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Update, 5/25 @ 1:15 PM ET: James Gunn has confirmed Chris Mundy and Damon Lindelof are involved with Lanterns. The two men, along with DC Comics scribe Tom King-who was previously cooking up a New Gods movie with Ava DuVernay-came up with the show's initial pilot script and bible. (King, said Gunn, has been involved...Read more...

Ghost in the Shell is making a comeback, courtesy of a brand-new anime by Scott Pilgrim Takes Off studio Science SARU and longtime franchise studio Production I.G (Kaiju No. 8).Read more...

This week, pop culture had lots to get excited about: Steven Spielberg's intriguing new sci-fi film; long-awaited horror comedy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; our first glimpse of the (new) star of The Witcher; more details about Australia's mini-theme park celebrating all things Bluey, and beyond! - Cheryl EddyRead more...

It turns out that killer wales do not like boats. They really don't like them, in fact, and have made it their mission to sink them all to the bottom of the ocean in recent years. Now, instead of letting the orca have their fun with boats sailing the seven seas, one New Zealander has tried to fight back, which is...Read more...

The federal government made some interesting moves by making private jets owned by celebrities such as Elon Musk and Taylor Swift harder to track, but at the same time, advancing legislation to make agencies share more info about UFOs. Back on the ground, AI is coming for your voice if you're Scarlet Johansson, you're...Read more...

This week, the company behind the wearable chatbot AI Pin is already looking to sell for upwards of a billion dollars just one month after its rough product launch. Speaking of AI, Microsoft shared its plans for the future of AI in Windows with Copilot+. However, we still have some privacy concerns over its spotlight...Read more...

This week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a supermassive black hole, and a fascinating experimental archaeology experiment in which marines fought each otherto test how well ancient Mycenean armor works. Other science coverage included a botched SpaceX engine...Read more...

What a lovely, lovely day! After years of anticipation and discussion, George Miller's follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road is finally here. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is now in theaters and it acts as a perfect compliment to that 2015 masterpiece, giving the character of Furiosa an intense backstory while also building out...Read more...

George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead arrived 10 years after he invented the modern zombie movie with 1968's Night of the Living Dead. To mark the 45-year anniversary of its U.S. release in 1979-an international co-production, it world-premiered in Italy in 1978-star Gaylen Ross, who's also in Romero and Stephen King's...Read more...

It turns out that Samsung's repair program isn't as breezy as we initially thought. In the past few days, we've discovered some harsh truths about Android's best-selling smartphone maker. The company has quietly parted ways with iFixit on phone repair kits. It has also required independent repair shops to disclose...Read more...

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Speculation about new character arrivals in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge has circled for weeks as a mysterious tarp appeared stationed on Batuu at Disneyland. Today Disney Experiences confirmed two new Star Warscharacter arrivals, who speak through one: a modified R1 series astromech droid named Bard, owned by Tohan...Read more...

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It's a mega-movie summer at Universal Studios Orlando with the East Coast resort punching up cinematic nostalgia and the opening of DreamWorks Land. With nighttime shows themed around the likes of Back to the Future, E.T., Ghostbusters, Jaws, Trolls, and Shrek, movie fans of all ages can get into vacation mode like in...Read more...

HBO's smash-hit video-game adaptation The Last of Us has added a veteran of the source material to its second season: Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright, who'll be stepping back into the role of Isaac Dixon. Wright's previous genre credits include another big HBO series in Westworld, as well as Marvel's animated What If... ? seriesRead more...

Artificial intelligence chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT are being sold as revolutionary tools that can help workers become more efficient at their jobs, perhaps replacing those people entirely in the future. But a stunning new study has found ChatGPT answers computer programming questions incorrectly 52% of the time.

One of the year's best and most polarizing movies just made its way home. Alex Garland's Civil War, the terrifying near-future thriller about a United States that's no longer so united, is now available on demand. It grossed almost $70 million domestically, which means plenty of movie fans saw it, but even more...Read more...

House of the Dragon season two is nearly upon us, and while it's been a year and a half since the season one finale, fans will easily remember the key players from the Game of Thrones prequel: Rhaenyra Targaryen and her family, aka the Blacks, and Alicent Hightower, the newly crowned Aegon II, and their crew, aka the...Read more...

Google tested out AI overviews for months before releasing them nationwide last week, but clearly, that wasn't enough time. The AI is hallucinating answers to several user queries, creating a less-than-trustworthy experience across Google's flagship product. In the last week, Gizmodo received AI overviews from Google...Read more...

Spotify recently emailed its customers, informing them that Car Thing will be discontinued and no longer operational after December 9, 2024. This oddly-named device is the streaming company's first-ever attempt at hardware and allows users to control Spotify in their cars via a touch-screen or voice commands.Read more...

Whatever Apple is cooking up in the kitchens inside of 1 Infinite Loop, it seems it's very interested in making a foldable, but only on its own terms. The Cupertino, California company is reportedly working on a folding MacBook that lacks any semblance of that annoying crease found on most other foldables.Read more...

Google parent Alphabet is reportedly making headway in its bid to acquire the $30 billion marketing software company HubSpot. That deal, which would be Google's largest-ever acquisition, is part of the company's strategy to compete with Microsoft in the cloud applications market.

Last week, Sam Altman apologized for OpenAI's contracts which threatened to claw back equity from former employees, claiming in a tweet he did not know this was happening and I should have." Now, documents leaked to Vox on Wednesday suggest Altman did know, showing that the CEO and other senior OpenAI executives...Read more...

A winemaker's renovation project in Gobelsburg, Austria, has led to the discovery of mammoth bones dating back up to 40,000 years, providing potential new insights into Upper Paleolithic hunting practices.Read more...

