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Each Planet of the Apes reboot has featured a central human in the conflict between the hyperintelligent apes and what remains of the human race. For the newly released Kingdom, our human proxy is Mae, played by The Witcher's Freya Allan. Though she initially seems like a regular feral human-who can't speak, as...Read more...

The second season of Peacemaker is currently filming, and James Gunn is now starting to slowly peel back the curtain on what to expect from the Max series' return. In the first real bit of casting news, it's been revealed that Frank Grillo will appear as Rick Flag, Sr.Read more...

After a seven-year hiatus, we're once again back in the world of the primates. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes continues the story originally started with 2011's Rise, but with a massive, 300-year time jump and new characters reckoning with what remains of Caesar's legacy. When it's been so long since we've had one...Read more...

We're about halfway through 2024, and we've gotten some solid showings of horror both on TV (like Chucky, Them: The Scare) and in the theaters (Abigail, Late Night With the Devil). There's more to come with the likes of Alien: Romulus and Speak No Evil, and Netflix is adding something new into the mix with Nightmares...Read more...

It's May, and that means we get an idea of what shows will or won't be coming back in the next year. For Apple, the streamer has decided to call it on Constellation, ending the series after a single-season run.

Roger Corman, producer and writer of indie and B-movies like Death Race 2000 and Sharktopus, passed away on May 9, per Variety. He was 98 years old, and said to have passed surrounded by his family.

There's a new human entering the Jurassic World franchise, and he's gonna be fighting for his life in this new film.Read more...

It's been over a month since Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire came out, and once the credits rolled, discussion pivoted to what was coming next. Were Warner Bros. and Legendary going to split the two monsters off into their own isolated adventures, or would they do another straight crossover?

New seasons of Doctor Who have always been a big deal, but this one has had even more anticipation behind it. Between Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor and the return of Russell T. Davies, there's been the promise of a bold, new era for the sci-fi series, which started on Friday with the two-episode premiere on Disney+.Read more...

Over the last few months, news has slowly come tricking out about 28 Years Later, which fans of the first two movies have been wanting for a long time. We know Danny Boyle's back in the director's chair with returning writer Alex Garland, and that Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Jack O'Connell are headlining...Read more...

Welcome back to another week that was-from jumping in hot with Battlestar Galactica's return to streaming, to our first look at our brand new Superman, and celebrating 25 years of Lego Star Wars, a lot's been going on. And that's before you get to the impending arrival of Furiosa, and... well, more Lego to drain our...Read more...

The Cybertruck continues to make us laugh with how bad it is, and now it's literally breaking people's fingers and slicing their legs. The strange, secretive AI model referred to as gpt2-chatbot" has resurfaced. Check out the rest of the big tech news for the week.Read more...

If you've been on the internet lately, it's almost impossible to avoid the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Rap beefs come and go, however, Metro Boomin's BBL Drizzy" may outlive it all. The track holds the number-one spot on SoundCloud's New and Hot chart with roughly 3.3 million listens. But even better, the...Read more...

This week, we got a first look at Apple's super powerful, ultra-thin iPad Pro (and iPad Air). Amazon also found a way to jam even more ads into Prime video. And finally, our review of the highly anticipated Rabbit R1 AI Companion. Let's just say it won't be replacing your smartphone anytime soon.Read more...

In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes in in-development rocket engine that NASA could eventually use to reach Mars in two months. Reporter Isaac Schultz details the severe geomagnetic storm warning and a new fusion breakthrough, while health reporter Ed Cara describes a previously unknown...Read more...

The Mandalorian and Grogu may have its first new cast member, and she's a sci-fi legend. Sigourney Weaver, the star of Alien, Avatar, and Ghostbusters, is in talks to join the next Star Wars film, scheduled to hit theaters May 22, 2026.Read more...

This week brought the news that all four seasons, plus the miniseries and the made-for-TV movie, of the Battlestar Galactica revival are now easily accessible on Amazon Prime. That addition means the streamer-which is already an excellent destination for sci-fi films-has even more reason to lure in fans of deep-space...Read more...

Yes, you just saw a statue come to life with state of the art Imagineering tech on Disney Parks' Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey, locatedin theFrozen Kingdom at Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs. If you want to ride this attraction sooner rather than later (it might be coming to Disneyland), you'll have to fly to Tokyo...Read more...

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Twenty-four years after it, alongside the X-Wing, launched Lego Star Wars' sublime Ultimate Collector Series line, the TIE Interceptor screamed to life this past weekend as Lego's latest big-ticket Star Wars model to celebrate May 4. You've already seen our thoughts in video form about the process of bringing the...Read more...

Over the next two weeks, I guarantee many of us will have at least two good hours. That's because, in the lead-up to Furiosa: A Mad Max Story, many of us will take that time and rewatch Mad Max: Fury Road. The 2015 George Miller film almost instantly became an all-time classic and a rewatch will add worthy context...Read more...

Hundreds of climate protesters upset with the environmental impact of Tesla's manufacturing plant in Grunheide, Germany broke through a police line and stormed Europe's lone Gigafactory on Friday, according to several reports on social media. The protesters were stopped at a fence and failed to get inside the plant,...Read more...

Jan Sramek, the CEO behind the controversial California Forever project, appeared at Bloomberg's annual tech conference in San Francisco on Thursday. He was treated to a not-exactly-amiable discussion with one of the outlet's reporters, Karen Breslau. For the most part, Sramek tried to keep it together as he was asked...Read more...

