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Universal Studios would not be the premiere cinematic experience theme park without the Universal Monsters. Influencing filmmakers from Spielberg to Peele, they are the blueprint of thrills and it's about damn time that the almost century-old fandom will finally get its due with Epic Universe's Dark Universe, the...Read more...

Now it can be told: Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass) will voice Batman in Bruce Timm's latest animated series, Batman: Caped Crusader, taking over for late Batman: The Animated Series star Kevin Conroy. You can hear a tease of Linklater's performance in the below video.

In 1665, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini observed a massive storm raging on Jupiter. It became known as the Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds that's almost twice as wide as Earth. New research, however, suggests that the red-hued feature spotted by Cassini is not the same storm we see today.Read more...

A new home security system that uses AI-driven smart tracking to shoot potential intruders with paintballs might sound like something out of a Home Alone reboot set in the future. But it could be a reality soon if folks on Kickstarter get their way. The big question that's still unanswered is whether it's legal.

In two dimensions, it's the Reuleaux triangle: an equilateral triangle with curved arcs connecting each corner, creating a shape with a constant width but a smaller area than a circle. Now, a team of mathematicians say they've scaled up the shape into the third dimension and beyond, finding it resolves a math problem...Read more...

Donald Sutherland, the veteran actor whose career stretched back to the late 1960s and included an array of classics across a wide variety of genres (The Dirty Dozen, MASH, The Day of the Locust, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, National Lampoon's Animal House, Ordinary People... and that's just the first decade or so...Read more...

Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web standard, the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape parts of the web that operators don't want to be accessed by bots,...Read more...

Despite the best efforts of anti-woke" trolls who are just now realizing The Boys is satire-something series showrunner Eric Kripke has repeatedly expressed astonishment at-the show's fourth season, its penultimate, has pulled in impressive ratings since its June 13 release.

Forbes has recently reported on a new Wi-Fi vulnerability for Windows that can let hackers take over your Windows device and infect it with malware by just being on the same Wi-Fi network as you. Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability and advised all users to update their Windows PCs immediately, mainly if they...Read more...

There's definitely a certain song that could be sung about the road Star Trek: Prodigy's second season will have taken to our eyeballs by the time we get to watch it on July 1. But now we have our first extended look at Prodigy's sophomore season, I mostly just find myself whistling the Voyager theme song instead.Read more...

Call center employees have notoriously unpleasant jobs. They field questions from disgruntled customers all day long and can only respond with corporate-mandated jargon. Many expect AI will one day replace these customer service jobs, but for now, several corporations are using AI to address the incredible emotional...Read more...

Max has released a second trailer for The Penguin, its upcoming spinoff of Matt Reeves' The Batman starring Colin Farrell as crime lord Oswald Cobblepott. Take a look!

Friday is when the Shadow of the Erdtree drops, and it's already shaping up to be some of the best DLC ever released for a game. In preparation for the big release, Elden Ring received a new update with a variety of changes, but the big one is adding your bestie to the fight with the last boss.Read more...

We know as much about Apple's AI, dubbed Apple Intelligence," as we're about to, at least until we get some hands-on time with it (which likely won't be until next year). Still, you can only experience a better Siri and semantic" AI if you have an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max. Apple finally offered a...Read more...

Last year, Valiant Entertainment teamed up with publisher Alien Books in an attempt to expand its superhero universe to new heights. Now, after a year of cooking on and off the page, this are ready to explode in Resurgence of the Valiant Universe, a new status quo that will lead the way to a new age of superhero comicsRead more...

Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Thursday, which the AI startup says outperforms its previous AI models and OpenAI's recently launched GPT-4 Omni on several metrics. The company also released Artifacts, a new dynamic workspace within Claude where users can edit and build upon Claude's AI projects, such as a...Read more...

White men can't jump, but terrestrial leeches can. This is now a scientific fact; after centuries of anecdotal reports, the parasites have been caught on video leaping from leaves in the Madagascan rainforest.

Kit Harington gets hairy in a trailer for The Beast Within. Get to know A Quiet Place: Day One's feline star in a new featurette. Resident Alien will return for season 4, but at a new residence. Plus, what's coming on Orphan Black: Echoes. To me, my spoilers!

Lenovo's latest Android tablet might seem overt for its price point, but it also sounds like something I want to travel with this summer. The Lenovo Tab Plus has eight boomy speakers to blast music and movies everywhere. The speakers are specially tuned to work with Dolby Atmos, which is a nice trade-off for the rest...Read more...

Here at io9, we love Godzilla Minus One. We also love very cool art. And we especially love very cool Godzilla Minus One art. So it's a good job Toho is getting ready to release some of the film's most glorious official posters for us to plaster our walls with-and we've got your first look.

The Bluey moment has reached a fever pitch as the hit animated series about a family of Heeler dogs has attracted fans across generations. Even among those without kids, the endearing and clever show has gained a considerably powerful fandom that wants more.Read more...

In 2006, a NASA spacecraft flew by Saturn's largest moon and found evidence of large bodies of liquid on the surface of the bizarre world. The shocking discovery meant that Titan's landscape is eerily similar to that of Earth's; the two worlds are the only ones known to have rivers, lakes, and seas on the surface.

For the most part, The Acolyte has set itself apart from the rest of Star Wars-both in terms of its placement in the timeline, a hundred years before the prequel trilogy, and in its desire to focus on new characters and explorations, rather than the familiar. But that doesn't mean there aren't some intriguing...Read more...

They don't always agree, and they've endured tragedies that would be enough to fracture any marriage, much less one between two of Westeros' most powerful families. But Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) and Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) still somehow have the most enviable relationship on House of the...Read more...

