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An existing medication for multiple sclerosis could possibly be retooled into a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests. A team of scientists has found evidence in mice and human brain tissue that the drug ponesimod can reduce the inflammation and toxic amyloid plaques found in those with Alzheimer's....Read more...

Netflix has released the first trailer for Aardman's next movie: a follow up to the animation studio's beloved 2000 poultry jailbreak Chicken Run. As with all good sequels, it looks like a twist on the original-this time the Chickens have to break in to somewhere rather than break out.

Indonesia issued its first Golden Visa" to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a bid to bring in foreign investors who have impacted the country's economic development. The visa was launched only last week and will allow recipients to live in the country for five to ten years and they'll be fast tracked by immigration services.Read more...

Dan Aykroyd arrives in a new clip from R.L. Stine's Zombie Town. A new Nun II clip teases Valak's frightful return. Plus, confirmation of My Adventures With Superman's season 2 renewal, and what's coming on Invasion. Spoilers, away!

Twitter is dying, and billionaire site owner Elon Musk knows precisely where to point the finger-not at the mirror, of course, but at the Anti-Defamation League. The Jewish civil rights organization is just one of several watchdog groups that have accused Twitter of platforming anti-Semitism.Read more...

In recent years, drink chains have switched their single-use cups from plastic to paper to avoid plastic pollution and pile-ups in landfills. But according to recent research, the plastic cup that we feel good walking out of a cafe with isn't great for the environment either.

When the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team introduced its new Go-Ahead Entry" facial recognition authentication method last week, it was intended to decrease wait times and increase efficiency. In reality, according to Axios, it did just the opposite. Glitches in the system accidentally picked up the faces of...Read more...

More than in recent years, 2023 has been extremely busy for video games. That even extends to the summer, as giants like Final Fantasy XVI and Street Fighter 6 have occupied a season that's normally dry in terms of big releases. Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 pretty much dominated the entire month of August-and will likely...Read more...

In the run up to Disney+ series Ahsoka, there was a lot to be said about how the show will approach its titular protagonist's relationship to the Jedi identity-what it means to be referred to as such outside of the confines of the Jedi Order, and what it can be as Star Wars more broadly looks to rebuilding that...Read more...

Prime Video's The Wheel of Time brings Robert Jordan's fantasy realm to life with striking detail. Season two, which just kicked off last week, opens the story even wider, revealing new characters who bring menace to the screen just by the fierce way they dress-and accessorize.Read more...

New footage from season two of Loki begins with the God of Mischief nearly in tears. He may as well be Marvel fans because they've been waiting a long, long time for him to return and bring some order back to MCU.Read more...

As pioneers at the forefront of immersive storytelling, Animal Repair Shop and its consumer brand Infinite Rabbit Holes are working on next-gen consumer products at the intersection of the physical and virtual world with their upcoming at-home alternate reality board game The Arkham Asylum Files: Panic in Gotham City.Read more...

The only thing that's predictable about the summer movie season is that it's going to be wholly unpredictable. In the lead-up, it's easy to pick out what you think are going to be Hollywood's biggest stories. Oh, that new Marvel movie is going to kill it." Who isn't going to go see the latest Tom Cruise film?" But...Read more...

When Jon Strahd, the evil CEO of Ravenloft Studios, was defeated, the crowd at Universal Studios gave a huge roar. A group of 500 adventurers had shown up to picket at the worst [Hollywood] location," and about 100 were now engaged in a existential fight with a contemporary capitalist, a spin on Wizards of the Coast'sRead more...

London's Natural History Museum will reveal its Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit on October 13, featuring 100 images showcasing the biodiversity of our planet and how organisms interact. The chosen 100 images are the winners selected out of nearly 50,000 entries submitted from 95 different countries,...Read more...

Google's next flagship has leaked, and a launch date has been set. The Pixel 8 will arrive less than a month after Apple plans to release the iPhone 15. Smartphone fall is coming!Read more...

For the first time since Shin Godzilla, Toho's take on the legendary kaiju Godzilla is back in theaters at the end of the year with Godzilla Minus One-and if this jaw-droppingly chilling trailer is anything to go by, his status as one of the most fearsome monsters of the silver screen is still as potent now as it was...Read more...

AMC's The Walking Dead was on the air for 11 years, which may be too long, depending on your point of view. While the franchise isn't aiming to slow down any time soon, one of its big spinoffs is focused on Norman Reedus' Daryl Dixon. With the fan-favorite archer taking center stage franchise collaborator Greg...Read more...

The big talk of the town this weekend is Netflix's long-awaited adaptation of One Piece. For the most part, critics and audiences alike have been able to get on board with the live-action series, with particular attention drawn towards its cast and willingness to lean into the stranger parts of Eiichiro Oda's manga....Read more...

July 21, 2023 ended up becoming one of the most important days of the year once folks realized that Warner Bros.' Barbie and Universal's Oppenheimer would come out on the same day. Once that sunk in, folks decided to smash the two into a portmanteau forever known as Barbenheimer." Along with with memes and videos...Read more...

Though Tobin Bell's John Jigsaw" Kramer died at the end of Saw 3, the grisly horror franchise has had no trouble keeping him around, either via flashbacks or through several disciples and imitators. Saw X, due out at the end of the month, puts Kramer back in the spotlight by winding back the clock and placing itself...Read more...

Sure, I used to be like you, up all night paging through Instagram or TikTok. That's great for beginners, but I've moved on to the hardcore stuff. These days, when I'm passing time on my phone, you'll find me scrolling AliExpress.Read more...

