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For almost as long as Star Wars: The Clone Wars has been around, there have been fans asking to see their versions of the prequel characters get a chance to adapt the material of the live-action movies. We've had tiny tastes of what that might be thanks to video games, but this remarkable new animated short film gives...Read more...

Germain Lussier is a senior reporter covering entertainment on the io9 section of Gizmodo. He lives in Los Angeles, specializes in film coverage, and is also our lead film critic. You can follow his coverage here, and email story ideas and tips to germain.lussier@gizmodo.com.Read more...

LG recently announced a new 4K projector, the CineBeam Qube, and I'm pretty smitten with it. It supports 4K and can projectup to 120 inches, but its eye-catching minimal aesthetic" is what the company seems most proud of. The CineBeam Qube is pretty cute.

The start of 2024 saw a major milestone in U.S. copyright law as Steamboat Willie-and with it the very first versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse-entered public domain for the first time. As with classics before it, in record time people took to announcing what is now inevitable for any new public domain work: what if...Read more...

The mutilated surface of Jupiter's moon Io was revealed in great detail by the Juno spacecraft, which has been exploring the Jovian system since 2016 and recently pulled off the closest flyby of the volcanic world.Read more...

You most likely have dozens and dozens of apps on your phone, and it's not easy to keep up with every single feature added to every single one of those apps over time-like, for example, the real-time voice translation feature that you can make use of inside the Google Translate app for Android or iOS.

Could Coyote vs. Acme make its way to public viewing this year? Get a glimpse of Echo's arrival. Plus, updates on M3GAN 2.0 and Black Phone 2, plus what to expect on For All Mankind and Percy Jackson. To me, my spoilers!

A mutual fund that helped Elon Musk buy X now says the platform is worth 71.5% less than the $44 billion it was purchased for in 2022, according to Axios Sunday. Fidelity cut the valuation of Musk's social media platform by more than 10% in November when Elon Musk shared his thoughts on Jews and told advertisers to go...Read more...

Star Wars can often feel culturally ubiquitous, but sometimes even the people operating in its space find themselves inside a world they have little experience with (as they should: Star Wars thrives on the perspectives of many, and that includes people unfamiliar with it!). But for Eman Esfandi, going back and...Read more...

Mickey Mouse is finally in the hands of the public, to do whatever they want with him.Well, in part. After Disney infamously helped delay the moment, today is the day Steamboat Willie, the first Disney animated short to star Mickey and Minnie Mouse, become public domain. But what does that mean? Simultaneously a lot...Read more...

New year, new... Lego? That's how that saying goes, right? After a few quiet months to round out 2023, Lego is starting 2024 with a bang with tons of new sets. Marvel! Star Wars! Sonic! Jurassic Park! Bouquets and Polaroids! Truly, something for everyone.

A new year is upon us, but don't say goodbye to the old one just yet! For the past 3 weeks io9 has been delivering our Year in Review for all things 2023-our favorite films and shows, cool toys, people we lost, the trends that defined a year of sci-fi, fantasy, and genre pop culture, and so much more. Why not take a...Read more...

Is read more books" on your list of New Year's resolutions? If it isn't, you'll surely be tempted to make room for it-and form a new habit that'll last through 2024-once you see all the new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles hitting bookshelves in January.Read more...

Jujutsu Kaisen wrapped up earlier this week after a long and fairly grim season. You won't be surprised to learn that it's got another season in the works, once again courtesy of MAPPA.

HBO's House of the Dragon is keeping the Game of Thrones train going along, but it's not the only spinoff for the fantasy series in the works. In a newly released blog looking back on 2023, author George R.R. Martin revealed he and HBO have a number of animated series in unofficial development-as in, they haven't been...Read more...

In terms of entertainment, 2023 was a big year all around. We got many wholly new things that were excellent in their own special way, while the majority of reliable brands and franchises stayed firm in greatness or took a few hits with their new entries. And on this, the final day of the year, it's time to think...Read more...

The year is ending, but the posting never stops. io9 wrote thousands of stories in 2023, from breaking news to analysis and critique of the biggest films, TV shows, comics, and games in our worlds. Here's a look back at the 100 you, our dear readers, read and shared the most. Thanks for sticking around for another...Read more...

British actor Tom Wilkinson died on Saturday. He was 75, and per the Hollywood Reporter, his family say his death was at home and sudden."

Before and particularly after the movie starring Halle Berry, it appears to be a rule that you don't have Catwoman in a live-action movie without Batman getting top billing. But that wasn't always the case-back in 2018, we learned the thief very nearly got her own spinoff film where she would've been played by...Read more...

Today marks the season two finale for Marvel's What If...?. I haven't watched it yet, but by several accounts, it sounds like this has been a pretty solid season with a standout episode that focuses on the Mohawk woman Kahhori. Ahead of this season's premiere, Marvel Studios revealed a third season was in the works,...Read more...

Whatever else you can say about X, previously known as Twitter, it's never really boring. The 17-year-old social media site that we've stuck around with always has something going on; in the best cases, it can be either funny or so odd that you can't help but laugh.

It's the final week of 2023, but the news hasn't stopped quite yet. As the year wound down, the io9 crew found time to look back on the year's events, say goodbye (and possibly hello?) to some old friends, and return to some haunts we left behind. Check them out here!-James WhitbrookRead more...

In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative thinking. For each of the following puzzles, I provide a link to the solution, but I suggest you resist the temptation...Read more...

JBL recently did something somewhat out-of-the-box and experimental: launching its first-ever wireless turntable. It's called the Spinner BT, and released it a couple of weeks ago, just in time for the holiday season.Read more...

