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20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes reboot films re-introduced the world to the dystopian sci-fi series. Led by Andy Serkis as the first hyperintelligent ape Caesar, the trilogy ended with such a finality you don't usually get with franchises, and ensured that if more films did happen, they'd have to jump forward in...Read more...

Somehow fans of Star Wars' Kylo Ren and Rey Skywalker made the news for very different reasons this week. But outside of big drama in the sci-fi book world, we also got the last of Doctor Who's anniversay specials, a new Dune Part Two trailer, and more in the list of our most read stories, so here's you might have...Read more...

If you ever wanted help picking out an outfit, Meta just rolled out a beat for its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses that'll give you fashion advice based on what's in your closet. Meanwhile, the Apple and Beeper Mini messaging saga took a dramatic turn. Gizmodocovered all this news and more, and you can catch up with our weekly...Read more...

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From casting to the cutting room, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda collaborated closely with the team behind Netflix's live-action series adaptation of his beloved tale every step of the way.Read more...

For a year, a rogue tomato was missing in action on board the International Space Station (ISS), sparking rumors that an astronaut may have eaten it during a moment of weakness. It turns out that there were actually two missing tomatoes, not just one, found squished in a tiny ziplock bag, and they're looking a little...Read more...

When people think of the DC films of the past several years, they mostly think of the failures. The controversies. What they don't usually think of are the successes, of which there were many, and none more so than Aquaman. James Wan's 2018 film starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, Patrick...Read more...

What happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union's AI Act-a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of the AI industry-is a pretty big deal. It could totally reshape how European nations' relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if no less weird...Read more...

Fifty years ago, Doctor Who's 11th season began with The Time Warrior" and brought with it a notable sea of changes. It marked the debut of the show's iconic diamond" logo, which has now seen a return for the modern era with Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor. It added an immediately iconic creature to the show's monster canon in...Read more...

Americans are increasingly calling poison control centers over semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Most of these calls appear to concern potential overdoses of semaglutide and might be tied to a rise in compounded versions of the drug, which aren't tested for their...Read more...

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A new research paper out of OpenAI Thursday says a superhuman AI is coming, and the company is developing tools to ensure it doesn't turn against humans. OpenAI's Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever is listed as a lead author on the paper, but not the blog post that went with it, and his role at the company remains...Read more...

By all accounts, the European Union's AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks to institute a broad regulatory framework that would tackle the harms posed by the new technology. In its current...Read more...

Snyderverse." Whether you know the word or not, odds are you've heard it. And, for several years, it very clearly referred to the series of DC films director Zack Snyder directed and produced at Warner Bros. The world where Henry Cavill is Superman, Ben Affleck is Batman, and a legion of fans convinced a studio to...Read more...

In September, fragments of a near-Earth asteroid were carefully dropped off in the Utah desert. The space rocks hold clues to the origin of the solar system and can possibly answer crucial questions about how our planet came to be-if only we can get to them first.

It's once again time to crane our heads sideways in bafflement at all the strange ways people got sick or hurt this year.

That didn't take long: just two days after livestreaming giantTwitch announced a more permissive approach to certain sexual content, including artistic nudity," the company has slammed on the brakes.

Apple silently fixed an exploit that let Flipper Zero devices mass-bombard nearby iPhones with popup notifications, so much so they would essentially disable users' phones requiring a restart.Read more...

Life comes at you fast, so I'm already recapping what we expect from Samsung's Galaxy S24 flagship, just as this year's release has started popping up all over holiday gift guides. But this is within Samsung's timeline: the company launches its flagship first thing in the year before following up with something more...Read more...

Just last week, my roommate went through what no one should ever go through losing her phone's entire data while getting it repaired after she dropped it in the toilet. Google just announced a solution for that. Well, to save your data. Not dropping your phone in the toilet.

Fans of genre movies had an absolute blast in 2023. Hollywood studios and streamers alike provided us with a seemingly never-ending slate of excellent fare. The animated films were fire. Some superhero films were super. And along the way, there were lots and lots of happy surprises. Below, you'll find io9's picks for...Read more...

If anybody remembers the old Can it run Crysis?" meme, the joke has long since fallen flat as more games have long exceeded the specs requirement on that 16-year-old game. On the flip side, Can it run Doom?" has a separate connotation. It belies the ingenuity of tinkerers and DIYers trying to find the most unique...Read more...

Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say circumvents the Constitution.Read more...

There's little to no evidence suggesting that your devices are listening to you," but that hasn't stopped people from believing big tech is monitoring every word they say. Now, a marketing subsidiary of Cox Media Group is throwing fuel on the fire with claims that it can deploy active listening" through your...Read more...

Hideo Kojima will team with A24 on his Death Stranding movie. Alexander Siddig will join Foundation's third season, while John Waters will join Chucky's. Plus, another new look at the Doctor Who Christmas special. To me, my spoilers!

Do you like Star Wars? How about Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter? Dune? What about The Matrix? Would you like to see elements of all of those and more in the skeleton of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai? If the answer to any of that is yes, Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire is the movie for you.Read more...

MoviePass has a bit of a checkered history, but the theater subscription service relaunched last year and has continued to evolve, including the introduction of a virtual card earlier this month aimed at making buying movie tickets a smoother process. It has a long way to go if it wants to reach the heights of...Read more...

