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The crypto landscape has seen better days. Vitalik Buterin, the inventor of Ethereum, was apparently the subject of a hack that targeted his Twitter account and promoted a less-than-authentic scheme to drain people's crypto wallets.Read more...

Meta is reportedly building an advanced AI model equating to the efficiency of OpenAI's language model, GPT-4. The AI tool will reportedly produce text and analysis that will target businesses, in the the company's latest bid to compete with the flood of new AI models, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing...Read more...

Get a look at Disney's new Goosebumps show. Chucky heads to the White House in new pictures. Plus, another teaser for The Strangers Trilogy, and what's coming on Quantum Leap and FLCL Grunge. Spoilers, away!

Apple is hell-bent on becoming a closed ecosystem unto itself by designing the chips inside its own devices. With the upcoming iPhone 15 moving toward the A17 Bionic chip, the company's first 3nm processor, and Apple's desktop and laptops gunning for an M3 chip, the company headquartered at the end of 1 Infinity Loop...Read more...

If you're behind on what's happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here's a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don't forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same topic.

This week, superhero fans are finally going to return under the sea. Warner Bros. has just announced that Thursday, September 14 will bring the first trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the long-awaited follow-up to James Wan's 2018 billion-dollar hit, Aquaman. But you don't have to wait that long to see a...Read more...

Franchises have been the name of the game in Hollywood for years, and Warner Bros. has been franchise-heavy more than most. Between various DC movies, the different Conjuring films, and whatever else, the studio has had a big franchise push over the last decade. But for current CEO David Zaslav, the company hasn't...Read more...

Throughout the decades, various writers have taken Wolverine for one ride after another. And if there's one writer whose legacy looms large over the X-Men character, it'd certainly be Chris Claremont, who helped launch the character into being one of Marvel's key characters and a larger brand unto himself.

Back in July, Disney released its remake of Haunted Mansion, which didn't really light the world on spectral fire when it came out. Part of it was due to other big movies releasing in late July at the time and stealing whatever thunder it could've possibly had. (Not to mention, it was one of the first movies to hit...Read more...

There've been so many Batman movies over the last several decades, but Tim Burton's titular 1989 film holds a special place in the history of superhero films. It was the first Batman movie-or well, one of them-seen by many a generation, and its impact can be felt across future live-action takes on the character, Batman...Read more...

Burning Man, the transient bacchanal that attracts more than 70,000 partygoers to the remote Nevada desert for eight days every August, prides itself on its environmental bona fides. One of the festival's main operational tenets is leave no trace," an essentially impossible feat for an event of its size. The Burning...Read more...

Like other big Disney shows before it, Star Wars: Ahsoka has been the big point of TV discussion for the last several weeks. And now that it's hit the halfway mark of its story, Disney's taking an extra step to make the show feel more of a big event series than it already was.Read more...

It's that time of year where Disney uses its Destination23 showcase to unveil the array of changes that'll be coming to its theme parks within the next couple of years, and several of those will highlight some of the company's current (and biggest) releases. According to Disney Parks chairman Josh D'Amaro, these...Read more...

Since the death of manga creator Kentaro Miura in 2021, there've been questions about what would happen with his ongoing series Berserk. Last year, it was reported the manga would continue through the late artist's assistant team at Studio Gaga and his close friend Kouji Mori (who is said to know the full story from...Read more...

Throughout the Hollywood strikes happening this summer, the WGA has been frank in giving updates on its attempted negotiations with studios and the AMPTP. Said talks haven't really gone well on account of the AMPTP reportedly not operating in good faith or only wanting to meet some (but not all) of the WGA's demands....Read more...

On April 20, 2021, the spiritedly-named MOXIE experiment on Mars extracted 5 grams of oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, demonstrating a potential future capability of an established human presence on the Red Planet-and in other atmospheres besides Earth's, for that matter.Read more...

As the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue with seemingly no end in sight, members of those unions-as well as workers in adjacent entertainment fields-are feeling the sting of being without incomes. Fortunately, some of Hollywood's highest-paid figures have stepped up to help, including showrunner Greg Berlanti, archite...Read more...

At Halloween Horror Nights Orlando, Eddie Munson fans can eat their hearts out with Stranger Things treats, while The Last of Us survivalists can collect their FEDRA rations.Read more...

Tens of thousands of Burning Man attendees in Nevada's Black Rock Desert had to trudge through rain and mud last Friday and into last weekend after an unusual bout of rain in the region.

Just four hero" X-Wings were created by ILM to film Star Wars' climactic battle over Yavin IV against the Death Star-primary models detailed enough to be used for close-up shots and major action sequences. Now one of them, believed to have been missing for over 40 years, has been found-and is going up for auction.

Twilight of the Dead is coming, and the long-promised last zombie movie to come from the mind of horror legend George A. Romero, who died in 2017, now has a director: Brad Anderson, whose genre bona fides include 2001 creepfest Session 9.Read more...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is adding artificial intelligence tools to crack down on potential tax violations, the agency announced on Friday. The IRS claims it will be focusing on wealthy taxpayers who have used sophisticated schemes to avoid taxes," instead of burdening average people with no-change" audits.

Ready to meet all the new Apple products? Apple will announce its next generation of mobile products at next week's Wonderlust event. We'll know all about the new iPhone 15 onSeptember 12th. We'll also learn more about its companion accessory, the Apple Watch, which remains the best-selling smartwatchamongst the...Read more...