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After last week's episode of The Acolyte took us into the past for a fascinating story of the Force and perspective alike, things get back to the bigger mysteries of the season in Day". But the gift of last week's context allows the show to re-examine its central figures in new light... just in time for that light to...Read more...

Project Hail Mary continues to expand its cast. An Uncharted sequel is actually happening. The Street Fighter movie has lost its directors. Plus, Jordan Peele's next mystery project has a release date, and more familiar faces are confirmed for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Spoilers now!

Convicted felon Donald Trump staged another rally in Racine, Wisconsin on Tuesday, where he played all his classic hits, from xenophobia to fake news. But it was Trump's attempt to smear President Joe Biden as senile that really went off the rails. Trump rambled for several minutes about artificial intelligence and...Read more...

Earlier this year, a team of scientists garnered a wave of media attention with their provocative report: They claimed to have found two cases of a rare but fatal prion disease in hunters that could have plausibly been caused by them eating contaminated deer meat-a frightening reminder of the mad cow crisis over 30...Read more...

I love EDM and have briefly tried my hand at DJing before to, let's say, mixed results. So when I found out that I could make music with a pair of balls instead of a turntable or digital mixer, I though, who knows-maybe this will be the start of my career as a juggling DJ.

Just months away from being banned in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be putting some salt in TikTok's wound. The agency has issued a bizarre message about referring a complaint about the social media app to the Department of Justice (DOJ).Read more...

The elevator description for Fede Alvarez's 2009 sci-fi short, Panic Attack!, is as follows: Giant robots invade Montevideo!" Frankly, the future director of Evil Dead, Don't Breathe, and Alien: Romulus would have had us at giant robots," but it's even cooler now that the short has been jazzed up and re-shared to...Read more...

The creature work in Disney+ and Lucasfilm's The Acolyte has expanded the Star Wars universe with new species and droids. Following fellas like Pip, Grogu, Babu Frik (my personal fave), and more is no easy task, but the creatives sure pull it off. On tonight's episode, fans of otherworldly little guys will be...Read more...

The Boys season four has gotten some disparaging ratings on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to some of the most hilarious self-owns coming from a certain small demographic of fans who didn't realize the show was a satire. Somehow it escaped them until now that yes-it's always been about them.Read more...

Update, 5:31 p.m. ET: The 911 system in Massachusetts has been restored, according to a tweet from the state's Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. A cause for the outage is still being investigated and the agency writes it will, provide more info when available." The original article about the outage...Read more...

Last week, Josh Gad teased sci-fi fans with an excited but cryptic social media post referencing a script based on characters created by Mel Brooks" that opens on a star field." Now, a new report confirms what everyone suspected: it's a Spaceballs sequel, coming from Amazon MGM.

At this point, modern Doctor Who has been around for almost as long as classic Doctor Who was-which means the opportunity for returning legendary baddies that the series hasn't already taken is running rather thin. But this week, Doctor Who finally played one more familiar ace up its sleeve (no, not that Ace), and...Read more...

Two NASA astronauts won't be returning back from the International Space Station (ISS) for an additional four days, the latest in a series of delays that has marred the Starliner program for years.Read more...

A team of deep sea scientists has made one mother of a find. In recent research, they detail the discovery of a female squid performing an unusual behavior for its kind: protecting and carrying around a clutch of giant eggs. The mama squid likely belongs to a previously unknown species of cephalopod, the researchers...Read more...

As part of its solicitations for the month of September 2024, DC has unveiled I Know What You Did Last Crisis, a superbly titled horror anthology featuring in-continuity stories set during the events of crises past"-DC's catch-all term for cataclysmic events meant to streamline its universe's ever-increasingly...Read more...

A new report suggests Apple is halting work on a second-generation Vision Pro and will instead focus on a budget model due in 2025.

House of the Dragon is back (with a third season now on the way, too), and it's roared onto HBO and Max with the commanding presence of Vhagar, King's Landing's fire-breathing new bodyguard. But while the season two premiere was a triumph, it came up short compared to the Game of Thrones prequel's record-breaking 2022...Read more...

There was once a time when you had to call a restaurant on the phone to book a reservation. You might spend five minutes going through the whole process only to be told no tables were available. The internet and apps like Resy made all of this much more simple. Then the bots came...Read more...

Sorry, but you were never going to get any Nintendo Switch 2 news at Tuesday's 40-minute Nintendo Direct. However, Nintendo wasn't just laying out the big titles to hit the original Switch for 2024; it was showcasing what games would keep us satiated just before and just after its next big console finally sees the...Read more...

Donald Trump recently called himself the crypto president," pulling a complete 180 from the days when he referred to crypto as a scam. And it's causing quite a lot of confusion in an already hectic presidential race where the former president is neck-and-neck in the polls with President Joe Biden.

In May, we learned that creator Bryan Fuller had departed the much-anticipated Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake, a project produced by edgy studio A24 for Peacock. At the time, Fuller posted on social media that for reasons beyond our control, A24 has elected to go a different way with the material."Read more...

WWDC 2024 was a pretty loaded event, and perhaps owing to time restraints, Apple might have skipped out on a seemingly small but crucial update for the Apple Watch coming to WatchOS 11.Read more...

Raise your glasses-and your eyebrows: A team of archaeologists has found the oldest liquid wine in a Roman mausoleum in Spain. The team determined it was a white wine, reddened by centuries of chemistry, and muddled with the cremated remains of a Roman man. Delicious.Read more...

Have you recovered from watching the House of the Dragon season two premiere yet? Considering what happens in the closing moments of A Son for a Son"-probably not, actually, and we can surely expect you-know-which scene to have reverberations throughout the coming episodes.Read more...

Paramount has released a new trailer for Smile 2, a sequel to the 2022 film about a trauma-harvesting entity that smiles at you like Richard D. James on an Aphex Twin album cover.