Notion combines note taking with project management, and has earned many fans because of its intuitive, open, flexible interface-it can essentially be anything you want it to be, giving you a web canvas to make your own mark on. Whether you're just getting started with Notion or you've been using it for years, these...Read more...

Fast X came out at the start of the summer, and it was...kind of a mess in the worst way. But a genuine bright spot within that mess is Jason Momoa as Dante Reyes, the son of Fast Five's Hernan Reyes who's come looking for revenge against Team Toretto. He's silly, he's threatening, he's kind of a gay techno Joker, and...Read more...

Netflix's Arcane hit at just the right time when it first came onto the scene in 2021. Based on Riot Games' long-running and very popular MOBA League of Legends, the show won over critics and audiences alike with its animation, writing, and voice work. And since it premiered as Riot was gradually making clear its...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.Read more...

Much like the Naughty Dog games the show's based on, HBO's The Last of Us was a massive hit that secured a fanbase that's eager for season two to begin. Of course, like almost everything else, the Writers and Actors strikes have ground production for the zombie drama's second season to a standstill. HBO wanted to try...Read more...

It's been a strike-heavy couple of months, and now video game actors may get brought into the mix.

Sony is offering a new limited edition PS5 bundle tied into the upcoming Spider-Man 2 game. The bundle is available now, for $600, and includes a custom PS5 (really just custom outer panels), a custom DualSense controller, and a voucher code for Spider-Man 2, which you'll be able to download starting October 20...Read more...

Netflix's One Piece live-action series sailed ashore yesterday and audiences all over the globe are experiencing Eiichiro Oda's work for the first time. But for those of you who might want to go back to where it all began, or even read One Piece for the first time,you're in luck. Oda announced in an X post that the...Read more...

Halloween is still two months away, but September's list of new genre books has spooky vibes galore. We're talking witches, haunted houses, ghosts, and other frights (cursed records! Talking cats! End-of-the-world dinner parties!)-along a generous portion of non-horror fantasy and sci-fi releases too.

Season two of the Marvel Studios show Loki is still set to hit Disney+ next month, but everything after that just got thrown in a blender. Some shows are coming earlier, some are coming later, and some are not coming at all. At least for a while.Read more...

A city on the edge of ruin. Detectives on the hunt for the killer behind a mass murder spree. Colonia is going to need all the help it can get in Scott Bryan Wilson and Max Alan Fuchs' Kill More, a dark new murder mystery crime series from IDW... with a spacebound twist, as io9 can exclusively reveal.

As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter is not one to play with. That doesn't stop wandering comets or asteroids from testing the gas giant, occasionally crashing into Jupiter due to its enormous size and immense gravitational pull.Read more...

Meta is a multi-headed behemoth of a tech company, but for all its hungry maws, it is also somewhat predictable. Give it a problem like new regulations that will force it to be far more transparent about its targeted advertising business, and it will comply-but only on its own terms. The owner of Facebook and...Read more...

Hollywood truly is about to become Taylor's Version. Tickets went on sale Thursday for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, a nearly three-hour concert film based on the artist's most recent tour, and it reportedly sold about $37 million in tickets on the first day from the three biggest theater chains alone: AMC, Regal, and...Read more...

An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit against the company's founder Jeff Bezos and its board of directors for allegedly exercising bad judgement and not acting in good faith when selecting the launch providers for Project Kuiper.Read more...

A comet recently discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura is garnering attention from NASA and skywatchers alike.Read more...

Let's get streaming! Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.)

New research out this week is the latest to show that psilocybin-the active ingredient in magic mushrooms-can be a viable treatment for depression. The randomized Phase II trial found that a single dose of psilocybin combined with therapy significantly reduced people's depression symptoms when compared to placebo over...Read more...

You don't have to stray too far into science fiction or comic book tales to find examples of megalomaniacal tech businessmen creating their own utopian" metropolises, before-inevitably-everything goes to hell. Now several titans of Silicon Valley are hoping they can get their way with their own dream city that,...Read more...

If you've read Victor LaValle's 2017 novel The Changeling, you'll have a good idea of what to expect from Apple TV+'s new series. The adaptation starring LaKeith Stanfield and Clark Backo keeps mostly true to LaValle's pitch-black fairy tale-but not entirely, making some key changes that land with varying degrees of...Read more...

Hurricane Idalia barrelled through several states this week and could be the most expensive climate disaster in the United States this year according to analysts.Read more...

New Yorkers kicking back with beers and burgers this Labor Day weekend could have an unexpected guest hovering over their backyards. Starting Friday, the New York Police Department says it will dispatching drones to monitor potential disturbances at parties or other large gatherings. Privacy and civil liberty experts...Read more...

With the proliferation of generative AI, we've come to the point where technology has helped compound the sense of distrust in both media and politics that exploded during the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. Nobody is immune to deepfake suspicion, not even Trump himself.

Few could have predicted that Barbie would rule the summer, but we know exactly what's going to rule the fall. Welcome to the 2023 fall movie preview, io9's look at all of the sci-fi, fantasy, superhero, animation, and genre films coming to your eyeballs to close out the year. And while the season already lost a heavy...Read more...

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Brace yourself for the terrors of the Upside Down from Stranger Things and the clicker-infested post-apocalyptic world of The Last of Us at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood. io9 recently took a lights-on tour of both highly anticipated haunted houses at this year's spooky season theme park event.Read more...

Few filmmakers could ever, or would ever, release their new film without any promotion. But few filmmakers are Hayao Miyazaki who released his latest film, The Boy and the Heron, in Japan this summer without so much as a still image, let alone a trailer. It's coming to theaters in the U.S. later this year and now a...Read more...