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Mark Wahlberg teases Uncharted 2's future. Hear Robert Pattinson get his bird on in a new clip from The Boy and the Heron's dub. Vincent D'Onofrio talks Daredevil: Born Again's tone. Plus, another new look at Doctor Who's Christmas special. Spoilers now!

The HP Pavilion Plus 14 laptop packs a lot of value in its modest $899 price tag. You get an incredible display and pretty good performance on a lightweight body, which makes for a nice, portable system. It basically checks most of the boxes for anyone looking for a nice display, portability, and, of course, price....Read more...

Just how fast do you need your home internet to be? More importantly, how much are you willing to fork over to Google each month to turn your home into a miniature data center? According to Google, the answer is an eye-gouging $250 a month plus fees for blistering 20-Gig speeds on a WiFi 7-enabled, plus-sized router.Read more...

Google lost its antitrust case against Epic Games on Monday night, where a San Francisco jury unanimously ruled the search giant maintains a monopoly with its Google Play app store.Read more...

In a survey of more than 1,000 people, researchers found that people were more likely to be treated as pariahs in a variety of ways when their faces were digitally altered to have acne. The stigma associated with acne may be greater for people with severe symptoms and darker skin tones as well, the study found.Read more...

While most AI companies are preciously unveiling their latest algorithms with press tours and blog posts, others seem content to throw their latest wares out into the digital ether like a pirate ship casting off dead weight. One company that fits this latter category is Mistral, a French AI startup that released its...Read more...

A few months ago Wizards' latest Magic: Universes Beyond release celebrated 60 years of Doctor Who in style, with decks filled with cards from every era of the show... except its then-upcoming present. That's all changing very soon, thankfully.

There are plenty of things to like about the latest iOS 17.2 update. For one, iPhone 15 Pro users are getting telephoto camera improvements and can finally use the titanium-shelled hardware to shoot spatial videos for the Vision Pro. There's also a new Action button shortcut for real-time translation. But the most...Read more...

A wave of rumors has engulfed Sony's premiere fish tail-shaped console, with speculation centering on an upcoming PS5 Pro next year with a beefed-up CPU and GPU supposed to help it swim above any of the other prominent consoles currently on the market.

It departed our planet just over two months ago, but NASA's Psyche spacecraft is already 16 million miles from Earth, well on its way to its main destination: the asteroid Psyche. Eager to prove its readiness, the spacecraft recently beamed back the first images captured by both of its cameras to create a tantalizing...Read more...

With just one episode remaining in Rick and Morty season seven, it's officially time to celebrate: fans need not have worried about the show's future after the high-profile departure of co-creator and key voice actor Justin Roiland. Though every episode wasn't solid gold, there were some serious standouts, including...Read more...

So I'm watching Oliver and Company, the 1988 Disney animated film featuring the voices of Billy Joel and Bette Midler, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. As Oliver, Dodger, and the crew are being chased through New York City, they head into the subway and jump on the tracks. This reminds me of Indiana Jones and the...Read more...

Some train track circuits are at the mercy of distant storms on the Sun's surface, researchers found, which could cause train signals to jump from red to green and vice versa as a result of extreme space weather.Read more...

For a show that is often so optimistically forward thinking-and where change is baked into its hearts-Doctor Who often has a bittersweet view of its own past. Heroes and friends come and go, goodbyes are frequent and brief, and a lot of them are permanent, especially when part of the key to its longevity is that its...Read more...

Microsoft announced an alliance with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) to ensure that artificial intelligence serves the interests of workers, according to a blog post Monday. Labor leaders called the collaboration historic" as Microsoft became the first big tech...Read more...

Taylor Swift is so popular that seismologists measured recent tour dates in Seattle as a magnitude 2.3 earthquake. You wouldn't know if from the latest edition of Google's annual annual Year In Search" roundup, though. Every December, the company publishes a list of the year's most popular search terms. But one name...Read more...

