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If the quantity of Rebel Moon we already have wasn't somehow enough, as he is wont to do, Zack Snyder has found room for more. Today, the director confirmed that both extended editions of his Netflix sci-fi duology will release on the same day this summer, all the better to numb your lower half with through the medium...Read more...

I am the person in my friend group responsible for all of our tech needs, and I take my job very seriously. I've got a spare power bank, an instant camera, and, most importantly, a Bluetooth speaker with me at all times, no matter the occasion. So you can understand why JBL's latest portable speakers can easily fit...Read more...

Saw XI's co-writer wants the film to have something to say. Peacemaker season 2 adds more to its cast, and confirms the return of a familiar comics face. Plus, The Boys' Jack Quaid teases the new season's Herogasm-topping gross out moments. To me, my spoilers!

It was just shy of a month ago when Keith Gill, better known as Roaring Kitty, began posting on his Twitter account giving some amateur investors hope that GameStop's stock would skyrocket in value like it did in 2021. On Friday, Gill had his triumphant return to YouTube with a live stream that in the end, lasted only...Read more...

Fidias Panayiotou, a YouTuber from Cyprus known for weird stunts, has been elected to the European Parliament, according to the Cyprus Mail on Monday. The 24-year-old secured third place in his election with 19.4% of the vote, as reported by the BBC, which means he'll become one of the six Members of the European...Read more...

At WWDC 2024, Apple unleashed a blitzkrieg of software updates to put AI, or Apple Intelligence," front and center in your iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

The Lord of the Rings can still make that precious, precious money. This past weekend, Fathom Events began a three-day marathon of Peter Jackson's original trilogy, with screenings of the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Saturday and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on...Read more...

Apple and OpenAI's partnership is only a few hours old, and Elon Musk is already going to war over it. The owner of Tesla, X, SpaceX, and xAI said he would ban Apple devices at his companies if Apple integrated ChatGPT at the operating system level, which the companies are very much planning to do. Musk, a founder of...Read more...

At the WWDC 2024, held in Apple Park, Cupertino, Apple demoed one of the most impressive updates that AirPods Pro has received in a while: Siri Interactions.

A complaint that Tesla has misled consumers with the name of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) and Autopilot features, brought by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, will be allowed to go forward, according to a report from Bloomberg Monday.

Nearly 20 years ago, astronomers observed a massive cloud of fine dust particles around a young star located just 63 light-years away from Earth. In recent observations from the Webb Space Telescope, however, the dust cloud had mysteriously vanished. Now, a new paper suggests the dust cloud may have been caused by a...Read more...

As unbelievable as it sounds, the iPad has never had its own Calculator app like the iPhone. That just changed with the iPad OS 18. When the new OS rolls out in the fall, users can finally do some quick math on the iPad and more.

For years, Apple has tried to make privacy a core part of its brand. The keyword here is tried," since multiple investigations (including one from Gizmodo) have shown that the company doesn't always live up to its lofty privacy promises. As part of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple rolled out several...Read more...

The Doctor's romantic history has long been a fraught topic for the show to dive into-but in its modern incarnation, the Doctor's identity as a sexual character, and how that interplays with their gender fluidity, has slowly but surely broken down barriers to allow interpretations of the Time Lord that broach all...Read more...

The Pleistocene Epoch-with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals-still looms large in Earth's rearview mirror, having ended a mere 12,000 years ago. Now, a team of researchers posit that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet's history may have been chilly due to a cloud in space that briefly...Read more...

Apple revealed its partnership with OpenAI during the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, integrating ChatGPT as a core technology in new iPhones, iPads and Macs coming later this year. Apple also officially unveiled Apple Intelligence, the company's homegrown AI products weaved throughout its operating...Read more...

The ability to freely walk around the Star Wars universe is closer than ever. Star Wars Outlaws, the new game from Ubisoft, is the world's first open-world Star Wars game, and brand new gameplay footage was just released at the company's event, UbiForward.Read more...

