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Netflix has spent the last few years releasing animated series based on popular video games like League of Legends, Tomb Raider, and Castlevania. It's easy to forget, but at one point, it was revealed Capcom's Devil May Cry series would be thrown into that mix. Details on the show have been nonexistent since that...Read more...

Google has been rather miffed that all its dirty laundry is being aired in public as it tries to fight off federal allegations the company has been monopolizing its digital ecosystem. After nearly a week of trial documents going offline, a judge has again allowed Google's secrets to go public, though the tech giant...Read more...

After a teaser that dropped all the way back in April, we finally have a fresh look at Disney's Wish. Not to be confused with the synergy-obsessed company's cruise ship of the same name, this is the animated musical starring Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, and Alan Tudyk that explores where, exactly, that famous star...Read more...

After staying on board the International Space Station (ISS) for more than a year, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has finally returned home with a new record of the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut.Read more...

Sierra Space secured some significant dough during its latest funding round. The company says it will now allocate these funds towards the development of its commercial space station and other orbital tech.

In the 95 years we've known about antimatter, physicists have not tested how the elusive inverse of ordinary matter is affected by gravity, the force that pulls masses to Earth and seems to affect all things in the classical realm.Read more...

X, formerly called Twitter, disabled its misinformation feature on the platform, effectively removing the option for users to report false election information, research organization Reset.Tech Australia reported on Wednesday. The company has recently been criticized for achieving the dubious honor as the number one...Read more...

Kevin Greutert talks Amanda Young's growth in the Saw movies. The cast and crew of The Exorcist: Believer talk religion in a new featurette. Kristen Stewart's Living for the Dead gets a new look. Plus, what's coming on the final episode of Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Spoilers, away!

OpenAI is looking to continue to bolster its reputation as a modern-day tech juggernaut by pivoting from its incredibly popular softwareto hardware. The company's CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in talks with Apple alumnus and product designer Jony Ive on the top-secret project.Read more...

Artificial intelligence has proved a costly endeavor-well, yes, in terms of money, but AI requires massive amounts of energy, and water consumption to operate at scale. That hasn't stopped big tech companies such as Google and Microsoft from putting that energy-hungry AI into practically every single one of their user...Read more...

Last week's Far, Far Away" was a big episode for Disney+ Star Wars series Ahsoka-though not really a big one for Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) herself, since the Peridea-set action was given over to some other major story beats, including the arrival of two major characters: Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) and Ezra (Eman Esfandi).Read more...

Manhattan's McKittrick hotel looms nondescriptly while housing an entire world of mystery and intrigue inspired by Shakespeare's Scottish Play. During Halloween season io9 was invited to its current run.Read more...

Update 9/26/23 at 6:06 p.m. ET: On Tuesday afternoon, Federal Communication Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced the agency would indeed be rolling up its sleeves and would finally attempt to reinstate net neutrality rules.Read more...

You may have heard that macOS Sonoma is ready to download after a months-long summer beta. But you should hold off on updating to the new version of the operating system if you can. There have been complaints from app developers that their apps are bugging out on the new OS. It's best to take a beat before jumping...Read more...

Sometimes even the most flawed movies deserve a tip of the cap for sheer ambition. Sure, it didn't quite hit the mark, but wow that effort was incredible. And the new Norwegian movie There's Something in the Barn fits that description. Lots of it is good, lots of it is not, but it tries to hit such a weird, specific...Read more...

A parasitic brain-infecting roundworm primarily spread by rats and snails is planting down roots in more parts of the U.S., research this week suggests. Scientists appear to have confirmed the presence of the parasite within local rodent populations in the state of Georgia. While human cases are considered rare, these...Read more...

The self-proclaimed oldest cohort of Unity developers-called the Boston Unity Group-has announced that it is dissolving shortly after the game engine developer created a firestorm with changes to how it will charge its users.Read more...

