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Two years after Star Wars (as we then knew it) came to an end with the release of Return of the Jedi, Star Wars merchandise seemingly followed. In 1985, as sales declined, Kenner closed out its Star Wars action figure line after seven years-but Star Wars nearly lived on in what could've been the earliest glimpses of...Read more...

If you long for 8-bit graphics and Pokemon adventures of yore, I'm happy to report that your wait is over. A Twitch channel is making it possible to play Pokemon Red, the first game in the franchise and a staple of the 90s, on an old CRT TV alongside countless fans across the globe.Read more...

When you die, what story will your teeth hold for the geneticists of the future? Hopefully the tale will be more uplifting than that of Vittrup Man, a forager-turned-farmer whose skull was smashed in over 5,000 years ago in what is now Denmark.

Thousands of Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash drivers and delivery workers went on strike across the United States on Wednesday, Feb. 14. The drivers are seeking fair wages, safety protections, and more job security from ridesharing and delivery apps.

Syfy's Resident Alien returns today with a third season that will see Harry the extra-terrestrial (Alan Tudyk) doing his awkward best to save the Earth-now that he's completely pivoted from his original mission of destroying humanity. He'll have the help of his small-town Colorado friends, as well as that of a former...Read more...

Elon Musk is taking issue with a report from the Washington Post published Tuesday detailing what the newspaper described as potentially the first death from Tesla's Full-Self-Driving feature in 2022. Musk claims the autonomous driving feature was never even downloaded, though the billionaire CEO didn't provide...Read more...

Happy Valentines Day, you lovely nerds! io9's favorite tradition on this most romantic day is back, with another round of pop culture gag cards to send to your sweetie from some of the last year's highlights in sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and more. As always, our thanks to G/O Media art director Vicky Leta for bringing...Read more...

When even King Kong and Godzilla are scared, you know there's a problem. That's the central idea of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which opens March 29: a new threat arises that'll force the two former foes to team up to save the world.Read more...

Just shy of two years to the day we learned that it was over, we will finally see Star Trek: Discovery begin its final mission. After years and years of clips, trailers, and teases, Paramount has officially confirmed just when season five will begin streaming.Read more...

The dinner plate of the future might include some beefy rice. No, not beef and rice. Beef rice. In a new study, researchers in Korea say they've created rice infused with muscle and fat cells from cows. The hybrid grain purportedly contains more protein and fat than typical rice, and the team argues that it should be...Read more...

The Perseverance rover is at risk of losing its ability to zap Martian rocks with lasers after one of its instruments began malfunctioning last month.Read more...

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The Razer Blade 16, long the north star of gaming laptops emphasizing portability and power, is prettier (and far more expensive) than ever before. This latest laptop refresh also makes it clear that Razer is keen to sit back on its bed of laurels, and that's not necessarily good news for somebody like me who wants to ...Read more...

It's finally official: Marvel has confirmed its Fantastic Four stars, as well as set a new release date for its new take on the first family.

Mark Zuckerberg hopped on Instagram Tuesday to post a detailed and obviously rehearsed take-down of the Apple Vision Pro, the iPhone maker's $3,500 headset. Meta's chief trash talker had a top-line message he wants the fanboys" to hear: this thing stinks, and you should spend your money on his headset instead.Read more...

Get to know Kung Fu Panda 4's mysterious new thief in the latest clip. Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway are setting their sites on dinosaurs for David Mitchell's new movie. Millie Bobby Brown goes dragon-chasing in a new trailer for Netflix's Damsel. Plus, a new look at Disney+'s afrofuturist animated series Iwaju....Read more...

A man programmed ChatGPT to find his wife on Tinder, and it turns out that Tinder is fine with you doing the same.Read more...

Andrej Karpathy, a leading researcher in the AI community and a founding member of OpenAI, left the company on Monday, as first reported by The Information. Karpathy later confirmed his departure.Read more...

It's a truth universally acknowledged that typos can be embarrassing and frustrating. They can also, as ride-sharing company Lyft found out on Tuesday, make everyone forget that you actually had a pretty good year.Read more...

Physicists at MIT have spotted the second sound of a superfluid. Besides being pleasantly alliterative, the phenomenon may explain how heat moves through certain rare materials on Earth and deep in space.Read more...

Lonely on Valentine's Day? AI can help. At least, that's what a number of companies hawking romantic" chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there's a tradeoff you may not realize you're making. According to a new study from Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends...Read more...

From the moment I heard about tech billionaires' weird plans to create a bustling new city in the heart of California's Solano County, I was preoccupied with one basic question: Who is actually going to run this thing?Read more...

In just 24 hours the Deadpool & Wolverine movie trailer became the most viewed piece of promotional content from Disney with a line about pegging. Bless the Merc with the Mouth played by Ryan Reynolds, whose return to the big screen with the promise of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine rocked the Super Bowl teasers on every...Read more...

Facebook users reported hearing a bizarre chirping sound while using the social media platform on mobile devices on Tuesday. In fact, many people thought it was something they did wrong or a setting they accidentally changed. But it's not your fault, according to the company.

Can't we all just get along? Not if you're an employee of the federal government. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) just filed a lawsuit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) over a $1.45 billion tax bill stemming from the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank.Read more...

Have you got a secret you don't want anyone to know? Don't tell any of humanity's fancy new AI-powered assistants because the companies behind these new tools are probably keeping your data a lot longer than you think.

It seems that by the power of Greyskull, the Master of the Universe movie is back on! New developments have been publicized by Deadline, revealing that Laika ceo and President Travis Knight has pitched his take on the Mattel franchise. Travis is no stranger to the live-action toy world, having previously directed...Read more...

