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Apple says it now requires a judge's consent before it will hand over your push notification data to law enforcement or government officials, according to an update of Apple's Legal Process Guidelines on Tuesday. Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter to the Department of Justice last week accusing foreign governments of...Read more...

Kung Fu Panda expands its cast for its fourth movie. Terrifier 3 locks in a major return. Plus, another new look at Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Spoilers, away!

Meta's long-promised AI-enabled vision features for the company's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses are finally incoming, allowing the onboard AI to see, hear, and interpret its environment through the glasses' 12 MP camera and microphone. The company proclaimed late Tuesday that these new AI-vision features are now available in...Read more...

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Alex Garland has written or directed several excellent, terrifying, disturbing films. Films like 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Ex Machina and Annihilation. Films that show familiar worlds in unfamiliar, and often times unfathomable, circumstances. His new film seems as if it's going to do that too, but it's somehow much...Read more...

Tesla is under fire by California's Department of Motor Vehicles over the company's ads claiming its cars are completely self-driving, which they're not. Elon Musk's electric car company argues that its claims of being self-driving are protected under free speech, according to court documents made public by The...Read more...

Scientists once thought that only humans and our closest relatives, chimps, were clever enough to use tools. But as our documenting of the natural world has gotten more detailed-and as we've become less haughty about our supposed superior intellect-we've found that many species are actually deft with sticks, stones,...Read more...

The House of Mouse celebrated its centennial in 2023 through monumental film and television releases and Disney Parks experiences, while dealing with real-world repercussions during historic writers and actors' strikes. And then, of course, there was the whole ongoing skirmish with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Although the X-Men have been returning to the world of Lego in fits and starts recently-a few characters in the Marvel minifigures line here, a giant Wolverine fist there-2014 was the last time Marvel's mutants actually got to star in a more traditional Lego set. That's now changing... but it's not an entirely joyous...Read more...

If you give me access to your location, I am the person who will check on you constantly and bring it up the next time I see you. So," I'll start casually, what were you doing in the city last week?" Then you'll ask me how I knew you were down there. I'll remind you that you gave me access one summer long ago and...Read more...

As if the movies themselves didn't make it more than obvious, fans have long come to understand that the Star Wars sequel trilogy changed drastically throughout development. Multiple writers and directors worked on The Force Awakens as well as The Rise of Skywalker, sometimes with radically different results, while The...Read more...

The era of streaming services being reticent to share viewership information appears to be ending, as Netflix, one of the biggest in the biz, is now touting the arrival of its twice-yearly What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report."Read more...

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In contemporary fandom, canon is king. This is not a jab against an admiration of an ordered continuity and worldbuilding, the necessary aspects of creating a story to be lost in. But what goes beyond it-a yearning for raw, wiki-able data and facts that can be collated and held in amber, where interpretation gives way...Read more...

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The Last Starfighter is Hollywood's white whale. The 1984 film about a young man who is recruited to defend a planet because of his video game skills was decades ahead of its time and, in recent years, has been the frequent subject of speculation and excitement. It seems everyone in Hollywood has attempted to bring...Read more...

The coroner's report has officially come in, and just as we all expected, E3 is dead as a doornail. What was once the world's biggest gaming event was taken off life support years ago, but on Tuesday the Entertainment Software Association declared it was calling it quits supporting the Electronic Entertainment Expo.Read more...

When will Marvel fans get to see more adventures with Shuri as the Black Panther? It's unclear. But Marvel did just announce when the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be returning to Wakanda, and it'll be doing it in a very unexpected way.Read more...

Robots may help determine your legal fate if you end up in a British court. The UK Judicial Office issued guidance Tuesday permitting judges to use ChatGPT and other AI tools to write legal rulings and perform several other tasks.Read more...

Apple just redesigned its Apple TV app and brought a couple of features that should have been there a long time back. With the overall aim of making the streaming service easier to navigate, it already looks much more organized and intuitive.Read more...

New research shows that tirzepatide, the latest FDA-approved obesity drug, really can help people lose substantial amounts of weight-but only if they continue taking it. The study found that people who stopped taking tirzepatide after 36 weeks regained much of their lost weight within a year, while those who continued...Read more...

Cast your memory back to season one of The Mandalorian, to the first moment you glimpsed Baby Yoda-even before Star Wars marketing nudged fans into calling the character the Child," and before we learned his name was Grogu." This clip from Disney Home Entertainment's TheMandalorian Season 1 and Season 2, out today,...Read more...

In the streaming world, the most important superpower is luring eyeballs to your platform-though adding actual superheroes to your line-up certainly can't hurt. Thanks to a new deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, Tubi is now offering (or will soon offer) a wide range of DC Universe movies and TV series.Read more...

It's certainly disappointing that Dune: Part Two isn't in theaters right now but sometimes waiting is the best part. Case in point, today we've been graced with a brand new trailer, and it'll make you somehow even more excited for the sequel than you already are. Which is really saying something.

Since launching its first test mission to vaporize bits of an asteroid in space, AstroForge has struggled to keep a hold of its spacecraft and is now at risk of losing the ability to send commands to the in-orbit demonstration.Read more...

Space is an inky black yonder... but for the countless light sources that pepper the billions of light-years that human instruments can see. Thanks to ground-based telescopes and observatories parked millions of miles from Earth, 2023 has been a terrific year for space imagery. Astronomers captured fascinating new...Read more...

