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The time has come for Starship to embark on its third test flight, during which the megarocket will once again be pushed to its limits and demonstrate advances made since the previous flight last November.Read more...

Much as she did in Jabba's Palace, Princess Leia is here to break something important out of a deep freeze. When Funko fired the bulk of creatives from Mondo, several exciting projects died, including Jason Edmiston's plan to release an ongoing series of Star Wars art. Now, that series is back, and Leia is leading the...Read more...

For the first time since the program began more than 10 years ago, SpaceX's Starship actually feels like a real rocket. During today's test, the megarocket achieved some notable objectives, including an extended flight in outer space.Read more...

Tesla, the company helmed by one of the richest men on the planet, is a cheapskate when it comes to paying taxes, according to a new report released on Wednesday. In fact, the company paid exactly $0 in federal income taxes over the past five years and even managed to get a nice refund.Read more...

OpenAI's Sora is slated for a 2024 release, meaning we're just months away from hyperrealistic AI video. Sora seems poised to change the video world, in the same way AI image generators have changed the graphic design world. Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Dall-E have blurred the lines between real and fake images,...Read more...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft sent a new signal that contains valuable data, which may save the aging probe. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are currently looking for discrepancies in the message in order to find out why the spacecraft-the farthest piece of human technology from Earth-has been speaking...Read more...

A new cinematic adaptation of James O'Barr's goth comic book series The Crow is coming to theaters. We've already gotten a look at Bill Skarsgard's vengeance-seeking protagonist (styled a bit like Jared Leto's Joker), but now the first trailer is here to reveal more about what to expect.

I did it. I wore the OnePlus Watch 2 for two weeks to write this review. It was tough at times, and I have to be honest, I hated some of it. (Though not as much as my former coworker hated the first version of this watch.) The OnePlus Watch 2 does not vibe with my style. The 47mm watch is more prominent than I usually...Read more...

Peek behind the curtains in a new X-Men 97 featurette. Get a look at what's coming on Halo's season finale. The Wynonna Earp revival movie has wrapped filming. Plus, meet Inside Out 2's new emotions, and Evil Dead Rise's Lee Cronin is setting up his genre future. To me, my spoilers!

Have you seen a stunning photo of Hollywood Mountain, California recently? One image is making the rounds on social media platforms like Facebook and BlueSky depicting what appears to be a lush green mountain with the L.A. skyline in the background. But it's completely fake. There's not even a real place called...Read more...

As if Elon Musk needed yet another reason to hate OpenAI. Figure, a startup that's partnered with OpenAI to develop a humanoid robot, released a new video on Wednesday. And it's truly heads above anything Tesla has demonstrated to date with the Optimus robot.

The U.S. passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to force ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, to divest from the social media platform or face a complete ban in the country. The bill passed 352 to 65 and needs to be taken up by the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden to become law. But we couldn't help noticing...Read more...

Star Wars products love a theme moment-Force Friday, Triple Force Friday, whatever the Force Friday equivalent for Rogue One was called. Maybe they just love Fridays, but now Lucasfilm and its merch partners are capitalizing on a whole month to sell you things, with a specific villainous twist.

Spider-Man is one of the most popular superheroes ever, and for many, he's at his most exciting when he's hanging around with other Spider-heroes. The success of the Spider-Verse movies and Spider-Man: No Way Home proves this more than most, but that wave has yet to really hit games beyond the two-hero exploits of the ...Read more...

Ben Shapiro says a lot of dumb things. One dumb thing he said recently was that he disagrees with the concept of retirement and doesn't think Americans should do it. This was definitely a mask off" moment for Shapiro, who spends a lot of time trying to convince everyday people that he's just like them and has their...Read more...

Two years ago, Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify in response to Joe Rogan's spreading anti-vaccine misinformation on his podcast, which was prominently featured on the platform. Young is back on Spotify although he's not too thrilled about it.Read more...

Star Trek has rarely been a series suited to action figures. Its heroes do occasionally phaser things, but they're scientists and explorers, people who's action involves sitting around tables and talking and investigating, or sitting at starship controls and getting them to phaser things. But that's not stopped people...Read more...

Elon Musk canceled Don Lemon's new exclusive TV show on X before it even started, according to a statement from Lemon on Wednesday. The former CNN host says Elon Musk didn't like his interview with Lemon, so Musk canceled their partnership just hours after the conversation concluded.Read more...

The city of Fukuyama, Japan is on high alert after a cat fell into a vat of toxic chemicals and escaped into the night. Officials warned the animal is covered in hexavalent chromium, and residents should be careful not to touch any cat that seems abnormal."Read more...

Former President Donald Trump has been quick to take advantage of an unexpected and nefarious benefit offered to politicians in the age of AI. Instead of saying that their quotes were taken out of context when facing unfavorable media coverage, they can now simply claim that the video clips showing them in a bad light...Read more...

Horror fans everywhere were majorly conflicted this week when news broke that Scream 7 was back on, with star Neve Campbell returning along with series co-creator Kevin Williamson as director. The idea of Campbell coming back after appearing in Scream VI was hugely exciting, and yet you couldn't help but feel it was a...Read more...

A bill forcing the China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok, or face an outright ban, passed the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday in a vote of 352 to 65. The bill will now head to the Senate, where it is expected to face tough opposition before it can reach President Biden, who indicated he would sign...Read more...

Silicon Valley's richest nerds seem dead certain that AI will make our world a better place. Not everyone is so convinced, however. At SXSW this week, a sizzle reel that featured conference panelists talking effusively about the new technology was roundly booed by disgusted audience members.Read more...

Last week, I took off work to sit on a sidewalk for three days. Why would I do such a thing? Because it was the only way to have my first choice of new artwork from Scott Campbell. Campbell, who goes by Scott C., is a frequent presence on io9, having debuted his incredible paintings for both Avengers: Endgame and Spide...Read more...

