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Zack Snyder knows what he's doing. Whether it's using his considerable popularity to his artistic benefit, or focusing on every single piece of minutia in a movie, the filmmaker is completely aware. So, of course, when it comes to his latest film, Rebel Moon, he more than anyone knows when he's referencing the sci-fi...Read more...

AI's effect on our world will be dramatic, but nothing will ever be as dramatic as the collective freak-out we all had about the emerging technology in 2023. With billions of dollars on the table and the promise that AI will transform every corner of modern life, everyone from businesses, to regulators, to regular...Read more...

Talk about an eyesore. In a case report this month, doctors have described finding a wooden splinter lodged inside a man's cornea for apparently 15 years. Amazingly, the man's vision appears unaffected by the foreign object and doctors have opted to simply monitor him for now rather than try to remove it.Read more...

Sometimes, you need a little comfort food-and at io9, that can mean re-watching a favorite Star Wars show" or guzzling midnight margaritas while watching Sandra Bullock play a witch" or picking up a book and rediscovering the joy of reading." We love new releases, don't get us wrong, but we also dig revisiting past...Read more...

Apple is one of the most globally respected technology companies, having built its reputation on creating reliable, high-end products with innovative features. The Cupertino tech giant has such an impressive track record that its next project-whether that be an AR headset or something else entirely -is already assumed...Read more...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, The Information reported on Tuesday. The company behind the Grok chatbot is the latest AI startup to give itself an unusual corporate structure that, on paper, prioritizes the public good alongside its profits,...Read more...

2023 was a bad year for Elon Musk. Even before his antisemitic tirade, the billionaire's mounting failures at X/Twitter took Musk from media darling to a near-laughing stock. His bid to take SpaceX pubic is faltering after its satellite internet business Starlink brought in just $1.4 billion of the $12 billion Musk...Read more...

Director Zack Snyder is famous not just for his films, but also for his passionate fanbase. And while most of Snyder's fans vocalize that on social media, one of the biggest did so via traditonal media. His name is Christopher Nolan.Read more...

Zack Snyder is used to topping the box office, but his latest release has conquered a different playing field. While 2021's Army of the Dead had a limited theatrical release before its arrival on Netflix, his newest, Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire, went straight to the streamer, and seems to be reaping the...Read more...

Being overly worried about getting sick may, actually, help send you to an early grave, new research out this month suggests. The study found that people diagnosed with hypochondriasis were noticeably more likely to die during the study period than those without it. An increased risk was seen across both natural and...Read more...

A Falcon 9 first-stage booster broke apart after completing its 19th mission, tipping over on the floating droneship in the Atlantic Ocean due to high winds.Read more...

When the BBC announced that it was partnering with Disney to bring Doctor Who to its international streaming audience under the show's latest era, there was some bristling that the House of Mouse would have an element of creative control, rather than simply financial involvement. But speaking on Disney's influence on...Read more...

Just when I thought I was out, the anal beads pull me back in. Months after the drama between world chess champion Magnus Carlson and young prodigy Hans Niemann ended with an arbitration agreement, the internet isn't willing to let go of the idea that board game experts can cheat with the aid of vibrating sex toys...Read more...

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Saw XI producer Mark Burg talks about the future focus of the franchise. Michelle Yeoh discusses returning to Star Trek. Toho is now considering its options after the huge success of Godzilla Minus One. Plus, Glen Powell talks Twisters. To me, my spoilers!

Tang Tan, Apple's lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is stepping down to join Jony Ive's hardware firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on Wednesday. Tan is the latest Apple designer to join Ive, which is assembling an Avengers-like team with Sam Altman to create the next era of hardware...Read more...

The parent company that owns a controlling stake in Paramount, CBS, and thousands of theaters across the U.S. got hacked late last year, but it took them a full trip around the sun to let any of the tens of thousands of impacted customers know that their data was potentially compromised.Read more...