Taylor Swift, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and Shawn Levy walked into a Kansas City Chiefs game last year and the internet exploded. Surely, this was confirmation thatthe pop megastar would be appearing in the trio's upcoming Marvel movie Deadpool & Wolverine. Surely, it was happening.Read more...

Is that... the sound of midnight margaritas? After much speculation and some nearly forgotten rumors of a prequel series, it now seems ever more likely that 1998's Practical Magic, long a Halloween staple, will get a sequel. Hey, if Hocus Pocus can get two sequels, why not this other 1990s witchy favorite?Read more...

Glen Powell recently shared a shocking story about his sister's friend who went on a date with a cannibal. The only problem with his story? It sounds like an urban legend that dates back to at least 2001.Read more...

Over two years have passed since fans were treated to one of the most exciting and maddening cliffhangers ever on the Apple TV+ show, Severance. In that time, everyone has been dying to know what's next for the innies and outies of Lumon Industries. Well, the bad news is, we still don't know. The good news is the...Read more...

This past weekend, I sat down to bring an end to a story I have been following for the best part of the last 10 years of my life: Bungie's Destiny saga, told across two games, myriad expansions, seasons of living-game content, and many crushing highs and lows, came to what has long been shaped as its first proper end.Read more...

Molloy (Eric Bogosian) and Louis (Jacob Anderson) revisited their very first Interview With the Vampire meeting in Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape," directed by Craig Zisk and written by Hannah Moscovitch and Jonathan Ceniceroz. And what memories they are.Read more...

When it comes to Tesla, it seems like the only thing people want to talk about lately is the Cybertruck and its flaws. And while we can all have a laugh at that monstrosity on four wheels, the electric vehicle company has a problem with its growing parking lots of unsold Teslas in Austin, Texas. Telsa has struggled to...Read more...

Just as all eyes turn to Netflix and Fortiche to see what's next for season 2 of the studio's stunning League of Legends prequel, Arcane, there's good news for fans of incredible animation and physical media: the first season is heading home, and in ways we've never seen it on Netflix.

For Xbox, hardware is an afterthought. If you were like us and spent nearly two hours watching the Xbox Showcase, you came away disappointed by whats on offer for 2024. We are getting the same Xbox console hardware first released in 2020, though now with more storage. We could have had a handheld. We could have had...Read more...

During the early 1980s, the word tampon became briefly synonymous with terror. Doctors began to document cases of a then little-known condition linked to the feminine care product, called toxic shock syndrome. Thousands of such cases and around a hundred deaths were reported before the crisis was ultimately contained....Read more...

A rat with at least four testicles, one larger than its head, published in a scientific journal earlier this year. A pterosaur with a third foot sprouting from its wing. A museum posting a psychedelic Godzilla-meets-gecko on social media, while a more life-like illustration of the ancient reptile appears on its websiteRead more...

Apple's annual Worldwide Developer's Conference, or WWDC, is all set to be held from June 10 through June 14 at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. If you're not in person, youcan catch up on the Cupertino company's OS news online. Apple also posts an archive of the keynote on its website for folks who aren't...Read more...

A young female FBI agent with unusually fine-tuned intuition comes aboard an active serial-killer case her superiors have been unable to crack, and proves to be the missing piece that helps move the investigation forward. It could be The Silence of the Lambs-or, if you flipped everything inside out and added an...Read more...

If there's something we could all use to improve our lives, it's more time in the day to enjoy ourselves, see friends and family, and relax. One of the promises the wave of generative AI bots makes is that they will improve our day-to-day existence. So, does that extend to getting us all more free time?

Open your kitchen drawer and take out some tin foil. Twirl it into a cone - maybe even double-wrap it - and put it on your noggin. Do you feel safer yet? The tin foil hat is perhaps the most iconic headgear for conspiracy theorists. Wearing one signals to others that you're unhinged, have a deep distrust of the...Read more...

