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In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie explores potential projects to visit and study asteroid Apophis when it performs a close encounter with Earth in 2029. Consumer Reports reveals that about 20% of fruits and vegetables sold in the U.S. may have unsafe pesticide levels, raising concerns about whether...Read more...

If you already hate ads on YouTube, then you're going to have a bad time with Pause Ads. During its earnings calls on Thursday, Google crowed about the success of the tests it's run on the ads, which could indicate the feature" will roll out to even more watchers.Read more...

Cobra Kai fans finally have some clarity about how, exactly, this new Karate Kid movie fits into everything. Sony Pictures just moved the new movie's release date from December 13 to May 30, 2025, specifically so it could be released after the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai.Read more...

Nowhere in Star Wars will old Han Solo meet young Han Solo. Yoda is not likely to ever meet Grogu. Princess Leia won't cross paths with General Leia. Some things are just not going to happen. Unless, well, it's Lego, where any and everything is possible.Read more...

Chaturbate will pay $675,000 in fines for not adhering to a new law in Texas that requires all porn sites to verify the age of users, according to a new report from 404 Media which cites a court order released Friday.

For almost as long as they have been in the comics, the X-Men and mutantkind at large have been stalked by a world that hates and fears them-a world that manifested that hate in the metallic, unflinching face of the Sentinel Program. Just as the X-Men have grown and changed wildly since those early days, so too have...Read more...

Bird flu isn't just lurking inside cows, new research shows. Florida scientists have reported the first known case of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Though the case dates back to 2022, it's the latest indication that these flu strains can potentially infect...Read more...

This post was updated 4/26/24 at 4:35 p.m. ET to include new rumors about the size of the Switch 2's Joycons.Read more...

When Lee Isaac Chung was announced as the director of the long-awaited sequel Twisters, many of us scratched our heads. Chung is, obviously, a talented filmmaker. His most recent film, Minari, had just come off multiple Oscar nominations including a win. But to go from that small, personal film to the big-budget...Read more...

It's universally acknowledged that 1968's Rosemary's Baby is an influential horror classic. Attempts to directly recapture that witchy magic, however, have fallen flat: 1976 made-for-TV sequel Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby is pretty universally despised, as is the 2014 miniseries remake with Zoe Saldana....Read more...

Happy Alien Day to all those who celebrate. April 26, as many of you know, is the day pop culture has decided to celebrate one of the landmark franchises in science fiction: Alien. That's because the planet in the sequel Aliens is LV-426-so, April 26. But while in the past Alien Day has been largely an excuse to...Read more...

Update, Apt. 26, 2:43 p.m.: As of Friday morning, Drake appears to have pulled Taylor Made" from X and Instagram where he originally posted the diss track. A link to the original post on Instagram read the page may have been removed." It seems Drake bent to the demands of Tupac's lawyers to avoid legal action.Read more...

George Lucas. Hayao Miyazaki. Stan Lee. Shigeru Miyamoto. Names such as these have defined our lives. The art and products geniuses like these have created are as important to us as anything. And while we decorate our homes and imaginations with their work, what about the people themselves? When is their time in the...Read more...

A baseball player may tap his helmet three times before stepping up to the plate, and an Argentina supporter may burn incense in front of a portrait of Diego Maradona as the Albiceleste kick off. Now, a team of archaeologists have found evidence that the ancient Maya blessed their ball courts with ritual offerings, an...Read more...

Pixar Fest is kicking off today at the Disneyland Resort in a celebration that will span both Disney California Adventure and Disneyland. At a recent media preview, io9 visited both parks getting in on the Pixar Fest action, which runs from now until August 4 with entertainment offerings that include characters from Tu...Read more...

AI-generated video has received a lot of hype lately as a tool that's supposedly going to revolutionize Hollywood. But Craig Good, a former animator at Pixar who worked on classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo, isn't convinced. Good thinks there's one big problem with AI video software that will immediately...Read more...

This week, Russia unsurprisingly vetoed a draft resolution to prevent the placement of nuclear weapons in orbit. Russia's rejection of the United Nations resolution is not a clear indication that it possesses orbital arsenal that could destroy satellite constellations, but it shows the country is not wavering under...Read more...

Evil Dead's cackling Deadites can never truly be defeated, which means there'll always be fresh Evil Dead stories to tell-even without horror icon Bruce Campbell playing the lead, as last year's excellent Evil Dead Rise proved. A few months back, an Evil Dead spin-off" was announced, and now there's news of a whole...Read more...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking aim at one of Big Pharma's newest cash cows: the latest generation of effective obesity medications. On Wednesday, Sanders' office announced that the senator is launching an investigation into Novo Nordisk over the astronomically high" list prices of their drugs Wegovy and...Read more...

Airbnb announced in March that all indoor security cameras would be banned at its properties worldwide starting April 30. And if you read through online complaints about cameras that were discovered during Airbnb stays over the years, it's easy to understand why it's been such a controversial issue.

Tesla is facing a new probe from U.S. auto safety regulators related to its Autopilot driver assistance technology, even as a separate investigation has been closed.Read more...

Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect's phone using their fingerprint. You probably didn't hear about it. The case didn't get a lot of coverage, especially because the courts weren't...Read more...

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Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who debut last year broke the mold for many reasons, but for one excellent one among many, it meant that for the first time ever fans got to be introduced to a Doctor played by an openly queer man-and playing a Doctor unafraid of acknowledging that, either.Read more...

