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SCUF's Envision Pro controller feels so good, so clicky, so responsive, it makes me hate it. I know it's not the controller, it's my dumb thumbs, and yet SCUF's $180 device feels like a memento mori for all the years I spent trying and failing in online multiplayer. The Envision Pro is packing so many extra paddles...Read more...

We appear to have concrete proof that rich people have problems too: Matthew Prince, the billionaire CEO and co-founder of tech giant Cloudflare, is currently suing two of his millionaire neighbors because, according to court papers, the neighbors' overly enthusiastic Bernese Mountain dogs keep treading just a little...Read more...

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We hope you like TVs because that's what April had to deliver in 2024. Samsung showed off its latest Neo QLED 4K TV, while Sony refreshed its entire QLED-based Bravia lineup.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but there's a new, unexpected twist on a classic fairytale in the works. Jeff Daniels talks about the upcoming Arachnophobia remake. Plus, get another look at Barriss Offee's return in Tales of the Empire. Spoilers, away!

Just two weeks after Tesla laid off at least 14,000 workers across the world, CEO Elon Musk is planning layoffs for hundreds of additional staffers - including the bulk of the company's Supercharger team and several executives.Read more...

Since last year, a subreddit has been toiling away to find the source of a particular 80s song and it finally hit the jackpot.Read more...

A former employee of the National Security Agency was sentenced to 262 months, just shy of 22 years, in prison on Monday for trying to send classified information to someone he thought was a Russian spy, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As it turns out, the Russian spy was...Read more...

One thing has been ridiculously clear in my 15-plus-year career reviewing consumer tech. I'm a size queen when it comes to laptops, particularly gaming laptops. I was bereft when Dell put the original Alienware 18 out to pasture and spent a number of years requesting its return. So, I was ecstatic to see the behemoth...Read more...

Millions of Americans pay for streaming services, doling out anywhere from $5 to $75 a month. It's a common belief that you can get out of recurring charges like this by switching your credit card. The streamers won't be able to find you, and your account will just go away, right? You wouldn't be crazy for believing...Read more...

Warner Bros. has its own streaming service, sure, but Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series will be driving its psychedelic Mystery Machine straight to Netflix. It'll be produced by Greg Berlanti, whose other Netflix projects include a pair of other spooky shows: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the current Dead Boy...Read more...

Universal Studios Hollywood and the Universal Orlando Resort are bringing more blockbuster movie action to your summer vacations before next year's Epic Universe opening. Things kicked off at Universal Studios Hollywood with the Studio Tour's 60th anniversary and Ryan Gosling making a surprise appearance for a new,...Read more...

NBCUniversal's Peacock will raise its prices by $2 this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. The price change is slated to go into effect on July 18 for new customers, just a week before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. If you're just looking to stream the Olympics, Peacock...Read more...

Since time immemorial, the machine of movie merchandising has revealed plot details-or at the very least got people to wildly and often incorrectly speculate about them-well before a movie's release. So it's perhaps fitting then, that the most we've seen of Captain America: Brave New World so far is not in a trailer,...Read more...

Remember when we called Razer's Zephyr face mask one of the most disappointing gadgets of 2021? It's even more disappointing when you realize that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges the company never even submitted the face mask for testing three years later. The FTC wants Razer to pay back over a million...Read more...

Knuckles hits Paramount+ with a limited series that picks up on the red echidna's journey to making Earth home. The third Sonic franchise film may be delayed to next year, but in the meantime you can catch up with Knuckles (Idris Elba) on his own side quest with Wade Whipple (Adam Pally).Read more...

What is AI art? Well, of all the many, many ways armchair philosophers have come to define art and the act of human expression, AI-generated images don't have much in relation. There is certainly skill in knowing the correct type of prompt to get the results you want, but there's no real intent behind an image. If the...Read more...

A drone that paints over graffiti has been launched in Washington state under a new pilot program, according to a press release from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). And if the new spray drones succeed, one could easily imagine other municipalities across the country embracing drones for...Read more...

We already knew Fallout was a hit; the Prime Video series based on the popular video games has already been renewed for a second season. But now we know just how much of a hit it is, raking in 65 million viewers globally during its first 16 days.Read more...

Tyrannosaurus rex was just about as smart as modern crocodiles and other reptiles, according to a team of researchers that investigated recent claims that the Cretaceous predators may have been as smart as monkeys.Read more...

The Financial Times announced a deal with OpenAI on Monday to license its world-class journalism for training and informing ChatGPT's models. It joins Axel Springer and the Associated Press who struck similar deals, where OpenAI reportedly offers millions for the right to use content. However, ChatGPT was trained on...Read more...

Jared Leto may be the main star of the upcoming Tron: Ares, but we now know the face of the franchise will also join him. In a new podcast, Jeff Bridges revealed that he's returning to the third film in a franchise that he headlined both in 1982's original and 2010's sequel.Read more...

If Conan the Barbarian was a desktop gaming PC enthusiast, and you asked him what is best in life, his answer would probably be the standard crush those framerates... see the pixels driven before you... hear the lamentations of your CPU fan," or something of that nature. He'd want the biggest desktop, the biggest GPU,...Read more...

In all good X-Men stories, out of the fires of chaos something new and exciting is reborn in phoenix-flame. There's perhaps no better example of that right now than the consolidation of the Fox X-Men movie era into mutantkind's renaissance on the small screen for X-Men 97-and the latter is certainly cute about...Read more...

OpenAI is under scrutiny in the European Union again - this time over ChatGPT's hallucinations about people.Read more...

Despite dedicating years of innovation and research toward convincing consumers to buy electric vehicles, automakers are still grappling with a lack of charging infrastructure across the United States. But California - a leader in EVs - says that isn't too much of a problem for its residents.Read more...