When Rebel Moon releases in theaters this week (and on Netflix next week) it'll mark the end of a 10-year journey. A journey that began with a 2013 rumor that director Zack Snyder was working on some kind of Star Wars movie. That rumor, it turns out, was not true. At the time, Snyder had the idea of taking one of his...Read more...

Good news, everyone! Scientists discovered additional evidence suggesting the potential habitability of a peculiar icy moon orbiting Saturn, one of the planet's 146 moons.Read more...

The big day is drawing near and so are those shipping cut-offs for getting everyone on your list a special fandom holiday gift. Don't worry, io9's latest gift guide inspired by the worlds of DC and the WB has some shopping tips at places that offer in-store pickup, including BoxLunch and Target.

Kanopy is one of the best streaming deals around: it's free and doesn't have any ads breaking up its content, though you must have a library card or be part of a college, university, or other institution to make an account. Released today, the service's 30 most-watched films of 2023 definitely reflect those academic...Read more...

For the past 40-plus years, Indiana Jones has meant nothing but fortune and glory. Each of the franchise's first four films was one of the top three highest-grossing films in the U.S. the year they were released. Raiders of the Lost Ark was #1 in 1981, Temple of Doom was #2 in 1984, Last Crusade was #2 in 1989 and King...Read more...

Intel's latest chips boast big performance gains, but never mind any of that. What would be a normal annual chip refresh announcement from one of the world's biggest silicon developers has put the biggest emphasis yet on onboard PC AI, with the latest Intel Core Ultra line as part of the current Meteor Lake chipsets...Read more...

Although it feels like it can be said every year recently, it's hard to imagine a better year in terms of its influence than 2023 has been for Dungeons & Dragons. A movie, TV channels, a video game that has dominated the world, and of course a not-insignificant glimpse toward the game's own future. But for all those...Read more...

Goodness gracious, has it really been five years already?

Grimes, the futuristic pop singer and mother of Elon Musk's children, is working on a plush AI toy named Grok" with the Silicon Valley startup Curio. The toy reportedly has no relationship or affiliation with Musk's AI chatbot from xAI, the woke" chatbot that's also named Grok, according to The Washington Post.Read more...

On Wednesday, Twitch's confusing policies regarding what kind of sexual content streamers can include-and what's an absolute no-go-got a rewrite and a very clear blog post explaining the changes. The company says it wants its content creators to feel confident they understand our rules" and viewers to feel confident...Read more...

We simply don't know what to make of the first trailer for If, John Krasinski's new movie starring Ryan Reynolds. On paper, the idea is beautiful. The imaginary friends you made as a child are real, everywhere, and require saving. The cast, which includes not just Reynolds and Krasinski, but Steve Carell, Emily Blunt, ...Read more...

GM sounds like it's not going to budge regarding its decision to replace Apple CarPlay and Android Auto with its in-house infotainment system on its future electric vehicles. The only difference is that it's making it about safety this time.

Despite an unfortunate anomaly nearly three months ago, Rocket Lab is ready to see its Electron rocket fly once again with a new mission slated for launch on Friday.Read more...

We are Sex Bob-Omb! One, two, three, four!"Read more...

The end is nigh, and Good Omens is preparing for it again. Having evolved from a limited series exploring the story of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's beloved novel into its own magical continuation of ideas from the pair left unpublished, now Good Omens is ready to call time on Amazon... and on the Apocalypse.Read more...

Threads finally launched for European users Thursday roughly five months after the X competitor rolled out in the United States. The rookie social media platform also received some fact-checking filters that might put advertisers' minds at ease. Meanwhile, Americans received AI-generated backgrounds for Instagram...Read more...

If you're irritated by the morning people in your life, you might have Neanderthals to blame for their existence, at least a little bit. New research suggests that our hominin relatives possessed genetic variations that predisposed them to waking up early and that they passed on these genes to our Homo sapiens...Read more...

Smile 2 is expanding its cast. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is bringing back a familiar spectral face. Moon Knight's screenwriter will join Captain America: Brave New World for new reshoot material next year. Plus, another look at what's coming in La Brea's final season. Spoilers, away!

Google announced Thursday that it will start its long-anticipated slaughter of the internet's cookies starting on January 4th, when it will block them for 1% of Chrome users, or about 30 million people. It's the first major step in its Privacy Sandbox project, which aims to replace cookies with a different kind of...Read more...

In defense of English dubs, no one does it better than Studio Ghibli. It's not a matter of either-or; with the incredible global talents that span the original Japanese voices and the English casts, it just means we get more!Read more...

Unfortunately, I still have to lurk on X, formerly known as Twitter, to see when companies tease upcoming releases. As it turns out, Asus is still making its ROG-the Republic of Gamers-smartphone. It runs Android, and it will probably have some beefy innards. But all we know so far is that it'll be revealed at CES...Read more...

As we get closer and closer to the arrival of X-Men 97, the rallying cry of To me, my X-Men merchandise!" just gets louder and louder. Earlier this week we saw Lego get in on the X-mania with a new set, but now it's Hasbro's turn with its latest wave inspired by the cartoon series.Read more...