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The news that Our Flag Means Death would not be returning for a third season was a devastating way to kick off the new year, and it galvanized the Max pirate series' supercharged fanbase to launch a campaign to try and save the series. In a new interview, HBO and Max boss Casey Bloys said that while the show won't...Read more...

Let's give it up for Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki, whose red carpet appearances have featured his star in fashionably iconic ways. Yamazaki has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to showcase his chonky Godzilla Minus One action figure, who's currently having his own awards season adventures.Read more...

If you had to guess which Marvel character would be the first to publicly acknowledge whether or not their show is returning to Disney+, of course, it would be She-Hulk. The self-aware, fourth-wall-breaking heroine played by Tatiana Maslany is one of several characters introduced on the streamer whose fate has yet to...Read more...

While AI tools offer new capabilities for web users and companies, they also have the potential to make certain forms of cybercrime and malicious activity much more accessible and powerful. Case in point: Last week, new research was published that shows large language models can actually be converted into malicious...Read more...

Don't ring the funeral bells just yet, but the self-checkout kiosk horror show could be nearing its end. So far, the grand experiment in robot cashiers is an abject failure. Stores across the country are reversing course on the machines, and consensus is growing among analysts and insiders that self-checkout has been...Read more...

Things were looking a little dicey for Keanu Reeves' John Wick at the end of John Wick: Chapter 4, but fear not: the John Wick extended universe still has stories to tell, thanks to John Wick director Chad Stahelski's deal with Lionsgate to be the architect of the franchise's future.Read more...

A team of scientists working off the coast of Costa Rica have identified four previously unknown deep-sea octopus species in the vicinity of hydrothermal springs on the ocean floor. They also discovered two octopus nurseries affiliated with the springs, both of which belong to the newly christened dorado octopus. The...Read more...

The global burden and death toll of fungi has substantially climbed over the past decade, new research finds. The study estimates that fungal infections help kill nearly 4 million people annually-almost double the amount estimated by similar research in 2012. Co-infections like HIV and tuberculosis, a lack of speedy...Read more...

Elon Musk threatened to abandon some of Tesla's most important work on Monday in an ongoing battle over how much he gets paid. The billionaire tweeted that he's uncomfortable" working on AI and robotics projects at the company unless he gains more control of its stock. Musk, who owns about a 13% share in the company,...Read more...

Well, the nominations were certainly promising, at least. This year's Emmy Awards-finally handed out last night after a strike-related delay-had the potential to recognize fandom favorites like Wednesday, The Last of Us, Andor, and Hulu movie Prey. In the end, sci-fi, horror, and fantasy didn't exactly score big-but...Read more...

Do you want a slim PlayStation 5? How about one that's so thin it could easily slide into your backpack's laptop sleeve? That's what one DIYer managed to do with his base PS5, again showing up Sony, which still lags behind in the burgeoning, ultra-mobile handheld console market.Read more...

You can take that latest Star Wars rumor and throw it in the sarlacc pit. Earlier this week, rumors surfaced that the upcoming Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Star Wars film featuring the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey had been delayed indefinitely. The reason? Creative differences with the film's writer, Steven Knight.Read more...

Elon Musk recently revealed that the explosion of the Starship's upper stage this past November during its second test flight was caused by a propellant dump gone wrong. Despite this setback, the incident will not impact the megarocket's upcoming scheduled flight in February, according to the SpaceX CEO.

A killer is on the loose in the world of Magic: The Gathering, but this time it's a little bit different from all the other times a killer has been on the loose! Wizards' next card set for the game, Murders at Karlov Manor, is getting its Clue on in a big way, with returning and new mechanics that will transform your...Read more...

The Peregrine lunar lander is coming back home to die. Astrobotic's shiny gold spacecraft is on a trajectory towards Earth, where it is expected to burn up in the planet's atmosphere to conclude its tragic demise.Read more...

