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Google tested out AI overviews for months before releasing them nationwide last week, but clearly, that wasn't enough time. The AI is hallucinating answers to several user queries, creating a less-than-trustworthy experience across Google's flagship product. In the last week, Gizmodo received AI overviews from Google...Read more...

Spotify recently emailed its customers, informing them that Car Thing will be discontinued and no longer operational after December 9, 2024. This oddly-named device is the streaming company's first-ever attempt at hardware and allows users to control Spotify in their cars via a touch-screen or voice commands.Read more...

Whatever Apple is cooking up in the kitchens inside of 1 Infinite Loop, it seems it's very interested in making a foldable, but only on its own terms. The Cupertino, California company is reportedly working on a folding MacBook that lacks any semblance of that annoying crease found on most other foldables.Read more...

Google parent Alphabet is reportedly making headway in its bid to acquire the $30 billion marketing software company HubSpot. That deal, which would be Google's largest-ever acquisition, is part of the company's strategy to compete with Microsoft in the cloud applications market.

Last week, Sam Altman apologized for OpenAI's contracts which threatened to claw back equity from former employees, claiming in a tweet he did not know this was happening and I should have." Now, documents leaked to Vox on Wednesday suggest Altman did know, showing that the CEO and other senior OpenAI executives...Read more...

A winemaker's renovation project in Gobelsburg, Austria, has led to the discovery of mammoth bones dating back up to 40,000 years, providing potential new insights into Upper Paleolithic hunting practices.Read more...

Aubrey Sitterson and Megan Hutchison's Archie Comics: Judgment Day returns for its second installment June 19, and io9 has a sneak preview today. The Archie Horror mini-series event takes place in an alternate version of Riverdale plagued by demons that-terrifyingly-often spawn from Archie's friends and loved ones,...Read more...

James Gunn's Superman gets an update. King Kong joins Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Plus, the Dexter prequel series casts its leads. To the victor go the spoilers!

Games are expensive, and for some, it's far too expensive to be a regular hobby. That makes shopping for deals that much more of a necessity. I'm here to offer a few tried and tested ways to find good deals on games, including legitimate ways to find games to play for free.Read more...

A qualification test of a Raptor 2 engine has resulted in a dramatic explosion at SpaceX's McGregor facility. The company has yet to comment on the incident, but it's unlikely to affect the upcoming fourth test launch of the Starship megarocket.

Live-action Star Wars is back in a big, big way. Thursday night, Lucasfilm and Disney held their big premiere for Star Wars: The Acolyte, the latest Disney+ show set in a galaxy far, far away and, so far, it sounds like people really, really like it.Read more...

Dog shelters are currently overwhelmed in many parts of the U.S., with some of the oldest dogs often at the highest risk of being euthanized. But now is a great time to consider adopting a dog, especially from a place like San Francisco's Muttville Senior Dog Rescue, which maintains some of our favorite social media...Read more...

A year after the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser took its last flight, here's a look back at the best of Disney Parks' bold venture into the immersive entertainment space-and why in the end, it couldn't quite work.Read more...

Put on your best white tux, smuggle a diamond, and throw on Anything Goes." May 23 is the birthday of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom-the franchise's weirdest entry,for a whole lot of reasons. And since it was released in 1984, that makes today its 40th anniversary. Happy birthday Indy!Read more...

Netflix is a go-to for must-watch series like 3 Body Problem and Stranger Things, but it's not really a cult movie destination. If you dig deep, though, you can turn up some offbeat sci-fi and horror gems. With io9's previous Netflix cult-movie guide now mostly outdated, here's a fresh list culled from the streamer's...Read more...

California is another state lining up to pass a law requiring adult sites to verify the ages of porn watchers.Read more...

There's a lot to be excited about when it comes to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Tim Burton finally returning to this wild world he created all those years ago. Michael Keaton hopping back into one of his most iconic characters. Finding out what's happened in the years since with Winona Ryder's character Lydia, especially...Read more...

In this economy, we could all use extra help. I am a coupon queen, saving money wherever I can and recuperating dollars and cents/sense as I make purchases. I'm already initiated into Google Play Points and redeeming them for cash and credit. This week, Google announced more ways to get free money. You will have to...Read more...

In developed countries all over the world, driving continues to get safer. The one exception to that rule is the United States, where driving continues to get more dangerous. Unfortunately, there are so many factors that make drivers in the U.S. more dangerous, there's no silver bullet that will magically fix things....Read more...

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Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old programmer who died of leukemia in 2006, is set to be the first millennial saint, according to a new report from the Catholic News AgencyThursday. Acutis created websites documenting purported miracles and has been dubbed God's influencer" since his death.Read more...

io9 has several acclaimed authors among its alumni, including Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Evan Narcisse, and Andrew Liptak. Another former io9-er, Linda H. Codega, will join their ranks early next year with the release of fantasy novel Motheater, and we're thrilled to be debuting the cover and talking to the...Read more...

Corn is a problem. Or rather, America's growing reliance on government corn subsidies to power our everyday lives. Beef is artificially inexpensive because farmers feed corn to cows, even though their digestive systems aren't designed to process it. Sweet foods are artificially inexpensive because high fructose corn...Read more...

Elon Musk shared his dystopian vision for the future on Thursday while remotely joining the Viva Technology Conference in Paris. An audience member asked whether AI would one day replace Musk, expressing real concerns about automation taking jobs-a situation many are already facing. The owner of X, xAI, Tesla, and...Read more...

