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Ever since Doctor Who teased the arrival of someone else named Rose in the world of adventures of time and space, fans have been speculating about who she really is. And while it's not quite the child of the Bad Wolf just yet, it's still nice to learn a little more about her.

Meta, the benevolent maker of Facebook, is solving the most important problem in the tech industry, one that every person on the internet definitely knows and cares about. At long last, the characters in Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse are getting legs. Sort of.

On Star Wars Rebels, Sabine Wren never gave off strong Jedi vibes. She occasionally used a lightsaber, and she was incredibly badass, but there was never any indication she was Force-sensitive. It was a piece of information that felt at odds with the revelation of her becoming the apprentice of Ahsoka Tano on Ahsoka....Read more...

A rapidly spinning dead star's wacky fluctuations in brightness are due to the extreme environment surrounding the object, according to a team of astronomers who observed it.Read more...

Google researchers may have finally found a tech solution for the laborious task of training stubborn dogs to listen to commands. That is, of course, if you're willing to opt for a robot dog.

Our Flag Means Death, the sleeper hit pirate romance/comedy that is loosely" based on the true lives of two infamous pirates-Ed Blackbeard" Teach and Stede Bonnet-returns with an official teaser trailer for season two. As Taika Waititi's Blackbeard deals with heartbreak and Rhys Darby's Bonnet (The Gentleman Pirate)...Read more...

Two fans of Ana de Armas, Peter Michael Rosza and Conor Woulfe, last year won the ability to take Universal to court over a misleading trailer" for the film Yesterday. The trailer they saw featured de Armas, but the movie they watched did not. The main argument they gave was: are trailers artistic expression, or ...Read more...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Tesla vehicles for an Elon Mode" feature that allegedly lets the driver-assistance system take over for drivers for an extensive amount of time. The administration ordered Tesla to hand over data surrounding its Autopilot feature in a July 26 ...Read more...

We have to keep it cool," Jonny (Kiah McKirnan) insists in this clip from Jennifer Reeder's new horror film Perpetrator. That request is difficult for the kid she's with-because as you can clearly see, there's something very weird about Jonny's suddenly shape-shifting face.

As we slide down into September, Apple hype is reaching its peak. Now that Apple has announced its Wonderlust" event will take place Sept. 12, aficionados already have a vague idea what the next iPhone's default wallpaper will look like.Read more...

The Chandrayaan-3 rover is the first to leave its track marks on the Moon's south pole, and the six-wheeled explorer has made a breakthrough discovery that could have major implications for establishing a future lunar habitat.Read more...

Yes, we've had Detective Pikachu, and Netflix is about to get into the TV business of Pocket Monstering with Pokemon Concierge, but another new TV adventure is on the way for the iconic gaming franchise-although not exactly ni the form of adaptation.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall over Florida this morning as a high-end Category 3storm with maximum sustained winds over 100 miles per hour.Read more...

Rosamund Pike teases a more human turn for Moraine in Wheel of Time's second season. A Lego Jurassic Park special is coming to Peacock. Plus, LaKeith Stanfield takes on Nazareth's other disciples, and hints for the final episodes of Doom Patrol. Spoilers now!

Samsung Electronics is releasing a food and recipe app powered by AI with 160,000 recipes readily available to users, the company announced on Wednesday. The app, called Food, builds on its previous acquisition of Whisk, a food database that Samsung acquired in 2019.Read more...

Sometimes, product leaks feel like shots in the dark, dependent on sources of dubious nature who have all the motivation and ability to fake people out. And then there's Google, who seems a little bit too willing to drop hints of its still-unannounced Pixel 8 Pro phone. The tech giant accidentally uploaded an image of...Read more...

You read that correctly. A team of scientists just tested wild boar meat from Southern Germany and found that radioactivity in the boars stemmed from nuclear weapons testing, rather than the Chernobyl power plant disaster of 1986.Read more...

