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It's not long until we see what Netflix has got cooking with its live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender when it starts streaming next month-but the streamer has given us another new look to whet our appetites.Read more...

You can't fly an inflatable module to space without bursting a few on Earth. Sierra Space watched its giant, 20-foot tall space station module explode in dramatic fashion, but the company wasn't too stressed about it. In fact, it marked a successful test on the road to building the first commercial space station in...Read more...

Apple recently announced a Stolen Device Protection feature for iOS 17.3. With the new OS finally released Monday, the safety feature is now available to be activated on your devices. Here's how to turn it on.

Get a teeny new glimpse of Godzilla x Kong in more international footage. Apple TV+'s Constellation puts Noomi Rapace through a sci-fi horror. Terry Matalas has more ideas if Star Trek: Legacy ever happens. Plus, get a new look at Kung Fu Panda 4. Spoilers, away!

Those who remember playing their Game Boys by the staccato glow of passing streetlights while sitting in the backseat of their parent's cars sure have a bevy of retro handheld revivals to choose from. Though we've had plenty of strong contenders, nothing really beats the original Game Boy Color design with its...Read more...

OnePlus sure picked a heck of a time to launch its flagship stateside. Every Android manufacturer jumped out earlier this year, and the shelves seem slightly more stocked than usual. It's good news for you if you're buying an Android phone.Read more...

Every few years there is some terrible new status symbol that becomes ubiquitous and, thus, inescapable. Several years back it was those dumb Canada Goose jackets that retailed at prices of up to $1700 and made everybody look like Death Star employees. Lately, however, the marker of status is just a cup.

If there's one thing in the gaming laptop space that doesn't get enough attention, it's the sub-$1,000 category. It's all about give and take for a low-price, portable laptop. You want portability, but you need quality performance. You want a bright, beautiful display to show off in-game graphics, but you need a...Read more...

It was perhaps inevitable after last year saw Everything, Everywhere, All at Once take pretty much everything, everywhere at the 2023 Oscars, but 2024's nominations are here, and for the most part sci-fi, fantasy, other genre movies' representations are solidified around a few notable hits-and even then, mostly Barbie.Read more...

It's getting more and more difficult to know whether or not to believe what you see on the web and on social media, what with misinformation and faked content now churned out on a huge scale, but there are resources that can help you find the truth: Including a tool called Fact Check Explorer that's maintained by...Read more...

On my commute to work today, I had the misfortune of being crammed into a narrow tube underground. But it could have been worse: I could've been squished into a single dimension.Read more...

Although it took a long time for Paramount to return the favor, Star Trek Online has long done a great job of bringing in material from the more recent shows into its own imagining of at 25th-century era for boldly going. But its latest drop might be one of its most fun.

The Hugo Awards are no stranger to controversy. In recent years, the annual celebration of sci-fi and fantasy authors in media including novels, short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting (among others) has come under fire for a questionable sponsorship (defense contractor Raytheon Technologies), an...Read more...

Today Lucasfilm dropped our best look yet at the third and final season of Disney+'sStar Wars: The Bad Batch. But beyond setting the stage for the crew's attempts to save Omega from the clutches of the Empire, the trailer also brought with it a shocking reveal: Asajj Ventress, the fallen former Sith disciple turned...Read more...

Kayak has a lot of neat features that make traveling easy, including one that allows you to filter out a certain type of plane that ripped a little boy's shirt off when its door blew out 16,000 feet in the air. That feature has seen a 15-fold increase in usage since Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737 Max 9 gave the whole...Read more...

Oh jeez. While season seven was one of Rick and Morty's best-putting to rest any idea that the behind-the-scenes reshuffling would compromise its quality-it seems we'll be waiting longer than expected for more: season eight is slated for a 2025 return.Read more...

TikTok is a welcome pacifier for people looking to disconnect as our world careens towards the fiery abyss. However, the app has one major flaw standing in the way of total smooth-brained pleasures: you have to move your fingers when you want to see another video. Terrible, yes, but that nightmare may be ending. An...Read more...

Scientists may have figured out one of the many mysteries surrounding everyone's favorite microscopic survivor: the tardigrade. In new research, a team appears to have uncovered a key mechanism that these tiny critters use to withstand harsh conditions that would kill almost any other animal.Read more...

Unknown criminals are blasting New Hampshire Democrats with an apparently AI-generated robocall of President Biden in what the state's Attorney General is calling an unlawful attempt" to suppress the vote.Read more...

Peacock has a great horror selection-with a healthy dose of sci-fi and cult movies too. Building on io9's earlier lists of recommendations for the streamer, here are 10 sci-fi movies that span various decades but all deliver a certain freaky unease.Read more...

The makers of Palword, a new video game launched this weekend that many are calling Pokemon with guns," received death threats due to the close resemblance the game shares to the beloved Nintendo video game. Pokemon diehards took to X to express their frustration with Pocketpair's new game, which sold five million...Read more...

O. megalodon, my megalodon. The gargantuan shark that prowled the Miocene seas has long captured the imagination because of its stupendous 60-foot length-three times the size of the largest great white sharks. But now, a team of researchers suggests that the extinct apex predator's body shape was slightly different...Read more...

Despite Jurassic World Dominion being truly terrible, it did not kill the Jurassic franchise. David Koepp, the writer of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and The Lost World, is currently working on a brand new Jurassic World film that's being referred to as the start of a new Jurassic era."Read more...

Though there won't be a movie in theaters, 2024 is gearing up to be a good year for Star Wars fans. Movie news andTV shows are on the way, and it all kicks off with the final season of The Bad Batch, which debuts February 21.Read more...

