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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are no strangers to the big screen-but until now, they've never been up there talking about Guy Fieri, Drake, and Beyonce.Read more...

Is your precious cat unable to move as gracefully as it once did? Then scientists in California might want to hear from you. They're looking to interview owners of cats with chronic mobility problems or arthritis in hopes of finding the best way to address their particular health needs.Read more...

Earlier this week, we urged Apple users to make sure they properly downloaded the company's latest Rapid Security Response update. The update, which was pushed out to user devices on Monday, was supposed to protect against a serious software vulnerability that hackers might be trying to exploit. However, hours after...Read more...

A team of researchers recently studied paintings in the Theban Necropolis near the Nile River using X-ray fluorescence imaging and discovered never-before-seen details of the painting process.Read more...

After Republican Governor Greg Abott announced a sweeping ban of TikTok on state devices this past winter, a group representing university professors is challenging him with a new lawsuit. The complaint, filed Thursday,claims that the prohibition infringes on First Amendment rights.

Who is Spock?" is a question Star Trek has been fascinated with from the very beginning, and for good reason. The paradox of the half-Vulcan, half-Human science officer lets us examine the meaning of what we see as the human experience from the perspective of someone both removed from it and defined by it-and Strange...Read more...

America is back and puking on cruise ships again! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of cruise ship outbreaks reported this year is already higher than it has been in about a decade. So far, all of these outbreaks have been caused by norovirus, a very unpleasant, though usually...Read more...

An Ohio plastic surgeon was banned from practicing medicine after live-streaming procedures on her TikTok account. Katharine Grawe spoke into a camera and answered viewers' questions on her social media account while conducting surgeries, which the Ohio Medical Board determined harmed patients and violated their...Read more...

Whatever your idea of a typical Superman movie is, James Gunn is not making that. The writer and director of 2025's Superman: Legacy got the ball rolling by first casting David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan as Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Which makes sense. Those characters are the leads in most Superman movies. From...Read more...

The Witcher's staggered release schedule has allowed for a lot of speculation and an increased number of people already lamenting the loss of Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia. Netflix has just released a trailer for volume two of season three, which will encompass the final three episodes, and will be available to...Read more...

Eddie Munson returns for an encoreguitar solo atop his Winnebago at Halloween Horror Nights-thanks to theStranger Things Halloween haunted house at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Orlando for 2023. It joins the recently announced The Last of Us house.Read more...

In 2005, the residents of Ban Si Lam, a village in northeastern Thailand, dug out their local pond. Amid the topsoil they found some pottery, ceramics, and-to their surprise-an alligator skull.Read more...

From the makers of Stable Diffusion, Stable Doodle is the company's latest free text-to-image and image-to-image combo. It takes your poor attempts at mouse-drawn images and converts them into a more cohesive AI illustration. The service is free, and users on the Stability AI-owned Clipdrop platform can use their...Read more...

After Meta copied Twitter with Threads to major success, third parties are vying for an undeserved piece of the action. Apple has removed an app titled Threads for Insta," which is not actually the Threads app, but is instead an AI-powered content generator.

The Federal Trade Commision is investigating OpenAI to determine whether or not its ChatGPT AI chatbot and other products violate consumer protection laws by putting people's personal reputations and data at risk. CEO Sam Altman, who has so far managed to smile and nod his way around most governmental roadblocks, may...Read more...

Twitter's former head of HR filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company on Wednesday, demanding Elon Musk pay out $500 million to former employees for allegedly not paying severance fees to laid-off staff. Courtney McMillan, the head of total rewards for the company's benefits programs before she was ...Read more...

The creative team of writer Scott Snyder (Batman, Dark Nights: Metal," Dark Nights: Death Metal," American Vampire) and artist Hayden Sherman (Wasted Space) is back-and so is Dark Spaces, IDW's acclaimed anthology series. io9 is thrilled to announce the next installment, Dark Spaces: Dungeon, and reveal a sneak peek...Read more...

It's been just over a year since lone gunman Peyton Gendron travelled over 200 miles and open fired in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York last May. Now, the families of those wounded and murdered in the attack want to hold social media companies accountable with a wrongful death lawsuit because the gunman...Read more...

A teen falls in love with another girl-to her surprise!-while she's exploring the world of fantasy roleplaying games in Christen Randall's upcoming debut YA novel The No-Girlfriend Rule. The book's not out until March of next year, but io9 has a first look at the cover as well as an excerpt to share today.Read more...

A recently launched communications satellite suffered an anomaly during its deployment, affecting its ability to beam data to North and South America.Read more...

Good morning SAG-AFTRA! How are you feeling? Strike-ready? Us too. Besides the news that SAG-AFTRA is very likely to go on strike alongside the WGA as the AMPTP refuses to bargain in good faith, we've got updates from Mission: Impossible, a peek at the Godzilla design to be used in Minus One, and a rumor about Black...Read more...

The co-founder and former CEO of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Celsius was arrested on fraud charges Thursday, Bloomberg reported.

The birth control pill is about to become over-the-counter in the United States. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the daily tablet medication Opill for nonprescription use. The drug's makers expect the OTC version to be available in stores by early 2024, though its price is still unknown at this...Read more...

Tired of being stuck at home, Google's Bard AI chatbot is finally leaving its parent's basement and going abroad on a worldwide backpacking adventure. The AI system is now fully and officially available in several long-sought countries, including most of the European Union. To get access to some of those wary nations,...Read more...

