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Apple and OpenAI announced a landmark partnership this week to ingrain ChatGPT into every new iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The agreement has obvious benefits for Apple, giving it the best AI chatbot on the market. However, Apple will not pay OpenAI to use ChatGPT on its products, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports on...Read more...

A few years ago, Lego dazzled us with its first ever Transformers set in the form of a completely transformable Optimus Prime-and now they're giving him a friend.

Your old man deserves to be spoiled with brand-new tech this Father's Day. Your dad doesn't need another mug or tie this year. You don't have to go broke trying to impress him, but if you want to splurge, we've got you covered, too.Read more...

Following the recent announcement of a live-action series at Netflix, Variety reports a new Scooby-Doo animated series (it's fourteenth to date) is also now in development at Cartoon Network. Described as Scooby does anime," Go-Go Mystery Machine will see Shaggy and Scooby-Doo unwittingly unleash hundreds of...Read more...

Andy and Barbara Muschietti's new horror label has snagged Zazie Beetz for a new movie. Superman set pictures introduce us to the Daily Planet. Plus, get a look at Zack Snyder's new animated project, Twilight of the Gods. To me, my spoilers!

Samsung's Galaxy Watch 6 is already a stellar smartwatch, so I'm confused about its launch of the Galaxy Watch FE. The fan edition" of the Galaxy smartwatch features only some of the bells and whistles of the flagship wrist wearable. It is cheaper, but not by much. It seems redundant alongside deals sprouting up for...Read more...

Yes, io9 used a very similar headline back in 2017 regarding a remake of The Crow-and Hollywood clearly did not listen; that long-in-the-works project is arriving in theaters this August. How The Crow do-over fares is yet to be seen (maybe Bill Skarsgard's Joker look will work magic?), but we must insist, yet again,...Read more...

Hopefully nobody was holding their breath for Marvel's Blade-already long-delayed, after being first announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019-to make its most recently designated release date of November 7, 2025. The Mahershala Ali vampire vehicle, which has so far weathered the pandemic, the Hollywood strikes, and a...Read more...

There is a lot to love about Deep Space Nine before it quote unquote Gets Good." The show's first two seasons are, in a lot of ways, about the things many praise DS9's back half for dealing with: the cost of compromising Star Trek's utopian future on the furthest fringes of its final frontier. But even then, few...Read more...

Alamo Drafthouse is a destination for moviegoers, but as the theater chain has struggled to stay afloat in this era of streaming, it needed someone to come in and save the day. The would-be savior is Sony Pictures, which has acquired Alamo Drafthouse for an undisclosed amount, first reported by Variety on Wednesday....Read more...

In a novel twist of fate, a not-AI photograph masquerading as an AI-produced image won third place in a fine art photography contest in its all-new AI" category. We're far more used to hearing about the reverse, where AI bamboozles poor art judges into offering awards for generated images. It's more than just a...Read more...

If you watched season one of House of the Dragon, you have an idea of what Lord Larys Strong (Matthew Needham) is capable of. For instance, he arranged to have his own father and brother murdered to curry favor with Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke), and showed not one lick of remorse. In season two, Lord Larys has an...Read more...

We've seen Logan's look in Deadpool & Wolverine in the movie's trailers and marketing-and courtesy of that boundary-pushing popcorn bucket. But a new Hot Toys figure gives us our best view yet of Wolverine clad in his full suit, including the cowl.

Over the past three decades, Pixar made a name for itself making animated films that perfectly thread the needle. On the one side? Vibrant, kid-friendly entertainment. The other? Complex, powerful, relatable adult themes. Wall-E is a movie about a robot, but it's also about love, loneliness, and the end of the world. T...Read more...

In heart-rending interviews this week, singer Celine Dion shared insights into her life with the rare health condition, Stiff-Person Syndrome, or SPS. But what exactly is SPS, and how do sufferers such as Dion best cope with it?Read more...

Elon Musk's social media platform X officially made like private on Wednesday, after The Verge reported it was rolling out the feature on Tuesday. Hidden likes, which were previously available to Premium users, is now the default for everyone on X.Read more...

Star Wars is filled with half-truths. Even as its fans crave the reliability of a rigorously defined canon, the saga has always played in the realm of mythologizing itself, and twisting what we've been told in new lights. After all, this is the story where Obi-Wan once defended himself to Luke as not a liar, but a...Read more...

Elon Musk reportedly had a sexual relationship with a former SpaceX intern, then personally moved her onto his executive team, according to The Wall Street Journal Tuesday. The report says Musk had sex with another of his direct reports in 2014, and a third woman left the company in 2013 after Musk asked her to have...Read more...

Donald Trump is embracing cryptocurrency ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election. The former President issued a rallying cry to Bitcoin miners this week to consolidate support from the crypto industry. Last month, his campaign began accepting crypto donations, calling the decentralized currency a reflection of Trump's...Read more...

Back in April, Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland revealed details about his pitch for a Game of Thrones prequel that HBO ultimately passed on. Now, according to Thrones author George R.R. Martin, a Pulitzer-winning playwright has joined the prospective new HBO series.Read more...

Waymo issued a voluntary recall of the driverless car company's mapping software on Wednesday after an unoccupied vehicle hit a telephone pole while trying to pick up a passenger last month. The company tells Gizmodo it's issuing an update to 672 vehicles and has filed a notice with the National Highway Traffic Safety...Read more...

Any movie that features giant creatures is bound to have an incredible selection of concept art-and now you can get a bound version of that art and more for the latest film in Legendary's MonsterVerse.Read more...

New research appears to highlight another tragic aftereffect of the 9/11 terror attacks. Scientists have found evidence that responders exposed to dust and debris from the collapse of the World Trade Center are more likely to develop early onset dementia. The findings also suggest that protective personal equipment...Read more...