At turns action-packed and emotional, One Piece is really working hard to convince fans that it's going to do right by the manga. With some epic lines and Luffy's non-stop positive attitude, the newest trailer-released less than a day before the series goes wide on Netflix-shows the Straw Hats fighting Vice-Admiral...Read more...

One of the coolest little tricks you can do to make your TV image look better is to add some bias lighting. That means your screen is backlit, usually with a gentle glow behind it, which makes colors pop more and makes blacks look deeper. It's an old trick, but one that has some newer spins with smart lighting systems...Read more...

I love the Fairphone's ethos. It's an Android-powered, modular smartphone that you can repair yourself. The company, same name as its product, launched its fifth-generation flagship, the Fairphone 5, and the device is Fairphone's most polished productyet, with an OLED display, increased water resistance, and a bigger...Read more...

It's nearly time to return to the galaxy far, far away for the week, with Ahsoka's third episode dropping tonight on Disney+. But while we wait to talk all things spoiler, why not stay a while and whet your Star Wars appetite with a little dogfighting?

Before anyone goes screaming to the comments, we know it's not a space guitar-it's a Baliset, the nine-stringed instrument played by Josh Brolin's Dune character, Gurney Halleck. Fans who hoped to glimpse it in Denis Villeneuve's first film now have even more reason to count down the days to the sequel, because the...Read more...

With a new ride coming on one side and a new restaurant on the other, it makes sense that Disney has decided to add some new blood outside one of its most iconic rides: the Haunted Mansion.Read more...

It's a bad day to be named Bob and be a current or onetime CEO of Disney. As Deadline reports, Bob Iger and Bob Chapek are among the names attached to a lawsuit filed by investors over the alleged sleight of hand accounting the company used to hide streaming losses."Read more...

Meta has rejected its own Oversight Board's recommendation to immediately suspend the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Cambodia's former Prime Minister Hun Sen, an authoritarian dictator who refers to political dissidents as dogs and has been accused ofusing Meta's platforms to incite violence. The decision marks a...Read more...

Not many movies could be re-released in theaters after 30 years and still make a dent at the box office, but not many movies are Jurassic Park. This past weekend, Universal Studios celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Steven Spielberg classic by re-releasing it in 3D on over 1,200 screens. And while it didn't quite...Read more...

Twitter, rebranded as X, is bringing political ads back to its platform for the first time since 2019, the company announced on Tuesday. The move comes ahead of the 2024 presidential election and Twitter claims it is hiring employees to expand Twitter's safety and election teams.

Jupiter's orbit is swarming with nearly 100 moons, but none are as hardcore as the volcanic world Io. That's why it's going to take an iconic collaboration to truly probe the odd satellite in order to unravel its many mysteries.Read more...

With a limited amount of pre-press happening for new shows right now due to the strikes, this Inside Look" featurette teasing Apple TV+'s The Changeling may be one of few tidbits you can watch before the show arrives September 8. But that's not necessarily a bad thing for this eerie adaptation of Victor LaValle's...Read more...

Insects are cool (if you look past all the legs). They break down dead things by eating them and pollinate plants so that we can grow enough crops to feed the world. Conservation encourages us to protect wildlife, especially bugs that are now looking down the barrel of an insect apocalypse.

Here's some extra material for your nightmares: In a case report out this week, a group of scientists say they've found a new species of roundworm that's capable of infesting our brains-one that normally plagues snakes. The discovery was made when they extracted a living worm from an Australian woman's head during...Read more...

What happens when movie theaters slash ticket prices drastically for one day only? Apparently, people turn out in droves.Read more...

McDonald's busted ice cream machines have long been a meme across cyberspace, but iFixit wants to put an end to it. The popular how-to tech website is appealing to Congress after applying to circumvent a copyright law that prevents the average Joe from fixing the problem.Read more...

Ahsoka is here at last, and with it, the deluge of Star Wars tie-in merchandise that is customary any time the galaxy far, far away even twitches in the presence of new media. As part of a livestream today Hasbro revealed a ton of new toys and figures based on the series after teasing some at San Diego Comic-Con this...Read more...