When audiences last saw Rey Skywalker, she announced her new name and the credits rolled. What specifically she'd do next, how she was feeling, andall that kind of stuff was left for the future. Nowwe know that future includes a new movie-but well before that, an official Star Wars item is shining a light on those...Read more...

Just when we thought things couldn't get any worse for Boeing's attempt at launching a crew to orbit, in comes a longstanding industry feud over rocket valves for a shocking third act.Read more...

Jack Dorsey reemerged on Elon Musk's X recently, calling it a freedom technology" last week as he stepped down from Bluesky's board. In an interview with Pirate Wires Thursday, the founder of Twitter says he never really left the platform, he just was posting less. Dorsey also shed light on his departure from...Read more...

io9 named Scavengers Reign to our list of the best TV shows of 2023-but the series won't be returning to Max for a second season. However, with the news of its cancellation comes a flicker of hope: the excellent 12-episode first season will also be available on Netflix starting May 31, something that could lead to the...Read more...

Paul Manafort, a top Trump associate who pleaded guilty to money laundering and obstruction of justice before being pardoned by the 45th president in 2020, is back in the news with the Washington Post reporting he's revived his international consultancy business. But there's one fact in the new story that really...Read more...

Bumble Founder and Executive Chair Whitney Wolfe Herd defended her dating app's current and upcoming AI features on stage in San Francisco on Thursday. She went on to describe a version of the future where AI-dating concierges" message each other on a human's behalf.

When Weta's Erik Winquist heard Fox was making another Planet of the Apes movie, he was initally skeptical. It was presented as Hey, there's another Apes film, are you interested in working on that?' And I was like, Oh. I don't know.'" he told io9. Part of it was... where is this going to go? Because if it's just...Read more...

There are few more intimidating things in the world of Doctor Who than introducing something new. Despite the series' enduring themes of change over the last 60 years, its fandom is one that is, more often than not, hesitant to adapt to change at first-and will let you know it. That makes bringing in new stars,...Read more...

They're small, they're convenient, and, according to security researchers, they're extremely hackable. The car key fob doesn't exactly have the greatest reputation when it comes to digital security. Over the past few years, law enforcement agencies have alleged an uptick in the number of car thefts tied to hacking...Read more...

If you're in the mood for a weird scavenger hunt this spring, you're in luck. Entomologists are asking members of the public to report sightings of adult brood cicadas that have become infested with the parasite Massospora cicadina, also known as the zombie cicada fungus. Those looking will have an easy clue: the...Read more...

The timing seemed just a little too precious. A day after Warner Bros. announced it would be making a new Lord of the Rings film called The Hunt for Gollum," a fan film with the same name that had been online for 15 years was removed from YouTube. This video contains content from Warner Bros Entertainment, who has...Read more...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center forecasted a severe solar storm" that's expected to hit Earth tonight, according to a release. These geomagnetic storms happen every so often, but as the Sun approaches the maximum of its 11-year solar cycle, the space weather is...Read more...

The hits just keep on coming with the Tesla Cybertruck. Yet another owner has reported having problems mere miles after picking up their brand new, low-resolution electric pickup.Read more...

With Apple TV+ series Dark Matter-adapted from Blake Crouch's best-selling novel-now streaming, it seemed like the perfect time to assemble a new list of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books that have movies and TV series in the works. Add them to your summer reading list, and you'll be an expert in the material by the...Read more...

It's like the beginning of the next one almost more than the end of this one." That's director Wes Ball talking to io9 about the choices made at the end of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which is in theaters now. And while its story of Noa, Mae, Proximus Caesar, and the Eagle Clan reaches a conclusion, the film...Read more...

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Inclement weather on the Sun's surface could affect infrastructure on Earth and in space, scientists are predicting, as our host star approaches its solar maximum.

WiFi is a precious resource, and you don't want other people-house guests, neighbors, relatives, delivery drivers, hackers sitting at the end of your garden-accessing it without your permission. With that in mind, it's a good idea to regularly audit who's accessing your WiFi and kick off any unwelcome interlopers.Read more...

For those who used their Nintendo Switch to send out tweets and screenshots, that feature is going away soon, so you might want to invest in a phone instead.Read more...

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A few weeks ago, Amazon touted that Fallout had become its second-biggest debut in the world, right after Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But it turns out it the heart of the wasteland-or rather specifically, the United States-the video game adaptation gave the streamer its biggest opening ever by several...Read more...

We've all, at one point or another in our time on the internet, seen a post or comment so mean, shitty, or just bad that we can't help but start clacking the keys and writing up a response. It turns out, even Nintendo of America's president-Doug Bowser-can't always resist the siren song of hopping into the comments...Read more...

Stop-motion legend Phil Tippett is working on a wild-sounding new movie. Netflix is, somehow, still making an animated series out of Exploding Kittens. More Ted is on the way. Plus, what's coming up on Doctor Who and Reginald the Vampire. To me, my spoilers!

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 We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" by Caroline M. Yoachim.

Apple apologized on Thursday for a new iPad Pro commercial that featured several creative objects-including a piano, video cameras, and cans of paint-being destroyed by an industrial crusher, telling Ad Age that it missed the mark." The ad was met with fierce backlash from people who thought Apple's ad was at odds...Read more...

Pets are our loving companions and offer moments of levity even when times are tough. Though it's hard to say whether they understand humor, they certainly provide us with plenty. From cats stuck in stone walls to dogs stuck in cat doors, our domesticated animals give us something to live for-and occasionally laugh at.Read more...