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Kayak has a lot of neat features that make traveling easy, including one that allows you to filter out a certain type of plane that ripped a little boy's shirt off when its door blew out 16,000 feet in the air. That feature has seen a 15-fold increase in usage since Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737 Max 9 gave the whole...Read more...

Oh jeez. While season seven was one of Rick and Morty's best-putting to rest any idea that the behind-the-scenes reshuffling would compromise its quality-it seems we'll be waiting longer than expected for more: season eight is slated for a 2025 return.Read more...

TikTok is a welcome pacifier for people looking to disconnect as our world careens towards the fiery abyss. However, the app has one major flaw standing in the way of total smooth-brained pleasures: you have to move your fingers when you want to see another video. Terrible, yes, but that nightmare may be ending. An...Read more...

Scientists may have figured out one of the many mysteries surrounding everyone's favorite microscopic survivor: the tardigrade. In new research, a team appears to have uncovered a key mechanism that these tiny critters use to withstand harsh conditions that would kill almost any other animal.Read more...

Unknown criminals are blasting New Hampshire Democrats with an apparently AI-generated robocall of President Biden in what the state's Attorney General is calling an unlawful attempt" to suppress the vote.Read more...

Peacock has a great horror selection-with a healthy dose of sci-fi and cult movies too. Building on io9's earlier lists of recommendations for the streamer, here are 10 sci-fi movies that span various decades but all deliver a certain freaky unease.Read more...

The makers of Palword, a new video game launched this weekend that many are calling Pokemon with guns," received death threats due to the close resemblance the game shares to the beloved Nintendo video game. Pokemon diehards took to X to express their frustration with Pocketpair's new game, which sold five million...Read more...

O. megalodon, my megalodon. The gargantuan shark that prowled the Miocene seas has long captured the imagination because of its stupendous 60-foot length-three times the size of the largest great white sharks. But now, a team of researchers suggests that the extinct apex predator's body shape was slightly different...Read more...

Despite Jurassic World Dominion being truly terrible, it did not kill the Jurassic franchise. David Koepp, the writer of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and The Lost World, is currently working on a brand new Jurassic World film that's being referred to as the start of a new Jurassic era."Read more...

Though there won't be a movie in theaters, 2024 is gearing up to be a good year for Star Wars fans. Movie news andTV shows are on the way, and it all kicks off with the final season of The Bad Batch, which debuts February 21.Read more...

After waiting two and a half years for more episodes of Invincible, we only have to wait two more months for it to continue. Season two of Prime Video's animated adaptation of the Robert Kirkman comic debuted in November with the first half of the season's eight-episode arc. Those four episodes ended on a major...Read more...

The aluminum canister containing bits of an ancient space rock has finally been opened, revealing the bulk of the asteroid Bennu sample in all its glory.Read more...

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Japan's space agency, JAXA, achieved a historic soft landing with SLIM on Friday morning, but the lander ran into instant trouble by not being able to collect solar energy and generate electricity. Hopeful for some westerly sunshine, JAXA is cautiously optimistic that SLIM could spring back to life in a couple of...Read more...

Now that Tron 3 certainly has taken its best step forward in looking like it's actually happening, we're now getting some actually exciting casting news about the film, which just got a big, big headliner for nerds already excited about a Tron threequel.

Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who often sounds like an AI chatbot, dropped out of the 2024 Presidential Election on Sunday, just a week after OpenAI banned ChatGPT for political campaigns. It begs the question, was Ron Desantis running on ChatGPT this whole time?Read more...

The Apple Vision Pro finally became available for pre-order on Friday last week, and while the first weekend did extremely well, to the point of being sold out, chances are that the demand may not continue to go up the same way. Here's why.

The Minecraft movie cast continues to grow weirder and weirder. Get a look at the stars of Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender in new posters. Halo teases the fight for Reach in a new trailer. Plus, James Gunn talks Superman: Legacy's addition of The Authority. Spoilers get!

NASA's diligent lunar orbiter transmitted a laser beam to a dome-shaped aluminum device the size of a billiard ball on India's Vikram lander, pinging its location on the Moon. This laser-enabled technique could one day help NASA astronauts find their way on the lunar surface.

This month, OpenAI launched what it calls the GPT Store, a platform where developers can sell custom-built AI apps and tools. The millions of GPTs on offer include games, productivity helpers, graphic design tools, tools for specific writing projects, and more. One thing OpenAI doesn't want you to find, however, is an...Read more...

Tech companies are infamous for torturing career hopefuls with mind-melters during interviews. This week, you'll try your hand at one without the stress of job prospects on your shoulders. Google is rumored to have used this puzzle over the years, although it has since retired the practice altogether.

Big Tech's trend of the week is the incessant talk about AI subscriptions. Silicon Valley cannot stop throwing money into AI, but they're a bit stuck figuring out how AI will throw money back at them. Now, Big Tech thinks it found a solution: they're betting you will pay a monthly subscription for their AI service....Read more...

A new year means new movies to watch in theaters or at home. And while we've got an idea of the bigger franchise tentpoles, some films are building up their presence the old-fashioned way: with some pretty effective marketing that sells you on the movie's vibe first and foremost.

Just a few months ago, actor Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream 7 over her pro-Palestinian stance in the Israel-Hamas conflict. The shockwave of that firing has basically upended that franchise in various ways, while Barrera herself has been focused on doing promo for her next film, the upcoming horror musical Your...Read more...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One finally came to theaters last year after a longer than expected wait due to COVID. If you decided to wait for it to hit streaming, good news: it's hitting Paramount+ next Friday, January 25.

