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The lore that's already been built up around Barbie has taught us that star Margot Robbie was instrumental from the very beginning in bringing the fashionableMattel doll to the big screen. But apparently, co-star Ryan Gosling-who plays Ken-took a bit more convincing to join the project.Read more...

Tensions continue to simmer between Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos, who on Saturday broke the world record for most concurrent live viewers on Twitch with his annual boxing event, and Twitch. After slamming the platform on Saturday for outages during La Velada del Ano III, which drew in 3.4 million viewers, the streamer...Read more...

Now open at Disney California Adventure's Hyperion Theater at the Disneyland Resort is Rogers: The Musical. Perhaps one of the last things Twitter fandom made happen, the abridged musical history of Steve Rogers' Captain America takes the corny parody seen in Disney+'s Hawkeye and expands it into a theme park-perfect...Read more...

The search for planets outside our Solar System - exoplanets - is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected and astronomers now estimate that on average there is at least one planet per star in our galaxy.

The first season of Apple TV+'s adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation required paying close attention to keep track of its dense plot and frequent time shifts. But those who stuck with its sci-fi saga were richly rewarded-and with season two on the way, there's no better time to catch up on season one.Read more...

There are 20 seconds in the 1996 blockbuster film Independence Day that get me every time. And it's not some big reveal. It's not some funny joke or hugely emotional beat. It's just a brief, 20-second blip where the film achieves a level of perfection that, I feel, it never reaches again, and this is coming from a...Read more...

Making art using artificial intelligence isn't new. It's as old as AI itself.Read more...

Elon Musk apparently took a break from training for his upcoming battle royale with Mark Zuckerberg to do a new, incredibly unpopular thing to Twitter this weekend. In a bout of inspired stupidity, Musk tweeted out a new edict Saturday: from now on, anybody who doesn't pay for Twitter will only be able to read a...Read more...

This weekend at Anime Expo, One Piece fans learned that the Japanese version of the upcoming live-action Netflix series will be dubbed by the anime's original Japanese voice actors. Today, there's even more One Piece dub news: the English dub of the anime will soon be arriving on Crunchyroll.Read more...

Comic book movie fans going to San Diego Comic-Con this year were just dealt another punch in the gut as filmmaker James Gunn revealed on his Instagram that he won't be attending the convention.Read more...

A cryptic, weirdly fantastic new anime is coming from WB Japan. Harley Quinn and the Joker take on another world, or possibly multiple worlds, in the teaser trailer for Suicide Squad ISEKAI. Do I know what's going on? No. But does it look exceptionally cool? Absolutely it does. Check out the short teaser below.Read more...

Game developers looking to distribute their playable creations via Valve'spopular Steam hub may have trouble if they're looking to use AI during the creative process. The game publisher and distributor says that Steam will no longer tolerate products that were generated using copyright-infringing AI content. Since...Read more...

Pornhub has officially pulled out of two more states, namely Mississippi and Virginia. As much as the latter state is for lovers," PornHub says it's protesting the states' recently-enacted age verification laws that create massive business and privacy issues for the porno site.Read more...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One promises to add even more perilous stunts to the Tom Cruise action franchise. But as part seven's release approaches, Paramount's paying tribute to a feature of the films that requires just its star and his very fleet feet. Who knew how much running Cruise did in these...Read more...

All signs point to this month's release of Barbie being a massive hit. It just seems to be the summer movie most people are talking about, and tracking on its opening weekend says it's likely to beat the new Christopher Nolan movie-even before any reviews have come out. If Barbie is actually as good as we all hope it...Read more...

After MagSafe came along in 2020, most of Anker's iPhone-specific portable chargers took advantage of the feature; magnetically adhering to the back of the device and charging it wirelessly. For the first time in a while, Anker has released an iPhone backup battery that connects directly to its Lightning port, but if...Read more...