Federal Trade Commissioner Lina Khan is finally entering the ring with Amazon, her oldest antitrust nemesis. The agency, along with 17 other state attorneys general, is officially suing Jezz Bezos's e-commerce baby for growing and metastasizing into a trillion-dollar anti-competitive monopoly, allegedly at the expense...Read more...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released an updated road map this week for reaching zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The new report emphasizes that solutions like carbon capture technology and carbon credits have not lived up to their promise of removing CO2 from our atmosphere, while renewables have...Read more...

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With hope on the horizon for an end to the WGA strike-and the SAG-AFTRA strike, too, fingers crossed-a new comic is here to celebrate the powerful Hollywood labor movement, with some big names attached.

As part of its efforts to watch over America's assets in space, the United States Space Force is looking into establishing a line of communication with China in case of an emergency in orbit. It's not clear, however, whether or not China will pick up the line.Read more...

Fingernails imagines a world where true love can be proven with the help of technology that ascertains what makes two people an ideal match. Sounds tidy, until a woman newly hired at a love-testing lab starts to fall for her co-worker... despite the fact that she's already got a scientifically certified perfect...Read more...

Scientists may be closer to unraveling the mysteries of long covid. New research this week has found several potentially key differences in the blood of people diagnosed with the chronic ailment compared to those who were not. These differences could help scientists develop accurate diagnostic tests for the condition...Read more...

This January, expect to see two new awards handed out at the Golden Globes: Cinematic and Box Office Achievement" and Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television." While the latter seems reasonable, and probably should have happened years ago, it's the nature of the former award-which is similar to something th...Read more...

In the beginning, galaxies were lacking in chemical and metal abundances, according to a team of astronomers that recently used a telescope to study the ancient universe.Read more...

If The Animal Kingdom was an average movie, you could figure out the whole story from just the premise. It's a film about a world where humans have begun to mutate into animals. So, of course, it's got to be about how most humans hate these mutants, treat them terribly, and we get to see how a small group of them...Read more...

Tubi, an ad-supported streaming service, has rolled out a beta test for its OpenAI's ChatGPT feature starting today, the company announced on Tuesday. The addition, titled Rabbit AI, will provide viewers with TV show and movie suggestions based on queries from the user.Read more...

Science fiction is nothing without commentary on the modern world, but the developers of Cyberpunk 2077 are now apologizing for some commentary appearing in the Ukrainian version of the game that was maybe a little too close to the modern world.Read more...

Let's start here: Martha Wells doesn't have to prove anything. Her storied career, and her novels' many, many deserved accolades, speak for themselves. Her first book, The Element of Fire, 1993, kickstarted her Ile-Rien series, the first two books of which will get repackaged and republished in 2024. If you don't...Read more...

After Bob Smith's resignation as chief executive, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has appointed David Limp, Amazon's former head of hardware and leader of the company's Project Kuiper satellites, as the new CEO.Read more...

My biggest problem with The Creator is that it didn't make me cry. That seems like an odd thing to say, I understand, but let me explain. You see, I'm a softie. The kind of person who cries rewatching their favorite movies for the 500th time. Sometimes the nostalgia just hits me so hard, I can't help but tear up. The...Read more...

Nearly 35,000 SAG-AFTRA members voted in favor of a strike authorization on the Interactive Media Agreement, the union reported last night. The Interactive Media Agreement covers members' work on video games, which includes voice acting and live-action capture. SAG-AFTRA announced the strike authorization over...Read more...

Google is removing its Basic HTML view on all Gmail accounts starting in January 2024, according to a notice on the company's Support Page. The company quietly confirmed the change on its site but did not provide additional information about why it is removing the HTML option.Read more...

45 years ago next month, movies were changed forever by a man in a white William Shatner mask. John Carpenter's Halloween was released in October 1978 and shifted independent film and horror forever, introducing the world to Michael Myers and setting the stage for decades of similarly supernatural killers like Freddy,...Read more...