If you're pissed that Amazon recently pulled a fast one and inserted ads into its previously ad-free streaming service Prime Video, you can now make your wrath felt. A recently proposed class-action lawsuit is asking the e-commerce giant to fork over $5 million to compensate users who were deceived" by Amazon's...Read more...

Intuitive Machines is preparing its Nova-C lander for takeoff, hoping that it becomes the first private mission to touchdown on the lunar surface following a a few failed attempts by others. The lander is packed with science and technology instruments for NASA, as well as some commercial payloads that have no place on...Read more...

David Tennant is the most popular actor to play the Doctor of the modern era-arguably, brushing up against Tom Baker's fourth incarnation to be the most popular of them all, full stop-so it's no surprise that he's kept slowly but surely returning as Doctor Who celebrates its big birthdays over the last decade. But...Read more...

If you're feeling particularly spiteful this Valentine's Day, HawkWatch International has got you covered. For as little as a measly five bucks, the charity will feed their Raptor Ambassadors" a rodent named after your ex or other object of hatred. And for you lovebirds out there, the organization also has a gift...Read more...

Tubi has tons of movies, but it also has a robust TV selection, particularly in the realms of curiously specific reality shows. But if sci-fi and horror series are what you seek, the free, ad-supported streamer is a great go-to; in addition to an entire channel dedicated to classic Doctor Who, it has plenty of other...Read more...

Buying all the 194 paid apps available for Apple's Vision Pro will only set you back $1,100.08, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures. Considering you just coughed up $3,500 to buy the company's newest headset, that's kind of a bargain.Read more...

iMessage, once considered an exclusive messaging service for Apple users, was just deemed too lame to regulate by EU officials. The European Commission said it would not regulate iMessage as a gatekeeper service" on Tuesday, along with Microsoft's Bing and Edge, which allegedly have a similar level of importance. Oof.Read more...

23andMe is in a death spiral. Almost everyone who wants a DNA test already bought one, a nightmare data breach ruined the company's reputation, and 23andMe's stock is so close to worthless it might get kicked off the Nasdaq. CEO Anne Wojcicki is on a crisis tour, promising investors the company isn't going out of...Read more...

It's safe to say that most people walking out of The Rise of Skywalker for the first time were left with a lot of questions, but one at the forefront of our minds back in 2019, and frankly, still even now, is perhaps the darkest ever raised by Star Wars: when, exactly, did Palpatine fuck? We're just glad to know that I...Read more...

Typically, the Perseverance rover is looking down, scouring the Martian terrain for rocks that may reveal aspects of the planet's ancient past. But over the last several weeks, the intrepid robot looked up and caught two remarkable views: solar eclipses on the Red Planet, as the moons Phobos and Deimos passed in front...Read more...

The search for Bigfoot is one of those wild concepts that gets tossed around and discussed but never taken quite seriously. Surely Bigfoot, a giant, humanoid creature called a Sasquatch, doesn't exist. Surely the idea is just silly. But, if he did, he'd come from somewhere. He'd have a family. And maybe that family is...Read more...

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Elmo celebrated his birthday earlier this month. The beloved children's entertainer made his first appearance on Sesame Street in 1980, so it seems like a fair guess that he would have turned at least 44 years old this year. By any normal measure, Elmo should be a middle-aged man, but lurking in the details of his...Read more...

An unspecified defect in early model Starlink satellites has prompted SpaceX to preemptively deorbit the units before they potentially fail and become hazards in low Earth orbit. While the company remains confident that the deorbiting of these problematic units will prevent any issues, this incident underscores the...Read more...

The Bad Batch has had to, for obvious reasons, spend a lot of time revolving around the characters of its masculine stars-Omega aside, the series must look beyond the rank and file of the former Clone Army for a feminine perspective. But as the third and final season looms, it's setting the stage to center three very...Read more...

Once upon a time, the heroes of the DC and Marvel universes teaming up wasn't too uncommon a thing. From Spider-Man and Superman to Batman and Devil, or to the wild world of 90s comics in the Amalgam universe-where DC and Marvel heroes literally got mashed together-the two rivals" of the comics industry have a long...Read more...

Get a look at Kung Fu Panda's return in a new clip. Oscar Isaac still has hope for Moon Knight season 2. Ben Mendelsohn talks Andor and the chances of a return to his Rogue One character. Plus, it's Beth vs. Tammy in a new clip from the Rick and Morty anime. Spoilers, away!

After causing a stir by mysteriously grounding its new Airbus A321neo planes on Monday, United Airlines wants people to know the decision has nothing to do with safety and isn't even that exciting. Rather, it has to do with the aircrafts' No Smoking" signs, which are required by a 1990 law to be operated by the...Read more...

The ability to remember the past-to learn from our mistakes-is perhaps one of humanity's greatest survival advantages. But as crucial as memory is to our daily lives, it's far from perfect.Read more...

The creators behind the popular Flipper Zero multi-tool device have teamed up with computing renegade Raspberry Pi to create a video game integration that will turn your Flipper into a low-key game controller.Read more...

Madame Web is a two-hour trailer for the movie you think you're watching, but actually aren't. If that's confusing, welcome to the world of Madame Web, where everyone-the characters, the actors, the audience, and everyone in between-is confused about basically everything, all of the time. It's a film that sets...Read more...

The Flipper Zero is having a bit of a moment: it's by no means a new device, but it is now grabbing more headlines than ever, thanks to its ability to brick iPhones, potentially get you into cars, and plenty more.

I had just 30 minutes to test out Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro headset. Others who received a review unit from Apple or purchased one themselves have spent a week or more with it by this point. We've seen a lot of interesting use cases for the headset and an equal number of people hawking dumb and potentially dangerous...Read more...