mice, the uber-antivenom appeared to work as intended.Read more...

Google just launched a new AI Google Chrome feature that lets users right-click in any text box and fill it with words from a chatbot. It's called Help Me Write," and while it might sound small, it could have a profound and permanent effect on the internet. Until this point, it took a couple of steps to spin up some...Read more...