Like with Tron 3, the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again is getting back into production starting next week. The series, which was originally slated to come out this spring, found itself in need of a creative reboot with new hands behind the wheel, and it seems Disney's liked what writer Dario Scardapane and directors...Read more...

Longtime horror alum Greg Nicotero, of The Walking Dead and Creepshow fame, has found his next project to tackle: a TV adaptation of Robert McCammon's Swan Song.

Scientists scrutinizing the fine dust covering the Moon have identified a handful of boulders on the lunar surface that they believe may be covered with uniquely magnetized dust.Read more...

Meet the dorado octopus, a newly described deep sea cephalopod with some seriously alien features. A remotely operated vehicle took incredible images of thisspecies and its habitat, including just-hatched babies and a field brooding females. Click through for our top science stories from this week.Read more...

As Ncuti Gatwa's just beginning his tenure on Doctor Who, his newest companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) won't be along for his full ride. Per Variety, Gibson will be on the show after a single season, after which she'll be succeeded by Verada Sethu, last seen as Cinta Kaz over on Andor.Read more...

Ever since Sony revealed it was working on a solo movie for Madame Web, folks have had questions. Why her? How is this going to connect to whichever Spider-Man is swinging around now?

Now that we're a few weeks into 2024 and the Hollywood strikes are in the rearview, the upcoming Tron: Ares has just started filming.Read more...

For the past 26 years, the Guthman Competition at Georgia Tech's Department of Music has introduced the world to strange and innovative instruments. The contest welcomes inventors from all over the world to build and explore the future of music, and together, they've produced some truly weird and exciting sound...Read more...

2024 is barely a few weeks old and already the future of Star Wars is driving people mad with speculation and rumormongering. io9 got you the scoop of the week with what's really up with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daisy Ridley's Rey movie, but here's the rest of our big hits you may have missed-James WhitbrookRead more...

Tech is having a moment where everyone is wondering if it's all that great. AI is the hot trend right now, but Big Tech wants you to pay for something that hasn't really been shown to make your life easier. Don't worry though, the Silicon Valley billionaires are planning their own utopia, but you're not invited....Read more...

Fresh off the heels of CES 2024 comes another huge January tech event, in which Samsung officially launched its highly anticipated Galaxy S24 AI-powered smartphone. Ubisoft turned some heads this week when the French gaming publisher said gamers should be more comfortable not owning their digital games. Catch up on...Read more...

Boeing, one of the world's largest aircraft manufacturers, has been in the news a lot lately but not in a good way. Safety incidents involving the company's planes keep cropping up and this week brought yet another example of that unfortunate trend. On Thursday, an Atlas Air 747 cargo plane was forced to make an...Read more...

A cult animated short with over 92 million views made a dark darling out of Hazbin Hotel, and its popularity inspired a legion of fans to raise a little hell so it could get picked up to series. It's now a Prime Video animated (and very adult) musical comedy, and io9 got a chance to talk with creator Vivienne Medrano...Read more...

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo's weekly deep dive on what's been happening in artificial intelligence.Read more...

OpenAI's mission is to develop a god-like artificial intelligence, but it might never get there without the help of Microsoft. U.S. regulators are reportedly clamoring over who can investigate OpenAI and Microsoft's relationship over antitrust concerns, according to Politico on Friday. If the partnership is broken up,...Read more...

If I ever happened to direct a really great Godzilla movie that also happened to become a record-breaking blockbuster of international kaiju cinema along the way, I would personally be pretty content. But I'm very glad that Takashi Yamazaki, who did exactly that with Godzilla Minus One, is going beyond that and just...Read more...

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The internet is quickly becoming a slurry of AI-generated garbage, and Google has decided to just let us all marinate in it. Anyone online can see that Google Search is getting worse, but now it's becoming clear why. Google News is boosting AI-generated content over real, human journalism, according to a report from 40...Read more...

The new Samsung Galaxy S24 is all in on AI, so much so that the phone maker made a big deal about how its new AI watermark is meant to dissuade users from spreading AI-altered or purely faked images online. The problem is that the S24 boasts so many AI capabilities that a simple Magic Eraser-like tool can remove that...Read more...

Astrobotic bid farewell to its Peregrine lunar lander on Thursday as the spacecraft plunged through Earth's atmosphere, thereby preventing the failed mission from colliding into other spacecraft.Read more...

Even before The Last of Us became one of HBO's biggest hits in recent memory, fans of the source material all wondered the same thing: would a potential second season follow the plot of the game? It seems like an obvious question with an obvious answer... unless you know the story's spoiler-y, inciting event. Once you...Read more...

Welcome to the first installment of Gizmodo's Animal Crime of the Week, a regular exploration of animals and their bad behavior (but hey, it's only natural). And what better place to start than by highlighting an animal crime ring so notorious that it's now being intensively studied by scientists? Meet the...Read more...

Since CES 2024, we have seen this adorable little bright orange (Leuchtorange, to be exact) device everywhere. Despite all the hype, many are still confused about what it is, who it's for, and why it couldn't have just been an app.Read more...

After finding success with its 2021 Fear Street trilogy, Netflix is plotting its next R.L. Stine adaptation, taking on the prolific author's 1992 YA release The Prom Queen. The book's plot and setting evoke one of horror's favorite traditions: turning high-school dances into bloodbaths.Read more...

Once upon a time, I became a meme and didn't even know it. It was the summer of 2016 and I was hanging out with friends after a long day of work. A few drinks in, we're joking around and my friend Mike said to me, in an odd, cheeky way I didn't quite understand-almost like he didn't want to mention it but the booze...Read more...