Spotify is no stranger to breaking the golden rule of if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Now, the music streaming service has bolstered its collaborative playlist offering with Jam, a new feature that allows up to 32 people to control a single playlist.Read more...

The Creator, Gareth Edwards' new sci-fi film, is getting a fantastic special collector's set of the forthcoming artbook, The Art of the Creator. Inside the deluxe edition are three lithographic prints, True Love (a graphic novel used to pitch the film, previously unpublished), and a sketchbook of production designer Ja...Read more...

This fall is really lining up to be an incredible one for sci-fi nerds. Dune is coming to Netflix in October, The Creator is releasing this week, and spooky season is coming. It's a plethora of riches. Also, keep your eyes peeled for news of a SAG-AFTRA-supported Video Game Actor's strike. Spoilers, clear your...Read more...

The number of ways you can chat with generative AI engines continues to grow, from ChatGPT to Claude to Google Bard to Bing AI, and FreedomGPT is one of the latest options you can add to your list of potential conversational partners. Here we're going to take you through the key features that mark it out as being a...Read more...

Once upon a time, Twitter (now renamed X) routinely tried to label what it deemed state affiliated" news sites, in an effort to highlight potential government disinformation and propaganda. After Elon Musk took over the platform late last year, however, he decided to put the kibosh on that policy. Predictably, new...Read more...

Barbie-a movie so big it had already won the U.S. box office in August-is also a movie so big that on Friday, it made the leap to IMAX for a one-week run. As usual, Barbie is on the forefront of what's in fashion, somethingDune director Denis Villeneuve, who's very pro-IMAX, seems to agree with.Read more...

Nightmare has an unfortunately generic title, but it's the word in its most literal usage, referring to the Mare"-a creature from folklore thought to torment sleepers. In Norwegian writer-director Kjersti Helen Raasmussen's new film, coming to Shudder this week, it takes the form of a particularly nasty dream demon.

Lost in Cult and Retro Dodo have collaborated to assemble dozens of essays on the art of the handheld device. From the hardware to the games themselves, A Handheld History: A Celebration of Portable Gaming is a gorgeous introspection into the decades of gaming that many of us remember from long rides on trains,...Read more...

Masterclass is becoming a shell of its former self as subscriptions dropped following spending thousands of dollars on A-list celebrities teaching the courses, including Disney CEO Bob Iger. The company even paid a reported $100,000 to recreate Iger's office space with the total cost to hire Iger, build the set, and...Read more...

India's Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover have been asleep on the surface of the Moon while efforts to revive the pair continue until the end of the lunar day.Read more...

One animal's poo might be another person's treasure. Scientists in the UK say they've discovered viruses that could be turned into a weapon against bacterial superbugs in a perhaps unexpected place: the feces of several endangered species at a nearby zoo. The team believes these viruses could be especially effective...Read more...

Gareth Edwards' new film, The Creator, is filled with nods and winks to all of your favorite sci-fi movies: Star Wars, 2001, Aliens, Blade Runner, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, you name it. Some filmmakers might be coy about that fact, but Edwards is 100% unapologetic about it.Read more...

Dream Scenario, the new film from writer/director Kristoffer Borgli, starts with a terrible yet tantalizing premise: what if millions of people all over the world started dreaming about one person? And not some famous celebrity. Just some normal professor at a small college. Why is this happening? How is it happening?...Read more...

As if the hype around AI couldn't get any more exasperating, Coca-Cola had to hop on the bandwagon. The massive beverage company has tapped an artificial intelligence to serve as its advisor in developing a new flavor of its titular soft drink. Naturally, Gizmodo had to get to the bottom of it (the soda bottle) and...Read more...

Francis Lawrence, who directed three of the four original Hunger Games films, is back in the director's chair for the prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. He sat down with Entertainment Weekly to give an overview of what to expect from the latest franchise installment, and explained the appeal of watching a...Read more...