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Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1987 action film The Running Man is based on a 1982 Stephen King story, but only loosely. The names are the same and the idea of a reality show where people are hunted and killed is there, but the film version is widely different beyond that. The upcoming remake, from director Edgar Wright and...Read more...

The 120-metric ton Starship rocket not only soared to the skies during its fourth test flight, but both stages also returned, with the booster landing in the Gulf of Mexico and the upper stage experiencing a chaotic reentry. This test brings the super-heavy lift vehicle closer to achieving reusability.Read more...

The Boys returns to Prime Video next week with a big election storyline-and the skewering of current events will be more present than ever in Eric Kripke's hit superhero satire. As the series enters its fourth season, the showrunner says he's totally fine with turning off certain viewers who aren't on board with that.Read more...

Gainax is one of the most legendary names in anime-the studio born from Hideaki Anno's collaboration with his fellow university students on the famous Daicon III short film that went on to spearhead legendary works like Gunbuster, FLCL, Gurren Lagann, and, of course, Neon Genesis Evangelion. But for many years, it's...Read more...

Microsoft finally addressed customers' and researchers' concerns about its auto-screenshotting, AI-enabled Recall feature. The company promises the screencaps will have more encryption, and you'll need to use your face, fingerprint, or PIN to access the feature. Most of all, the tech giant is telling anyone concerned...Read more...

Even though it's Star Wars, The Acolyte was a gamble. A new show, set in a new time period, featuring all-new characters played by actors you recognize but maybe don't know by name just yet. Its first episodes also held secrets that changed the entire trajectory of the story. If any Star Wars show wasn't going to hit...Read more...

Last year, one of the best aspects of celebrating Doctor Who's 60th anniversary-aside from the pretty great specials themselves-was Tales of the TARDIS, the special anthology-format retelling of classic Doctor Who episodes with newly recorded interstitials from classic Doctors and companions. Now, the series is coming...Read more...

One of the latest health trends on TikTok and other social media is mouth taping, which is exactly what it sounds like. By keeping your mouth shut at night, proponents claim, you can snore less, sleep better, and even have a fresher breath. But what does the science behind mouth taping actually say?

Just over three years ago Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty, became a Wall Street sensation, inspiring a pack of amateur investors to buy up shares of GameStop and briefly make it one of the world's most prized stocks. The Twitter account for Roaring Kitty started tweeting last month and people blindly ran headfirst...Read more...

When House of the Dragon season one premiered, its built-in audience of Game of Thrones fans noticed immediately a similarity between the two shows: Ramin Djawadi's iconic theme song. And Dragon's opening-credits graphics-while not identical-were certainly evocative of Thrones'. When Dragon...Read more...

Apple guru Mark Gurman from Bloomberg recently reported that Apple could likely release a dedicated password manager app in the next versions of its software for iPhone, iPad, and Mac: iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and MacOS 15. The intel comes from insider folks with knowledge of the Cupertino company's next steps and wish to...Read more...

The last time Hasbro asked you to throw down a lot of money to get a Star Wars toy made, it was to bring the crew of the Ghost, and their ship, to the Vintage Collection. Now the toymaker wants to bring things back down to earth-well, Tatooine-for something that's less swooshable, but pretty hefty as is.

Researchers tagging marine animals off Australia's Orpheus Island were shocked when a tiger shark they caught spat up an echidna, a grub-eating monotreme recognizable for its spine-covered body. Known for eating just about anything, it seems this tiger shark met its match.Read more...

If your TikTok feed has been flooded lately with hilarious references to a mysterious figure known as The Dirt Man," you're not alone. Carter Vail's song is just 30 seconds long but has inspired covers, jokes about wives puzzled by their husbands' new bedroom habits, and practically an entire Dirt Man Extended...Read more...

Microsoft is getting its own AI upscaling technology baked straight into Windows 11 that will appear on the latest Copilot+ PCs. It's called Automatic Super Resolution, or Auto SR, and it should work on any game you're playing on PC. While there's still a smorgasbord of potential pitfalls, it promises gamers they can...Read more...

Richard Sherman left a grand legacy behind after his recent passing; along with his brother Robert, he made the blueprints for what Disney music would become. But he left some surprises too, as we'll soon hear on Disney: A Recorded History.Read more...

Apple is expected to announce major artificial intelligence updates to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac next week during its Worldwide Developers Conference. Except Apple won't call its system artificial intelligence, like everyone else, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on Friday. The system will reportedly be called...Read more...

House of the Dragon's Matt Smith and Rings of Power's Morfydd Clark get into some creepy tree business for Starve Acre. Doctor Who shows off some feathery new aliens from its latest episode. Plus, when to expect the return of Daryl and Carol in their Walking Dead spinoff. Spoilers get!

Can you believe it's been 10 years since Netflix last made any big changes to its interface? A new TV app redesign will be rolling out to a subset of users on Thursday. It's a new Netflix for a new streaming landscape that's no longer just focused on movies and shows only but on live sports or even video games.

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io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED's current issue. This month's selection is The Waking Sleep of a Seething Wound" by dave ring. Enjoy!

From Oscar-winning movies like Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio to massive global hits like Arcane: League of Legends, Netflix Animation has been kicking all kinds of ass over the past few years. And, it seems, that's going to continue into the future.Read more...

We've had a vague inkling ever since it was first announced that part of Aardman Animation and Netflix's movie team up would include the next Wallace & Gromit film, of just what the film would be about. But now, we know its title: and that it'll feature the return of the criminal underworld's most infamous...Read more...

Costco is the perfect place to shop whenever you need a 3-pound tub of pretzels and four gallons of mayonnaise. Or, perhaps more famously, those $1.50 hot dog combos. But now those purchases will help the retailer target you with ads, according to a report from Morning Brew Thursday.Read more...

