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In new research this week, scientists say they've unearthed a viral denizen from the depths of the Mariana Trench. The virus is believed to be the deepest of its kind ever discovered and preys on certain bacteria.Read more...

All good things are doomed," warns the marketing for the final chunk of Doom Patrol episodes, but you can bet Max's DC series about a misfit team of oddly powered superheroes isn't going to say farewell without some high-stakes action-and at least one battle against an ever-growing hoard of butts."

It seems Twitter-the company now calling itself X" based on one billionaire's nostalgic whim-can't escape users' dissatisfaction with the platform, not even in its own advertising.Read more...

Even four seasons in, it's not a difficult argument to make that for all its aims of being a show with four primary characters, Lower Decks has been most focused, and at its strongest, on two of those characters in particular. But season four is working on a lot of the show's weaknesses, and this week it takes that...Read more...

Thrawn has finally arrived on Ahsoka and into live-action Star Wars media at large, and-as has become the tradition-Disney+ is marking the character's debut with a snazzy new poster. All the major new faces in Far, Far Away" got them, in fact, including some guy named Ezra Bridger.Read more...

In his new movie 57 Seconds, Josh Hutcherson discovers the ability to travel through time... sort of. While undoing just under a minute of time and space might not seem like the most useful time travel, it's still enough to blow someone's mind wide open when they discover it, as you can see in this exclusive clip.

Planescape has returned to Dungeons & Dragons. Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse includes three new books: the setting book Sigil and the Outlands;Turn of Fortune's Wheel, the campaign book; and Morte's Planar Parade, the bestiary.Read more...

As Uber continues to tout driver and rider safety as a number one priority, reports that its new spokesperson will be Robert De Niro playing Travis Bickle from 1976's Taxi Driver definitely caused some head-scratching. Lucky for us, while Robert De Niro will be involved in a new Uber campaign, he will not be reprising...Read more...

The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for 24 years, hosting crews of astronauts and running experiments in the microgravity environment. By 2030, however, the space station's reign in low Earth orbit must come to an end and NASA is figuring out exactly how to do that.Read more...

Billionaire, philanthropist, and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this week that he will invest $500 million into his campaign to shut down coal plants and halve gas use by 2030.Read more...

The arms race over the next generation of obesity drugs is continuing to heat up. This week, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced it was suing several pharmacies, spas, and wellness centers in the U.S. for allegedly selling unauthorized copycats of its blockbuster drug tirzepatide, which is expected to be...Read more...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced he is stepping down as chairman of News Corp. and Fox in a memo to staff on Thursday. He will officially retire in November and will pass the torch to his son, Lachlan Murdoch, who will also remain as CEO and executive chairman of Fox Corporation.

How many times have you watched a TikTok or YouTube short and thought This is fun, but what if there were some strange pandas desperately trying to shove coffee from a morphing teacup into their nose or maw?" Great news.Read more...

Vizio's has built up television brand on trying to offer relatively strong picture display quality on a budget, and the company isn't breaking away from that mold with its latest displays. Vizio announced its new Quantum and Quantum Pro Smart TVs on Thursday, promising relatively good picture quality at all angles for...Read more...

Keeping the Fall new product pipeline going, Microsoft is following Apple, Amazon, and others in announcing a series of new Surface hardware products and new software/AI initiatives.

Few directors seem better suited to a galaxy far, far, away than Guillermo del Toro. The Oscar-winning director of The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Pacific Rim, and so many others, thrives on practical creatures, sweeping romance, and large-scale adventure. He'd be perfect for Star Wars so, surely he'd...Read more...

Ballerina director Len Wiseman teases Ana de Armas' turn in the John Wick spinoff. The cast and crew of Saw X talk about bringing back a horror legend. Netflix teams up with Takeshi Miike for a new Onimusha anime. Plus, what's coming on the last episodes of Fear the Walking Dead. Spoilers, away!

MGM Resorts says it resumed full operations on Wednesday, a full 10 days after hackers took over its system. The cyberattack caused mayhem at several of its locations across the country, affecting hotel reservations, and credit card processing, while guests complained they lost access to their hotel rooms when their...Read more...

Amazon is under fire in a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission over the company's alleged workflow to trick customers into signing up for a Prime membership. Now, the FTC is amending that June lawsuit with additional information that three company executives were aware of the plan and were reportedly okay...Read more...

Studio Ghibli, the animation studio co-founded by famed director Hayao Miyazaki, has been sold. According to AP, the studio will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. This deal was reportedly discussed last year when producer Toshio Suzuki approached a Nippon TV executive in an effort to preserve...Read more...

As part of its efforts to create a space-based cellular broadband network, AST SpaceMobile made the first ever 5G phone call between its prototype satellite and a Samsung Galaxy S22.

In July 2022, TikTok introduced a tool called Filter Video Keywords to let users block videos with words or hashtags they did not want to see. Cormac Keenan, Head of Trust and Safety at TikTok, described it as an important safety feature to help viewers customize their viewing preferences and continue to have a safe...Read more...

The latest RSVLTS spooky season drop celebrates the Sanderson sisters in a big, boo-tiful way.Read more...

A soul-eating demon haunts a pair of first generation Indian American girls in a suburban town they already don't quite fit into in Bishal Dutta's horror debut It Lives Inside.

When Paramount launched very Short Treks a few weeks ago, it did so with a short that trod a very fine line between being crass and flexing someknowingly Trek humor. But as it's progressed, things have only gotten a closer to the former.

In a new assessment of several major social media platforms, X, formerly known as Twitter, came in dead last in managing climate misinformation.Read more...

Even before it turned 30, NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat franchise had one eye on its past. After 2011's reboot retold the original three games, Mortal Kombat 11used time travel to have older characters interact with their younger selves, while those who died in the reboot or Mortal Kombat X were brought back in the...Read more...

