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Paramount+ had previously given the go-ahead to a second season of kid-focused animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, but the series has now been cancelled ahead of that. Additionally, the Hollywood Reporter notes, Prodigy will be removed from the streaming platform altogether.Read more...

Whether it's diving to the depths of the ocean or flying to the edge of space, the risks associated with extreme tourism haven't deterred wealthy billionaires and other privileged individuals from buying their way to severe environments. The recent loss of the five passengers on board the submersible vessel, however,...Read more...

This week Star Trek: Strange New Worlds took us on an enlightened spin on a Trek classic: the courtroom drama, where spaceships and scientific ponderings give way to our Starfleet heroes sitting down and having even more fancy chats than they usually do. It's a format the franchise has been obsessed with since the...Read more...

While Reddit's recent moderator-led protests against the company's new API pricing have been loud, dramatic, and sympathetic to most, they don't seem to have affected traffic to the social media platform in a significant way, according to new data.Read more...

When making an Indiana Jones movie, there's a certain checklist you need to complete. Get back Harrison Ford. John Williams does the music. And, of course, make sure the character has a really cool relic to go after.Read more...

The boys are back in town. Except, technically, they're not boys," but hermaphroditic land snails. Also, the town" in question is three separate counties in central and southern Florida. Let's try this again: Giant African land snails, a potentially devastating invasive species, have re-appeared in three Florida...Read more...

Meta is sticking to its guns-the social networking giant says it will follow through with its threat to cut off Canadians' access to news on Facebook and Instagram following the passage of the hotly contested Online News Act. The news shutdown could significantly rattle news access for the more than 20 million...Read more...

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Chemical manufacturer 3M is set to pay $10.3 billion in settlements over forever chemical contamination of U.S. drinking water, the company announced on Thursday.

OceanGate, the operator of the Titan submersible which imploded while journeying to the wreckage site of the Titanic, reportedly received numerous warnings that the vessel was unsafe. All five passengers, including the company's CEO, are presumed dead. James Cameron, producer and director of the critically acclaimed...Read more...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is hard to describe to those who haven't seen it. The huge amount of characters on the screen at any time, the beauty of its composition, the kinetics of its action, the sheer variety of its artistry-it's a stunning visual achievement. And, as we've seen far too often recently, this...Read more...

Two New York City lawyers and their firm were spanked with $5,000 in fines after they turned in legal documents written with help by ChatGPT. Unfortunately for the lawyers' checkbooks, ChatGPT didn't stick to the facts, and instead pulled a number of quotes and citations out of thin air.Read more...

It's officially summer, and horror fans know nothing goes better with a warm night than a movie that leaves you ice-cold and terrified. Summer is also the laziest season, so io9 has rounded up 10 excellent horror movies that just so happen to be conveniently streaming on Prime Video.Read more...

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Kevin Smith furthers old reports about the potential of a Batman Beyond adaptation at Warner Bros. Riverdale reveals a suitably unhinged first look at Archie the Musical. Plus, what's coming on Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. Spoilers get!

A coalition of law enforcement groups and prosecutors are holding up a California bill with bipartisan support meant to protect people seeking reproductive and gender affirming health care and fighting to weaken its provisions.Read more...

Now is the time to catch up on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season one in its entirety-and watch the first episode of the currently airing season two-for free on YouTube.Read more...

With Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny opening this week, here's a look back on movies and television that aimed to capture that same artifact-heist genre gold that started with Raiders of the Lost Ark.Read more...

You've read the comics and watched the animated TV show-now prepare to enter the mixed-up, switched-up, upside-down world of Marvel's What If...?"through the pages of three new novels. Loki, Valkyrie, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, Moon Knight, and Venom will star in the books from an acclaimed trio of authors.Read more...

United Airlines is attempting to address stressed flyers' needs with an in-app upgrade that allows customers to rebook their flights and receive vouchers in the case of flight delays or cancellations. The airline changed its rebooking protocol as lines at customer service desks and phone wait times surge in an effort...Read more...

Vape purveyors be warned, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is on a mission to clear the air of cotton candy clouds. The federal agency has issued official warning letters to 189 stores over claims that the retailers are selling illegal e-cigarettes and related products, according to a Thursday press statement.

Did you really think Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3-which caps not only Marvel's trilogy with the heroic misfits, but James Gunn's own stint in the MCU-would come home without a zillion extras? Ahead of its arrival on digital July 7 and Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, and DVD August 1, we now know what'll be included in the...Read more...

A twister formed over Texas on Wednesday night, flattening homes and killing a reported four people in the town of Matador. Several others were injured during the storm, according to the Lubbock Fire Department.

When Samuel L. Jackson joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it wasn't a universe at all. It was just the 2008 film Iron Man... but Marvel Studios was clearly feeling ambitious. It signed Jackson to a nine-movie deal even before its first movie had come out, and now, 15 years later, the actor has starred in far more...Read more...

TikTok Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas, the long-time face of the company's US operations, is calling it quits. The top executive revealed their resignation in an email to staff Thursday saying the time is right to move on and refocus." Their departure comes at a time of extreme uncertainty at the company, with...Read more...

Texas-based AST SpaceMobile used its space-based cellular tower to transmit signals at 4G speeds to off-the-shelf smartphones, marking a success for its prototype satellite.Read more...

