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The 2024 summer movie season is now in full swing. Already we've seen flying stuntmen and talking apes invade local theaters-but that's merely the tip of the iceberg for what promises to be a very unique few months to come. This summer, the number of mega franchises is way down, the number of superhero movies is way...Read more...

Google I/O 2024 is nearly here. If you're a proud Green Bubble or curious about what's next from the ecosystem, you'll want to set aside some time for next week's annual developer's conference. It's happening May 14-15, with a live-streamed keynote on May 14, 2024, at 10:00 A.M. PT / 1.:00 P.M. ET.Read more...

In just one week, you'll be able to stream Dune: Part Two on Max-and considering how well Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi sequel based on Frank Herbert's legendary story did at the box office, it's likely not going to be your first time watching it.

Oh, there it is. Jupiter's unassuming moon Amalthea was spotted in two recent images captured by NASA's Juno probe.Read more...

It's almost the most wonderful time of the year-when instead of going out into the blazing heat of summer, we can stay inside where it's nice and cool, read a bunch of comics, and still get the seasonal best of both worlds thanks to DC's annual celebration of cake in all its beef and/or cheese varieties in the swimsui...Read more...

Wisconsin has officially become the first state to buy bitcoin, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. And while $98 million isn't considered a lot of money for a state pension fund, it's still a notable move given how notoriously volatile cryptocurrency investing can be.

This summer, it's time to return to Westeros. House of the Dragon season two is coming to HBO on June 16 and the latest trailer just dropped. In it, there's plenty of drama, intrigue, old characters, new characters, and yes war is coming.Read more...

GameStop stock was once again skyrocketing Tuesday, a day after the return of Roaring Kitty - the American investor known for his Reddit posts - drove the shares sharply higher and brought meme stock mania back to the market.Read more...

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory continues the adventures ofAmblin and Netflix's hit animated seriesJurassic WorldCamp Cretaceous, taking place during the events and aftermath of the Jurassic World films.Read more...

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Sydney Sweeney's Barbarella movie might have found its writers. Chris Pratt has very high hopes of an MCU return-and a DC debut. Planet of the Apes' producer wants at least five more movies of simian shenanigans. Plus, get a creepy look at David Cronenberg's latest film. Spoilers, away!

Sharks, glorious sharks. One of the trinity that makes up elasmobranchs, a group of cartilaginous fish that includes sharks, rays, and skates. Sharks get their fair-actually unfair-share of hate for negative portrayals in media, especially of great white sharks, but the animals are intelligent denizens of all the...Read more...

An unknown number of orcas sunk a sailing yacht in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar on Sunday, according to Spain's maritime rescue service. While orcas are typically peaceful, this is the latest in a string of attacks that have hit the region in the past four years.Read more...

Hasbro's been on a tear with Transformers mashups in the last few years, giving us transforming robot takes on Dracula, the vehicles and dinos of Jurassic Park, and even the Ninja Turtles. But the series' next mashup isn't a robot... it's a spinning top.

Results from the longest-running trial of semaglutide-the active ingredient in the popular drugs Ozempic and Wegovy-are in, and the verdict is decidedly positive. The study found that people taking semaglutide tended to maintain their initial weight loss for up to four years. Other trial data presented this week also...Read more...

The debut season of Amazon's lavish Lord of the Rings prequel, Rings of Power, played a long game to get to whole bunch of questions it left off for season two. Well, now our first look at the sophomore season is here, and at least one of those questions is being pretty resoundingly answered. Where's Sauron? Here's...Read more...

The last time Lego ventured there and back again to its Lord of the Rings line, we found ourselves at the House of Elrond, a bastion of all that is good in Middle-earth as Rivendell became the first Lord of the Rings set after years of absence. Now, a year later, the brick-builder is back... with something altogether...Read more...

Apple and other streaming companies are interested in shaking up the entertainment industry's compensation model. According to Bloomberg, under the newly proposed system (which is really only an idea, at this point), talent-like actors and other production staff-would be paid based, partially, on how well the movie...Read more...

The past decade has seen humanoid robot makers trying to make their creations more and more like humans. But here in 2024, we seem to be witnessing an odd shift in the dexterity of our bipedal robo-dreams. Put bluntly, robotics companies aren't afraid of getting weird with the contortions of their latest offerings.

Maguire. Garfield. Holland. And now, Cage.Read more...

This last big Apple release was such a doozy that you'd be forgiven for only paying attention to the siren call of a new OLED iPad. I've had the chance to get intimate with these new tablet products and accessories, and believe it or not, it's not the ultra-luxury, uber-expensive tablet that's made me the most...Read more...

Dune: Part Two was a hit, so while it's a little surprising there's been no official announcement on expected third movie Dune Messiah, here's a consolation: the first update in awhile on Dune: Prophecy, the Bene Gesserit-centric prequel series (originally titled Dune: The Sisterhood) in the works at Max.Read more...

OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o on Monday, showcasing the real-time audio features that make it seem like Spike Jonze's film Her is now becoming a reality. Just like in the movie, OpenAI gave ChatGPT a dynamic, friendly, and arguably flirty, voice that truly sounds just like a human. I'm going to make an early and somewhat...Read more...

Season two of Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire picks right back up with Louis (Jacob Anderson), now joined by fellow vampire Armand (Assad Zaman), as he recounts to Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) what happened when he and Claudia (Delainey Hayles)fled to Europe after leaving Lestat (Sam Reid) for dead.Read more...