A North Carolina man's family filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, claiming the company was grossly negligent in allowing its Maps application to direct the man to drive off a collapsed bridge where he plunged to his death. Philip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two was driving home from his daughter's ninth...Read more...

Everyone's favorite squishable pest-the spotted lanternfly-might be less of a nuisance than we thought, new research suggests. The four-year-long study found that the insects caused little to no long-term damage to a variety of different tree species. The authors say the invasive bugs should still be carefully managed...Read more...

Far, Far Away," the sixth episode of Ahsoka, took the series, and us, to a whole new galaxy full of potential and new mysteries. But in doing so, it touched on a fascinating piece of old Star Wars history in the Nightsisters of Dathomir-one that ties several of Star Wars' prior investigations of extragalactic entitiesRead more...

Despite the repeated reports of doom, gloom, and reorganization inside Amazon's hardware division, that hasn't stopped the company from moving forward with its vision for the ambient home." At its streamed live event in Virginia today, Amazon announced a bevy of new connected products for its Echo lineup, including...Read more...

When Robin leads the Teen Titans and a bunch of classic animation characters from The Looney Tunes to Cartoon Network to more DC animated faves on a tour around the Warner Bros. Studios lot, it's just as unhinged as you'd imagine it to be.

As Big Tech continues to jam every half-baked piece of artificial intelligence into every other over-baked piece of software, OpenAI has come full circle. The AI company behind ChatGPT is placing the wildly popular chatbot into the next version of its image generation tool.Read more...

At Amazon's Fall Devices Event, the pressure was on to come up with a hit product that would stun the world the way Alexa and the Echo speaker did a decade ago. The event, held at Amazon's HQ2 in Arlington, VA was Amazon's first in-person event since before Covid and the first chance the company has had to have the...Read more...

NASA released a new mosaic of an impact crater that perpetually lies in the shadows of the lunar south pole. By combining the light sensitivity of NASA's ShadowCam with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's ability to view shadowed regions, scientists put together a rare image of the Shackleton Crater as it appears in...Read more...

We can tell you just how fun and surprising the new Hulu alien film No One Will Save You is, but leave it to the film's writer and director, Brian Duffield, to really sell it. By the time we get to the end of our first act, hopefully people will just have no idea where this movie is going because so much has...Read more...

Did you know that if you just slightly rename a show, it's still considered a totally new show, and the production company gets to renegotiate contracts? Usually crew members who are with IATSE get full benefits, including vacation, after a show hits its third season. Disney is particularly good at this-and previous...Read more...

A group of common cold viruses may be able to cause a life-threatening, if rare, blood clotting condition, recent research suggests. A team of scientists in the U.S. and Canada have recently found evidence linking the viruses to two cases of the condition, in a child and an adult. At this point, however, much remains...Read more...

The last time we saw movie star Chris MacNeil, she'd just been through quite an ordeal in Georgetown involving a demon and her tweenage daughter. That was back in 1973-so what's she been up to since then? That's a question Ellen Burstyn asked herself when reprising the character for The Exorcist: Believer.Read more...

Fortnite will pay out millions of users as part of a settlement it reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), it announced on Tuesday. The FTC claimed Fortnite's parent company, Epic, used deceptive tactics to get users to make unwanted purchases, in some cases, without their parent's knowledge.Read more...

Look what she made us do. Ahead of the release of 1989 (Taylor's Version) next month, one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Taylor Swift, began teasing the album's bonus tracks with one the biggest tech companies in the world, Google.Read more...

After last week's unforgettable, Ahsoka-heavy episode, this week's Far, Far Away" flipped the script. Ahsoka is on her way to that galaxy even further away and in the meantime, things pick up with the villains. Do they make it to this alternate galaxy? Is Thrawn there? Is Ezra there? How is Sabine feeling after her...Read more...

Despite holding the title for the longest stint in space by a NASA astronaut, Frank Rubio would have rather not spent all that extra time in low Earth orbit and away from his family. In a recent interview, the astronaut revealed that he would have likely turned down the mission had he known it would extend over a...Read more...

In an attempt to explain dystopia, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakescontinues to dig itself deeper into the political and moral knots that the original trilogy presented in 2008. The film trilogy began in 2012, and now we've got another addition to the franchise, which images a retrofuturism that...Read more...

A hacker appears to have briefly gained access to Donald Trump Jr.s account on Twitter (now named X) and falsely claimed that daddy Donald had died. The bogus post, which was retweeted around 400 times before it was deleted, claimed Trump Jr. would run for president in his father's stead. Trump Jr. has 10.4 million...Read more...

Archaeologists investigating cut logs and other wooden tools at a site near Zambia's Kalambo Falls have found the settlement to be far more ancient than previously thought: the logs date back to nearly half a million years ago, before our species (Homo sapiens) appeared on Earth.

In February, io9 shared an excerpt from That Self-Same Metal, the debut fantasy novel from Brittany N. Williams-who drew upon her background as a classically trained actor to weave its Shakespearean tale. Things are even more perilous for her uniquely gifted metal-working heroine in the sequel, as this exclusive peek...Read more...

The Jaime Reyes DC era continues to blast off with Blue Beetle getting a digital release next week.Read more...

Neuralink announced it is recruiting for human clinical trials to test and assess the safety of its brain chip implants in a news release on Tuesday. The neural interface technology company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, said it received approval from an independent institutional review board to evaluate how the...Read more...

In a world of increasing demand for labor rights, Apple store employees in France are looking to join in on the movement. Ahead of the launch of the iPhone 15 this week, French Apple staff have officially called for a strike to begin this Friday.Read more...