The lonely Windows" button on most modern keyboards is an old joke turned into a bore. The key is a lonely, barren island sitting between alt" and ctrl" that's long proved more of a nuisance for a wayward finger that strays a little too far southwest than it is a usable function. While some might find the key good...Read more...

How can you tell if a dinosaur is female or male? It's one of the most basic aspects of biology and yet, for the most part, it continues to be a mystery in paleontology. We don't yet know the sex of most extinct species, even if those in museum displays have gender-specific names like Sue the T.rex or Cliff the...Read more...

The last major ad-free streaming service is going away. Starting Jan. 29th, Amazon users will start seeing advertisements appear on movies and TV shows for Prime Video, according to an email sent to subscribers on Tuesday. To keep Prime Video ad-free, you'll need to pay an additional $3 a month, on top of the $139 a...Read more...

Following a successful liftoff, Firefly's Alpha rocket seems to have misplaced its payload due to a second stage anomaly.Read more...

On Christmas Day, a big GTA 5 leak revealed that Rockstar Games had some single-player DLC planned for the open-world crime sim. Though none of them were released, what was uncovered by online sleuths is interesting all the same.

Getting to know the Straw Hat Crew in Netflix's One Piece is one of the greatest joys in watching the new live-action show based on Eiichiro Oda' global franchise. Tell No Tales," the third episode, digs into Zoro's origins in a creative way, and io9 was excited to talk to editor Eric Litman about how the story came...Read more...

Well, that's one way to see your investment pay off. In 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, suffered a notorious hack that stole 850,000 Bitcoins from the platform. Victims are finally starting to get their money back on Tuesday, nearly 10 years later. However, some are reporting Mt. Gox...Read more...

Plasma could be wrangled to collide photons and yield matter, according to physicists who ran simulations to explore the practical applications of a world-famous equation.

I want to love Siri. I really do. Every day, I walk around with a little robot that lives in my pocket and responds to simple commands. It is a full-blown miracle, the kind of thing our ancestors could only dream of. The problem is Siri's an idiot. My digital assistant and others like it from Google and Amazon are...Read more...

Even though every year has managed to feel more eventful than the last, 2023 especially was a roller coaster that went extremely off the rails. It feels like something eventful happened at least twice per week (if not considerably more), particularly in the entertainment space.

That only 10 years have passed since the first film in the DC Extended Universe seems absurd. Somehow, through all the ups and downs, it feels like we've lived with Henry Cavill as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ezra Miller as the Flash, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman for...Read more...

The Brazilian wing of Burger King announced a surveillance technology marketing stunt this week called the Hangover Whopper," celebrating the booze-filled days between Christmas and New Year's with facial recognition. All you have to do is hold your bleary-eyed visage up to a camera, and the company says its...Read more...

As we near the end of the year, there's at least a visual update on Todd Phillips' Joker: Folie aDeux. Surprisingly we haven't gotten a trailer for the Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix musical with the release of Warner Bros.' Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom or The Color Purple. Then again, the studio's been hiding that...Read more...

Ahead of NASA's long-awaited return to crewed Moon landings, the space agency is testing an elevator that will carry astronauts from their spacecraft to the lunar surface. If all goes as planned, this elevator will be ready for the Artemis 3 and 4 missions, ambitiously set for 2025 and 2028.Read more...

No matter how you felt about the first part of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon, odds are you're curious about what happens next. Kora (Sofia Boutella) has assembled a team of heroic warriors and brought them back to Veldt. The evil Admiral Atticus (Ed Skrein) has a renewed purpose. And it all seems to be building to a...Read more...

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When you've been around for 60 long years like Doctor Who has, growth and evolution is the name of the game. Not just in new places each week, new heroes and friends and villains along the way, but the show has adapted and built its own riff on genre after genre of storytelling thanks to its remit. But as Doctor Who...Read more...