Aubrey Sitterson and Megan Hutchison's Archie Comics: Judgment Day returns for its second installment June 19, and io9 has a sneak preview today. The Archie Horror mini-series event takes place in an alternate version of Riverdale plagued by demons that-terrifyingly-often spawn from Archie's friends and loved ones,...Read more...

James Gunn's Superman gets an update. King Kong joins Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Plus, the Dexter prequel series casts its leads. To the victor go the spoilers!

Games are expensive, and for some, it's far too expensive to be a regular hobby. That makes shopping for deals that much more of a necessity. I'm here to offer a few tried and tested ways to find good deals on games, including legitimate ways to find games to play for free.Read more...

A qualification test of a Raptor 2 engine has resulted in a dramatic explosion at SpaceX's McGregor facility. The company has yet to comment on the incident, but it's unlikely to affect the upcoming fourth test launch of the Starship megarocket.

Live-action Star Wars is back in a big, big way. Thursday night, Lucasfilm and Disney held their big premiere for Star Wars: The Acolyte, the latest Disney+ show set in a galaxy far, far away and, so far, it sounds like people really, really like it.Read more...

Dog shelters are currently overwhelmed in many parts of the U.S., with some of the oldest dogs often at the highest risk of being euthanized. But now is a great time to consider adopting a dog, especially from a place like San Francisco's Muttville Senior Dog Rescue, which maintains some of our favorite social media...Read more...

A year after the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser took its last flight, here's a look back at the best of Disney Parks' bold venture into the immersive entertainment space-and why in the end, it couldn't quite work.Read more...

Put on your best white tux, smuggle a diamond, and throw on Anything Goes." May 23 is the birthday of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom-the franchise's weirdest entry,for a whole lot of reasons. And since it was released in 1984, that makes today its 40th anniversary. Happy birthday Indy!Read more...

Netflix is a go-to for must-watch series like 3 Body Problem and Stranger Things, but it's not really a cult movie destination. If you dig deep, though, you can turn up some offbeat sci-fi and horror gems. With io9's previous Netflix cult-movie guide now mostly outdated, here's a fresh list culled from the streamer's...Read more...

California is another state lining up to pass a law requiring adult sites to verify the ages of porn watchers.Read more...

There's a lot to be excited about when it comes to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Tim Burton finally returning to this wild world he created all those years ago. Michael Keaton hopping back into one of his most iconic characters. Finding out what's happened in the years since with Winona Ryder's character Lydia, especially...Read more...

In this economy, we could all use extra help. I am a coupon queen, saving money wherever I can and recuperating dollars and cents/sense as I make purchases. I'm already initiated into Google Play Points and redeeming them for cash and credit. This week, Google announced more ways to get free money. You will have to...Read more...

In developed countries all over the world, driving continues to get safer. The one exception to that rule is the United States, where driving continues to get more dangerous. Unfortunately, there are so many factors that make drivers in the U.S. more dangerous, there's no silver bullet that will magically fix things....Read more...

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Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old programmer who died of leukemia in 2006, is set to be the first millennial saint, according to a new report from the Catholic News AgencyThursday. Acutis created websites documenting purported miracles and has been dubbed God's influencer" since his death.Read more...

io9 has several acclaimed authors among its alumni, including Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Evan Narcisse, and Andrew Liptak. Another former io9-er, Linda H. Codega, will join their ranks early next year with the release of fantasy novel Motheater, and we're thrilled to be debuting the cover and talking to the...Read more...

Corn is a problem. Or rather, America's growing reliance on government corn subsidies to power our everyday lives. Beef is artificially inexpensive because farmers feed corn to cows, even though their digestive systems aren't designed to process it. Sweet foods are artificially inexpensive because high fructose corn...Read more...

Elon Musk shared his dystopian vision for the future on Thursday while remotely joining the Viva Technology Conference in Paris. An audience member asked whether AI would one day replace Musk, expressing real concerns about automation taking jobs-a situation many are already facing. The owner of X, xAI, Tesla, and...Read more...

It goes without saying that Star Wars fans are extremely excited for The Acolyte, which arrives on Disney+ June 4 to reveal a Jedi-centric crime tale set a century before The Phantom Menace. A new behind the scenes video reveals that The Acolyte's cast has equal levels of excitement about the series.

Do we live in an unusual star system? Astronomers have been trying to figure out if the Solar System is unique compared to other stars and their orbiting planets, and they just took a major step towards answering the longstanding cosmic mystery.Read more...

Google Workspace released an update today that could make video conferencing in meeting rooms a bit more convenient. With its new adaptive audio' feature, Google Meet will sync the mics and speakers of all the laptops in a room for an improved overall audio experience. It will offer setup without any input from...Read more...

It's that time of the year again-but warmer than average. Hurricane season is upon us and the National Weather Service is expecting above-normal" hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, which could portend a difficult six months for coastal states, the Caribbean, and eastern Central America.Read more...

X-Men 97 just wrapped up its first season on Disney+, and we're still trying to recover from the thrilling conclusion. To hold us over until season two, here are the best behind-the-scenes tidbits we learned from the new doc Assembled: The Making of X-Men 97 to geek out about until the show returns.Read more...

Forty years to the day after Steven Spielberg sent Indiana Jones on a mine cart chase, he's chasing his next movie, and it sounds like a biggie. The legendary director just set May 15, 2026 for the release of his new movie, which is being described as a new original event film." David Koepp, who penned Jurassic Park...Read more...

For the first time in more than a year, Tesla has released new data presenting how its controversial Autopilot driver assistance technology keeps its customers safe.

The ghost with the most has broken free to wreak more afterlife mayhem on the living Deetz family. The long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton's horror comedy Beetlejuice-perfectly titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice-arrives September 6, and we've got a fresh peek at the action in thanks to a brand-new trailer.