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai returns with a new name. Orphan Black: Echoes offers a new taste of what's to come. Plus, what to expect from the next episode of My Adventures With Superman. To me, my spoilers!

Almost exactly a year ago, I posed a card puzzle here that sparked a frenzy in the comments section. The solution to that puzzle was so counterintuitive that several readers rejected it outright. In honor of the approaching anniversary, it's time to stir up more controversy with two more surprising card puzzles.Read more...

Massive Entertainment's Star Wars Outlaws puts players in the boots of Kay Vess, a young crook trying to make a name for herself in the galaxy's criminal underworld in the gap between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Doing that means pulling off some small jobs to psych youself up for the Big Job, and...Read more...

Earlier this year, we got our first real look at Indiana Jones & the Great Circle. The game, coming from Wolfenstein developer MachineGames, puts players in Indy's hat between Raiders and Last Crusade, and has the adventurer hunting for mysterious sites around the globe that form a perfect circle.Read more...

It's only been about a month since Warner Bros. revealed it was working on a new Lord of the Rings movie. With Andy Serkis in the director's chair and mocap suit, the studio's fully set to get the Hunt for Gollum prequel film in theaters by 2026, and that's naturally got people talking about if any actors from the...Read more...

The first season of X-Men 97 may be over, but Disney's still got some goodies from the show it's selling to anyone still hit with mutant fever. Composers John Andrew Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart-aka the Newton Brothers-are getting their score for the season in vinyl from merch company Mutant.

Gearbox's Borderlands games are known for quite a few things, but the biggest among those is arguably its sense of humor. It was Borderlands 2 where the franchise's sense of comedy really took shape, and the series has since been littered with humor largely in the vein of crass or internet humor. No surprise then that...Read more...

Later this year, Disney is taking viewers back to the world of Pride Rock with Mufasa, a prequel to its 2019 live-action remake of The Lion King. If you find yourself wanting to watch the original animated version again, good news: that one's getting a re-release.

If there's one thing Tom Cruise knows how to do, it's be a movie star. Over the years, he's achieved a mythic stature as the last of a dying breed, from a time when leading actors mattered more than the characters they'd inhabit or the costumes they'd wear. However true that is or not, there's no denying that some...Read more...

Hoo-boy, it's been a while since we've heard anything about the Legend of Vox Machina, hasn't it? If you've been itching for some more Dungeons & Dragons fun courtesy of Critical Role's animated adaptation, you're in luck: the show is coming back starting October 3.

E3 may be dead, but its spirit lives on in the Summer Game Awards. Geoff Keighley's annual showcase was light on big blockbusters, by his own admission, but it was made up for with a variety of double-A and indie titles that caught everyone's attention. Here's the best of what we saw that fell in our wheelhouse in...Read more...

YouTube announced this week it will place new restrictions on the types of gun-related videos that can appear on the video-sharing platform, including a ban on videos that directly promote the sale of firearms and new 18+ restrictions on videos about 3D printing guns. And, as you can imagine, people who create...Read more...

It's almost the end of the developer conference season, and Apple is the last one up to bat. Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference, or WWDC, is expected to be ripe with announcements for iOS, macOS, iPad OS, and the rest of the software that keeps the walled garden fresh-even the Vision Pro.

Alan Wake 2 was one of the best games of last year, and now players have a reason to start up the game again. And this time, it has very little to do with Alan Wake himself.

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It's time to celebrate Father's Day and for those geeky dads, io9 has a guide for must-have gifts to show them they're special.Read more...

Before we get a sequel to our favorite animated movie of last year-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem-the brothers are heading to two dimensions, and TV, for a new animated series. And it seems like we're going to be getting them flying solo for a little while along the way, thanks to a nefarious new threat.

Alex Jones has asked a bankruptcy court for permission to sell the majority of his assets, including the conspiracy theory media empire InfoWars, in order to pay the roughly $1.5 billion he owes the families of people who died in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a report from the Associat...Read more...