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Solar Opposites already got its stickiest business out of the way last month, announcing Dan Stevens would be voicing Korvo-taking over after Hulu cut ties with Justin Roiland-and releasing a clip that offered a sci-fi reason why the character suddenly sounded so different. Now, we've got a full trailer for the show's...Read more...

The majority of the American public seems largely concerned with the threat of incoming asteroids, believing that NASA should prioritize the monitoring of rocky objects that could hit Earth over going to the Moon or Mars, according to a new survey.Read more...

Thanks to io9, you can keep up with the news and reveals from San Diego Comic-Con online-but some parts of the fan event are best witnessed in person. Welcome to the Ito-verse: The Junji Ito Experience" is one such example, but we captured a few images to help recreate seeing it up close.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is going through a bit of a shakeup. The company is adding more features that will help the chatbot remember instructions, though developers will also be spending a lot more time making sure the current version of the company's precious language model is working as intended. But it's one step...Read more...

Department of Justice prosecutors believe disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaked the diary of his sometimes girlfriend and business partner Caroline Ellison in an effort to discredit a witness." The contents of the 27-year-old Alameda research CEO's private Google Docs were recently published in a New York...Read more...

Reddit followed through on its threat to take over subreddits if they did not reopen to the public with its takeover of r/malefashionadvice on Thursday. Prior to closing down in protest of Reddit's API price changes. The subreddit was one of the biggest on the platform that was still engaged in the protest, boasting...Read more...

Seven of the world's leading tech firms working on artificial intelligence are meeting with the Biden Administration today where they will agree to a set of new commitments intended to manage potential risks posed by AI.Read more...

As the beginning of the SAG-AFTRA strike this past week has intensified a wave of labor movements in Hollywood, movie studios are already starting to scramble as their marketing plans, now unable to leverage their movies' stars, go right out the window. It's more than just scrapped comic-con panels though: a new...Read more...

The new Saw movie sets the stage for the return of John Kramer. Get a creepy glimpse of David Gordon Green's Exorcist: Believer. Amazon's The Boys spinoff sets a release date. Plus, American Horror Story: Delicate drops a suitably absurd teaser. Spoilers, away!

Its release is months away, but excitement is already building for Nia DaCosta's The Marvels-which today revealed a new peek after that first trailer back in April.Read more...

Hollywood may not be a major force at San Diego Comic-Con this year, but India sure is. In a year where most major American studios were forced to skip the convention without actors to appear on panels, or writers to write upcoming movies, the Indian production company Vyjayanthi Movies stepped in and chose the...Read more...

The annual international comics convention may no longer be holding a panel for AMC's Interview with the Vampire, but you can venture into Anne Rice's Immortal Universe if you dare while you're in town.Read more...

Sixty-six production staffers across Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Networkhave filed a petition for a union election under the auspices of the Animation Guild and requested voluntary recognition from management. The National Labor Relations Board will host an election, and the majority of votes will determine...Read more...

San Diego Comic-Con is back for 2023 but, due to the writers and actor's strikes, it looks a little different. Case in point, a video game had a panel in Hall H. A video game! But this, of course, is not just any video game. It's a video game based on one of the most popular comic book characters of all-time and a...Read more...

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AMC Theatres is backtracking on increasing its prices for some seating options after the company realized it didn't make a difference for customers. The company launched a price upcharge at select theaters earlier this year, charging customers more money for preferred" seating.Read more...

New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has admitted it uses cameras equipped with AI software to scan riders believed to have jumped subway turnstiles without paying fares. The MTA, which says it collects the scans as a counting tool" plans to expand the system to more than two dozen more stations by...Read more...

A group of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert was aimed at a young star system 400 light years away when it detected something unusual: a cloud of debris chasing a planet along the same orbit. The debris could be a planet in the midst of being born or the remains of one that already exists, making this the first...Read more...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is far from a show with growing pains-as we've said many times already, its first season landed with a confidence of what it wanted to do in ways few Star Trek debuts ever have before it. But it is a show where growing is inevitable: it's a prequel about Kirk's Enterprise before Kirk's on...Read more...

It's not too much longer until we get to see the latest take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when the sumptuous looking Mutant Mayhem hits theaters in a few weeks. But that didn't stop the filmmakers behind it from coming to San Diego with some shiny new footage anyway.

Harley Quinn showed up to San Diego Comic-Con, giving fans a sneak peek at the fourth season that's set to release on MAX at the end of the month. This is a different animated series than ISEKAI, but obviously we're excited for every version of Harley that has her kicking butt and taking names.

In the millennial search for meaning, much has been made of the recontextualization of childhood toys. It seems we're desperate to turn many things that are relatively harmless into something much more meaningful than it needs to be. Naturally, the ubiquitous Barbie doll has been up for debate for decades. Is she a ...Read more...

An intensely magnetic neutron star roughly 15,000 light-years from Earth is stumping astronomers with its ultra long periods, unleashing radio waves into the cosmos every 22 minutes.Read more...

Amazon is rolling out its palm recognition program at more than 400 locations across the U.S. and is currently available at 200 Whole Foods stores. The company says it expects all 500+ Whole Foods locations will have the service by the end of the year.Read more...

SDCC 2023 attendees got a chance to see a preview of Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake during Max's animation presentation of upcoming shows.Read more...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have detected nearly 40 boulders near Dimorphos-the target of NASA's wildly successful DART experiment to deflect a non-threatening asteroid. This isn't exactly positive news, since it suggests that hitting a bona fide hazardous asteroid might create a cluster of possibly...Read more...

