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Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter late last year, things have gone from bad to worse at the microblogging site. Many users want out, and they're hoping that there's a worthy alternative waiting in the wings. Even if Meta's newly launched Threads is currently enjoying all the attention, the other major Twitter...Read more...

The Witch From Mercury's final episode this past weekend brought what is for now the end of this latest take on the Gundam franchise to a close. But with the show's successes having drawn in audiences that have never seen a Gundam show before, there's plenty of people who might want to see what else the franchise has...Read more...

Apple's former chief design officer, Jony Ive, is getting in on the vinyl boom with his latest project, a $60,000 turntable.Read more...

Meta's new Threads app designed for public conversations," is meant to be a happy-go-lucky, flower-strewn realm of kindness," one that CEO Mark Zuckerberg told MMA fighter Mike Davis is a friendly place." As is becoming more clear from the higher-ups in control of the new app, they don't want Threads to stray...Read more...

We knew Deadpool 3 was bringing back Hugh Jackman as Wolverine but now another surprising superhero is joining the fun. The Hollywood Reporter says that Jennifer Garner will reprise her role as Elektra in the film, which is currently filming and scheduled for release on May 3, 2024.Read more...

It's hot outside. Why not stay indoors and cool off with a horror movie, preferably with a fan pointed directly at your face? Here's a list of 10 films-a mix of newer releases io9 has recently reviewed, and some cult gems too-all currently streaming on Shudder.

So I might have been a wee bit too criticalwith my first impression of My Shonen Adventures with Superman, as reviews-including our own-are praising the new show for its light-hearted, rom-com take on the Man of Steel. Now, you can watch Clark-kun for yourself, free on YouTube!

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration made a decision that's likely to have a major impact on the landscape of Alzheimer's disease research. The agency issued a full-throated traditional approval of the drug Leqembi, developed by the companies Eisai and Biogen. The drug is the first of its class to receive...Read more...

Recently Larian Studios-the developers behind the beloved Divinity: Original Sin games tasked with the daunting prospect of continuing the legacy of the Baldur's Gate series, some of the most iconic Dungeons & Dragons games ever made-made a big fuss about the scope of its game. More dialogue than Lord of the Rings!...Read more...

You'd better think twice before responding to an ask from your boss with a . A Saskatchewan court has ruled in favor of making the emoji an official agreement to enter a contract.Read more...

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Corner Office has just dropped a new trailer and I feel like it will be playing behind my eyeballs for at least three hours. Is this headline weird? Is it, perhaps, a little bit of nonsense? Honestly good. This trailer gave me whiplash. Please watch and if you feel the need to scream, please think about the floor.

The once-sacrosanct halls of Wordle are adding new ads. When you hit Play" on the Wordle mobile app, you'll now be treated to what advertising boys call an interstitial" ad, meaning the video or the image takes up your entire screen.Read more...

The Federal Trade Commission's recent proposal to require that companies offer customers easy one-click options to cancel subscriptions might seem like a no-brainer, something unequivocally good for consumers. Not according to the companies it would affect, though. In their view, the introduction of simple unsubscribe...Read more...

What happens after the horror movie ends? Once the heroes have killed the monster and lived to fight another day, what is life like? What does that kind of fear and trauma do to a person or a family? Those are the questions at the center of Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in the Insidious franchise and first...Read more...

With crypto becoming a hell of a lot less appetizing over the last few months thanks to numerous crimes and scandals, game companies that were once so hungry for ballooning crypto profits have been creeping their chairs away from the dinner table, inch by squeaking inch.Read more...

Black holes often sit at the centers of galaxies, where they can gorge themselves on the superheated material that falls into their abyssal event horizons. Now, a team of astronomers have observed the beginning of one such meal.Read more...

Publishing is brutal. Writing a book is difficult enough, but selling it is another challenge that most authors feel unprepared for. Social media has always been a bit of a crapshoot when it comes to selling anything,but somehow TikTok has amassed a massive cohort of readers and authors who have the power to make any...Read more...

As climate change makes extreme weather more likely, and more unpredictable, meteorologists and government agencies need new tools to keep up. Two studies published this week in the scientific journal Nature suggest that artificial intelligence can be used to support accurate and faster forecasting and extreme weather...Read more...

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Appropriate for a show with so many connections to Star Trek: Voyager, the second half of Prodigy season one might make it home the long way round. Weeks on from from the streamer's shocking decision to reverse renewal and pull the series from its service, there could be a chance fans will get to physically own what...Read more...

Jack Sweeney, the college student behind the Twitter account @ElonJet, has moved his platform to Threads after he was banned last year. Elon Musk banned Sweeney's account from tracking his private flights and threatened to take legal action against him, claiming that tracking his flights put his son at risk.Read more...

Ahead of the premiere of X-Men 97-the follow-up to the popular 90s cartoon series-early next year, Lego is releasing another Wolverine set next month which focuses on the iconic Marvel character's most recognizable and most dangerous feature: those retractable adamantium claws.Read more...

Shazam is one of those genius apps that has stood the test of time and then some. Now, it's getting a huge improvement on iOS. You can now use the music-identifying app on your phone while you have TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram open.