If you've ever had the privilege (or curse) of listening in on a corporate earnings call, you probably noticed that the executives behave a little mechanically. According to a new study that compared ChatGPT and other AIs to the human robots working in the C-Suite, sometimes that's a good thing.Read more...

This week's episode of Ahsoka, Fallen Jedi," had a lot of Jedi in it. Perhaps even more than you might have first noticed! But did it have fallen Jedi, as promised by the title? Actually, yes! In fact, so many of the Jedi in Fallen Jedi" could ostensibly be described as Jedi that have Fallen we've decided to run the...Read more...

It might be time for Americans to start eating more fiber. The U.S. is experiencing a shortage of laxative products, according to a report this week from the Wall Street Journal. One alleged reason for the short supply is extra demand from younger people-an interest apparently fueled by TikTok influencers touting the...Read more...

Today marks 57 years since The Man Trap," the first episode of Star Trek to be broadcast on TV, hit screens-and to celebrate, Kid Cudi is going where many others have gone before: a very peculiar brand deal.Read more...

NASA has come under heat for the increasing cost of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which space agency officials have finally admitted to being unsustainable and unaffordable, a new report revealed.Read more...

At the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of The Boy and the Heron, news broke that Hayao Miyazaki's retirement plans may have been announced too soon.Read more...

More than 50 years ago, the Apollo program was crafted as a result of rising political tensions between two competing nations. As a new group of countries and emerging space companies set their eyes on the Moon once more, they aren't going back for national pride but rather to further their space ambitions beyond the...Read more...

The new era of space exploration is opening entirely new possibilities, including the tantalizing prospect of mining for resources on the Moon and asteroids. Sounds exciting-and potentially very profitable-but the reality of the situation is that space mining is completely uncharted territory. Plenty of prospecting...Read more...

After nearly 800 days of political deadlock, the Senate finally voted this week to confirm Anna Gomez to fill a long-vacant commissioner seat at the new Federal Communications Commission. When the Democratic telecommunications lawyer assumes the role, it will give the party a 3-2 majority in the FCC for the first time...Read more...

Last week, Netflix's One Piece live-action show landed massive praise across the board from old fans and new viewers alike. As someone who hasn't ever encountered One Piece, and has not, in fact, ever felt any desire to pick up either the manga or any part of the anime (the manga, it must be stated, began serialized...Read more...

Spotify will offer subscribers a free audiobook trial for a limited time as part of its efforts to break into the market, according to people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported. Subscribers will reportedly have access to up to 20 hours of listening time per month without having to pay an...Read more...

On June 22, 2022, NASA's Swift Observatory spotted something curious in a galaxy over 500 million light-years away. It was a routine outburst of gas that a team studying the data now believes is evidence of a black hole intermittently gobbling up a star each time the latter draws near.Read more...

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Starfield is the hotly-anticipated, recently-released video game from Bethesda Game Studios, the company behind the likes of other open-world titles like Fallout 4 and Skyrim. Todd Howard's latest behemoth is a space exploration game in which you play as a planetary miner who stumbles upon an alien artifact, launching...Read more...

Sheldon Menery, former TCG journalist and the architect behind Magic: The Gathering's multiplayer Commander" format, has passed away after an extended battle with throat cancer.Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has officially closed its investigation into the inaugural launch of SpaceX's in-development megarocket, Starship. The company must now implement 63 corrective measures to secure its next Starship launch license from the FAA.

Hot weather is poised to kill many more Americans every year if current trends hold, recent research suggests. It estimates that the U.S. could see 200,000 temperature-related deaths annually by the end of the century in a bad but possible climate scenario-about five times the number of deaths seen today. We might...Read more...

Every month, the io9 Nerd's Watch rounds up the best sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles coming to streamers like Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Max, Paramount+, Peacock, and Shudder. Shudder's on the following list of streamers that specialize in more niche and cult offerings, but the rest are all...Read more...

ChatGPT's explosion in popularity may have been short-lived as the number of website visits dropped for the third consecutive month, according to data released by Similarweb on Thursday. OpenAI's ChatGPT took off in November of last year, surpassing 100 million users but started its decline in March, dropping from 8.7...Read more...

Scientists behind a Sun-observing probe applied a simple hack to one of its cameras, allowing them to peer into rarely seen regions of the Sun's atmosphere.Read more...

Ahsoka drops a new" poster for a returning Mandalorian star. Disney teases its new Goosebumps show. Netflix's new Spy Kids movie gets an apocalyptic new trailer. Plus, what's coming on Futurama and American Horror Story: Delicate. To me, my spoilers!

Rocket launches are expensive and laborious, but for decades they've been the price of doing business for space agencies hoping to get their latest satellite, telescope, or team of astronauts into the great blue yonder.

While traditional giants like Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance continue to contribute to space exploration with decades of experience, a new wave of ambitious and pioneering companies is rising.

A team of researchers exploring the seafloor off Alaska last week recovered a peculiar brassy-yellow object at a depth of over 2 miles (3.2 kilometers). The researchers still don't know what it is.Read more...

Humans have been exploring space for over six decades, and our ambitions are only increasing over time. In recent years, this drive has been rekindled with fervor, ushering in an era of unprecedented innovation and competition in the realm of space exploration.Read more...

Apple has just released a security update warning iPhone users to update their phones to iOS 16.6.1 to avoid becoming the target of a vicious malware attack.Read more...