Kevin Mitnick, once considered the most wanted" cybercriminal in America, has passed away at the age of 59. An obituary states that Mitnick died on July 16th after a 14-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He had been undergoing treatment for his illness at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the notice...Read more...

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San Diego Comic-Con 2023 is officially open and, as usual, it's filled with all sorts of goodies. The main convention floor is over 2 million square feet and no matter where you look there's something to catch your eye. io9 hit the floor on preview night and snapped just a handful of the stuff that caught our eyes,...Read more...

Buddhist murals in China that date back to the 4th century are being threatened by heavy rain and rapidly fluctuating humidity, Greenpeace experts said on Monday.

HBO series 30 Coins flew a bit under the radar in its first season; there's a lot of horror on TV these days, and most of it doesn't involve subtitles. But with a season two on the way-again coming from acclaimed artistic weirdo Alex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast, The Last Circus), who directs and...Read more...

If you're at San Diego Comic-Con and you want to maximize your activation" situation-you can't do better than The Lodge: A Paramount+ Experience," which combines multiple of the streamer's projects in a pop-up packed with photo ops. There's also a bar with themed cocktails.

Space companies and telecommunication providers are racing to litter the Earth's skies with tens of thousands of new twinkling satellites capable of completing a vast variety of tasks, from research and internet communication to military espionage. Up until now, the security practices of these hefty floating...Read more...

For more than two years, NASA's Perseverance rover has been roaming Mars, drilling for rock samples that may hold clues to ancient life on the Red Planet, but the six-wheeled robot can only travel so far. Luckily, the rover recently got some extra help from a river that once flowed on the surface of Mars.

Google is inserting itself in newsrooms with the promotion of its new AI tool that it says will help" journalists create articles. The company has reportedly pitched its software to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal, saying it can effectively produce news...Read more...

While the rest of the world is trying to live more sustainably and find ways to reduce its trash output, LG Labs has put its resources into designing yet another pod-based instant coffee machine with a twist: it actually uses two pods to make a single cup of coffee, doubling the amount of trash generated with every...Read more...

The heroes in a half shell of the TMNT are used to a life underground-but what if they could perchance to dream of a world up above? Where life was in plastic, and therefore fantastic?

Paleontologists recently revisited a trove of fossils found in a South African quarry and found two previously unknown species of sabertooth cats in their mix.Read more...

Want to skip those annoying, long, repetitive ad breaks on YouTube? Well, Google-parent Alphabet is going to need you to pay more. The YouTube Premium subscription service now costs $13.99, up $2 from before. Thinking about paying annually? Well, now you're going to need to pony up $139.99, $20 more than it was...Read more...

Danny Devito gets accosted by a spectral armchair in a new Haunted Mansion clip. The Dear David" viral twitter movie gets its first trailer. Plus, what's coming on Riverdale, and more. To me, my spoilers!

Growing fruits and veggies isn't a terribly difficult endeavor-humanity has been doing it successfully for thousands of years-but it does require a certain amount of know-how, a lot of dedication, and the right environment to turn seeds into edible plants. If you struggle with all of those things, the hydroponic Rise...Read more...

One of the best things about a brand new Star Wars show is brand new Star Wars tech. Blasters, ships, armors and, of course, lightsabers. And when you're talking about a show like Ahsoka, one that has a lot of Force users in it both good and bad, there are bound to be a lot of new lightsabers. And now you can check...Read more...

io9 is at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 and we made a pre-convention center detour to the Sonic the Hedgehog Speed Cafe, a fast food activation inspired by SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog video game universe.

Fears over the increasing and encroaching role of large language models and other generative AI tools in media have become the heart of Hollywood's current labor struggle, as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have both centered safeguards for human workers in the face of an industry eager to jump on the latest tech bandwagon. But...Read more...

Juul is requesting FDA approval for an updated version of its e-cigarette a year after it was forced to briefly remove its fruity-flavored devices from the market. The new e-cigarette reportedly has age-verification capabilities and a unique Pod ID chip that will prevent consumers from using counterfeit pods with the...Read more...

Melania Trump released her latest collection of nonfungible tokens (NFTs), this time commemorating humanity's giant leap on the Moon with a famous photo of NASA Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the lunar surface. There's just one thing though: NASA does not approve the use of its imagery for the digital tokens.Read more...

Did you know that Aquaman (2018) is the highest grossing DC Universe movie? At least according to The Hollywood Reporter, it is the highest grossing" DC movie of all time at 1.148 billion dollars. Which, absolutely bonkers considering what a weird over-developed riot of CGI that film was. And of course the sequel, ...Read more...

The most preeminent member of one of the U.S.'s most preeminent universities plans to step down in a month's time. The news out of Stanford comes after student journalists uncovered allegations that their dear leader's old lab had manipulated data in dozens of major scientific papers published in many preeminent...Read more...

A new incarnation of the Doctor-even if they have a very familiar face-means, inevitably, a new sonic screwdriver for them to wave about the place with reckless Time Lord abandon. David Tennant's 14th Doctor is no exception, but his updated tool of choice is suitably new and familiar at the same time.

Update: July 19, 3:44 p.m. ET: The jackpot is now up to $1 billion, after no winning ticket was sold for the Monday draw. Powerball says this marks the third time that its jackpot has reached this eye-watering milestone, and it ranks as the seventh largest jackpot in history, the largest being a $2.04 billion jackpot...Read more...