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Amazon is done making an ass of itself, and making snacks out of ass, as the digital marketplace will no longer sell edible donkey meat in California. The online retailer will not allow Californians to buy hundreds of donkey-based snacks listed on the platform as part of a settlement, according to Wired. But don't...Read more...

If you thought it'd be Hasbro who first got its hands on Ahsoka's trooper repurposing, think again: Hot Toys is giving us our first actual look at Thrawn and the Great Mothers' unholy matrimony of Imperial Remnant and Nightsister witchery in action figure form... although there stands a good chance anything Hasbro has...Read more...

Things we know for certain about Robert De Niro: he's an acclaimed actor whose career is still going strong after over 50 years-and his outspoken personality means he's no stranger to controversy. His feelings on Donald Trump are well-documented, but apparently Killers of the Flower Moon producers Apple would rather...Read more...

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With a dizzying array of streaming services available, there was no shortage of great TV this year-and while io9 has already shared our top 20 shows of 2023, today we're revealing our top TV moments... all 50 of them. These are the moments when we laughed, cheered, shed a tear, shrieked in disbelief, and/or realized...Read more...

In the last year, computers started acting strangely human. As OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever put it, you can think of AI as a digital brain", one that's directly modeled after that of a human. Just like a young child, AI has incentives and learns from those around it. If ChatGPT was a young child, it would be growing...Read more...

Scythians in modern-day Ukraine made leather out of human skin, a team of researchers has determined, likely as a macabre trophy item. The discovery affirms a claim by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote extensively on the Scythian way of life.Read more...

Every year, there are a few dates I immediately look forward to on the calendar. My birthday, of course. My wedding anniversary. Christmas. Super Bowl. San Diego Comic-Con. And, maybe above all others, DesignerCon.Read more...

We're still discovering new ways covid-19 can harm us, some four years after the emergence of this complicated viral disease. In a recent report, doctors in Massachusetts describe a teen girl whose vocal cords became paralyzed soon after a bout of covid-19. The girl required a tracheostomy in place for more than a...Read more...

Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are all set with their Moon landers. Now they just need their rockets prepped and the launch windows to swing open. But once underway, these NASA-funded missions, slated for early 2024, will chart a new course for the future of private space exploration.

This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming's most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.

Experimental rockets, Moon landers, planetary flybys, breathtaking spacewalks, and vintage boosters-these are just a few of the many stories that contributed to the most striking and memorable images of 2023.

Four astronauts are getting ready to travel to the Moon and back for NASA's Artemis 2 mission, and the space agency is making sure that the crew is well-prepared in case things go wrong during the 10-day journey through space.Read more...

When the sunglasses go on, Ryan Gosling disappears and becomes just Ken.Read more...

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If you ever enrolled in the Apple Family Sharing with a family member between 2015 and 2019, you may entitled to a cut from the $25 million legal settlement Apple agreed to pay. MacRumors did some math and claims you could get between $30 to $50 if you qualify.

The best sci-fi movie of 2023 is already making an early play for the best sci-fi movie of 2024 on a technicality. After its unprecedented international success, Godzilla Minus One is returning to Japanese theaters for a special release in black and white.

Electric scooter company Bird is flying south for the winter, and it might be a very different kind of fowl by the time it returns. The Miami, Florida-based micro-mobility company known for allowing rambunctious, helmetless e-scooterists to fly down city streets declared bankruptcy Wednesday, saying it was entering...Read more...

Mutant Mayhem's Jeff Rowe talks keeping Shredder back for the sequel. Wyatt Russell discusses' Thunderbolts filming schedule. Get a look at Jadis' return for Walking Dead: Ones Who Live. Plus, get a look at Adam Sandler's new sci-fi movie for Netflix, Spaceman. To me, my spoilers!

NASA just combined all of my favorite things: space, lasers, and cats. In a first-of-its-kind demonstration of deep space optical communication, the space agency streamed a high-definition video from 19 million miles away from Earth. And as it turns out, NASA is just as obsessed as we are when it comes to sharing cat...Read more...

Cybersecurity incidents are constantly in the news these days, but you'll soon be hearing about a lot more of them. That's because a new rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission went into effect on Monday, requiring all public companies to report data breaches in just four days.

An error in judgement earlier this year-when a D&D artist confirmed they had used generative AI programs to finish several pieces of art included in the sourcebook Glory of the Giants-saw Wizards of the Coast publicly ban the use of AI tools in the process of creating art for the venerable TTRPG. Now, the publisher is...Read more...

This week, Tesla made an abrupt change to its in-vehicle entertainment system interface, appearing to cut Disney+ out of the rotation of apps that could be accessed by users. Teslarati initially reported that the car company appeared to have axed Disney+ from its vehicles." The site later updated its reporting,...Read more...

Christmas horror movies are never not popular-but what about those holiday-themed dramas, film noirs, and action comedies that never seem to surface on festive watch lists? We've gathered 10 movies to stream if all the traditional titles make you want to gouge your eyes out with candy canes.

Interpol, an international police organization, has arrested nearly 3,500 people allegedly connected to cybercrime in a sweeping operation announced on Tuesday. $300 million worth of assets across 34 countries were reportedly seized. The operation, Haechi IV, blocked over 80,000 suspicious bank accounts and warned...Read more...