The Atacama Desert-an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth-is actually teeming with life beneath the ground, according to a team of researchers that recently scrutinized its soils.

The Greek philosopher Plato-Socrates' student and Aristotle's teacher-died nearly 2,400 years ago, having produced a voluminous amount of writing on political philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, and more (he came up with Atlantis!). This week, researchers announced that they found the burial place of the famous...Read more...

Baltimore County Police arrested the former athletic director of Pikesville High School on Thursday, alleging he used an AI voice clone to impersonate the school's principal, leading the public to believe Principal Eric Eiswert had made racist and antisemitic comments, according to The Baltimore Banner.Read more...

A lot is going on this May to celebrate 25 years of the prequel trilogy kicking off in The Phantom Menace-a way for us to reflect, and look back on how remembrance and appreciation of the film has wildly evolved over the last quarter century. But it also gives ups an opportunity, as Star Wars always wants, for...Read more...

Over the last several years, Saudi Arabia has been working on a massive infrastructure project that its leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS) hopes will transform the Kingdom and its relationship with the outside world. The Neom project is a series of developments that are currently under construction in...Read more...

Zach Cregger's mysterious Barbarian follow up recruits a Silver Surfer. Rosario Dawson dances around the mystery of Ahsoka season 2. Olga Kurylenko shows off from the Thunderbolts set. Plus, what's coming on Chucky as things get even weirder. To me, my spoilers!

A dead dolphin recently found washed up at West Mae's Beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana was shot three times, according to a news release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The NOAA is now offering a $20,000 reward for any information that leads to the successful identification and prosecution...Read more...

Congress passed a bill this week that forces TikTok to be sold or face a nationwide ban. President Biden signed it into law Wednesday, starting a 270-day timer for TikTok to decide its future in the United States. There's been talk about a ban like this for years, but now it's actually happening.

No matter your composition, the lighting, and your attempts to manually set zoom or exposure, iPhone pictures all still have the same dull quality. They are not dull in the sense they're not vibrant or detailed, but by default, with the Standard" photo style, they're all using the same obtuse post-processing that...Read more...

Fans of Pixar's sleeper hit Turning Red will be happy to know that Mei and her friends have taken over both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in a big way.Read more...

Like the video games before it, Fallout is a hit. The Prime Video series is getting a second season, which means we'll get to see what's next for Ella Purnell's Lucy. After leaving the artificial confines of Vault 33, she got a crash course in surface-dwelling life in the post-apocalyptic world-as well as the sinister...Read more...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) killed net neutrality back in 2017 under former president Donald Trump, but on Thursday, it brought it back from the dead.Read more...

When The Flash launched in October 2014-the second project of the CW's bold attempt to flesh out its own superhero cinematic universe-its premiere episode ended with a bold statement: not only would the series be still going in a decade's time, it would have grown enough to tackle one of the most iconic stories in DC...Read more...

A team in the UK hasfound a new window into cancer, thanks to a novel imaging technique that allows them to take a detailed look at the fatty cargo inside a single tumor cell. The tech could make it easier to understand how different cancers respond to specific treatments, among many other insights.Read more...

In the past, every new version of Android felt like a special occasion for the platform's devoted users. It meant new software features, better algorithms, improved user interfaces, and maybe even something fun, like an easter egg.

Arguably the most important, game-changing event in the history of Star Wars storytelling happened 10 years ago today. On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm announced that the Star Wars Expanded Universe was being pushed aside. All future storytelling would be part of the same, cohesive canon, and the EU stories fans knew and...Read more...

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His Jekyll and Hyde moment might have evaporated with Universal's ill-fated Dark Universe, but Russell Crowe hasn't turned his back on horror: on the heels of The Pope's Exorcist, which became a surprise Netflix smash, he's got The Exorcism-an unrelated film that obviously shares some familiar themes.Read more...

Outside of Avengers: Endgame, Deadpool & Wolverine may carry the most pre-release baggage of anything in Marvel history. For Deadpool, you've got not just two movies, but also all the behind-the-scenes drama leading up to them. With Wolverine, you've got 10 X-Men movies with all manner of wild stories, including the...Read more...

Jupiter and its moons are a diverse and dynamic subdivision of our solar system's neighborhood, one that NASA's Juno spacecraft has been visiting since 2016. Besides hosting the system's largest planet, at over 300 times the mass of our own planet, the Jovian system includes 95 known moons, the largest of which are...Read more...

Update, 1:33 p.m.ET: Reddit says on its status page that a fix for the problem has been deployed and the site should be coming back up for everyone.Read more...

We've said this many times before, and will no doubt say it a least a few times before as it nears its final end this season: Star Trek: Discovery is not a subtle show. It never has been, but ever since it really found its confidence and understood where its strengths were, it has never shied away from yelling them...Read more...

One of the world's top vaccine-makers is partnering with a major AI company to advance medicine - and its chief executive is excited.Read more...

Pack the lembas bread and gather up your fellowship, we're going back to Middle-earth. Warner Bros. is releasing the extended editions of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters for one weekend only this June, and it's the first time the re-releases will feature their remastered 4K versions from 2020.Read more...

China's space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings attached to the core module, which had been damaged by space debris.

Residents in Greece were witnesses to a hellish-looking dust storm this week. The dust originated from the Sahara desert in North Africa and was blown across the Mediterranean Sea by strong winds. By Tuesday, Athens and other Greek cities were blanketed in an orange-red and potentially dangerous haze.Read more...