Following an iffy docking at the International Space Station last week, Boeing managed to deliver a pair of NASA astronauts to the orbital lab. The stressful Starliner saga continues as the crew capsule developed more leaks in its service module. NASA is currently evaluating its ability to return the duo back to...Read more...

There's a tightrope every gaming laptop needs to walk, and it is truly so difficult to balance everything before tipping over one edge or the other. You want something that most people can afford, with all the bells and whistles, and you want it to feel good and look good. But price and performance are an inverse...Read more...

Adventure Time has managed to live on in myriad ways beyond the original show, from Distant Lands to Fionna and Cake-but now the series is preparing to make another big come back to the land of Ooo, with not just two new kids shows, but a brand new movie from a host of major animation talent.

An underground chamber near Chichen Itza's Sacred Cenote was found to contain the bones of 64 male children, new research reveals. Genetic tests revealed that at least one-quarter of the children were closely related to at least one other in the chamber and had similar diets as one another, indicating that members of...Read more...

This year's WWDC was loaded with announcements. We learned more about Apple's new AI, Apple Intelligence, and big updates to MacOS, iOS, WatchOS, Apple TV+, and Vision Pro. If there's one thing on my mind throughout the keynote announcements, it was, But X app already does that." By the end of the event, I had lost...Read more...

There have been as many failed attempts to get Superman onto the silver screen as there are Superman movies that actually made it-but Superman: Flyby is perhaps one of the most infamous, just for the sheer capacity of what-could-have-beens with the amount of people up for the titular heroic role. Matt Bomer was the...Read more...

Frank Grillo's new werewolf horror gets a release date. Get a creepy look at Nic Cage's new turn in the latest footage from Longlegs. Max still wants to bring The Conjuring to streaming. Plus, what's coming on Orphan Black: Echoes. Spoilers now!

AI isn't just running lots of your favorite software applications these days. In some parts of the world, it's actually running for office.Read more...

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The stars of Power Rangers may find it easy to morph, but Hollywood is finding it difficult to morph them into a new franchise. Filmmaker Jonathan Entwistle has been attached to the franchise since 2019, first as a film director then as overseer of a larger, expanded universe. That expanded universe was looking like...Read more...

The latest season of Doctor Who is barreling toward its end, and barreling toward things is something the 15th Doctor and Ruby have been doing an awful lot of in their debut set of adventures together. More often than not, we're joining them right as they're jumping out of the TARDIS and into their next romp across...Read more...

Despite the unrelenting pace at which its parent company, Disney, has been transforming animated hits into live-action remakes (coming soon: Mufasa: The Lion King, Moana, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Lilo & Stitch, Bambi, and more), Pixar has yet to take the plunge. And if Pete Docter has his way, live-action...Read more...

The ugly truth is that, if you could see the quality of the air you breathe in many places, you wouldn't go outside. But it's important to highlight the insidious presence of air pollution. Recently, a team of scientists and artists teamed up to do exactly that.Read more...

Nailing down an identity for Dragon Age has always been difficult. BioWare's dark-fantasy RPG series has evolved from being its more traditional RPG offering-compared to how it changed wider genre with the impact of Mass Effect back in 2007-from game to game, taking on different tones, aesthetics, ideas of narrative...Read more...

A recent outburst from the Sun sent a strong blast of charged particles and radiation towards Mars, allowing scientists to get a rare glimpse at how these events unfold on planets other than Earth.

Lord of the Rings is never far from the pop-culture front row, especially with Prime Video's The Rings of Power ramping up to its second season, Andy Serkis' Gollum movie in the works, Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning trilogy making a return to theaters, and the release of an especially intimidating new Lego set. But...Read more...

Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as Cancer Alley." The name stems from the fact that the area's residents have a 95% greater chance of developing cancer than the average American. A big reason for this is the...Read more...

Seth Rogen's foul-mouthed, R-rated animated food universe is back, and this time, it's bigger, longer, and possibly uncut. It's called Sausage Party: Foodtopia, an eight-part animated series coming to Prime Video on July 11, and the first trailer is here.Read more...

The Boys is back later this week and now we know when it'll end. Eric Kripke, showrunner of the popular Prime Video show, announced on social media that the next season of the show, its fifth, will be its last.Read more...

Star Trek fans just said goodbye to Discovery after five seasons, but the future is looking bright for the iconic sci-fi franchise: Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti has joined upcoming Paramount+ series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which was officially greenlit last year and is expected to begin filming this summer.

Any actor joining the Star Wars galaxy will tell you what they're most looking forward to. It's seeing their action figures for the first time. Well, io9 has your exclusive look at the cast of The Acolyte doing just that. Plus, one of the actors has a figure that has yet to be revealed. So let's reveal that too.

An emerging alternative to psychedelic mushrooms is more dangerous than advertised, public health researchers are warning.

If you were hoping that all those Apple Intelligence" features showcased during WWDC 2024 would make their way to your iPhone sooner rather than later, I've got some bad news for you. The best you can expect to see the new and improved Siri is 2025. Plus, you'll need the latest, most expensive iPhone to test...Read more...

All good things must come to an end-for us and the denizens of Piltover and Zaun alike, it seems. Netflix has just dropped the first full look at the return of Arcane, Fortiche's sumptuous League of Legends prequel... and confirmed that season 2 will be its last.Read more...

Spotify could be getting more expensive, but it'll actually be for a good reason.

Japan has formed a task force to investigate UFOs after the country was dubbed a hotspot" for strange aerial sightings by a Pentagon report published last year.Read more...

On August 24 in 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over three cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. According to most modern accounts, the story pretty much ends there: Both cities were wiped out,...Read more...