Last week, Epic won a years-long suit against Google for anti-competitive practices within the Play Store. We were all left wondering: what would happen to Android's app store moving forward?

The finest residents of New Yohrk Citaaaaaay are bowing out. Vulture reports that as What We Do in the Shadows prepares to begin production on its sixth season next month, it is doing so knowing that it will be the last.

China's Shenlong robotic spaceplane, on its third mission, has added a new layer of intrigue to its space activities by deploying six unidentified objects into Earth's orbit.

A second season of Ahsoka hasn't been officially announced yet, but showrunner Dave Filoni has begun to share some of its possibilities.Read more...

For the last two decades, some of the weirdest and most creative things on the internet played out in images and GIFs. There have always been terrible memes, but for years, memes as a category were consistently funny, useful, inspiring, and even thought-provoking. They crossed over into all of the furthest reaches of...Read more...

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Master & Dynamic's already-premium $599 luxury headphones, MW75, are about to get a very brainy upgrade. They're about to get brain tech embedded in them.

Amateur astronomy is so hot right now, and it's never been easier for backyard enthusiasts to gaze into the cosmos and contemplate their puny, meaningless existences. We've assembled a collection of exceptional gift ideas to help your favorite space enthusiast take their skywatching skills to the next level.

Vampires are so hot right now. With Interview With the Vampire andBaldur's Gate 3's Astarion being anywhere and everywhere online, we're in a toothsome renaissance not seen since the days of... well,Twilight's cultural dominance. So it's perhaps fitting that it itself returns for the occasion, although in a much...Read more...

This year, the once-untouchable Marvel Studios finally showed some vulnerability. For 15 years, the studio behind some of the biggest and best superhero movies ever was all but invincible. Every single gamble paid off. Every story expertly seeded over a decade blossomed beautifully. And even in the less cohesive few...Read more...

A Polish hacking group, Dragon Sector, went public recently with a scandal about one of Poland's oldest train makers, Newag, bricking its own trains when they were repaired by third parties. However, new reporting on Tuesday fromPolish publication Onetalleges that Dragon Sector first went to government officials...Read more...

A trepidatious Iceland has waited for this moment for over a month: a large crack in the ground has started to spew up lava. In mid-November, hundreds of tremors-earthquakes that portended the eruptions to come-forced the evacuation of the nearby Icelandic village of Grindavik and at least one famous tourist...Read more...

After over a year of being grounded, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket embarked on its first cargo mission since a fiery anomaly led to a mission failure in September 2022.

Rick and Morty's seventh season wrapped up Sunday night with Fear No Mort," another standout episode in what's been one of the Adult Swim series' strongest installments yet. But if you don't have Adult Swim access and have been dying to see what you've been missing-including the new voices for Rick and Morty-here's...Read more...

When Netflix first announced it was bringing the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender to live-action, it was doing so with the help of the people who helped shape it in the first place: Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino. Then, two years later, they suddenly weren't. And for remaining showrunner Albert Kim,...Read more...

There's more than nostalgia making folks pine for the days of knobs, dials, and buttons. Touchscreens are fine for all-in-one devices but not for something as simple as controlling a car's air conditioning. Volkswagen had to learn the hard way that just because something can be put in a touchscreen doesn't mean it...Read more...

A diligent surveyor of the night skies, NEOWISE is sadly approaching its fiery demise as the Sun's erratic outbursts are causing the infrared telescope to gradually fall out of its orbit before it eventually burns up in Earth's atmosphere.Read more...

Kung Fu Panda director Mike Mitchell hopes there's more movies in the series' future. Get a new look at a brooding Lestat in Interview With the Vampire season two. Plus, get a look at Hulu's fantasy anime/live-action hybrid Dragons of Wonderhatch. Spoilers, away!

Developers at Insomniac Games working on the upcoming Wolverine video game just had over a terabyte of internal data leaked on the dark web, according to Cyber Daily. A ransomware gang, Rhysida, leaked 1.3 million files on Tuesday that expose key details about PlayStation's new Marvel video game and passport scans of...Read more...

This summer, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk blew the internet's mind by claiming they would fight each other in a cage match"-style brawl. The rival tech execs were feuding over their platforms' competition in the microblogging space and their proposed solution to this rivalry was to beat the crap out of each other...Read more...

The future of the Dune movies are shrouded in a lot of secrecy, especially given the high anticipation for the now long-delayed Part Two. But at least one person at the heart of them is a little confused as to why, when you can get a pretty good gist of what's to come by reading material that's been out there for 70...Read more...

Your snack habit may be even more calorie-dense than you think, recent research suggests. A study estimated that snacking contributes to around 20% of an average American's daily caloric intake, and these snacks often add little nutritional value. The scientists found, though, that people with type 2 diabetes seem to...Read more...

The jury has reached a verdict in Jonathan Majors' trial, declaring the Marvel Studios actor guilty of reckless assault in the third degree as well as guilty of harassment. He was found not guilty of intentional assault in the third degree and not guilty of aggravated harassment in second degree.Read more...

Thefuture is uncertain for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Marvel's planned crossover film, set for release May 1, 2026, will likely feature a new face taking over the role of Kang the Conqueror as Jonathan Majors has been ousted as the MCU's reigning big bad.

SpaceX is gearing up to launch the first batch of Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability, with plans to test the technology in Earth orbit so that it can expand its reach on Earth beyond the range of cell towers.Read more...