Sam Altman needs developers to build useful tools with ChatGPT, but his company is pissing them off right now. Just before Christmas weekend, OpenAI emailed plugin developers, people building practical tools with ChatGPT, asking them to turn their work into GPTs.

David Oyelowo has an update on his sequel to The Rocketeer. The next Saw movie might have already found its place in the chronology. Zack Snyder wants to take on a young James Bond. Plus, behind the scenes on Doctor Who with Ncuti Gatwa. Spoilers, away!

Modern medicine has extended our lives and reduced suffering in all kinds of ways. Many of the impactful interventions we have available today have been around for a long time, like antibiotics, most painkillers, and various forms of cancer screening. But every once in a while, scientists come up with novel treatments...Read more...

The White House has left Apple without hope of federal intervention to keep the current-gen Apple Watch on store shelves. The Biden administration has officially declined to veto restrictions on the company's wearables due to an ongoing patent dispute, despite the Cupertino tech giant's pleas. So much for the season...Read more...

Few disciplines are as full of drama and surprises as archaeology, and this year was no exception. Archaeologists and anthropologists mined ancient genomes, excavated Roman weaponry from caves near the Dead Sea, and found a still-standing shipwreck at the bottom of Lake Huron. Click through for some of our favorite...Read more...

This past year was a tipping point for the games industry. There have been some amazing, trend-setting releases alongside devastating industry turmoil, including mass layoffs, studio closures, and ballooning development costs. There's a sense of foreboding entering into 2024, but there's at least one thing we can...Read more...

The Golden Globe Awards will be handed out January 7 on CBS (the Oscars, meanwhile, aren't until March 10), so if you're taking advantage of holiday downtime to catch up on your awards-season viewing, here's a handy guide to where you can stream the nominees. Not every title is available for home viewing, but most are...Read more...

If you're not breaking laws or causing harm, it's really up to you what you look at on the internet-we won't judge. But there might be occasions when you don't want someone in close proximity to see the contents of your open tabs, and that's where a browser panic button, capable of shutting down your browser with a...Read more...

The outside world is loud. Sometimes too loud. If you commute, you know this all too well. A good pair of active noise-canceling headphones is exactly what you need to enjoy a little peace and quiet, even on the noisiest train. Shure's Aonic 50 has good ANC; you could even argue it's too good.Read more...

There have been so many words written about the expanse of genre here at io9, and 2023 was a wildcard of a year for entertainment (including Marvel Studios, Star Wars, DC Studios, and Max), theme parks, and games. We covered a lot of ground, from union-strong solidarity during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes to...Read more...

It's Christmas, and that can only mean one thing we've been waiting simultaneously six years and also just three weeks for: Doctor Who is back for a festive treat, and it's bringing a new Doctor and companion, and a whole new era, along for the ride. Need somewhere to talk about everything that just happened? We've...Read more...

In early 2023, io9 gazed into a blood-splattered crystal ball and made a list of all the horror entertainment we were most looking forward to. Some of the titles we were excited about delivered; others did not-and perhaps most excitingly, several releases we knew nothing about in advance swooped in and scared the hell...Read more...

Unless something truly crazy happens, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will be the final film in the DC Extended Universe that began 10 years ago with Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. It was a universe dominated by Snyder's decisions, which resulted in some memorable highs and embarrassing lows. And while Lost Kingdom completel...Read more...

Earlier this year, Disney filed a lawsuit against Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the state's other elected officials. The corporation apparently isn't donehitting the state quite yet, as it's now suing Florida again while also facing a lawsuit from one of its recent actors.

It's Christmas weekend, and Hollywood still has gifts to give. This weekend saw the release of two big sci-fi epics, both of which are unified by their connection to filmmaker Zack Snyder, who previously spearheaded the DC Extended Universe.

Though the Insomniac Games hack and the information gleaned from it overwhelmed video game news for the entire week, it was the second leak" to hit this week. Shortly before, big plot spoilers for Rocksteady's upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League were posted online and quickly circulated. But for as far as...Read more...