Retro toys are a funny thing. When The Phantom Menace hit theaters, it did so alongside the firepower of a fully armed and operational action figure line that represented a huge generational leap from the Star Wars toys that changed the movie industry two decades prior. And yet now in the present, nearly 25 years...Read more...

On Tuesday, the Entertainment Software Association announced that E3, once the biggest video game showcase on the planet, is officially dead.

Update: Late Monday evening, Corrain confirmed that she'd been review bombing POC authors, attributing it to past struggles with mental health. As she explained on Twitter, she had a mental breakdown earlier this month, which resulted in her creating the Goodreads accounts to boost A Crown of Starlight's rating and...Read more...

Mark Wahlberg teases Uncharted 2's future. Hear Robert Pattinson get his bird on in a new clip from The Boy and the Heron's dub. Vincent D'Onofrio talks Daredevil: Born Again's tone. Plus, another new look at Doctor Who's Christmas special. Spoilers now!

The HP Pavilion Plus 14 laptop packs a lot of value in its modest $899 price tag. You get an incredible display and pretty good performance on a lightweight body, which makes for a nice, portable system. It basically checks most of the boxes for anyone looking for a nice display, portability, and, of course, price....Read more...

Just how fast do you need your home internet to be? More importantly, how much are you willing to fork over to Google each month to turn your home into a miniature data center? According to Google, the answer is an eye-gouging $250 a month plus fees for blistering 20-Gig speeds on a WiFi 7-enabled, plus-sized router.Read more...

Google lost its antitrust case against Epic Games on Monday night, where a San Francisco jury unanimously ruled the search giant maintains a monopoly with its Google Play app store.Read more...

In a survey of more than 1,000 people, researchers found that people were more likely to be treated as pariahs in a variety of ways when their faces were digitally altered to have acne. The stigma associated with acne may be greater for people with severe symptoms and darker skin tones as well, the study found.Read more...

While most AI companies are preciously unveiling their latest algorithms with press tours and blog posts, others seem content to throw their latest wares out into the digital ether like a pirate ship casting off dead weight. One company that fits this latter category is Mistral, a French AI startup that released its...Read more...

A few months ago Wizards' latest Magic: Universes Beyond release celebrated 60 years of Doctor Who in style, with decks filled with cards from every era of the show... except its then-upcoming present. That's all changing very soon, thankfully.

There are plenty of things to like about the latest iOS 17.2 update. For one, iPhone 15 Pro users are getting telephoto camera improvements and can finally use the titanium-shelled hardware to shoot spatial videos for the Vision Pro. There's also a new Action button shortcut for real-time translation. But the most...Read more...

A wave of rumors has engulfed Sony's premiere fish tail-shaped console, with speculation centering on an upcoming PS5 Pro next year with a beefed-up CPU and GPU supposed to help it swim above any of the other prominent consoles currently on the market.

It departed our planet just over two months ago, but NASA's Psyche spacecraft is already 16 million miles from Earth, well on its way to its main destination: the asteroid Psyche. Eager to prove its readiness, the spacecraft recently beamed back the first images captured by both of its cameras to create a tantalizing...Read more...

With just one episode remaining in Rick and Morty season seven, it's officially time to celebrate: fans need not have worried about the show's future after the high-profile departure of co-creator and key voice actor Justin Roiland. Though every episode wasn't solid gold, there were some serious standouts, including...Read more...

So I'm watching Oliver and Company, the 1988 Disney animated film featuring the voices of Billy Joel and Bette Midler, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. As Oliver, Dodger, and the crew are being chased through New York City, they head into the subway and jump on the tracks. This reminds me of Indiana Jones and the...Read more...

Some train track circuits are at the mercy of distant storms on the Sun's surface, researchers found, which could cause train signals to jump from red to green and vice versa as a result of extreme space weather.Read more...

For a show that is often so optimistically forward thinking-and where change is baked into its hearts-Doctor Who often has a bittersweet view of its own past. Heroes and friends come and go, goodbyes are frequent and brief, and a lot of them are permanent, especially when part of the key to its longevity is that its...Read more...

Microsoft announced an alliance with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) to ensure that artificial intelligence serves the interests of workers, according to a blog post Monday. Labor leaders called the collaboration historic" as Microsoft became the first big tech...Read more...

Taylor Swift is so popular that seismologists measured recent tour dates in Seattle as a magnitude 2.3 earthquake. You wouldn't know if from the latest edition of Google's annual annual Year In Search" roundup, though. Every December, the company publishes a list of the year's most popular search terms. But one name...Read more...

Among the over 100 satellites that launched on board SpaceX's Transporter-9 mission, three failed to deploy and their current whereabouts are unknown.Read more...

As of January 8, linear Showtime will be no more. Instead, it'll be rebranded as Paramount+ With Showtime," an arrangement spurred by the fact Showtime content is now available on the Paramount+ streaming service and executives just have to change things to justify their salaries. It's the latest rebrand in the...Read more...

We love toys here at io9, and when we're not writing about them, we're probably playing with them. It's been a killer year for cool nerdy collectibles, so here's just a few of our favorite things we picked up in the proverbial toy aisle this past year.

This week True Lies, along with several other James Cameron films, is being released on 4K for the first time. Unlike Titanic, Aliens, and Avatar though, True Lies(like The Abyss) hasn't been on physical media since DVD. It literally got remade on TV before getting a proper, high-definition release.Read more...

In a recent internal summit, Google proposed its next big idea: an AI-powered feature titled Project Ellmann' that would provide users with a snapshot or, as they're calling it, a bird's eye view" of their entire lives.