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British actor Tom Wilkinson died on Saturday. He was 75, and per the Hollywood Reporter, his family say his death was at home and sudden."

Before and particularly after the movie starring Halle Berry, it appears to be a rule that you don't have Catwoman in a live-action movie without Batman getting top billing. But that wasn't always the case-back in 2018, we learned the thief very nearly got her own spinoff film where she would've been played by...Read more...

Today marks the season two finale for Marvel's What If...?. I haven't watched it yet, but by several accounts, it sounds like this has been a pretty solid season with a standout episode that focuses on the Mohawk woman Kahhori. Ahead of this season's premiere, Marvel Studios revealed a third season was in the works,...Read more...

Whatever else you can say about X, previously known as Twitter, it's never really boring. The 17-year-old social media site that we've stuck around with always has something going on; in the best cases, it can be either funny or so odd that you can't help but laugh.

It's the final week of 2023, but the news hasn't stopped quite yet. As the year wound down, the io9 crew found time to look back on the year's events, say goodbye (and possibly hello?) to some old friends, and return to some haunts we left behind. Check them out here!-James WhitbrookRead more...

In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative thinking. For each of the following puzzles, I provide a link to the solution, but I suggest you resist the temptation...Read more...

JBL recently did something somewhat out-of-the-box and experimental: launching its first-ever wireless turntable. It's called the Spinner BT, and released it a couple of weeks ago, just in time for the holiday season.Read more...

The title Bloody New Year feels overly obvious: surely, this is yet another holiday-focused slasher movie in which shrieking teens get picked off one by one. And while there's a bit of that, this 1987 British release-also known as Horror Hotel and the far more spoiler-y Time Warp Terror-is also far, far weirder than...Read more...

Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It's what made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of that relative freedom from the timeline and offer up...Read more...

Happy New Year! Let's watch some movies. Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones...Read more...

Every year, io9 pays solemn tribute to actors, directors, artists, composers, writers, creators, and other icons in the realms of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy that have passed. Let us celebrate their everlasting impact on genre together. Here are the luminaries whose work has impacted the lives of so many and will live...Read more...

Christina Chong teases an epic return to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Robert Rodriguez could be bringing The Faculty back to life. Plus, get a look at Evil's return and a glimpse of What If's 1602-inspired episode. Spoilers, assemble!

Our top science stories this week include a physics experiment to turn light into matter, an update from NASA's Juno mission (it's about to make a close encounter with Jupiter's moon Io), and a roundup of the best archaeological discoveries of 2023.Read more...

The sleepy week between Christmas and New Year's is for hangouts and hangovers. That is unless you work at Apple. For the folks in Cupertino, this week was all about trying to get the Apple Watch unbanned and scrambling to find a new lead designer for the iPhone.Read more...

What were you doing on November 8, 2023? I couldn't say for myself, but I can tell you what NASA's Curiosity rover was doing: sitting still on its 4,002nd day on Mars, taking snapshots of the Martian surface.

We snickered at the concept when we first heard about Wonka, and we scratched our heads once we saw the trailers-especially the parts revealing Hugh Grant's Ooompa-Loompa character. But one should never doubt the power of chocolate... or a singing, dancing, Timothee Chalamet, because Wonka is a hit.Read more...

In case you need it, here's another reason to go all-in on Dry January: Scientists with the World Health Organization found that reducing or eliminating alcohol consumption can lower your risk of oral and related cancers. The findings are the latest to indicate that even modest drinking isn't harmless.Read more...

New York City and New Jersey residents who are already exasperated by periodic increases in MTA subway fares are going to lack even more options for cheap public transit. Out of the blue on Thursday, Citi Bike suddenly announced its bike share program was raising prices across the board, impacting annual paying...Read more...

Jensen Huang was BFFs with everyone in Silicon Valley this year, becoming the only person to walk across all three conference stages of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Why? Because everyone needs his GPUs to power their AI dreams.

Pokemon fans of all ages will delight in the island vacation vibes of Pokemon Concierge and wish it was a real place after binge-watching the series on Netflix. The stop-motion animated show is a gem that makes the world of Pokemon feel even more magical with funny and heartfelt mini-stories. The colors and textures...Read more...

Normally, I wouldn't care what my mini PC looks like. Why would I? It's just the box I stick next to my monitor for on-the-go computing needs. It doesn't need all the flashing lights and LEDs of an ultimate gaming rig, it just needs to function. At least, that's how I originally felt about your average NUC. Then I...Read more...

Piracy is a fact of life in the entertainment industry, no matter how much studios try to fight it-and in an age where the streaming industry is feeling more and more like cable television by the day-it's going to remain that way for the foreseeable future. But that doesn't mean it's not interesting to see what...Read more...

Fans of Game of Thrones will remember that a key character, hunky sellsword Daario Naharis, looked rather different in season four after debuting in season three-and now the two actors who played him, Ed Skrein and Michiel Huisman, are sharing the screen in Zack Snyder's new Netflix film Rebel Moon.Read more...

Scientists working on CERN's Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment have published the latest data in their search for a long-lived exotic particle known as the dark photon.Read more...

Big Tech went on a murder spree in 2023. We saw the end of many once-loved products and services, all swallowed up into the great dark pit of corporate consolidation. Few companies kept their knives sheathed, and if this year taught us anything, 2024 is likely to be just as bloody.