It goes without saying that Star Wars fans are extremely excited for The Acolyte, which arrives on Disney+ June 4 to reveal a Jedi-centric crime tale set a century before The Phantom Menace. A new behind the scenes video reveals that The Acolyte's cast has equal levels of excitement about the series.

Do we live in an unusual star system? Astronomers have been trying to figure out if the Solar System is unique compared to other stars and their orbiting planets, and they just took a major step towards answering the longstanding cosmic mystery.Read more...

Google Workspace released an update today that could make video conferencing in meeting rooms a bit more convenient. With its new adaptive audio' feature, Google Meet will sync the mics and speakers of all the laptops in a room for an improved overall audio experience. It will offer setup without any input from...Read more...

It's that time of the year again-but warmer than average. Hurricane season is upon us and the National Weather Service is expecting above-normal" hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, which could portend a difficult six months for coastal states, the Caribbean, and eastern Central America.Read more...

X-Men 97 just wrapped up its first season on Disney+, and we're still trying to recover from the thrilling conclusion. To hold us over until season two, here are the best behind-the-scenes tidbits we learned from the new doc Assembled: The Making of X-Men 97 to geek out about until the show returns.Read more...

Forty years to the day after Steven Spielberg sent Indiana Jones on a mine cart chase, he's chasing his next movie, and it sounds like a biggie. The legendary director just set May 15, 2026 for the release of his new movie, which is being described as a new original event film." David Koepp, who penned Jurassic Park...Read more...

For the first time in more than a year, Tesla has released new data presenting how its controversial Autopilot driver assistance technology keeps its customers safe.

The ghost with the most has broken free to wreak more afterlife mayhem on the living Deetz family. The long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton's horror comedy Beetlejuice-perfectly titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice-arrives September 6, and we've got a fresh peek at the action in thanks to a brand-new trailer.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday sued Live Nation Entertainment and asked a court to break up the company over claims it has maintained an illegal monopoly over the live entertainment industry.Read more...

In July 2023, scientists launched the Euclid Space Telescope into orbit with a straightforward, albeit massive, task: to map the dark universe, revealing the dark matter and dark energy that we cannot directly observe but makes up the bulk of everything.Read more...

Many of the characters that appear in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga we've met before: Furiosa, of course. Immortal Joe. The War Boys. But one of the new additions, Chris Hemsworth's Dementus, is not only mad and exciting, he changed throughout the filmmaking process.Read more...

A newly discovered exoplanet, with its surface temperature estimated to be remarkably temperate, is suddenly one of the most intriguing objects in our immediate celestial neighborhood. This rocky Venus-sized world transits a red dwarf star, offering astronomers the rare opportunity to study whether such planets can...Read more...

Star Trek: Discovery has always had a bit of a problem with the penultimate episodes of its seasons-episodes that have to come to some sort of juddering climactic halt for whatever's happening that week, to set up the dire stakes coming in the finale episode the week after. At long last, as the series looks to its...Read more...

The cast of Jurassic World 4 expands. Street Fighter gets its first logo. Plus, Doctor Who hypes its strangest villain yet. To me, my spoilers!

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Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF, the disgraced cryptocurrency executive who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud, will be transferred from Brooklyn, New York, to Mendota, California, against his wishes, the Wall Street Journal reports.

We're still months away from the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, so while we wait, it might be time to travel to London. That's where the most recent piece of mythology in the series can be found and now, for the first time, we've got a real good look.Read more...

You've already set a reminder for Dune: Part Two's arrival on Max next week, and we've previously assembled lists of other genre movies the streamer has on offer. But don't forget about all the excellent genre series, too; House of the Dragon returns next month and Dune: Prophecy arrives in the fall, and in the...Read more...

If you think your T-Mobile phone bill is already pricey, there could be some bad news coming. The mobile carrier plans to increase prices on some plans as soon as June.Read more...

If you missed out on everything Microsoft announced before and during its big Build developer conference, let me catch you up. There are AI agents, new AI models, AI real-time translations, AI transcriptions, and-best of all-all new Copilot+ computers that are supposed to make these AI tasks available on-device. It's...Read more...

It's become exceedingly difficult to get your dog on a commercial flight, which is why a new, luxurious, albeit quite expensive, chartered air service for pets may be quite appealing to some pooch owners.Read more...

The Conjuring filmmaker James Wan is gearing up to build out another universe of monsters with 1313, a reimagining of the The Munsters for Universal. The Wrap reported the development of the project between Wan's production company Atomic Monster, Lab Brew, and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.Read more...

The state of Michigan reported its first human case of H5N1, commonly called the bird flu, on Wednesday according to a press release from Michigan Health and Human Services. It's just the third human case ever detected in the U.S. and the second of the current outbreak that has alarmed public health officials who are...Read more...

Besides the name Nolan," The Dark Knight and Fallout don't have much in common. One is based on a comic book, the other a video game. One is set in a modern setting, the other is post-apocalyptic. But Jonathan Nolan, co-writer of The Dark Knight and executive producer of Fallout, found the approach to one had a big...Read more...

This summer, there's going to be a hunt in Wakanda. io9 is incredibly excited to announce that writer Benjamin Percy and artists Chris Allen and Ken Lashley are teaming up on a new Marvel Comic called Predator vs. Black Panther, a four-issue mini-series that will debut on August 21.Read more...

An analysis of British road traffic accidents in a recent study concluded that battery electric vehicles and hybrids are significantly more likely to strike pedestrians than gas or diesel vehicles. According to data compiled from 32 billion miles of BEV and HEV travel and over 3 trillion miles traveled in gas and...Read more...