At 11:59 PM PT on June 12, the SAG-AFTRA contract expired. After nearly four weeks of negotiating with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee agreed that they had not yet reached a satisfying successor contract, and did not allow for a second extension.

It's day four of Mattel's 12 Days of Fandom" leading up to a celebration of collectibles at San Diego Comic-Con 2023-and io9 has a spooky yet stylish Monster High doll to reveal today.Read more...

Internet drug sales have skyrocketed in recent years, allowing powerful narcotics to be peddled to American teenagers and adolescents. It's a trend that's led to an epidemic of overdoses and left countless young people dead. Now, a bill scheduled for a congressional vote seeks to tackle the problem, but it comes with...Read more...

Getting butts into movie theater seats is anassignment Tom Cruise has taken upon himself, one cinema-revitalizing blockbuster at a time. In partnership with director-writer Chris McQuarrie, the star is hitting the screens with the latest thrilling chapter of the Mission: Impossible franchise, Dead Reckoning Part One.

We're switching formats! As I am incapable of saying no, this is an overstuffed edition. Soon I will start saying no. Or i'll go weekly with this. One or the other.Read more...

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Congress released a highly anticipated report on Wednesday detailing how major tax prep companies and big tech firms like Google and Meta, parent of Facebook and Instagram, recklessly" shared the sensitive tax data of tens of millions of Americans without proper safeguards. The senators cited evidence from their...Read more...

Once the go-to spot for teens wearing Doc Martens and suffering from a taste in alternative music, Tumblr is apparently seriously in the red: The platform's CEO claims that the company is losing $30 million annually.

The Archive of Our Own-the largest digital library for fanfiction currently operating, and one of the highest-trafficked sites in the world-was temporarily unavailable after it experienced a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a hacker group calling itself Anonymous Sudan." Ao3 reported the...Read more...

This year promises to be a San Diego Comic-Con like no other, but maybe not in the best way. Over the past two decades or so, fans could count on Comic-Con to be one of the best places to find out the biggest news about all their favorite movies, TV shows, books, comics, video games, and more. This year though, while ...Read more...

You can always count on tentpole blockbusters to give bombastic spectacle and massive action. During the 2010s, audiences watched plenty of CG armies fall, crossovers happen, and superheroes rise to the challenge. But one niche that wasn't exactly being filled at the time (at least in the West) was the giant robot...Read more...

Elon Musk launched his newest venture, an artificial intelligence company called xAI, to compete with other AI developers including ChatGPT maker OpenAI (which he also founded) and Google's Bard. Musk announced the launch on Wednesday, saying on the company'swebsite: The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature...Read more...

A private space company in China made aerospace history by launching its methane-fueled rocket to orbit, ushering in a new era of cleaner, safer rocket fuel that's better suited for reusability.Read more...

Superman: Legacy is adding another superhero to its roster, and his name is Metamorpho.

While the rest of us were Venmo-ing our friends for the dinner check, an aide to conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was apparently receiving payments on the app from lawyers that appeared before the high court.

Researchers poring over imagery and data from the Perseverance rover on Mars have found evidence of organic molecules in the planet's Jezero Crater, potentially providing evidence of the planet's carbon cycles and its ability to host life.

As strike talk in Hollywood heats up, entertainment industry publications like Variety and Deadline are running multiple stories about the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, DGA, and the AMPTP every day. And, as a result of aggregating such articles, so are many other sites, including io9. But many of the trades' sources have their own...Read more...

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Farmers Insurance will stop offering insurance coverage in the state of Florida. This includes home insurance, auto, and policies that cover a combination of these. Apparently, the company made this decision in order to better manage its risk exposure in such a hurricane and natural disaster-prone state, CNN reported.Read more...

The long-rumored roller coaster for the Fast and Furious franchise has officially received the green light in the latest Universal Studios theme parks expansion.

In 1864, David Goodell revolutionized kitchen food prep with the invention of a hand-cranked device that could peel an apple in a matter of seconds. Fifty-nine years later, Chipotle is introducing the next innovation in automated fruit prep with Autocado: a robot that can halve, peel, and core a mountain of avocados...Read more...

It's been almost four years since Sony introduced a new model to its popular, affordable, A6000 series of APS-C digital cameras. While the new A6700 isn't a huge step-up over 2019's A6600, it arrives with more than enough new features and improvements for fans of the line to consider finally upgrading their gear.Read more...

We all love movies, but let's be honest: television is where most of the best storytelling is happening these days. And today, nominations for the 2023 Primetime Emmys were announced, showcasing what voters think are the best of the best. And those votersapparently love genre.Read more...

Google got smacked with a class-action lawsuit Tuesday accusing the search giant of stealing everything ever shared on the internet," including copyrighted works and millions of people's personal data. The law firm behind the case, Clarkson, said the case comes afterGoogle changed its AI privacy policy, an updated...Read more...

A man and his mouth got into a hairy situation, according to his doctors. The man developed a fuzzy and starkly green discoloration of his tongue. Thankfully, this condition is usually benign, and his tongue eventually returned to normal.

General Motors and Google parent Alphabet are silently pushing the city of San Francisco to expand the number of beta-testing self-driving vehicles allowed on the road. In protest, hoards of city denizens have figured out a way to combat the multi-billion dollar companies' high tech, AI-driven cars: the humble orange...Read more...