The title Bloody New Year feels overly obvious: surely, this is yet another holiday-focused slasher movie in which shrieking teens get picked off one by one. And while there's a bit of that, this 1987 British release-also known as Horror Hotel and the far more spoiler-y Time Warp Terror-is also far, far weirder than...Read more...

Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It's what made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of that relative freedom from the timeline and offer up...Read more...

Happy New Year! Let's watch some movies. Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones...Read more...

Every year, io9 pays solemn tribute to actors, directors, artists, composers, writers, creators, and other icons in the realms of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy that have passed. Let us celebrate their everlasting impact on genre together. Here are the luminaries whose work has impacted the lives of so many and will live...Read more...

Christina Chong teases an epic return to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Robert Rodriguez could be bringing The Faculty back to life. Plus, get a look at Evil's return and a glimpse of What If's 1602-inspired episode. Spoilers, assemble!

Our top science stories this week include a physics experiment to turn light into matter, an update from NASA's Juno mission (it's about to make a close encounter with Jupiter's moon Io), and a roundup of the best archaeological discoveries of 2023.Read more...

The sleepy week between Christmas and New Year's is for hangouts and hangovers. That is unless you work at Apple. For the folks in Cupertino, this week was all about trying to get the Apple Watch unbanned and scrambling to find a new lead designer for the iPhone.Read more...

What were you doing on November 8, 2023? I couldn't say for myself, but I can tell you what NASA's Curiosity rover was doing: sitting still on its 4,002nd day on Mars, taking snapshots of the Martian surface.

We snickered at the concept when we first heard about Wonka, and we scratched our heads once we saw the trailers-especially the parts revealing Hugh Grant's Ooompa-Loompa character. But one should never doubt the power of chocolate... or a singing, dancing, Timothee Chalamet, because Wonka is a hit.Read more...

In case you need it, here's another reason to go all-in on Dry January: Scientists with the World Health Organization found that reducing or eliminating alcohol consumption can lower your risk of oral and related cancers. The findings are the latest to indicate that even modest drinking isn't harmless.Read more...

New York City and New Jersey residents who are already exasperated by periodic increases in MTA subway fares are going to lack even more options for cheap public transit. Out of the blue on Thursday, Citi Bike suddenly announced its bike share program was raising prices across the board, impacting annual paying...Read more...

Jensen Huang was BFFs with everyone in Silicon Valley this year, becoming the only person to walk across all three conference stages of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Why? Because everyone needs his GPUs to power their AI dreams.

Pokemon fans of all ages will delight in the island vacation vibes of Pokemon Concierge and wish it was a real place after binge-watching the series on Netflix. The stop-motion animated show is a gem that makes the world of Pokemon feel even more magical with funny and heartfelt mini-stories. The colors and textures...Read more...

Normally, I wouldn't care what my mini PC looks like. Why would I? It's just the box I stick next to my monitor for on-the-go computing needs. It doesn't need all the flashing lights and LEDs of an ultimate gaming rig, it just needs to function. At least, that's how I originally felt about your average NUC. Then I...Read more...

Piracy is a fact of life in the entertainment industry, no matter how much studios try to fight it-and in an age where the streaming industry is feeling more and more like cable television by the day-it's going to remain that way for the foreseeable future. But that doesn't mean it's not interesting to see what...Read more...

Fans of Game of Thrones will remember that a key character, hunky sellsword Daario Naharis, looked rather different in season four after debuting in season three-and now the two actors who played him, Ed Skrein and Michiel Huisman, are sharing the screen in Zack Snyder's new Netflix film Rebel Moon.Read more...

Scientists working on CERN's Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment have published the latest data in their search for a long-lived exotic particle known as the dark photon.Read more...

Big Tech went on a murder spree in 2023. We saw the end of many once-loved products and services, all swallowed up into the great dark pit of corporate consolidation. Few companies kept their knives sheathed, and if this year taught us anything, 2024 is likely to be just as bloody.

No one can see every movie that comes out in a year. Heck, no one can even see all the good movies that come out in a year. These days, even if it's literally your job, so many movies come out from all across the world, and on so many different platforms, that even if you spent all day every day watching, you'd...Read more...

Few prescription drugs have entered the public consciousness as abruptly as Ozempic and Wegovy have in recent years. Novo Nordisk's brand-name medications have become as synonymous with weight loss as Viagra and Cialis are with erectile dysfunction. But while 2023 has made it clear that these and similar drugs really...Read more...

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Bendy and the Ink Machine is headed to the big screen. Pixar's Jay Ward teases the future of Cars. Could the Quantum Leap revival actually give Ben his happy ending? Plus, get a look at the car-themed heroes of the next Super Sentai series. Spoilers now!

What happens when you hack a cybersecurity researcher? Kaspersky, a Moscow-based security firm, presented new details regarding zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple products on Wednesday. Kaspersky researchers are calling this the most sophisticated attack they've ever seen, exposing a previously unknown hardware...Read more...

Everybody seems to have taken a bite out of Apple as of late, but the company was finally offered a lifeline on Wednesday after the U.S. Court of Appeals granted a stay of the ongoing Apple Watch import ban. This will last for at least the next week or so as Apple continues its appeal of the Internal Trade...Read more...

NASA's curious Jupiter probe is getting chummier with the planet's most erratic moon, Io. The Juno spacecraft will carry out the closest encounter any mission has had with the volcanic moon in over 20 years, collecting valuable clues about its mysterious activity.Read more...

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, asking that ChatGPT be destroyed, along with any other large language models and training sets that have used The Times' work without payment.Read more...