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We've watched a lot of Indiana Jones stories over the years but we've very rarely been able to put on the fedora ourselves. That changes later this year with the release of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for Xbox.

Panera Bread and its Charged Lemonade are once again headed to court. This week, a Rhode Island woman filed a lawsuit alleging that the highly caffeinated beverage caused her to develop long-term heart problems. The suit follows two wrongful death claims brought against the chain eatery last year by families of the...Read more...

David Benioff and Dan Weiss are currently promoting their upcoming sci-fi series for Netflix, 3 Body Problem, but that doesn't mean people have stopped asking them about Game of Thrones. It's been five years since it ended, and though they say they miss working on the HBO hit, they're also in no hurry to return-ever.Read more...

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom already has its home release dates, and they're closer than you may think. While there's no word yet on when it'll debut on Max, the film will be available digitally next week on January 23, ahead of its DVD/Blu-ray/4K release on March 12. One would expect the Max date to be somewhere in...Read more...

A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an itsy-bitsy black hole, but they're not sure which.Read more...

In a modern movie landscape dominated by mega franchises, 2024 is looking mighty odd indeed. Yes, we've got films coming from DC, Marvel, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, and a few others, but almost all of them are slightly off-brand. The Transformers and Lord of the Rings movies are animated. The biggest Marvel and...Read more...

An outbreak of measles in Philadelphia is growing larger. This week, health officials announced a newly discovered case of the highly contagious viral disease in the area-the ninth reported to date. Many of these cases, including the latest one, have been traced back to a single day care center, and most if not all...Read more...

In a few months, one of the most infamous episodes of Star Trek ever made will turn 28, a title that manages to whip Trekkies up into a frenzy worthy of a courtroom drama in just a single portmanteau: Tuvix." Perhaps one of the most stinging indictments of Voyager's episodic nature, there's good reasons it's still so...Read more...

The saga of Peregrine is coming to a tragic end, with the lunar lander scheduled for reentry through Earth's atmosphere after failing to touch down on the Moon.

More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon's standards, the service is a total failure. The problem is Alexa doesn't make any money, and the service is a huge drain on company resources. Apparently, Amazon has a last-ditch plan to save its digital assistant by supercharging it with AI and charging you for...Read more...

Why play classic Monopoly, with its boring old Boardwalk and all those railroads, when you can play a snazzy special edition branded to your favorite pop culture property? The options for Monopoly variations are startlingly robust. Here are 10 we found-all currently available online-that stood out for being...Read more...

Just Wednesday, it was announced that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to extend the pause on the temporary ban on Apple Watches and ordered it to officially halt sales of the watches by 5 pm ET on Thursday, January 18.

Zipping far above Earth, it's not exactly easy for satellites to find a corner gas station when the fuel gauge gets low. To tackle this cosmic conundrum, a Space Force-funded initiative is working on an innovative solution to refuel distant satellites on-the-fly.Read more...

Google pledged to stop tracking user visits to abortion clinics shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, which killed off the United States' largest federal abortion protection. The measure aimed to protect abortion seekers from prosecutors, especially in the 14 states where abortion is now banned....Read more...

Samsung devoted the vast majority of its latest Unpacked showcase to AI. Even if the star of the show is still the Galaxy S24, Samsung wants all its fans to hitch themselves up to the AI bandwagon, but once you look at the fine print, the company may also need users to pay up for at least some of these or future...Read more...

Daisy Ridley discusses her expectations for her new Star Wars movie. Channing Tatum's Maxx adaptation is going ahead at Paramount. Jenna Ortrega talks practical effects and Beatlejuice 2. Plus, what's to come as La Brea nears its end. Spoilers get!

After a years-long legal battle, Apple is finally opening up its App Store to external payment processors-although there will be a stiff cost for app developers who want to cash in on that new opportunity.Read more...

SpaceX is collaborating with agricultural industry giant John Deere to provide satellite internet connectivity, enabling its tractors to operate autonomously and communicate with each other in rural areas.Read more...

A new study published today is diving deep into how a dog's size can affect their health. The study found evidence that larger dogs tend to have a higher risk of many health problems and generally shorter lifespans, while also showing that smaller dog breeds can have their own unique health risks as well.

Many places in the Midwest and northern United States could shrink drastically by the turn of the century, according to a new study based on five climate scenarios. By the same token, according to the researchers, the populations of 40% of U.S. cities could grow by 2100.Read more...

Sheryl Sandberg, original girlboss and longtime fixture at Facebook, is formally stepping down from her position on Meta's board. Sandberg announced her transition away from the company on Wednesday in a post that she made, appropriately, on Facebook.

At Universal Studios Japan, Super Nintendo World's jumping" Donkey Kong ride puts visitors in the mine-cart action of the video game, broken tracks and all. That's right, you'll be experiencing a very realistic simulation of being in Kong's cart and jumping onto a completely different rail on this coaster set to open...Read more...

Smartphones, AI, and rings, oh my! Samsung is at it again, coming out with its latest Samsung Galaxy S24 series phone with a list of long-expected features, a new titanium frame on the $1,300 Ultra edition, and a whole smattering of artificial intelligence surrounding every feature for its latest flagship phone. Oh,...Read more...

Unlike certain other io9 staffers, I'm not too much of a gamer-but I am a big horror fan, and that's what made me interested in 2015's Until Dawn, an interactive tale about a bunch of kids stranded on a mountain haunted by past tragedies and crawling with menacing creatures. It's like being inside a horror movie!...Read more...

Sam Altman, the Jimmy Neutron-looking mega-millionaire who runs OpenAI, had a lot to say at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. During an interview, Altman implied that his industry should lean into nuclear power to keep up with its growing energy footprint. That's not exactly a surprising...Read more...