Cave-dwelling creatures often bear the characteristics of animals unaccustomed to light. Their skin, or scales, are blanched, and their eyes range from of little use" to purely ornamental. But that doesn't stop the serpentine cave salamanders of southeastern Europe from sneaking up to the surface now and again.

Paul Alexander, a Dallas man who's lived in an iron lung since contracting polio at the age of six, has died at 78, according to a GoFundMe page set up by a friend. An official cause of death was not announced, but Alexander's TikTok page noted in late February that he'd been hospitalized with covid-19.Read more...

A newly published project called Shifting the Focus" aims to highlight the voices of people living with a pet while experiencing homelessness. The effort not only features interviews with these individuals but includes photographs of pets taken by the participants themselves.Read more...

The upcoming total solar eclipse promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but viewing the celestial spectacle without proper eye protection can cause irreversible damage. Here's what experts say about the risks and how to watch safely.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire flexes its battle budget in its latest trailer, touting round two of Warner Bros. and Legendary's cinematic crossover event. The monster mashopens in theaters March 29.

Monitor shopping can sometimes feel like committing to a go-kart race through a minefield while wearing a blindfold. For those not used to reading esoteric monitor model numbers, the decision process on any new monitor feels like scrolling through an acronym-obsessed engineer's personal purgatory. Spec sheets for...Read more...

Outer Range's first season felt initially like a Yellowstone riff. But as the Prime Video series progressed, it became extremely clear that this Western-starring Josh Brolin, Lili Taylor, Imogen Poots, and an ominous giant hole-was heading in a much freakier direction. It sounds like season two will be leaning even...Read more...

Hollywood has long prowled bookshelves for sci-fi, fantasy, and horror material, going back even earlier than The Wizard of Oz, to name one high-profile (and surprisingly current) example. It shows no sign of stopping, with Dune ruling the box office and enough in-the-works projects to fill two previous io9 lists....Read more...

The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would force TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban from the US. It faces an uncertain path in the Senate, and TikTok has a legal case to challenge the bill if it passes. Still, after five years of threats, this is the...Read more...

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The inaugural launch of Space One's Kairos rocket ended in failure, with the launch vehicle exploding mere seconds after clearing the tower in Wakayama prefecture. It's a setback for Japan's space sector, which is striving for competitiveness in the burgeoning aerospace industry, but commercial ventures rarely achieve...Read more...

Jared leto paces in new Tron: Ares set footage. At least one of the men behind Din Djarin isn't sure of The Mandalorian's future after the movie. Chucky teases its creepily aging doll in new season 3 pictures. Plus, what's coming when Invincible returns for round two. Spoilers now!

OpenAI's Sora, the startup's hyperrealistic AI video generator, is definitely" going to be released in 2024, according to Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati in an interview with the Wall Street Journal Wednesday. Nude videos are not off the table, according to Murati, who says OpenAI is working with creators" to...Read more...

The first teaser for Netflix's Atlas is giving major Titanfall vibes... except starring Jennifer Lopez. Directed by Brad Peyton, the sci-fi action film brings us Lopez in bombastic badass mode-clad in a mech suit as she jumps right into battle against the futuristic, war-torn backdrop of an unknown dystopia. It's very...Read more...

Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, managed to turn the world on its head in recent days by posting a badly Photoshopped photo of her and her kids. The picture fueled conspiracy theories about her whereabouts after a nearly two-month-long public absence-had she been replaced by a body double? Was she in a coma?-and...Read more...

We've all been there before. You forget to cancel a subscription and it auto-renews, charging you for something you don't even use anymore. But what happens when you know you canceled the subscription and still get charged? That's what some 23andMe customers allege. And many say the genetics testing company still...Read more...

An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers hunt sheep on private ranches. But these weren't just any old sheep. They were massive hybrid sheep" created by illegally importing animal parts from central Asia, cloning the sheep, and then...Read more...

When you think of the most important people in Star Trek history, in terms of actors at least you might look to the legacies of people like William Shatner or Patrick Stewart. But the real answer to that question is probably Jonathan Frakes, who has been a part of pretty much all televised Trek since the 70s-and when ...Read more...

A medical team at Cromwell Hospital in London strapped on the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro during two spinal surgeries. Doctor's are calling the device a game-changing" tool, beefing up Apple's claims that the headset has a future as a medical device.

Netflix's 3 Body Problem-an adaptation of the first book in Liu Cixin's highly acclaimed sci-fi trilogy-asks a lot of big questions and puts its characters through some agonizing decisions. But at its core, the show grapples with one big dilemma: whether or not humanity is worth saving from a threat that feels both...Read more...

The lawyers for a Boeing whistleblower who was recently found dead say they need more information" about what happened to him.Read more...

While fans of Tim Burton's 1989 supernatural comedy classic Beetlejuice wait for the long-anticipated sequel-Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, arriving September 6-at least one of the stars is feeling awfully confident about the Ghost With the Most's return. Of course Michael Keaton is going to be excited about getting to...Read more...

Andrew Tate, the social media influencer with a huge following of teenage boys, has found himself in legal trouble again, and it's for the dumbest reason.Read more...

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Several years back, Kickstarter tried to revive its ailing brand by pivoting to the blockchain. At the time, web3" was still a relatively new and exciting concept, and company leaders seemed to hope that a new direction might rejuvenate its business. In December of 2021, the company announced that it would be ...Read more...

Marvel is having its fair share of behind-the-scenes drama as of late, and one of its most anticipated new releases is no exception. Just over a week before X-Men 97, the continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series, hits Disney+, Marvel Studios has abruptly fired its creator, Beau DeMayo.