On Friday, Earth was hit by the strongest geomagnetic storm in 20 years. Intense solar activity sent bursts of radiation toward Earth, causing fluctuations in the upper atmosphere that led to disruptions in the power grid and radio blackouts, among other technologies and infrastructure.

The summer movie season is here-and, before we dive into what's in store for 2024, let's turn the clock back 40 years to one of the best summers of all time: 1984. *Jumps in Time Machine*Read more...

Gen Z is making less than millennials made a decade ago at the same age.

I often use the iPhone's Voice Memos at product briefings for interviews. As you can imagine, transcribing a 20-minute recording could be tedious. Thankfully, AppleInsider has learned of an AI-powered update coming to the Voice Memos and Notes apps on iPhone that will soon be able to transcribe and summarize voice...Read more...

American philanthropist Melinda French Gates will resign from her post as co-chair of the Gates Foundation, the organization she co-founded with her ex-husband Bill Gates.Read more...

A new Wicked trailer is coming Wednesday, and with that announcement comes a brief featurette showing director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights) sharing his excitement for the Wizard of Oz-inspired musical-but mostly focuses on stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, including their emotional, adorable...Read more...

OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) during its Spring Update on Monday morning in San Francisco. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and OpenAI staff showcased their newest flagship model, capable of real-time verbal conversations with a friendly AI chatbot that convincingly speaks like a human.Read more...

The fact that a show about a devious witch has us so confused feels completely on brand. It started back in late 2021 when Marvel revealed it was working on a WandaVision spinoff series focused on Kathryn Hahn's breakout character, Agatha Harkness. Since then, the show has had at least four publicly announced titles,...Read more...

Health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin issued air quality warnings on Sunday after the smoke from wildfires raging in western Canada started to reach the Upper Midwest. And it's causing plenty of anxiety in people across a large swath of the U.S. who are dreading the idea of spending yet another summer choking...Read more...

In the tech world, developer conferences are like birthdays. These mega-events happen annually and remind us of the cadence of life and that time is a neverending circle. Google I/O 2024 will be no different when it kicks off on Tuesday, May 14.

Doctor Who is one of the most malleable shows on Earth. Its heroes change every few years, its titular one literally transforms into someone new. Every week a different time, a different space, a different tone-and a new chance to deliver a story that's also wildly malleable in quality. Doctor Who is about...Read more...

Earlier this month, South Carolina resident Brent Norman had an especially unlucky time at the beach.Read more...

You've got questions and Wes Ball has answers. His new film, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, opened this weekend and io9 recently sat down with the director to talk all about it. We've covered all the non-spoiler stuff already but below, we dive into the film's surprising prologue, some big character revelations,...Read more...

Most folks who walk into a room with an 85-inch TV, let alone a 98-inch TV, offer one of two impressions, often verbalized with some screech of surprise. One is, Wow, look at the size of that thing." The other is, That's just too damn big." TV Maker TCL, a company more known as the quality brand for those looking...Read more...

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Ahmed Best-the man who brought Jar Jar Binks to life and then faced decades of horrifying harassment for it-shouldn't have needed a Star Wars redemption arc, but he arguably has had one of a sort in the last few years, beyond a renaissance of prequels re-examination, in the form of Kelleran Beq: the Jedi gameshow host...Read more...

GameStop and other meme stocks surged wildly on Monday morning as Keith Gill returned to social media. The leader of the 2021 meme-stock mania, also known as Roaring Kitty and Deep Fucking Value, sent a single tweet on Sunday night that shook the universe of meme stocks, as their fearless leader signaled a second...Read more...

OpenAI will livestream updates to ChatGPT and GPT-4 on Monday at 1 p.m. ET. In a Friday tweet, CEO Sam Altman rejected several reports that OpenAI is launching a search engine or GPT-5 at the event. However, Altman announced something that feels like magic" is coming to ChatGPT.Read more...

This article was updated on 5/13/2024 to include Edifier's QR65 speakers.Read more...

There's a lot of really interesting things going on in Fallout's first season, but few are as immediately fascinating as Walton Goggin's mysterious hunter-known only to the inhabitants of the Wasteland as The Ghoul," but to audiences as the pre-war actor Cooper Howard. It's a mystery that works thanks to an...Read more...

Google's Pixel releases are giving a major case of deja vu. I bought the Pixel 8 in October, but the Pixel 8a feels like nothing more than a reprise, save for the camera hardware and a few other bits. This speaks to Google's slightly confusing trajectory regarding its hardware. As a two-time buyer of the first-tier...Read more...

OpenAI is gearing up for a much-anticipated spring update to GPT-4 and ChatGPT on Monday, and multiple reports are pointing to voice as the next frontier for Sam Altman's AI company. On Friday's episode of the All-In podcast, Altman indicated that voice-based AI systems, much like in the 2013 film Her," could be a...Read more...

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Tech giant Apple is poised to see its first-ever strike on its retail operations after staff at a store in Maryland voted to authorize a strike against the company.Read more...

If you haven't seen before why eight buffalo' strung together form a valid English sentence, then strap in for a linguistic trip. Buffalo has at least three meanings: as a collective noun it refers to bison, as a proper noun it's a city in New York, and as a verb it means to bewilder. The eight-buffalo sentence uses...Read more...