Among the over 100 satellites that launched on board SpaceX's Transporter-9 mission, three failed to deploy and their current whereabouts are unknown.Read more...

As of January 8, linear Showtime will be no more. Instead, it'll be rebranded as Paramount+ With Showtime," an arrangement spurred by the fact Showtime content is now available on the Paramount+ streaming service and executives just have to change things to justify their salaries. It's the latest rebrand in the...Read more...

We love toys here at io9, and when we're not writing about them, we're probably playing with them. It's been a killer year for cool nerdy collectibles, so here's just a few of our favorite things we picked up in the proverbial toy aisle this past year.

This week True Lies, along with several other James Cameron films, is being released on 4K for the first time. Unlike Titanic, Aliens, and Avatar though, True Lies(like The Abyss) hasn't been on physical media since DVD. It literally got remade on TV before getting a proper, high-definition release.Read more...

In a recent internal summit, Google proposed its next big idea: an AI-powered feature titled Project Ellmann' that would provide users with a snapshot or, as they're calling it, a bird's eye view" of their entire lives.

Director James Wan lights up when talking about his Aquaman star Jason Momoa. Back in 2018, the two had an unexpected box office smash with the first film and are hoping to top even that with this month's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, out December 22. This time around, that relationship between director and star seems...Read more...

For the first time, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will attempt to deliver the Pentagon's spaceplane to low Earth orbit. The mission marks the seventh for the mysterious spacecraft, aiming to expand the Space Force's knowledge of the space environment and test new technologies.Read more...

Tucker Carlson launched his streaming service on Monday, charging users $9 a month for five original shows starring the former Fox News host. Carlson explored launching the subscription service on X, where he's been hosting a show for several months, but Elon Musk's platform couldn't develop the technology quickly...Read more...

The 2024 Golden Globe nominees are here, and this year everybody is still living in a Barbie world. Pipping its biggest rival at the ceremony this year, Oppenheimer, to take most nominations, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling are the vanguard when it comes to all things genre.

James Wan wants to return to horror again after Aquaman 2. Jennifer Love Hewitt would be down for more I Know What You Did Last Summer. Plus, what's coming on Rick & Morty's season finale, and the last episode of Archer. To me, my spoilers!

The curse of all writing is not necessarily a distraction, but the anxiety stemming from creating something you know is awful. Writing is undoubtedly a painful, twisted joy until you read your work and wonder if you ever had a bare ounce of creativity.Read more...

Apple isn't keen to let just any peasant enter its hallowed and gloried domain of iMessage. The company officially declared it had blocked the Beeper Mini app, which let Android users send blue bubble messages to their friends and family on iPhone by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol.Read more...

We all keep secrets. It's easy to do once you've committed to it. Just don't say anything. But it can be harder when you want to share a little bit of information, without your confidante inferring tea that you didn't intend to spill. Computer scientists often draw this distinction between security and privacy....Read more...

Half a decade after he was kicked off Twitter by the platform's safety team, professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been welcomed back to the site, which is now called X.

Up to release, Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's newest filmThe Boy & the Heron has had a lot of discussion centering around what it's potentially meant to be. Is it actually Miyazaki's for real, final film?Was it really the best idea to not really promote it or even give any idea as to what it's about? The answer...Read more...

Earlier this week, 23andMe admitted that an October hack was dramatically worse than the company initially admitted, affecting 6.9 million people, not the 14,000 it first reported. 23andMe followed up with an early Christmas present for users: a terms of service update that funnels disgruntled users into a mass...Read more...

23andMe admitted it lost 6.9 million users' DNA in a hack, after initially reporting only 14,000 users were affected. If you've used 23andMe, there's basically a coin-flip chance that your data was exposed. The company, however, updated its terms of service last week to change the ways customers can take legal action...Read more...

For Doctor Who fans, the introduction of a new Doctor is always an event in and of itself. After months of teasing and set photos, yesterday's third and final 60th anniversary special formally introduced the world to Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor.