A new, very official-looking report has just dropped for the upcoming Star Wars movie starring Daisy Ridley but io9 has learned it's mostly inaccurate.Read more...

A debris field" was found in the area where authorities were searching for the missing Titanic submersible four days after the vessel disappeared, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday. In a race against the clock, the search and rescue mission, which started Sunday, has come to a close, Rear Admiral John Mauger...Read more...

Gaming chairs are close enough in design to office chairs to make it feel like you're doing important work, even if you're just spending hours terrorizing families of five in The Sims. But if you've managed to shrug off the societal guilt of gaming and only care about being comfortable, Japan's Bauhutte has created...Read more...

The Titan submersible vessel, which has gone missing with five people on board, was partially constructed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.Read more...

Elko, Nevada, is playing host to a real life horror movie scenario. The town is experiencing a substantial invasion of Mormon crickets. Thankfully, the imposing insects are not directly harmful to people.Read more...

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A slew of users of the online prediction marketplace Polymarket are betting tens of thousands of dollars on whether the missing Titanic tourist submersible, named the Titan, will be found by midnight ET on June 23, at which point it is likely the five passengers onboard will have run out of oxygen.Read more...

Microsoft's $68.7 billion bid to acquire video game maker Activision Blizzard has arrived in court. An evidentiary hearing that pits both tech giants against the Federal Trade Commission began at 8:30 A.M. Pacific (11:30 A.M. Eastern) on Thursday morning. Big money and an industry-wide restructuring are at stake over...Read more...

I'll never forget where I was at roughly 3:00 am on May 22, 2008. While most people were sleeping, myself and a few friends poured out of the midnight showing of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. And we each felt like we'd been punched in the gut.Read more...

Since the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein were first detected in 2015, astrophysicists have been pondering the gravitational wave background-the cumulative undulations of these spacetime ripples as they cross the cosmos.Read more...

Device makers have struggled to incorporate temperature sensors into smartphones and smartwatches to turn them into medically accurate body thermometers, but researchers at the University of Washington claim they've come up with a way to turn an off-the-shelf smartphone into exactly that-with nothing but a new app. T...Read more...

Sea lions and dolphins that swim off California's central coast are dying. Toxic algae blooms off the state's coast are believed to be stranding and even killing the marine animals at alarming rates, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

When Samuel L. Jackson appeared in Captain Marvel, the actor was digitally recreated to look like an age-appropriate version of himself for the 1990s-set film. But underneath that was the modern actor's performance, not mere computer graphics. So Jackson is no hypocrite when he swears he won't allow himself to be...Read more...

There simply comes a time when a Star Trek show demands a courtroom episode. Whether it's internal Starfleet politics, or the chance to advocate Federation ideals to an alien society, Star Trek loves an opportunity to make its subtexts so text it can practically beat a book of them over your head. And so it's no...Read more...

Eager to get out of the shadow of its money-throwing green rival, Twitch on Thursday unveiled Hype Chat, a new way for its large and mid-sized streamers to earn money from viewers by allowing them to pay between $1 and $500 to pin messages to the live chat.Read more...

It's not quite a cage match, but Australia's online safety commissioner is ready to rumble down under with Elon Musk. Julia Inman Grant, a former regional Twitter exec herself and now an Australian government official, has issued a legal warning to the Musk-owned site, that could lead to a fine of up to 700,000...Read more...

Launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is being prepped for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years, with repairs underway to fix the damage caused by the inaugural flight of the space agency's lunar program.Read more...

Students in kindergarten through high school are getting free access to Figma and FigmaJam, a cloud-based design tool. The release of the program follows a nationwide beta test in select high schools across 50 districts from urban areas like Portland to smaller rural districts in Texas.Read more...

Demons usually mean bad news, for obvious reasons: their mere presence tends to bring death and chaos, damnation sounds awfully boring, and being possessed is just messy. However, not every demon is a total villain. In fact, there are a few we wouldn't mind hanging out with, despite the consequences.Read more...

Humans could be contributing tothe spread of a cat-loving, mind-altering parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, new research this week suggests. The study found that domesticated and wild cats were more likely to carry the parasite in areas densely packed with humans.Read more...

It's been a long road for Kamen Rider fans waiting for Shin Kamen Rider to become easier to watch outside of Japan-especially if you missed out on the handful of days it screened theatrically in the U.S.. But good news: for the specific venn diagram of people who love Tokusatsu superheros and shocking amounts of camp...Read more...

A French robot capable of diving 20,000 feet deep has been deployed in the search for the Titanic tourist sub that's been missing with five passengers aboard since Sunday. The salvage system is supposed to arrive sometime Wednesday evening, though there's still no hint that rescuers have pinpointed the exact location...Read more...

The apps are coming for Apple's not-VR/AR headset. Even though the Vision Pro headset won't see release until 2024, Apple is hoping to have a wide suite of 3rd party apps available at launch, potentially some that could entice more customers to drop $3,500 on a its so-called spatial computer."

Pom Klementieff discusses her villainous new Mission: Impossible character. The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin has a small part to play in Dune 2. Plus, what's to come on the series finale of Gotham Knights. Spoilers now!