The official start of summer is a few weeks off, but try explaining the nuances of the seasonal calendar to that glowing ball of heat in the sky. With sticky, sweaty weather pulling into the station for the next several months, it's time to fire up some similarly scorching streaming titles.

Evidence of the Milky Way's past is encoded in wrinkles of stars, whose positions and movements have shifted as our galaxy has interacted with other galaxies, sometimes violently. Now, a team of astronomers say that the most recent of those cosmic collisions was billions of years later than was thought, making the...Read more...

The Acolyte's premiere this week introduced us a lot of new things-a new Star Wars era as yet unseen in live-action material, new ideas about both the light and dark sides of the Force, new delightfully weird droids and creatures, and of course, a whole new cast of characters. And one of the best of those new...Read more...

When Disney shut down Club Penguin in 2017, millions of disgruntled fans were left without a virtual, penguin-based world to call home. This week, Bleeping Computer reports that threat actors hacked into Disney's internal servers looking for old Club Penguin secrets, but ended up stealing 2.5 GB of up-to-date internal...Read more...

Earlier this year, the Oscars announced a new category will be awarded in 2026, honoring movies made in 2025, for Best Achievement in Casting. Now comes word that another well-deserving and essential group that's long been part of the moviemaking process may be next in line: stunt professionals.Read more...

After back-to-back failed launch attempts, a crewed Starliner capsule finally launched on Wednesday to deliver two NASA astronauts to low Earth orbit. Boeing is testing its capsule's ability to transport crews to the International Space Station (ISS), with Starliner set to dock to the orbital lab on Thursday.

Update 06/06/24 at 1:43 p.m. ET: This post was updated to include additional information from Nvidia.Read more...

Sony removed the 8K" label from its fresh PlayStation 5 boxes. This could either be an admission that there really was no point to promoting 8K or that it's saving its real 8K capabilities for the rumored PS5 Pro that could be coming later this year.Read more...

Paramount Pictures is teaming up with Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort for haunted houses based on A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II in anticipation of A Quiet Place: Day One. And yes, the studio hopes you can hold back screams while experiencing iconic...Read more...

A particular type of bird flu has now killed its first human. On Wednesday, Mexican health officials and the World Health Organization announced a confirmed case of H5N2 avian influenza in a 59-year-old man, who subsequently died from complications of the infection. The incident is the first lab-confirmed case and...Read more...

The Tesla Cybertruck might be little more than a punchline after six months on the road, but that hasn't stopped people from celebrating Elon Musk's vision for the future. So we shouldn't be surprised that some folks want to turn the Cybertruck into a cop car and have even designed modifications to make that a...Read more...

After two consecutive failed launch attempts, the crewed Starliner capsule successfully launched on Wednesday, June 5, carrying two NASA astronauts to low Earth orbit. Boeing is testing the capsule's capability to transport crews to the International Space Station (ISS), with Starliner docking at the ISS.Read more...

Researchers are using AI models trained on human speech to decode the secret language of dogs. The study comes from researchers at the University of Michigan, Mexico's National Institute of Astrophysics, and the Optics and Electronics Institute. The promising results, presented last week at an international...Read more...

It's not Android's equivalent to the iPhone's emergency SOS via satellite, but it'll do for now. Google announced that later this year, Google Messages will let you text 911 from your Android device, even when SMS isn't available. The company is teaming up with RapidSOS to enable the service via RCS. It will begin...Read more...

The Watchers is a brooding and chilling breakthrough feature film debut from Servant producer Ishana Shyamalan, based on the novel by A.M. Shine. The filmmaker invites horror audiences on a surreal trip into the forests of Ireland for a story filled with supernatural intrigue and suspense.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft developed more helium leaks on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) with a NASA crew on board.Read more...

It was the dragon chomp heard round the world-a world encompassing both the enraptured audience watching House of the Dragon's season one finale, and the in-show world of Westeros on the brink of war. As season two nears its premiere on HBO and Max, star Ewan Mitchell gave some insight into what's next for the...Read more...

Things have seemingly simmered down between the Walt Disney Company and the state of Florida after their years long back and forth over the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.Read more...

It's time for Starship to take flight once again, aiming to splashdown in the Indian Ocean on its way back from its fourth launch to demonstrate the rocket's reusability.

Humane, makers of the AI Pin,are warning customers to stop using its charging pod immediately. Humane claimed the third-party battery cells in the Charge Case were faulty and could pose a fire safety risk." Humane has yet to comment publicly, and there's no word on when or how customers will receive a replacement.Read more...

Suzanne Collins is ready to return to Panem again-and this time, it's for another prequel in the wake of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.Read more...

The Bride! adds a big new star in a mystery role. Alien: Romulus gets an unsurprising rating. Plus, Mattel wants a Monster High cinematic universe to happen, and what's coming on My Adventures With Superman. To me, my spoilers!

Cucumbers grown in Florida and distributed across the country have been identified as the likely cause of a Salmonella outbreak in at least 25 states, according to a report from the CDC Wednesday. The agency says 162 people who've become sick have been identified but that's likely a vast undercount of the real number...Read more...

Silicon Valley has always been a place for unconventional thinkers with big ideas, but in 2024, that includes former president and convicted felon Donald Trump. Two influential tech investors and hosts of the All-In Podcast, David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya, recently announced they were hosting a fundraiser for...Read more...

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Tim Burton's cult classic Beetlejuice is coming back in a big way with the release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequelstarring Winona Ryder returning as Lydia Deetz and Michael Keaton as the ghost with the most. To celebrate, Loungefly just dropped a first look at its upcoming collection inspired by the Warner...Read more...