After 63 days of agonizing silence, NASA's Martian chopper finally phoned home.Read more...

The next issue of Image Comics' Massive-Verse title No/One is out this week-and with it, a new installment of podcast Who Is No/One, which expands on its story. io9 has an exclusive clip to share from the true crime-style podcast, which stars Rachael Leigh Cook and Patton Oswalt as investigative journalists-and this...Read more...

Even for those who grew up in the days of cable-the ones who cut their teeth on brain-melting Sunny D or Kool Aid commercials-watching ads on streaming services is somehow more taxing and annoying than anything that came before Netflix first burst onto the scene. Part of the issue is that the same ads run constantly...Read more...

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After reports teasing a launch date of June for its Twitter rival, Instagram has let us down as we venture into July. However, there may be hope on the horizon as the competitor was briefly listed on the Apple and Google app stores over the weekend.

Blood-sucking ticks might be even clingier than we thought. Recent research has found that at least one tick species seems to use static electricity to help itself grapple onto potential hosts. The trick allows the tick to extend its reach by several body lengths, the authors say.Read more...

Humane, the hotly-hyped up consumer device startup-up helmed by former Apple executives finally has a name for its illusive AI-enabled wearable device. The pocket-sized product, which was spotted nestled in an executive's front pocket during a presentation earlier this year, is called the Humane Ai Pin. Whether or not...Read more...

Google updated its privacy policy over the weekend, explicitly saying the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they're nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.Read more...

Details can make a world of difference. When handled correctly, a tiny, well-thought-out detail can add a whole new level of enjoyment to a project. If ignored though, it can speak to a larger level of indifference. And this weekend, while rewatching Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, I noticed a perfect,...Read more...

French company Airseas, has promised to help cargo ships reduce their fuel consumption, and cut their greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 20%. And they're doing this with the Seawing-a 1,000 square meter kite that will fly 300 meters (984 feet) above the water's surface. So the global shipping industry is...Read more...

Sometimes you want your fantasy tales pierced with bloody drama and apocalyptic magic; other times, you're in the mood for something a bit sweeter. There's a reason cozy romantasy" is a popular genre, and Sangu Mandanna's debutThe Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches enchanted lots of its fans. The author...Read more...

The Webb Space Telescope has taken an image of the ringed planet Saturn, completing its photo album of our solar system's gas giants.Read more...

Scientists testing coffee against plain caffeine found that plain caffeine only partially reproduces the effects of drinking a cup of coffee, activating areas of the brain that make you feel more alert but not the areas of the brain that affect working memory and goal-directed behavior.

Ali Selim was tapped to direct Secret Invasion-Marvel's six-episode limited series on Disney+-precisely because of his work on spycraft historical fiction. But it seems like his focus on the grounded" world of Secret Invasion meant that he didn't think much about the superheroes flying around in the rest of the MCU.

The hits don't stop coming for Twitter users. This weekend, the platform's owner Elon Musk claimed he's imposing a limit to the number of tweets an average non-Blue user can read. In the aftermath, Twitter's dashboard application Tweetdeck failed spectacularly.

Inflation has made everything from grocery shopping to home-owning more expensive, but it's hitting Lego fans especially hard. The new 2,883-piece Liebherr Crawler Crane LR 13000 model is officially the most expensive Lego Technic set to date at $700, but it's actually far from being the largest set ever in terms of...Read more...

Jason Blum's Spawn remake is for sure in the works, even though there's no writing happening due to the producers' and studios' continued refusal to bargain fairly. He says 2025-maybe. Regardless, I think we can say with confidence that Barney & Friends will be out before Spawn. Get ready to share the love, and...Read more...

Doctor Apple is coming in with another fastball pitch that could potentially reposition its AirPods as more than just a pair of premium earbuds. Apple is reportedly trying to enable USB-C on AirPods, make them connect to the upcoming Vision Pro headset, and engineer ways the buds could read users' internal temperature...Read more...