No, AI won't be coming for your soul or turning you into a battery any time soon, and the robots certainly aren't taking over, at least not from what we saw at CES 2024. There were certainly advancements, and if what we saw at this year's biggest tech showcase is any indication, bipedal legs are long gone, and balls...Read more...

Apple has finally come up with a workaround for the recent ban on two of its watches: the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Ultra 2. It will ditch the blood oxygen measurement feature on its watches altogether.

Adam Sandler's next movie for Netflix takes him to space for what at first seems like, as far as space movies go, a down-to-earth exploration of the pressures long-term extraplanetary missions can put on even the most intrepid explorers. Then the Paul Dano spider shows up, and things only get more intense from there.

James Gunn teases the team of his Creature Commandos DC movie. Mortal Kombat 2 teases the arrival of another big villain. Matt Smith tells us just when to expect House of the Dragon season 2. Plus, Jon Bernthal teases what he wants out of the return of the Punisher. To me, my spoilers!

Smartphones can take on the roles of many other gadgets-cameras, calculators, e-readers, dictaphones, and all the rest-and they can also do double duty as webcams. In fact, this functionality is now built into both Android and iOS, so it's easier than ever to use a phone as a webcam when it's connected to your...Read more...

My colleague Maxwell Zeff once described Microsoft Copilot as if Clippy went to get his MBA." Microsoft just announced a new premium subscription to its Copilot AI, which can be analogous to Clippy getting a PhD.

Fans of Dexter's Laboratory and Adventure Time can get a hit of animated nostalgia from the late 90s to the early aughts with this BoxLunch fashion collection. The fandom gear goods store just dropped a Cartoon Network line that features popular shows from those eras. Familiar toon faces adorn shirts, cozy pajama...Read more...

Not every conflict goes the way of Star Trek's heroes-Pyrrhic victories, momentary defeats, escapes from scrapes that leave them bloody-nosed. But every once in a while we get to see, over the years, moments where the technological and strategic might of Starfleet is truly laid low: highlighting just how dire the...Read more...

The 2024 movie season kicks into high gear this week with the start of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Each year, Sundance is where many of the biggest, most buzzworthy independent films start their journeys to either box office success or critical glory-and, with the festival now being both digital and in-person,...Read more...

This week in trends, the biggest tech event of the year took place in Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Show features the latest devices such as a transparent TV, another TV that folds, and this adorable ball-shaped robot from Samsung. But even though they're not written about much, sex toys are the gadgets tech...Read more...

What is a giallo, and why should you watch one? io9 has previously covered that question in detail, but the quick answer is: these vintage European, horror-adjacent thrillers deliver style and sleaze in equal measures. Looking for coherent plots and capable acting? Keep it moving. But for lurid good times that very...Read more...

Someday we'll move past the point where you can spend half an hour pumping out an AI video and generate headlines. Sadly, we're not there yet. The latest piece of refuse from the AI hype machine comes in the form of an unauthorized, AI-generated" George Carlin comedy special-one that practically no one, not even...Read more...

I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don't need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position eight queens on an eight-by-eight board such that no two queens attack each other. The eight queens puzzle requires a...Read more...

The MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.'s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he's had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked.Read more...

If you were someone who liked Netflix's Fear Street trilogy of movies in 2021, good news: R.L. Stine says another film is on the way.Read more...

Ever since Godzilla Minus One came to North America in December, it's been raking in cash and catching audience attention. Either on its own merits or because the MonsterVerse movies have helped keep him in folks' minds over the last few years, there's a larger Godzilla fever that made Minus One's reception and...Read more...

For the last few years now, all we've really known of Noah Hawley's upcoming Alien show is exactly that, and that it'll be more about the corporate side of the horror franchise. As a prequel, it's got its work cut out for it, since it has to explain things, an issue the series has previously run into before with Promet...Read more...

The upcoming Daredevil: Born Again series may have been fully reborn on a casting level. Along with leading man Charlie Cox, both Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson may be set to reprise their respective roles as his friends/coworkers, Karen Page and Foggy Nelson.Read more...