YouTube is changing its community guidelines to give creators more leeway for violating its content rules, the company announced on Tuesday. Content creators will now have the opportunity to take an educational training course that reviews why their video violated the guidelines. The move comes as social media...Read more...

Meta says it has identified and removed more than 7,700 shady accounts and 990 pages on Facebook linked to Chinese law enforcement in what the company is calling the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world." The accounts, which tended to boost positive commentary about Chinese policies...Read more...

If you're looking for a mysterious, fun, and rewarding sci-fi show to add to your watch list, may we suggest Silo on Apple TV+? Yes, we know it came out a few months ago. But there's so much TV out there these days that sometimes it takes a while to hear enough good things before you finally devote the time to a new...Read more...

On TikTok, between the get ready with me" videos, life hacks, and memes, a few robots are working on a challenge that many of us have faced at some point in our lives: beating Super Mario World. Over the past week, users have been live streaming an AI's attempts to learn to play Mario, and for one robot in particularRead more...

Not all who wander are lost, but some of those who wonder" do... lust?" Well, at least according to Apple, fans do seem to lust after whatever next product is coming down the road from its headquarters at 1 Infinity Loop. Now, the company is finally ready to share details about its upcoming iPhone 15 lineup, its Apple...Read more...

Lupita Nyong'o, an accomplished actress who starred alongside the late Chadwick Boseman in the Marvel franchise, Black Panther, posted a tribute to the actor on Instagram. Three years ago Boseman tragically passed away from colon cancer, a medical event that he kept extremely private up until his death. Boseman...Read more...

A team of Japanese and Peruvian archaeologists working in northern Peru's Cajamarca region have found the 3,000-year-old remains of a man they believe was a priest for the area's temples.

India is getting ready to launch its first mission to the Sun, switching its attention to Earth's host star after finally touching down on the Moon less than a week ago.Read more...

The world of the Massive-Verse's hottest hero is expanding: Inferno Girl Red, Mat Groom and Erica D'Urso's superhero comic series, has returned to Kickstarter for the second chapter of her journey, and io9 has a look at what fans can expect for the young hero.

Florida officials are warning state residents that more than two dozen gas stations may have sold contaminated gasoline, as communities prepare themselves for incoming Hurricane Idalia later this week.Read more...

Google's DeepMind says it has cracked a problem that has vexed those trying to verify whether images are real or created by AI. Researchers proclaimed their new watermarking SynthID format can be used to pinpoint AI-generated deepfakes without distorting the image's original quality. The catch is that the program...Read more...

Ahsoka has landed, and with it, a veritable pathway to an extragalactic bounty of merchandise. And maybe Grand Admiral Thrawn. But mostly merchandise! To celebrate the launch of the new Star Wars series, io9 has got your first look at some of the new-old Ahsoka toys that will be hitting shelves soon.

Another day, another company executive blowing more hot air-the CEO of one of the world's largest companies is coming after those pesky remote workers. Amazon CEO Andy Jassey has threatened remote workers with termination if they don't return to the office, saying there's no more room for disagreement.Read more...

The United States Transportation Department (DOT) fined American Airlines $4.1 million on Monday for keeping passengers on board amid delays that violated tarmac delay laws. The DOT found that 43 flights were affected between 2018 and 2021, leaving passengers on board planes for extended ground delays, without...Read more...

The Alien TV series has paused production. Ahsoka's credits sequence teases some mystery new planets. Another day, another creepy American Horror Story poster. Plus, get a look at what's coming on the What We Do In The Shadows season finale. Spoilers, away!Read more...

Apple is currently at the top of the heap of smartphones, at least in terms of the number of phone shipments. But for its next go around with the iPhone 15, the Cupertino, California-based tech giant is expected to ship more of its most expensive smartphone edition than any other version, according to a well-known...Read more...