Congratulations on finding your way back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy and merch news from across the internet. This week, Hot Toys delivers a remarkably lifelike Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones figure, Hasbro mashes up the Transformers and G.I. Joe again with Soundwave partnering with the...Read more...

Even tech experts have been astonished by the recent, rapid growth of AI technology, able to hold human-like conversations in multiple languages, create music and pass medical exams. While the potential benefits of AI in fields such as healthcare are indeed inspiring, the pace of change is rapid, and there is still...Read more...

The month of June has been pretty crowded with one blockbuster (or more) releasing each week. Closing out June is Disney's Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny, Harrison Ford's first lead blockbuster role in years and his final portrayal of the role he's inhabited since Raiders of the Lost Ark back in 1981. And for a...Read more...

Back to the Future: The Musical is back...to the stage.Read more...

The Indiana Jones movies are a deep part of the popular culture in a number of ways, from its fellow treasure hunter imitators Tomb Raider and Uncharted to how they're partly responsible for Harrison Ford's decades-long star power. While the first three movies are liked to varying degrees, 2008's Indiana Jones & the...Read more...

The anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece has been going on for nearly 25 years, and is still finding ways to impress longtime fans of the franchise. With Netflix's upcoming take, the aim is to recapture some of the magic that enchanted viewers back in 1999, but via live-action for new audiences. Those who've...Read more...

Researchers have developed the prototype of a comfortable and flexible soft smart hand exoskeleton," or robo-glove, which gives feedback to wearers who need to relearn tasks that require manual dexterity and coordination, for example after suffering a stroke. The present study focused on patients who need to relearn...Read more...

Throughout the decades, Nintendo's Pokemon franchise has portrayed the titular pocket monsters in one of three typical ways: they're either pets, natural extensions of every day life, or forces of nature whose existence can sometimes be a little messed up. And when they aren't one of those, they're off doing their own...Read more...

Twitch megastar Ibai Llanos slammed the platform for outages during his annual streamer vs. streamer boxing match, which broke Twitch's world viewing records three times in a single stream on Saturday. At one point, Llanos' channel reached a peak of nearly 3.45 million concurrent viewers.Read more...

Over the past few months, artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the global conversation as a result of the widespread adoption of generative AI-based tools such as chatbots and automatic image generation programs. Prominent AI scientists and technologists have raised concerns about the hypothetical existential risksRead more...

The original Insidious released in 2011, and can be considered the big breakout moment for director James Wan, writer Leigh Whannell, and cast members Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne. Over the years, the franchise has gradually moved away from the Lambert family (played by Wilson, Byrne, Ty Simpkins, and Andrew Astor)...Read more...

Video games have become a bit of a time commitment unto themselves over the last few years, especially RPGs. For many of them, a first run could last a few dozen hours or more, depending on how deep in the side quest weeds one chooses to get. But if you've been looking for something that takes substantially longer...Read more...

Spanish megastreamer Ibai Llanos has broken the world record of concurrent viewers on Twitch, drawing 3.4 million spectators within minutes of the first fight of his streamer vs. streamer boxing match, La Velada del Ano III, according to Streams Charts.

Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos will once again attempt to make Twitch history today, although unlike most streamers, he won't be behind a setup in his room. Instead, Llanos will be streaming live from the Civitas Metropolitano soccer stadium in Madrid before nearly 70,000 people, all of whom who have traveled from...Read more...

Before the Black Widow movie came out in 2021, it was pretty clear that Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova would be stepping into the role of badass super spy after Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanov ended her run with Avengers: Endgame. Though she was last seen as a minor villain in Hawkeye, she's set to return as a...Read more...

There's plenty of smoke in the air-and not just from Canada's raging wildfires. Indeed, the past month was witness to a steady cadence of rocket launches and rocket tests, all spewing out excitement and hope. At the same time, probes already working in space beamed back evidence of their important work.Read more...