Director Matt Reeves was not messing around when he made Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He wipes out most of the human race before the title card, then unfurls a powerful story of two opposing societies destined for war despite having every possible opportunity at peace. It's bleak. It's bold. It's bloody fantastic.Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope has given us another cosmic treat. The young observatory captured a closer look of the ethereal clouds of dust and gas that form a nearby nebula, illuminated by a companion star in the constellation Orion.Read more...

Even as Marvel Studios finds success on the small screen right now with X-Men 97 lighting fans up every week on Disney+, it's not undiplomatic to say at this point that its star has faded a touch when it comes to its big screen tentpole releases. Is it the output itself, lacking a strong coherent thread compared to...Read more...

At first glance, Marc Andreessen would appear to have all sorts of contradictory beliefs. From a distance, the venture capitalist spouts your standard brand of right-wing libertarianism, but he's also somehow a huge fan of the Pentagon. He's a big fan of America" but doesn't seem to like most Americans very much. His...Read more...

It's hard to imagine that some of the most sumptuous animated movies ever made have yet to be converted and released in the format, and yet, none of Studio Ghibli's exquisite back catalogue has made its way to 4K UHD quite yet, even as the films enjoy regular re-releases in theaters. That is, until now.Read more...

Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, muddy passages, icy waterfalls. Bats and spiders. Abseiling over ledges into the unknown. How far would you go for a fossil? On a two-year retrieval mission of nearly 60 hours in an underground cave, we met our limits-and went beyond.Read more...

Disney has released the first trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King, Barry Jenkins' continuation of the live-action Disney remake universe. It certainly has Mufasa. It certainly has a lot of other animals that exist in this trailer just for you to go look, animals! Lion King!" It also has... Beyonce's daughter?

Rabbit R1, the bright orange AI gadget that became the talk of the town during CES 2024, was launched and demoed at a private event in New York last week. The pick-up party" as the company called it was exclusively for the first few hundred buyers and now we're seeing some early hands-on impressions. Scouring all the...Read more...

A third Happy Death Day could be on the way. Isabela Merced teases her role in The Last of Us season 2. Plus, a new look at the season finale of Ghosts. To me, my spoilers!

This guide was updated on April 29 at 8:15 a.m. to include new info about the iPad's supposed chip and the Apple Pencil, April 24 at 2:10 to include new details on the iPad calculator app, and April 19 at 8:44 a.m. ET to include new rumors from DSCC analyst Ross Young,.Read more...

Before you accuse me of clickbait, hear me out. If you scroll the same corners of social media that I do, then you're sick of seeing meme puzzle accounts abuse the caption Only 1% of people can solve!" over some lightweight teasers. Are we really supposed to believe that only 1 in 100 people can count the triangles...Read more...

Just before the weekend started, the animation space lit up when someone suddenly leaked a lot of never-before-seen internal material from Disney. We won't link to it, but included in that material is a sizable amount of stuff from the company's TV animation slate across its Disney Channel and Disney XD networks that...Read more...

Since it debuted back in 2021, Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa's Radiant Black has become one of Image Comics' biggest books. Now that it's got an entire universe of its own full of equally colorful characters headling their own books, it's just a question of what's next for the series that started it all. The answer...Read more...

The original Happy Death Day in 2017 was one of those why hasn't this done before?" horror movies, wherein college girl Tree (played by Jessica Rothe) got stuck in a time loop that always ended with her getting murdered. That first movie did really well, and its sequel Happy Death Day 2U also did pretty good! Over...Read more...

There are plenty of apps you can turn to to generate pictures using artificial intelligence. Still, Midjourney remains one of the best and one of the most popular options, having launched in beta form in July 2022.

Fallout's a pretty good show, and one of the big reasons why is the ever-reliable Walton Goggins. As the Ghoul-or Cooper Howard, once upon a time-he's a menace to Lucy and everyone else throughout the season, while being enjoyable to watch both in the irradiated present and the pre-nuclear past. Creating him and...Read more...

The Power Rangers have been doing their thing for decades, but recent times have been kind of all over the place. While the Boom! comics have been going for nearly a decade in the Mighty Morphin time period under a rotating roster of creators, Hasbro hasn't done a lot with the larger property. But a new beginning is...Read more...

You've gotta hand it to Marvel Studios: it sure knew how to make its movies feel like big events back in the day. After the original Avengers dropped in 2012, nearly every entry aimed to be bigger in some way, like the entire enterprise was obsessed with topping itself. Sometimes this was in pursuit of greater thematic...Read more...

Kingom of the Planet of the Apes is one of this summer's big blockbusters, and with its release in a few weeks, that means its time to up its promo game. We've gotten plenty of trailers and posters, and there are standees in theaters, but that's apparently not enough. 20th Century has decided that we need to see some...Read more...

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It's been a minute since we've last heard anything about Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, hasn't it? The series from Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts was first teased in 2022, and save for details and footage provided during last year's Star Wars Celebration, there's been no real mention of it since. But according...Read more...

If you thought that Excel spreadsheets were just for mind-numbing office work, think again. A gaming hobbyist has created an Excel-based RPG game that he based on the popular post-apocalyptic game Fallout. It's the end of the world, all over again.

Welcome back to the week that was in io9's coverage of the latest, and greatest, in pop culture news. It's been a busy week, as the highly anticipated new trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine brought with it oodles of insight and analysis on its comic book connections-but that's not all. Check out the other big stories we...Read more...

In the tech world, developer conferences are like birthdays. These mega-events happen annually and remind us of the cadence of life and that time is a neverending circle. Google I/O 2024 will be no different.