In 2016, South Korean writer Chugong released the video game-like web novelSolo Leveling, which has grown in popularity over the years. An anime adaptation of the series is now in the works, during its Jump Festa panel, Crunchyroll and Aniplex revealed the show will be dropping on January 6, 2024.Read more...

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Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon is a Star Wars-alike ensemble film featuring a who's who of actors you've seen pop in and out of genre fair over the last few years. In addition to Sofia Boutella as leading woman Kora, the cast also consists of Djimon Honsou, Doona Bae, and Ray Fisher. It's also got three Game of Thrones alum...Read more...

All the way back in 2020, it was reported that Sony and Marvel were teaming up to create a TV show for Silk, one of the more recent heroes to spin from Spider-Man's (Peter Parker's) supporting cast. In the years since, news on the show has been hard to come by: after an announcement late last year that it was retitled ...Read more...

A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser-and for that time to be spent as productively as possible, the browser in question needs to run swiftly and smoothly. There's actually an integrated browser setting to help with this, too: Hardware acceleration.

A lot happened this summer, so it's easy to forget that Twisted Metal aired on Peacock over the summer. Based on the now classic car combat PlayStation series, the show got decent reviews and was nominated at the recent Game Awards for Best Adaptation. Ultimately it lost out to-and got overshadowed by-HBO's adaptation...Read more...

The prequel trilogy of Star Wars films (and similar material set in the same time period) introduced audiences to plenty of new Jedi, with one of the most striking being Samuel L. Jackson's Mace Windu. Though he's one of the most important players of that era, he hasn't always gotten a chance to headline a story all...Read more...

With the Hollywood strikes now having wrapped in full, productions are able to start back up again. Stranger Things, according to Deadline, is set to get back to work in early January.

Is Rock Band back? Well, kinda, maybe, eventually. Epic Games revealed the new Fortnite experience Fortnite Festival, a new update that lets players take their persona out of the battle royale and stuff a guitar or pair of drumsticks in their hands in rhythm game action familiar to any old Guitar Hero fans.Read more...

It's been a bit of an up-and-down week for the House of Ideas, as Marvel both pulled out of reporting any further on The Marvels' box office performance and Ryan Reynolds bit back against Deadpool 3 set leaks. All this, more Doctor Who, and even Star Wars' 2024 made the list of our most read stories, so here's you...Read more...

A Martian moons mission, a plethora of private lunar landers, probes to Venus and Jupiter, and reusable heavy-lift rocket tests are among the many highlights we'll be watching in the coming 12 months, in what looks to be an extraordinary year in spaceflight. Here's your 2024 calendar.Read more...

At last, researchers say they've found a way for lab mice to easily use virtual reality goggles. The unusual set-up does have practical applications, since it should make it easier for scientists to study how mice respond to things commonly encountered in the wild, like predatory birds.

Gemini, Google's ambitious new AI for phones, will make its way to Pixel 8 Pros next week. On the Apple side, we might begin to see M3-powered iPads and MacBook Airs hitting store shelves a lot sooner than we expected. Gizmodo's consumer tech team has all the latest news and more. Here's a roundup of our most-read...Read more...

Our most-read science stories this week contain a few timeless life lessons. One, don't go into an MRI room carrying metal, particularly if that metal is a loaded gun. Two, don't cross a killer whale, even if you're a great white shark. And finally, never judge a sea cucumber by its cover-no matter how repulsive that...Read more...

There were a few AI product launches this week. Google released Gemini, it's newest AI platform, while Grok, Elon Musk's annoying chatbot, rolled out to X Premium users. Apple, meanwhile, tried to keep up by releasing...an open-source machine learning framework. Not quite as exciting. That said, the AI industry...Read more...

Ever since Sam Altman was fired by the OpenAI board two weeks ago, questions have swirled about what precipitated the drama. The fact of the matter is this: We still don't really know what happened or why Altman was forced out. Altman himself has said he won't be talking about it. Microsoft obviously isn't talking....Read more...