It's been a full month since NBC's pretty solid Quantum Leap revival went on a midseason break to account for the holidays. But it won't be too long a wait before the show returns: per Deadline, the remaining episodes of season two will begin airing on Tuesday, January 30.

A full month from now, Madame Web will be making its way into theaters. Like Venom and Morbius before it, the film is Sony's bid at making a universe of interconnected Spider-Man movies that don't feature the hero in question. And in another universe, we'd have one of those movies playing out in theaters this weekend.Read more...

Just before the weekend, Universal finally pulled back the curtain on its cryptic horror movie from filmmaking duo Radio Silence. The resulting film is Abigail, which sees Melissa Barrera and Dan Stevens headline a team of kidnappers who snatch up a kid to hold her for ransom. The twist? The titular Abigail, played by...Read more...

Earlier in the week, Disney surprisingly revealed Din Djarin will be headlining two films. Along with Dave Filoni's New Republic-era movie still potentially called Heir to the Empire, the Mandalorian will star in The Mandalorian & Grogu, which sees father and son go on a big-screen adventure.Read more...

Netflix and Lionsgate aren't the only ones with Frankenstein movies in the works. Warner Bros. also has a movie about the undead creature and his lovely Bride in production, and the Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed picture has built up a pretty sizable roster of actors.

Click through for our coverage of the SEC Twitter/X hack, new Google TV features revealed at CES, Elon Musk's alleged drug use, and more.Read more...

Lucasfilm decided to drop a bomb this week with the shocking reveal of a remixed movie slate: now headlined by a Mandalorian movie, the first Star Wars film to enter production since The Rise of Skywalker. But that wasn't all in the galaxy far far away: Ahsoka's back! Luke and Padme finally met, sort of! There's all...Read more...

Failure in space dominated our headlines this week, with Astrobotic's uncrewed lunar lander mission Peregrine-1 experiencing critical issues shortly after leaving Earth. Back on the ground, though, NASA finally-after months of trying-succeeded in opening the container filled with samples plucked from the asteroid...Read more...

CES is no stranger to some supremely extravagant booths, but this year's convention might take the cake (in one case, quite literally). The Consumer Technology Association, the group that runs the event every year, was hoping to have 130,000 attendees strolling around Vegas in search of the latest and greatest the...Read more...

Laser technology is continuing to prove its worth in the Amazon: A team of archaeologists in Ecuador just used the tech to discover thousands of earthen mounds hidden under the forest's canopy.Read more...

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Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has made no secret of her love for Star Wars, especially the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi. The Golden Globe winner (and Oscar contender) told the New York Times she had a strong desire to be an Ewok at age five"-that's how deep the love is.

The International Festival of the Arts 2024 kicks off this weekend at Epcot, celebrating the rich fabric of Disney storytelling through the arts. The annual festival, a fan favorite, runs January 12 to February 19 at the Walt Disney World Resort. It features live Broadway music, art activations, creative curated...Read more...

Shandong-based Orienspace pulled off its first-ever launch, breaking the record for the largest payload capacity on a commercial rocket for China's growing space industry.

Did The Rise of Skywalker and rampant speculation over just which Skywalker is rising, who a Skywalker is, and why they're rising break some brains over at Lucasfilm? Almost every bit of Star Wars on the small screen we've gotten since (and planned for the big one) is a character title, named for an individual or the...Read more...

Oscar nominations will be announced later this month, and Poor Things' Emma Stone and Barbie's Margot Robbie are all but guaranteed to be in the Best Actress race. Last year, Everything Everywhere All at Once swept three of the four acting categories. That suggests sci-fi and fantasy films, whose stars don't always...Read more...

Now that CES 2024 is done and gone. I think it's safe to say that there was a lot of news out of Las Vegas this year. Thankfully, we've got all the important announcements listed below.