After waiting two and a half years for more episodes of Invincible, we only have to wait two more months for it to continue. Season two of Prime Video's animated adaptation of the Robert Kirkman comic debuted in November with the first half of the season's eight-episode arc. Those four episodes ended on a major...Read more...

The aluminum canister containing bits of an ancient space rock has finally been opened, revealing the bulk of the asteroid Bennu sample in all its glory.Read more...

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Japan's space agency, JAXA, achieved a historic soft landing with SLIM on Friday morning, but the lander ran into instant trouble by not being able to collect solar energy and generate electricity. Hopeful for some westerly sunshine, JAXA is cautiously optimistic that SLIM could spring back to life in a couple of...Read more...

Now that Tron 3 certainly has taken its best step forward in looking like it's actually happening, we're now getting some actually exciting casting news about the film, which just got a big, big headliner for nerds already excited about a Tron threequel.

Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who often sounds like an AI chatbot, dropped out of the 2024 Presidential Election on Sunday, just a week after OpenAI banned ChatGPT for political campaigns. It begs the question, was Ron Desantis running on ChatGPT this whole time?Read more...

The Apple Vision Pro finally became available for pre-order on Friday last week, and while the first weekend did extremely well, to the point of being sold out, chances are that the demand may not continue to go up the same way. Here's why.

The Minecraft movie cast continues to grow weirder and weirder. Get a look at the stars of Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender in new posters. Halo teases the fight for Reach in a new trailer. Plus, James Gunn talks Superman: Legacy's addition of The Authority. Spoilers get!

NASA's diligent lunar orbiter transmitted a laser beam to a dome-shaped aluminum device the size of a billiard ball on India's Vikram lander, pinging its location on the Moon. This laser-enabled technique could one day help NASA astronauts find their way on the lunar surface.

This month, OpenAI launched what it calls the GPT Store, a platform where developers can sell custom-built AI apps and tools. The millions of GPTs on offer include games, productivity helpers, graphic design tools, tools for specific writing projects, and more. One thing OpenAI doesn't want you to find, however, is an...Read more...

Tech companies are infamous for torturing career hopefuls with mind-melters during interviews. This week, you'll try your hand at one without the stress of job prospects on your shoulders. Google is rumored to have used this puzzle over the years, although it has since retired the practice altogether.

Big Tech's trend of the week is the incessant talk about AI subscriptions. Silicon Valley cannot stop throwing money into AI, but they're a bit stuck figuring out how AI will throw money back at them. Now, Big Tech thinks it found a solution: they're betting you will pay a monthly subscription for their AI service....Read more...

A new year means new movies to watch in theaters or at home. And while we've got an idea of the bigger franchise tentpoles, some films are building up their presence the old-fashioned way: with some pretty effective marketing that sells you on the movie's vibe first and foremost.

Just a few months ago, actor Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream 7 over her pro-Palestinian stance in the Israel-Hamas conflict. The shockwave of that firing has basically upended that franchise in various ways, while Barrera herself has been focused on doing promo for her next film, the upcoming horror musical Your...Read more...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One finally came to theaters last year after a longer than expected wait due to COVID. If you decided to wait for it to hit streaming, good news: it's hitting Paramount+ next Friday, January 25.

Like with Tron 3, the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again is getting back into production starting next week. The series, which was originally slated to come out this spring, found itself in need of a creative reboot with new hands behind the wheel, and it seems Disney's liked what writer Dario Scardapane and directors...Read more...

Longtime horror alum Greg Nicotero, of The Walking Dead and Creepshow fame, has found his next project to tackle: a TV adaptation of Robert McCammon's Swan Song.

Scientists scrutinizing the fine dust covering the Moon have identified a handful of boulders on the lunar surface that they believe may be covered with uniquely magnetized dust.Read more...

Meet the dorado octopus, a newly described deep sea cephalopod with some seriously alien features. A remotely operated vehicle took incredible images of thisspecies and its habitat, including just-hatched babies and a field brooding females. Click through for our top science stories from this week.Read more...

As Ncuti Gatwa's just beginning his tenure on Doctor Who, his newest companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) won't be along for his full ride. Per Variety, Gibson will be on the show after a single season, after which she'll be succeeded by Verada Sethu, last seen as Cinta Kaz over on Andor.Read more...

Ever since Sony revealed it was working on a solo movie for Madame Web, folks have had questions. Why her? How is this going to connect to whichever Spider-Man is swinging around now?

Now that we're a few weeks into 2024 and the Hollywood strikes are in the rearview, the upcoming Tron: Ares has just started filming.Read more...

For the past 26 years, the Guthman Competition at Georgia Tech's Department of Music has introduced the world to strange and innovative instruments. The contest welcomes inventors from all over the world to build and explore the future of music, and together, they've produced some truly weird and exciting sound...Read more...

2024 is barely a few weeks old and already the future of Star Wars is driving people mad with speculation and rumormongering. io9 got you the scoop of the week with what's really up with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daisy Ridley's Rey movie, but here's the rest of our big hits you may have missed-James WhitbrookRead more...

Tech is having a moment where everyone is wondering if it's all that great. AI is the hot trend right now, but Big Tech wants you to pay for something that hasn't really been shown to make your life easier. Don't worry though, the Silicon Valley billionaires are planning their own utopia, but you're not invited....Read more...

Fresh off the heels of CES 2024 comes another huge January tech event, in which Samsung officially launched its highly anticipated Galaxy S24 AI-powered smartphone. Ubisoft turned some heads this week when the French gaming publisher said gamers should be more comfortable not owning their digital games. Catch up on...Read more...