No one can see every movie that comes out in a year. Heck, no one can even see all the good movies that come out in a year. These days, even if it's literally your job, so many movies come out from all across the world, and on so many different platforms, that even if you spent all day every day watching, you'd...Read more...

Few prescription drugs have entered the public consciousness as abruptly as Ozempic and Wegovy have in recent years. Novo Nordisk's brand-name medications have become as synonymous with weight loss as Viagra and Cialis are with erectile dysfunction. But while 2023 has made it clear that these and similar drugs really...Read more...

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Bendy and the Ink Machine is headed to the big screen. Pixar's Jay Ward teases the future of Cars. Could the Quantum Leap revival actually give Ben his happy ending? Plus, get a look at the car-themed heroes of the next Super Sentai series. Spoilers now!

What happens when you hack a cybersecurity researcher? Kaspersky, a Moscow-based security firm, presented new details regarding zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple products on Wednesday. Kaspersky researchers are calling this the most sophisticated attack they've ever seen, exposing a previously unknown hardware...Read more...

Everybody seems to have taken a bite out of Apple as of late, but the company was finally offered a lifeline on Wednesday after the U.S. Court of Appeals granted a stay of the ongoing Apple Watch import ban. This will last for at least the next week or so as Apple continues its appeal of the Internal Trade...Read more...

NASA's curious Jupiter probe is getting chummier with the planet's most erratic moon, Io. The Juno spacecraft will carry out the closest encounter any mission has had with the volcanic moon in over 20 years, collecting valuable clues about its mysterious activity.Read more...

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, asking that ChatGPT be destroyed, along with any other large language models and training sets that have used The Times' work without payment.Read more...

Zack Snyder knows what he's doing. Whether it's using his considerable popularity to his artistic benefit, or focusing on every single piece of minutia in a movie, the filmmaker is completely aware. So, of course, when it comes to his latest film, Rebel Moon, he more than anyone knows when he's referencing the sci-fi...Read more...

AI's effect on our world will be dramatic, but nothing will ever be as dramatic as the collective freak-out we all had about the emerging technology in 2023. With billions of dollars on the table and the promise that AI will transform every corner of modern life, everyone from businesses, to regulators, to regular...Read more...

Talk about an eyesore. In a case report this month, doctors have described finding a wooden splinter lodged inside a man's cornea for apparently 15 years. Amazingly, the man's vision appears unaffected by the foreign object and doctors have opted to simply monitor him for now rather than try to remove it.Read more...

Sometimes, you need a little comfort food-and at io9, that can mean re-watching a favorite Star Wars show" or guzzling midnight margaritas while watching Sandra Bullock play a witch" or picking up a book and rediscovering the joy of reading." We love new releases, don't get us wrong, but we also dig revisiting past...Read more...

Apple is one of the most globally respected technology companies, having built its reputation on creating reliable, high-end products with innovative features. The Cupertino tech giant has such an impressive track record that its next project-whether that be an AR headset or something else entirely -is already assumed...Read more...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, The Information reported on Tuesday. The company behind the Grok chatbot is the latest AI startup to give itself an unusual corporate structure that, on paper, prioritizes the public good alongside its profits,...Read more...

2023 was a bad year for Elon Musk. Even before his antisemitic tirade, the billionaire's mounting failures at X/Twitter took Musk from media darling to a near-laughing stock. His bid to take SpaceX pubic is faltering after its satellite internet business Starlink brought in just $1.4 billion of the $12 billion Musk...Read more...

Director Zack Snyder is famous not just for his films, but also for his passionate fanbase. And while most of Snyder's fans vocalize that on social media, one of the biggest did so via traditonal media. His name is Christopher Nolan.Read more...

Zack Snyder is used to topping the box office, but his latest release has conquered a different playing field. While 2021's Army of the Dead had a limited theatrical release before its arrival on Netflix, his newest, Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire, went straight to the streamer, and seems to be reaping the...Read more...

Being overly worried about getting sick may, actually, help send you to an early grave, new research out this month suggests. The study found that people diagnosed with hypochondriasis were noticeably more likely to die during the study period than those without it. An increased risk was seen across both natural and...Read more...

A Falcon 9 first-stage booster broke apart after completing its 19th mission, tipping over on the floating droneship in the Atlantic Ocean due to high winds.Read more...

When the BBC announced that it was partnering with Disney to bring Doctor Who to its international streaming audience under the show's latest era, there was some bristling that the House of Mouse would have an element of creative control, rather than simply financial involvement. But speaking on Disney's influence on...Read more...

Just when I thought I was out, the anal beads pull me back in. Months after the drama between world chess champion Magnus Carlson and young prodigy Hans Niemann ended with an arbitration agreement, the internet isn't willing to let go of the idea that board game experts can cheat with the aid of vibrating sex toys...Read more...

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Saw XI producer Mark Burg talks about the future focus of the franchise. Michelle Yeoh discusses returning to Star Trek. Toho is now considering its options after the huge success of Godzilla Minus One. Plus, Glen Powell talks Twisters. To me, my spoilers!

Tang Tan, Apple's lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is stepping down to join Jony Ive's hardware firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on Wednesday. Tan is the latest Apple designer to join Ive, which is assembling an Avengers-like team with Sam Altman to create the next era of hardware...Read more...

The parent company that owns a controlling stake in Paramount, CBS, and thousands of theaters across the U.S. got hacked late last year, but it took them a full trip around the sun to let any of the tens of thousands of impacted customers know that their data was potentially compromised.Read more...