Mark Ronson teases some wild additions to Barbie's soundtrack. The long-delayed Uzumaki adaptation is still happening. Strange Planet's animated adaptation sets an August release date. Plus, what's coming on My Adventures With Superman and Riverdale. Spoilers, away!

Apple's planned early 2024 launch of the Vision Pro headset is already shaping up to be a tangled, complicated hullabaloo. Not only will customers need to drop $3,500 on Apple's first spatial computer," but you'll need to schedule an appointment and sit down for a skull measuring session just to get your hands on the...Read more...

Oil and gas giant Shell has walked back the greenwashing image that it had worked so hard to foster over the last few years. The company has moved away from its previous strategy to slowly decrease oil production this decade. It's back to (openly) drilling the planet dry for profit.Read more...

Louisiana has become one of the first states to pass legislation explicitly criminalizing the creation of deepfaked child sexual abuse material. The legislation, called SB175, makes it a crime to knowingly create or possess an AI-generated image or video depicting a person under the age of 18 engaged in a sexual act....Read more...

Going by its staggering box-office haul, it doesn't seem like too many fans waited around to watch The Super Mario Bros. Movie-but those who did can now set their countdown calendars for August 3, when the movie arrives on streamer Peacock.

The Space Shuttle is going to look launch ready once again, although this time the retired spacecraft won't be firing its engines.Read more...

The Biden administration is appealing a bombshell ruling from a federal judge barring government agencies from contacting social media companies to make takedown requests or recommend other content moderation. State Department officials had already halted routine meetings with Facebook in response to the July 5th...Read more...

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 Six Months After All Life on Titan Died" by JB Park. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on LIGHTSPEED's website. Enjoy!Read more...

Strange New Worlds has made a name for itself over the course of its first season, and now the first half of its sophomore, in taking the vibes of the original Star Trek-and sometimes literal episodes-and translating them to a modern television show, and the expectations that come with them. But what happens when the...Read more...

Meta successfully triggered a response from Twitter on Wednesday amid the rollout of its new rival app, Threads. Elon Musk's longtime attorney Alex Spiro sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, threatening to file a lawsuit against the company for engaging in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of...Read more...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is consider yet another ranking of Mission: Impossible films.Read more...

A giant shape-shifting orb has invaded the Las Vegas metropolitan area. If you've seen pictures, you'd be forgiven for being alarmed because it sorta resembles something that might land on Earth during an alien invasion. A pulsating ball that likes to change its color and appearance, the orb sometimes looks vaguely...Read more...

Astronomers imaging the cosmos with the Webb Space Telescope have found the most distant active supermassive black hole yet. The black hole was seen" as it was around 570 million years after the Big Bang.Read more...

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SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists, and other media professionals," according to its site, has begun sending out surveys and communications...Read more...

The Barbie movie has achieved what was once thought impossible: getting us even more hyped for its release, as pop star Billie Eilish has announced her latest single What Was I Made For?"-written for the Greta Gerwig film.Read more...

It wasn't the hardware that made the iPhone a hit, or even iOS, it was the potential unlocked by the introduction of the App Store, and one of the earliest must-have apps for Apple's smartphone was a game about slingshotting enraged fowl that, almost 14 years later, will be the branding focus of a new cafe coming to...Read more...

The first thing you notice on the What We Do in the Shadows set is that they really built a whole ass haunted house. Shadows is made alongside a busy street in a Toronto suburb. The outer facade of the house-the steps, topiaries, and stained glass windows-face traffic, and cars slowed down as a group of media...Read more...

OceanGate, the owner of the Titan submersible, is suspending all exploration and commercial operations" following the fatal implosion of its vessel, which killed all five crew members on board. The suspension comes only weeks after the Titan deployed to the Titanic wreckage site, located about 12,500 feet below the...Read more...

With Meta, there's always a catch. Sure, you can sign up for the company's newest Twitter clone Threads. You can use your Instagram account to get a unique badge to show you're now a Thread head. The thing is, you can deactivate your Threads profile, and you can delete the app, but deleting your profile on Threads...Read more...

It's been a little less than a week since Turner Classic Movies was saved from being ground up in Warner Bros. Discovery's relentless content sausage grinder. Film preservation takes a lot of work, both from official, mainstream providers and some-well-less authorized sources. Over the past week, eagle-eyed classic...Read more...

It's time to get creeped the hell out all over again because The Nun is back.Read more...

Tardigrades. Water bears. Moss piglets. No matter their name, the microscopic invertebrates are notoriously tough, and now, a team of researchers studied the tardigrade's ancestors to figure out how the animal evolved.Read more...

The creative team of comics writer Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire) are back with Duck and Cover, billed as a post-apocalyptic adventure series with a historical twist." io9 has a first look today!

While news of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange's crumbling castle has come and gone, there is a new wrinkle in the tale involving one of the world's largest singer-songwriters. After reports that Taylor Swift knew all too well that the exchange would fail and declined to sign a deal with Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, news...Read more...

Despite attempts to turn them into keyboard-less laptops, tablets remain primarily media consumption devices for most users. Sony's new HT-AX7 Bluetooth speaker promises to expand on that use by transforming your tablet into a portable home theater with a pair of detachable satellite speakers.Read more...