A female mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago made a trek across hundreds of miles of tundra to a hunter-gatherer settlement in central Alaska, according to a team of scientists that recently scrutinized isotopes in the tusk.Read more...

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Players will need to feel a fair bit more comfortable" with the idea of subscription models and, to a greater extent, not actually owning anything they buy. This week, Ubisoft rejiggered its entire subscription model, but to sell players and the industry on its new move, one company exec misconstrued why gamers and...Read more...

Last week, David Gordon Green-director of 2023's The Exorcist: Believer, as well as the recent Halloween films-announced he was stepping down from directing the previously announced second film in the revival trilogy, The Exorcist: Deceiver. Today, we're sorting through this demonic kerfluffle to see where the...Read more...

We celebrate diversity here at Jalopnik, since diversity brings innovation, excitement, and titillating new flavors. Something that seems as dull as a car key can be reshaped, reinvented, and reimagined into something beautiful. This list celebrates that diversity and innovation in the widely varied world of...Read more...

Disney's centennial feature Wish-which is currently making the awards-season rounds-is coming to digital January 23. The fairy tale that pays tribute to Disney's animated legacy also gets a physical release on Blu-ray March 12.Read more...

For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

We're still reeling from last week's Astrobotic failure, in which a catastrophic propellant leak rendered the Peregrine lunar lander incapable of completing its Moon landing mission. It's not the outcome we were hoping for, but the global space community doesn't have to wait long for another opportunity at lunar...Read more...

As Godzilla Minus One-io9's top movie of 2023-continues to chart incredible success at the box office, it's about to present audiences with a whole new way to see the film. Tickets are now on sale for Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color, a gorgeously stark, newly remastered black and white version of the hit film.Read more...

The modern generation of Android phones is getting new Google Lens-like features that put Search front and center in every single app on Android by letting you highlight parts of images or text to generate Search results. The newly-announced Samsung Galaxy S24 and last year's Pixel 8 models are all getting access to...Read more...

It's a new year, which means new phones from Samsung, Android's number one phone seller. The company has officially revealed its flagship lineup for the Galaxy S24 series of smartphones. The Galaxy S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra all promise to come equipped with various features you'd expect from your daily carry,...Read more...

The third private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is getting ready to launch an all-European crew, along with dozens of scientific experiments, to low Earth orbit.Read more...

In May 1999, Star Wars hadn't been in movie theaters for nearly 20 years-well, newStar Wars, at least; the Special Editions had returned a few years prior. But the galaxy far, far away was about to explode with the arrival of The Phantom Menace. And actually, a few weeks earlier, the explosion had already begun, in...Read more...

A team of researchers found a black hole from the early universe, prompting new questions as to how such ancient massive objects might form. The black hole dates to about 400 million years after the Big Bang-the start of the universe as we know it-making the object over 13 billion years old. The universe itself is 13.7...Read more...

Let's take a trip down memory lane before we gear up for today's big Samsung Galaxy S24 event, shall we? Now, as much as I love a shiny new phone with a great camera and tons of features, there's something about looking back at Samsung's old phones to see how we got here. So, let's check out the most iconic Samsung...Read more...

With the release of Echo bringing the MCU back into the gritty criminal world that was, long ago, the bread and butter of its TV series boom on Netflix, much has been made of the show's repositioning of Marvel's canonical context to that era through characters like Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and Vincent...Read more...

Let's unpack a bit about Samsung's Unpacked, shall we? The South Korean tech giant is set to release its next big Android hit with the Galaxy S24, and this time, it's taking a roundabout route to proclaim its next smartphone as one of the true first AI phones."Read more...

Chrome's Incognito mode is a bit of a joke that even Google employees weren't so hyped about it. It's now going to be less useful for privacy" reasons, as explained in a new disclaimer change.Read more...

Mark Ruffalo hypes up his nasty character in Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17. Alex Wolff says the Quiet Place prequel is less horror, more drama. Ghostbusters: The Frozen Empire talks villain inspirations. Plus, Jenna Ortega teases Wednesday's action-packed season 2. Spoilers, away!

A zoo in the Czech Republic is so excited about its newest arrival that it arranged a special photoshoot. Meet Mikolas the pygmy hippo, born December 1 at Dvur Kralove Zoo. Pygmy hippopotamuses are endangered, and little Mikolas is a boon to conservation efforts, the Associated Press reports.Read more...

A retired NASA Space Shuttle is slowly coming together for an unprecedented display, with the massive tank that once helped power the rocket now standing tall alongside two solid boosters at the California Science Center.Read more...

Now that the dopamine of CES 2024 has worn off, we need something else to carry us through the first month of the new year. Fortunately, we have Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked to look forward to, where the company will reveal what's new with its next series of flagship smartphones. The Galaxy S24 and its device brethren...Read more...

Commercial faster-than-sound travel over land doesn't happen anymore-but in the U.S., it could soon, with the debut of a new experimental plane developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin. The X-59 aircraft is designed to test out sonic boom-less supersonic flight, producing only sonic thumps' as it speeds through the...Read more...

The AI knows me as Kai, a bounty hunter in some vague cyberpunk city known as Kairos. Oh, but I am much more than that. I strolled into a ramen shop owned by the dull, affable Jin and patronized by the dull, professional Nova, and I weaved a yarn. I am not only a bounty hunter. I am a wizard bounty hunter and a member...Read more...

Silicon Valley is racing to create the first generation of humanoid" robots, with many tech companies promising consumers that they'll soon have their very own, live-in robo-helper to do the dishes, sweep the floor, and generally take care of all the annoying housework that you don't want to do. However, the...Read more...